ooc: character history @ guysandolls
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Let's start with the basics. Ishtar is the current Princess of Pheliosta, the capital of her country. She was fifteen with a bratty and bitchy attitude that drove everyone crazy. She was a direct descendant of St. Phelios. so she was considered a sacred symbol of her country. Pheliosta was named after her Great-Grandfather St. Phelios who perished in the War of Lost Souls against the Vampire King Duzell. He supposedly saved humanity from their impending doom. At that time also, the vampire king cursed him. He cursed Phelios saying that in a century both of them will be reborn and Duzell would complete his revenge. There was one small problem. Duzell was reincarnated as a harmless house cat and doesn't know where Phelios is. That's where Ishtar comes in. She adopted the kitten after he tried to kill her by possessing the larger kyarru. Ishtar coincidentally named him Duzell because he bit her soon after.
After that, the story progresses to the point where Ishtar goes through a series of tutor lessons and getting poisoned by one of her relatives. Duzell saved her claiming he needed her help. The girl then ditched as soon as she was better in the morning, leaving the guard to nod off still. Ishtar lost Duzell on the way and went to the meadow to play for a while. When she came back, she ran into Duzell a second time, but this time he looked exactly like her. The princess was surprised and shoved him into a room and scolded him but then hugged her identical look-alike and told him how she cared about him and that she would protect him no matter what. That led to Ishtar playing around with the legasarams and ruelle charms. She tossed them out the window. That brought even more trouble plus her current magic teacher, Yujinn was suspecting something.
Ishtar eventually finds out that her kyarru Duzell was actually the Vampire King Duzell reincarnated. What a shock that was for the girl but at the end of the volume, she decided to help him find her Great-Grandfather's reincarnation since she didn't like Phelios very much. She accepted the invitation to La Naan and hence their fun adventure begins.
Right before they reached La Naan, Ishtar ran off with Duzell disguised as her. She takes him to the martial arts ring and told him to register in her form. He went with the alias: Vampire King Duzell. Ishtar pretty much forced the vampire king into it by previously promising her aunt a hand in marriage for whichever son of hers out of the three princes of La Naan would defeat Darres in the martial arts tournament. She was certain that Darres would win regardless, but she sent in Duzell as a reassurance to that fact. He fought Vord. In the process he won the fight and then sampling the boy's blood. He was surprised and confused, telling Ishtar that Vord was unrelated to the royal family and Pehlios. After the first fight with Duzell and Prince Vord, Darres finally caught up to Ishtar and forced her to La Naan. There the girl greeted her aunt, Lady Sonia who presented her princes to Ishtar. The girl then allowed Duzell to take a bite out of her aunt and claiming that her cat was 'spooked' or 'scared.'
She later then spends time with Seiliez in order to lure the boy into her trap so that she can have Duzell bite him. The plan went sour since Seiliez left and Duzell was unaware of her plan. It was ruined, but that didn't stop them from continuing onwards. During the whole fiasco with the Martial Arts Tournament, Ishtar learned that all her cousins were adopted, but despite that, Seiliez was actually a descendant of Phelios. She then showed her aunt kindness and said that their conversation regarding her adoptive kids never happened. That led her to fighting Seiliez in the final match. She conveyed her true feelings to him and also pointing out that he was trying to replace his mother's love with Ishtar's love, but she didn't love him the way he wanted her to.
Seiliez then realized that, dropped the fight and walked off. Ishtar said she still loved him but it was a lot different from the love he was thinking. Before Ishtar had left for La Naan, Duzell found his way back and told Ishtar that Laphiji was severely injured chasing a vampire and that he needed help. La Naan then went to get their injured prince. Ishtar was on the way back home with a gift from her aunt, a kyarru sized Duzie plush that she kept with her most of the time on her bed.
After their return to Pheliosta. Ishtar focused a little on her magical studies with Yujinn, but decided that since they didn't get to taste Seiliez's blood to see if he was her great-grandfather's reincarnation, Ishtar asked Yujinn about her Lilke Ring, and forced Duzell to dress up once more. She then used the Lilke Ring to transport them to an area that was close to Ci Xeneth and ways away from La Naan. Duzell was unhappy with the fact that the girl had bad directional skills, but he had no other choice. She also mentioned that she had an uncle and a cousin there, so they decided to take a break for Ci Xeneth first and then return to La Naan. Not long after their appearance in that valley, there were bandits trying to kidnap an old man. Ishtar jumped in to help without giving a second thought, getting a guy behind his back, and then pissing the bandits off.
She then handed Duzell her sword and told him to take care of the rest. Duzell, who was an amazing swordsman knocked them all out without even drawing Sidia, and Ishtar sustained a small injury from the bandits because they were trying to stab the old man and she shielded him. At the same time, the knights from Ci Xeneth had seen the battle was breaking out watched until Duzell subdued them. With that Ishtar and Duzell made acquaintances with the captain of the knights and the fellow knights as well as the old man. Duzell called the captain which was named Illsaide 'Phelios,' at that time and the young knight looked confused but asked if Duzell would be part of his posse of soldiers. When they were staying at the tavern a few hours later, Ishtar got a little drunk off the stuff they were serving and started babbling weird things that made Duzell face palm a couple of times and later when Ishtar sobered up, she told Duzell to go ahead and accept the captain's request on being part of his battalion and Duzell reluctantly agreed due to the fact that they needed to infiltrate the castle without drawing her uncle's attention.
