Heiraz Ga'aharit

Lady Heiraz the Kind Ga’aharit is a tall, lithe Fire Genasi woman of around 28 years. Her dark skin is carved with glowing reddish yellow markings that flow like ivy vines across her skin. Her hair is flame itself, but does not burn or consume. Her large eyes burn bright, like playful flames.

Heiraz’s full title is “Her Grace, Lady Heiraz the Kind of the House Ga’aharit, Heir apparent to the Marchionesse of the Northern Sahel, Keeper of Law, Defender of Peace, and Guardian of Ten Thousand.” As a noblewoman and only heir to her father’s lands, she was given responsibility far beyond her parents’ wishes for her. She was schooled in statecraft and estate management from a young age, but was quickly observed to have a particular deftness for law and justice. Her parents didn’t want her to take the title of sheriff over their lands, as it was a dangerous title to hold, but after significant argument they relented on the condition that she take a frontier territory, wherein she would be able to exercise greater authority and would thus be safer, as most of her duties would be focused on external threats, and not police duties.

She studied at the martial academy in the deep desert and came back to a county in ruins from outside raids. She quickly established and shored up her defense force, established border fortresses, and cracked down on cross-border raids.

She earned her epithet by capturing entire raiding parties of outsiders, and instead of killing or torturing them, as was more or less standard; she kept the prisons comfortable, fed the prisoners well, asked them to work in lieu of rotting in the dungeon, and limited the term of their imprisonment. Her county’s infrastructure and wealth-building enterprises exploded, and she became renowned throughout the kingdom for her innovative approach.

She was recalled by her father unexpectedly, in order to be married to the lord heir of a neighboring and resource-rich duchy. She would, she was told, in time, become the Duchess of Aurelia and the Northern Sahel.

She fled the kingdom that very evening. Her secret, which would destroy her family's reputation and almost certainly end poorly for her, remains unknown.