Soraya Daryan

They say Soraya Daryan was born beneath a sky of emerald fire — a rare celestial storm that lit the dunes of Shiraz like a jeweled night. Court astrologers whispered her birth was written in the constellations, the Pleiades themselves bending close to bless her.

Daughter of the ancient House of Daryan, Soraya grew among marble palaces and perfumed gardens, where poets sang her name. By sixteen, her beauty was legend — but it was her emerald eyes, sharp and unyielding, that unsettled even kings. They called her Cheshmeh-ye-Esrar — the Well of Secrets.

When betrayal consumed the court, Soraya vanished into the desert night. Some say the Order of the Simurgh claimed her; others swear she walks still, a queen without a throne.

And now, whispers rise in the bazaars: “The emerald eyes have been seen again. The fallen queen returns — and with her, the reckoning.”