Biography

Delenn was educated in the temple system. She was an eager student, always questioning and challenging her teachers, two of whom, Draal and Turval, became lifelong friends. She probably met her good friend, the noted poet, Mayan, in the temple. Delenn devoted much of her studies to the life and prophecies of Valen, the greatest of all Minbari. Her interest was probably sparked by an incident when she was about 3 years old. While on a visit to the capital city, Yedor, Delenn became separated from her parents. Frightened and tired, she ran into an old, abandoned temple on a side street where she fell asleep hoping her parents would find her. When she awoke, she saw a man standing bright against the darkness. It was Valen, who told her he would "not allow any harm to come to his little ones in his great house." A few moments later, her frantic parents rushed in. Delenn did not learn until years later that she was actually "a child of Valen," a descendant of Sinclair, the human who became Valen, "the Minbari not born of Minbari."

Delenn left the temple at the human equivalent of age 17 and became an acolyte, serving the Grey Council, the ruling body of Minbar, for ten years. Her long and close friendship with Branmer, of the Religious Caste, who became a leader of the Warrior Caste during the Earth/Minbari war, probably dates from this time. Continuing her studies of the prophecies, she became more and more convinced that some of the prophecies referred to her, but she did not know what, if anything, she should do.

Dukhat, the leader of the Grey Council, took an interest in her, at first because of her heritage. When the Minbari received word of a new race, the humans, and the Council refused to make contact with them, Dukhat ordered Delenn to explain to the Council why they should find out about the new race. She replied that since the universe had presented them with a mystery, it would be impolite to refuse to investigate. Afterward, Dukhat made her his aide since her comments had shown up the others and no one else would mentor her. The two became close. At his behest, she studied, as far as possible, the humans, who would play a part in Valen’s prophecies. Eventually, Delenn was chosen to fill a vacancy on the Council. The day of her formal initiation was also the day the Earth/Minbari War began.

Just before she became a member of the Grey Council, Delenn discovered that Dukhat was hiding a Vorlon on the Council ship. At the same time, Anla’shok Na (Ranger One) Lennan, the leader of the Rangers, informed them that according to Valen, the time was growing near for the Shadows to reappear. The Warrior Caste protested that it was only legend and they needed proof before they would do anything. Delenn suggested sending a ship to Z’ha’dum to see if there was any activity and Dukhat decided the Council ship would make the journey. But first, Delenn was sworn into the Council. During the ceremony, when she touched the Triluminary, the most sacred relic of the Minbari, it glowed, thus confirming her descent from Valen.

Later that day, when a strange ship with strange markings were sighted, Delenn identified it as a human ship. The Grey Council ship went to meet them with gun ports open, according to the customs of the Warrior Caste, to show they had nothing to hide. Dukhat tried to countermand the order, but it was too late. The human captain panicked at the sight of the open gun ports and opened fire. Before the Minbari ship could respond, the Earth ship fled. Among the dead and injured aboard the Council ship was their leader, Dukhat. He died in Delenn’s arms before he could tell her of her heritage.

The Council was divided: should they wait, try to find out what happened, or should they pursue the ship that killed Dukhat. Delenn held the deciding vote. Delenn, mad with grief, screamed at them to hunt down the butchers, kill them all, no mercy. By the time she regained her senses, it was too late. The war had begun, a war in which the Minbari, bent on destruction, would give no quarter.

Delenn, remembering Dukhat’s advice to look at the face of a Vorlon when she despaired, met Kosh and Ulkesh (Kosh II) for the first time when she entered Dukhat’s private sanctum. There she heard his last message, urging her to seek out the humans because they were important for the coming struggle against the Shadows. But the Minbari were well on the way to wiping out all the humans. Trying to find an end to the war, Delenn sent Lennan to meet secretly with the humans.

The meeting, arranged by the Narn, who were selling arms to Earth, was attacked by the Centauri. Lennan was mortally wounded, but before he died, he gave the humans information that would save their lives when they were captured by the Minbari who would come for him. When he was brought before Delenn before his execution, John Sheridan revealed that ‘the future’ was in Dukhat’s sacred place. Delenn, knowing that only Lennan could have told him that, ordered the prisoners released because she had seen enough killing that day. This was her first meeting with the love of her life, although neither knew it at the time.

