Coriandra I

Last updated Feb 3, 2026

• Character
• Matriarch
• Morellic

Coriandra I (Kuryandaran Nêrû) is a semi-mythologised figure of Morellic history. She was a priestess and matriarch of the Moreillu clan of the Mora tribe, and the founder of the House of Coriander. She was born at the end of the neolithic revolution as Minikin began to utilise bronze, farm crops, and keep livestock.

• Full Name:
  • Old Sarvaran: Morêllun Kuryandaran Pûrunaquiyon eyana
  • Classical Sarvaran: Moréillų Kúryądárą Páurunapíyǫ eyán
  • English: Moreillu Coriandra, daughter of Elkwort
• Titles:
  • Coriandra I
  • Priestess and Matriarch of Moreillu
  • High Matriarch of the House of Coriander
• Gender: Female
• Born: c. 12 PC (Prior to the Coriandric era)
• Died: c. 34 YC (Year of the Coriandric era) (aged ~46)
• Caste: Priestess Noble
• Reign: c. 1 YC - c. 34 YC
• Predecessor:
  • Priestess and Matriarch of Moreillu: Elkwort
  • High Matriarch of the House of Coriander: role established

Coriandra was born in the Autumn of 12 PC to her mother, Priestess and Matriarch of the Moreillu clan of the Mora tribe, Elkwort (Paurunapiyo), who was aged 16 (24 in human years).

At this time, the clan resided in the sub-equatorial steppe, and herded Yurikh Goats as a group of pastoralist nomads. They subsisted mainly on livestock, wild plants, and the hunting of animals, only beginning to form a basic grasp on the practice of planting wild seeds in anticipation of the harvest. They would typically not reside in one location for longer than a year, and would only construct temporary settlements.

Elkwort died when Coriandra was young, around 6 years of age (9 in human years), after being wounded by a war party of the Neth tribe. This instilled a strong hatred of Nethic people in Coriandra. Elkwort’s role as matriarch and priestess was assumed by Coriandra’s aunt, Rowan, until Coriandra reached adulthood and was coronated at 12 years of age in the year 1 YC. Coriandra’s reign was the first of the house of Coriander and the Coriandric calendar era.

The day before the ceremony of Coriandra’s coronation, Rowan made an attempt on Coriandra’s life in order to keep hold of power. It is said that Coriandra was so faithful that she was granted clairvoyance of the conspiracy, and prayed that Rowan’s plot be hindered. As Coriandra was shaving her head in the evening, she kept a Watchstone amulet with her, which she then used against her aunt as she attempted to drive a blade into her back. Upon seeing this, the Petrified Child came and turned Rowan into dirt. The testimony of this was told by Coriandra at her coronation, and was one of the foundational events that instilled worship of the child among the Morellic people.

Coriandra’s adulthood came at the height of a famine that drove many to turn to thievery and pillaging and to form war parties, such as the Nethic groups that had murdered her mother. As Nethic groups migrated further inland from the west in search of food and resources, the Mora were driven further and further south. In roughly the 10th year of Coriandra’s reign, the Mora travelled over the Jana mountains into the Sarvaran river basin, which was then inhabited by the Diira tribe. The migration spanned roughly half a century, but the Morellic nobles had finished crossing the mountains by around the 20th year of Coriandra’s reign.

The Diira were a tribe of minikin who were sedentary proto-farmers.