"Allow me to accompany you, my lord, and I shall serve you well."
Pirotess, also called Pirotēsu, or Sheru, was an elf woman who rose to fame for her athletic grace and dead skill as a swordswoman and shamanist warrior, who rose to prominence in the martial kingdom of Marmo (part of the ancient region of Lodoss) during the time of the Emperor Beld, under Beld's most successful vassal, the black knight Ashram, whose lover she became.
Her centuries-long career, following the deaths of both Ashram and Beld, is the stuff of legend, and she was widely considered the preeminent founding progenitor of the Lunari: while her precise date of birth is unknown, she was at least a century old by the time she entered service as a mercenary and vassal of so-called "mortal men" (also called "Afterborn", in contrast with "immortal" elven kindred ancestors of the Lunari), in the wake of the War of the Heroes and Marmo's march for conquest across Lodoss, as documented in a variety of pre-Lunari historical texts, including the 'Chronicles of the Heroic Knight' and 'Chronicles of the Black Knight', which were the cumulation of shared epic poetry across a variety of peoples. Thusly she live more than a hundred thousand years before the XXth Generation, in an epoch when the Lunari's elven ancestors lived alongside other indigenous sapient species, most prominently mortal men, before their extinction and replacement by pre-Lunari peoples; the most common reasons given are continental wars like the ones witnessed by Pirotess, which killed tens of thousands of young mortal men (creating a demographic disaster), combined with interbreeding and their much shorter lifespans relative to maturation (Pirotess's people were not actually immortal, but could live centuries much like modern Lunari, while reached they reached sexual maturity in no more than two decades). Along with later narrative epics, the odyssey of Pirotess was of huge importance to the Lunari literary tradition, coming first and being remarkably accurate in substantiated historical details that could matched against other literary epics. Pirotess is the oldest example of her kind whose life for several centuries could be clearly tracked and substantiated, up to the point where she gave birth to offspring who in turn founded the modern Lunari; however, no evidence of her death has ever been substantiated, though it is deemed impossible that she could be alive after more than a hundred thousand years. Due to this, and extensive surviving details of her career as a warrior, she's still considered not just one of the mothers of the species, but also an aspiration heroine, a sort of quasi-immortal patron goddess of all Lunari warriors, knights, and soldiers, particularly woman.
[Author's Note: If it looks like it took some time for me to conceive of how to weave the classic fiction of RECORD OF LODOSS WAR with my own fiction, yes it did. The images were generated with a LoRA by the skilled Enigmata on CivitAI.]
Pirotess (ピロテース) Ashram's Vassal
"Allow me to accompany you, my lord, and I shall serve you well."
Pirotess, also called Pirotēsu, or Sheru, was an elf woman who rose to fame for her athletic grace and dead skill as a swordswoman and shamanist warrior, who rose to prominence in the martial kingdom of Marmo (part of the ancient region of Lodoss) during the time of the Emperor Beld, under Beld's most successful vassal, the black knight Ashram, whose lover she became.
Her centuries-long career, following the deaths of both Ashram and Beld, is the stuff of legend, and she was widely considered the preeminent founding progenitor of the Lunari: while her precise date of birth is unknown, she was at least a century old by the time she entered service as a mercenary and vassal of so-called "mortal men" (also called "Afterborn", in contrast with "immortal" elven kindred ancestors of the Lunari), in the wake of the War of the Heroes and Marmo's march for conquest across Lodoss, as documented in a variety of pre-Lunari historical texts, including the 'Chronicles of the Heroic Knight' and 'Chronicles of the Black Knight', which were the cumulation of shared epic poetry across a variety of peoples. Thusly she live more than a hundred thousand years before the XXth Generation, in an epoch when the Lunari's elven ancestors lived alongside other indigenous sapient species, most prominently mortal men, before their extinction and replacement by pre-Lunari peoples; the most common reasons given are continental wars like the ones witnessed by Pirotess, which killed tens of thousands of young mortal men (creating a demographic disaster), combined with interbreeding and their much shorter lifespans relative to maturation (Pirotess's people were not actually immortal, but could live centuries much like modern Lunari, while reached they reached sexual maturity in no more than two decades). Along with later narrative epics, the odyssey of Pirotess was of huge importance to the Lunari literary tradition, coming first and being remarkably accurate in substantiated historical details that could matched against other literary epics. Pirotess is the oldest example of her kind whose life for several centuries could be clearly tracked and substantiated, up to the point where she gave birth to offspring who in turn founded the modern Lunari; however, no evidence of her death has ever been substantiated, though it is deemed impossible that she could be alive after more than a hundred thousand years. Due to this, and extensive surviving details of her career as a warrior, she's still considered not just one of the mothers of the species, but also an aspiration heroine, a sort of quasi-immortal patron goddess of all Lunari warriors, knights, and soldiers, particularly woman.
[Author's Note: If it looks like it took some time for me to conceive of how to weave the classic fiction of RECORD OF LODOSS WAR with my own fiction, yes it did. The images were generated with a LoRA by the skilled Enigmata on CivitAI.]