Seita'anna

Seita'anna is the only child born of the I'qwee tribe's chief. She is over a millennia old, and is one of the few pure-blooded Koreut Lian still alive. She has lived within the desert surrounding her nation of Grey's Mark for her whole life, but has made trips to other nations on occasion. She is known to be a practical and shrew in politics, charitable and loving to her people, and cold and unfeeling toward her enemies. She is reknown for her reverance of Koiphew Mei, the Angel of Dust. She participated in the Ninth Gate War breifly before becoming injured and retreating back to Grey's Mark. It is said that Seita'anna constantly fights in order to keep herself young to continue to rule Grey's Mark for Eternity.
=== Early Life; A Cat in the Sandstorm ===
Seita'anna in her early life was a free-spirited girl, prone to flights of fancy and fits of rage. She enjoyed dangerous challenges and engaging in hedonistic acts such as dancing naked under the moon's light, or dueling her peers to first blood. She had no interest in the politics of the tribes of the desert and resented their careful tip toe around Theelio. When Grey created Grey's Mark, she was awestruck by the sheer display of power, vowing to commit her life to the power of Devidica's Angels. 
War broke out between the various tribes concerning the handling of the newly formed chasm. The I'qwee tribe wanted to exploit the exposed resources of the Chasm and live within it. Disagreements concerning the traditions of the tribes and handling of resources lead to open conflict between the various tribes. Seita'anna reveled in this combat and she and her personal entourage were said to summon storms of sand around themselves and viciously rend their blinded targets. The women would cry like wildcats in the sand from all angles to disorient and strike fear into their opponent's hearts before pouncing on them. While it is unfounded whether or not Seita'anna could summon sandstorms to cover her advance, the Queen has confirmed that she found under the cover of sandstorms on several occasions during the conflict.
During the conflict, Seita'anna's father was killed before her eyes, making Seita'anna matron of the tribe. Her blood feud against the tribes that took her father from her lasted until the desert was purged, leaving only the I'qwee tribe to rule the Chasm, with the other tribes being pushed out or hunted down and slain. Only after Seita'anna had her vengeance did she return to Grey's Mark to become its "rightful ruler". An empty and disenchanted Seita'anna didn't care for politics or governance, and engaged in scandalous acts and bore a number of illegitimate offspring in the eyes of the tribe's elders.
The young Seita'anna was convince by the elders that she couldn't be so wild and frivolous, because her people needed a pillar of stability in the trying times ahead. She had borne four children from the union of multiple cuman men, resulting in her first born, Artis I'qwee and her second born Gafnwei I'qwee, her third born Kirrianna I'qwee and the fourth Lexsuncion I'qwee. Artis and Gafnwei despite being Agman, appeared Lian, while Kirrianna and Lexsuncion appeared Cuman. The teenage queen was convinced to allow the elders to care in secret for the youngest, Kirrianna and Lexsuncion, while Artis and Gafnwei would be publicly acknowledged as heirs to the tribe. Seita'anna convinced herself that it would be best not to see her two youngest children. However she was lied to by the elders, who sent Kirrianna and Lexsuncion away from Grey's Mark out of fear that they may challenge the new queen's right to rule and leave the people disillusioned.
=== Founding of a Nation; Bound in Iron ===
Seita'anna lived in grief over the loss and willful abandonment of her own flesh and blood. She was convinced to take a mate to provide legitimacy to the appearance of her two heirs. This man proved to be a vile, treacherous man that was cunning to the ways of the sand and desert smuggling. Seita'anna was abused and berated by her king and became a shell of her former self for a time. She had become too consumed by grief to resist or speak out against the king or the elders that coveted power.
The First and Last King of Grey's Mark expanded the wealth and productivity of Grey's Marks mines and lead the fledgling nation on an ambitious path of power and greed. It was his design that Grey's Mark would eventually come to control Klaime and its holdings, and finish the I'qwee tribes vengance against the refugees that founded Miengo and Lassango. He trained his two children to be ruthless killers, just as he and their mother were trained. However, Artis knew that his mother was taught by the desert, and not after the fashion of men's desires. The Desert taught Seita'anna the harshness of reality, and the thrill of hunting and being a predator. But the desert did not teach murder like Artis' father desired. The tales of the bloodthirsty, viscous queen of murder his father remembered did not match the forlorn, quiet woman.
