Harriet Jaiden Madison

Harriet Jaiden Madison was a citizen and politician from Montroig, until she left with her people in the great exodus to Abexilas. Nowadays, she is a citizen of Gran Coran'i.
=== Biography ===
==== Early Life ====
Born in the countryside of Montroig, her parents abandoned her after birth and gave her into a local orphanage. Desperate to prove herself from an early age on, she would delve into each and every work about state philosophy, finance, history, law and political theory that she could get her hands on. At age 14, she began working as the assistant secretary of a local lawyer. It was around this time that she became politically active and would often find herself associating with various Communist and Anarchist associations. She would soon start studying law university herself, graduated and started practising law.
==== In Montroig ====
Her career began upon her relocation into New Baldia and with her joining an Overseer-Trainee program, in which she was assigned to Tiatua. The city had fallen from grace, and this realization sparked in Harriet the motion to forward Montroig's prosperity and work towards a new golden age. During the Golden Republic era under the Guardianship of Valkyrie, Harriet began to be more actively involved in politics and soon was promoted to the rank of Advisor. She officially joined the Communist Body-Politic of Montroig (JJJCM) and had established herself as an energetic activist by the 33rd Montroigian elections. 
In the 35th elections, she sided with Felix, campaigning in her favour and, upon Felix' electoral victory, became the new Minister of Culture - a position she would continue to keep for the rest of Montroig's existence. Since the announcement of Abexilas, she had also increased her involvement in preparations for Montroig's departure into the new world. During the turbulent times of the 36th Guardian election, where she again backed Felix, the subsequent Hadrianus administration, and the Second Badeu Administration, whom she endorsed as well, she kept working on legal proposals for Montroig and ideas for the new world.
As the world of Rathnir came to an end, she boarded the Ark Ics's Flight together with most of her fellow citizens, to embark on the journey to Abexilas.
==== In Coran'i ====
Arriving in Coran'i, Madison remained in the background after the depature from Rathnir. When, 9 years after the initial departure, she finally set foot on Abexilas, she was a changed woman. Disillusioned by the terrible reign of the Admirality and the death of many of her fellow Montroigans, she retreated to the north of Coran'i, where she spend a few months as a nomad, searching for fertile land to settle on. At the time Rig MacPhòil's War began, Harriet had set up camp in what is today Madisonia. Unlike most of the Montroigians on the peninsula, she did not engage in the war and provided a safe haven for both Montroigians and natives alike. 
From her growing homestead, she observed the defeat the natives as well as the founding of Port Spotlight, Bel'Coreb, and later the Emporium Company. When Fer O'Monas would go on to publish his "Thesis of the Island", Madison became vocal in politics for the first time in about 32 years, strongly supporting Fer and his idea. However, when he was sent into exile in Port Spotlight, Madison's fighting spirit crumbled again, and she began dedicating more and more time to farming.
When Coran'i and Ischanor went to war a few years later, Harriet's isolationism intensified. Due to its location in the outskirts, the Madison farmstead was quickly captured by the forces of Ischanor and all produce was seized. Similarly, when the Leja Free Army rose up against the Admirality some 45 years after the departure from Rathnir, Madison's home was captured early on by the rebel forces, a development the elderly Montroigian welcomed. She provided the LFA with food and housed soldiers whenever she could.
On account of her long career in politics and rich experience, Madison was invited to the drafting table of the Coran'i Constitution. While her initial own proposals were disregarded, she did witness the writing of the actual Constitution, yet she was not given an opportunity to participate too much on the project, to her great dissatisfaction. She remained an opponent of the end result, her criticisms centring mainly around the excessive powers of the executive leader as well as the codification of the "earning" of citizenship through labour or donations.
