Swefen Er-per’henne of Port Suame
Maja Barusse is the daughter of Salt Peter. She was raised as her father found the
time, into the ways of a necrodemian mage and
priestess of Brilliance. When her father passed on, she inherited his estates
and position as Dean of the Wizard School in Port Suame, which she declined until
her twenty eighth year. By her own dogged perseverence she rose, despite political
resentment regarding her qualifications, to become the Highest Priestess of Brilliance,
and Keeper of the Port Suame Telesterion. Only as High Priestess did Maja Barusse
accept the mantle of Dean of Necrodemian Wizards.
Maja spent considerable time in her youth traveling with the fallen lios elfar Queen,
Laurien of the Swan. Their travels covered much of the Lartroxian continent over
the sixth and seventh decades of the Necrodemian Empire. Laurien and Maja continue
to spend as much time together as their separate worlds permit.
When another childhood friend and fellow student of Salt Peter, Sharra
of the Flames, returned to Port Suame on duty as a Roke
Wizard, Maja collected sufficent legends to recover the Go Rin No Sho, the
elemental control rings that are the great work of
the Archamge Ged. Ring of Water. Sharra bore the Ring of Fire,
Vlad Petros Drakulya bore the Ring of Wind, and Lord
Heron the Archdriud of the Trees bore the Ring of the Void. It is not recorded who
Maja chose to reward with the Ground Ring.
It is said that Maja Barusse has known multiple exclusive timelines.
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On one, a timelord named Mervyn accompanied Maja and Laurien for more than a few years. It is said
that Mervyn preferred the company of Maja over that of the
more comely elfar queen, although his attentions were not shunned by either woman.
It is known that Maja Barusse does not particpate in discussions of Mervyn the
Time Lord, and often leaves a room in which such conversations occur.
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On another timeline, Maja Barusse grew up in Salt Peter’s Estate with Derrick
Almustafa, both knowing eventually they would inherit their overlapping Places
of Power from their parents.
Childhood rivals eventually became childhood sweethearts, and the pair
were bound in marriage soon after both had inherited the
Flags of Land Law.
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On this timeline, Salt Peter’s Estate was attacked by Mind Flayers and Maja
deflected death within her place of power to another being, a Weirmoniken
summoned from shadow, named Derrick. Also slain were another Weir named
Tanri Silverharp and the Kimdissi Timelord
Crimson Grey, and Laurien.
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On this timeline, Illithids have never attacked
Salt Peter’s Estate. Vlad Petros came
to Maja to warn her he suspected that Salt Peter’s Estate would be the
third Place of Power attacked by Illithids, following the
attacks on Bird Keep and Tirgoviste,
instead of preceeding them.
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Although Maja Barusse has sufficient reputation on her own, she is still
sensitive to her father's legacy overshadowing her affairs.
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