Edelmira Karthis is the legitimized bastard daughter of a cadet branch of Karthis family. She is heir by default, the rest of her siblings having died in a freak outbreak of plague, suspected to have been a clandestine attack by Qadiran agents. She is an apparent loyalist, treating kindly with the rest of her family even in-spite of her gender. The general word on the street is that she is a social climber and opportunist playing the typical Taldan games of power and influence. She has been thick-as-thieves with one Herbert Merosett for over a decade, and rumors abound of romance between them.
