Liliana de las Mareas

Liliana de Kibris y las Mareas, born near Puerto Amarillo in 278 TE was a corsair and politician of the Drakesland who influenced events happening in the Second Kingdom and Second Republic of Amarillo during the last two decades of the Traveller's Era.
After having left her homeland many years prior, her Mohadi blood led her back to the Drakesland. There, she continued her pledge to fight piracy in Eldham. When she defeated the pirates of a hideout in Spice Islands, in the Drakaen sea, she established a base in the archipielago, with a growing town named Nuevo Kibris.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Little is known of Liliana's early life. She was born somewhere near Puerto Amarillo during Soronaca's term as President of the Second Republic. She never met her father, who was most probably a sailor or even a pirate. Liliana grew up in Puerto Amarillo, where her mother and herself moved after she turned four years old. Soon after having settled in the district of La Pantera, her mother joined the service of a successful trader and politician of the Amarillian capital. Liliana moved to the manor of this aristocrat in the western district of the city.
Liliana had already sailed through the Drakaen Sea and beyond many times before she choose to become a corsair. She learned sword fighting with the son of the aristocrat in Puerto, and at her young age of seventeen, she had decided her porpose in life. In memory of her fallen family, she would face piracy in Eldham. It was when some merchant in the city hired a corsair company to clear the sea routes to the continent of Phoros that Liliana joined the crew. The Thisrty Vessels was a minor company when she joined but the sailors of Eldham would remember its power, under a new name and a new leader.
===Career in Amarillo===
====Founding Nuevo Kibris====
After long decades fighting piracy all around Eldham, Liliana returned home. She had spent a lot of time far from the Drakaen Sea, but she still remembered every isle and coast. After stopping with her company in Puerto Amarillo, she learned that a wave of pirate groups had been threatening the southern coast of the sea and even dared to take some islands to operate from them as bases. Liliana didn't even waited to get a contract with the Consuls or the Senate of Drakaes, whe sailed south and assaulted Islas Especia at night.
After a short combat, the Wrath Vessels took the island and slaughtered every remaining pirate. Liliana then walked around the entire island and decided to set her own base in the island. She named the settlement Nuevo Kibris, a reminder to pirates of the fate of those who would engage in such activities. Like Mr Ananas' fort once did, she would sink every pirate ship that dared to navigate near hear coasts.
==== Capitana General y Virreina====
Liliana realised that her settlement of Nuevo Kibris would be considered a pirate secessionist attempt by the states of the Drakesland if she were not to pledge loyalty to one of the nations around the Drakaen Sea. She decided, then, to send a letter to Porphyropolis and offer to the Queen Josefina I de Porphyropolis Kyani to join the Kingdom of Amarillo with her new possessions.
A set of envoys travelled back to Nuevo Kibris with a scroll signed and sealed by the Queen herself. She accepted Liliana's offer. Liliana de las Mareas then took the name of Liliana de Kibris, following the Amarillian nobility tradition, founding her own house. She was used to deal with aristocrats and nobility so Liliana was more than ready to face the challenges ahead.
On 309 TE, Nuevo Kibris was given the status of Capitania General, equivalent to 'Municipality' and Islas Especia became a province of the Kingdom, El Virreinato de Las Islas Especia. Liliana, as leader of the group who had taken the archipielago for the crown, was named Capitana General de Nuevo Kibris and Virreina de las Islas Especia, becoming, de facto, into the third most important figure in the Kingdom of Amarillo since then, after Queen Josefina herself and the Virrey of Islas Doradas and former King and Emperor, Soronaca de Porphyropolis. 
===Involvement in the War of the Last Cycle===
While Liliana was at court in Poprhyropolis on 313 TE, Queen Josefina I gave her the mission to travel to Taernsbia and deliver a letter to her grandmother, Delta Drake Canalopin, who had proclaimed herself Autarch of Drakaes and was fighting Kawaii II's armies in the desert of Thos. Liliana travelled to Delta's camp and delivered the message. There, she acted as diplomat to achieve the sovereignty over Mountlandis for the Kingdom of Amarillo. The Autarchy accepted in exchange for the Kingdom's recognision of Delta as true Autarch of Drakaes and Liliana's ships to carry a a mercenary company to the Arthholdic exarchate. 
====Consul and United Front====
Hernan of Allium Panem's term as Consul of the Republic of Amarillo finished in spring of 313 TE and a period to elect a new one for the following fifteen years began. The growing influence of Liliana in Amarillian politics spread beyond the Kingdom and she also became a popular figure among the citizens of the mainland. By then, Hernan's brother, Kawaii II was leading the reformed vareist Regnum Drakaes and the people of Amarillo were uncertain about the future of their nation. The Republic had remained neutral in the confclit and Liliana followed Hernan's policy of not declaring for any of the Autarchs.
Liliana won the election in 314 TE, right after a Solonist uprising took place in Almaria, Alefpamohadi and Arak-Kapharat. There, the Solir of Puerto Amarillo, Alvar, together with Luis de Etruia, had gathered anti-Vareist radical Solonists. They proclaimed the beginging of a Holy War against tyrany and decay, who they thought Drakaes and the Republic embodied. During the first public speech Liliana gave as Consul in autumn of 314 TE, she addressed the challenge of the Solonists and called for every town and city loyal to the people of Amarillo to form a united front against them. She recieved the support from the cities of Mirai, Verdesburg and Mountlandis, as well as Puerto Amarillo itself. No answer arrived from Romantello nor Etruia. The latter, due to the occupation of the forces of Kawaii II present in the Amarillian mainland.
In 316 TE, Liliana recieved a letter from John Natalis, Constable of Varasopolis. He called Liliana for a meeting in the Drakaen city to negotiate an alliance between the Old Guard, the faction led by the self-proclaimed Autarch Aurica Smegsint Canalopin, and the forces of the Amarillian Front, loyal to the Consul. The meeting took place in the Drakeskeep that same summer and there, both diplomats, who got along for their shared past wielding a sword, signed the 'Treaty of the Excellent Company', sealing the alliance. The deal ensured Amarillo's support for Aurica's cause. In return, the Old Guard would aid Liliana on her campaign against the Solonist Uprising in the mainland. In addition, the Old Guard recognised Josefina I as legitimate Monarch of all Amarillian lands, included those of the Republic. Even if Liliana made an attempt to achieve Amarillo's full independence, the treaty delayed that question to the end of the war.
During her absence, the Battle of Etruia had taken place, between the Solonists and the forces of the Director of Northern Drakaes, Lazarus Umara, loyal to Autarch Kawaii II, who was leading the troops on the occupied city of Etruia. Liliana kept gathering forces in Puerto for a campaign on the rebellious cities. At the same time, she concentrated the Amarillian fleet, together with her Wrath Vessels, near the capital, ready to be sent to carry the armies of the Old Guard once their campaign against the Autarchy was over.
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