Chapter 94: For Our Inheritors Standing Before Us

''Princess Asta Rhonda Haddock (November 10, AD 1042-October 16, AD 1122), the firstborn child of Hiccup and Wulfhild Haddock, was an early Norse scientist of the Dragon Era, whose areas of interest included biology, anatomy, botany, mathematics, geology, paleontology, and cartography. Taught by her father, she also completed a full course of education at Waterford University. As one of the foremost early alumni of that institution, she achieved formal recognition as a Master of Natural Philosophy three times over during the course of her career (and is considered to be the founder of the fields of modern geology and paleontology as a result, based on her published studies of the fossils and sedimentary layers of Europa and the northern Vestrilands), in addition to the collaborative research work she engaged in, especially with her other siblings.''

While she advised her half-sister, the Empress Valka II, on scientific matters, she actively shunned involvement into politics, viewing them as a distraction from her scientific work…

''—Asta Rhonda Haddock (n.d.) In Wikikenna. Retrieved May 26, 1855''

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Epigraph Tie-In

 * The epigraph gives a brief summary of Asta's biography. The chapter shows Asta's birth.

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