Constance Matirus

**Constance Matirus** was the elder child of Matilda Perrol and Jairus Marthiver. She was also the older sister of Edmund Matirus and the ex-wife of Alexander Gillina. From her marriage with Alexander, she had five children: Albiona Conander, Celosia Conander, Brienne Conander, Laurette Conander and Vincent Conander.

## Biography

Constance grew up as the daughter of poor bakers from Embershire, but was already quite intelligent as a child, so she was eventually accepted as a student at the Snowrose Academy. At the academy, she had to fight for every opportunity, because it was filled with heirs of different noble houses and other rich people. This eventually earned her the respect of the infamous elitist Sonatine Calpheus, who eventually helped her climb the social ladder and became her only true friend. However, due to Sonatine's influence, she slowly started resenting her parents for only being bakers when they were talented and intelligent enough to do so much more with their life.

Through Sonatine, she eventually also met Alexander Gillina and she quickly realized that if she truly wanted to make it in life, she would have to marry rich and Alexander, being a gullible young boy at the time, was perfect. She justified their 14-year age gap by saying that she wasn't truly attracted to him, but she still went through with grooming him, convincing him that it was his idea to ask her to marry him and eventually tie him down to her by getting pregnant with his child even though he was only 19 and attending his last year of school while she was already 33 and a struggling artist, despite Sonatine's help.

As soon as they were married, she used her new connection to him to earn a position in the ministry, slowly working her way up until she became Minister of Commerce under the new leadership of Lennox Peterpotes. The two of them had been friends even before he became Prime Minister and Constance even occasionally slept with him to ensure that as soon as he became minister, she would get a higher position. However, he had hidden his true intentions from her and as soon as he became minister, tensions were at an all-time high and he started to send out people to hunt down Dragonbornes and other people opposing his new rules.

At first she stood by him, even going as far as going against her own family, resulting in Alexander crushing their Love Roses in his hand and destroying his earcuff, effectively annulling their marriage. Though she already regretted all of her decisions by then, she still went to find Lennox, hoping to find solace in him, but he betrayed her and removed her from her position because now that she was no longer a member of House Pecarom, she was no longer of use to him. She was absolutely devastated at having lost everything in a span of a few hours, so she wanted to redeem herself and do something for other people for once in her life. She went snooping around, trying to find out what Lennox's plan was and eventually she found out that he had managed to enslave a huge dragon to get rid of the rebellion once and for all. She rushed to the place where the confrontation between the rebellion and the ministry's knights was happening and came just in time to see the dragon about to destroy every member of the rebellion, including Alexander and her children. For the first time in his life, she protected the once she loved by recklessly jumping in front of the dragon and using her whole aura and soul to keep the dragon away, destroying herself in the process. Her sacrifice gave the rebellion enough incentive to take back the upper hand in the battle and eventually they won. Meanwhile, she died in Sonatine's arms, who had come to the battle after finding a letter Constance had sent her just before she left for the battle. Sonatine's last words to her were that she would spend the rest of her life missing her and trying to repent for the sins they had committed against their own families, while Constance's last words to her were that she loved her.

## Etymology

**Constance** is a name meaning 'constant, steadfast'.

**Matirus** is a combination of *Matilda* meaning 'battle-mighty' and *Jairus* meaning 'enlightened'.

**Conander** is a combination of *Constance* meaning 'constant, steadfast' and *Alexander* meaning 'defender of men'.