Allanda of Praedium

## Overview

Allanda of Praedium is a titular character to the themes of the Chronicles of Divine Ruin series. She is a tragic character who feels as though she's being punished by the gods, and longs to someday be the master of her own destiny. It seems as though everyone she loves or gets close to either dies or leaves her. When Cysero game along, she was inspired to persevere and not only take control of her life, but the lives of others as well, partly to prove to herself that she could be more than a misfortunate girl from Praedium, and partly because she truly believed that Cysero's plan would bring peace to Lumina.

## Early Life

Allanda was born in Praedium in 4,984 F.E to religious parents in the countryside, a lifestyle which in no way rubbed off on her as she grew older. As she saw it, they went to church every week to praise Draemor and were no better off for it. As a matter of fact she believed from a young age that the gods had cursed her and her family. Every year it seemed that someone close to her died, be it family or friends. This continued on until her mother and father died, her brothers were jailed and executed, and she herself was sold into sex slavery at the age of 15. By the start of Dawn of Blood and Chaos, she despises the gods, and believes they are deserving of not praise, but scorn and hatred.

## The Dove, The Flame, and The Rumbler

It's not until she gets sent to perform sexual acts on Brand Tyzerion that she finds some kind of light. Brand at the time did not consider himself a good person or particularly brave, but he felt an obligation to rescue her out of the situation, first with a bluff and trying to use his family name and fortune to buy her outright, but the owner either doesn't believe him or just didn't like him. Only then does Brand cut down the owner and take Allanda down as far south as Praedium goes with no set plan, but an accomplished goal.

Allanda and Brand live together as criminals with a bounty on their heads. The farther south they went the more they were in the clear, but bounty contracts have a tendency to be passed down from one hunter to another once the target gets out of range, so by the start of the first book they still believe they are being tracked and are extra paranoid.

This provides plenty of skepticism when Cysero the Undying shows up at one of the inns they were staying at, offering Allanda an opporunity. Brand is protective of Allanda and believes Cysero has come to collect her back as property and kill him to satisfy a contract, though Cysero constantly denies this and does his best to prov ehis benevolence.

Cysero appeals to Allanda by telling her that he shares her distaste for Draemor and Zzaro. Though he remains devoted to the mysterious and lesser god of the Fire and Sun named Ung, he has no problem seeing them all destroyed. When asked why Ung would help him destroy himself, Cysero replies "Perhaps immortality is not all it's cracked up to be. Perhaps the old fire god is ready to die."

He ropes her in by playing on her desire to be more than what she had always been: A girl kept from any destiny of importance while being cursed with turmoil and tragedy. Cysero in all three books is working towards the goal of creating paradise on Lumina by eradicating the gods, and he believes Allanda is instrumental in doing this. So he tracks her down after resigning from his duties as the personal guard of Organa of Crylanor, and offers to escort her to first to Renovamen, then to Kolarda, and finally to Dunder, all with the purpose of stirring up enough chaos to destabalize the world. Cysero believes that peace must be preceded by Chaos, and he and Allanda are agents of chaos, though not agents of Zzaro like Rhys Rhalasian is.

Brand comes with her to ensure her protection because he still does not trust Cysero at all and feels responsible for Allanda and her safety. The three of them embark on their journey in the first book concurrently with the Prince of Chaos and Wrath of Hrethel storylines of Rhys Rhalasian and Hord Hrethelson.