Alamaria Liatumal

Alamaria Liatumal, known to the bugbear Dovruk as Lady, was a Viscountess in the Astedian Empire.

## History

Alamaria Liatumal, considered famous by most through proximity to her brother Virric Liatumal, was a member of the High College of Claxinns alongside him, and also known for her activism.

Lady, a name given by simple necessity pending discovery of the woman's true identity, first appeared to Dovruk after he refused to partake in the torture of a pair of halflings at a ritual altar to Hruggek, instead deciding to strike their chains asunder and send them into flight. Since then, Lady has been a constant companion to the bugbear, standing fast and protecting him and those around him from immediate harm in periods of conflict and otherwise.

It seems that Lady also appeared to the supposed Butcher of Byllastro, the orc Cribur, doing so shortly after turning away from the murder and kidnapping of villages at the command of his superior, Luger - the leader of the Dirgevale Hunters. Cribur too reported that Lady had helped him find safety, guiding him to the Matron House where Ilana and Pelagon had tended to his wounds and taught him about Aita, the Dawn Matron. Since then however, she has not appeared to him.

The Cleric Ilana seemed to show sense of recognition when questioned by Dovruk about Lady's identity, promising to be in touch after asking around a few of her contacts within the city. Following further investigations, Dovruk found a further lead at Third Hand Treasures where he was presented with a painting titled *From Soil & Stone, A New Age by Ruo Oatstalker* that seemed to depict Lady. Reading the inscription, he learned her name to be Alamaria Liatumal, a detail confirmed later that night during their routine of naming before drifting off to sleep.

Despite it, it appeared that Alamaria is likewise unfamiliar with her own history, offering as much surprise and joy at the revelation of her naming as Dovruk.

Upon visiting Easel's Might, the final details of Alamaria's fate were learned. Deeply disgusted at the Shapetress' Clause, an Imperial Edict that declined those of the more traditionally "monstrous" races status as Imperial Citizens, she spent years campaigning against it in the name of equal rights. Rallying several to her cause, aided from afar by the Ki-rin Tianyan, who first appeared to her as a child, she grew famous and infamous alike, and as such served as a source of derision and despair for the rest of her esteemed family. Numerous protests, riots and demonstrations were carried out by her design, in her name or her stead, and was considered across the entirety of Ahlus by many to be a patron and champion of the downtrodden and dejected. Continuously at her side was the First-Generation Cogheart, her companions since a child, affectionately named Kinheart. Memory damaged and without a docent to restore it, after their reactivate Kinheart would take the name Null.

When the Manifestation started to come to be, Alamaria had recently been incarcerated by the Imperial Inquisition, but was freed following a large monetary donation by her father Umihns Liatumal. Upon her escort home, she remained indignant, making plain her intentions to continue in her protesting efforts but would gain no chance. As the Hanbalani Cores activated in unison, the emissary Eordemos Lightvale would materialise and after Alamaria's continued defiance, ravage her with a trio of gnawing bites from hungering maws.

Recovering her body many years later, Dovruk interred them within her childhood room, leaving a small statuette of Aita acquired from the Matron House to watch over her.

## From Soil & Stone, A New Age *by Ruo Oatstalker*

"Framed with a border of woven gold leaf, the painting is six feet wide and four feet tall. Centremost within, shaped from brushstrokes of deep colour and grandeur, an elven figure clad in ivory-pale robes trimmed with golden accents casts a slate-grey cloak adorned with similar filigree aside to raise a sphere of chiselled stone high - much to the delight and splendour of the crowd surrouding him in all directions. A trio of other figures stand atop the dias alongside him, two of them settled in gaze upon the same artifact - a gnome clad armour of clockwork bronze, a lean half-elf wreathed in full robes of the same slate-grey, with a sixteen-sided prism glimmering at his neck. Only the woman, her hair the very same spun argent silk as the centre figure's own does not hold the glance, instead looking beyond the crowd with a stalwart resolve."

*A state visit by Archmage Virric Liatumal to show off his newest discovery, the Wayfinder Stone. Accompanied by Exaltificer Kevmorn Milltall, Fourth Magus Sarcoril Swiftdras and Viscountess Alamaria Liatumal.*

## Legend Lore

When the divination spell *Legend Lore* was used by Fafnir Lutgehr in 9 WD, Gantul-Whiterose at Dovruk's behest, the following description was provided.

*“Born of the blood of the marksman, the Fiend Lizard’s Bane,”*

*“Lady Alamaria through high society was expected to waltz and prance,”*

*“And yet those rejected by her society, the empire, offerings of love she did deign,”*

*“Believing even those not of the Matron were worthy of redemption’s chance.”*

*“Called heretical recreant for pledges and zealotry to the Herdsman’s Creed,”*

*"And subvertous traitor for efforts to obstruct the Shapetress’s Clause,”*

*“It was for neither that heartbeat, breath and life did cede,”*

*“Prey of the Far Infinium, slain by servants of the dark's engulfing jaws.”*