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{{Character Summary | Image = | Name = Alaidin | Race = * [[Empyrean]] ([[Yalaini]]) | Related Groups = * [[Seaborne Empire of Yalain]] | Eras Active = * [[Dericoi Eipoth]] * [[Vacari Eipoth]] | Important Dates = | Related Characters = * [[Jailne]] * [[Sarvien II]] | | Display Top Links = True | Link Related = True | Link In Game = False | Link Lore Articles = False | Link Texts = False | Link Characters = False | Link Quests = False | Link NPCs = False | Link Creatures = False | Link Locations = False | Link Items = False | Link Images = True | Link References = True | | Major Char = True | Empyrean Char = True | Yalaini Char = True | Deceased Char = True }} <center><font color=darkgoldenrod>''Two heroes crept in lightless danks''<br> ''Heavy-bearded Jailne and the gold-eyed Alaidain''<br> ''Soldier-king of Haebrous; enchantress-empress of Yalain'' <ref name="LayLeikotha">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref></font></center> * Empress Alaidain was the first recorded ruler of the Seaborne Empire of [[Yalain]], who ruled during the end of the [[Millennium War]].<ref name=AgesEmp>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM CD Lore/Ages of the Empyrean|Ages of the Empyrean]]</ref> All rulers of Yalain were descendants of Alaidain. :''"Darkness can never be driven from the world, for it is part of the world. It only sleeps, and bides its time. We can but sing a lullaby by the light of a flickering candle, and watch for its wakening."'' - Alaidain, nearly 8500 years prior to the writing of the [[Standing Orders]]<ref>2000/10 [[Hollow Victory]] - [[Standing Orders]]</ref> * She defeated, together with King [[Jailne]] of the [[Haebrous]], the [[Dericost]] faction of the [[Latzimestal]]<ref name="AC:DMBestiary">2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM_CD_Lore/Bestiary/Derethian_Bestiary#Undead|Bestiary: Undead]]</ref> * The final battle opens with the Haebrous warrior [[Leikotha Arenir]] and the combined armies of the Haebrous and Yalaini attacking the living and undead armies of the Dericost. With Dericost attention occupied by the assault, a Falatacot woman who had escaped the Lords' purge leads [[Jailne]] and Alaidain through the trackless tunnels of Vasmora into the palace of [[Sarvien II]]. In a pitched battle, the Haebrous and Yalaini forces destroy Sarvien and his Lich advisors, but the struggle costs Jailne his life. <ref>2000/08 [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[Mu-Miyah Note Translation]]</ref><ref name="LayLeikotha">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref> :*The Falacatot woman leading the way is [[Lady Adja]]'s Grandmother<ref>2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall]] - [[Translated Letter (Tear-Stained Parchment)]]</ref> :*Upon his death, [[Sarvien II]] he utters a prophecy from the [[Book of Eibhil]], which Alaidain inscribes on [[Alaidain's Gem]] and she entrusts this gem to the wards of Ithaenc. Only monarchs of the Seaborne Empire may read these fateful words.<ref name=HistoryI>[[The History of Auberean/Volume I: Empires Clashing (-30,000 to -9,000)]]</ref><ref>2000/11 - [[Should the Stars Fall]] - [[Alaidain's Gem]]</ref> * With the [[Haebrous]] and [[Dericost ]]kingdoms shattered and their lands ravaged by war, Empress Alaidain assumes rule over the remnants of these kingdoms. The Seaborne Empire of Yalaini now spans the globe.<ref name=HistoryI>[[The History of Auberean/Volume I: Empires Clashing (-30,000 to -9,000)]]</ref> * In the closing years of the [[Millennium War]], Empress Alaidain founds the [[Order of Hieromancers]] to serve as her personal guard and household company.<ref>[[Lonely in the World]] - [[A Text Book]]</ref> * VE 1: Empress Alaidain declares the beginning of the [[Vacari Eipoth]] after the defeat and occupation of [[Dericost]]<ref>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM CD Lore/Ages of the Empyrean|Ages of the Empyrean]]</ref>
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