The war continued and Delenn despaired. In 2248, the humans gathered for a final, hopeless battle to hold the line around Earth. They were on the brink of annihilation, the way to Earth clear, when Delenn, desperate to stop the slaughter, appealed to the Vorlons for help. Kosh told her "the truth points to itself." Unsure what to do, she decided to bring one of the humans aboard her ship to interrogate in an attempt to learn Earth defenses, and also to delay the inevitable. Her choice, the closest Starfury, ‘pointed to itself’ and the Minbari discovered Jeffrey Sinclair, a human, had the soul of Valen. Since Minbari do not kill Minbari, Delenn ordered the immediate surrender of all Minbari forces. The true reason for the surrender was kept secret for many years.

After the war, Satai Delenn was instrumental in securing Minbari support for the Babylon Project, the Earth space station that would act as neutral territory for all races to meet and try to solve problems. As a condition of their financial support, the Minbari demanded approval of the first commander of Babylon 5, the fifth and only surviving station. To the surprise of Earth Gov, the Minbari insisted on Sinclair. When the station went online in 2257, Delenn was there, ostensibly as the Minbari ambassador. Her real mission was to observe Sinclair and see that he did not regain his memory of the events when he was their prisoner. If he did, her orders were to kill him.

Delenn and Sinclair became good friends, helping each other deal with the many problems, political and personal, they faced, beginning with her help with the Vorlons when he was accused of trying to assassinate Kosh, the Vorlon ambassador. Sinclair saved her life when a deranged Soul Hunter tried to kill her. And Delenn talked him out of firing at his own men when he was fleeing the effects of the virtual reality net where he had been entrapped. It was also during this time that Delenn first learned of the fate of Babylon 4 and the role it played in the first Shadow war, but she told no one for fear of altering history.

Delenn also became friends with Michael Garibaldi, the new security chief of Babylon 5. He became her tutor in some of the popular aspects of human culture such as cartoon vids and popcorn. He also taught her limericks and various expressions that are not usually heard in polite company. At the beginning of April, 2258, that friendship was tested when Delenn’s childhood friend, Mayan, was badly injured by human terrorists and Delenn blamed security for failing to protect the poet.

Delenn met Lennier, of the Third Fane of Chidomo, for the first time on 29 March 2258, when he arrived on Babylon 5 to be her aide. She told him to look up at her because she could not have an aide who was always walking into things, which Dukhat said to her when she became his aide. Just as Dukhat trained her, she planned to train Lennier. The young acolyte quickly became indispensable to her. Almost as quickly, he became her friend.

In June of 2258, Delenn was reunited with her old teacher and friend, Draal, when he came to

the station to say goodbye forever. He was ‘going to the sea,’ leaving his old life behind, to find a new purpose. Delenn and the Centauri ambassador, Londo Mollari, helped Draal take over for the dying controller of the Great Machine on Epsilon 3.

In July of that year, the Grey Council offered Delenn the leadership of the Council, the post previously held by Dukhat and vacant since his death. She became the first one to reject the position. Delenn felt that her place was on Babylon 5. The signs that the Shadows were preparing for war again were increasing and Delenn was surer than ever that Valen’s prophecies pointed at her. Before returning to the station, she received a Triluminary from a member of the Council. Sometime during the summer she began building the Chrysalis that would transform her in accordance with prophecy. On the first day of the new year, 2259, Delenn instructed Lennier to tell the commander of Babylon 5 the true reason for the surrender of the Minbari at the Battle of the Line and entered the Chrysalis.

When she emerged, with the help of Lennier and Dr. Stephen Franklin, a few weeks later, her only remaining Minbari feature was the top of her bonecrest which sat atop her very human hair like a tiara. She was shocked to discover Jeffrey Sinclair was gone, replaced as commander of Babylon 5 by Captain John Sheridan, the infamous Starkiller.

Delenn spent the next few months adjusting to her new body. It was not always an easy task. She would have been lost without the help of Susan Ivanova, who instructed Delenn in the sorts of things human women know from childhood, including how to care for her hair. The two women became lifelong friends. There were other problems that were not so easily solved.

The other Minbari on the station did not know what to make of her: was she still Minbari? The humans were confused too. They did not understand why she transformed. Delenn found herself increasingly isolated and alone except for Lennier. When she told the new commander that ‘we are the universe made manifest...trying to understand itself,’ Delenn was trying to persuade herself as well.

