Pyrana Nirrót

**Pyrana Nirrót** was a female Praeliorian High Elite who served her homeworld's Empire as a member of Empress Esper Aznaré's inner circle. Once just a simple soldier and eventually an elite officer, Pyrana made her way up the imperial hierarchy to become a High Elite, sharing her position with fellow High Elites Kyalonis Amillís and Cirioma Thystamel.

## Biography

### Early Career

In 5920 ASA, Pyrana Nirrót was born on the planet Praelior. As any other citizen of the planet, she learned to admire the Praeliorian Empire's greatness, wanting to serve her people fully. Early in her career and sometime in her young adulthood, Pyrana became a simple soldier for the Praeliorian Empire. She had no family to grant her the status of Elite so easily.

#### Dark Path

Sometime during the year 5940 ASA, she was sent to the planet Adamantus as part of a team led by the Praeliorian elite Ticus Gáraman. Their mission was to murder a settlement of Dremirians and bring home their parts for dust. While many Dremirians were killed in the Praeliorian ambush, one Adamantan was resilient. The Dremirian Inferna, while all of her comrades had fallen, ended up murdering all of the Praeliorians that attacked her settlement that day, including Ticus Gáraman but save for Pyrana. In a fit of grief and fury, Pyrana killed Inferna in battle, ending the conflict on Adamantus once and for all.

By the time another Praeliorian transport ship came to the rescue, the Dremirians who died that day were completely ground into dust by Pyrana. The empire rewarded her for her supposed bravery by promoting her to elite, thus beginning her ascension through the imperial ranks. Her markings were red, not only to represent the color of her own blood, but in spite of the colors on Inferna, the Dremirian she got her revenge on that fateful day.

### As High Elite

Eventually over the course of many years, Pyrana worked her way up the ranks of the Praeliorian Empire, becoming a High Elite and, as such, a member of her Sentinel's inner circle. She became incredibly skilled at hunting down Dremirians as an accumulation of her many military experiences.

The title of High Elite was held only by two other imperial officials during her time: Kyalonis Amillís and Cirioma Thystamel.

## Personality and Traits

### Appearance

Pyrana was a Praeliorian woman and, as such, had white skin, naturally white hair, and white eyes completely devoid of pupils and irises. As a High Elite, Pyrana completed dyed her hair black to differentiate herself from other Praeliorians in the imperial hierarchy. She often kept her hair rather short.

Pyrana wore striking red lipstick and had three pentagonal red beauty marks beneath her left eye, both of which matched the color of her blood. This was her choice of face paint that all Elites wore to signify their status.

### Personality

At heart, Pyrana was someone completely fueled by rage, vengeance, and an eternal desire to maintain her own power at the highest levels of imperial society. Pyrana was cunning, manipulative, condescending, and charismatic. As a true embodiment of the imperial war machine, Pyrana upheld the core beliefs of the Praeliorian Empire, stressing the idea that the Dremirians were a plague upon the universe and that the Empire needed to stamp out their flame in order to guarantee a prosperous future for the Praeliorian people. She believed that grief, jealousy, and other negative emotions could effectively be used to fuel one's work ethic in hunting down and killing the enemy, thus turning oneself into a better soldier and contributor to society. Ultimately, Pyrana had no shame in slaughtering and abandoning those she deemed incompetent or worthless; if anything, all of her actions filled her with a deep sense of pride.

## Skills and Abilities

As one of the Praeliorian Empire's High Elites, Pyrana was greatly effective at mobilizing and utilizing her troops at utmost efficiency, able to overwhelm many Dremirian colonies and settlements through clever military tactics and planning. Pyrana was also an excellently skilled fighter, her weapon of choice having been a battle axe that could be used as a conduit for magic.

## Trivia

* Pyrana was originally named Pyrope as a former *Steven Universe* fan character.
	+ Her surname Nirrót comes from the mineral knorringite, which is a member of the garnet group like the mineral pyrope.
* The *Steven Universe* fan character of Pyrana went through a few role changes before being translated into the *Conjuring Cosmos* continuity.
	+ Pyrana first started as the leader of the most powerful political party on the planet Praelior. She would later become Praelior's leader after Kyalonis was bubbled by the Dawns.
	+ As time had passed, it was conceptually decided that Esper Aznaré's *Steven Universe* counterpart, Esperanza Diamond, was to be the Diamond ruler of Praelior. As a result, Pyrana, Kyalonis, and Cirioma were put on equal footing as high-ranking officials second only to Esper herself.