Knight Iliana Flounar-Karstillan

Knight Iliana of the Quartz is famous Knight from the Morielle Empire known for her unique affinity for Quartz. She hails from the Karstillan Family and the Flounar Family, a child from an arranged marriage between the noble families.

She was the heir to New Sion, as the eldest child of the Karstillan Family, however, gave up the title when graduating from the Empire's Knight Academy.

Early Life
Iliana was born in the 29th of December in 119 M.E. (Year of Red) as Iliana Karstillan to Klien Karstillan and Glora Karstillan (whom later divorced to become Glora Flounar). They were known as the Viscount and Viscountess of New Sion at the time, meaning Iliana was born as the heir to the viscountcy. During her childhood, Iliana dabbled in various different hobbies such as music, art and horse-riding.

When Iliana was reaching four years of age, her parents divorced due to a clash in values and visions for the future. She then became Iliana Flounar-Karstillan, in recognition of her mother's heritage. She would spend a month at the Karstillan manor in New Sion before spending a month at the Flounar manor in Estellian. This would push her to mature faster than most other children her age.

Iliana learnt the ways of social harmony and politics during her stay with her father (albeit reluctantly) and swordsmanship and knighthood during her stay with her mother. This diverse education caused her to become a well-educated and all-rounded child. At the age of twelve, she was admitted into the Empire's Knight Academy and started on her path to become a highly respected knight.

Second Year Final Test
At the end of Iliana's second year in the Empire's Knight Academy, like all other students, she was required to take the Final Test. Her test was to infiltrate a tower and assassinate the lord. She was taken to the Research Tower of Science and told to get to the top level without alerting anyone in the tower. If she did, she would be marked as a fail, and be punished for the failure.

Knowing that espionage was not her strong suit, Iliana opted for climbing up the side of the tower. She managed to make it to the sixteen level before the footholds got too small, so she had to enter through a window. However, there was an assassin sent after her and was watching her from afar. When she entered, she felt someone's eyes on her but dismissed it thinking it was the examiners who were taking notes on her performance. She failed to notice the danger that followed her into the same room.

Iliana managed to sneak into the staircase and started to make her way silently towards the top. However, this was when the assassin deemed the most appropriate time and launched an attack. Iliana was by far not the weakest person in her cohort, but the man sent after her was a professional, having killed various people over the course of his career.

The two locked in battle on the staircase, exchanging quiet blows with daggers, making small clinking noises that alerted a researcher on the floor below them. The woman cried out of alarm, causing Iliana to seize up. The assassin took this moment to lunge forwards, aiming for her neck. He used heated blades (a technique used on magerius blades, aimed at melting their opponent's blades and causing harsh pain to their opponent) and was close to slicing through Iliana's neck if not for her ability to change her skin's qualities. She managed to cancel out the heat of the dagger but the blade sliced through as she leapt back, causing her to receive a wound that started at the bottom of her jaw and stopped at her collarbone. This later becomes the scar that many associate with her.

After dealing with the assassin, Iliana steeled herself and dropped down the staircase to subdue the researcher who had turned to look for help. She knocked out the woman, dragged her to the darkest corner of the staircase, before starting back up the stairs. She forced her body to heal faster using her quartz ability, and so her wound closed up without much blood and scarred.

Iliana passed the test with ease, as it was an instructor that was waiting up the top for her to arrive. She didn't find out who sent the assassin until later.

Subdual of the Aoherent Information Guild
Due to the betrayal of the Aoherent Information Guild becoming of national importance, a knight squad was formed to combat the issue. As Iliana had prior business with the information guild, she volunteers to be part of the squad that was tasked with this mission. Although they were tentative to accept her due to her age and lack of experience, the Headmaster at the time had recommended her. This was during Iliana's fifth year of the Knight Academy.

