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POV Role | Broken Borders | |||
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Status | Alive | |||
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Father | Barim-zain Toran | |||
Mother | Salla-zanna Toran | |||
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Spouse | † Var-Azunion Lodius | |||
Children | None |
Bur-Larra Toran is the daughter of Barim-Zain Toran, and Salla-Zanna Toran making her a member of House Toran. Larra Toran has two siblings in the form of Nienor, and Bur-Daira of which her brother Nienor is one of the top commanders of the border castle of Toran Castle, while her sister Bur-Daira lives at the court in Umbar and is a constant member of the aristocrats there and has a growing influence. Larra Toran was married briefly to a rich noble from Umbar, but he was killed during the events of the Short Story the Broken Border and she would be taken prisoner by the Gondorians.
Larra Toran was born into the extremely nationiolisic House Toran and was the third child of her father making her perhaps the least important of his children. During her youth she would at first crave for her parents love, but after this behavior was beaten out of her she came to hide her sensitivity and instead made herself into the ideal third daughter. When Larra Toran was fifteen she would travel into the lands of Gondor with several of her friends and they would eventually make their way into the city of Bree. Her time in Bree would shape her love for Gondor, and when she returned to Umbar she would convinse her father into sending her to Dol Amroth to the university there while she awaited her father to find her a husband. She would spend the next two years of her life in Belfalas where she would become a student under illivian Grourg of whom was known as a member of the Faithful of whom were members of the old Kingdom of Gondor who remained loyal to Gondor even after the Civil War left them enemies. Under his teutolage she would become even further a believer in what Gondor stood for, and she wished to be able to become a part of the Kingdom of Gondor and see it the way she believed it could be. Her father would try constantly to find her a match in marriage, and when she was seventeen her first oppurtunity arose when she was married in a rushed ceremony to Var-Azunion Lodius of House Lodius. Her first meeting with him after their wedding was a bad first meeting as he proved unable or atleast unwilling to even contimplate thinking of her, and he for the first months of their marriage used her body physically and gave her nothing emotionally except for minor beatings when she did something that he didn't like. He did send her to Umber for two months where he had her trained with several Hashadin in the capital, and when she returned she was significantly improved from the training she had done before. Larra would be left alone in the capital away from her husband when Azunion would captain an Umbar fleet boat on a trading mission to the far east in Cathay, and this mission was a hundred year contract and thus he should have brought her with him but his silent hatred for Larra led to him taking the contract and leaving her behind. Left behind by her husband she travelled back into Dol Amroth where she once again studied under Illivian Grourg and became increasingly knowledgeable as her schooling became endless. Azunion would not return at the end of his contract but Larra returned to Umbar as Illvian was forced out of Dol Amroth as the purge of Faithful loyalists pushed him out, and having returned to Umbar she discovered that her husband had taken another contract in Cathay and this time it was a two hundred and fifty year contract, and having already accepted their marriage as a sham Larra took on new interests during this time opening a small school in Umbar where she taught many noble children silently teaching them the way of the Faithful side of the Numenorian people. Only three weeks after returning from Umbar though she found herself with Var Azunion on a mission across the Gondor border, and they would be led directly into a trap they didn't know was coming after Ildarion Elessar grew suspisious of the quiet of the border and had several Great Eagles called from the capital and they would spot Larra and her husbands force cross the border. She would be the only surivivor of the ambush and she survived only after an arrow struck her in the head but deflected off her helmet and knocked her unconsious.
History[]
Early History[]
- "Early in life I had very little interest in exploration or becoming anything more then what my family wanted me to be."
- -Larra Toran
Larra Toran was born into the extremely nationiolisic House Toran and was the third child of her father making her perhaps the least important of his children. During her youth she would at first crave for her parents love, but after this behavior was beaten out of her she came to hide her sensitivity and instead made herself into the ideal third daughter. During this time she grew close to her sister Daira of whom was two years older then she was, and was the beloved daughter that she was never treated like. Her relationship with her sister was a great contrast to the fact that she had a toxious relationship with her brother Nienor. At first her brother treated her with great care, but as he grew up and was trained amongst the palace gaurds he found himself and his gentlesness sucked away by the militaristic lifestyle that he was trained amongst. This led to his abandonment of her and the brother sister relationship that they had for a few years. As that deterioated she would become friends with several girls and boys that she met while she was hanging around the palace grounds with her mother. These other children were also members of the aristocracy of Umbar and in this way she became intertwined with several of the influencial families of the city including for a time Sarah Mason from Gondor.
