Baphyra

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BAPHYRA MARCUS

Baphyra Marcus lived many different lives throughout the course of one: a Hydra's, a slave's, a noblewoman's, and a commoner's. It began, for her, in Arinzi, where she worked, and obeyed, and hid her beauty. Although she could never play or be a little girl there, she could dream, and dream she did -- while carrying water, while worshipping Zutiv and averting her eyes. She dreamed of freedom and happiness across the river, in Lurashar, but freedom never came for Baphyra in the form of a new clan. It came, instead, as slavery.

For Baphyra, slavery was not very different than life as a Hydra woman amidst a family of men. In Emran, serving as a water girl, she met Lord Orikos Didoron -- her protector and future husband, though she did not know it at the time. When freed from their Shamibelian captors, they traveled together, and when, some time after, his wife died in childbirth, they married, and Baphyra became a noblewoman. It was a controversial move on Orikos' part, but he was taken in by her beauty and charm, and she, for her part, could not refuse.

Together, they moved to Anarinuell, and there Baphyra sought to be both a loving wife and a caring stepmother. She brought Orikos comfort as he aged; she also gave him a single child, a daughter -- Pia. Try as she might to promote stability and strength within the Didoron family, though, Baphyra was at a loss when her stepson, Pertinax, killed his father in self-defense. She retained her noble status for a time, but was later stripped of title and clan after giving an illegal oration.

Baphyra lived out the rest of her days in relative anonymity, her social power diminished (though her shrewdness and business sense no worse for loss of title). Towards the end of her life, she remarried, joining the Marcus family as Antonius Marcus' wife. Her aspirations were great, it's rumoured, and she might have been able to achieve them too, had she not drowned in 37 A.U., but one victim of many during the floods. She's survived by her daughter, Pia.