Nikoleta of Ghaestenwald
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Nikoleta Barbara Barrow (Common: Nicole Barbara), was a bastard of HRH Franz Leopold Barbanov and Natalia Elaine Kovachev.
Biography
Early Life
Early on the 20th of Sigismund's End, 1824, Nikoleta was born the bastard of Prince Franz Leopold and Lady Natalia Kovachev. Even though she was a bastard of a Haense prince, the girl was born in Providence. Her first few years of life taking place in such a city, as Lady Natalia's husband did not yet know of Nikoleta's bastardom. Though she did not get along with her older half-siblings, she did her best to make Providence a home to remember.
With little to no education, Nikoleta read all she could. Spending many hours in the library and watching political meetings hidden behind doors. She was eventually challenged by Lady Natalia's husband to make 1000 mina, so she could truly be a Draskovic-Kovachev. Quite swiftly, the youth put up a stall and started to sell badges. Her most famous badge being the Cool Badge. Within a year, she had made the 1000 mina. Sadly, not before Lady Natalia's husband found out about Nikoleta's true parentage.
Nikoleta was never formally told she was disowned by the man she had called father, simply taught to sign her name using Barrow as the last name instead of Draskovic-Kovachev. Within the same month, her aunt Emerentia passed away. Leaving the girl confused as she still saw her aunt, yet no one else did, and she still saw Lady Natalia's husband as her father, but he wasn't.
In her childlike grief, Nikoleta took up studying butterflies. Publishing a few volumes filled with all the information and drawings of the butterflies she spotted on her adventures.