Iliana was tasked with infiltrating the ranks of the information guild, becoming one of the lower members of the guild that was required to keep peace and keep watch as higher levelled informants communicated with clients. During this time, Iliana was to memorise the floorplan and sketch it out for the rest of the squad. Iliana also managed to find out who had hired the assassin to come after her in her second year; it was Viscountess Chorn who had seen her as a threat to her children's success.

After preparations, the knight squad (deemed the Aoherent Task Force at the time) attacked the guild. They raided all their major branches in the capital, with a team of four to five knights per branch. Iliana was aiding the group that attacked the West branch.

This became Iliana's first victory outside of her education. This was also the event that garnered the attention of the Emperor.

Delegation to Tatar
After being promoted to the position of Empire's Knight, Iliana's first official mission is to accompany the Second Prince Grayson Yvynne to the neighbouring country of Tatar. Tatar, as a way to choose their next ruler, hosts a repeating event called the Crown Games that pits the potential monarchs against one another.

Physical Description
Iliana has been noted to have an ethereal beauty; due to her two lineages, both of which that have strong genetic appearances, both her eye and hair colour are unique. Many comment that they feel to be in the presence of a celestial being rather than a human.

She is said to have a naturally strong build, which was enhanced during her time in the Empire's Knight Academy and her constant duty being a Knight. She has wide shoulders, reminiscent of her grandmother's stature, and a long, powerful stride. Iliana is also relatively tall, and sometimes feels taller than she actually is due to her large reputation and tense gaze.

As a knight, Iliana has her fair share of scars. Close knights that have seen her body note that she has notably more scars than the average person, of which is believed to come from her enhanced healing skills through using her affinity. One such scar has become associated with her image: a long, rather thick and ragged scar that draws from the left side of her jaw down to the right side of her collar bone. This scar was acquired during Iliana's second year in the knight academy she attended.

Iliana's preferred way to dress is in knight fashion. This includes tight yet flexible tunics, casual formal pants, and capes or blazers depending which were most suitable for the occasion. However, Iliana has not completely disregarded her duties as nobility, and is often found wearing one-shouldered gowns that are often tight to the body and rest slightly above her ankles for ease of mobility. Such gowns and dresses are only worn by the knight for formal events such as banquets that require her presence as a noble, however, when she is required to attend as a knight, she wears the typical dress uniform for her occupation. This includes a burgundy tunic, white coat with silver epaulettes, a silver aiguillette that cross over her right shoulder, a red medallion pad, white dress pants and white dress boots.

Possessions

 * A knight's medallion; given to her when she graduated from the Empire's Knight Academy. It is a silver disk that is around the size of a person's palm, and has the Imperial coat of arms decorated with two crossing swords on top. All graduates of the Empire's Knight Academy receive one.
 * Emperor's Knight Medallion; given to her when she was nominated as the Emperor's Knight. This is a position held by little people, and she's the youngest to receive such an honour. It is a disk, similar to the knight's medallion, but is made out of pure magerius and has only a sword decorating it.
 * Blade of Quartessa; a bastard sword forged by the legendary blacksmith Corliss Esthen. It was made out of magerius and the bone of a byu. Because of the use of bone, it was named after the Bone Witch, Quartessa.
 * Flounar Nufosaie-Lninuia; the Nufosaie-Lniuia is a type of throwing knife made out of magerius, making it incredibly expensive, rare, and sturdy. It was passed down as a family heirloom from the Flounar Family.

Skills

 * Quartz affinity; Iliana was born with an affinity, specifically Quartz. She has the ability to control the human body (it is not restricted to her own, however it has proven almost impossible to control someone else's without prior analysation and familiarity with the body itself).
 * The Flounar blessing; From her Flounar lineage, Iliana has inherited what many call the 'Flounar blessing'. This is due to the fact that the Flounar family has been able to produce so many exceptional knights. This includes an innate battle sense, above-average reflexes and physical capability.
 * Expert swordsmanship; Iliana is exceptional in the arts of swordsmanship.
 * Expert hand-to-hand combat; Iliana is exceptional in the arts of hand-to-hand combat, both armed and unarmed.