Isabel Felia

Isabel Jessopi Felia is a Sevician politician, senator, and general in the Imperial Sevician army, who has served as a general since 709 A.S. She is also the recipient of the Grand Eagle of Sevicia, the fourth-highest military honour in Sevician society. She is the main protagonist of the short story The Snake.
== Background and early life ==
Felia was born in the year 683 to a wealthy family of landowners in the city of Enix, in the Heartlands region of Sevicia. A native Jastian with both Itrusic and Duscadorian ancestry, Felia learnt multiple languages to fluency from a young age. Her father, a landowner and money lender by trade, encouraged her to join the army after she expressed interest upon seeing a military parade in her hometown. She spent much of her young life studying, privileged enough to be able to afford to attend a school in Enix, before signing up for the army at the age of nineteen.
== Career ==
A gifted athlete and extremely talented runner, Felia soon impressed superiors with her ability to keep up with and on occasions surpass some of the males of her unit. It was her intelligence, though, and her keen eye for military tactics and formations - learnt through a childhood of studying - that made her stand out from the crowd. At the behest of one superior officer, Felia applied for and was accepted into the illustrious Crownhood Military Academy in 705, in the city of Vinarrin. She spent two years there before graduating as a Corporal in 707 and moving to the capital of Morosea to further her career.
She participated in the Third Duscadorian-Sevician War that year and the following, where she earned notable praise for her fearless and smart command and her decisiveness with the organisation of supply wagons and routes. In 709, a year after Felia was accepted into the Sevician Senate, she was promoted to the rank of General and given command of Sevicia's first legion. Her cunning and her social intelligence made her apt for navigating the ruthless inner workings of Sevicia's ruling class; in 710, she was elected to a second term as senator, and then a third in 712. In that time she amassed a number of powerful allies both within and without the senate, including a personal friendship with Sevicia's reigning monarch, Marek Kyos.
Command of the II and IV legions was transferred to her in 711, and further command of the VII and VIII legions a year later. As of 713, Felia holds command of five legions - the most of any general within the Sevician army - just north of the capital of Morosea. During the events of the short story The Snake, Isabel is ordered by the Senate of Sevicia to hunt down and capture the rebel leader Jaskar Malco. At the town of Etica, Felia and a thousand of her men are attacked and besieged by a rebel forcing number more than double their own, and driven east, to the banks of the River Selt.
==Appearances==
*The Snake
== See also ==
Imperial Sevician Army
Morosea
Category:People