Serah’Elax Rez Ashfalen

Description from book (unpublished)
''The battle-hardened warriors focused on Serah’Elax as she passed, the presence of a Scion of Ashna among them bolstering their spirits. Her shoulder length red hair flowed behind her, Serah’Elax’s lithe form coming to a stop at the wall sized sealed exit to the dropship.''

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''Turning to face her warriors, she met their gazes. Serah’Elax held her arms out to her sides. Her honey colored skin caught the sun’s light in just the right way, causing the streaks of silver hued within to sparkle.''

Personality
Serah enjoys the little things in life, having suffered through a great deal she has learned to embrace every moment, prompting her to live every day like it’s her last. She is friendly and an inspiring leader to other Ashna Maidens, but is cold, distant and wary of everyone else. Trained from a young age to be a weapon, she is incredibly skilled in all forms of combat and understands battlefield strategy very well. Due to her limited experiences, there are areas that she is incredibly naive in when compared with others her age.

Biography
Serah’s mothers, Dera’Liv Elax Ashfalen and Ovah’Hal Velexi Rez, operated a successful trading outpost on a fringe world in the outer rim. They had chosen that life, in a large part, because they recognized the need in that reach of space. Serah’s woshae, or twin sister, was named Nesal Velexi Ashfalen Rez. One day, the small colony they helped to sustain was raided by a powerful pirate band that had slipped through the system patrol fleets of the Huzien Alliance. Her sister Nesal was killed in the attack, the young Das’Vin watched her sister’s body motionless in a pool of her own blood. The attack was brutal and the pirates kidnapped many women and children from the colony. A group of pirates raided their house but were stopped by Ovah’Hal who was murdered in the process. They set fire to the house as Serah’Elax and her mother fled the city, avoiding pirates who were hunting for slaves. They eventually ran into an Ashna Maiden force that had come to fight the pirates and who ultimately provided haven for refuges from the destroyed town.

The young Das’Vin was scarred by that experience, causing within her a deep hatred of the pirate bands and a powerful loyalty to the Ashna Maidens. Dera’Liv and Serah were taken to the Ashna Maiden female refuge of Ashnayulani where Dera’Livstruggled through the loss of her dru’sha. As with all refugees, Dera’Liv was forced to give up her female child Serah into service to the Ashna Maidens for continued refuge for her and her daughter. Serah was 11 years old when she entered into service to the Ashna Maidens as a Nivir being raised by a Priestess of Ashna. Dera’Liv was permitted to see her weekly, and Serah could clearly see the struggle dera’Liv was going through having lost both her dru’sha and second child. Dera’Liv contacted the Das’Vin government for evacuation back to Alliance space, but Serah refused to go, filled with anger at the Huzien Alliance for their neglect in allowing the pirate band to destroy her family. At 15 years old Serah vowed to a life of Celebacy and became a Maiden in Waiting in service to Ashna, the warrior goddess of the Ashna Maidens. The visits from Derah’Liv waned as Serah watched her mother transform into Frasha and adopt a life of prostituion, attempting to dull the hole in her heart with physical pleasures. Her mother was moved to Ashnaret as Serah was taken to Ashnakev, the military headquarters of the Ashna Maidens, to begin her training.

She went through vigorous training, finally becoming anointed as an Ashna Maiden at the age of 22. Serah excelled in combat training and quickly mastered close range combat techniques, channeling her rage and anger into incredible focus. In her first engagement with pirate forces Serah went into a blood lust, brutally massacring the pirate forces she engaged. Observers tell the story of how Serah emerged from the battlefield covered in the blood of her enemies, the mix of colors from different species dripping off of her like sweat. She quickly progressed to the rank of Maiden Protector where she honed her leadership skills and built up a unparalleled reputation as a powerful warrior unafraid of death and fueled by rage.

The Ashna Council recognized the potential of Serah and anointed her as a Scion of Ashna, giving her command of an entire Seraglio of 45 Ashna Maidens and 4 Maiden Protectors. Serah has been a Scion of Ashna for 5 years. Although Serah has been through a great deal and has the appearance of a young woman, in terms of age she is still technically a young child in Das’Vin society.

Motivation
Serah is driven by revenge, the brutal deaths of her mother and sister have scarred her for life and watching the transformation of her mother Dera’Liv into the despair of becoming a Frasha have only added fuel to the fire that burns inside of her.

Goal
Serah intends to live her entire life in celebacy, never feeling the touch of another, in service to Ashna. She will gladly give her life for her Ashna sisters.

Conflict
When Serah is faced with meeting Lanrete, a founder of the Huzien Alliance, she doesn’t hold back in her anger towards him and brings manifest all of her frustration and rage upon the immortal.

Epiphany
Lanrete accepts her anger and hatred with great sympathy and apologizes for the damage to her family. Lanrete and his team assist in saving the Ashna Maidens from themselves as Sephan seeds discourse and betrayal within the Maiden’s highest ranks. Serah realizes that her hatred towards the Huzien Alliance is misguided, and what happened to her family was a horrible situation that was unfortunate, but only the pirates are at fault for what happened to her