Diana Minerva

## Appearance

**Hair**: A soft black, long but usually tied back into a polite, unkempt ponytail that hangs down to just below her shoulder blades.

**Skin**: Tawny

**Eyes**: Jade green

**Height**: 6'2

**Weight**: 65 kilograms

**Markings**/**Noticeable** **Features**: The most notable part of Diana's appearance is the thick, jagged scarring going along her left eye, with the eye itself being a milky white.

## Personality

To call Diana's personality an acquired taste would be an understatement. She is rather blunt and to the point in private. With little time for people she considers irritating, Diana puts up the most basic of fronts when talking to other people of importance. Although her rough exterior does seem to melt and fade away in the presence of those of a lower caste, as well as her daughter.

## Abilities

As a former Mechanical Engineer, Diana finds herself fascinated with the various mechanical parts that make up the giant machine that is Ashmoor. She also has a very strong interest in Airships, having spent her first few years in exile as a mechanic onboard a trading ship.

She is an expert in metalworking, able to shape even the toughest and more difficult of metals into shape. This has given her some degree of bodily strength, leaving her toned, just enough to avoid being some kind of beanpole at her height.

She is an average swordsman, a large amount of her skill going into the more dirty tactics she learned whilst in the more poor, unlawful areas.

To contrast, she is far better with a firearm, carrying her single-action revolver with her almost everywhere she goes.

## History

Born into the Greater House of Minerva as the eldest daughter, Diana had always been set up for some form of greatness. She had been trained from birth by hired tutors so she could take over as head of the household. Her parents, although not for lack of trying, were unable to have another child.

It would not be until her teenage years that, by some miracle, her parents had a son. From there, Diana's importance in the family quickly waned, with her studies being relegated to the more physical, driven by her interest in engineering.

Although her suspicions that she was unwanted were, at the time, just that, suspicions, it would only take her being found hiding away with another similarly aged woman of a lower caste, and fabricated claims from her parents that the other woman had ties to a rather notable criminal organisation for her to be removed from her family.

She was cast out into the world with only a handful of money and the clothing on her back.

It would take the young woman months to find herself a job in Slatetown as an apprentice mechanic. She would sleep for cheap in various inns and pubs in exchange for various odd jobs, often delving into scavenging to get by.

It would be in her late twenties when the woman, having recently returned from a stint as a mechanic onboard a trading ship, and now shackled with a child, would settle down, buying out an old space in the Lower Yem, fashioning it into both her workshop and home. She would sell herself as the skilled mechanic to those of the upper echelon, slowly building up funds whilst under a fake name.

It would be her now teenage daughter's worrying brush with illness that cemented Diana's need to re-enter the life of her House. Luckily it seemed that luck, and Aen were on her side, as her next job happened to be within her old family home.

Her father was revealed to be bedridden, practically on death's door, his wife having left back to her old House after their son, and Diana's brother was revealed to be a bastard, born of an encounter with their maid. His health had led said bastard as the sole heir, and current Patriarch of House Minerva.

It was then that Diana struck, revealing herself to her former family, and declaring to her half-brother a duel to the death, and he, in his arrogance agreed, with family friend as judge. The duel went on for hours, the two fighters seemingly matched as they fought, the brother not particularly trying against his furious, violent sister. He would be the first to strike, slashing Diana in the face and blinding her left eye. As he was about to finish her off she struck, piercing her saber through his expensive silk clothing and killing him instantly.

After meeting with her father as he lay in his bed, her title was returned as heir. As she was the only one left. She was briefly investigated for the murder of her brother, but with both the family's money behind her and the fact that it was a legal duel, the Investigation faltered.

It is barely a month now after her brother, and father's death. And Diana is still struggling to accommodate to her new life as a member of the upper crust and Matriarch of her House. She has largely taken over the majority of her father's duty, visiting the various factories and metalworks under her father's ownership, as well as attending the needed functions.