Mersera Xaris

Background
Within the palace at the center of the bustling city of Senta, young Princess Mersera of Belasco was born to a demanding and polished royal family. Queen Beryl, a demure lady of excellent breeding, had married into the family of King Tam, a hard man older than his years due to his responsibilities to his people. Beryl had already gifted Tam with one daughter when they discovered that Mersera was coming along.

From the time she could walk and talk, the manners and grace of her culture were engrained into Mersera’s mind through endless lessons. Reading, writing, math- her tutors came in the morning and left in the evening- were all things at which she excelled. She enjoyed singing and dancing more than her lessons, although she was given instruction in these matters as well. When she had opportunities to walk through Senta with escorts and her tutors, her face behind a thin, colorful blue veil, she was able to see quite clearly what she could have been- free to make her own choices.

With an older sister, Princess Taisie, destined to find a prince and one day take the throne from their mother and father, Mersera never felt the intense pressure from the King and Queen of Belasco to choose a suitor. Certainly, men came to the palace from all over the planet to try and court her, yet by the time she turned seventeen, she was still turning them all away. As many young people do, Mersera had once read a story that introduced her to the idea of True Love, and she was determined to find it somehow.

It was also at the age of seventeen that Mersera’s mother, Queen Beryl- on a new, liberal parenting streak inspired by weeks of exhaustion in planning Taisie’s elaborate engagement party- announced that Mersera ought to be permitted to take a small ship, a group of escorts, and a sum of the family’s immense wealth to go travel the galaxy and broaden her understanding of alien cultures. After all, this knowledge would help Belasco’s monarchy in war and politics when Mersera returned to them in a year or two to report on what she had learned through speeches and essays.

Mersera accepted the conditions- including a traveling tutor, three bodyguards, and a pilot- and set off to see the galaxy with her entourage after a lavish goodbye party thrown by her already exhausted parents.

Major Events

 * Mersera has arrived on Coruscant!

Known Associates

 * Stasia- A young doctor from Mersera's home planet, Belasco, who is travelling with her around the galaxy.