While Duzell went off with Illsaide, Ishtar was invited to go monster hunting with the fellow knights. Her uncle had a thing for Ruelles and magical items. They needed monsters for experiments and such so Ishtar agreed to come along to see what it was like. There they saw a very beautiful Lilke who looked like she was about to give birth to her babies. Ishtar accidentally shouted by accident because she assumed they were trying to ask her to kill the creature. She declined loudly, causing the Lilke to see their hiding spot and then harm the guy next to her. It appeared that the Lilke was under 'The Guardian,' spell mentioned later. Ishtar drew Sidia and begged it to help heal the poor guy who lost his eye and the sword complied. After returning back to Ci Xeneth, Ishtar discussed her success with Duzell who told her not to use him as a magic experiment. Ishtar just grinned. The boy came back to tell Ishtar that he was fine and told Duzell that he was invited to Dinner with her uncle and such.
Duzell tried to get out of it, but Ishtar insisted that he wear a dress and be who he was since he wasn't her at all. She also mentioned dhow her uncle had a dark sense of humour and wanted her dead so she couldn't exactly be parading around his place as a girl. She would immediately be screwed. While Duzell was at the little dinner party with her uncle. Ishtar went and tried to raid her uncle's wine cellar, except she ran into Roy who scared her instead. Roy led her down the wine cellar but there wasn't anything to steal. In fact, all Ishtar saw were a lot of monsters. She was a little repulsed by it. The Archmage, Diaage (Sharlen's alias) told her about the monsters and explained to her why they needed them in the first place. Ishtar was shocked with the explanation and disturbed at the same time. She ran off though, when she heard that there were monsters attacking the castle. She wanted to find Duzell first, leaving the Archmage to his own musings.
When Ishtar found Duzell again, he was pissed and explained to her that Vord had followed her here. Ishtar at first didn't know which Vord Duzell was talking about, but eventually, she figured it out and before she could do anything, Ishtar and Duzell ran into Falan, who immediately recognized Ishtar. Since she was caught, they all ran back to her room to hide for the time being. Ishtar caught up a little with her cousin and then decided to take a small nap while making Duzell do other things. Other things as in seducing her uncle. Ishtar then shared some girl time with her cousin while the two of them couldn't sleep. After a meal, Ishtar was off and guess what she did? The girl decided it was the best idea to let all the monsters in her uncle's wince cellar loose and that's when all the monsters were set free and went after the people of her uncle's castle. Ishtar worried about the outcome didn't notice something trying to take a swipe at her.
To her luck Darres came to save the day and scold her at the same time. Ishtar confessed to releasing all those monsters from their cells. She also clung to him as if she was about to never see him again in which she admitted to as well. The greetings were done and Ishtar asked Darres carefully to help her save as much people as he could since it was her fault. He complied and the two made their way down the pathway. Ishtar noticed that familiar old man no distorted from the attack leaped into the scene of the crime and blocked the old man.
That's when her uncle mistook her Duzell, but Diaage who now revealed himself as Sharlen claimed no matter what Ishtar called herself, she was Ishtar. Her uncle laughed darkly and was glad to have her here. He wanted her dead and with that the Lord of the Sea. The old man that was known as the Lord of the Sea was surprised to hear that Ishtar was protecting him but even more shocked when she told him she was Ishtar from the House of Phelios. Her uncle ordered Illsaide to kill Ishtar and keep the Lord of the Sea alive. At the moment Falan came into the scene and she was shocked and had a break down when Ishtar's uncle said all that he was doing was in Falan's named. Shocked and hurt, she asked Illsaide to kill her father, and before he could actually do that, Ishtar stopped him and told him that she didn't mean it. He was an important person to Falan and she even made Ishtar promise not to hurt her father.
Illsaide, irritated but he didn't try again. Ishtar's uncle ran off while Illsaide tried to comfort Falan. At that moment Ishtar decided to scold Illsaide for playing with people's feelings and that he had hurt Duzell's feelings. After Illsaide apologized, Ishtar confessed that Duzell wasn't really a girl and that he was a guy who was also her cat. With that said, Ishtar learned that her uncle had been killed by his lieutenant and asked Vord to step in an represent Pheliosta as well since she wasn't comfortable with being around too many of her relatives.
After yet another trip home from Ci Xeneth a few weeks later Ishtar was tricked by her guardian Sir Keld on the spot, saying that her Aunt Sonia was very sick. Ishtar packed up and headed straight for Zi Alda where she met her aunt who told her at that time that she was unwell but she wasn't on her death bed or anything. Ishtar pissed off at being tricked once again started commenting on Sir Keld's sanity and then making her guard shut her up. After that, she asked her aunt about her pig son. That would be offending to most parents, but her aunt was a sweet lady so she let it slide and said he was around but not in Zi Alda. Ishtar triumphed that Sir Keld's plan to set her up with Yuujel had failed. Ishtar also met Ashley and his wife Leene. They were well interesting people. She even spoke to Duzell about it later. Duzell wondered if he really was a pig but Ishtar just said that just because she didn't like Yuujel very much.
