Matriarch Daisy de la Amchier

## Background

### Relatives

Rose de la Amchier, Richard de la Amchier, Lily de la Amchier, Richard de la Amchier, Tulip de la Amchier

## Physical description

### Height

5'04" (Resting Height) 20'08" (Total Length)

## Appearances

### Debut

Chapter 2 of MGW

The former head of the Amchier Ducal House and mother of the current Duchess, she is the grandmother of Rose de la Amchier. Born in 4982 ADL, she was born in a time when men were not allowed to inherit lands and titles, albeit only by tradition rather than law at this point. Growing up in a time with a strong female superiority movement trying to push down the growing rights of men she, and her mother, were beacons of equality in the upper classes, leading to a favorable political position when popular sentiment turned on the traditionalists. While some of the extended family of the Amchier line still harbors some discriminatory beliefs, they are, for the most part, fairly modern and progressive for a noble house. The other two Ducal houses, Sanguis and Serpanis, have become less prominent as a result.

## Childhood

A firebrand, and a bit of a tomboy, as a youth she balked at rules and proper etiquette as a noblewoman and would often be out in the nearby Autumnal Forest fighting monsters and practicing magics, despite the dangers of a child being so far out without an escort. Unfortunately, this resulted in a kidnapping by a human noble family and her capture for many days. Captured, and fearing for her life the young Daisy awakened to her power and, using extremely powerful fire magic, she managed to defeat her kidnappers and make it back to her family just as they were about to hand over the ransom. This experience would lead to a hatred of humans that would last into adulthood, only ending when she met her husband.

## Young Adult Life

The young Daisy's adult life started off fairly normal, tutored until schooling age she attended the Abelis Academy just like her daughter and granddaughter eventually would before leaving her home for the traditional Time of Wandering. A time where young Lamia would travel the world searching for experiences, adventures and love. Against her parents' wishes she joined the Adventurers Guild as a way to earn money during her travels, and would earn the moniker The Volcanic Calamity, for her tendency to use powerful fire magic to incinerate entire buildings, leaving nothing behind but ash. At the time, her rival, and the only one that was able to keep her in check, would often take opposing positions, leading to them fighting against each other regularly. The Unsung Hero, as he came to be known, was the only one powerful enough to stop the rampaging young Lamia and, over the course of many battles, they began to mutually respect each other.

After several years of their rivalry, and a few "charged" nights in various inns whenever they met while not on a job, they had started to become particularly close, even seeking each other out without reason several times. This went on for a while until the unexpected start of Church aggression. At the time the Church had a newly summoned Hero under their belt, but he had been far more aggressive than they'd anticipated and viciously attacked several villages of the races, pulling the Church into a war that they weren't quite ready for.

Seeing the summoned Hero as a threat that they must stop they reluctantly agreed to work together to fight against him. Teaming up they proceeded to rampage through the Churches army, obliterating everything in their path, before finally gaining the attention of the bloodthirsty Hero. Challenged to a dual the two met the Hero at a nondescript plain in Western Abelis, a place that would later be called the Plains of Everburning due to the impact from their battle.

Lasting a full 3 days the battle exhausted the 3 combatants to the point that no magic was thrown on the last day, their blows weakened to be nearly ineffectual. But still, after so long, the two of them were victorious over their foe and the Alliance used this opportunity to sue for peace, leading to the end of the war.

Officially they left the guild after this battle, although they would maintain close public ties to them afterwards.

## Married Life

After battling the summoned Hero together Daisy and Robert left together to return to her hometown. While her travels had taken her far most had been relatively close towards the end, but they still agreed to marry before they made it back to her home. Faced with the return of two national heroes even their most critical relatives were forced to accept their wedding and within a year they were married with the blessing of her mother and the Queen Alissa herself.

After marriage, with her mother still the head of the household technically, they continued their travels, secretly working for the Adventurer's Guild while doing so. Travelling even further than they had before their marriage they only stopped when word came of the worsening health of Daisy mother, Jasmine. Her death coming shortly after they returned.

## Political Career

Daisy's political career had a rough start. With the death of her mother, having ruled as a Duchess for over 200 years, she, a fairly young woman, was expected to rule her territory with as much grace as her mother. A fixture of politics for as long as most could remember it was difficult for the young Lamia to fill her mother figurative shoes and she gained a great many enemies around this time. Still riding off her successes in the War however, she was able to leverage her martial prowess to prove her worth and even began to gain experience at dealing with politics and scheming, becoming one of the most successful politicians to date in Amchier history.

## Raising Children

Unlike her mother before her, who had waited until her 5th husband to actually have children, Daisy had children fairly early in her life and, wanting to spend as much time as possible with both her husband and child, largely removed herself from politics.

Raising Lily became the primary job that she focused on, leading to a mostly passive stance politically contrary to her earlier, more aggressive, ones. Far more hands-on than her mother had been Daisy doted on her only daughter, spoiling her, and later on, assuring her the best tutors' money could buy. All to prepare her for her eventual inheritance.

Years later, similar to her own mother before her, she also attempted to stop her daughter from taking the traditional trip around the world only for Lily to ignore her, just as she had many years before. Only, instead of coming back with a husband, she instead took the man that would become her husband with her, a True Dragon that had been actively involved in politics along with his older brother (Although this fact was known only to a few of the noble families.).

## Retirement and Later Life

Daisy retired much earlier than her mother, at the young age of 78, having her daughter and son-in-law take over as the head of the Amchier household. Deciding to spend the rest of Robert's life with him she felt like time moved too quickly for the shorter-lived races and wanted to be with him for as long as possible. Luckily his level of power giving him a much longer lifespan than normal humans, although not quite as long as the much longer-lived Lamia.

She has spent all of her time since with family, either her husband, her daughter, or her two newest family members, her granddaughters.