Trebia Aurelos

"In another life, I would have liked to have called you Father..." - Trebia to Markus, on their wedding night.Trebia Abrudas Aureliana Halabrina was the daughter and only legitimate child of Aurelion Imperator by his estranged wife, Septonia Halabrian. She was also the first wife of Markus Abrudas and the mother of his son, Aurelion "Auri" Abrudas. Renowned for her wisdom and beauty, she was once the most desirable woman in the world, becoming the muse for some of turian culture's most important artistic and literary works.
Naturally, she possessed countless suitors from across her father's empire, each coveting her as a means to get closer to Aurelion. Believing none of Trebia's suitors had her best interests at heart, Aurelion reluctantly chose to wed her to Markus Abrudas, his second-in-command and secret lover, who had known her for her entire life. The relationship was mostly platonic, with Markus viewing Trebia as more of a daughter than a wife. That said, they did conceive a child together, albeit under great pressure to further the imperial bloodline. 
This fateful decision would ultimately cut Trebia's life short. She died of sepsis, which had been triggered by a postpartum infection, only a week after giving birth to her son. Grieving for her loss, Markus swore to raise Auri in his mother's image so that he would always know her love. Trebia's embalmed body would be moved to Palaven via mortuary ship a few days after her death, where she received a state funeral and was entombed in the Aurelian Funerary Palace. She was the first to be interred there, followed by her bereaved mother just a year later. Her father later raised a monument in her memory outside the Imperial Palace, which displayed a statue of her likeness and an inscription detailing her parents' boundless love for her.
As Trebia was Aurelion's only legitimate child, she was naturally first in line to inherit his throne. Upon her death, her newborn son became Aurelion's new heir. As Auri was the product of a legitimate marriage, his place in the line of succession superseded that of his half-aunts and half-uncle - Rea, Flavia and Orian Aurix - all of whom where of illegitimate birth. Auri would ultimately lose his place in the line of succession after Aurelion changed the empire's succession laws by outlawing blood inheritance in favour of meritocratic inheritance, and by establishing the law that no colonial-born citizen could sit the Imperial Throne. As Trebia's death had been caused by her attempt to produce an heir for her father, these radical legal changes ultimately rendered her death pointless - something which Auri and his father, Markus, found difficult to accept. 
== Biography ==
=== Relationship with Markus ===
Trebia first met Markus a year after her birth, in 334 BCE, after her father had successfully captured Carthaan and liberated its slaves. For the next ten years, Trebia would grow up surrounded by her father's troops as she and her mother accompanied him on his campaigns, which, naturally, included Markus. Due to his proximity to Aurelion and constant presence in her life, Trebia came to view Markus as an uncle. She often helped him to practice his literacy skills by reading her children's story books along with him, demonstrating how the letters of the High Cipritine alphabet sounded when put together in a word.
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