Heira     Created on Monday, 03 December 2007 22:14  
  Heira  
  My name is Nakajima-Heera. The name, in my mother's native tongue, refers to a small, walled in or barricaded militant force on an island amidst a body of water. The seer that my mother has been rumored to be must have known where my life would lead me, as a military woman, a Chongun, and one so willingly surrounded by friends and family that I hold so dear. During the time I write this memoir, I find myself in the company of my husband and my infant child, Savita, fondly recollecting the many of my lineage, lost and found.

Born and raised in the wilderness, I still call it home, having long vacated several careers in the kingdoms. Until the age of fourteen, there was nothing separating me from the tight bundle that is my family.

A sudden bout of change discouraged me fro my place in the wild, where my father, OfIllConceit, and his parents, den mother USMC and her husband SemperF, had dwelled. After witnessing the brutal assault of several individuals in a peace delegation between Buya and Kugnae, whom were at war at the time, I distanced myself, having an epiphany of the injustices the world could provide.

Disoriented and still quite young, I found myself in Nagnang, baring witness to the turmoil that was consuming the land. In my disgust, I joined the efforts to purge the principality of foreign invaders ? those who would slaughter woman and child alike for the coins in their pockets. My time in the Legion earned me the place of Coordinator, and the official position of training aspiring individuals in the arts of combat and presenting them images of what justice truly consisted of. In this period of life, the general, whom sometimes regarded me as their own daughter, presented me to the Chonguns.

Extensive research and training found me in the Sodo, where I then became acquainted with another biological member of my family ? Vini Normad'Or, a respected individual of the path. I cannot recall if it was coincidental or not that I met my great-grandfather there, but it was this realization that would change me forever. This man was married of course, to my great-grandmother, the beloved Leodaris Xing of whom I admired, though before this time, I had never made the connection.

During this era, my mother, Tsubame, had vanished from the lands, having assumed the pseudonym of Rowena for that while. I would not learn her genuine name until her return at a much later stage in my life, nor the reasons why she had disappeared.

My father, in his sorrow, had strayed from the hoard, claiming himself to be a lost cause and failing individual. Truth be told, we both were, as my general (whom he had been seeing in my mother's absence) proved abusive. Sensing unease and a probable collapse in command, the war over at this point, I retired from my position, and have not returned since. I found reprieve in my home, the wilderness, and in the Sodo, where I coaxed my depressed father into joining, training him myself.

Disaster struck, as poisoned wine from a celebration I cannot quite recall, landing me disabled, packed in a shipping crate to be sold into slavery by a team of pirates from Ilbon that had assaulted the kingdoms. After escaping from the ship and washing to shore in an unknown land (the details of this are still blurry to this date), a decade would pass before I found myself back home, having navigated alone across unfamiliar terrain. All records of me and my place had been erased at this point, including my father, both my grandparents, and my great-grandmother, all presumed to have passed away in my absence. I had found out at this point that even the king had died, the regent having been installed in his place. A new era had begun while I was away; what choices did I have but begin anew?

Lost and astray yet again, I sought spiritual means to ease my physical and emotional agony. Through severe trials and tribulations, I have been assigned as having survived and aligned with the sea, and have become aware of my many guardians that have kept me alive through my violent life. I have embraced the Tao, and now study philosophy as well as teach of honor and integrity to aspiring Chongun. I have adopted a new definition of justice, unadulterated and genuine. I find myself passionate and content.

Life has gone by swimmingly, and in my recent journeys, I found myself briefly in a clan, where I met my husband, Xenxin. My mother has since returned to the kingdoms, alive and well, and bringing with her my younger brother, Nakajima-Nihido, that I had not known existed; apparently he was conceived shortly before my mother vacated the kingdoms. I had also learned through casual conversation with an acquaintance that Lord Muckish is coincidentally the brother of my grandmother, USMC, and son to Leodaris and Vini. After so many years of solitude, my time of mourning had ceased as I found my family quickly multiplying.

I am a Xing-Normad'Or, and I am joyful and proud to be of this family's members.

Signed,

Nakajima-Xin Heera