Artis and his sister Gafnwei founded the royal assassin's guild of Grey's Mark. The guild was comprised solely of the queen's direct offspring, with notable figures being Artis, Gafnwie and Cien surviving to this day. They began to systematically remove the Elders from power, before finally committing regicide and slaying the man they'd been told was their father. It seemed to be the wakeup call Seita'anna needed, as her people were plunged into chaos of war once more. The Elders had people loyal to them, and not to the queen they supposedly revered. It was a repeat of Grey's Mark's founding wars, and Seita'anna's heart cried for blood to repay her years of abuse, and the disregard of her two children.
A small civil war broke out between those loyal to Grey's Mark and the rightful Queen and her children, and the dissident elders and their factions. Once again, The Wildcat of the Sandstorms hunted down each of the people who wronged her, vowing to make them pay for the crimes commit against her father and family. The elders and adults were murdered and public executed while the women and children were enslaved, with their families remaining as slaves until they died out and were lost to time. After regaining control of her people, Seita'anna instituted an absolute monarchy, with her children acting as her shadow police, enforcing her right to rule and suppressing any dissidents. It was this period of time where Grey's Mark is said to have truly been born as its own nation deciding its own path, rather than following the ambitious of fragmented groups that made up the I'qwee tribe.
=== Tears of a Nation; Requiem ===
Seita'anna's rule of Grey's Mark by the time Requiem was founded had simmered down to a gentle and compassionate rule. She held resentment for the blood of her people that stained her hands and was invested in progress and improving the lives of others. She had a daughter, Corave, around this time who displayed extraordinary skill as a diviner. The toddler was able to locate and identify caverns and aquafers from long distances. Because of this, however, the young girl often felt the shifting of the world, and people's footsteps upon them resulting in a a rough time for the Queen in rearing the distraught child. It was by Corave's guidance that the largest aquafer of Grey's Mark was located and the plan to exploit its vast water reserves. 
Requiem was planned to be a city on the periphery of the aquafer and provide its vast water reserves to the rest of Grey's Mark as it expanded. An underground city grew around the estimated area of the aquafer as miners carefuly worked toward what they beleived was the top-most portion of the aquafer. What the Aquafer at Requiem was however was actually a large, subterranean lake. Worse yet, the miners were not at the top of the lake, but closer to the middle of the lake's contents....
Seita'anna, living in Providence at this time, was woken by Corave screaming and throwing a tantrum. The miners had broken into the lake, and it was depositing its contents violently into the city that would become Requiem. The churning of stone and water upset the young Corave, which was the queen's warning that something terrible had happened. Seita'anna ran barefoot in her sleeping gown across the stone of Providence to its edge, looking down to see water spraying from the entrance to the mines of Requiem. She felt the world grow colorless and all feeling leave her limbs as she fell to her knees in dismay.
Mere Requiem poured water from the entrances to Requiem for several days before it was safe for crews to tread the watery grave that claimed an entire city. Seita'anna herself was among the crew, against the wishes of the children and advisors. She had wanted to learn ever person in her nation. Each one of their smiling faces. She recognized so many people that she could call by name, by even more painful to the queen were the faces she simply didn't know; the faces of people that she couldn't honor; the faces of people who died in vain.
The large chasm that Mere Requiem occupied was carefully drained and Seita'anna had a temple built in honor of the Angel of Death in the middle of Mere Requiem, seeming to float upon its surface. The statue that people see as they enter the temple's main entrance is of the Angel of Death, River Relle, placing a gentle hand over the eyes of a young Lian maiden who appears to have fallen to her knees, gazing up toward the angel in anguish. The inscription reads: "Do not fret, for I will remember them." Only a few people to this day recognize the young maiden as the queen in her great anguish apologizing to the Angel for being unable to record the names of all who perished.