Anne LaTarkin
Princess, Rebel, and Pioneer
Born to life of privelage and power as the daughter of King Madrick LaTarkin, sovereign of the Kingdom of Warwick, Anne spent her youth alternating between lessons given from Azermathia's finest tutors and evending her minders as she explored the southern shores of the Redstone Basin and foothills of the Jasper Mountains. Despite her willful rebellion and strong desire to live the life of a woodswoman, she mastered the art of high society and soon graduated from her tutor's lessons to those taught by oberserving court where she watched both her father and his kingdom fall further and further under the sway of Anderi's church as archbiship Randolph IV sought to combat the growing power of the Holy Legion of Light in neighboring Drakkar.
Worried that her father would become subservient to the religion, she found an ally in the most unlikely of places - the court of Drakkar itself. After exchanging missives with the playboy prince of Drakkar, Ann thought she had found a solution to her problem. Prince Fermand seemed to have found an organization that worked behind the scenes to subvert Anderi's church. And, to her suprise, it operated out of Warwick. She agreed to meet the prince at one of the group's midnight meetings only to be dismayed to discover that it was a heathen coven - the Society of the Sacred Shadow - around which swirled dark rumors.
Disgusted, and not wishing to associate with any group rumored to participate in human sacrafice, she spurned Fermand and began to build her own own organization - the Warwick Liberation Front to advocate for a sepearation of religion and politics. Unfortuately for the prince, the letters he had exchanged with Ann and their few brief meetings had captured his heart. Desperate to rekindle their relationship, he fled Drakkar one midnight, determined to win her hand. His death, when throne from his horse south of the Whispering River, a love letter to Ann in his saddlebag, nearly threw the two nations into war. It was only through her dissparearnce from court that lowered tensions after a couple a skirmishes.
Anne spent the next two decades working with the Warwick Liberation Front to frustrate the church at every turn. Over the years, however, Anne's influence began to wain and the Front's methods became more and more extreme. When they finally turned violent, Anne decided it was time to move on. She gathered a small group of supporters and hopeful souls up the Whispering River to build a new town where religion played no part in politics. The town, which eventually became Farthington, nearly perished that first season on the Clay Steppes but support from her father, estatic to find his wayward daughter still alive, helped get the new settlement on secure footing.
Anne spent the rest of her life in Farthington, passing away in her modest home after nearly a century in Azermathia.
Species
Children
Sex
Female
Late Seventh and Early Eighth Century AC
Resided In
Warwick
Farthington