Alexandria Galderon

Princess Imperial Alexandria Souixen Galderon (Willene 16th, 1711 - ) is the second daughter and fourth child of the Emperor and Empress of Trynser.
== Physical Description ==
Princess Alexandria enters the chamber, flanked by a half-dozen of her ladies in waiting. Although she and her entourage are not dressed up as brightly or as flashy as most other ladies of the court, there is no mistaking her regal bearing and total self-confidence. She does not appear proud or arrogant, but fully assured that whatever it is that anyone wants is whatever it is that she has.
Her deep brownish-red hair drops straight around her oval face under her tiara down to her back. Thin lashes and eyebrows, darker than a heathen’s sin, line her sharp penetrating auburn eyes like they aim some powerful weapon. Beneath these she sports a more delicate feminine version of the hawkish Galderon nose and thin pinkish red lips.
Her willowy thin form is accented by her jet black suede dress. The dress is sparkling with a diagonal pattern of white gems that only flash their brilliance when the lights touch them right. The ornate black silk embroidery is barely visible, enticing the eye to trace their subtle patterns over her lithe form. More brilliant white gems flash from her belt and tiara, around the cuffs of her gloves, and around a tight black felt choker around her throat.
Otherwise, her jewelry is simple but stunning, an enameled silver gods’ chain and a brilliant ruby mounted upon a platinum Imperial dragon pendant. Four small jeweled rings adorn her fingers.
5’7” tall, 120 pounds. She has the typical leanness of her Galderon genetics.Long brownish-red hair, auburn eyes. Born in 1711, on Willene 16th.
== Baby years ==
Princess Alexandria Souixen Galderon was born to Imperial Crown Prince Robert Artemius Roderick Galderon and Princess Anastasia Marialie Forsteran-Galderon on the 16th day of Willene, 1711. It was a warm, colorful early autumn day in the eighth year in the reign of her grandfather, Emperor Valen. She was born in the Imperial Palace, and the entire city erupted into festivities… again. Her elder brother Valen, her grandfather’s namesake, had been born less than a year before.Baby Alexandria, or “Lexie” as she was commonly called, was moved to the family’s manor in Velrath to grow up away from the corrupting influence of Trynser City. This allowed her formidable education to progress unimpeded by much the city and court had to throw at her, but left her vulnerable to influences that she never learned about as a child.
As a child, she learned many lessons about kings and nobility and faraway kingdoms and realms that seemed utterly fantastic to her. After regular study hours she would wish to hear more about these faraway places and the people who ruled and lived there.
== Early memories ==
She had visited the palace before she was six and after she was born, but those memories were lost in her baby years. But for her sixth birthday, she was brought to the Imperial Palace to celebrate with her grandfather the Emperor. It was on this day that she saw many delegates from the glorious realms she’d learned about, and in wonder, she saw all of these distant travelers pay great homage to her grandfather.This impressed upon her at a very early age the power of the Empire that she was the daughter of.
Curious and a bit bewildered, she asked many questions about how and why things worked like they did, and who did what and who built this. She learned that much of the proud heritage of the Empire was due to her ancestors, and that she and her siblings would be the next to carry on this heritage.Lexie took the whole thing very seriously. When she sensed that her older brother Valen didn’t, her scorn blossomed and grew. Roderick was thirteen years older, in his early twenties when she was a child. She saw him as a natural scion of her proud family, everything that Valen wasn’t, and she practically worshipped the ground he trod on. She was friendly with Princess Elizabeth but she never really got to know her as a child.In the meantime, her parents had two more daughters and eventually another son. Lexie never got to spend much time with them either. She wouldn’t make time to spend with babies. She remains a bit distant to her younger siblings today, aside from Vanessa who she grew close to in upcoming circumstances.
== First relationship ==
Garlin Torrd.When Alexandria was fifteen years old, she discovered testosterone. The brawny soldiers protecting the palace suddenly went from being sacks of meat in uniforms and armor to being beefy hunks of man, and one ambitious young guard in particular noticed her bewildered stares, one Garlin Torrd.Garlin’s seduction of the young princess went quickly. She had been taught to beware ambitious men who would seek to turn her fortune to their own favor. But Lexie’s cloistered education never really taught her what to look out for.
This guard named Torrd’s first priority was simply to score an Imperial Princess, believing this gave him a kind of profound power. After she was wrapped around his finger, though, he found that she was good to extract gold and favors from. It would seem that Torrd never had much more affection for Lexie than a millionaire has for a favorite tropical fighting fish.
