Sha'leste Anza-Borrego: The only natural child of convicted exile andassassin, Lord Jasta. Her mother was also a convict who died shortly after Sha'leste was born.
Personal: Sha'leste was a spitting image of her mother, the princess of an Imperium Nation, convicted and banished for murdering her own father to become queen. Sha'leste was bitterly jealous and malicious towards her surrogate stepsisters, Mystere and Fallon. Sha'leste, who was quite similar in respect to her own mother's criminal behavior, organized a brothel to prostitute women on Itasca. She imposed the indignity upon her sisters, much to the disapproval of Jasta. Sha'leste took a lover, criminal Epimetheus Von. Her position as the keeper of Itasca's brothel, combined with her sexual prowess and electric sensuality, gained her favor among Jasta's men. Sha'leste and Epimetheus Von cast out her father from the community he had created and ruled over its final days before Porphyrians attacked. Mesmerized by her striking beauty, Creighton spared Sha'leste from the feeding and turned her into his queen. In Porphyrian form, she preyed upon Mystere and Fallon as a succubus vision in the dreamscapes of their minds. Creighton impregnated Sha'leste before his death at the hands of Mystere. Sha'leste would someday give birth to the only natural born Porphyrian, the spawn of Creighton, a child she would name, Ahga Khia.
(Appears on Page 26 of Book 1)