Alasta

Alasta is the elder daughter of the Maharani and a young, hands‑on military princess who has been put in charge of the capital’s recently initiated city‑wall project; competent and pragmatic, she drives strategic defense initiatives (particularly the landward works and concerns about the river approaches) but defers technical and covert inquiries to specialists—notably summoning Suvatra when the wall was sabotaged—so she functions as a political commander rather than an engineer. She personally inspected the blast sites after the explosions linked to the saurian engineer Mikhailovich, coordinates with the palace guard and local captains, appears in public only when useful (a brief appearance at Princess Miranel’s ball), and balances deference to the spymaster with decisive operational oversight; politically she is clearly trusted by the court, active in defense planning during the slith war, and positioned as a central figure in succession and security conversations around the Maharani.

(summarized with chat GPT)