Andriah Fel

## Princess Andriah

The Ashen Princess

**Andriah Fel** is an Imperial Princess and a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Navy. She is the daughter of Emperor Tragus Fel II and Empress Zuri Lsu Fel. She was considered an ace pilot in the Imperial Navy, her force-sensitivity greatly improving her piloting skills, and was famous for leading Ashen Squadron - at which time she earned the nickname *Ashen Princess*. Due to having started in the Flight branch of the Navy prior to being promoted into the Line ranks, she holds the honorific title of *Air Marshal*. She is also training with the Force and a lightsaber, like the rest of her sibling. Her flagship is the Arbiter-class Star Destroyer known as *Matriarch Lsu*.

## Backstory

Andriah was born as the second child of the Tragus Fel II and Zuri Lsu Fel of the Fel Empire. Unlike her older brother, she was born with the features of an Echani, with fully white hair instead of just the white-streak signature of the Imperial family. As the oldest daughter, she grew up knowing her mother better than her younger siblings before Zuri died in 979 ABY. The Echani were a matriarchal society so Andriah received quite a bit of attention from her mother and was trained in combat from the first time she could walk. After her mother died and her father became more distant, she was taken under the wing of her Echani grandmother - Matriarch Edurne Lsu. Edurne saw to the rest of Andriah's upbringing, as well as that of her younger sister. At her father's request, Andriah also trained under the Imperial Knights, where she learned under Master Zizhar, to learn the Force and how to use a lightsaber. She passed her training, but she held no interest in following the path of a Knight as she identified more with the Echani martial artists.

Having spent her childhood going back and forth from Coruscant, Eshan and Bastion, she became attracted to the vastness of space. She decided then to become a pilot. When she came of age she enlisted in the Imperial Navy's Flight branch, much to the annoyance of her father. Even at the Navy Academy she stood out as an exceptional pilot. Despite her royal bloodline, she did not allow her superiors to treat her like a soft flower. She demanded challenge from them and so they pushed her, giving her touch assignments and positions. She fought against rebels and pirates in the fringes of the Empire and the Triumvirate as a whole, where she made a name for herself as *the Ashen Princess*. Quickly climbing through the ranks early, she was placed in charge of her own squadron, which she named *Ashen Squadron* after her nickname and continued to have a decorated career.

As she neared her 30s, she joined the ranks of the upper officers of the Navy in the Line ranks, which made her have to give up her piloting career and retire her favorite TIE Exiler as she was made a Vice-Admiral and given the honorary title of *Air Marshal*. While she did not enjoy giving up her previous position, she took the duties given to her with diligence. She was placed in charge of a Fleet defending the more lawless areas of the Empire at her own request.

During her time leading Ashen Squadron, she met the Twi'lek Poyann Vao. The two became close, with Poyann becoming Andriah's second-in-command. The two of them eventually began a romance. When Andriah was promoted into the Line Ranks, she left Ashen Squadron to the command of Poyann and had the Squadron reassigned to her Star Destroyer so the two could remain close.

In a ploy to improve relations with the Chiss her aunt Xarah Fel, the ruler of the Imperial Conquest Zone that borders the Chiss Ascendancy, convinced her father to marry Andriah to a prominent Chiss officer. She was married to Fehlaaur'ey'nekri, the current Chief of the Imperial Diplomatic Services within Imperial Intelligence. Known by his core name, Reyne, he had distinguished himself after successfully negotiating the Imperial-Onderon Alliance in 996 ABY and later negotiated the surrender of the Vagaari Warband known as the Ghastly Horde. The latter of which had earned him the title of Baron of the Empire. The Fehlaaur family had been prominent within the Empire since the rise of High Moff Fehlaaur'aitel'loro who had led both Imperial Intelligence and the Imperial Diplomatic Corps centuries prior. Andriah was not happy with the match as she had no interest in men, but accepted her duty as Imperial Princess. Baron Reyne understood the nature of their marriage as purely political and took it as an opportunity to further his career. Though there was no love between them.

## Trivia

* Following the naming convention of her immediate family, she is named after a Roman Emperor. Andriah's name comes from Emperor Hadrian.
* Like Hadrian, Andriah is in a purely political marriage and is in fact homosexual.
* To the Nihonites, Andriah is known as Airi Senshi.