Lexie tried to keep the affair a secret, but Torrd couldn’t resist basking in the glory and the story soon spread around the palace. Prince Harrison of Kasteban had been courting Alexandria from afar, but heard the news and was done with her, going on to court and become engaged with her younger sister Abigail before his unfortunate demise in battle. The Imperial Family was profoundly disappointed but let Lexie go her own way.For her own part, Lexie was bewildered by Garlin Torrd’s indiscretion, but Garlin’s claims of love and fidelity soothed her for a while. One of Lexie’s ladies-in-waiting, Lady Mairan Linteris, was much less naïve than her charge and never trusted him in the first place. She used her own charms to ingratiate herself to Garlin who revealed to her all his wretched ploys after she seduced him. She revealed everything to the High Court and after a quick check with spells by Lords Lodycarth and xxx, Torrd was done.
This ruined Lexie’s close friendship with Mairan for a long time, as the princess couldn’t help feeling that her lady betrayed her. Mairan was demoted to maid-of-honor and was forced to serve her former friend in a more menial manner for nearly a year.For his part Torrd barely escaped with his life. He knew that messing around with Lexie was playing with fire, and he had his escape plans in place. Figuring out that Mairan was going to spill the goods to the High Court, he removed himself from the palace posthaste.
No one knows where Garlin Torrd went. Some think a gang of Imperial Knights caught up with him and took him out sailing without a boat. Others think his scrotum is a door knocker on a door somewhere in Lucan’s Tower. Some say he now resides in Dalorisen in Arumelia telling his tale to that country’s luxuriant nobility.At any rate, a few years after Torrd fled Trynser, a series of pornographic books began to appear under his name. These were volumes of “Lexie’s Secret Little Room”.
== Lexie’s Secret Little Room ==
Few people know if the first few volumes of Lexie’s Secret Little Room are truly penned and crudely but explicitly illustrated by Garlin Torrd. There’s people would certainly like to find out. As can probably be figured out, this series is supposedly a graphically pornographic “autobiography” of the dirty little secrets of Torrd’s relationship with Lexie.
The first three volumes are consistent in tone and illustration style. At least they are in their original editions. They remain popular enough that some pirated editions have much better illustrations. Each volume was obviously run in a different printer, though. Somehow, much fewer of the second volume were printed, though both the first and third volumes had very large print runs, so the second volume is a collector’s piece. At any rate, these volumes purport to show Torrd’s seduction and gradual debasement of the Imperial Princess in an arrogant, bragging tone.
A few years later, a fourth, fifth, and sixth volume appeared, each supposed to follow the earlier, but each judged by certain experts to be actually written by totally different people. But each continued the supposed debasement of the princess to further and further depths including involvement with her father and brothers and sisters with their sexual activities and other acts even less mentionable. Volume 4 was a bit of a shocker when it came out.
The seventh volume was actually a broad parody of the excesses of the previous three, including a chapter where Lexie and Torrd twist each other in half on some diabolical bondage couch and put each other back together. This led to three different eighth volumes coming out in three different countries at nearly the same time. Each is considered collectible for its own reasons, but anything from nine and higher is a waste of paper. In the meantime, another “fourth” volume appeared that followed the original three not only in story, but in style and tone. Those certain “experts” (who won’t say who they are) judge this to be the legitimate fourth volume of the series, by the same creator. This tells of Mairan’s intervention in the typical unflattering terms and Torrd’s subsequent escape and exile. The alleged 12th volume claims, among other things, that she bore the child Mojarósa with the gnome Grandmaster Alchemist Donghai Ping.
Almost everything in these books, even the first few supposedly written by Torrd, is false. Most reasonable and knowledgeable people know this. However, there are a lot of idiots that believe that at least some of it is gospel. The princess’ reputation has suffered incalculable damage from them. All of these books are completely banned but still popular throughout the Empire of Trynser. They are less banned and more popular beyond the borders. Lexie is not amused.
== Second Relationship ==
At any rate, it took Princess Alexandria several months to recover from the shock of finding out what a despicable animal Garlin Torrd was. Her hopeful engagement with Prince Harrison now shot to hell, it was now necessary to find a new engagement. It was suggested that a union with a duchy of far away Nanduchar was now in order. The duke’s son Prince Takagawa dated the princess for a few weeks of apparent happiness, but when the prince thought to take the relationship to the next level he took what he read in his volumes of LSLR in earnest and suggested the same to her, he was finished. Actually, she hit him.Both the prince and princess insist that their relationship never got intimate, though the prince is not shy about his regrets. He has stated that he would like to give it another try, but Lexie is not interested.