In April, Delenn received a message from Sinclair. He was now, the leader of the Rangers, and the Rangers were now training humans as well as Minbari to prepare for the coming struggle against the Shadows. Rangers were passing through Babylon 5 on various missions and Sinclair gave Delenn command over the Rangers in the sector.

In July of 2259, Delenn was summoned back to Minbar by the Grey Council, who charged her with disobeying their directives and undergoing the transformation without permission. She was stripped of her rank and dismissed from the Council. Delenn was dismayed to find that her replacement was from the Warrior Caste, which unbalanced the Council. Even worse, the Warrior chosen was Neroon, the one she had humiliated the year before. She was afraid he would prevent her from returning to Babylon 5, but he told her, with a sneer, that she was only fit now to be among humans. She returned to the station in time to help rescue Sheridan, who had been captured by the Streib.

Delenn discovered that humans did not view her transformation as a bridge between the two races when an ISN reporter told her that a human looking Minbari was seen as an insult to their dead by many humans. Delenn was shocked to tears. Prophecy had not prepared her for this.

Delenn and Sheridan worked more closely together providing covert aid, against the wishes of their respective governments, to the Narn civilian casualties of the Centauri. Their friendship and affection for each other deepened. When Sheridan was accused of murdering one of the Minbari on the station, Delenn, while officially calling for Sheridan’s trial, worked with Lennier to clear Sheridan. He repaid her trust by saving the honor of Lennier’s clan. When the Markab were dying of the Drafa plague, Delenn risked her life, and Lennier’s to provide what comfort she could. Sheridan, worried for her safety, nevertheless gave her permission to enter the quarantined area.

At the beginning of December, Delenn and Sheridan went to Epsilon 3 to meet with Draal, who offered the resources of the Great Machine to their struggle. Afterward, Delenn revealed the existence of the Rangers to Sheridan and gave him co-command in the Babylon 5 sector.

Delenn was in the center of the forces arrayed against the Shadows. To test her worthiness for such a task, the Vorlon, Kosh, summoned an inquisitor, none other than Jack the Ripper. He challenged her belief in prophecy and tried to make her admit that she valued the glory and not the cause. Sheridan, alerted by Lennier, tried to intervene. When Delenn offered to trade her life for the captain’s, and Sheridan demanded that the inquisitor take him and let Delenn go, both of them proved their worthiness. They were also falling in love with each other.

The beginning of the new year, 2260, the Shadows, with the help of the Centauri, were blockading the Ranger training camp on Zagros 7. Ranger Marcus Cole came to Babylon 5 to ask Delenn for help. Sheridan, commanding the White Star, the new ship based on Minbari and Vorlon technology, that was built by the Religious and Worker Castes for the Rangers, destroyed the blockade. He also destroyed a Shadow ship, which had never been done before. Sheridan then formed a war council with the senior staff and Delenn and Marcus. Later, Delenn enlisted Draal’s aid in a search for more First Ones to help in the struggle against the Shadows. Delenn also sent out Rangers to gather information on Shadow activities around the League worlds.

Sheridan and Delenn took the White Star to Earth space a few months later to prevent EarthGov from acquiring a Shadow vessel that had lain dormant on Ganymede for a thousand years. They were successful, but EarthGov blamed them for the destruction caused by the Shadow ship.

A few months later, while Babylon 5 was breaking away from Earth and awaiting an attack by Earth Force, a badly wounded Ranger, Drakhen, reported to Delenn that the Shadows were making inroads among the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. Many had allied themselves with the Shadows because of fear of the Centauri, and were encouraged to go to war against their neighbors. And the Grey Council refused to do anything, saying that the problems of others were not their concern. Delenn was incensed. Leaving Lennier to stand in for her on the station, she left for the Council ship, determined to confront them.

She accused the Grey Council of abandoning their principles, of ignoring the prophecies of Valen which they professed to believe just as those prophecies seemed to be coming true. If the Council would not take action, then the Council had no purpose any longer. Breaking the staff that signified the Council’s authority, Delenn swept out of the chamber, followed by the Religious and Worker Castes. Accompanied by three Minbari cruisers, Delenn returned to Babylon 5 in time to tell the attacking Earth Force ships to ‘be somewhere else’ if they didn’t want to be destroyed.

