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In late summer of 1634, Isabella and her companions took over an ethnic Ashkenatzim village in the western districts of the Vale known as šiqqǔṣ Mišômēm, and having cleansed the populace established a headquarters and base for the mobile laboratory. In Nomeziooqu 1635, Isabella's purpose for doing so became apparent when she impregnated herself with a fertilised embryo made of genetic material cloned from her father.
 
In late summer of 1634, Isabella and her companions took over an ethnic Ashkenatzim village in the western districts of the Vale known as šiqqǔṣ Mišômēm, and having cleansed the populace established a headquarters and base for the mobile laboratory. In Nomeziooqu 1635, Isabella's purpose for doing so became apparent when she impregnated herself with a fertilised embryo made of genetic material cloned from her father.
  
Her second exile came to an end, unexpectedly, in 1635/1636 when her party was captured by Elw partisans in the employ of the ESB Group.  
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Her second exile came to an end, unexpectedly, in 1635/1636 when her party was captured by Elw partisans in the employ of the [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group]].
  
 
==Rehabilitation==
 
==Rehabilitation==

Revision as of 13:46, 15 March 2017

The Lady Isabella Simrani-Kalirion.

The Lady Isabella Simrani-Kalirion (born 1603 in Ribat al-Eluinshahr), also known as Isabella bint Dâniyal Umra Suleiman Simrâni-Kâlirion ibn al-Majeed bin Sathrati, is a member of the Imperial Bloodline of Ayreon-Kalirion and the House of the same name. She also is the Patroness of Kalir.

Biography

Childhood

Isabella Simrani-Kalirion was born from the marriage between Daniel Simrani-Kalirion and Esmeralda Erinamor. As a daughter of the Conducător and Prince, Isabella enjoyed a privileged upbringing during her early years.

1st Exile

After the fall of the Coordinated State in 1612, the Simrani sisters were placed under the care of separate warders loyal to the old regime who took them into quiet exile in Goldshire. Isabella, at the age of nine, was left in the care of Dr Ernst Cryptsinger, the former Associate Instructing Justice for Elwynn Proper.

2nd Exile

The House of Ayreon-Kalirion was gravely affected by the scandal of Miranda Simrani-Kalirion being seen to marry beneath herself to Frederik Anders, the UDF Brigadgeneral from the Western Marches, inspired her sister, Isabella, to a cold fury. This, combined with a desire to escape from a marriage match with the House of Ettlingar Freyu, inspired her to take a dozen of the family's retainers, a portion of the Simrani treasure-horde and a liberated main battle tank and to set off to Fiorecittá in pursuit of vengeance. The departure took place on Izillare 14 Vixaslaa, 1632, the date of a left behind for the attention of her step-sister Noor expressing, amongst other things, disapproval of conjugal relations with the Elfinshi.

Brushing past a weakly manned Tellian border post, Isabella swept into Fiorecittá and took the family of the city Burgomaster hostage demanding in return for their release the handing over of Frederik Anders and his family. After a tense stand-off, the Tellian state capitulated agreed to the hostage exchange which took place at an abandoned Ashkenatzim shtetl in the Green. After leaving her sister and nephews in the care of her faithful retainers, Isabella - with a kitchen knife in one hand - dragged Anders into a ruined barn. He was never seen alive again. The so-called Bloody Barn has become a scene of pilgrimage amongst the more morbidly inclined partisans of the House of Kalirion.

The severed head of Frederik Anders was sent to Noor as a gift and a symbol of reconciliation and the restoration of family honour on Izillare 20 Qinamu, 1632.

Isabella then took it upon herself to raise Miranda's children in the hope that they would become faithful servants of the family.

In 1634 the Patroness of Kalir reached an accommodation with erstwhile Steward of Elwynn and paramilitary warlord Tokaray al-Osman whereby she acquired provisions, a cache of weapons, laboratory equipment, forty Land Cruisers and pick-up trucks, and an entourage of one-hundred and fifty paramilitaries from the Dark Orchid Society. The security detail was intended to provide protection against brigands such as Sighvat the Yardistani who are active in the Vale of Angularis.

The price for this munificence was her younger sister, Miranda, who was given in marriage to Tokaray.

Isabella is reported to have the ashes of her father along with certain other genetic samples, into exile with her.

In late summer of 1634, Isabella and her companions took over an ethnic Ashkenatzim village in the western districts of the Vale known as šiqqǔṣ Mišômēm, and having cleansed the populace established a headquarters and base for the mobile laboratory. In Nomeziooqu 1635, Isabella's purpose for doing so became apparent when she impregnated herself with a fertilised embryo made of genetic material cloned from her father.

Her second exile came to an end, unexpectedly, in 1635/1636 when her party was captured by Elw partisans in the employ of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group.

Rehabilitation

  • Countess of Amity, Miriroth & So-Sara

Return to Amity

Following the defeat of the Dark Orchid Society in the Angularis War, Isabella cemented the marriage alliance between the House of Simrani-Kalirion and the House of Osman by marrying Tokaray al-Osman and pledging her son Daniyel, himself a clone of her late father Daniel Simrani-Kalirion in betrothal to Tokaray's and Miranda's daughter Azardokht al-Osman.

This alliance receiving the blessing of the Arandur, Thorgils Tarjeisson, who had been their warden for the duration of the hostilities, the Simrani Sisters and the Osmanids were permitted to return to Amity. On their return Isabella discovered that her half-sister, Queen Noor, had granted certain rights and privileges to the Iron Company providing them with certain monopolies and a role in the government of the city of Erudition. It might be said that Isabella, now styling herself as Emira of the Isles, was not best pleased with this latest development. It certainly added to her overall doubts about her sister's fitness to rule Goldshire, particularly in light of recent events.

