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Orberosia

A farmer's wife of insatiable appetites who becomes the dragon's consort, then Penguinia's most venerated virgin saint, her legend built on very earthly loves.

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Also known as young Orberosia, The fair Orberosia, the fair Orberosia, the pious Orberosia, St. Orberosia, The virgin Orberosia, the blessed Orberosia

First appearance: V: The Marriage of Kraken and Orberosia

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A young and charming woman Penguin, the first to wear garments of chastity; she becomes Kraken's consort.

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Orberosia is the beautiful, restless wife of the hero Kraken, whose affairs with shepherds and neatherds she conceals beneath a show of angelic modesty. Her desire is boundless and her cunning practical: when the Church proclaims that only a pure virgin can tame the dragon, she quietly grasps that Kraken's days as a monster are numbered. She matters because her transformation from adulteress to St. Orberosia exposes how Penguinia manufactures its own sanctity.

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Kraken
romantic · ambivalent
Kraken and Orberosia share a passionate and tumultuous romantic relationship, marked by… How this plays out →
Kraken
romantic · ambivalent
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Kraken
romantic · ambivalent
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V: The Marriage of Kraken and Orberosia
A young and charming woman Penguin, the first to wear garments of chastity; she becomes Kraken's consort.
VI: The Dragon of Alca
The most beautiful of the Penguins, she has disappeared and is feared devoured by the dragon.
VII: The Dragon of Alca
Mentioned as the fairest of the Penguins, mangled by the dragon's teeth.
IX: The Dragon of Alca
Engages in secret affairs with Marcel and a neatherd; overhears the proclamation about the dragon and becomes concerned for Kraken.
XI: The Dragon of Alca
Spins wool in the cavern, listens to Kraken's complaints, and devises a plan for her to pose as the virgin who will 'overthrow' the dragon.
XII: The Dragon of Alca
Claims to have survived the dragon and to have received a divine revelation; she will subdue the dragon with her girdle.
XII: The Dragon of Alca
Tames the dragon with her linen girdle, later becomes a saint and patron of Penguinia.
II: Draco the Great
The virgin saint whose relics are transferred to Alca by Draco the Great; she appears to a peasant to demand restoration of her sanctuary.
Queen Crucha
St. Orberosia's shrine is carried in procession during the Porpoise siege of Alca.
I: Mother Rouquin
St. Orberosia, the patron saint of Penguinia, whose shrine is desecrated and relics burned; Mother Rouquin saves ashes and bones claiming they are her relics.

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