A few days later, while preparing for a rebirth ceremony for the command staff of the station, Delenn, along with one of the Minbari captains, was kidnapped by renegade remnants of Nightwatch who wanted to remove the Minbari cruisers that were protecting Babylon 5. While being rescued, Delenn deliberately ran between Sheridan and one of the kidnappers. The knife meant for the commander of the station landed in her back. Fortunately, it missed her vital organs. The command staff continued with the nafak’cha in Medlab.

During the summer of 2260, as the Shadows attacked openly for the first time, three events occurred that deeply affected Delenn. The first was the arrival on Babylon 5 of David McIntyre, the gunner on the Prometheus who fired the shots that started the Earth/Minbari war. Believing he was King Arthur, McIntyre had come to the station to return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake. Ranger Cole persuaded Delenn to accept the sword, thereby absolving the one who killed Duhkat. The war was finally over.

Later that month, Sheridan and Delenn finally agreed to admit G’Kar to the war council, but first someone had to tell him that the Narn were sacrificed to preserve the secrecy of the alliance against the Shadows. Delenn felt she had to be the one to tell G’Kar. It was one of the hardest things she had ever done.

In August, Kosh was killed by the Shadows after the Vorlons intervened directly, at his behest, in a battle against a Shadow fleet. Delenn had relied on Kosh whenever she doubted herself. Now that support was gone.

After Jeffrey Sinclair took Babylon 4 back in time a thousand years, becoming Valen along the way, to help the Minbari win the first Shadow war, the Rangers needed a new leader. Delenn was the logical choice, and, although she doubted it, she was also the right choice. She decided to hold the ceremony to make her Entil’Zha on Babylon 5 because it was time for the Rangers to come out in the open. The Warrior Caste, which had acquiesced when Sinclair was made Entil’Zha because they did not believe the Rangers were a viable or potent force. Now, that the Rangers had become a formidable fighting force, and would soon man a fleet of White Stars, the Warriors wanted one of their own as Ranger One. Neroon confronted Delenn and promised to stop her "by any means necessary." When Marcus Cole challenged Neroon to a fight to the death, knowing it would mean his own death, Neroon realized that Rangers would die for Delenn, but not for him. He spared Cole’s life.

By December of that year, the Shadow attacks had grown more frequent and more deadly. But the first wave of the White Stars was now ready and Delenn and Sheridan, who shared command with her, led the fleet, augmented by the ships of the League worlds, to a costly victory. The Army of Light lost two ships for every Shadow vessel destroyed.

In the midst of recovering from one battle and preparing for the next, Delenn and Sheridan started the Minbari mating rituals. Delenn watched while Sheridan slept. Until Anna Sheridan arrived. Sheridan agreed to accompany the wife he had thought long dead to Z’ha’dum even though he knew that she had been altered by the Shadows. After he left, Delenn received a message of love and regret from him. But it was too late. He was already lost in the abyss.

With Sheridan gone, the alliance began to fall apart as the member worlds withdrew their ships to protect their own territory. Delenn blamed herself for this, as well as for Sheridan’s death. If she had not concealed the possibility that Anna Sheridan was alive, Sheridan would not have gone to Z’ha’dum, she believed. Delenn mourned for him in the Minbari manner, fasting for up to two weeks even if her mostly human body could not take the strain. If mourning for him killed her, she would call it just.

Delenn changed her mind when she viewed an entry in the captain’s private log in which he admitted that he had fallen in love with her and there was no going back. She would lead the Rangers and the White Star fleet in a final battle against the Shadow home world. Some of the other races, particularly the Drazi tried to stop her, charging that her plan to attack Z’ha’dum was based on her desire to find Sheridan, who was surely dead. The arrival of Sheridan settled the matter. The alliance rallied to his call of fighting for a better future for all.

Sheridan had returned from the dead, but at a price. He would only have twenty years of life left and he wanted to spend that time with Delenn.

With both the Vorlons and the Shadows destroying whole worlds, Sheridan and Delenn were eager to bring the war to a quick end. Lorien, the First One who had saved Sheridan when he fell at Z’ha’dum, had a plan, but it depended on facing the Shadows and the Vorlons together. When the Rangers learned that the Vorlons would be attacking Corianna Six, Delenn reluctantly agreed with Sheridan to sacrifice a White Star and its crew to lure the Shadows there. The plan succeeded and the war ended with the departure of both the Shadows and the Vorlons beyond the rim.

