Matidia Verrikan

Matidia Victus Verrikiana Tiervina was the wife of Fabien Victus and the mother of his three children - Adrien, Fabia and Valexien Victus. Born into the prestigious House Verrikan of Palaven, she followed in her ancestors' footsteps by joining the military at the age of 16. She met Fabien while they were serving a tour of duty in the Attican Frontier. They served together for 15 months, a time period over which the pair slowly fell in love. 
Knowing that he had met his intended life partner, Fabien asked Matidia to be his wife upon completion of his tour of duty, unwilling to part ways with her forever. Matidia, struggling to restrain her glee at his proposal, reminded him that her parriarch must first agree to the union before she could accept. Having already convinced his own parriarch - his paternal grandmother, Valexia Victus - Fabien asked her to open negotiations with Matidia's family on his behalf. After a couple of weeks of deliberation and chaperoning, both families finally agreed to the union. Fabian and Matidia were married in Temple Palaven in Cipritine as a show of good faith towards her family, who would be losing her to House Victus.
Matidia faced much prejudice from her husband's social peers; the elite of Bostran society had long been highly insular and typically only married within the confines of their social stratum. While she had been born into an aristocratic family of great renown and military decoration - she was descended from a long line of prestigious Palavenian admirals, including the famous Primarch Vorinus Verrikan - she was ultimately still an outsider and thus shunned. Despite her initial social pariah status, Bostra's elite eventually grew to accept her, swayed by both her combat prowess and her fierce loyalty to her husband's homeworld. 
Matidia was killed in action during the Reaper War alongside her husband, the pair having fought and died together in an effort to protect Bostra's reigning primatial family from Reaper shock troops. 
Combat recordings later recovered from their omni-tools revealed the manner of their deaths; outgunned and completely surrounded, the pair had made the fateful decision to bait the Reaper creatures into a trap and activate all of their remaining grenades at once to take their enemy out with them. The last moments of the recordings revealed a tender moment between two life partners: "Dia, I just wanted to say...the life we built together, the battles we fought, the children we raised... I don't regret a second of it."
"Neither do I. If this is how we are to end, then I am glad to make my last stand beside you, the man I love."
"I love you, Dia..."
"I love you too, Fabi... Farewell, my love."Fabien and Matidia's sacrifice proved to be worthwhile, as it allowed Bostra's primarch and his family to escape off-world. As such, the pair were posthumously awarded the Stella Vastitatis, the highest military honour that may be awarded by the Primarch of Bostra, which was received by Adrien on their behalf.
Category:Turians
Category:Females
Category:Palavenians
Category:House Verrikan
Category:House Victus
Category:Quattuor nomina