She then resulted in a chat with Falan through Darres' magic mirror before falling asleep unguarded. Duzell at that time taking his true form had used that opportunity to take his true form and mess with Ishtar a little. Sadly to his disappointment, Ishtar woke up right away and was thrilled by his true form. She said that his hair was the scariest aspect of him. Duzell just gave her his usual look and said nothing. Later Leene invited Ishtar to go horse-riding the next day and she agreed while asking Leene if she was going to ride a goat. That pissed off the other girl and the fact that she was older than Ishtar didn't even occur to her until she said she was twenty-three. Ishtar with her smug look returned to her room. The next day she was ready for some horse riding. Only at that time, Leene had replaced her aunt's horse with a wild one.
Ishtar knew right away and Lucy one of the important people of Zi Alda told Ishtar it was a mistake and Ishtar replied she knew but she wanted to ride him anyway. A bad mistake on her part since as soon as she got on the horse, it started to go crazy and went off with her. Everyone tried to chase after Ishtar but they were not very successful. Leene only watched in amusement. Ishtar was luckily saved by Yujinn who she was surprised to see, but at the same time, Yujinn mused about the fact that he was called someone else here. He asked her if she recalled a boy named Yuujel. Ishtar immediately took that to shock and pointed as she realized that was him. Ishtar could have never been so dumbfounded. Her flirtatious magic teacher was her cousin, Yuujel. Ishtar proceeded in telling Duzell about her cousin and who he was, while trying to get him to understand it fully. Duzell was shocked as well. He also told her that her aunt's condition isn't very well off either that Lady Sonia would die around a decade give or take. Ishtar felt a little saddened but she was happy with it. Her aunt had a wonderful life. She didn't want to think about her death as much as she should.
The next day Leene invited them to go on a night out of town drinking along with Vord. Vord was also paying. Ishtar definitely got a little more than just drunk.She was all over the place and calling Vord a bunch of names that he was seemingly amused with. He had recently learned about Ishtar and Duzell, so a little tipsy came onto Ishtar's cat. Leene assumed they were all crazy to some extent. Ishtar drew the line when she poured the mead onto Vord's head. Leene automatically freaked and slapped Ishtar, not knowing that the poison that was in the drink wouldn't work unless it was drunken. The next day Ishtar apologized to Vord and bowed her head in shame. After that, she went horse riding with Leene again and this time Leene had her mystery horse in which she named Pucentro. Ishtar still can't pronounced its name and was surprised at how stubborn Leene was in wanting to ride the horse but every time she tried to get on the horse would send her back. Leene kept going until she finally got on without being shook off.
Ishtar was proud of her and merely smiled in a goofy manner. That same evening, there was a get-together with some of the royal family and others. Ishtar was asking Duzell about the mysterious woman. Diaage, since he seemed to know her but the woman didn't remember Duzell. He left Ishtar to go and talk with Diaage. Leene then confronted Ishtar and asked about who she liked. Ishtar then gave her a list and Leene downgraded the list and Ishtar grinned while telling her she was in love with Yuujel. That totally threw Leene off. She then later proceeded to try to poison Ishtar, but her plan was soiled when Sharlen once again interfered and caused a whole ruckus with the masses. They were accusing Leene of treason. Ishtar told Duzell to counter the poison if it was poison and was prepared to drink it when Darres took it and drank it himself. He showed just how harmless the drink was but Ishtar was not convinced. She was very worried and even threatened Leene that if anything happened to Darres she would kill Leene on her own accord.
Apparently, before that Ashley had done a good job replacing her poisons with candy fakes. With another event done, Ishtar returned on home again. As soon as Ishtar returned home, problems arose once more. Yujinn carefully devised a plan that somehow got Darres to be his so-called older half brother. That didn't really help the party since her cousin Lassen was behind her previous poisoning with Leene and Sharlen who yet again took the form of Diaage and tried to end Ishtar's life. When the letters were sent out to all four corners of Pheliosta, Lassen was the first to rebel and sent his own people, Sharlen and a knight by the name of Hume. Sharlen made it even more complicated for Ishtar by pointing out the fact that Sidia was a holy weapon that was only able to be drawn by the descendants of Phelios. Ishtar was pretty much in a corner again. Yujinn did quick thinking and left with Darres straight off to Mil Seii while asking Ishtar's permission to send Sidia there after them.
They were planning on beating Sidia there. Ishtar thought it was ludicrous, but she and Duzell beat the two and Sidia to Mil Seii with Duzell's transportation magic. They ended up in the middle of the castle, in which one of the subjects there ushered Ishtar to leave while Lassen, her cousin was out and about. Ishtar agreed to leave afterward but returned secretly with Duzell. After that, she also met Lailis, who Ishtar learned was Rishas, one of Duzell's talented servants during his reign of terror. She left them alone for a few moments, before deciding to literally pay her cousin a visit while walking through the front of the gates and announcing herself with Duzell as her guard. She demanded an audience with Lassen. He clearly greeted her with a pleasant air, only whispering threats to her while the court was still staring in shock.
