Pompeia

BASIC INFORMATION

Full Name: Pompeia Khan

Species: Mermaid-Mortal Hybrid Human

Sex: Female

Gender Identity: Female

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Languages Spoken:

-Common Aurean (Native Language)

-Otrar (Raised in a bilingual household)

-Classical Aurean (Can read/write decently but struggles with pronunciation)

-Centralian (Knows a few words and phrases)

-Galactic Basic (Fluent)

-Arturian (Near Fluent)

-Skellig (Barely conversational)

Eye Color: Brown

Hair/Fur Color: Dark Brown

Birth Date: February 4, 27 BR (age 48 at end of series)

Death Date: N/a

Birthplace: 133 Via Ferrea, Lapum, Argentolia, Aurean Dominate

Death date: N/a

Place of death: N/a

Cause of death: N/a

Burial place: N/a

Titles:

-Knight of the Square Table

-TBD

Residences:

-133 Via Ferrea, Lapum, Argentolia, Aurean Dominate (27-13 BR)

-Castle Arturia, Caerbannog, Seaxe, Arturia (13 BR-present)

Affiliations/Loyalties:

-Knights of the Square Table

-Kingdom of Arturia

-Aurean Dominate

-Khanate of Tangolia

Family:

-Yıldırım Khan (Father)

-Marcia Khan (Mother) nee Nuardiana 

-Elisabeta Khan (Sister) AKA "Santa Muerte"

Mentors:

-Queen Bowdig

-King Arturius

10 Closest Friends:

-TBD

Students:

-Weasel

Enemies:

-Elisabeta Khan/Santa Muerte

-The Cabal

-Tatian Empire

-UNISYN

BIOGRAPHY

Pompeia Khan was born on February 4, 27 BR in the Siderenio neighborhood of Lapum in the Aurean Dominate's Argentolia Province. Her father, Yıldırım Khan, was a Tangolian noble from Rishud who migrated to Argentolia after being forced to flee after supporting a failed challenger to Qajeer II's status as the Tangolian Khan (also known as Khaghan in Otrar Tangolian and Channus Oriens in Aurean).  Her mother was a half Mermaid named Marcia Nuardiana from Lake Ferum who Yıldırım fell in love with shortly after fleeing his home. The two married and planned on starting a family in the city of Ferum, but moved south to Lapum due to the better job prospects. Yıldırım got a job working for the Port Authority of Nicopolis-Lapum, and Marcia raised the twins she gave birth to soon after arrival, Pompeia and Elisabeta. 

However, Yıldırım and Marcia failed to consider the massive influence of the criminal organization Hoc Nostrum in the area when they moved to there, and before long, Yıldırım found himself being extorted and harassed at work by Hoc Nostrum members. While the harassment at work was little more than a nuisance, the real damage came when the Hoc Nostrum came to their home and demanded Elisabeta, by this time only three years old in exchange for their "protection" while holding Marcia at swordpoint. Reluctantly, Yıldırım handed her over, vowing to free her and bring her home one day. He never would. 

While the Hoc Nostrum mostly left Yıldırım alone after this, the entire family was inconsolable. Marcia blamed Yıldırım for her disappearance, and their relationship never truly recovered from the incident. As a result, Pompeia was raised in a home where both her parents were fighting constantly. By the time she was six, both her parents had become raging alcoholics held together only by their love for her. Around this time, Yıldırım caught the Blood Bleaching and almost died from it, but thanks to Marcia and Pompeia's Mermaid heritage, they were immune. 

Like all Aurean children, Pompeia started school at age five, learning to read and write in Aurean. By the time she was eight years old, Centralian was introduced as well, but she would forget the language later in life. In school, Pompeia made quite a few friends, most notably Melissa Kantakouzenos, Tansu Sarıgül, Maria Numeriana, Quintus Herennius Pullus, and Mae Sungsook. They would all hang out after school, especially at each other's houses, but never at Pompeia's because her parents wouldn't stop screaming at each other for long enough. Despite making some friends, however, Pompeia was often bullied, particularly by the Aurean and Centralian kids, for her unusual (by their standards) facial features and her parents' reputation for alcoholism. Since Tangolians having children with Guants or Humans was very rare, even many Tangolians were confused by Pompeia's facial features. 