Natopia

Isabella Simrani-Kalirion attending the Natopian-Alexandrian Friendship Ball in her capacity as Secretary of Defence for the Bovic Empire. (1646 AN)

After being restored to her sister Noor's good graces through support offered in the acquisition of Goldshire, Isabella received recognition as Patroness of Kalir and head of the Simrani-Kalirion branch of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion. Amongst the perks of this new standing, foremost was the right to attend meetings of the Council of Elders in the palace of the Ribat Ayreon-Kalirion in Lindström and to enjoy the accommodation and amenities offered there. As a regular visitor Isabella eventually deemed it prudent to acquire Natopian citizenship as an insurance policy, which she did in the year 1637.6147 AN.ASC.

Through a discrete exercise in patient lobbying, on the same day as her investiture as a citizen of the Empire, Isabella received an appointment as Minister of State, answering to the Chancellor, Lord Erion, for the condition of the Natopian Defense Force. The manoeuvres that brought Isabella to office in Natopia were quite closely related to the international situation in 1637, which saw the Euran War at its height. The ESB Group, with which Isabella was now thoroughly entangled, had obtained a lease on Natopian shuttle craft and acquired an outpost on Ura'Bos to serve as a conduit for the smuggling of arms and advisers into the beleaguered Kingdom of Constancia.

In the previous year, the fighting in the war head threatened to become more globalised after an ESB Barque, the Seahawk, mounted an ill-disguised raid on Walstadt which provoked an armed confrontation and a night of violence that had culminated in the sinking of the barque, the burning of several government buildings and, most strikingly of all, the capture and decapitation of the Kattei Emperor of Jingdao.

The raid had prompted a crisis between Natopia and Jingdao and within the House of Ayreon-Kalirion itself. The self-styled Great Enlightened King of Walstadt, Welf Blutwasser-Ayreon-Kalirion, was a member of the House by virtue of the adoption of Ludwig Blutwasser-Ayreon-Kalirion by Jonathan Ayreon-Kalirion, an apparent and misguided attempt to reconcile the descendants of Sisera and Elijah, in the preceding decade. Welf was also the father of Heinrich Rasmus, otherwise known as the Kattei Emperor.

Furious that the Natopians had considered the raid and the murder of his estranged father to be an isolated criminal act, rather than an act of war, and one for which the Walstadters themselves were not entirely blameless, Welf had begun a process of agitation that might, if left unchecked, have led to the Demesne of Walstadt breaking away and falling into the Jingdaoese sphere of influence, an especially acute risk since the Empire of Jingdao had deployed the 2nd Battle Fleet to menace Natopia with the prospect of a direct intervention in Walstadt.

As Isabella moved to establish her presence in the Council of Elders, the Natopian Defence Force and the Frenzy (the parliament), the Natopian response was decisive. After Welf declared Walstadt would conduct itself as a sovereign nation and proposed an amendment to the Caprine Code in the Frenzy to enable demesnes to be granted independence, the attitude of the Natopian Empire had hardened, with Jingdaoese "aid" to Walstadt being pointedly returned in an inferior condition[1] whilst, simultaneously, "An Act for the Restoration of Order" was put before the Frenzy by Isabella to proscribe Welf von Walstadt, Theodor von Walstadt and Angela von Walstadt as Category B Protected Persons. The same act also provided for the demotion of Walstadt to a subdemesne of Thalassa and opened the door for the colonisation of that territory by Tapferite migrants in order to end the separatist tendencies of that overseas territory. It was also at Isabella's instigation that the territory known as Highfields was evacuated and a land corridor gifted to the Empire of Minarboria to allow the connection of its Volksburg enclave to the remainder of its Southern Cibolan territories.

While this was being debated in the Frenzy, the Council of Elders of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion bestirred themselves to follow Isabella's recommendation that Welf of Walstadt and his descendants and the line of the Blutwasser branch be excluded from the Ayreon-Kalirion dynasty[2]. It transpired that the most elegant and straightforward way to achieve this was via the retrospective revocation of the adoption of Ludwig Blutwasser in the first instance, delegitimising not only Welf but the entire Blutwasser achievement in Walstadt.

At Isabella's direction, in accordance with the command of Emperor Nain, the Natopian Navy had also adopted a more robust posture, with the 4th Exploratory Fleet redeployed to counter the presence of the "Batavian" 2nd Fleet. The Jingdaoese were subsequently prevailed upon to withdraw their capital ships from Natopian waters after the NDF began scheduling live-firing exercises, including a planned orbital bombardment, in grid-coordinates adjacent to their last known position.[3]

The effect of this rebuke proved to be calamitous, setting in motion the train of events that would ultimately result in the famous train-wreck that was "Jexit" and the subsequent struggle for Jingdao to re-establish itself.

In the wake of her success in helping to end the Walstadt Crisis in a very satisfactory manner, Isabella was rewarded by nomination to the post of President of the Board of the Saint Andre Trading Company (SATCo.) a patronage post vacated by Welf in his unceremonious exit.[4]

Titles

With the death of her father from hemlock poisoning Isabella inherited the title of Patroness of Kalir and has been acknowledged as Elder of the Simrani branch of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion.

Isabella is also at present the named heir to the Emirate of Sathrati and legal guardian of Noor Bint Simrani-Kalirion's children in the event of her death.

Noor's husband is believed to be pressing for the terms of the will to be revised in his favour.

Appearance

Personality

Relationships