Lavinia Impera

Lavinia Aventen Imperiana Cipritines ("of Cipritine") was the eldest daughter of Atrin Impera, the founder and first Imperatrix ("Empress") of the turian Bronze Age's continent-spanning Nialin Empire. She was also the wife of Tarcus Aventen, famed tactician-philosopher and statesman of Palavenian antiquity, who ruled over Cipritine's rival city-state of Albion (later renamed Aventinus in his honour). Despite the marriage being a political entity, and her husband 20 years her senior, Lavinia and Tarcus were deeply in love with one another. They had several children together, whose descendants ruled Aventinus for the next two centuries, until its eventual betrayal and annexation by Cipritine. 
Tarcus predeceased his wife, leaving her a widow at the age of 30. As an act of remembrance for her beloved soulmate, Lavinia commissioned several hundred copies of his works, which she had distributed across both Aventinus and her late mother's empire, in the hopes it would keep his spirit alive in the afterlife so that she might be reunited with him in death. It is thanks to her actions that the majority of his literary masterpieces have survived into the modern era. Despite her older brother's best efforts to sell her on the marriage market for political advantage, Lavinia refused to acquiesce to his demands, choosing instead to remain in Aventinus to assist her eldest child in the governing of her late husband's domain. In addition to her matrimonial hood, she is said to have worn an onyx and agate cameo of Tarcus' likeness for the rest of her life. 
Lavinia outlived her husband by 18 years. She was reunited with him in death, being laid to rest beside him within the Aventinian Necropolis. Their tomb still stands within the necropolis' ancient quarter, although it was damaged substantially during the Reaper War. Upon inspection, it was discovered that the entirety of the burial chamber's painted ceiling - one of the best-preserved examples of turian Bronze Age artwork on Palaven - had been lost. The ceiling's collapse had also compromised the structural integrity of Tarcus and Lavinia's shared sarcophagus, although thankfully their bodies had not been destroyed (due in large part to the mass effect field generators and shielding that House Aventen had installed several centuries earlier). House Aventen would spend a small fortune in credits having the tomb restored to its former glory using traditional building techniques.
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