Tsarra Ordric

Tsarra Ordric, also known as Tsarra Orlaith and the Returning Spark, was the Storm Herald of the city-state of Ordris and a member of the League of Restoration.
==Description==
Tsarra stood around six feet tall with a muscular physique. Her bright red hair was almost always tied back in warrior braids to keep hair free of her face. She wore traditional warrior garb of the Ordris warriors and carried a glaive as her primary weapon. 
==History==
===Early Life===
Tsarra was born and raised in the city of Ordris, she was grand daughter to Alfgar Ordric, the Rampaging Tempest. Her father, Teren Ordric, was a council member that helped run the city-state. She spent mot of her childhood with her mother and attendants. Her mother would pass away due to an unfortunate illness that the clergy could not cure. Her father would do his best to spend more time with Tsarra after Farrah's passing. Tsarra desired to do something in the world and to learn more of her homeland and her family's history. She would learn of the League of Restoration from the times she was allowed to watch council meetings. She was allowed by Ambran Olofstad to join the League, but was asked to take on a false surname to cover her identity as a member of the once royal family. This arrangement was enjoyable for her because it kept her out of the city and away from the eyes of the city folk who feared the legacy of her grandfather. In her early days, Tsarra didn't want to be the center of attention. She would pass the time not working collecting flowers and unique little trinkets that caught her eye.
=== The Cenotaph ===
Tsarra's first assignment in the League had her acting as a defender of Cuyyura Cobalcescu's exploration team. Her attendants would accompany her on these journeys. After a few years of this assignment, the group came to be tasked with exploring an ancient Ordric ruin in the Illapa Jungle. A team had already been sent out to the site lead by Cobble and it was Cuyyura's job to link up with the group and ensure they were safe and still on task. Initial assessment informed the group that Cobble's team had been decimated by goblins and bandits and their personal defense team, a group of Checkered Scarf bandits led by a woman named Inama. They worked with Inama and her bandit team to secure Cobble from the other side of the exploration site, push the goblins out of the area peacefully, and learn the bandits that were troubling them earlier were Felhoods and had been murdered by an apparent troll attack save for one survivor named Esai who they would later be betrayed by. With the help of an Ordric honor guard's glaive Tsarra found, they defeated the troll and the hag he was protecting. They would then plumb the depths of the tomb complex and came to found what was thought to be a cenotaph or false tomb did have a royal dead child within that seemingly was the source of a weather-manipulating power called Lluqlla Kurku that was causing wild rains in the region and was capable of being manipulated to control the rain. This was learned from The Six Pages of Pariwana's Ritual. The group fought the powerful child and defeated him. They would return the child known as Ladobog to Ordris to be ritually thrown from the Church of Open Sky, a practice performed on the royalty and nobility of Ordris. 
=== Temple in the Sky ===
After a brief time in the city, Cuyyura's group would press on to a location outlined in The Six Pages of Pariwana's Ritual that seemed to indicate a hidden temple called Hanaq Pachap Rimay that was on the northern coast of the isle of Ordris. During their journey, they noticed Felhood activity outside of the city, but did not engage with the bandits. They found an old Conglomerate redoubt and an ancient magical serpent cave that lead them out to the coast. They then found the floating temple hidden in clouds and surrounded by battering winds. Below it in a tidepool they found a massive skeleton of a winged titan, presumed to be an ancestor of cloud giants. Its latent elemental power allowed for the group to float safely up from the shore onto the floating island. Upon their arrival, a strange skyship piloted by neogi assailed them as they too were attempting to find entrance into the temple. After routing the neogi, the group entered into the temple. After skulking around a bit, they were captured by goliath warriors present in the temple. After peaceful discourse, they would learn the goliaths were the descendants of great giants that helped the ancestors of Ordris build this temple and other buildings, but the giants would retreat through leylines into the Elemental Plane of Earth to live in a city of their own. With the aid of the goliaths, the group found the child known as Velesh and would be forced to fight it to stop it. After its defeat, the group found a mysterious device called the Breathless Engine which Tomil, Cuyyura, and to a lesser degree Gil learned was a form of skyship. Tsarra would learn that she could physically connect with the engine and her blood seemed to empower the engine, not unlike the children in their weather machines. After experimentation, the group would pilot the Breathless Engine back to Ordris. 
=== Warring Council ===
Upon returning to Ordris, Tsarra was given the news that her father Teren had been murdered. The culprit, according to some, was the bandit named Esai. The bandit was in lock up and Tsarra went to speak with them along with others of her group. They would come to believe that Esai was not responsible and that a conspiracy from other council members was responsible for his death. An investigation led the group into the slums of Ordris at Esai's suggestion, where Skerran was able to wild shape into a small cat to enter into a Felhoods den and learn they were coordinating with Ambran Olofstad as well as a council associate named Jeremiah Bartlett. They were coordinating with a mysterious Denisatvan woman and were engaged in smuggling items and people in and out of the city despite the policy of isolation that had been put up after the Rampaging Tempest's death. As fortune would have it, a representative of The Conglomerate sought an audience with the council once Tsarra had been placed upon it in her father's absence. This representative was none other than Rubyn Nyruel Runali who had been selected as the War Magier for the Lavidian Front in defense of the Denisatvan invasion. With his aid, the group tore out the corruption in the council and barred the access of smuggling and the Denisatvans to the city-state. Before her father was put to rest by being thrown from the Church of Open Sky, the group would descend into the Ordric catacombs beneath the residences of the Storm Herald's fort and learn that the line of Ordric started with a union between the daughter of two refugee nations and the son of extraplanar refugees known as illithids. This aberrant blood was the true power in the royal blood and what was utilized to power the weather machines and even Tsarra's Breathless Engine. The ghost of the patriarch entered into Gil and would remain with him for a time. 
