Alshain

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"This was never supposed to be your life, Tiva. I pray you'll forgive me for what I'll do."

Alshain is the (now deceased) widow of Lestalian Margrave Kaze Tirell, and the mother of Ravi and Tiva. She was married to Tirell in a private ceremony around thirty years after he was elected Margrave, and she was never formally named Marchioness by Kaze or the Lestalian Senate by her own insistence. A few years later, she gave birth to Kaze's son - and prospective heir - Ravi Tirell. When Kaze Tirell was removed by a Finder Agent, Alshain was unceremoniously ejected from the Margrave's residence and forced to live on her own. Ravi was left to the care of the Lestalian Mechanick School, where Alshain was not allowed to see him.

Without her son or the Margrave's money to keep her afloat (the Senate had voted that she would receive no compensation, because Kaze's fate could not be proven), Alshain was reduced to a life of prostitution, and became the matron of a little-known brothel in the lower reaches of the Great Cavernous City. A night of not-really-passion with an unnamed human male led Alshain to give birth to her second child, a half-human that she named Tiva. Not wishing Tiva to grow up in a brothel, Alshain left her position as matron, took a small portion of her earnings, and tried to raise Tiva to be an honest Lestalian citizen. For ten years, she kept Tiva in food and shelter, but was quickly running out of money and patience with the intolerant populace of the Great Cavernous City. The people disapproved of her because of her background as a prostitute, and they disapproved of her daughter, because she was the product of an unwed interracial relationship, which was not accepted at the time.

Around this time, Alshain had reestablished contact with her son Ravi, and sent Tiva to live with him. Afterwards, Alshain disappeared back into the underworld of the Great Cavernous City, where she is said to have committed suicide, with nothing left to give to her children.