Allandra is the fourth consort encountered by Shaedan. You first met her while taking a bath in the hot springs of Torain in the Five Peaks. Retuning from a long and spiritually taxing journey to the Hidden temple, you thought to relax and recover a bit before going back to Daulton. But the Dragon had other plans for you, so you ended up finding an elf maiden bathing naked in the springs, her Dragonmark plain for you to see. She immediately gave herself into service to the Dragon – as if she had been waiting for this moment all her life.

Allandra is eternally young and ageless, like all her kin. She is tall and lithe, with impossibly smooth white skin and dark brown hair and green eyes. Her beauty is almost unearthly, combining feminine allure with the unfading freshness of adolescence and the innocence of youth. It is the eyes that betray her, for within their green depths can be sensed experience and resolve far beyond that possessed by the girl she superficially resembles on the outside. She usually dressed in Sidhe clothing that reveal little, but hint at everything.

Allandra is calm and composed most of the time, but can be very passionate if provoked or enticed. Few people, the Emperor included, can stand up to her when her feelings get the better of her and an enraged Allandra can be a truly terrifying experience. It is during these spells of passion that her beauty truly shines and no male goes unaffected while in the presence of an Allandra in full bloom. Most of the time, however, she seem distant and aloof, barely registering the lesser creatures populating the world around her. Her beauty then becomes something less tangible and largely devoid of sensuality.

Alien and enigmatic like all Sidhe, more distant from Shaedan than any of the others, Allandra still has a very important place in the group, since she is the only one except Shaedan who can feel the bond with the other women. While Shaedan can sense each of his consorts, and they him, only Allandra can sense the other women (but they cannot sense her in return). This, and her considerable wisdom and diplomatic skills, has made her something of a leader among the other consorts. Little of importance is decided without Allandra having a say in the matter, which is a good thing for the Emperor, as he would otherwise have been swarmed with suggestions and demands from each of his eight consorts!

Allandra’s position within the Administratum (meaning ‘bureaucracy’ in Anuirean) is as First Advisor to the Emperor. She holds no special powers of office, but given the fact that Shaedan listens more to her counsel that anyone else’s means her influence is widespread (and by default the influence of the consorts as a group).

Allandra seems as committed to a cause as a sidhe can become, yet her insistence that the Dragon is a cosmic force, likened to shadow and life, tasked with ensuring the turning of the world, can be a bit tiresome. Countless times Shaedan has tried to explain to her that she’s talking about gods, and that the Dragon may well be ‘a cosmic force’ but that is the same as being a god. Yet Allandra just smiles and shakes her head at the ignorance of humans.

Early during their relationship Allandra gave Shaedan a golden ring cunningly crafted to resemble a dragon biting its own tail. The ring had passed from generation to generation within her family, since the day one of her ancestors had been taken it from a dead human warrior during the days of the human-elf wars. With your discovery of the second ring in the ruins of Kalah, the City of the Dragon, and you trip back through time that allowed you to speak with Anduiras-the-Dragon, you are starting to think the sidhe may have been right all along.

Draco surely is a god, no doubt about that, but apparently there have been many dragons in other times and places, and he is but the last incarnation of a cosmic force greater than any deity. Much like good and evil are concepts far larger than any god, for the deities are only reflections of the greater whole, the Dragon is the ultimate representation of the Laws of the Multiverse. It is the force that brings order out of chaos, renewal after death, and death after life.

Capabilities: Allandra is a skilled Bard when Shaedan meets her, with a strong emphasis on social skills (but she is far better at persuasion than subterfuge) and spells of illusion and enchantment, and a certain knack for healing. She continues to gain levels and power in this class as time passes, eventually reaching very high levels. When in her drakeform she is the match for many lesser warriors, but she is not the most martially inclined of the Consorts. In addition she retains the basic affinities of her race, including a penchant for the wild and uncanny perceptiveness.