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Shayla Fitzreine

Countess of T'Kashire and Custodian of Caislean, (formerly) First Princess of the Fae
Player Character

Shayla Fitzreine was born as the product of Queen Titania Maoilriain being unfaithful to her husband with an unknown Pixie, and is the middle in age of her three children between the Crown Prince of the Fae and heir to the throne Padraig "Puck" Maoilriain and Prince Alroy V Maoilriain.

While King Oberon made no attempt to hide her origins from the young Shayla he also did not shame her for it like her mother did, and treated her as though she was his own daughter, including legitimising her with the Maoilriain name shortly after her birth, something which greatly annoyed Titania.

As she grew older, Shayla became very popular with the common people, as as she grew and became increasingly aware that as a royal bastard she was never going to inherit the crown she made no attempt to behave in an appropriately regal or ladylike fashion; often she would sneak out of the palace avoiding the guards and go to bars or festivals. It for for this reason, upon adulthood she was named as the first of House Fitzreine.

She was sent away to Ādīsi Geneti to study once Titania realised she was unable to control the rebellious teenager, but she didn't last long in her boarding school as she kept breaking out and visiting bars. One evening led her to meeting Ashraiah "Ash" el Sabine, Syx and Qau-dibab-āy'ḥāk-āy'āda in The Emerald Lantern, the infamous den of debauchery in Mouldtown, and being sent on a mission to investigate the undead pandemic in the Grand Duchy of Tir by Feckward

Shayla wasn't a direct part of that group for long though, as she became beloved by the village of T'Kashire where the group found themselves and shortly after leaving active adventuring she was - unexpectedly - elected Mayor of the village after winning the popular vote, having been entered into the vote without her initial knowledge. This seems to have been for the best though, as the position of power allowed her to mature and develop into an extremely capable leader and politician.

Following the death of Syx, she received Syx's Diary and has been studying the Dragonling's life and experiences working for the public. She also has her own extensive series of journals, noting down her collection of spells, sketches, her own private thoughts on numerous subjects and pieces of poetry amongst other things.

More recently her actions as Mayor led to her becoming the first Countess of the newly-formed New County of T'Kashire, thus leading her to take up permanent residence in the village and begin construction on a small castle there, and also upon joining the Grand Imperial Advisory Board quickly became a member of the hyper-libertarian Orla Bloc political alliance. She is very proud of this title as it is the only one she has that she actually earned through her own merit and actions rather than her birth. She has also, according to rumour, began assembling a team to pick up where her friends left off following the undead problem. She is still extremely popular amongst the common man in Tír and the Fae, to the point where she has earned the nickname of "The Queen in the South".

As a result of her mother and stepfather's divorce, Shayla has been stripped of the Maoilriain name and has reverted to using the name Fitzreine as the new Noble House of T'Kashire, though publicly generally uses Countess Shayla without her surname. She still however remains on good terms with King Oberon and her older half-brother Padraig.