Praefectus Kaise de Lonte

## Kaise de Lonte

A picture of Praefectus de Lonte holding her experimental hyperil-powered pistol, which never worked at full capacity.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Hazel

**Praefectus Kaise de Lonte** was a Praefectus of the Malkenian Imperium during the late Third Era. Operating in the Malkenian Strait - the body of water between Eukitia and Malkenia - she spent most of her career hunting down the pirate Paige Claire and her Black Fleet. Neither of the two ever truly defeated the other, forever stuck in a cat-and-mouse game. A primary reason that Kaise never truly struck a killing blow against Paige, and vice versa, despite numerous chances, was due to the pair's teasing, homoerotic relationship with one another.

## History

Kaise de Lonte had a relatively normal upbringing. Born into the Imperial province of Harzeland, Kaise grew close to the sea at a young age as her father was a dock worker. Upon reaching the necessary age, she applied to the Imperium Naval Academy and graduated as top of her class in 788 3E, immediately falling into the rank of Praefectus - commander of a small fleet. She took *The Grand Extravagant* as her flagship, an Imperial galleon, along with numerous smaller cruisers and frigates as support vessels. Her fleet was assigned to defend the Malkenian Strait, the region of ocean between Malkenia and Eukitia.

During her early days at sea, de Lonte would find herself often bored while on patrol, and eventually began tinkering around with spare weapons parts the ship carried. She managed to modify her handgun to use hyperil rather than bullets, firing blasts of scorching red globs of chemical fuel that would effectively melt through the body. However, she was never able to perfect this weapon, as when fired at full capacity it had a tendency to short-circuit or even explode, which lead to a signature scar on her right hand at age 24. As such, she would usually only be able to fire at half power, but was more than enough to cause burns and damage to her opponents.

Eventually, on a fateful day, de Lonte would find herself and her fleet under attack by the Black Fleet lead by Paige Claire. The battle was long, and while no ships were sunk, the two flagships eventually boarded one another. Claire and de Lonte found themselves locked in a melee, and - as crew members describe - "looked into each others eyes with a gaze of violent lust like no other." The pair fought for well over 10 minutes, however in the end both escaped from the other. This began a series of events where de Lonte would begin obsessing over Claire, at first as her duty to the Imperium to defeat the nefarious pirate, but later more or less as a passion to meet Claire over and over again. Claire, in turn, would regularly respond to these attempts to track her down and turn into them, simply in order to meet de Lonte in battle again. While the two never had time for more than fighting at sea, it is unknown if they ever found one another on the mainland while on shore leave and what their relationship was on the land.

## Personality

Kaise de Lonte was a strong believer in Imperial ideology. She was also extremely ingenious, known for making upgrades to her fleet on her own while at sea and creating a rough prototype of a hyperil-powered weapon. Obsessive and relentless, she would rarely give up on her goals.

## Friends and Enemies

de Lonte formed a strange "frenemy" relatonship with Paige Claire over the two's careers, hunting one another down to fight one another on a regular basis. According to reports, this relationship was quite homoerotic in nature.