| Born | Approx. -6046 CGC |
|---|---|
| Died | Approx. ~6013 CGC (age 33) |
| Species | Precursor |
| Other names | The Necromancer |
| Ancestors | Old King Dasedrak (father) Iladami al-Relsh (mother) |
| Descendants | Felaji ni Ores (daughter) Thorn ri Renaldi (son) |
| Other family | Last Orian King (brother) Last Orian Queen (sister-in-law) Dermazd reln Neira (half-sister) Ainori rel Ores (niece) |
| “ | When the necromancer was executed, she stepped off the gallows-bridge herself, for even if the decree was not her own, her final moments would be. | ” |
Dokani dral Horalros was a noble in the ancient Miouran nation of Ores and sister to the Last Orian King by blood. She is mostly known in the modern-day for her brutal execution at the hands of her own brother, who accused her of conspiracy against him and his daughter and believed that she intended to usurp him and put her own daughter, Felaji ni Ores, on the throne. Her death is often seen as the inciting incident for the path of revenge her daughter would later take which would culminate in the Last Orian King's death and subsequently plunging Ores thereafter into chaos. Records of Dokani's life are sparse; in addition to her life and death being so far in the past, there appears to have been an intentional purge of her from contemporaneous accounts so as to erase her from history. Surviving records mostly exist from the Orian archivist Falgren-dras-Kethlark, who did not interact with Dokani personally and seemed to have scant access to credible firsthand accounts herself, and these records are rendered murky by regularly referring to Dokani (or individuals suspected to be her) with a variety of euphemisms and titles and rarely ever by name. However, these accounts consistently regard Dokani as a skilled mage that held seemingly-unique dominion over life and death such that she could even speak with the dead, and she was even called a "miracle-worker" in one text.
The honorific ral in her full name is generally thought to be reserved for nobility of high status, but modified to dral to indicate a legacy or occupation rather than descent from a particular individual or claim over some kind of dominion. This is a markedly unusual trait for nobility to have based on extant Orian records, as even Dokani's closest known familial relatives bear honorifics like reln (as seen in her half-sister, Dermazd reln Neira), rel (as seen with her niece, Ainori rel Ores), or simply al- (as seen with her mother, Iladami al-Relsh). Historians speculate that this could be from her apparent legacy (prior to her disgrace and execution) as someone who worked miracles, not someone that received them or owned them, and so her titling evokes a sense of work and duty rather than ownership. It is also possible that Dokani would not have been called "dral Horalros" in life and that this is a posthumous modification of her name. Horalros is generally regarded to literally mean "speaker to spirits," but it is written with runic characters congruous with the Old Orian word for "sun". This same character is seen in Old Orian writings of their nation name, Ores, and in other names associated with royalty like Ainori rel Ores. It is unclear if this shared character is simply because of Dokani's royal lineage — and thus she was associated with the sun that served as Ores' icon — or if it carried an additional meaning rendered inscrutable thousands of years later.
Similarities between Dokani's personal name and that of the mythical Orian star al-Kaniali have led to speculation that the two are connected in some capacity, if only in that Dokani may have been named for this star. The Orian Star Tome associated with al-Kaniali is sometimes thought to refer back to Dokani, as it contains a prophecy foretelling the birth of "the dreaming star's daughter," and ni in Old Orian, just as it might be part of a longer word like kaniali, has also been used to denote ancestry for women specifically. That said, this connection is tenuous at best and has no strong evidence supporting it, and difficulties in translating the tome have stalled out any attempts at gathering further insight.