However, Pompeia was able to enjoy her father showing her elements of Otrar Tangolian culture, such as teaching her how to use a bow and arrow, playing the morin khuur, telling her Tangolian stories, making traditional foods like börek for dinner whenever Marcia didn't cook, and using the Otrar Language around the house. When he could, he would take Pompeia by train out to Arithrae in the desert north of the city, where he would teach her how to ride camels. This came with some problems, however, as her father allowed her to start drinking airak, an alcoholic drink, when she was far too young for it.

When Pompeia was seven, ethnic tension in Lapum reached a fever pitch when Aurean legionnaires murdered a Tangolian civilian, Yi'it Arslan, causing four days of ethnic chaos in which dozens were killed and large areas of the city were burnt and looted. Pompeia watched from her window as entire neighborhoods went up in flames. After this, many Aureans and Centralians, terrified of the Tangolians they shared the city with, fled for Nicopolis and other nearby cities. As a result, Quintus Herennius Pullus moved away and Pompeia missed him dearly. Yıldırım, while uninvolved in the riots, was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and was arrested and tried on trumped-up arson and breaking and entering charges. He was able to afford a decent advocatus (Aurean equivalent of a lawyer) and thus was able to avoid being convicted, but this was nevertheless a scare for the family. 

Every summer, Pompeia and her parents would go to the beach at Argerna, at the southern end of Bisada Island. While Yıldırım didn't care much for the water, Pompeia and Marcia went swimming all the time, since it was the only place the two of them could really experience their Mermaid forms.  Every year, they would be in town for Argerna's massive Independence Day (marking the anniversary of Aurea's independence from the Haxamanian Empire over 5,000 years ago) celebrations at the town's massive boardwalk. Pompeia and Yıldırım particularly enjoyed eating from a Tangolian-run döner stand that was there every year. Pompeia made friends with plenty of others her age whose families were also there for the celebrations as well, and even ran into friends from Lapum there from time to time. As she grew older, she would sometimes find herself going to wilder and wilder parties held by the...less scrupulous crowd.

While her parents were too busy drunkenly bickering to notice, Pompeia increasingly found herself sneaking off to parties, where she'd impress everyone by holding her liquor better than anyone else (thanks to her airak habit). Eventually, by the time she was thirteen or so, many of the boys would start giving her sexual attention. She welcomed it at first out of curiosity, but quickly turned against it when they started asking for sexual favors and she lost control of the situation. Before anything too serious could happen at one of these parties, Pompeia would find herself outside of Aurea altogether. 

One day while Marcia was out visiting a relative in Ferum for a few days, Yıldırım took Pompeia to his job at the Port Authority with him on a day he was tasked with inspecting the implementation of Aurea's brand new rail network in the city. While he had his back turned, Pompeia found a baby camel that escaped its cargo crate and found herself chasing after it. She eventually chased it into an empty car on a freight train when the door closed behind them and the train started moving. Helpless to get off or stop the train, Pompeia could only watch as she was taken from Lapum north through Imbreus, across the Imbreus Mountains, and into the Argentolian Desert, where the train stopped for a day at Eresus for more freight to be added to other cars. Pompeia tried as hard as she could to bang on the locked door and windows to get someone's attention, but no one noticed her the whole time the train was stopped there. The train then pressed on north through the Argentolian Desert, crossed the Monsaltu Range, and finally stopped at the tropical port of Olinthaseia, over a thousand miles from home. While Pompeia and the camel she had with her were asleep in a large cargo crate, the cargo was taken off the train and put on a startreader bound for Caerbannog, capital of the Kingdom of Arturia.

The next morning, Pompeia and the camel woke up in a warehouse in Caerbannog. Trapped in a land that spoke languages completely foreign to her, Pompeia took to wandering the street with her camel, which she named Kursat, and begging passersby for spare change.