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Corisande Verena Maud Virentis
| Age | Late 20s |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'5" | 165 cm |
| Weight | 107 lbs | 48.5 kg |
| Force Sensitive | Yes |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Corisande is slim, with pale skin and dark eyes and coppery-brown hair. She often wears the green and gold of her father's house, which has earned her the moniker of the Green Queen.
INVENTORY
One lightsaber, typically not used or worn in public.
PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Corisande is outwardly pious in the predominant faith of her homeworld, the Great Pattern, though she is secretly a Sith. Thus, her outward displays of piety are rank hypocrisy. The only thing she truly believes in is herself and her own will to power, and that her father's throne is her birthright. She has been willing to go to almost any lengths to get it back under her control, and her rage against the nobles who usurped her is volcanic.
STRENGTHS
Moral Theater: Corisande was raised to publicly exhibit the piety expected of the heiress of her father's throne, but also raised in her father's own image as a Sith. She had no choice but to embrace both, which makes her skilled in deception. She can fake the public stuff while still privately acting in ways that are true to her nature.
Ruthless: Corisande is cold and calculating where strategy is concerned, but fueled by grievance, rage, betrayal, and other such helpful emotions.
Charismatic: Bred for the public eye, the Green Heiress is always conscious of the crushing weight of the public gaze, and despite having limited concern for the cares of the little people, she at least recognizes she must keep them on side because what's the point of ruling over ashes?
WEAKNESSES
Structural Hypocrisy: The other side of moral theater is structural hypocrisy. Her entire power base rests on a lie, which if it were to become widely known would instantly lose her the support of the people.
Isolation & Social Brittleness: Being unable to share her true nature with anyone else is incredibly isolating. It makes her oddly fragile to know that not a single person, even those most loyal to her, are not loyal to the real version of her, but the fictional version she has created.
Volatile: Sith is as Sith does, and though rage, betrayal, thwarted ambition, and grief are impressive sources of power, they can take an awful lot of discipline to keep under control.
Fear: Like most Sith, she has a deep fear of irrelevance, that everything she has done and sacrificed will amount to nothing.
HISTORY
Born to King Henric Virentis, High Lord of House Virentis, Protector of the System and his consort Queen Aveline Sabella of House Glasmere, Corisande was the second of two children. Her elder brother, Edric, was three years older than she. She was raised with her brother and another boy, a ward by the name of
Darev Orsai
, selected by her father as ward due to his Force sensitivity. He trained the three together in the arts of the Sith and in how to hide it behind the public profession of faith.When she was fifteen, a border dispute with a neighboring system, the Tesserene Electorate, broke out. The blockade was difficult to bear for her home system. To end the conflict, Corisande was betrothed in absentia to the eldest son of the neighboring system's ruler, the High Elector. When she was eighteen, Corisande was shipped off to complete the contract, marrying Reinhart Lucan Tesseran, who would become Grand Elector of the Tesserene Electorate.
When she was twenty, her brother and a significant chunk of the youth of the nobility of her home system were killed in a spacefaring disaster. Her mother dropped dead of grief. Her father remarried in an attempt to sire a new son and heir, but as the years progressed and his health failed, he recognized the probability that he would not succeed. He named Corisande as heir and mandated that his nobles swear fealty to her and swear to defend her claim. But as his health further declined, there were whispers that Corisande -- now Grand Electress of the Tesserene Electorate, a distinctly foreign title and concept, who had never been tested in battle, who had not been in the system for almost a decade -- was unsuitable to serve as Queen. When King Henric died, the regency council that had formed to aid him in his final years, turned to the Darev Orsai, who had in the meantime built a substantial and impressive record of leadership, to serve as regent -- ostensibly until the crown could be settled, though obviously a significant chunk of the nobility backed Orsai taking the throne in his own right over Corisande.
Corisande returned for her father's funeral, fully expecting Darev to vacate the throne and hand over her crown. When he refused and insisted she abdicate in his favor, she had to escape to the Virentis stronghold on one of the world's moons. Corisande summoned her bannermen and the succession crisis turned to civil war. The war was a hideous thing: thousands killed, a complete grinding to a halt of the economy, and catastrophic losses across all sectors. Both sides scored victories, both sides suffered defeats, but it was generally a stalemate. Reinhart was killed early in the war, leaving Corisande widowed without having produced an heir to the Electorate. That would be a problem for another day. Corisande was nearly assassinated by
Suriya Talvek
. Eventually the nobles, enraged by the losses they suffered, told the claimants that they had to bring the civil war to a close. They had to find a way to end this conflict.Corisande, faced with negotiating an end to war or being abandoned and losing it entirely, grudgingly -- and not without significant rage -- agreed to a ceasefire to allow time to negotiate.
And she is not happy about it.
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