Auralia de Hartcold

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Auralia Marie de Hartcold Baroness Tenure: 1652-Present Born: 1619 Spouse: Thomas de Hartcold Titles: Baroness of Adylith Lady of Blackden House: de Hartcold Father: John Kuhzaki Mother: Alice Kuhzaki

Auralia Marie de Hartcold (1619–Present) is the Baroness Regnant of Adylith. She is married to Baron Thomas I of Adylith, from their marriage in 1642 to present day.

Younger Years

Auralia came from a family of peasants who could barely afford to keep their ranch, and always seemed to accumulate an ever-growing debt. She was finally sold to an Orenian nobleman by her parents at the age of seven to pay off the enormous debt that they owed. Feeling resentment towards her family, despair, and anger, there was little for her to do but accept her fate.

Her first few months under the ownership of this nobleman were very rough, and she had to face beatings and lashings for poor judgment and performance in her duties.

She was then sold to a new owner, who was kind and gentle to her and treated her not as property, but as a daughter. She stayed with this particular owner for eight years, before the owner's wife sold her again.

She found herself under the ownership of Makashima Draskovits, who freed her later on after the Duchy of Curon retook Aleksandria from the Kingdom of Santegia.

Adulthood

Auralia Marie presented herself as an ambitious common woman, building a fast friendship with the Queen-Consort of Marna, Henriette Louise. From this relationship Auralia was able to actively participate in the affairs of the upper class, obtaining gossip and knowledge from the queen-consort's royal court. Auralia met her husband, Thomas de Hartcold in the city of Aleksandria, and he showed immediate attention. Auralia was in pursuit of nobility, and the spouseless man appeared to be her opportunity to arise like her friend had. Unfortunately, the marriage would swell into a union of hate and discord, with several interventions made from powerful parties like the Church of the Canon and the municipal government of the Principality of Curon. It was this marriage that placed Auralia as a controversial consort within the peerage of Curon and the human bastions. Her name was slowly spread through the city sprawls, and most common were the heinous connotations. Auralia appeared to regard these slanders with little attention; her focuses were on other matters, other people.

It was after the birth of Auralia and Thomas' first daughter, Theresa Elisabeth, that the realms of men discovered an ugly truth about the de Hartcold family. Auralia Marie was an adulteress. Desperate for the attention of a lustful and attentive knight of Curon, Auralia willingly went to the bed of Sylvestre III Halcourt, committing adultery with little shame. The close friends of Auralia were shocked to see the scarlet letter brandished across her chest; and more were horrified that she continued to interact with Sylvestre in a platonic manner. The de Hartcold name was soiled further, and the peerages of the human nations were disgusted. The Church of the Canon involved themselves near immediately; forcing Auralia to wear a scarlet 'A' at all times, shaming her ways as a heinous adulteress. It appeared however, this would not be the last controversy Auralia would face, or the last punishment.

Her Sororal Tenure

In the Year of The Lord, 1648, Auralia Marie de Hartcold swore a sororal tenure with the Order of Blessed Catherine. The Holy Mother of the Church, Mother Judith had summoned Auralia to the Annsden Abbey on a black night and informed her of what would happen. Auralia was stripped of her vanities, her head shaven, and her titles dismissed temporarily. The disgraced consort was to reside amongst the nuns, dressed in the habit of a sister and devoting her years as a daughter of GOD. Her tenure lasted for four years, continually being assessed and disciplined for her adulterous and vain pursuits in life. Mother Judith and her sisters wrote several letters in the tomes of the sisterhood, discussing the bashfulness and blissful arrogance of the woman. On the 25th of the First Seed, 1652, all the sisters of the Church were summoned to the Abbey of Esteresa in Curon for the unanimous vote to extend or end the sororal tenure of Auralia. The vote allowed her to leave, as she would sworn that she would forever uphold the virtues of Saint Julia and the piety of a GODly woman. However, despite her extensive education and discipline, Auralia gave in beneath the weight of a new, false crown.

Reign as Queen-Consort

The realms spat when they had learned that a new kingdom had sprouted from the earth far in the north. The Kingdom of Adylith had been conceived by Thomas de Hartcold, his army smaller than the rallies of any present nation. Particularly, Mother Judith was disgusted with what the lordling had done, and that Auralia had so weakly succumbed to the allure of a glittery circlet. The kingdom was a farce in the perspective of man; Thomas had disappeared weeks after he had made his ascension, and Auralia was left to combat the hate, alone. Confused and anxious, Auralia made a desperate address to the peoples of Curon, Renatus, Marna and Haense. This announcement rang all over Atlas, igniting an immense gossip forum to assemble. The de Hartcold name had never been more soiled as it did then. The Global Assembly of Atlas soon then convened, and summoned Auralia to discuss the matter of Adylith. After hours of intense discussion and debate, Auralia submitted herself as a vassal of the Principality of Curon - Adylith shrinking small into a barony.

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Marriage	Notes
Theresa Elizabeth de Hartcold	1644	Alive	Unmarried	Firstborn child of Thomas and Auralia de Hartcold
James Frederick de Hartcold	1648	Alive	Unmarried	Firstborn son of Thomas and Auralia. Heir to the Kingdom of Adylith
Opal Louise de Hartcold	10th of the Snows Maiden, 1659	Alive	Unmarried	Third child of Thomas and Auralia de Hartcold, twin sister to Henry
Henry Fitzroy de Hartcold	10th of the Snows Maiden, 1659	Alive	Unmarried	Fourth child of Thomas and Auralia de Hartcold, twin brother to Opal