Mara was the dauhgter of Lord Sezu and Oskiro of the Acoma, and sister of Lanokota. She had brown eyes and dark hair, and was more attractive than she realized.
Juvenile when her father and brother died, with few soldiers and no allies, she managed within three years to have a son, cripple the Minwanabi and secured more prestige for the Acoma than they ever had in their long, honourable history.
She became a powerful lady who changed Tsurani culture.
Early life
As a girl, she was raised by nurse Nacoya. She was admired and respected her father and loved her brother who even taught her how to wrestle.
Mara at 17 decided to join the Order of Lashima and came close to defying her father to join the order. She was originally destined to become a nun, and there she befriended Ura, another initiate.
Mara during her initiation ceremony
Following the death of her father and brother during the Riftwar on Midkemia because of Minwanabi treachery, Keyoke was tasked to bring her back from the Order. At the ninth gong ring, the initiation ceremony was disrupted and was informed the death of her family. She became Ruling Lady of her house.
The same day she arrived home, as she performed the morning ritual, an assassin of the Red Hands of the Flower Brotherhood but she was saved by Papewaio who, for defiling the sacred grove, wore a black rag of the condemned.
Alliance with the bandits
The second day, some of her needra were stolen by the Grey warriors, and she decided the next day to perform a ruse with a mock caravan. As she lure them and then ambushed with a mock force of men led by Keyoke, they agreed to join to her service and regain their lost honor. The same evening, after the pressure of Nacoya, she decided to find a suitor to marry. She choses a son of the Anasati, her family's second enemy, because the powerful house would be a grudging ally with an Anasati son as lord of the Acoma.
She had a tenacious meeting with lord Tecuma but soon convinced him and had a betrothal with his crude, brutal and seemingly stupid son Buntokapi. As she returned to her company, she was faced with the difficult decision to hang her childhood friend, Zataki, for not complying with his superior, former Grey warrior Patrol Leader, along with Kartachaltaka, another newcomer.
As she returned home, she accepted to her service another band of fighters brought by Lujan; one of them being Arakasi, a former Spy Master who brought to her the information of a new Cho-ja queen.
Negotiations with the cho-ja
To obtain her favor she had to travel to the Inrodaka lands and negotiate with her. After traveling for 9 days with her company in utmost secrecy, she met the cho-ja and requested to Force Commander Lax'l to enter the hive and negotiate with the queens herself, something that no Tsurani did before.
As she arrived to the royal chamber, she learned that Lord Inrodaka had already negotiated for his ally, Lord Ekamchi with Inrodaka arrived above and sent messages to the queen with his offerings. Mara managed and gave better offers, and also promised to keep personal company to the new queen should she choose her meadows. She also negotiated to give 500 bags of thyza for 5 silk workers that would enhance the Acoma commercial power. She also gave 1000 swords, helmets, and shields, to be shipped to them, in order to protect the newcomer queen.
At her exit, she had a confrontation with her rivals, but the intervention of Lax'l prevented a fight.
Marriage to Buntokapi
Two weeks after that success, Mara married Buntokapi and gave him rulership over the Acoma. On their first night he abused her and ordered her that she would be a servant to him to anything he asks, not calling to her slaves.
Since he was a drunkard, Mara ordered their servants to water his wine.
After the feast of Chochokan, she conceived and retreated to her mother's quarters. In the meantime Bunto dragged any one of their servant girls off to his bedchamber. Mara asked hadonra Jican to buy ugly slaves in the auctions.
After the mid-autumn, she received the cho-ja hive on the east meadow and she kept company with the new queen.
Bunto was not interested in tallies, merchantising, household budgets and accounts and forbid Jican to bother him with them. Mara once intended to bore him with them in order to assign them to her and have some control to her finances, but instead Bunto decided to see to them. Mara used Bunto's dislike of administrative duties and obsession with his concubine, Teani, to gain more control over the Acoma. By carefully pestering him with documents, she obtained a very rude prohibition to send anyone, not even his father or the Warlord, to his townhouse, where he spent all of his time. When the aforementioned persons came to the Acoma estates and requested Buntokapi's presence, Mara repeated Bunto's words to them. Bunto was forced to commit suicide for his shameful rudeness.
Further History
Mara was rewarded as a Servant of the Empire and her son became the Emperor of Tsuranuanni.
| Preceded By | Position | Succeeded By |
| Sezu | Ruling Lady of House Acoma | Buntokapi |