Eliza Carstens

Eliza Carstens

Full Name: Eliza Carstens

Alias Lady of Qasr-e-Qand & Zahhak

Physical Description

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Race: Elw

Hair Color and Style: Blonde

Eye Color: Blue

Skin Color: White

Biographical Information

Father: Nahum Carstens

Mother: Anna Allot

Date of Birth: 1614

Place of Birth: Eliria

Date of Death:

Place of Death:

Current Residence(s): The Manors of Qasr-e-Qand & Zahhak in the Bailiwick of Mohamedion

Nationality at Birth: Shirerithian

Current Allegiance(s): Tarjeisson Trust

Occupation: Trustee of the Tarjeisson Foundation & the Tarjeisson Complex Marriage Community Trust

Eliza Carstens, acknowledged common-law partner of the late Kaiser Dominus between the years 1635 and 1644. Trusted by Dominus to an unusual extent, she remained after his death aloof from the fractious and deadly power politics of Eliria, Shirekeep, and Teldrin, instead fulfilling her single duty; protecting her former partner's various off-spring.

Biography

Her father, Nahum Carstens, claimed to be the second cousin of the late Conducător Royston Merrick. This has however been disputed by Royston Merrick the Younger, who has no recollection of such a man. In any event, Nahum earned a living as a mechanic in Fieldburg during the Independence Era. A Verionist, a keen supporter of Charles Froughton, and a convert to the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear, Nahum had grown disillusioned with the so-called Coordinated State and needed little prompting to head out into the countryside and join one of the myriad of small bands of partisans that had sprung up following the Icebear Rebellion in 1609. The rebellion was spectacularly unsuccessful, on the mainland at any rate, and Nahum - along with the majority of the surviving members of the band he was with - was discovered by the Panopticon and swiftly fell into the clutches of the Cudgellers, who, after several days of severe beatings, finally saw fit to haul him before the Court of Star Chamber. Like most of those arraigned before that court, the outcome preordained, the process a mere formality. He was declared to be of unsound mind and dispatched, post haste, to His Serenity's Gaol Dragonsfold. It was in Dragonsfold, amongst the thousands of fellow victims of the medicalised torture favoured by the Coordinated State, that Nahum met his future wife, Anna Allot.

Anna was the distant scion of a notable Elw-Elfinshi family - the Allots. Although born into wealth she had, during her student days, developed a penchant for progressive thinking that saw her gravitate towards fashionable causes, feminism, veganism, Elfinshi-rights, and finally full blown membership of the Democracy Now! party. Not long after she discovered that Democracy Now! was merely another front for the Elwynnese Workers Party (EWP) which, after defeat in the 1603 Elections had resolved upon adopting an entryist strategy to subvert their rivals in the progressive camp. That they were following a similar strategy against the Nationalist & Humanist Party as well would not become apparent until the events of 1613. In any event, this discovery in no way discouraged Anna, indeed the thought of being part of a secret society and living a double life fired her revolutionary ardour. More importantly, in spite of her parents concern, she continued to receive a generous monthly allowance which contributed towards funding the operations of the cell into which she was embedded.