Vaera Faendras

"I never wanted that damnable war. The vile man I thought my lover subverted my power to satiate his blood-lust. He abused my love for him and blinded me to his monstrous ways. And yet knowing he's dead... knowing I killed him... his loss haunts me. I needed him... I still do... Yet what he did cannot be forgiven."

- Vaera Faendras

Empress Vaera Faendras II is the 107th ruler of the Teyan Dominion, and 17th monarch in the Faendras Dynasty to rule the Dominion. A largely abstemious Empress, Vaera disdains the sybaritic nature of the Dominion's nobility, preferring instead a humble and simple lifestyle, dedicated to protecting her people, their interests, and peace within the Triangulum Galaxy.

Vaera herself is an extraordinarily benevolent woman, and often delegates much of her power to the Dominion Senate, only stepping in when absolutely necessary to protect her people from the political games played by the nobility of the Teyan Dominion.

Appearance
Deeply interested in the Drakniar nobility and their sense of fashion, Vaera Faendras is known for incorporating many aspects of Drakniar fashion into her own wardrobe and goes to great lengths to acquire the Andromedan outfits. Her own formal gowns are a vibrant red and white dress, trimmed with gold and plasteel. She typically wears her formal attire over a set of form-fitting power armour, allowing her to easily conceal the protective suit beneath her outfits.

Vaera herself is a lithe yet toned woman of average height noted for her lack of otherwise defining features. She possesses brown hair, a lean build, and little in the way of blemishes or beauty marks.

Vaera has mild polychromia, resulting in slightly increased vibrancy in her scales, and complete heterochromia, resulting in her left eye is blue, and her right eye is green. Both of these mutations are mild in nature, and hard to notice without attention being drawn to them.

Personality
Believing as Empress that it is her duty to always behave with dignity, courage, grace, and compassion, Vaera holds herself to strict standards while in public, though is a more relaxed and less regal ruler behind closed doors, finding the regality and haughty attitude of the teyan nobility to be taxing and indignant.

For someone of her power, Vaera Faendras is surprisingly compassionate. She firmly believes that few beings are truly evil and that even they are not necessarily beyond redemption. Vaera observes her foes carefully before striking at those she believes are the most deserving of her wrath, taking great care to ensure the stability of the Triangulum galaxy by only engaging in conflicts when absolutely necessary.

Vaera, despite her compassionate personality and deeply caring attitude, is still a teyan at heart; an expert at fencing, boxing, and marksmanship, Vaera remains one of the most competent combatants within the Teyan Dominion and is unafraid of personally engaging in battle, although typically is prevented by her more cautious peers.

Since she was a child, Vaera had shown a deep interest in alien culture and fashion, as evidenced by her Drakniar-inspired fashion choices, and xenophilic policies in Dominion-politics, ensuring the protection of all sapient beings within Dominion territory, whether citizenry or not.