Marena
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Marena | |
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| Born | 3095[1] |
| Affiliation | Alyina Mercantile League; Clan Jade Falcon (former) |
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| Title(s) | Syndic |
| Profession | Merchant |
Marena was a Clan Jade Falcon lower casteman who served as her Clan's Merchant Factor during the later Dark Age era and became the founder of a proto-state founded upon commerce, the Alyina Mercantile League.
History
Marena was a trueborn warrior of Clan Jade Falcon. At a young age she knew she would never be a warrior because she simply didn't care for it. While others in her sibko fought and trained, she played politics, made deals and gathered meager resources for herself. When she washed out, her sibkin sneered at her – but by the time she had risen to leader of all Clan Jade Falcon's merchant caste, her sibkin were all dead. Marena never liked the warriors because they wasted the resources she gathered, and prosperity came from commerce. She admired the Sea Foxes, and more than once she tried to get herself harvested by them; the only time the issue came to a Trial, the Falcons won, deepening her loathing of them.[2]
Marena rose to Merchant Factor in 3130. Luckily for Marena, who had a very independent attitude, her Khan, Jana Pryde, gave the merchants a free hand so long as they didn't ruin her Clan, which allowed Marena great liberty.[3]
Even the Blackout didn't stop her Clan's prosperity. When Khan Pryde asked her for a solution to the turmoil in commerce and business, Marena proposed the creation of the VaultShips, loaded with multiple liquid assets and very well protected, traveling around Clan space, loaning them or using them for trading and to update the Kerensky Registry. The VaultShips proved to be an astonishing success.[4]
However, Malvina Hazen's rise to power made life a living hell for Marena. The profitable machine she had built began crumbling before her eyes after Malvina began demanding more and more money for her wars of conquest. Only Marena's financial acumen enabled her to keep the Falcon touman supplied, but her disdain for the Warrior Caste ripened over the years.[5]
Following the near-total destruction of the Falcon touman on Terra in early 3151, Marena broke with the Clan and created a new state, the Alyina Mercantile League.