Complex sentence: Her family has fallen on hard times after the death of her father and so she seeks to be accepted as the ward and student of the scholar Jasnah Kholin, sister to King Elhokar of Alethkar.
Split into simpler sentences: Her family has fallen on hard times after the death of her father. She seeks to be accepted as the ward and student of the scholar Jasnah Kholin, sister to King Elhokar of Alethkar.