Time in Gondor[]
- "Until I saw Bree I had never known anything but the contrasting of Umbar. In Umbar the streets were filled with the hopeless and the hungry, and what I saw in Bree was so far beyond it. The people there had a general happiness to them that I had never known before. I never wanted to leave, and it was only my friends dragging me from the city almost literaly that I would finally leave the city."
- -Larra Toran
As her relationship with the others continued she watched the influence of Sarah Mason grow on the group, and she would become closer with Sarah Mason after she watched her be slapped by her husband Damon Bedroog, and she would comfort Sarah in the aftermath. She would be very supportive of Sarah as she was forced to watch as her husband lost the love for her as they were unable to produce a child. As she spent all this time with Sarah she would come to hear more and more about the life she had lived in Gondor, and this made her believe in Gondor more and more. Larra would during this time also come to know several of the members of House Bedroog including Castamir of whom was the overall leader of Umbar, and in this knowledge she came to be quite skeptical of his beliefs as she listened to him. As this continued the influence that Sarah wielded reached a point that she would convince many of the young aristocrats to go to Gondor and Larra would travel into the lands of Gondor with several of her friends and they would eventually make their way into the city of Bree.
- "Bree was bustling with the sounds of people in motion. It was exactly as I had always wanted Umbar's markets to be, and yet the others seemed to carry little to none of the adoration that I did. As the others insulted the arrogance and shallowness of the Gondorians, I found myself basking in their ways and wanting nothing more then to be exactly like them."
- -Larra Toran
Her time in Bree would shape her love for Gondor in that she truly came to love everything about the way the Gondorians of Bree lived their lives, and the way the city looked. She couldn't imagine a world where the people would prefer to live like they did in Umbar and not like the way they did in Bree. Her time in Bree would also add to her respect for Sarah Mason of whom she believed was still silently loyal to Gondor and was only pretending to believe in Umbar. She came to believe that what Sarah had told her while they were good friends in the beginning was the truth, and that what she was now saying were just a part of her growing cover, and her belief in this led her to not tell anyone about her belief in Gondor and to bury it. When she returned to Umbar she would convince her father into sending her to Dol Amroth to the university there while she awaited her father to find her a husband.
Dol Amroth[]
- "Everyone knew that Dol Amroth was two things. Firstly it was an intellectual heartland that prided itself off of its learning and thinking. Secondly it longed to return to Gondor. Both of those truths would be perfect for the end goals I had in mind."
- -Larra Toran
She would spend the next two years of her life in Belfalas where she would become a student under Illivian Grourg of whom was known as a member of the Faithful of whom were members of the old Kingdom of Gondor who remained loyal to Gondor even after the Civil War left them enemies. Under his tutelage she would become even further a believer in what Gondor stood for, and she wished to be able to become a part of the Kingdom of Gondor and see it the way she believed it could be. Illivian would introduce her to several other members of the Faithful of whom she would come to understand were far more powerful in Dol Amroth then it was led to be in the lands of Umbar. During her time in Dol Amroth she became best friends with Teri-Vinrin Reina of whom was the heir of House Reina making him the eventual leader of the most powerful non-Mordor aligned household in Dol Amroth, and as their friendship increased the both of them became only more fanatical in their belief in Gondor.
Marriage[]
Her father would try constantly to find her a match in marriage, and when she was seventeen her first opportunity arose when she was married in a rushed ceremony to Var-Azunion Lodius of House Lodius. Her first meeting with him after their wedding was a bad first meeting as he proved unable or at least unwilling to even contimplate thinking of her, and he for the first months of their marriage used her body physically and gave her nothing emotionally except for minor beatings when she did something that he didn't like.
Umbar[]
He did send her to Umber for two months where he had her trained with several Hashadin in the capital, and when she returned she was significantly improved from the training she had done before.
Century Contract[]
Larra would be left alone in the capital away from her husband when Azunion would captain an Umbar fleet boat on a trading mission to the far east in Cathay, and this mission was a hundred year contract and thus he should have brought her with him but his silent hatred for Larra led to him taking the contract and leaving her behind.
Return to Dol Amroth[]
Left behind by her husband she travelled back into Dol Amroth where she once again studied under Illivian Grourg and became increasingly knowledgeable as her schooling became endless.
Teaching[]
Azunion would not return at the end of his contract but Larra returned to Umbar as Illvian was forced out of Dol Amroth as the purge of Faithful loyalists pushed him out, and having returned to Umbar she discovered that her husband had taken another contract in Cathay and this time it was a two hundred and fifty year contract, and having already accepted their marriage as a sham Larra took on new interests during this time opening a small school in Umbar where she taught many noble children silently teaching them the way of the Faithful side of the Numenorian people.
