Liras Geshe

**Liras Geshe** (Lar 1 - Tehare 8) was an *asheindae* and the wife of Fii Giriin. She was noted for her insistence on maintaining traditional Order of Scripts dress after retirement even when it became outlawed during the Cien Cleanse.

## Early Life

Liras was born on the Southern Continent to *raren* miranen parents in a homesteading community along the western coast. Both of her parents were killed when she was four years old and she was placed in the care of the Order of Scripts. Less than a year later, she began training as an *asheindae*.

## The Northern Continent

When she was nine, the Order of Scripts made the decision to transfer Liras from her home shrine on the Southern Continent to one located roughly a day's travel south of Mi-Fe Cie. Both unusually intelligent and innovative, Liras showed promise in solving practical issues that came up within Order of Scripts shrines. The resources at shrines on the Northern Continent would allow her to continue to expand her skills beyond what she could in the smaller shrine in her home village.

The journey to her new shrine took nearly eight months. When she arrived, she found her skills being put to new uses. As the new shrine was located deep within Curse, both the shrine itself as well as the two *mishu*-dominant communities they served had perpetual issues with maintaining their structure. Liras helped devise new supports for buildings that held out against the intense moisture and weather that ate through previous structures.

## Mi-Fe Cie

When she was thirteen, Liras was introduced to Fii Giriin, her intended-by-law. She had heard of Fii since he was the only male that had ever been allowed to formally study with the Order and had a negative view of him before they met. She was a firm believer that *asheindae* should be female. The fact that Fii also specialized in engineering solutions to complex structural and medical issues contributed to her views since she considered him to be competition.

Liras's displeasure at her new acquaintance grew when she found herself being transferred some seventy miles to serve at the shrine where Fii also practiced. While she initially thought the transfer was made because of their impending marriage, still some years away, she learned otherwise after a few weeks at the new shrine. Fii had suffered a grievous injury nearly three years earlier. The injuries had left him permanently crippled. He had created devices that helped him with basic tasks such as standing and walking but his disabilities meant that he needed help maintaining the device. Liras had been sent to help him due to her abilities, not a pre-arranged marriage she was opposed to.

When she was 15, the Order informed her that she would be responsible for organizing a journey to Mi-Fe Cie. The Order had recently become concerns with the actions of one of the daughters of the royal family. Since Fii was a relative of the *Illenari*, they had decided to send him as an envoy to both improve relations and investigate the rumors that had been spreading. Liras requested the assistance of an Ybrengthe named Kite. Together, the three of them made the journey to Mi-Fe CIe.

In Lar 18, she and Fii were married. Liras made the decision to retire from the Order of Scripts, focusing instead on what she believed was her traditional responsibility of functioning as a wife and homemaker. While they owned no property themselves, they were granted leave to claim the land that the abandoned homestead previously occupied by Hange-Runec Ikaera III.

## The Cien Cleanse

While he continued working for the Order of Scripts, Fii also took on the role of physician within the Palace of Angels. This kept Liras in closer contact with the royal family and their constituents than Liras would have preferred, especially since political turmoil was already beginning to cause issues for residents of Mi-Fe Cie.

When Fushinara Ikaera took the throne in Tehare 1, new laws were implemented and old laws dictating how former *asheindae* should dress were enforced in a way that had never been seen before. Liras was actively opposed to this, since continuing to wear some parts of the Order of Scripts clothing has always been traditional for those no longer in the Order. Aside from being part of their identity, most *asheindae* (both current and former) believe that removing their green *shiveren* beads will bring death.

## Death

Both Liras's own actions as well as acts of subterfuge by Fii drew the wrath of the Ura de. Liras gave birth to her only child, Eshere Giriin, in Tehare 8. The very next day, Fushinara sent *gopari* to capture Liras and bring her to the palace. She was executed by beheading without a trial for failing to comply with the laws she had been protesting.

## Marriages and Children

Liras married only once and had one daughter. She also had no extended family.

Fii Giriin *(Lar 18 - Tehare 8)*

1. *Eshere Giriin (Tehare 8 - Lede 5)*