=== The Eye of Kernobosk ===
After allying with Rubyn and The Conglomerate, Tsarra and her allies in the League joined him in his effort to push Denisatvan invaders off Ordris island. It became known they had taken the Machine of Thunder on the western island known as the Eye of Kernobosk as their base of operations and launching point for an attempted assault on the great city of Penford. The group would assault the temple at the Eye via an entrance on the coast while Rubyn and his fleet would assault the skyships of the Denisatvans in the air. The group made their way through the temple, facing great opposition from the Denisatvans but also from the temple itself. When they came to find the child known as Therun, they were joined in the heart of the Machine by a mysterious woman who claimed to be the mother of the children, Hanyi Ordric. After a desperate battle, the group would come to destroy the child causing the banishment of the mother from the world and the sudden destruction of the temple. They escaped by extraplanar gate leading to Hanaq Pachap Rimay, from which they would travel back to Ordris on foot. Rubyn's forces, with the veil of the lightning storm of the temple lifted, were able to take the upper hand in the battle against the Denisatvans, who were forced to retreat south to the lands of Uliman.
=== Ordris Reformation ===
With the council in tatters and Tsarra seen as a hero for the city-state, she was made Storm Herald by unanimous decision of all organization leaders in Ordris. She would work with her Breathless Engine and the knowledge gleaned from the Storm Machines to create a means of resisting the storms that naturally assail the isle of Ordris as a whole. She would commit to Rubyn's alliance and swear here armies and her navies to the war effort to free Lavidia from the Denisatvan menace. As Storm Herald, she would nominate Cuyyura Cobalcescu to Abram Olofstad's position as head master of the League of Restoration. She would take Cindryx, Skerran, and Tomil as her advisors with Cindryx advising on the religious, Skerran advising on the natural order, and Tomil advising on the arcane as well as choices for good cuisine. Of her group, this left Gil. In their journeys, the formation of a strong bond and romantic interest was evident to everyone in the group. Tsarra would ask for Gil's hand in marriage. He would say yes, knowing full well this would stop him from his wandering. This was a choice he felt was well worth staying in one place for.
=== Uniting Sea and Storm ===
The marriage of a Storm Herald is no simple matter. Gil was no noble and did not come from wealth, but his exploits were known by his people in the city of Kohi'nor. When the wedding was suggested, the ruling parliament of Kohi'nor elevated Gil to the status of Lord and he was given all rights and titles affiliated with a member of their parliament. At Tsarra's insistence, the armies and navies of Kohi'nor would join her in allying with The Conglomerate against the Denisatvans. The other small city-states and wandering civilizations of merfolk, tritons, and other coastal and sea-based peoples would also join these two city-states in unifying the isle of Ordris. Connections with the goliaths found at Hanaq Pachap Rimay were made possible with Rubyn's powers of dimensional travel and Tomil was given the keys to gates that were formed in Ordris linking them more directly to these allies. A time of war would follow, but Tsarra and Gil would work to have children and were quite prolific in this endeavor, going on to have a total of eight children together in the upcoming two decades.
=== The War Effort ===
Ordris's unified force would come together and face opposition at the Conflict of Kohi'nor and the Battle at Eastbridge. After Eastbridge was fully claimed and taken on as a defensive position for the unified force, a wandering individual named Mikal Vine would come into audience with Tsarra and ask her to help him in liberating his home of Gateneath from Denisatvan control. She would mobilize a force herself to strike out from Eastbridge to head south down the Uliman Peninsula. She would gain allies in a handful of small towns along the way, including the former Matron of Gateneath herself, Evangeline Boivin. The Campaign for Gateneath would be successful, with the reclamation of the town and the monastery of Ir Morag. From that defensible position, the Legions of Ordris were able to strike out into greater Uliman and wrest control of the Barony from Denisatvan control. The Leader of the Uliman War Force known as General Victicus was defeated in individual combat by Storm Herald Tsarra herself. Once Uliman was freed, the Conglomerate's forces shored up the defenses and allowed for the bulk of Ordris's forces to return to the isle of Ordris. The defenses of the western coast, namely the broken Westbridge, were in desperate need of aid. The forces of Ordris would remain on the isle for the remainder of the Wizards' War, but smaller skirmishes would be fought on and around Ordris up until the Battle of Balthonir. 
=== Knowledge of the Ancestors ===
=== Abdication of a Storm Herald ===
=== Death ===
Tsarra Ordric passed away due to natural causes in the year 1127 CA. Her body was thrown from the Church of Open Sky in Ordris to the cliffs and the seas below. She would be joined in death by her husband a year later.
==Trivia==
Tsarra Ordric was a Player Character created by Kimmi "Norre" for inclusion in the Song of the Nameless story arc.