Broken Borders[]
Main Article : Broken Borders
Broken Borders I came here wanting to defend the land I had fled my home for. Seeing it burning when I arrived was the last sight I expected, but in the end my father also told me you have to fight for what you believe in. Even if my father has lost his way I have to constantly remember the person I want to be. | ||||||
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Only three weeks after returning from Umbar though she found herself with Var Azunion on a mission across the Gondor border, and they would be led directly into a trap they didn't know was coming after Tur-Ildarion Elessar grew suspicious of the quiet of the border and had several Great Eagles called from the capital. Ildarion Elessar had become aware through many different sources that either Sarah Mason, or someone else in the leadership of Ethring was betraying the Gondorians to the enemy in Umbar, but he was unwilling to accept that it was Sarah Mason after they had their confrontation and he discovered that she was pregnant. So with the great eagles he had them watching the border east of Ethring, and that would be the spot that Larra Toran would be making a crossing with her husband and his force, of whom were crossing the border in order to join the growing Umbar force on the Gondor side of the border. At this point Ildarion's closest commanders in Berethor Isilrim, and Belernil Nimothan would come to him once more advising him that despite her pregnancy they needed to watch Sarah Mason as all the intelligence they were gathering from the nobles of Ethring was telling them the traitor was Sarah Mason, and for the first time Ildarion would tell them he would talk to her briefly and if he got the slightest sense of something he would order her watched. The Eagles after spotting the Umbar force would return to Ethring where Ildarion would quickly mass a force alongside recent arrivals in the form of a force of three thousand men from Tir Ethrod under the command of the twin brothers Galamir Browning II., and Talvirion Browning, and and moved with full speed to get in front of the Umbar force. With the great eagles able to watch them the entire time Ildarion was able to set up a perfect ambush spot in the middle of a clearing. When they arrived at the sight Ildarion was preparing his forces and didn't realize that Sarah Mason who at this point he believed in implicitly due to her pregnancy was secretly crafting a letter which she would send through one of her loyalists to the forces of Var-Azunion Lodius.
When they arrived at the sight Ildarion was preparing his forces and didn't realize that Sarah Mason who at this point he believed in implicitly due to her pregnancy was secretly crafting a letter which she would send through one of her loyalists to the forces of Var Azunion. So trusting in her was he at this point that he invited her into the strategic meetings they had that night, and she would even add pieces of this into a second letter that she crafted for the Umbar troops incoming. That night as she waited and hoped that Var Azunion would get the letter she went to bed with Ildarion, and as he held her and rubbed her still flat belly she begin to cry. She tried to stop crying but she couldn't as for perhaps the first time she realized the true costs of what she was doing. Through her crying Ildarion held her close and whispered loving words to her, and despite how comforted and safe she felt the fact that this man that she loved so much was the target of so much of her deception left her feeling more broken and sad then she had felt in a long time. While this was happening her first messenger would fail to find the force of Var Azunion after he camped his forces in a position that was so tactically foolish that the messenger had bypassed the area in his search for them. The second messenger would find Var's forces but was shot by a sentry and his body quickly buried in the ground without the sentries reading anything he had on him. So despite Sarah Mason attempting to sabotage the ambush by getting word to Var Azunion the Umbar force continued to walk right into it.
The next day Var Azunion would move the Umbar force northward, and as they walked through the ambush clearing Larra Toran felt a terrible chill up her spine and warned her husband that they should travel along the side of the ravine, and in return Var would slap her in the face and verbally attack her as she laid on the ground. As she got up from the slap he was still staring at her as an arrow struck him directly in the heart killing him basically instantly. She would be the only survivor of the ambush and she survived only after an arrow struck her in the head but deflected off her helmet and knocked her unconscious. With the force destroyed the Gondor force would move in with Ildarion taking the lead flanked by his friends of whom was devastated that the force had been destroyed despite the fact that she had tried desperately to alert them to the danger. As they searched the troops it would be Thomas Mason that would discover the still alive body of Larra Toran and as Ildarion walked to her he knelt in front of her as she opened her eyes, and he felt something inside him feel for this girl, and thus he ordered her taken prisoner and brought back to Ethring. As she woke briefly back and forth she would watch him moving, and she was captivated by the beauty this man appeared with, and despite the pain in her head she felt safe for the first time in a long time as she was pulled along by the carriage of her supposed enemy.
