[b]Name[/b]
[indent]Vaella Vaelaros[/indent]
[b]Age[/b]
[indent]19[/indent]
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[b]Personality[/b]
[indent]Thoughtful and solemn for one still so young. She tries very hard to emulate the sort of behavior and mannerisms she observes in her elders. Vaella keeps an air of mystery about herself. She is observant and an astute learner, eager to know all that can be known about her duties and about her beliefs. Around those with whom she can relax, that persona can break, smiles and laughter are not foreign to her. Given her late start into her tutelage, she is often worried that she is not good enough, that she will disappoint not only her teachers or her father, but her god as well.[/indent]
[b]Biography[/b]
[indent]Born to a merchant prince and a priestess of the Lyseni love goddess, Vaella was raised in her father’s home, a strange occurrence which was a fact she was aware of from a young age. She never knew her father before his conversion to the Lord of Light, and her youth was not spent bonding with her father. She was much closer to her grandfather, Baerion, wounded as he was by an event Vaella was unaware of. 

For a time, the young Vaelaros woman thought she might spite her father and follow in her mother’s footsteps. She snuck out through the city on more than one occasion in an attempt to find her mother at the goddess’ temple. It was always a journey that ended in no discovery, just a lecture from her father. 

When she was twelve, Baerion passed away. It was a hard loss to the girl, for though she had come to follow her father’s beliefs, he was very much a stranger to her. It was her grandfather who had comforted her when she was hurt or sad. His death would come to be the moment her life changed. Baerion had kept his son on a leash when it came to how able Haegon was to express his beliefs. Within a week of his father’s death, Haegon ordered any child born of the prostitutes be sent to the Temple. And where Baerion had ensured the same could not be done to Vaella, she was given to the Temple do with as they saw fit within a month of Baerion’s death.

Vaella resented her father, in a way, for his decision. She was much older than the other children either given or sold to the Temple. She was far behind in many ways. Much like her father, though, her faith was strong, as was her will to perform. She finally had certainty about her future, for which she was grateful, and although she won’t readily admit it, she hoped that in being raised to a Red Priestess would make her father proud. 

<training montage here, tbc>[/indent]