Alondra Hopkins

### Aliases

"The Best Duelist in Pacifica" 'Pirate Queen of the Seas" "Daughter of Achilles" "Peacekeeper of Pacifica" "The Warrior Leader" "General of the Right"

## Physical description

### Eye color

Brown

*"What reason does a Queen need to protect her own people?"*

*"I am in the strongest in all of Pacifica!"*

*"Whether it be one thug, fifteen, or five hundred, I'll beat them all up!"*

## Overview

Alondra Hopkins, presently the First Queen of Panacea, is known to be a fearless fighter who holds the reputation of being the best duelist in all of Pacifica. Her appeal is her unwavering sense of justice, and her desire to protect the people of Pacifica from being harmed by marauding factions and warlike thieves. Of her combat abilities, she is known for wielding a two handed spear known as "The Brilliant Light" which allows her to even best large groups of people attempting to subdue her, and her matchless agility which makes her nigh untouchable. Rumors have it that she was the Daughter of Achilles herself, blessed by the gods and practically a demigod by all measures - her kill count is easily agreed upon to be in the thousands. Frequently she participates on "police sweeps" around Pacifica, subduing pirates and keeping in check the many warring factions of Pacifica. It is because of her that no war has occured in Pacifica since she had been elected as Queen, when regularly there are at least a least several conflicts a year. Although her very presence commands respect, Alondra is known to be generally boisterous and "entertaining" to be around - she is bold, dauntless, and unwavering in her conviction to protect others without question, and seems to just exude "power." In her free time, Alondra seems to be keenly interested in physical sports, and actively encourages people to duel her - she set a bounty on herself of an entire stone mansion in Panacea should someone best her one day.

## History

Alondra Hopkins was born in the Norokko Islands as a product of a slave women and a Mercenary Fighter of the well known militant faction "Sons of the Maelstrom." From a young age, Alondra was practically raised as a male soldier, separated from her mother and drilled extensively by her father for the entirety of her childhood. She lived in the barracks of the Norokko Islands, and although she was initially bullied for her smaller size and for being a women, she earned a reputation of being a prodigy duelist, specializing in the use of a two handed spear, coupled with extraordinary agility. Around the age of eleven, she was distinguished for having bested her own fighting instructors, who at the time held decades of war experience and were amongst the highest ranks of the Mercenary Fighters. At the age of thirteen she would have her first battle experience in the War of Northern Succession, during an invasion of the Curucos Island where she fought on the right flank of a Southern Wind army - she was distinguished for having killed the commander of the opposing army herself along with twenty five other kills. She quickly rose through the ranks, participating in countless campaigns until the age of twenty seven, gaining the reputation of being the best Duelist in all of Pacifica, scoring such a vast amount of kills on opposing commanders and faction leaders that eventually they refused to duel her altogether. Very often she would hunt down the enemy leader herself, hacking her way through bodyguards and entire platoons in order to bring their head.

However it was around the age of twenty seven that she became disillusioned with the senseless killing she was participating in and began to completely realign her morals, recognizing that it was the Sons of the Maelstrom responsible for starting many wars around Pacifica so that they could reap both the violence and wealth. Soon, she took it upon herself to single handedly bring down the Sons of the Maelstrom faction herself, appearing in front of the Gates of the Stormy Keep and declaring that she would take the head of the Faction Leader herself, and usurp him. Fighting through dozens of the best Mercenary fighters and storming the keep herself, she eventually defeated Charles Gomez, leader of the Sons of the Maelstrom at the time, and assumed leadership, with the remainder of the faction either in awe or too afraid to challenge her. Immediately after doing so, she convened a general meeting of the entire faction and declared that it was now disbanded, causing the entire military order to fall apart. Although some begrudged remnants of the original faction re-established power in the form of the Noble Fighters, they exercised much less power and influence than the Sons of the Maelstrom. Alondra Hopkins became known as a hero in all of Pacifica for her actions, and was welcomed into Panacea as the King's Royal Bodyguard and eventually as the esteemed "General of the Right," where she would spend the next seven years protecting the people of Pacifica through her heroic deeds until becoming Queen of Pacifica herself in 510 AC.

## Trivia

* Alondra specifically has 6764 kills
* Her use of a spear reflects Howard's opinion of the superiority of spears compared to any other melee weapon
* Alondra's highest kill count in one day was during the Battle of Burn's Boulder, where she wiped out three regiments by herself, racking up over three hundred kills.