Marena
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Marena | |
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| Also known as | Merchant Queen of Alyina |
| Born | 3095[1] |
| Affiliation | Clan Jade Falcon Alyina Mercantile League |
| Profile | |
| Title(s) | Syndic |
| Profession | Merchant |
Marena was a Clan Jade Falcon who served as her Clan's Merchant Factor during the later Dark Age era and became the founder of a proto estate founded upon commerce, the Alyina Mercantile League.
Personal History
Marena was a trueborn warrior of Clan Jade Falcon, but since 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 her meager resources for herself. When she was flushed out, her sibkin sneered at her... but by the time she had rose to leader of all Clan Jade Falcon's merchant caste, they were all dead. Marena never liked the warriors, because they always wasted the resources she gathered, and prosperity came from commerce. She admired the Clan Sea Foxes, and more than once she tried to get herself harvested by them, but the only time the issue came to a trial, the falcons won, deepening her loathing of them.[2]
Marena rosed to Merchant factor in 3130. Luckily to Marena, which had a very independent attitude, her Khan, Jana Pryde, gave the merchants a free hand while they didn't ruin her Clan, which allowed her 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 the commerce and business, Marena proposed the creation of the VaulsShips, loaded with multiple liquid assets, very well protected, and travellinga round Clan space, loaning them or using them for trading and to update the kerensky's registry. The VaulShips proved to be an ashtoning success.[4]
However, Malvina Hazen's rise to power became a living hell for Marena. The profitable machine she had build began crumbling under 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.