Menora

Menora /mɛnɔra/ is a Lemne woman and wife to Corocoga, who is the leader of a Lemne rebellion against the imperial occupation of Lem Pars. Menora often followed her husband on his excursions around the island. Though when she had a newborn she stayed with her mother in a very small settlement, the very same one she herself grew up in. Around this time her husband Corocoga was away on an excursion to root out some imperial soldiers and he took with him his men in arms. So the village was left with just women and children. What the rebel leader didn't realise that The location of his wife's settlement was discovered by some Imperial soldiers who sent a band of soldiers to take by surprise his wife and hold her ransom. Luckily Menora's cottage was on a hill rise so she spotted the soldiers marching to her settlement long before they got there. Hurredly she thought of what to do, she couldn't run away with a newborn at her breast as she would surely he hunted down, and she couldn't leave the rest of the woman either. Cunningly she took her husband's spare set of armour and wore it. The native Lemne armour typically has a mouthpiece which covers the chin and mouth and curves under the eyes, it wasn't for protection but rather to stop the wearer from speaking, as it is the spirits of war who speak the words that decide the victor, not the warrior. But for Menora it meant it would cover her face and improve her disguise, for when the soldiers arrived she stood outside her cottage on the hill rise clad in full Lemne rebel armour that bore Corocoga's mark. To the witless soldiers it looked as if Corocoga himself was standing before them, the Corocoga whose actions spurned many stories of a savage native hungry for Antagan blood. The soldiers who were prepared to steal away one woman hostage never prepared to battle with a native warlord, so they tucked tail and ran away. And that was how Menora disguised herself as Corocoga and avoided her capture and protected the small village.