It is written that in service to the Dream, the kuria Kalé is a bit fun mavin and a bit authenticity mavin, an Hellenic near-contemporary of the Saxon Abbess Hildegard, finding quiet illumination in arts and letters at the close of the eleventh century. She enjoyeth erudite discussion of Antiquity, the more ancient the better, and is one who doth delight as well in many an arcane Philosophy...

In the Midsummer season of A.S. XXXII, Kalé contracted to serve as Herald for the Shire of Granholme, having arrived the prior year in this remote land with a household of traders, courtesans, and emissaries from the Imperial Roman Court in Constantinople.

She was born to the learned Sarantenos family near the venerable Phrygian city of Gordiana in the autumn of the eleventh year of the reign of Constantine IX Monomachus. On the eve of her birth the slender horns of the new crescent moon conjoined the Virgin's Spike of Wheat, even as the fiducial Follower Star called Oculis Tauri arose upon the eastern horizon, a most fortunate portent in the heavens!

Her unusual learning in ancient texts on astrology, perfumes, oils, and herbal preparations brought her at young age to the attention of the Augusta Eudocia in the glorious Second Rome, and she has remained a confidante of the gynaeconitis, said to be steeped in many an intrigue and many a forbidden art.

The Augusta Eirene did send Kalé in the company of a delegation to Sicily and the West entrusting her clandestinely with the mission of retrieving certain rare manuscripts for the Imperial archives. Said scrolls, tablets, and codices purport to expound lost arts known to disciples of Pythagoras as well as many noteworthy observations by the sage of Tyana, Apollonios, recounting wondrous mysteries of the extreme Orient.

Her mundane or not-so-mundane life in the present era: Though a New Englander by birth, she lived for several decades in Maryland, obtaining a highly eclectic education in Physics, History, and Political Science at Johns Hopkins and Towson Universities. She was employed for sixteen years in various data processing technical support positions with Baltimore County Government; has been married and divorced; identifies as a humanist skeptic, having coined the term Paramythia to categorize that sense of awe forming common ground for rationalist and believer alike. Cybele delights in reading, web-surfing, classical music, mythology, museums, teas and culinary arts, languages, philosophy, intellectual societies, and the joys of family and friends. After visits and deepening friendship, she joined the Lansberry family in the summer of 1994, honored to share a life whose joys would be the envy of any Empress of Rome!