Talia Delemos

Talia Delemos was a Sister of Aveces who was known for having 31 children over the course of her life time. She is the birth mother of the current Abbess Superior for the Sisterhood of the Loving Mother, Yanira Delemos.    Talia was born in northern Irocra in 1193. Her mother and father were both enflux artists who instilled in Talia and her three brothers a strong faith in the Indorai religion. From a young age Talia displayed a spirit of creativity that those around her claimed could only be a gift from Aveces herself. Though she learned enflux artistic techniques from her parents, such as painting and drawing, her true passion was fashion and costumery.   On the day she turned 17, Talia presented at the Monastary of the Loving Mother to take the vows of a novice. She recieved some training in the blessing rituals associated with agriculture and healing, but the Sisterhood recognized her talent and assigned her to a more creative specialization. She traveled to many temples around Irocra, learning about the symbolism of the traditional Indorai plays and how local fashions influenced how those symbols were presented. While traveling as a novice she would become pregnant for the first of twelve times and in 1211 she would give birth to her first set of triplets. Though it was seen as a blessing, it did delay her taking the vows of full sisterhood until 1213.   Upon taking her vows, Talia was assigned to the temple in Teneleva, a wealthy capital suburb with a culture very different from the northern one she had grown up in. Shortly after moving to Teneleva she would become pregnant for her second time. Between 1214 and 1233 Talia would give birth to six sets of twins, two sets of triplets, a set of quadruplets, and a set of quintuplets. Two sets of twins were born as part of the Sisterhood's surrogacy services, and as tales of Talia's fertility spread, families in the surrounding areas clamoured to adopt her children who were seen as particularly blessed by Aveces. While her children would be what she became known for, Talia played an important role in planning and preparing for temple-sponsored festivals and rituals during her entire tenure.   Shortly after the announcement of what would be her final pregnancy in 1235, Talia had a prophetic dream she believed to be from Menudo. In it, he claimed that although her many pregnancies had been blessed by Aveces, his mother's rampant desire to create had gotten out of hand. To maintain the balance of the world, as was his eternal task, he had determined that Talia would have to terminate the life currently inside her womb or she would be visited by Siempre during childbirth. Only she or the single baby she carried (the only time she had carried anything less than twins) would survive. The choice was hers to make. Over the course of her pregnancy Menudo would visit her many times in her dreams, counseling her on the decision and giving her a vision of the future that would lie ahead for her or her unborn child. None of his counsel changed Talia's mind, however, as she was already firm in her decision to bring the new life blessed by Aveces into the world.   When Talia went into labor for the last time, all seemed to be normal. If anything, it was perhaps her easiest birth given that she was carrying a single baby. Shortly after she slipped into a trance-like state. Those attending her bedside observed she seemed to be talking to the Great Mothers. The last words she spoke were "Betdá kolhinso. Sanor go'flidoti manta, Odesiem." and then she collapsed fully onto the bed, her heart having stopped. The doctor was unable to determine a physical cause of death and declared it to be divine intervention.   Talia's final child, a girl named Yanira, was not put up for adoption like the rest of her children. The council of the Sisterhood decided that the remarkable events surrounding Yanira's birth meant that she was destined for greatness within the order and, as such, would be raised as the youngest full sister the order had ever seen.