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==History== ==History==
− The child of a secret marriage between an officer of [[Draconis Combine]] and a daughter of the ruler of Rasalhague (then an independent state), Siriwan was raised largely by her maternal grandfather after her mother was drowned in a watersking accident. After diplomacy between Rasalhague and the Combine collapsed in [[2501]] her father was only able to visit in secret and could only meet her during the otherwise private conferences with Blaine as they conspired to overthrow the Von Rohrses. + The child of a secret marriage between an officer of [[Draconis Combine]] and a daughter of the ruler of Rasalhague (then an independent state), Siriwan was raised largely by her maternal grandfather after her mother was drowned in a watersking accident. After diplomacy between Rasalhague and the Combine collapsed in [[2501]] her father was only able to visit in secret and could only meet her during the otherwise private conferences with Blaine as they conspired to overthrow the Von Rohrs.
In the aftermath of Martin McAllister's successful coup in [[2510]], Siriwan moved to New Samarkand, the then capital of the Combine. The court was not welcoming to their new ruler's 'foreign daughter' but she used her outsider status to become an acute observer of politics and skilled in exploiting them for her own benefit. His father informed her that she could not become Coordinator because she was a woman. And when her father was murdered in his bedchamber, the nineteen-year-old was his only heir, but the patriarchal nobility Combine would not accept her as ruler in her own right. Instead she served as [[Brevet Coordinator]] until her marriage, shortly afterwards to a distant cousin, [[Warren Kurita]], who assumed the throne.<ref name=HHKp27b>''Handbook: House Kurita'', pp. 27–28: "Grace Under Siriwan"</ref> In the aftermath of Martin McAllister's successful coup in [[2510]], Siriwan moved to New Samarkand, the then capital of the Combine. The court was not welcoming to their new ruler's 'foreign daughter' but she used her outsider status to become an acute observer of politics and skilled in exploiting them for her own benefit. His father informed her that she could not become Coordinator because she was a woman. And when her father was murdered in his bedchamber, the nineteen-year-old was his only heir, but the patriarchal nobility Combine would not accept her as ruler in her own right. Instead she served as [[Brevet Coordinator]] until her marriage, shortly afterwards to a distant cousin, [[Warren Kurita]], who assumed the throne.<ref name=HHKp27b>''Handbook: House Kurita'', pp. 27–28: "Grace Under Siriwan"</ref>
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− | The child of a secret marriage between an officer of [[Draconis Combine]] and a daughter of the ruler of Rasalhague (then an independent state), Siriwan was raised largely by her maternal grandfather after her mother was drowned in a watersking accident. After diplomacy between Rasalhague and the Combine collapsed in [[2501]] her father was only able to visit in secret and could only meet her during the otherwise private conferences with Blaine as they conspired to overthrow the Von | + | The child of a secret marriage between an officer of [[Draconis Combine]] and a daughter of the ruler of Rasalhague (then an independent state), Siriwan was raised largely by her maternal grandfather after her mother was drowned in a watersking accident. After diplomacy between Rasalhague and the Combine collapsed in [[2501]] her father was only able to visit in secret and could only meet her during the otherwise private conferences with Blaine as they conspired to overthrow the Von Rohrs. |
In the aftermath of Martin McAllister's successful coup in [[2510]], Siriwan moved to New Samarkand, the then capital of the Combine. The court was not welcoming to their new ruler's 'foreign daughter' but she used her outsider status to become an acute observer of politics and skilled in exploiting them for her own benefit. His father informed her that she could not become Coordinator because she was a woman. And when her father was murdered in his bedchamber, the nineteen-year-old was his only heir, but the patriarchal nobility Combine would not accept her as ruler in her own right. Instead she served as [[Brevet Coordinator]] until her marriage, shortly afterwards to a distant cousin, [[Warren Kurita]], who assumed the throne.<ref name=HHKp27b>''Handbook: House Kurita'', pp. 27–28: "Grace Under Siriwan"</ref> | In the aftermath of Martin McAllister's successful coup in [[2510]], Siriwan moved to New Samarkand, the then capital of the Combine. The court was not welcoming to their new ruler's 'foreign daughter' but she used her outsider status to become an acute observer of politics and skilled in exploiting them for her own benefit. His father informed her that she could not become Coordinator because she was a woman. And when her father was murdered in his bedchamber, the nineteen-year-old was his only heir, but the patriarchal nobility Combine would not accept her as ruler in her own right. Instead she served as [[Brevet Coordinator]] until her marriage, shortly afterwards to a distant cousin, [[Warren Kurita]], who assumed the throne.<ref name=HHKp27b>''Handbook: House Kurita'', pp. 27–28: "Grace Under Siriwan"</ref> |