While her protests fell on deaf ears, but her return to politics did not. Upon the election of the first Aegis, Fin'rel Ilolamir, Harriet was made a Sentinel and had risen to the rank of High Sentinel by the end of Fin'rel's term. During this time, she founded the Dualist Democratic Party with her close ally Ayla Flory dy Dax. With her party behind her back, Madison successfully ran for the office of Public Delegate
As Fin'rel did not seek reelection for the office of Aegis, Madison sided with the political newcomer Jaka de La Vadivaí, better known as Vandoro "The Vaían" and supported his campaign for the Triumvirate. At the same time, Harriet ran for the office of Justice on the High Court, a dream she had already held in Montroig. Both she and Vandoro were successfully elected. Madison left the office of High Sentinel in favour of Vandoro's fellow Triumvirate member, Fin'rel. Over time, she became more and more of a personal secretary to Aegis Vandoro. When he created the office of Altair, Harriet was appointed as the 3rd Altair. Her first task was to reform the Constitution, to which she gladly complied. A year later, Vandoro appointed H.J. Madison as the first Hyperion of Coran'i, which Harriet deems one of her proudest moments.
Around this time, speculations arose about whether or not incumbent Vandoro would run for a 2nd term. When he denied his intentions to do so, Harriet pondered whether or not to step into his footsteps. An opportunity would arise soon, as, some 3 years into his 5 year term, Vandoro would resign prematurely and Harriet, as Hyperion and thus second in command, took over and was inaugurated as the 3rd Aegis of Gran Coran'i for the remainder of the term. During her time Aegis, Harriet's primary focus was finishing what Vandoro had started until the next elections had concluded.
In the 3rd Aegis election of Coran'i, after having served a few years as Aegis already, Madison threw her hat into the ring and announced her candidacy. Soon however, she would form a coalition with Astrid Demartios, leading to Demartios becoming Aegis and Madison returning to the office of Hyperion. Similarly to Vandoro, Demartios would resign prematurely from the office of Aegis, which led to Harriet again taking over for the last few years of the term. This time, she was not inaugurated, but this would change soon...
==== Election as Aegis ====
Harriet would run for the office of Aegis once again in the 4th Gran Coran'i Election. Her competitors were the LUP candidate Roa Vanyu and the popular CoC candidate Kaspar Bjørnson. Due to their ideological similarities and previous close cooperation, Madison and Bjørnson, together with the AltAuras, formed a coalition to beat the LUP. Polling around 66% and ultimately getting elected with the same percentage of votes, the alliance turned out as a monumental success. To the coalition's dismay however, the LUP had won 4/5 Public Delegate seats. During the term, the voting power of each Public Delegate was increased from 3 to 5 votes, thus further complicating the situation. Thus begun a difficult period of cohabitation, plagued by scheming, shifting allegiances, paranoia and mutual distrust between the government-parties and the LUP opposition.
As officially elected 5th Aegis of Gran Coran'i, Madison wasted no time establishing an ambitious Department system, parallel to the Civil Service established under Vandoro. She grouped together the people of Coran'i into taskforces, each headed by a Secretary, to combat the housing and unemployment crisis that had plagued the nation for years now. Furthermore, her administration expanded the nation's territory, strengthening the integration of Nivistrata and taking back territories that had been lost during the war with Ischanor so many decades ago. Additionally, she would host the Day of the Ram, a national holiday celebrating the national animal of Coran'i, and a state visit to the nation of Harpia, a related people who also descend from the Montroigians.
In the midst of her political work, Harriet would join the Bjørnsons and undergo a ritual making her half-Valkyrie.
By the end of her term, Madison had ended the housing crisis and ensured Coran'i remained prosperous, though the nation had also become increasingly divided and Madison increasingly manic and paranoid. When the elections approached, she was more than 120 years old, walking on a cane and hardly able to see beyond her arms length without her pince-nez. She would go on to support Eddard Ashwood, the CoC candidate and her arbiter, in his bid for Aegis. In a coalition agreement, she secured herself a sport as his Hyperion, a position she gladly returned to after the 5th Gran Coran'i election had ended with Ashwood's victory.
==== Retreat to Madisonia ====
During her time as Aegis, Madison's sanity had consistently been on a downward trend, leading to her increasingly retreating to her home-town of Madisonia. She agitated strongly for Madisonian autonomy but largely unsuccessful; Her greatest feat turned in this regard was her lobbying for the support of influential politicians to allow for the Madisonian internal forum to be exempt from the Towny Act passed towards the end of her term as Aegis. Largely satisfied with this development, she spent more and more time in Madisonia, building houses as well as ships, and expanding the harbour.
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Category:Rathnir
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