Matriarch Elena

Matriarch Elena was the eldest daughter of Haynre-Jozef II and originally his heir for the first eighteen years of her life. Elena, while destined to reign in her own right took a great interest in the Faith of the Three, by the time she had reached her eighteenth year she sought permission to enter the church. Women, while equal in law are not permitted to take the vows of a Truthspeaker unless Casorina herself shows grace.

The Grand Truthspeaker Isa XVI proclaimed that Casorina had come to him in a dream and commanded him to welcome Elena into the fold. On condition that she set aside all worldly temptation Elena was allowed to study and take the vows of a Truthspeaker, the first female to do so for centuries. During her career she founded the Daughters of Casorina, a strict religious order that advocates poverty and chastity. She was hailed as a Warrior of the Faith following her passing and her brother, the then Emperor Haynre-Jozef III had a statue of her erected before the church she founded in Lockvalar.

Despite her vows of poverty Elena was technically Princess Superior, the first to hold the title in two generations following the death of Kenna, Queen of the Isles, daughter of the last Upperian monarch and first Imperial Casilian. Following her death the title did not become extinct as before, instead it was passed down to Elena's niece, Ilyse of Casoria who had been known affectionately by her aunt as Princess Minor.