Darchana
Second Spell Lord Lady Darchana Madinani
The second spell lord of Absalom, Lady Darchana is as enigmatic as the magic she teaches to her students at the Arcanamirium. Politically savvy and a master of balancing feuding sides, Darchana’s motives and morals are rarely clear, something that has allowed her to seize victory in the past—yet which now has come to trouble her in the present. Over the last decade, Darchana had been involved in an ongoing feud with Harbormaster Hugen of House Candren to overturn the docks’ monopoly on trade. With the help of her students, she ran publicity campaigns to besmirch and taint the harbormaster’s honor and worked to develop a network of teleport circles that connected a number of major cities to the Arcanamirium. These circles allow her to funnel trade into Absalom, thus circumventing the harbor fees and giving Darchana unhindered international transport.
Then Harbormaster Hugen’s ship sunk, with the man himself presumed dead, and many in Absalom assume Lady Darchana to be at fault. While no legal repercussions are forthcoming due to lack of evidence, the accusation rankles at her. Worse yet, it has earned her devoted enemies in Hugen’s former house and friends. Lady Adrielle Neprathep might have once been an ally, swayed to Darchana’s cause by promises of moderate reforms and peaceful compromise—now she is an implacable foe, backed by frightening social elements such as the Cult of Norgorber and Lady Dyrianna’s influence and espionage operation, and capable of riling up lower-class elements in ways that might disrupt the city.
In both magic and intrigue, Darchana is capable of unfathomable destruction, but prefers the art of subtlety and intelligently outmaneuvering her foes. Backed by a reformist political block known as New Absalom, she keeps her eyes open for opportunities to peel allies away from her rivals for primarch, offering House Morilla frequent but empty promises of installing Grand Princess Eutropia of Taldor as the queen of Absalom and courting Lord Kerkis of House Damaq with pledges of smooth reforms. Darchana has supported the Pathfinder Society, especially the newly unmasked Decemvirate member Eliza Petulengro.
Then Harbormaster Hugen’s ship sunk, with the man himself presumed dead, and many in Absalom assume Lady Darchana to be at fault. While no legal repercussions are forthcoming due to lack of evidence, the accusation rankles at her. Worse yet, it has earned her devoted enemies in Hugen’s former house and friends. Lady Adrielle Neprathep might have once been an ally, swayed to Darchana’s cause by promises of moderate reforms and peaceful compromise—now she is an implacable foe, backed by frightening social elements such as the Cult of Norgorber and Lady Dyrianna’s influence and espionage operation, and capable of riling up lower-class elements in ways that might disrupt the city.
In both magic and intrigue, Darchana is capable of unfathomable destruction, but prefers the art of subtlety and intelligently outmaneuvering her foes. Backed by a reformist political block known as New Absalom, she keeps her eyes open for opportunities to peel allies away from her rivals for primarch, offering House Morilla frequent but empty promises of installing Grand Princess Eutropia of Taldor as the queen of Absalom and courting Lord Kerkis of House Damaq with pledges of smooth reforms. Darchana has supported the Pathfinder Society, especially the newly unmasked Decemvirate member Eliza Petulengro.
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