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Imperious matriarch of the shattered House Bellona and Cassius's mother, now the Ash Lord's emissary of peace.
Julia au Bellona is the bitter, regal matriarch of the once-great House Bellona, destroyed in its blood feud with House Augustus, and mother of Cassius and of Julian—the boy Darrow beat to death in a stone room at the Institute sixteen years ago. Having never forgiven Mustang for sitting at the Bellona table and then turning her back on them, she travels a month to appear as Dancer's surprise witness before the Republic Senate. There she reveals the secret Darrow buried: during the Siege of Mercury the Ash Lord and the Society's War Council sent emissaries—herself among them—to the Morning Star seeking an armistice to discuss a permanent peace, and Darrow answered with an Iron Rain, hiding the offer from his own government.
A tall, imperious Gold woman of later years, a head taller than most Wardens, serene and slight despite her height, with gold-mesh-caged spun hair, a golden eagle collar, a full black gown, and a single curved Peerless scar on her regal, bitter face.
Bellona matriarch and Society emissary; the messenger whose testimony detonates Darrow's hidden peace offer.