Urna Semper

URNA ARTEMIDORA CALEOPE SEMPER (“Terpusa” 838, “Urna” 840, later URNA KONKUBINO ZAMORANOINO [man. 868]) 21 Trankvilo 811 - 11 Nocturno 900 (presumed). Born Argoshaan, fully recognized daughter of TIZIANO ANDROKLE GONZALO SEMPER (769 - 832) and “Peruŝa”, later PERUŜA KONKUBINO SEMPERINO [man. 832] (dvsl 793 - 860)

Urna Semper was born in the Bells district of Argoshaan.

Her family was of the epistarchal caste, fourth partum, literary class, in the scrivenery lineage. She was one of five fully recognized children, three to ESABELA CAPTRINA VELAPORO, one to “Peruŝa”, and one to “Margaris”; and six half-recognized children. Her elder sister, ZMARAGDA SEMPER, is noted for her marriage into the aristoi caste and for her brave and dangerous descent to the surface of Neith in a specially designed space-faring dirigible. Her elder brother MORISCANO SEMPER was the inventor of a new form of shorthand for legal proceedings in Argoshaan, later adopted elsewhere. Her half-recognized younger sister SOPHA SEMPERINO (dtr “Peruŝa) was attached to the State Opera, as first a dancer, then a singer, and then later as a composer ("Lilith Paya"; "Volontos"; "Bride of Stars") and instructor, with a long personal attachment to the noted castrato FILIMIGNO BRAZAS.

Urna was an intelligent, quietly attractive, but somewhat unremarkable girl, who went to Argoshaan Girls Ephemerea North. Her friends recalled her as “dreamy and unfocused” (S. VALIGA, "My Morning with Urna"), a poet, and fond of writing brief stories about animals, nymphs, and satyrs, but also a good friend, willing to stand up to higher-class and partum girls for herself and weaker classmates. She was noted for having ecstatic religious visions and other, more ambiguous seeings, especially after she turned thirteen. She complained of feeling as if she were in space or around distant stars, or reported visions of the remote past. She was assumed to be either faking or ill; however, her father took her to see at least one mentist who reported that her biointellectual mind was normal, and found nothing that a psychlothe could resection. This was about the time of the arrival (821) of the starship from Epsilon Indi, and it was later assumed, since no one could later recall (or never knew) when her visions began, that she suffered a mild form of feminine hysteria brought on by the event.

In any event, the starship was sent on its way with its cargo by 825, and the visions tapered off briefly. By 828, Urna had entered the Argoshaan Women’s Academy, and there it was, after a sudden series of intense theosophic mental events, that she wrote her first novel.

It is a peculiarity of her biography that her theosophic mental events apparently resulted in many of these novels being projected to other minds, and printed on other worlds in other times. Their readers have found a world that is more elaborate, more complex, more beautiful than they have ever expected.

The books, as translated in these other worlds, are a unique blend of dystopian fantasy, sensual exploration, science fiction, and Urna’s unflinching focus on the darker corners of human existence. They have earned her a dedicated following of readers who appreciate her fearless approach to storytelling. She continues to explore the intricate dynamics of power and vulnerability, weaving complex tales in the world of Iphigenia and beyond, leaving readers captivated by the depths of her imagination and the remarkable experiences of the Iphigenians whose lives she has recorded.