Jaydah Televara

## Background

Jaydah Televara Portrait

Highlands Empire

Jaydah Televara (Maiden name Gall) was born in the lowest class, poorest of the poor, the one everyone looked down upon, on the continent of Illerion. She spent her childhood being made fun of for her threadbare clothes and status. She began to resent the people she grew up with, particularly the male members of her community, as they weren’t afraid to do more than just send some insults her way. The day she came home from school after having mud and pig slop dumped over her head was the day she vowed to prove to them all that she wasn’t deserving of the treatment, and that one day, they would look at her and envy her.

She arrived in Askalar when she was 22, right when 491 A.E. began.

## History

After arriving in Askalar, Jaydah became lost when trying to find civilization. Close to death, she collapsed outside of what would eventually grow to be the city of Hippolyta in the Highlands Empire. Rylan Fenn brought her in and nursed her back to health, and promised her that she could stay there as long as she needed to. Jaydah ended up living there for several years. During that time, she helped decorate Hippolyta and tended to the fields and gardens. She watched the city grow, and she fell in love with it, as much as one can love a place. Living there slowly calmed her need for power and she became content living in the peaceful desert city.

At the end of 493 A.E., The wedding of Sir Tybalt De Drumon and Lady Anastasia (Ana) De Drumon (then Chanté)  of Kaltlanda took place. This birthed a short-lived romance with both Rylan Fenn and Eris de Luna (then Eris Bronte .) Eventually, Rylan rejected her for Eris.

The end of 494 A.E. Is when Rylan first Introduced Jaydah to King Alexandre Televara, then the Duke of Kordon. She immediately fell for him due to his charm and commitment to his people. Because of her past, her main focus should have been on his position, but that was the last thing on her mind. She gave him one of her favorite flowers as a parting gift, a white tulip, and ended up writing him a letter a month or two after he left to return to Kordon . She would not see him again until the wedding of Eris to Alfonso de Luna, but they would not have a chance to speak then.

Mid 496 A.E., Rylan convinced Jaydah to leave Hippolyta to “be safer” and claimed it was temporary. With some reluctance, she agreed, and they moved to Tyrakir . During their time there, Kordon claimed Hippolyta to protect it from looters and bandits, finally changing its name to Hippolytus.

The next time Alexandre and Jaydah had a chance to speak in person was in 497 A.E. She had traveled to Kordolinska to take a break from the cramped city of Tyrakir and happened to meet Alexandre at the gates. He invited her to stay for as long as she needed, and she did for the next few months. She attended Alexandre’s coronation from Duke to King at the very end of 497 A. E., and afterward, he asked to speak to her in private, and she agreed. He led her into the castle, and then gifted her a Lily of the Valley as a gift, as a response to the tulip given when they first met. He then proposed, saying that she was a beautiful and kind woman, and he believed she would be a wonderful queen for the kingdom. She accepted and moved into Kordolinska shortly afterward.

After moving in, she invited Ana, Rylan, and Eris to her wedding. During this interaction, Eris began to behave weirdly and claim that they shouldn’t trust Jaydah. This would mark the beginning of Eris’s descent into madness.

In 498 A.E., Rylan was to marry Agrippa Deltisios and asked Jaydah to be her Maid of Honor. She happily accepted. The wedding was a simple affair at the newly build shrine between Korsolinska and Varnava. She gifted Rylan a book of poems. She went with the party to Qatal, with some of the political leaders leaving to speak to members of the Duchy of Cortarium that had met the group along the way. After sharing some stories and drink, she rode back to Kordon alone. This would be the last time she spoke to many of her friends, as after all of this, the Kordonians discovered the return of Flynn Stewart to the continent, breaking a signed treaty. After failed negotiations between the Kordonians and Highlands Emperor Alaren Bearclaw, Flynn’s War would begin between the Highlands Empire and the Solyrian Confederation.

Jaydah and Alexandre’s wedding was at the beginning of 499 A.E. It took place at the same shrine that Rylan had had her wedding at, except Jaydah had added some decorations. While waiting for the wedding to begin with many other Kordonians, Agrippa stumbled up to the shrine covered in wounds. It was revealed to everyone the Rylan had tried to lead him to the Stengarians to kidnap him. Jaydah has had no clue this was going to happen and felt both disturbed and betrayed by her former friends actions.

The wedding eventually commenced, with Kordonian men, the leader of Qatal Ragner Osluf, and Jaydah’s friend Adair. After a beautiful ceremony, which incorporated the religion of the Followers of Lyrus, Jaydah was crowned Queen of Kordon. Afterward, she returned to Kordolinska.

Jaydah gave birth to her son Alexandros Televara in the year 500 A.E. in the keep in Kordolinska.

In 501 A.E., Flynn’s War ended, with the Solyarians victory. Jaydah attended The Surrender of Halrin, where the nobles and citizens were group on to the bridge and made to announce defeat and give up supplies. Jaydah decided to take Isabela de Luna, Eris's daughter, with her, as it would be safer to have her raised in the keep under her protection. She became her mother figure and tutor. She avoided eye contact with what had, in the beginning, had been her family.

Rylan Fenn would be traded over, tortured and then executed for the attempted kidnapping. Jaydah visited her once right beforehand in her cell, and asked her why she had done this. Rylan said she had missed her, and that she forgave her. Jaydah returned to her room, and heard her being pushed off the roof of the keep as her execution. She was allowed to take her body and burry it, which she did in the middle of the desert, with a simple gravestone with the epitaph “Here lies Rylan, She was a woman made of sand and freedom.”

Jaydah gave birth to her daughter Adelaide Televara in the year 502 A.E., also in Kordolinska.

From depression, she decided to keep to herself and dedicate her life to raising her children to be as best as they could. She did so until the day her husband was crowned Emperor of Askalar is 509 A.E., and her Empress. At the ceremony, she locked eyes with Anastasia. This was the first time she had seen Ana since the war. She said nothing.

Later that year, Ana sent her a letter, pleading with her to talk and become friends again. Jaydah sobbed when she read it, but only sent back a short message that when summarized, said that she had suffered enough and wanted to be left alone. Jaydah had gotten into what ended in a yelling match with a drunk Isabel about Eris's disappearance shortly thereafter.

After a triumphant win over Qatal and taking control of the entire continent in 510 A.E., Jaydah spoke with Isabel in her estate, who revealed to her that she had discovered that Alfonso had poisoned and killed Eris. Shocked, Jaydah mourned silently as she attended a formal ceremony. Afterward, she retired to her room with her children. After hearing yelling on the lower floors, she hid with her children on the highest floor. Yaroslav Vidovich found her and informed her that her husband had been killed in an assassination plot backed by the de Lunas. She escaped the keep with her children, riding to Halrin and meeting with Alaren, who advised his son Kreed to take her to Tyrakir. From there, she and her children sailed to Alaren's home city, Barnaim.