Sheridan now turned his full attention to the struggle against Clark. But Delenn was recalled to Minbar by her clan to justify her decision to mate with an alien, a human, something no Minbari had ever done. When she discovered that she was a descendent of Valen, and thus not pure Minbari, she thought that would end the objections, but she was persuaded to conceal that fact for the good of her people. Instead, she agreed to the fiction that her mating with the human would be in the old tradition of one side giving a female in marriage to the other side to seal the peace after a war. Delenn returned to Babylon 5 and happily resumed the mating rituals with her human lover.

In late spring of 2261, while investigating reports of attacks against a Minbari protectorate, Delenn confronted the Drakh, the strongest and most dangerous of the Shadow minions to survive the destruction of Z’ha’dum. Although outnumbered and outgunned, her flight of White Stars prevailed. The circumstances of the attack, lured by a member of her own caste seeking revenge for the death of his family, led her thoughts back to Minbar.

After Delenn broke the Grey Council the previous year, the warrior caste decided to take power. When the other castes objected, fighting broke out. For the first time in a thousand years, not since the coming of Valen, Minbari were killing Minbari.

With the help of her old enemy, Neroon, who was as appalled by the slaughter as she, Delenn devised a stratagem to end the civil war. She would challenge the leader of the Warrior Caste, Shakiri to undergo the ordeal of the Starfire Wheel in the Temple of Varaini, in the way leaders were chosen in the time before Valen. When Shakiri refused to follow her into fire and into death, Neroon taunted his chief, accusing him of cowardice. Shakiri agreed, but endured the burning heat for only a few minutes before running out of the Wheel. Delenn had won. But she did not leave the Wheel as planned. She was willing to die to prove the worthiness of her clan. Neroon rushed in, lifted Delenn from the floor where she had collapsed and passed her out of the fire to Lennier. Then, declaring that the calling of his heart was Religious, and urging the people to listen to Delenn, Neroon was consumed.

Delenn created a new Grey Council, one with a majority of Worker Caste members because religion and the military should serve the people and not the other way round. She spent the summer on Minbar assisting in the rebuilding of the society and recovering from her burns.

Delenn returned to Babylon 5 just before Sheridan was captured by Clark’s forces. She assumed command of the station and when Ivanova was mortally wounded in battle, Delenn led the fleet until Sheridan’s escape. And in the final battle, Delenn stood once again on the command deck of a Minbari cruiser in human space, this time to free Earth.

While Sheridan waited on Earth for the decision of the Joint Chiefs regarding himself and his crew, Delenn presented a proposal to the League of Non Aligned Worlds to dissolve and reform as a new Interstellar Alliance with the Anla’shok as an independent military force open to all Alliance members. The League accepted and voted Sheridan its first president. Delenn was elected vice president and head of the Advisory Council. The headquarters of the new Alliance would be on Babylon 5 until facilities on Minbar were constructed.

Delenn joined Sheridan on Earth to invite the new government to join the Alliance, offering Minbari technology as an incentive. After Sheridan formally resigned his commission, Delenn and Sheridan returned to Babylon 5 on a White Star. They were married in a private ceremony on the way.

Delenn’s responsibilities increased within the new Alliance. As Entil’Zha, she had to make sure that the new Ranger recruits from the other worlds were smoothly integrated, not an easy task, especially when it came to the Pak’ma’ra. As Vice president, she shared the workload and the decision making with the President, and as head of the Advisory Council, she had to deal with broad policy issues. And she was still the Minbari Ambassador to Babylon 5 and to the Alliance. She was also overseeing the construction of the new Alliance headquarters - and the presidential compound - on Minbar. All this, while learning to adjust to married life and the idiosyncrasies of her new husband.

At the same time, Delenn lost her close friend and invaluable aide, Lennier. Unable to accept her marriage to another with his usual equanimity, Lennier joined the Rangers in the vain hope that he could make himself into the sort of man she could love. Delenn refused to choose a replacement for Lennier, hoping that he would eventually return.

