Malara

Malara Agrams

Not much is really known about her, partially because she's outlived everyone she knew in life, and partially because she lies so often and convincingly(She often told Memphis as a child that he was made out of the blood of a dragon she'd killed with her teeth, back when she was the ruler of the known world, before everyone's memories were erased by the evil lord Aszhatt. He has since stopped believing in the evil lord Aszhatt, but Malara still insists they are a very real threat to the universe's pocket lint and cooking utensils.).

Early life and family
Born as the second daughter and third of a total of four children of Judge Greth Judith Agram (her mother) and the scholar Jive Gorben Agram (her father), Malara found herself first as the youngest, with her brother Tibalt and sister Samara ahead of her by three and five years respectively, and then as a sort of demi middle child, as her sister Iallanah was born just a few years later.

Life at the Agram house was fairly busy and detached, with both of the parents often out of the house or buried in their work in some way or another. They were by no means bad parents, as they made time when they could and did a fair enough job of balancing their careers with their home life most of the time, but many of the household tasks and basic parental duties ended up being delegated to servants, nannies, or unfortunate coworkers who couldn't think of a good enough excuse to get out of babysitting on New Year's Eve.

The children mainly kept to themselves, pursuing their own interests, and were encouraged to pick up new ones at any opportunity. Samara and Tibalt, the two eldest, shared an appreciation for the violin, and eventually became quite proficient, with Samara eventually performing in orchestra, while Tibalt eventually dropped it to pursue an interest in ancient history he picked up from their father. Malara as a young child liked to sing, and even went on to be in several children's choirs. As she got older, she fell out of interest with it but still returned to it every now and then. Iallanah chose dancing and would likely have ended up as a top tier ballerina if she hadn't become so enamored with the study of magic and having dropped it.

Once as a young child her mother took her to the city center after a chorus recital. It was a holiday and the square was full of people rushing around, carrying packages, shopping, lovers out together for a night on the town. They stopped in an icecream shop across from a toy store, and the view from their seat at the window was magical. From that moment onward the city center was Malaras favourite place, every holiday was punctuated by a trip to the town square, or the library downtown (Where Iallanah eventually stumbled across her first piece of literature on Geomancy that sparked a lifetime passion), or to the various shops that always seemed to have new or more interesting things in stock (Where her brother tibalt came across a curio shop that started him on history).

The city center was also where malara picked up her oldest and nastiest of habits, lying. It was quite harmless at first, she'd want a toy or something from a store and tell whatever caretaker she was out with that she'd already gotten permission from her parents to buy it, or that she'd eaten her spinach, or that she had no idea how those cookies got in her pockets she'd never seen cookies in her life until just then, her parents and caretakers didn't take it too seriously, since most of the time it was harmless childrens stuff, and there were very few times where she took it too far (Even when she did her parents didn't take it very seriously, often being busy with other things). More than that though it taught her how to handle people, she learned exactly how far she could push something on someone before it would come back and bite her, and this came into play alot in her interractions with people.

When she was old enough she started taking her own trips to the city center, she got to know everyone there, from the cooks to the other judges in the big court house where her mother worked. By then her interests had matured, she wanted clothes more than toys, but she quickly came to understand the value of connections as well as money. She became a part of the community of that place, and started trading favours with people, she'd do something for the baker, then have the baker do something for the shoemaker to have him to domething for the clothier so she could get a discount on a hat she wanted. She learned to haggle, and to get the most out of favors and connections, but this didn't become a problem until a few years later when she found herself involved with a different crowd.

It started one day when she was out looking at antiques with Tibalt,

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