Nida Kiyare Daen-Karad
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| name=Nida Kiyare Daen-Karad
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| gender=Female
| race=Drow
| parents=Arda and Korri (biological), Lallan (matron)
| dob=11965 (age 56)
| pob=Mothership Daen
| occupation=Career Military, Psi Infiltrator
| affiliations=Marine Corps, Psi-Corps
| spouse=None
| children=None
| class=Psion
| alignment=Lawful Good
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Major Nida Daen-Karad is an accomplished soldier in the Soleni Sovereign Imperative Marine Defense Force. In her 18-year career, she has achieved Double Ace status as an Armorist in each of three separate tours of duty, and has served with distinction in a volunteer attaché assignment to Psi-Corps.
Her efforts and dedication have earned her the seventh rank of succession in house Daen-Karad, which is Third House of the current ruling clan. This is a position of some distinction, though not one she prefers to ascribe to; she has repeatedly stated she has no political ambitions, and her Psi-Corps ranking of T6 would preclude her, by tradition if not law, from any position of political responsibility, although she is publicly rated at a mere T4.
Recently, Nida has been enlisted, perhaps through mere chance, to personally lead a mission at the direct order of Archmistress Anharazin Riyal-Karad; her objective: to see the alien "visitors" back to their home world and permanently remove the threat of Sathana (Kiaransalee) before a doomed Crusade can be mounted to invade the Toril system.
Lineage
Nida was born to Arda and Korri Daen-Karad, making her the granddaughter of reigning mistress Lallan Daen-Karad. Her parents were of little note--her mother was an accountant and her father an enlisted soldier--but she has greatly transcended her birth position to become 7th ranked in her house.
Lallan is the 38th mistress of House Daen-Karad, whose lineage is preserved in stone in the Vaunted Halls of Kaarad-Deneth on the sacred world of Korkior. Daen-Karad was the third house to branch from the Karad bloodline, and has remained Third House since its inception in year 7752.
Career
Officially, Nida is an Armorist of the First Rate, with certification on every major weapons platform in the service, and qualification to fly and instruct unlimited hours.
She has flown 87 combat sorties and logged thousands of hours on simulators. Her kill counts are exceptional; she is also noted for fire discipline, team coordination, and marksmanship.
Having reached the pinnacle of her career prior to her most recent tour of duty in the Volossian Wars, Nida had nowhere to go but sideways. She was chosen directly by a council of generals for a special assignment with Psi-Corps, which included 9 months of hard training in the secret training grounds of the Galdinis Asteroid Belt, and several special, high-risk missions deep into enemy territory. During these missions, she is believed to have piloted the experimental Psi-Corps PHX-1 weapons platform into combat, making her the only person to do so. Mission details are unknown, but she was believed to have been operating on Voloss Prime in the days before its spectacular fall.
After the war, she returned to active duty with her unit, the 55th Drakeslayers, although she has frequently disappeared for weeks at a time on special assignment with her Psi-Corps detail. This tendency has not only cost her career opportunities in leadership, but has been affecting her perception among her peers as well.
She has since been transferred to the 111th Black Archer squadron, and was promoted to Major with little change in her daily routine. Her new outfit is an honor guard for House Riyal-Karad, which limits her duty to mostly ceremonial flybys and the occasional escort duty for Mothership Riyal. It was on this escort duty that she encountered the alien visitors, and earned herself a first-class ticket to Soleni history in the making.
