Dian Meliora

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Real Name

Diana Aritain

Prior Alias

Diona Fairchild

Prior Alias

Dahlia Hawthrone

Prior Alias

Donovan Monroe

Prior Alias

Luanne Summerton

Prior Alias

Daniel Rosenthall

Age (Actual)

167

Age (Physical)

27

Class

Ancients

Race

Dhampire

Follower of

Lathander

Profile


Timeline of Events:
1854- Diana Aritain is born to Bragdon (182) and Helen (140) Aritain. She is the 3rd child of their marriage and first child born with the intention to become an offering. Her elder siblings are Bradley (22) and Hazel (57). Both siblings appear in their early 20s. She is named for being born under a full moon at midnight and said to be the 'perfect union of day and night, life and death, the vessal that shall herald a new era'. 

1861- Union Soldiers storm the Aritian compound, killing approximately 300 various undead, demonic, and corrupt followers of the Cult of [Redacted]. Their leader, Bragdon Aritian is slain by an Aasamair soilder via a holy spear to his chest. He burns with holy fire while his wife and children watch on. Helen claims to have been enthralled, and her son and daughters hapless victims as well. Diana is 7.

1862- Diana is sent to London to be housed by one of the main branches of the Church of [Redacted] while her family recoups their losses. Her siblings also sail for Europe (France and Spain respectively). Upon making landfall Diana wanders from her caretakers and ends up in a small temple of Lathander. There, she is found by the head preist who quickly notices her undead caretaker seeking her out and hides her from them. She is adopted by the church as a foundling and begins her education in the church. Diana is 8.

1865- Diana Artrian is renamed Diona Fairchild. She formally renounces her former life, name, and faith, going so far to, in secret, recant an oath she was instructed to recite as a child to pledge herself to [Redacted]. She takes her first holy vows in service to Lathander and is accepted and begins her training to become a paladin. She is moved to the Temple in Bristol with her fellow Paladin recruits, Lilliana and Eric. She is 11.

1869- Diona begins to have romantic feelings for Lilliana. Her feelings for Lathander also begin to blossom and grow complicated. She is 15.

1871 (winter)- Diona masturbates for the first and last time, making the faux pass of thinking and calling out to Lathander while doing so. She is mortified and quickly begs forgiveness. She vows to abstain from such indulgences and thoughts in the future. She is 17.

1871 (summer)- Diona is checked by multiple medical professionals as well as healers from within and outside of the temple over her lack of menstruation and recent inquires of marriage and more prominently, her suitability for marriage. She is given the news she is sterile and unable to conceive. She turns 18 the following month.

1873- The great Temple of Bristol burns to the ground. Diona takes the name Dahlia Hawthrone in the aftermath to hide the fact she was the sole survivor. It is written as one of great unsolved cases of demonic influence in Brition's history. Dahlia is 19.

1882- Dahlia sails to New York where she is instated to the Temple of Lathander as a Dawnlord and tasked as a Sentinel. She reunites with her birth family briefly re assuming her birth name and poses as having been loyal to her childhood god while living in Europe in hiding. Her family welcomes her back and immediately begins grooming her for ritual sacrifice. She is 28, but her appearance remains that of a 20 year old.

1884- The day before she was to turn 30 and become the offered bride to [Redacted], Dahlia sets fire to her childhood home and leaves behind a false body construct. In the process she managed to have her family's wealth and all titles, deeds, and documents hidden or otherwise removed from their legal posession rendering them destitute. Many of them are under various names and crafted persons unaffiliated with the church and not included in an church record. Her family announces her death and Diana Aritain is formally declared dead at age 30 and an empty coffin is burried in the Charlotte memorial graveyard. Dhalia flees to Chicago to lay low and resume her tasks and duties within the church. She is 30 and appears 20.

1916- Dahlia is drafted into the first World War as a reserve officer under the Church's orders and wish to remain neutral. Upon seeing the death and devastation in the trenches, she abandons her post along with two other Church of Lathander battalions including their captains to join the UK forces. She is traumatized by the autocracies, and at some point, was forced to consume the dead bodies of enemy soldiers as well as partake in live feeding that resulted in killing while doing so. She kills 2 men who attempt to violate her and begins to mask herself as a man taking the name of Donovan Monroe. She is 62 but remains physically at the age of 20.

1918- Donovan (Dahlia) returns along with what remains of the two renegade battalions of the Church. They are placed under house arrest but are acquitted of desertion charges due to acting under oaths of faith and church doctrine. Donovan opts to retain the new alais to avoid scrutiny and avoid possible persecution from acts done while at war and entrenched. He is 64 and appears 21.

