Lisa Starshade

Lisa Starshade
Full name	Lisa Starshade of Waffel-Paine & Drak
AKA	Elisabeth Asara des Vinandy
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Skin color	white
Biographical information
Father	Cledwyn Starshade
Mother	Clara Sundara Waffel-Paine
Date of birth	1674 AN
Place of birth	‘s Koningenwaarde
Residence(s)	Hazelwood, Natopia
Nationality	Natopian
Allegiance(s)	Natopia
Occupation	Student

Lisa Starshade of Waffel-Paine & Drak (née Elisabeth Asara) is the eldest daughter of Clara Sundara and Cledwyn Starshade. Clara and Cledwyn, young lovers, continued their on-and-off again affair throughout the duration of Clara's marriage to the king of Batavia, unbeknownst to him. Lisa was born while Clara was married to Arkadius IV. She and her younger brothers, Carl and Stav, were spirited away from Batavia following Clara's divorce. To protect herself and her children, at the time she announced her children were left in Batavia with grandparents, but it was soon revealed that when she arrived in Drak-Modan with 3 children of the same appearance and age, that the children left in Batavia were actors. Lisa was the presumed heir to her mother's former position of Supreme Judge of Drak-Modan. She is now the heir to the duchy of Hazelwood in Flaventia.

Paternity

The true paternity of her, Carl, and Stav is a subject of intense geopolitical debate. It is a debate that Clara hoped to shield her children from by claiming they were Modani orphans when she first appeared in Drak-Modan after her divorce. When she left Batavia she, in fact, denounced all claims to titles or lands for her in order to not disrupt the dynastic plans of her ex-husband. She legally changed her children's names when she arrived in Drak-Modan so there could be no chance of her children being dragged into the politics of the Vanic nations she fled from, hoping the surname Waffel-Paine would deter any claims on them. For several years the children were listed twice as her children on the Waffel-Paine family tree, further adding to the confusion. Her husband Cledwyn legally adopted them and so, for all intents and purposes, according to the laws of Drak-Modan, Lisa Starshade and her siblings are legally distinct from the Batavian children of Arkadius, who continue to reside in the Vanic realms. The Vanic nations maintain that the three children are Modani orphans and the anti-Vanic nations maintain that the three children are Batavian actors.

Lisa, Stav and Carl are legally, morally, ethically, and dynasticly forbidden from claiming titles or lands in Vanic lands. On advice of her mother and through a family lawyer, Lisa Starshade issued statements disavowing any legal connection with Elisabeth Asara: "There is a girl, named Elisabeth Asara, and she lives in Vanic Batavia. That girl is the heir to those Vanic lands. I am not that girl."

New Life in Hazelwood

Following the Drak-Modani Civil War her mother was asked to leave Drak-Modan, and so the Starshade family relocated to Hazelwood, Natopia. As Clara was the new Holder of the duchy, the Starshades moved into the ducal palace in Hazelwood City. Lisa was enrolled at the prestigious Rian Grass Institute & Country Day School with a promise from her mother and father that they would not move again for the time being. Cledwyn Starshade made arrangements for a large family dwelling in the Great Hazel Woods for his family to spend weekends, holidays, and summers. The Hazel people celebrate Lisa and her family's return to Natopia, as it meant that the duchy of Hazelwood would be held by Starshade Waffel-Paine family for a very long time, promising a resurgence in Hazel cultural pride and relearning the almost forgotten practice of hazkisi magick.