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Olga Petrovna (also known as Olen’ka, Olya) is a warrior-priestess in the Order of St. Genevieve, age 35. She was raised in the Stradaniye providence of Belogvardeyski, the snow planet at the edges of the Bright Star system (also known as Elariel, to some, in reference to the name of the star that sits in it). The sole survivor of a brutal Atross (known in Belogvardeyski as bedstivye, ‘disaster, scourge, affliction, calamity’ or chuzhdyy as the preferred term by miss Olya herself, as she’s more forgiving of its destructive nature), she survived purely because of an anomaly in her own system that allowed her to stand in the wake of chaos and remain unscathed by the symptomatic madness that afflicts all who witness such a creature; as such, fully comprehensive of herself and her environs, she fought tooth and nail as a young woman to protect her people and herself to the best of her ability. Though she fought bravely, she did not defeat it herself; rather, it was High Priest Aleksey of the Order of St. Genevieve who swooped in and used his knowledge to contain the creature and spare her and her people.

Alas, all had gone - if not perished in the agony, they were made feral by their madness, killed by their own hand or forcibly calmed by death due to their violence towards others. Olya herself witnessed her own mother become wild and untamed and cruel to her, and had to put her out of her misery. Aleksey took her hand in his and he told her, child, do not be angry at your mother for her death or her madness, and do not be angry at yourself for her death, either; have anger, though, strong and cold and unbending, for the wickedness of the beast that killed her in truth. Your mother died in your home, her mind broken - you merely released her soul from its agony, and restored her to a sweet and simple silence. Have anger, and be strong, Olen’ka, and stay with me. I will be a Father to you, and I will teach you how to be a Mother to others. Become a Priestess, and spare in others what you could not spare in your mother.

And so she did, and though she had been an angry woman, a most brutal and severe woman in her youth; she had trained in resilence on the planet of Theom, and learned the meditation and machinations of fate from the Priests of Astral Logic there, and elite combat measures both in her home of Belogvardeyski and Repentence, it was not until she had witnessed the unfurling of chaos firsthand that she had remembered her own traumatic experiences - and began to understand that the Bedstivye were not villains, but victims.

She aspires to study at Kha’on, the planet of Science, but as such remains dutiful to the cause, and loyal to Aleksey though he does not know the soft way of her heart, because she knows that compassion is a necessary weapon. Olya meaning holy, she believes she is divinely touched and that her pain was necessary; she is unafraid to be martyred.

When she meets Reynash (Nashka, she calls him), he does not enjoy her company, and while she admires his rigidity she believes that he is too heroic in his idea of purity, and less aware of the goodness of others. Indeed, there is a class difference - she who came from nothing, and in turn lost even the presence of nothing, and he who came from everything... still, they become comrades in arms, and she is both his teacher and friend, and together they train the student Reina (Inasha,) who is odder still.

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