1930- Donovan is stationed in New York City, where he works for the church and moonlights as a peacekeeper. He remains one of the few least effected by the food shortages and is often sent on more dangerous missions. It is on a mission that he learns that Bradley Aritain is a fixture in the American South, and has retained his birth name and still operates his childhood faith in secret practice. While Donovan manages to cull the branch in New York City, he discovers its far reach and ever growing popularity among certain circles. However, with the issues of the Great Depression accumulating, he is forced to remain in New York City and take on missions for the church that would otherwise be too risky for general paladin forces. He is 76, appearance, 21.

1931- To avoid discovery of her involvment in the dissolution of the Cult branch in New York City, he takes the name Luanne Summerton. She is 77 appearing 21.

1942- WWII. Luanne is enlisted into the war against her wishes by the Church. Upon making landfall in occupied France, she convinces her platoon and commanding officer to desert the battle they're deployed at citing a lost cause. Two refuse and are gunned down shortly after. Luanne navigates the french countryside and manages to lead them to safety where they begin a series of reconnaissance and smuggling of refugees, making their way eventually behind enemy lines. They remain in secret and pose as various nationalities and officers to escort civilians out of occupied territory. She is 88, appearing 22. 

1945- Luanne and the others of her platoon return stateside. They are initially considered deserters, but are slowly pardoned as details of their actions emerge. Luanne is last to be pardoned in January of 1946. She is 91 appearing 22.

1946- Upon being reinstated in the church and fully pardoned, she refuses a medal of honor and requests for her files to become redacted and her record expunged from both military and church records. Her petition is approved that summer, and she takes the name Daniel Rosenthall, opting to present as a man to better allow himself more leverage in missions and investigate the growing reports of his childhood cult in the south. He is 92, still appearing as if he is 22.

1965- Daniel Rosenthall takes part in various civil rights protests in the south, earning the Church's ire and warning that he risked excommunication. In retaliation, Daniel Rosenthall makes a public display of throwing his ceremonial armor, talbard, axe and other holy gear through the temple windows in St. Louis with the attached note of 'I know where the Light of Lathander belongs and it is not behind closed doors of between shades of skin and shape.' He is formally excommunicated the following day and retains only his holy emblem which retains it's divine light. Daniel proceeds to aid various civil rights efforts with other former members of the church until the Church's stance changes oficially two years later. However, Daniel is not reinstated until 1972 due to 'the outrageousness and gregarious disregard for church practice and refusal to admit any wrongdoing in his time outside of his role as a Dawnlord'. He is 111 and appears 23. 

1972- Daniel Rosenthall is reinstated as a Dawnlord in the Church of Lathander. It takes not one but two ranked members of the upper clergy who cite Lathander's own will to see it done as one of Daniel's acts had been to spray paint 'Racist Hatemonger' on the head preist's house in New Orleans the month prior. He claimed he was only making the truth known and was proven correct. With the backing of the church once more, Daniel began to seek out Cult activity in earnest again, focusing as well as on small civil rights movements and efforts. He is 118 and appears 23.

1974- Daniel is forcibly relocated to Chicago due to 'continued combative attitudes towards upper clergy in the American south'. And is given strict orders no not go back to the bible belt unless approved. Lathander also suggests to maybe, consider behaving for a while. Daniel acquiesces.  He is 120 and no longer seems prone to aging.

1984- Daniel runs into his sister, going by the name of Maria Lawson. She does not recognize him, but he finds out that both his mother and brother are also alive and well and much of their wealth is regained. Maria is on her 46th husband. Marrying wealthy men and killing them, inheriting their fortunes and funneling it to the Aritain house before vanishing and resuming her black widow scheme. Daniel commends his fellow Dhampire of her scheme and is offered a drink and 'something more'. Disgusted and terrified, Daniel excuses himself and flees the city, opting to go so far as to book a flight to Seattle where he abandons the name Daniel Rosenthall and assumes the alias Dian Meliora. She is 130 and feels 50 (appearing however as a 23 year old).

1992-

2020- Hearing a tip that a branch of her brother's cult had been seen establishing itself in the town of Bronzethorne, Dian moved there under the pretense of escaping city life and looking to maybe enroll in the college. She sets up a persona and reputation as a semi hedonistic, if slightly wealthy recluse with more money than common sense, attempting to attract the type of persons who may be actively recruiting for the cult. She does not make it known of her faith and keeps her holy emblem as well as her gear and weapons hidden. Prior to moving into her home she recruits a few church officers to assist her in making modifications to the building to ensure it is mildly defensible, including three tunnels that offer quick escape should it become needed. It is cited as 'making the basement more me friendly' to her neighbors. She adopts 4 chickens named Delicious, Nutricious, Herbs, and Spices. She is 166 years old.