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Aria |
Aria was born in the town Tarvelborg in a house overlooking the river. It's not certain whether that was before or after the town was captured by the evil and sinister Zarkoff. Anyway, the first three years of her life she lived in a town that was ruled by a tyrant. Because of this the towns folks rebelled often and at one such occasion, three years later, Zarkoff violently beat down a revolt, leaving the streets littered with dead and dying. That evening soldiers of the tyrant found the tree years old Aria, abandoned on the drawbridge. Her parents were killed. All she had were her clothe and a the ring from her mother. The wife of Zarkoff wanted to adopt de girl to undo some of the damage her husband had done, but he wouldn't hear of that. He decided Aria should be offered the the god Tatiamat and so it happened. She was thrown off the bridge in de cold river.
A man called Yorkol recued her though and brought her to safety. But the soldiers soon found out about this treachery and Yorkol and his family was banned from Tarvelborg. Aria couldn´t be traced by the soldier though.
For the following years she traveled with a man only known to her as Uncle. She keeps good memories about him. But times were hard on Uncle and at one time he was broke. He and the young Aria are observed by a crimp, a kids trader. And when Aria is playing outside he offers Uncle a drink, drugs him with poison and persuades him into signing a paper in which he sells Aria for a coins. Uncle is drugged and when Aria sees him she believes the trader when he says the old man is dead. Now at the age of nine Aria is owned by the trader but not for long. She is sold for 2000 sterces to a couple who own many young children. The boys are trained the become thieves, the girls learn to seduce men. They will become prostitutes.
One day one of the boys, Tiger, gives her a sword. She is determent to escape with it and hides it by her bed. But one day it is found by the master, called cockroach. He is furious, and with that sword stuck in her mouth he rapes her. When he is done and his attention weakens she grabs the sword and cuts of the part of him with which he had violated her. She is thirteen then. Thinking he is dead she steals a horse, Furia and runs and runs.
Years later, at nineteen, she runs in to an ambush and is robbed. But soon she recognized the ambushers as the grown up kids with which she had spent her youth in the school of cockroach. From them learns that man is still alive and she decides to kill him. But when she meets him the man is filled with remorse and pain and in the end he even donates his big house to Aria. But Aria is not interested in a home yet. She just recently found out Uncle was still alive too and she gave him the house.
Shortly after this she gets pregnant from her old friend Tiger. But Tiger and she disagree at where the baby should be born so Aria leaves without him for Arnolia. She is accompanied on that journey by the group of Rexanne. The baby turns out to be a boy. But things are wrong because he has claws, scales instead of hair and he grows an inch each day. The father, Tiger, has joined Aria by then, but he refuses to accept the child, Sachem, and even tries to kill it.
In the end the entity, Queen of Aquarius, that had lived in Aria for many years and now possessed Sacham, was forced out of the boy by mental projection by the Froon. Sacham became a normal boy then.
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Artwork taken from album 18; Vénus et cňlere (Woedende Venus), album 19; Sacristar, album 9; Le combat des dames (Woedende Venus), album 3; La 7th porte (De zevende poort) and album 22; La voie des rats (Het spoor van de ratten)
