Isadora Eirik

Second Princess Isadora Eirik is the second oldest child of King Alaric Eirik and Queen Lilliana. She is first mentioned in Arc 1, and introduced as an NPC in Arc 3 as a friend of Fey Moss.

## General Description

Isadora is a Human with light, finely curled hair.

Isadora is a remarkably brave girl who does not get scared easily; in fact, she is described as always having been "a little too brave for [her] own good". She always dreams of going on adventures herself.

## Backstory

Isadora grew up in the royal palace and was raised by a personal staff and tutors. One of her tutors is the halfling man Adrian Lightfoot.

## Arc 3

### Description

Isadora is a 14-year old girl, who wears her hair braided back and, as a princess, is always dressed in very fine clothes, even her "less presentable" dresses are still quite pretty.

She is a close friend of Fey Moss, and likes listening to her stories and songs about her adventures together with the Arc 3 party. She also is a secret admirer of Fey's party member Aldrum, who she only ever heard of in Fey's stories up until the events of Arc 3.

### Development

Isadora begs Fey to take her on an adventure, but the most she gets from her is the promise that Fey will take her on an adventure when she is older.

Later, Isadora finds her sister Sybilla unconcious and badly wounded after an attack from a devil on the side of the road. She drags her sister back into the castle and helps Fey and Diarmad get through to her, so that Diarmad can heal her. While Sybilla is still unconscious, she tries her best to help the Arc 3 party with the little information she has about the attack.

Before they go, Fey promises to Isadora that she will come back with Aldrum, and that they will then actually have the time to meet.

## Between Arc 3 and Arc 8

Growing up, Isadora leaves the palace as soon as she can and becomes an adventurer, and a miraculously successful one, too. She follows into the footsteps of her idol Aldrum and becomes a Rune Knight Fighter, which also means that shortly before Arc 8, she grows eleven inches.

Through her direct action, she helps the common people in Hyranor, and also sees the harm her father's laws cause in the kingdom. However, through her position as Second Princess, there are still parts of the kingdom she cannot see.

As the town of Qto is attacked and taken over by the pirate queen Valerya Faragon, Isadora and her adventuring party, even though nobody thought it possible, manage to talk her into joining the kingdom of Hyranor, and becoming the legal city baron of Qto under King Alaric.

A few months prior to Arc 8, Isadora encounters a Deck of Many Things on her adventures, and, hoping that it might help in some way, picks up a card. She picks the two of spades, which reverses her alignment from Chaotic Good to Lawful Evil. From that point on, her one goal is to become as powerful as she can, preferably Queen of Hyranor. At the same time, the old version of herself is still there, as well, and she does her best to fight her urges of trying to take over power. She drops her adventuring life and returns to the Ember Keep, where she tries to gain power as quickly as she can without actually hurting anybody, while keeping her alignment shift a secret.

Some time before Arc 8, Isadora also starts a relationship with the Prime Lord Wizard's assistant, Bixlebong Borple.

## Arc 8

### Description

A famous adventurer, Isadora Eirik now wears half plate armor with huge ornamental shoulder plates made out of different layers carrying her runes, and towers over her older sister Sybilla, who used to be the taller one of them. Her weapon of choice is an axe.

Especially when talking to Sybilla, she seems to regularly experience spurts of uncontrollable anger.

This aggression is her alignment shift showing, and while she tries to control it and keep it down, in Sybilla's presence, she is not always able to do so.

### Development

On the day of the death ceremony, the royal researchers suddenly realise that Sybilla cannot be the successor of King Alaric, because the spell that regrew her arm counts as regeneration magic and thus prohibits her from ever being a monarch. Queen Lilliana confronts Sybilla with this information in the presence of Isadora, who is announced the new successor by King Alaric. Isadora thinks she would make a good queen, as she, contrary to her sister, went out into the kingdom, saw it, and helped the people, even though she had no political ambitions or experience before. This lack of experience becomes apparent as she tries to talk to her prospective Minor Council and fails to follow the etiquette of talking to powerful people. She is unable to talk her way out of the questions she is confronted with, and quickly looses every bit of optimistic trust the Minor Council put into her. While she claims that she is capable to lead the kingdom with her experience as both a princess and an adventurer, it is obvious that she just says what she feels is the best thing to say, not what she believes to her core.

During that meeting, Helga finds out through her earrings that Isadora is hiding a deep, dark secret. Because of this revelation, Sybilla and Helga visit Isadora in the evening, and Isadora finally reveals her secret to the two of them. She tells them about the card and her alignment shift, and that she was the one who gave Frederick the researcher the hint to find the law, so that Sybilla could not be the successor to the throne. She admits that she did it to save Sybilla, because she is unsure how long she can fight back this evil side of hers, and she does not want to kill Sybilla one day. Her sister and Helga assure her that there is still good in her, that she can win the fight, and that they can find help for her, but that she has no chance to become Queen, and so she agrees to letting Sybilla become the successor again once she has undergone the necessary ritual.

The next morning, Isadora leaves a note to her mother to give the title of successor back to Sybilla, and then tries to flee to get away from her sister. Sybilla and Helga get to her before she runs away, though, and convince her to stay, as Sybilla has found a spell that can reverse the alignment shift. She casts Ceremony on Isadora, and Isadora gets back her old alignment, thus losing every bit of hunger for power. During the following vote of the Minor Council, Isadora awaits the result outside, knowing that a coup from Sir Up Ton is very much possible.

When during the announcement of the vote in favour of Sybilla, Sir Up Ton actually starts his coup, Isadora immediately runs to get to her sister on the fastest way possible, followed by Annie and Helga. The three of them manage to get to Sybilla in time to rescue her from Sir Up Ton, and Isadora hits Sir Up unconscious. She feels bad about it, since he was a father figure for her who knew her since she was five years old and taught her how to fight.

Before the coronation, Sybilla offers the position as Captain of the Kingsguard to Isadora, who considers it. Shortly after the coronation itself, Sybilla then sends her together with Penny Lovejoy and Yondo to the high security prison in Tyle to deliver the order that Gem Lovejoy is to be freed, as a sort of first order as Captain of the Kingsguard, even though she officially doesn't hold the title yet. When Penny, Yondo, and Isadora exit the prison together with Gem, Gem is assassinated by members of the Hatebad family, lead by Beryl Hatebad. Isadora is unable to help Gem.

Because she is at the prison, Isadora is not present when Orious Loroy murders Sybilla.

## Trivia

* Isadora does not have a very good poker face, at least not as a child and towards Fey.
* She and Sybilla have a secret knock pattern as children.

## Fan Additions

* Mood board (https://pin.it/32ea8og) and Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ZFICDITXElxwT16qgSIT0?si=YiXTUz-ERniZ5CqM4i4zHQ) made by James of Isadora