Born in Meridian in 3055 from the union between a Carja nobleman and a commoner, Dailah Khane Jageer lived a relatively worry-free childhood until the deaths of her three older siblings under Jiran's reign, when she began to feel the pressure to keep her head down, be a proper noblewoman, and continue her family bloodline.

She tried her best to live up to expectations, but she was still singled out and rejected due to her odd, obsessive interests and lack of social skills. Her real passion lied in the holos stored in a Focus she had gotten as a child, which convinced her that the Old Ones hadn't died off, but instead used their tech to escape to the skies.

Finally growing sick of being dismissed as crazy for her theories, Dailah ran away from home and made a last desperate plea to Avad for funding for her research. His rejection was the last straw - from then on, she'd stop at nothing to prove everyone was wrong about her.

Following neither Sun nor Shadow, but starlight, she's perfectionistic, curious, passionate, and resolute to a fault, but careless, increasingly so as she comes into her own and comes to take pride in defying the status quo.

Fics I've written about her: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3812656