Altea Lomax

Altea Lomax, Lady Tarkyr (1607–1691) was a former Shirerithian senior civil servant and noblewoman, emigrated and left Shireroth during the Safirian Exodus in 1663. She was Seneschal of Zy-Rodun twice (1636–1646, 1651–1662), Provost of the Posts 1657–1663, Imperial Steward twice (1637–1642, 1647), Chamberlain of the Imperial Household, Imperial Minister of the Interior, Imperial Envoy to Talenore, and Vicereine of Brookshire.

Early life and education

Altea Lomax was born on Laemill 8, 1607, in Tarkyr, Zy-Rodun, to Markka Kolagin, then the mayor of the neighboring town of Zunach, and Ifalna, then a chemistry teacher at Atarka School in Tarkyr. She was educated at Atarka School, graduating at the head of her class, before writing a BA, then an MA, in public administration at the University of Yardistan at Sara-Nyl in 1629, with a minor in Euran languages.

Career

Lomax was hired out of college as a translator for the Yardistani state government. Due to her good administration skills, she became assistant head of the Euran languages translation department in 1631. Noor bint Daniyal, looked for a good administrator who knew Zy-Rodun well before starting her tenure as Marchioness of Zy-Rodun in 1632. Lomax became a close advisor to Lady Noor in Zy-Rodun, and she rose to the ranks in the Zy-Rodun marquessial bureaucracy. By 1636, Lomax had been appointed Seneschal of Zy-Rodun by Marchioness Noor bint Daniyal, effectively the head of the executive in Zy-Rodun (akin to prime minister). Valuing the advice of his daughter-in-law, Kaiser Hjalmar, who had heard about the great administrating skills of the young seneschal, took the unprecedented action and appointed Lomax Steward of the Imperial Republic with the ex officio noble title Marchioness of Shirekeep, which gave her noble dignity for life. This was a part-time job which lasted for three years before Hjalmar chose his Storish compatriot Yumi Zotrasdóttir to replace her as Steward shortly before his reign ended.

She spent ten years administrating her homeland before being supplanted by Noah Hallbjörnsson, then king of Elwynn and husband of Noor, now kaiseress of Shireroth.

She moved to the Yardistani state government, where she started a position as Director General of the Yardistani Taxation Authority, only to be thrust into the corridors of Imperial power a few months later later with the news that she had been made Imperial Steward by the Kaiseress Noor. This job she held for only a few months before an Imperial reshuffle that saw her appointed to the post of Chamberlain of the Imperial Household. In 1648, she was appointed Minister of the Interior and Imperial Envoy to Talenore. After two years of back-and-forth travel, and a desire to remain in Shireroth with her family, she was tasked in 1650 with the operation of the remnants of the state of Lichbrook after its undead government's literal and metaphorical disintegration. Some months later, those remnants were reorganized into the Imperial Duchy of Brookshire, with Lomax as vicereine and head of government.

On 10 Silnuai 1660, Lomax was placed into an induced coma after suffering grave injuries in an automobile accident on the Corniche Highway in Musica. She awoke in late 1661 and was subsequently discharged, albeit with diminished physical function.

In 1661, Lomax was ennobled as Marchioness of Musica, of the City of Musica in the Imperial Duchy of Brookshire. She was also given a handsome pension by the Imperial Government.

In 1663, she helped organize the Safirian Exodus, and renounced her citizenship. Lost her title Marchioness of Musica, but was created Baroness Tarkyr by the Kaiser in line with noble titles for formerly landed noble citizens of Shireroth.

Lomax died of natural causes on 3 Silnuai 1691 in Vânaria state, Firnerámnen.

Personal life

Before her emigration in 1663, Lomax divided her time between a four-bedroom brick house in Zy-Rodun Town and a brownstone in Maltenstein. Her husband, Rhêni Chakam, an elf, was the mayor of the neighboring town of Vyryn; they married in 1640 on Yardistan.

In 1662, Lomax' net worth was estimated to be between €85 million and €89 million.

Lomax originally professed the Thanidoran faith, but became an atheist in college.

Sexuality

Lomax came out as bisexual during her junior year at UY—Sara-Nyl, after romaning both men and women in her first two years at the school. Shortly after coming out, Lomax began dating Selti Okanet, a nagin classmate and later police chief of Zy-Farun; though Lomax proposed to her in 1631, they broke up four years later. Shortly thereafter, she met and romanced Chakam, and in 1642 bore him a daughter, Âmi.

Titles

1607–1636: Miss Altea Lomax

1636–1639: The Right Honourable The Marchioness of Shirekeep

1639–1647: The Right Honourable Lady Altea Lomax

1647: The Right Honourable The Marchioness of Shirekeep

1647–1661: The Right Honourable Lady Altea Lomax

1661–1663: The Right Honourable The Marchioness of Musica

1663–1691: The Right Honourable The Lady Tarkyr

Preceded by: Mira Raynora Minor (1631–1634)	Steward of the Imperial Republic 1636–1639	Succeeded by Yumi Zotrasdóttir
Preceded by: Daniyal Dravot	Steward of the Imperial Republic 1647	Succeeded by Isabella Simrani-Kalirion