Jenarvia Avori

Description
Jenarvia Avori is tall willowy woman from the planet Hapes. Once the heir to one of Hapes’s Great Houses, she went into self-imposed exile after the death of her lover under mysterious circumstances. Almost a decade later though she returned to Hapes for the funeral of her estranged mother and events conspired to force her to take up her mother’s title as the head of the House of Avori. After the recent death of Ta’a Chume she was put forward as one of the candidates to succeed her and was officially elected Queen Mother shortly before the consortium was plunged into a bitter civil war by one of her rivals.

Early Life
Jenarvia Avori was the only daughter of Larana Avori, the then ruler of the House of Avori, one of the sixty three Great Houses of the Hapes Consortium. She grew up a thoughtful, serious child, schooled in the ways of the political intrigue that would come to surround her life. As a child she had few friends, notable exceptions being Dalis Lortana the daughter of a minor functionary within her House, and Prince Kalen, the firstborn son of the current Queen Mother. Due to the responsibilities of leading the House of Avori, Jenarvia grew up estranged from her mother, who she felt always put the needs of her House before those of her own daughter. Instead she was all but raised by the Avori’s Major’Domo, Casara D’Lacc, who she counts as more of a real mother than her own ever was.

During her late teenage years she continued her friendship with Prince Kalen, leading some to believe that the Ta’a Chume was grooming her for the role of Queen Mother, although Jenarvia and Kalen were never anything more than friends. That rumour was quashed when Jenarvia met and fell in love with a young man named Tomen Etan, and despite still occasionally seeing Price Kalen, they slowly drifted apart. It was a friendship though that was briefly renewed following the death of Toman under mysterious circumstances, however Jenarvia’s grief was too much for her and she fled Hapes leaving behind her mother and her all claims to her title as heir to the Avori.