Baroness Dorn Oramande

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Baroness Dorn Oramande is the matriarch of the Family Oramande, a wealthy dynasty native to the Coreworlds. She has dark hair long enough to appear unkempt when waking up, and typically wears an elegant gown in such situations.

Baroness Oramande prizes the acquisition and collection of rare artefacts, believing that the exclusivity of items is the main factor that drives their value. She takes the view that such an item may as well be worthless if it is only the second best of its kind, and is willing to resort to underhanded tactics in order to ensure an item’s exclusivity. The Baroness is also quick to anger when she feels she has been misunderstood, or when her demands are not met.

Baroness Oramande is served by an attendant named Col, who masks his mild disdain for and fear of his employer with trained impassivity. The Baroness also retains the services of the Montreau Conservatory.

The Baroness lives in a penthouse suite furnished with at least a dining table and a rarely-used kitchen. She drinks espresso and usually, though not always, finds that string quartet music calms her in moments of stress. She is highly regarded for her patronage of the arts in general, and can often be seen attending galas and other society events on Aglostarros.

Following the discovery of the Compass Rose Cerite on the planet Harthoe, Baroness Oramande employed agents of the Montreau Conservatory to purchase the Crystal Cerite specimen on her behalf from Derre’s Auction House. Subsequently, she tasked the Montreau agents with removing all references to Crystal Cerite from the Project Centennial exhibition at the Aglostarros University Museum, and grew angry when the Museum would not meet these demands.

Though Curator Endelle Stroth was unable to directly blame Baroness Oramande for the subsequent destruction of Harthoe due to her position and the stringent anti-defamation laws of the Coreworlds Conglomerate, Stroth nevertheless strongly implied that the Baroness had ordered the disaster in order to preserve the exclusivity of the Compass Rose Cerite. Stroth later went on to criticise Oramande more directly, and the establishment of the ARK Mandate was seen by many as an act of direct opposition to the Baroness and other private collectors of her ilk.

Though the issue of Curator Stroth’s feud with Baroness Oramande and her family was sidestepped at a meeting between representatives of the Trifold Union’s member states and the Curator at the Threshold of the Ninth Plane on Andar Prime, press reports suggested that the Montreau Conservatory and their anonymous employers were among the many threats to galactic stability to be addressed.

After attending the Xunne Operatic Players’ performance of *The Fall of Exia* at the Gardolos Theatre on Aglostarros, the Baroness became taken with the Players’ Itela wraps, and sought to commission an Itela of her own, to wear to society events. The Baroness claimed that the experience had attuned her to galactic culture and helped her understand the Xun (which she pronounced “Zoon”). At the workshop of a Xun tailor, she initially tried on an indigo and azure Itela, but instead requested one in a gold colour, to which the tailor objected as shades of yellow are forbidden to Xun attire. The Baroness’ insistance on a gold Itela, to complement her autumnal wardrobe, made the tailor unmistakably angry. This incident resulted in a rare instance of negative press for the Baroness.

In the year 2270, Baroness Oramande was the subject of an extended spotlight interview conducted by the AlTime News Channel. In the interview, she spoke out for the first time against AUM's allegations that she had been in some way responsible for the Harthoe tragedy, labelling these accusations "slander".

Later that year, the Family Oramande purchased a majority share in the University of Aglostarros, in a transaction valued at more than ⍺1,000,000. The Baroness subsequently appointed herself as AUM's new Curator. Speculators believed this move would be followed by the permanent closure of the Project Centennial exhibition, a rumour which drove up the price of alien antiquities substantially.