Raiders preying on Alliance shipping were the biggest problem facing the leadership of the ISA. Attacks such as those on the Enfilli, with Drazi complicity, were easily stopped by a show of force, a policy Delenn recommended. But the majority were a more serious problem. Alliance members found contradictory indications after raider destruction. The Drazi found pieces of Brakiri ships, the Gaim of Drazi ships. It was clear that a third party was leaving false evidence. When there was credible evidence that the Centauri were responsible, Delenn secretly assigned Lennier to a Ranger training cruise on the borders of Centauri space to find conclusive proof, which he did.

When war broke out between the Alliance and the Centauri, who had denounced the evidence as fabrications, Delenn was on a White Star on the way to Minbar to propose a joint venture with Earth to build a new generation of warships. The White Star was attacked, most of the crew killed, and Lennier was wounded. Only the intervention of Londo Mollari, who was now emperor, saved her. Although they could not prove it, Sheridan and Delenn suspected that one or more of the Shadow allies were behind the war.

Upon her return to Babylon 5, Delenn discovered she was pregnant after she unaccountably fainted while talking to Sheridan and Dr. Franklin. Still not completely familiar with her human body, and since the departure of Susan Ivanova, not having any close human female friends she could talk to, Delenn had no suspicion of her condition. She and her husband were delighted.

By the middle of September, 2262, the new headquarters for the ISA was ready. Lennier arrived on the station to accompany the First Couple to their new home on Minbar. When an accident aboard their White Star trapped Sheridan, Lennier acted on impulse and left Delenn’s husband to die. He repented almost immediately and ran back to help, but the damage was done. Sheridan knew what had happened, and why. Unable to face Delenn, Lennier stole a flyer and fled. Delenn was devastated, both by the betrayal and the loss of her friend. She spoke to him one last time, after her arrival on Minbar, when Lennier called to say that he would spend the rest of his life trying to become worthy of her forgiveness.

Delenn and Sheridan settled into their new life on Minbar, and in due course, she gave birth to their only child, a son named David. * Delenn was a fond mother, preferring to have David near her while she worked, rather than leaving him with nurses or sitters, until he started his formal education.

Over the next sixteen years, Delenn worked with Sheridan to build and strengthen the Interstellar Alliance, through the Telepath War and the Drakh plague and all the other vicissitudes of the age. Under her leadership, the Anla’shok grew in stature and prestige, to become a unifying force among the worlds.

In 2278, on David’s sixteenth birthday, the Drakh keeper that had lain dormant in Londo’s gift all those years attached itself to the boy and forced him to run away to Centauri Prime where he was imprisoned by Emperor Mollari.. His parents followed, offering themselves in exchange for their son. After the Drakh agreed, Delenn was allowed to see her son before he returned home. Thrust into the same cell as her husband so they could say goodbye, Delenn assured him that their son was safe. She was not afraid to die, as long as Sheridan was with her. To her surprise, Sheridan revealed that he was the captain who time shifted from the White Star at Babylon 4. When he had told her of this, long ago, she had not really believed him. Now, she saw it was true. There, deep in the dungeons of Centauri Prime, Delenn tried to reverse the past, warning her beloved not to go to the Shadow home world. But it was not to be. And a part of her knew it.

When they returned to Minbar after Londo released them, they redeemed their pledge to free his people. After driving out the Drakh, they aided Emperor Vir in rebuilding his world.

Sheridan refused to stand for reelection as president later that year. Delenn was chosen and she resigned as head of the Rangers. She was sworn in as the second president of the Alliance on January 16, 2279. Sheridan replaced her as Ranger One. A year later, their son began training with the Anla’shok.

On December 28, 2280, Delenn faced a day she had long dreaded. Sheridan was close to the end of the twenty years of life granted him by Lorien. It was time to send out the invitations to one last party to say goodbye to their old friends. During the celebration on the seventh of January, Delenn asked General Susan Ivanova of Earth Force to take over the Rangers. The next morning, Delenn, dressed in Sunday finery, took her final farewell of the man she still dearly loved. She would not see him in this life again.

Delenn remained president of the Interstellar Alliance until her friend, Susan, died. Then, tired of public life, Delenn retired to spend the rest of her life in seclusion in a temple on Minbar.

In January of 2362, Delenn made her last journey to Earth, to defend the memory of her beloved husband, under attack by the petty and the ignorant. She reminded the world that John Sheridan was a good and kind man. She returned to Minbar where she passed beyond the veil and into legend in her hundred and fortieth year.