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Eldest daughter of the ruling family of Thrace, House Ajani, Kitai was born into a life of strict martial tradition and discipline. Expected to one day rule the planet of fractious warrior Houses, her formal education was largely concerned with warfare and politics. By age ten Kitai could field strip a blaster rifle in seconds and recite the histories of her own House, as well those of the other major Houses, going back for generations. By age fifteen, she was widely considered an accomplished swordswoman in the classical duelling style and had won a score of formal honour bouts started mostly by her own hot temper. She was also expected to represent House Ajani in diplomatic matters should her father, Dominar Doroga, not be available. In this, at least, she did not excel. An uncompromising young woman, her favoured means of bringing the head of a truculent House to heel was making demands and issuing challenges should they not be met. Though time has since tempered her into a more calculating individual, Kitai retains the expectation that lesser individuals follow her command or risk being called to task for it. In her seventeenth year, Kitai began fighting anonymously in the gladiatorial arenas of the capital city, mainly as an act of rebellion against the achingly formal demands of court life. She learned every martial art the pits had to offer, training alongside the common people she was destined to rule. The thrill of not being treated as royalty, of being judged solely on her worth as a warrior was intoxicating to the teenage heir. There was no question of her opponent pulling his blows to avoid the fatal loss of honour that would come from beating the Domina-in-waiting senseless. When her father eventually discovered her moonlighting in the pits, Kitai was effectively confined to the royal estates. There she threw herself once more into the study of the sword, training under and eventually surpassing many virtuosos of the age.Family
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