Lassen mentioned something about her king 'in check,' hence brought Ishtar to some anger. The girl shouted at Lassen and demanded that he release her guard and also stop hampering people like Lailis and that he should release them. After that fiasco, Ishtar ran back into Darres and Yujinn. She spent some time with Yujinn while they were still waiting for Sidia to come in. Ishtar spent some alone time with Darres and bonded with him while arguing how he was being careless. Sidia finally arrived and right before that Yujinn and concocted a plan that he thought might work. It involved putting Ishtar's blood in Darres' veins and vise versa. The success of that, Darres was able to draw Sidia. At the moment that Lassen gave them the okay to go home alive for now, Lailis staged an insurrection with Sharlen, sending her 'Once Fallen,' knights on the loose and anyone else who were from Lodoc were mind controlled into attacking the people of Mil Seii and kill Lassen. The crew got caught in the middle of it and ended up fighting them for some time.
Duzell eventually shouted that he had taken Ishtar's and Darres' blood and swapped them. They had to leave back to Pheliosta so that they could reverse it. Ishtar stubborn that her subject were getting murdered, and injured demanded to stay until Yujinn made a comment to her and Darres sending them on their merry way. It wasn't long after she returned that things got even more out of hand. Falan had been kidnapped it seems and Vord and Illsaide were going insane trying to find her. At that time, Vord and Yujinn set out for Rezenia, with the help of Selen who had just returned from her reign in Rezenaia. They all left quickly knowing Ishtar would follow. Yujinn mentioned to Vord that Ishtar would have a difficult time trying to get to Rezenia, since Duzell didn't know where it was. Which was the case as well. Ishtar tried to sneak out after that but got caught by Darres. from that point she took on some more sword fighting lessons with Darres and even apologizing to him about loving him.
Falan was already found at this point but she wasn't awake. Right after Vord and Yujinn left, she did and as soon as Ishtar got back from her fighting lessons, she and Duzell set off to Rezenia while detouring in Ci Xeneth to check on Falan. With some chit chat and questions about well-being, Ishtar was set off again learning that Illsaide had decided to side against Pheliosta. Right before they reached Rezenia however, Ishtar found Darres making his way there. Eventually, Ishtar, Duzell and Darres set off to Rezenia. When they got there, they heard a death detonation, and Darres broke off running. Ishtar followed right after. When they crashed into the room, Ishtar found that the current king of Rezenia had killed Yujinn. Ishtar enraged with sadness was close to cutting off his head, when Darres stopped her and when she learned that the man that had killed Yujinn was the King of Rezenia. That was a shocker of course. The sad thing was, everything was carefully plotted by Lassen. He had Sharlen possess the ill king, and kill Yujinn.
Ishtar didn't learn of that until much later. She eventually did meet the King of Rezenia and still accused him of killing her cousin even though he said it was out of defense. He then even asked Ishtar a personal question about why her great-grandfather wanted to be reborn. Ishtar selflessly said that if she were her great-grandfather she would want to be reincarnated to see her loved ones, that it would be something that she would personally want to be reincarnated for. That stirred up restless emotions int he sleeping king, while Sharlen who was possessing him at that time was surprised by the response as well. Right before Ishtar left the audience Hall, one of Lassen's guards went and told Ishtar that they had Duzell. Ishtar of course rushed to dangerous situations again to save her vampire king. When they reached the tower, Ishtar and Darres confronted Lassen head on and Lassen even had vampire subjects to defend him. Ishtar wanted to fight him herself, but Darres agreed to on the condition that when this was all over she had to tell him exactly what the hell was going on.
Darres managed to fend off Lassen for quite a while, but the guy who was rather skilled in poison, he had some poisonous incense in a closed off room. It was really weakening Darres, though through a miracle one of the vampire subjects broke ranks and managed to unseal the door for Duzell. The vampire king at that time freed as Darres collapsed. He used a holy spell. That shocked the masses, but he explained that it was the legsarams and ruelles that weakened his vampire magic and energy that allowed him to use holy magic. Lassen smirked and said that he could use it but it was wholly useless against someone like him. Duzell corrected him and replied with the fact that there was one spell that could kill him. Ishtar realizing what spell that was right away screamed for him to stop, but it was too late. Duzell had used 'La Gamme,' the suicide spell eliminating him and Lassen at the same time. Ishtar broke down into a strangled cry.
Four years after Duzell and Lassen's death Ishtar finally managed to put herself back together and did marry Darres. They even had two beautiful twin boys in which Ishtar named the blond one Phelios and the dark haired on Duzell. Ishtar is now the current Queen of Pheliosta at the crisp age of twenty years old. She is very much very happy now, but she would definitely not forget the things that happened with Duzell. They were what brought her up as a Queen.
