Varethis’Kaelera Gevurah

Alias: None
Era: The Era of Fracture
Affiliation: Geban Empire; Imperial Bloodline

Varethis’Kaelera Gevurah was the youngest sibling of Emperor Varethis’Auren Kel’varesh and Prince Varethis’Daer Venar, born late enough that she grew up inside an empire already defined by their gravity. Of all of their siblings, she was seen as intelligent and resourceful and was loved by people in general, yet she lived with a persistent envy of her two eldest brothers. Auren carried age, wisdom, and popularity that the public treated as inevitability, while Daer carried a brilliance that made even the most brilliant imperial minds feel provincial, leaving Kaelera outclassed in every way the era measured. Much of her resourcefulness was a direct result of her oldest brothers: survival beside them demanded precision, timing, and a diplomacy sharpened by constant comparison.

She became a gifted diplomat and was loved by artists and laborers alike, making sure even minor districts and trades were properly represented in imperial attention. She frequented poor urban areas, a habit she developed as a child, and maintained it long after she was old enough to be pulled back behind court walls. This public-facing presence made her unusually visible for an imperial sibling in a world where male rarity distorted status at every level; even women of the imperial lines were still very common when compared against the rarity of males, and Kaelera learned early that affection from ordinary people did not translate into safety inside succession logic.

In the capital’s political chambers, Kaelera’s influence did not come from title but from bloodline weight and a reputation for speaking when others hid behind doctrines. During the disputes surrounding Daer’s Velcrith merging, she challenged Archpriest Solun’Varun’s invocations of Nethel’s doctrine and pressed the chamber to name what Daer had truly devoured, reforged, or taken. She argued that the Empire could not afford to conceal failure as treason, insisting on scrutiny and public testing rather than sealed reverence, and she refused to let the court confuse prophecy with pattern. She also credited Emperor Ashan’Vaer Kel’varenath’s Insemination Edict as the foundation of fertility recovery, framing Daer’s advances as extensions built upon older imperial interventions rather than miracles born in isolation.

After Emperor Varethis’Auren Kel’varesh was assassinated and civil wars spread planet-wide, the Emperor’s Shadow dissolved into the Underworld and became the foundation of the Shadow Rulers, guarded by the descendants of the Shield of Geba. Prince Daer, heartbroken, disappeared after finding and erasing those responsible for Auren’s assassination along with their lineages, and Auren’s surviving wives and children escaped to the northern territories of Kela under Engineered escort. Kaelera refused to flee and briefly became Empress, attempting to hold the imperial line in public when the capital was already splintering. She was later killed in sudden factional scrimmage during her first public political appearance in the Imperial capital.