Valeria Mehrkuri

Valeria Mehrkuri was the founder of House Mehrkuri and the first Primarch of Digeris. She served Aurelion as the admiral of his Imperial Navy and chief stellar cartographer during the Unification War and was instrumental in pacifying the Digerian resistance. She is heralded as one of history's greatest naval commanders, with her stratagems still being taught to naval cadets and aspiring helmsmen across the Aurelian Empire in the modern era. Valeria is the common ancestor of both House Mehrkuri and House Partinax. 
One of the Seven Spears during the Unification War, Valeria served as both the Admiral of the Imperial Fleet and Aurelion Imperator's official stellar cartographer. As a reward for her loyalty and service, Aurelion invested her as the first Primarch of Digeris after the war ended. She reigned over Digeris in Aurelion's name for the rest of her life. After her death, her body was ritually interred in the Mehrkuri family vault in the Apparitan Necropolis, where it remains to this day. 
In Markus Abrudas' A Song of Seven Colonies, he remarks that Valeria and Aurelion were close friends and that she was "...a soldier with the heart of an explorer." Valeria herself kept journals about her time on campaign. However, unlike Markus, who wrote largely about Aurelion himself, she instead wrote of the foreign cultures and natural beauty of the places they visited, which she illustrated herself. Valeria was also a keen cartographer. In celebration of his silver jubilee, she presented Aurelion with a collection of hand-drawn maps and star charts of his reunified empire, including a highly detailed map of Digeris which is on display in the Museum of Imperial History in Cipritine, Palaven.
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