Let's start with the basics. Ishtar is the current Princess of Pheliosta, the capital of her country. She was fifteen with a bratty and bitchy attitude that drove everyone crazy. She was a direct descendant of St. Phelios. so she was considered a sacred symbol of her country. Pheliosta was named after her Great-Grandfather St. Phelios who perished in the War of Lost Souls against the Vampire King Duzell. He supposedly saved humanity from their impending doom. At that time also, the vampire king cursed him. He cursed Phelios saying that in a century both of them will be reborn and Duzell would complete his revenge. There was one small problem. Duzell was reincarnated as a harmless house cat and doesn't know where Phelios is. That's where Ishtar comes in. She adopted the kitten after he tried to kill her by possessing the larger kyarru. Ishtar coincidentally named him Duzell because he bit her soon after.
After that, the story progresses to the point where Ishtar goes through a series of tutor lessons and getting poisoned by one of her relatives. Duzell saved her claiming he needed her help. The girl then ditched as soon as she was better in the morning, leaving the guard to nod off still. Ishtar lost Duzell on the way and went to the meadow to play for a while. When she came back, she ran into Duzell a second time, but this time he looked exactly like her. The princess was surprised and shoved him into a room and scolded him but then hugged her identical look-alike and told him how she cared about him and that she would protect him no matter what. That led to Ishtar playing around with the legasarams and ruelle charms. She tossed them out the window. That brought even more trouble plus her current magic teacher, Yujinn was suspecting something.
Ishtar eventually finds out that her kyarru Duzell was actually the Vampire King Duzell reincarnated. What a shock that was for the girl but at the end of the volume, she decided to help him find her Great-Grandfather's reincarnation since she didn't like Phelios very much. She accepted the invitation to La Naan and hence their fun adventure begins.
Right before they reached La Naan, Ishtar ran off with Duzell disguised as her. She takes him to the martial arts ring and told him to register in her form. He went with the alias: Vampire King Duzell. Ishtar pretty much forced the vampire king into it by previously promising her aunt a hand in marriage for whichever son of hers out of the three princes of La Naan would defeat Darres in the martial arts tournament. She was certain that Darres would win regardless, but she sent in Duzell as a reassurance to that fact. He fought Vord. In the process he won the fight and then sampling the boy's blood. He was surprised and confused, telling Ishtar that Vord was unrelated to the royal family and Pehlios. After the first fight with Duzell and Prince Vord, Darres finally caught up to Ishtar and forced her to La Naan. There the girl greeted her aunt, Lady Sonia who presented her princes to Ishtar. The girl then allowed Duzell to take a bite out of her aunt and claiming that her cat was 'spooked' or 'scared.'
She later then spends time with Seiliez in order to lure the boy into her trap so that she can have Duzell bite him. The plan went sour since Seiliez left and Duzell was unaware of her plan. It was ruined, but that didn't stop them from continuing onwards. During the whole fiasco with the Martial Arts Tournament, Ishtar learned that all her cousins were adopted, but despite that, Seiliez was actually a descendant of Phelios. She then showed her aunt kindness and said that their conversation regarding her adoptive kids never happened. That led her to fighting Seiliez in the final match. She conveyed her true feelings to him and also pointing out that he was trying to replace his mother's love with Ishtar's love, but she didn't love him the way he wanted her to.
Seiliez then realized that, dropped the fight and walked off. Ishtar said she still loved him but it was a lot different from the love he was thinking. Before Ishtar had left for La Naan, Duzell found his way back and told Ishtar that Laphiji was severely injured chasing a vampire and that he needed help. La Naan then went to get their injured prince. Ishtar was on the way back home with a gift from her aunt, a kyarru sized Duzie plush that she kept with her most of the time on her bed.
After their return to Pheliosta. Ishtar focused a little on her magical studies with Yujinn, but decided that since they didn't get to taste Seiliez's blood to see if he was her great-grandfather's reincarnation, Ishtar asked Yujinn about her Lilke Ring, and forced Duzell to dress up once more. She then used the Lilke Ring to transport them to an area that was close to Ci Xeneth and ways away from La Naan. Duzell was unhappy with the fact that the girl had bad directional skills, but he had no other choice. She also mentioned that she had an uncle and a cousin there, so they decided to take a break for Ci Xeneth first and then return to La Naan. Not long after their appearance in that valley, there were bandits trying to kidnap an old man. Ishtar jumped in to help without giving a second thought, getting a guy behind his back, and then pissing the bandits off.
She then handed Duzell her sword and told him to take care of the rest. Duzell, who was an amazing swordsman knocked them all out without even drawing Sidia, and Ishtar sustained a small injury from the bandits because they were trying to stab the old man and she shielded him. At the same time, the knights from Ci Xeneth had seen the battle was breaking out watched until Duzell subdued them. With that Ishtar and Duzell made acquaintances with the captain of the knights and the fellow knights as well as the old man. Duzell called the captain which was named Illsaide 'Phelios,' at that time and the young knight looked confused but asked if Duzell would be part of his posse of soldiers. When they were staying at the tavern a few hours later, Ishtar got a little drunk off the stuff they were serving and started babbling weird things that made Duzell face palm a couple of times and later when Ishtar sobered up, she told Duzell to go ahead and accept the captain's request on being part of his battalion and Duzell reluctantly agreed due to the fact that they needed to infiltrate the castle without drawing her uncle's attention.
