Indira Johar

Born to a family amongst the lower echelons of the Brahma, the ruling-caste of Vendhyan society, Indira Johar led a childhood of comfort and luxury in Ayodhya, at the heart of the Golden Kingdom. Educated in the proper ways of courtly Vendhyan behaviour and etiquette, it was equal parts boredom and an anarchistic nature that lead to her breaking the mould of what would otherwise have been expected of a young Vendhyan noblewoman. Rather than acquiescing to will of the priests of Asura and entering into a marriage upon coming of age, she instead fled to rival courts of her family; her charisma, beauty and deviousness making it simple enough for her to take up a livelihood as a courtesan and spy. For several years she lead a life of intrigue and temptation, building a mastery of the ancient art of espionage as she indulged many a member of the upper castes in their desires in exchange for their secrets; information that would then be shared with whichever noble the young woman held as her patron. The ambition she harboured steadily built her towards taking bolder and riskier tasks for her masters, something that would eventually prove to be her undoing. A job to seduce and reveal the secrets of an aspiring disconnected heir of Devi Yasmina's own dynasty turned sour, her machinations revealed and exposed by the nobleman's family and spymasters, with Indira being arrested in the aftermath. Despite her captors intending initially to keep the woman as a trophy pleasure slave amongst the lower castes, it was eventually decreed that she be exiled after a series of jailbreaks became increasingly close to succeeding. Thus, Indira was thrown from home and country, exiled to an unfamiliar and strange land, left to fend for herself and, perhaps, to forge a new destiny.