It was as she was moved to the carriage that the site of the massacre was come across by the one remaining scout in Varizh Endrasti sent by Sarah Mason of whom seeing this would make his way by horse back to Ethring in order to warn Sarah that their attempt had failed. When he arrived in Ethring Sarah Mason would watch Varizh enter from her room in the Keep and immediately knew what had happened, and meeting him on the bottom floor the two would discuss what their next move was, and having him following her into the dungeons she took him into a room she had orchestrated to make it look like Varizh was the spy for Umbar and then she would stab him through the neck leavin him to bleed out on the ground, and then she shut the door behind her before crying over who she was becoming. She would go upstairs to find her father and Lord Gur-Teniun Oellenzi of whom she begged to follow her, and they would with several men at arms following her into the dungeons where they found the now dead Varizh Endrasti and the staged scene painting him as the traitor for Umbar. Chained Friends, and Trusted Enemies[]
Taking her alongside the other survivors of the ambush back to Ethring it would be Ildarion that stayed awake beside her for the hours she was passed out. Arriving back in Ethring hours later they would put her in a cell where she would remain asleep recovering from the concussion of the arrow hitting her helmet, but while she was asleep Ildarion slept on a chair outside the cell waiting for this mysterious girl to awaken. As he slept Sarah Mason came down looking to see this prisoner, as she had been told about her arrival since many of the nobles now had no doubts about her following the killing of Varizh. Coming down and seeing Ildarion asleep she was going to wake him up when she saw the face of the girl and knew it to be her old friend Larra Toran. Now that Sarah Mason had become painfully aware that Larra Toran was her old friend from Umbar, she feared being revealed early and thus having to kill Ildarion before she was emotionally ready. Waiting patiently for her to awaken she was forced to leave when her father commanded her to leave to tell some of the more skeptical nobles of her innocence and it was when this happened that Ildarion still asleep outside of the cell of Larra would be noticed by Larra of whom finally woke up. Getting herself up and moving towards him she was unable to completely reach him and so instead rested on her knees before him awaiting the promised prince to awake. Awakening he jumped back startled by having fallen asleep and giving his enemy the jump on him, but she would calm him with her kind voice. Discovering she had awoken gaurds arrived alongside Sarah Mason and he would command them away as he wanted more time with the prisoner despite the fact that he should have allowed in gaurds who knew of getting information but he didn't want to part from Larra.
Having his alone time with her again she told him of her youth and was completely honest with him about everything except for the involvement of Sarah Mason of whom she wasn't sure what to say of yet. Revealing the size and plans of the Umbar forces in Gondor she gained a lot of clout with Ildarion as he trusted her despite who she was. As they continued to speak and their conversation became increasingly flirtatious it would be Sarah Mason that interupted it with a direct and forceful desire to speak with Larra alone. Larra would be able to convinse Ildarion to depart for a time so he could rest and return, and this further increased the anger of Sarah towards Larra as she was never able to persuade him that easily. With the room cleared she attempted to understand what the next move of the Umbar army was now that the vangaurd had been destroyed, and when Larra declared that she had made the ambush took place, and had worked tirelessly to reach this moment where she could join Gondor the two two old friends quickly became severe rivals. Realizing she had unwittingly revealed herself to Larra she would rush from the cell to the shock of Larra and place two gaurds on the door who were commanded to let noone enter or speak to Larra.
Confronting Sarah[]
Arriving at Sarah's room he stayed by the door for many moments as he feared how this conversation would go. What was happening to him that he believed this Umbar girl immediately and was now questioning the women that he loved? What had changed so quickly that Sarah had cast that kind of doubt about herself. He thought on the fact that everything he knew of her from the beginning, and all the things people said about her had led him to this moment and the lack of faith he had in her. Opening the door he found her praying in the corner by her cross, and he couldn' t help but bask in the soft kindness she just permeated out when she was praying, and only wished that kindness was seen by all and not just him when they were alone. Sarah would get up from praying and walked towards him kissing him on the cheek before fakely asking what he was there for so late, despite the fact that she knew exactly what he was there for. WIthout a word of anything else he would confront her on what Larra said, and inside she was dying as she knew now without question that he had to die as he had clearly formed enough trust in Larra that in no time at all any excuses that she gave to him would be found as lies. Realizing this killed her as she loved him beyond words, but in this moment she just couldn't escape the dream she had for Umbar, and Gondor back together again and she pushed her love for him down. Lying to him over and over again about all the accusations that had built up about her over the time he had been Ethring she believed that he had bought his story, and as he left he gave her a deep kiss that soon became more heated, and the two would make love for what Ildarion couldn't have known was the last time.
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Relationships[]
Main Article : Larra Toran`s Relationships