While Duzell went off with Illsaide, Ishtar was invited to go monster hunting with the fellow knights. Her uncle had a thing for Ruelles and magical items. They needed monsters for experiments and such so Ishtar agreed to come along to see what it was like. There they saw a very beautiful Lilke who looked like she was about to give birth to her babies. Ishtar accidentally shouted by accident because she assumed they were trying to ask her to kill the creature. She declined loudly, causing the Lilke to see their hiding spot and then harm the guy next to her. It appeared that the Lilke was under 'The Guardian,' spell mentioned later. Ishtar drew Sidia and begged it to help heal the poor guy who lost his eye and the sword complied. After returning back to Ci Xeneth, Ishtar discussed her success with Duzell who told her not to use him as a magic experiment. Ishtar just grinned. The boy came back to tell Ishtar that he was fine and told Duzell that he was invited to Dinner with her uncle and such.
Duzell tried to get out of it, but Ishtar insisted that he wear a dress and be who he was since he wasn't her at all. She also mentioned dhow her uncle had a dark sense of humour and wanted her dead so she couldn't exactly be parading around his place as a girl. She would immediately be screwed. While Duzell was at the little dinner party with her uncle. Ishtar went and tried to raid her uncle's wine cellar, except she ran into Roy who scared her instead. Roy led her down the wine cellar but there wasn't anything to steal. In fact, all Ishtar saw were a lot of monsters. She was a little repulsed by it. The Archmage, Diaage (Sharlen's alias) told her about the monsters and explained to her why they needed them in the first place. Ishtar was shocked with the explanation and disturbed at the same time. She ran off though, when she heard that there were monsters attacking the castle. She wanted to find Duzell first, leaving the Archmage to his own musings.
When Ishtar found Duzell again, he was pissed and explained to her that Vord had followed her here. Ishtar at first didn't know which Vord Duzell was talking about, but eventually, she figured it out and before she could do anything, Ishtar and Duzell ran into Falan, who immediately recognized Ishtar. Since she was caught, they all ran back to her room to hide for the time being. Ishtar caught up a little with her cousin and then decided to take a small nap while making Duzell do other things. Other things as in seducing her uncle. Ishtar then shared some girl time with her cousin while the two of them couldn't sleep. After a meal, Ishtar was off and guess what she did? The girl decided it was the best idea to let all the monsters in her uncle's wince cellar loose and that's when all the monsters were set free and went after the people of her uncle's castle. Ishtar worried about the outcome didn't notice something trying to take a swipe at her.
To her luck Darres came to save the day and scold her at the same time. Ishtar confessed to releasing all those monsters from their cells. She also clung to him as if she was about to never see him again in which she admitted to as well. The greetings were done and Ishtar asked Darres carefully to help her save as much people as he could since it was her fault. He complied and the two made their way down the pathway. Ishtar noticed that familiar old man no distorted from the attack leaped into the scene of the crime and blocked the old man.
That's when her uncle mistook her Duzell, but Diaage who now revealed himself as Sharlen claimed no matter what Ishtar called herself, she was Ishtar. Her uncle laughed darkly and was glad to have her here. He wanted her dead and with that the Lord of the Sea. The old man that was known as the Lord of the Sea was surprised to hear that Ishtar was protecting him but even more shocked when she told him she was Ishtar from the House of Phelios. Her uncle ordered Illsaide to kill Ishtar and keep the Lord of the Sea alive. At the moment Falan came into the scene and she was shocked and had a break down when Ishtar's uncle said all that he was doing was in Falan's named. Shocked and hurt, she asked Illsaide to kill her father, and before he could actually do that, Ishtar stopped him and told him that she didn't mean it. He was an important person to Falan and she even made Ishtar promise not to hurt her father.
Illsaide, irritated but he didn't try again. Ishtar's uncle ran off while Illsaide tried to comfort Falan. At that moment Ishtar decided to scold Illsaide for playing with people's feelings and that he had hurt Duzell's feelings. After Illsaide apologized, Ishtar confessed that Duzell wasn't really a girl and that he was a guy who was also her cat. With that said, Ishtar learned that her uncle had been killed by his lieutenant and asked Vord to step in an represent Pheliosta as well since she wasn't comfortable with being around too many of her relatives.
After yet another trip home from Ci Xeneth a few weeks later Ishtar was tricked by her guardian Sir Keld on the spot, saying that her Aunt Sonia was very sick. Ishtar packed up and headed straight for Zi Alda where she met her aunt who told her at that time that she was unwell but she wasn't on her death bed or anything. Ishtar pissed off at being tricked once again started commenting on Sir Keld's sanity and then making her guard shut her up. After that, she asked her aunt about her pig son. That would be offending to most parents, but her aunt was a sweet lady so she let it slide and said he was around but not in Zi Alda. Ishtar triumphed that Sir Keld's plan to set her up with Yuujel had failed. Ishtar also met Ashley and his wife Leene. They were well interesting people. She even spoke to Duzell about it later. Duzell wondered if he really was a pig but Ishtar just said that just because she didn't like Yuujel very much.