== Military training and experience ==
At seventeen years old, Alexandria entered the Imperial Military Academy at Mantius, something that was actually expected of Prince Imperial Valen. She graduated fifth in a class of 154 and was made a lieutenant in the First Imperial Hussar Regiment. She was noted for being a very serious student having an avid interest in political and military sciences.
After the academy, she served actively for one year, mainly being involved in parades in Trynser City, though occasionally operating against highway bandits. She was blooded in one particular skirmish with a band of well organized bandits in the back country of the Barony of Coublint. The troop of cavalrymen she led escorting a military train was ambushed and she made a few bad decisions that cost some troopers’ lives but overall she prevailed. She personally slew several bandits while rescuing some of her trapped troopers.
The remainder of the first year was spent on parade duty and for the next several years she was placed on reserve. During that downtime she frequently discussed strategy and military matters with visiting officers, not only increasing her own knowledge, but making contacts in the services.During the war of Gormann’s Horde, she requested and received activation, earning a promotion to captain in command of a squadron of Dominion levy light cavalry under General Sulerand. Due to the incompetence or incapacitation of her immediate commanders, she ended up leading an entire regiment before standing down. Her commands were noted for careful observation and planning followed by bold action, preferably from a position of ambush.Wounded by a sword slash at Heddenfields, she directed pursuits of retreating enemies from her tent until her units started standing down and she was relieved of command.She remains an officer in reserve with the rank of Captain of Cavalry, and she is eligible for promotion to colonel in two years, something that is considered a given.
== Zazimar War ==
After her father the Emperor had taken ill following the disappearance of his eldest son, Princess Alexandria effectively acted as the Imperial regent. She brought the Zazimar War to such a conclusion as she was able. At age 31 years old in 1742, she was still unmarried, to the increasing distress of her mother.
== Relationships ==
=== The Emperor ===
Her father the Emperor truly appreciated his daughter’s devotion to business, though he worried that she was burying herself too deep in work. He was also concerned about her refusal to entertain a serious relationship and eventual marriage, but as the Galderons had one daughter hooked up and another married off this situation wasn’t as desperate as it was for Roderick. The Emperor recognized Lexie’s capability and has had her stand in for him in the audience chamber when he takes time off. For her part, Lexie was not going to bother her father with a bunch of stupid requests for herself and her posse. She was someone to go to for getting serious business done.
Lexie was one of Artemius’ closest confidants and a good friend as well as a daughter and he enjoyed hunting and riding with her.
=== The Empress ===
Lexie’s mother the Empress is proud of her daughter, and second to her first son Roderick the Crown Prince, she is her favorite. She frets over Lexie’s lack of a husband and neglect of womanly virtues and embracing of government interests.
=== Prince Roderick===
Both Roderick and Alexandria were headstrong and had their own opinions on how things should be run. Being that Roderick was planned to become the next Emperor, Lexie had a few problems with that. Roderick was a believer in solving problems with the Empire’s substantial power while Lexie preferred diplomacy backed by strength. Roderick had arranged for himself a team of advisors who were adept at pushing through whatever the prince decided he wanted to happen. The problem was that there was no real consideration for whatever Roderick didn’t want, and he ignored whatever it was that he didn’t want to hear. Lexie thought this was foolish and she could not help letting him know exactly what she thought (which wasn’t what he wants to hear). Lexie was afraid that if she could not convince him to take her seriously before he came to power he would shunt her aside out of the way where she could not influence anything. She worked to build her own connections with important people around the Empire and beyond before this could happen.
=== Prince Valen ===
It was commonly assumed that Lexie despised her brother Valen. This was not true. He was her brother and her own flesh and blood, and she honestly wished he would bring himself above the life he was living for himself.
=== Princess Vanessa ===
Lexie was the closest with her younger sister Vanessa. The two grew up together in Velrath and would play and study together constantly. As of 1742, although they had drifted apart in different ways they were still very good friends, though Lexie wasn’t sure Vanessa could be trusted or bothered with anything of importance.
=== Princess Abigail ===
There was a disconnect of points of view between Lexie and Abby. Abby had always played the role of the perfect princess, and had been happy to do so, whereas Lexie was her own (and the Empire’s) own woman. Still, the affection between the two was strong.
=== Companions ===
==== Lady Susannah Stolerain and Lady Magesa Catarina Kuleran ====
These two ladies in waiting were actually her bodyguards, Susannah being a skilled swordswoman and Catarina a formidable mage.
==== Lady Mairan Linteris ====
==== Another lady-in-waiting had taken it upon herself to screen potential suitors. ====
==== Lady Antonia Marclam ====
This lady-in-waiting was the daughter of a dean of the Imperial University of Trynser and served her lady with encyclopedic knowledge.
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