As a young man, Aladorn Ky'lilandren was a lover, not a fighter.  This got him into enough duels that his martial arts prowess stayed firmly up to par.  Disafected with the petty squabbles of the Shoguantes, he traveled Creation aiding the common people and spreading the seed of the Dragons amongst them.  He made a name for himself in Lookshy, though his kin were native to the blessed isle, in campaings against the bastards of Ma Ha Suchi.<br/><br/>He asceneded to a position of comand in the seventh legion, leading a talon of mortals in essence augmented armors.  On several of his many trips home to appease his family that he wasn't acting against their intrests of those of their clan, he came to enjoy the companionship of a very wealthy merchant woman, Radiant Dawn, who, out of a combination of genuine affection and desiring a comfortable place to relax away from his family on the Blessed Isle, he set out to woo wtih all his heart and a few not entirly fair uses of essence.<br/><br/>He suceeded quite thoroughly, winning her awe, admiration, and love as well as financial support, and gaining a daughter, Alissara Hikaru, that, unlike his dozens of bastards out in the threshold, was close enouh to home for his family to keep an eye on.<br/><br/>The girl was intelegent and tender hearted, but neither physicaly impressive nor socialy adept.  Eveyr bit as enamored of her legendary father as her mother was, the Great Contagion and the Fair Folk spared her any chance of disalusionment by striking while she was still a three year old, with her father falling in heroic battle before her sixth birthday, a few days before the Empress drove the Fair Ones from creation.<br/><br/>Alissara Hikaru grew up a hard worker and chronic failure, a great patriot for the empress and fan of her father and cousins, who knew full well she'd never match them even if she did somehow Exalt.<br/><br/>With her paternal grandfather's gruging support, and devoted hard work, she struggled her way through primary school and was granted a year's labour in the Heptogram as an instructors assistant.  Being unexalted, she didn't qualify as a student, but Uncle Malikonan Ky'Lilandran took her in.  Physicaly and socialy hopeless, she nontheless proved an adept scholar and skilled crafter of all manner of magitech, not to mention to have passing ability with mortal thaumaturgy.<br/><br/>Malikonen, though he agreed that she never would exalt, got her off of the fast track to becoming a tutor for the children of her more worthy cousins, and into studdies as an arcane enginere to help bring the nacant empires aresnal back online.<br/><br/>At age sixteen, she was given a very honored task, her father's own Most Terifying Armor of the Air Dragon had been recovered and given to her to repair.  Within a week, she had it online and ready to go.<br/><br/>Just as a demon was escaping a nearby chamber...<br/><br/>Just as Lord Lytek, god of Exaltation, finaly got around to filing the paperwork for her to recieve her father's long delayed Elemental Essence.