She then resulted in a chat with Falan through Darres' magic mirror before falling asleep unguarded. Duzell at that time taking his true form had used that opportunity to take his true form and mess with Ishtar a little. Sadly to his disappointment, Ishtar woke up right away and was thrilled by his true form. She said that his hair was the scariest aspect of him. Duzell just gave her his usual look and said nothing. Later Leene invited Ishtar to go horse-riding the next day and she agreed while asking Leene if she was going to ride a goat. That pissed off the other girl and the fact that she was older than Ishtar didn't even occur to her until she said she was twenty-three. Ishtar with her smug look returned to her room. The next day she was ready for some horse riding. Only at that time, Leene had replaced her aunt's horse with a wild one.
Ishtar knew right away and Lucy one of the important people of Zi Alda told Ishtar it was a mistake and Ishtar replied she knew but she wanted to ride him anyway. A bad mistake on her part since as soon as she got on the horse, it started to go crazy and went off with her. Everyone tried to chase after Ishtar but they were not very successful. Leene only watched in amusement. Ishtar was luckily saved by Yujinn who she was surprised to see, but at the same time, Yujinn mused about the fact that he was called someone else here. He asked her if she recalled a boy named Yuujel. Ishtar immediately took that to shock and pointed as she realized that was him. Ishtar could have never been so dumbfounded. Her flirtatious magic teacher was her cousin, Yuujel. Ishtar proceeded in telling Duzell about her cousin and who he was, while trying to get him to understand it fully. Duzell was shocked as well. He also told her that her aunt's condition isn't very well off either that Lady Sonia would die around a decade give or take. Ishtar felt a little saddened but she was happy with it. Her aunt had a wonderful life. She didn't want to think about her death as much as she should.
The next day Leene invited them to go on a night out of town drinking along with Vord. Vord was also paying. Ishtar definitely got a little more than just drunk.She was all over the place and calling Vord a bunch of names that he was seemingly amused with. He had recently learned about Ishtar and Duzell, so a little tipsy came onto Ishtar's cat. Leene assumed they were all crazy to some extent. Ishtar drew the line when she poured the mead onto Vord's head. Leene automatically freaked and slapped Ishtar, not knowing that the poison that was in the drink wouldn't work unless it was drunken. The next day Ishtar apologized to Vord and bowed her head in shame. After that, she went horse riding with Leene again and this time Leene had her mystery horse in which she named Pucentro. Ishtar still can't pronounced its name and was surprised at how stubborn Leene was in wanting to ride the horse but every time she tried to get on the horse would send her back. Leene kept going until she finally got on without being shook off.
Ishtar was proud of her and merely smiled in a goofy manner. That same evening, there was a get-together with some of the royal family and others. Ishtar was asking Duzell about the mysterious woman. Diaage, since he seemed to know her but the woman didn't remember Duzell. He left Ishtar to go and talk with Diaage. Leene then confronted Ishtar and asked about who she liked. Ishtar then gave her a list and Leene downgraded the list and Ishtar grinned while telling her she was in love with Yuujel. That totally threw Leene off. She then later proceeded to try to poison Ishtar, but her plan was soiled when Sharlen once again interfered and caused a whole ruckus with the masses. They were accusing Leene of treason. Ishtar told Duzell to counter the poison if it was poison and was prepared to drink it when Darres took it and drank it himself. He showed just how harmless the drink was but Ishtar was not convinced. She was very worried and even threatened Leene that if anything happened to Darres she would kill Leene on her own accord.
Apparently, before that Ashley had done a good job replacing her poisons with candy fakes. With another event done, Ishtar returned on home again. As soon as Ishtar returned home, problems arose once more. Yujinn carefully devised a plan that somehow got Darres to be his so-called older half brother. That didn't really help the party since her cousin Lassen was behind her previous poisoning with Leene and Sharlen who yet again took the form of Diaage and tried to end Ishtar's life. When the letters were sent out to all four corners of Pheliosta, Lassen was the first to rebel and sent his own people, Sharlen and a knight by the name of Hume. Sharlen made it even more complicated for Ishtar by pointing out the fact that Sidia was a holy weapon that was only able to be drawn by the descendants of Phelios. Ishtar was pretty much in a corner again. Yujinn did quick thinking and left with Darres straight off to Mil Seii while asking Ishtar's permission to send Sidia there after them.
They were planning on beating Sidia there. Ishtar thought it was ludicrous, but she and Duzell beat the two and Sidia to Mil Seii with Duzell's transportation magic. They ended up in the middle of the castle, in which one of the subjects there ushered Ishtar to leave while Lassen, her cousin was out and about. Ishtar agreed to leave afterward but returned secretly with Duzell. After that, she also met Lailis, who Ishtar learned was Rishas, one of Duzell's talented servants during his reign of terror. She left them alone for a few moments, before deciding to literally pay her cousin a visit while walking through the front of the gates and announcing herself with Duzell as her guard. She demanded an audience with Lassen. He clearly greeted her with a pleasant air, only whispering threats to her while the court was still staring in shock.
Lassen mentioned something about her king 'in check,' hence brought Ishtar to some anger. The girl shouted at Lassen and demanded that he release her guard and also stop hampering people like Lailis and that he should release them. After that fiasco, Ishtar ran back into Darres and Yujinn. She spent some time with Yujinn while they were still waiting for Sidia to come in. Ishtar spent some alone time with Darres and bonded with him while arguing how he was being careless. Sidia finally arrived and right before that Yujinn and concocted a plan that he thought might work. It involved putting Ishtar's blood in Darres' veins and vise versa. The success of that, Darres was able to draw Sidia. At the moment that Lassen gave them the okay to go home alive for now, Lailis staged an insurrection with Sharlen, sending her 'Once Fallen,' knights on the loose and anyone else who were from Lodoc were mind controlled into attacking the people of Mil Seii and kill Lassen. The crew got caught in the middle of it and ended up fighting them for some time.
Duzell eventually shouted that he had taken Ishtar's and Darres' blood and swapped them. They had to leave back to Pheliosta so that they could reverse it. Ishtar stubborn that her subject were getting murdered, and injured demanded to stay until Yujinn made a comment to her and Darres sending them on their merry way. It wasn't long after she returned that things got even more out of hand. Falan had been kidnapped it seems and Vord and Illsaide were going insane trying to find her. At that time, Vord and Yujinn set out for Rezenia, with the help of Selen who had just returned from her reign in Rezenaia. They all left quickly knowing Ishtar would follow. Yujinn mentioned to Vord that Ishtar would have a difficult time trying to get to Rezenia, since Duzell didn't know where it was. Which was the case as well. Ishtar tried to sneak out after that but got caught by Darres. from that point she took on some more sword fighting lessons with Darres and even apologizing to him about loving him.
Falan was already found at this point but she wasn't awake. Right after Vord and Yujinn left, she did and as soon as Ishtar got back from her fighting lessons, she and Duzell set off to Rezenia while detouring in Ci Xeneth to check on Falan. With some chit chat and questions about well-being, Ishtar was set off again learning that Illsaide had decided to side against Pheliosta. Right before they reached Rezenia however, Ishtar found Darres making his way there. Eventually, Ishtar, Duzell and Darres set off to Rezenia. When they got there, they heard a death detonation, and Darres broke off running. Ishtar followed right after. When they crashed into the room, Ishtar found that the current king of Rezenia had killed Yujinn. Ishtar enraged with sadness was close to cutting off his head, when Darres stopped her and when she learned that the man that had killed Yujinn was the King of Rezenia. That was a shocker of course. The sad thing was, everything was carefully plotted by Lassen. He had Sharlen possess the ill king, and kill Yujinn.
Ishtar didn't learn of that until much later. She eventually did meet the King of Rezenia and still accused him of killing her cousin even though he said it was out of defense. He then even asked Ishtar a personal question about why her great-grandfather wanted to be reborn. Ishtar selflessly said that if she were her great-grandfather she would want to be reincarnated to see her loved ones, that it would be something that she would personally want to be reincarnated for. That stirred up restless emotions int he sleeping king, while Sharlen who was possessing him at that time was surprised by the response as well. Right before Ishtar left the audience Hall, one of Lassen's guards went and told Ishtar that they had Duzell. Ishtar of course rushed to dangerous situations again to save her vampire king. When they reached the tower, Ishtar and Darres confronted Lassen head on and Lassen even had vampire subjects to defend him. Ishtar wanted to fight him herself, but Darres agreed to on the condition that when this was all over she had to tell him exactly what the hell was going on.
Darres managed to fend off Lassen for quite a while, but the guy who was rather skilled in poison, he had some poisonous incense in a closed off room. It was really weakening Darres, though through a miracle one of the vampire subjects broke ranks and managed to unseal the door for Duzell. The vampire king at that time freed as Darres collapsed. He used a holy spell. That shocked the masses, but he explained that it was the legsarams and ruelles that weakened his vampire magic and energy that allowed him to use holy magic. Lassen smirked and said that he could use it but it was wholly useless against someone like him. Duzell corrected him and replied with the fact that there was one spell that could kill him. Ishtar realizing what spell that was right away screamed for him to stop, but it was too late. Duzell had used 'La Gamme,' the suicide spell eliminating him and Lassen at the same time. Ishtar broke down into a strangled cry.
Four years after Duzell and Lassen's death Ishtar finally managed to put herself back together and did marry Darres. They even had two beautiful twin boys in which Ishtar named the blond one Phelios and the dark haired on Duzell. Ishtar is now the current Queen of Pheliosta at the crisp age of twenty years old. She is very much very happy now, but she would definitely not forget the things that happened with Duzell. They were what brought her up as a Queen.