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[color=FA8072]Name:[/color] Viridiana Ralei 

[color=FA8072]Age:[/color] Thirty-Eight Summers 

[color=FA8072]Titles:[/color]  Duchess of Andalia, Lady Viridiana of Caerleon. 

[color=FA8072]Origin:[/color] Viridiana come from the House of Skyr,  one of the second tier houses that always seemed to be in flux  when it came to position in the games of houses. Her marriage into the Ralei family has help to secure it a more promenade place in the games.  
[color=FA8072]Allegiance:[/color] House Ralei, and House Skyr
[color=FA8072]Family:[/color][hider=Family]
Euric Ralei -- Husband
Viktor Summers – Step Son
Jaelyn Ralei- Eldest child and Daughter 
Arthur Ralei --  Eldest Son
Cassiopeia Ralei --  Youngest Daughter 
Cygnas Skyr-  Father 
Ellinora Skyr-Mother
Edgar Skyr- Brother and Lord of Skyr
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[color=fa8072]Appearance:[/color] The portrait you see is an old one, painted the day after she married  Euric at age 19. Not much has changed as the years passed by. Her skin has become more lined and her hair   has added a few strands of grey. 

[color=FA8072]Personality:[/color] Viridiana was never given much opportunity to ...develop a personality as a child. As her suitors changed, her parents would train her to be what her husband found most attractive. Full of "He likes funny girls, be funny," or "He likes silent girls, be still and seen, but not heard." Later in her life she found that, on more than one occasion, the necklines on her dresses suddenly started plunging  with one suitor and choking her when she met the next one. 

After getting married, however, she found that she could be...whomever she wanted for the first time. She tried on many different roles with her husband, but found the one  that suited them both best, was confident, mother to their children and political partner. 

[color=FA8072]Background:[/color] Viridiana had been engaged more times then she cared to count  starting from the day she was born and ending when she finally took Euric’s cloak. It was exciting, the first few times, everyone getting excited, sending for a wedding dress to be made.  Occasionally the dress would be created before the wedding was called off, for one reason or another.  

It was because of that, that she was virtually indifferent to her marriage to Euric, hardly bothering to meet the man, simply assuming it ‘wouldn’t’ work out. It took till after her wedding night to finally hit her, she was…married. After being let down so many times, she'd never given much thought to what happened [i]after[/i] the wedding. That was perhaps for the best, as she was never let down by what she found. 

Her husband was...dutiful, of which she was skeptical of even if she only listened to half the rumors that were said.  It was also clear that he saw her a duty, if nothing else, so she aimed to make herself a duty that he would mind so much. 
It was clear, on more than on occasion as they bedded, that it was always another who held his mind. 

Things got happier, once her children were born. Each more wonderful than the next and the light in her world.  And each fiercely protected from false betrothals. 

Perhaps the only true negative was Viktor Summers. The bastard child that Euric constantly protected.  Viridiana never saw him as a threat to her children, they were the true-born heirs and nothing could be changed about that. But she saw him  as threat to her husband. The boy so clearly was able to play his father like a fiddle, yet Euric could not be convinced to see his eldest son in that light. Had Viridiana had it her way, they would have payed the boy, and his mother, a handsome sum to simply go away. 

Yet that didn't happen. And the shadow remaind. 

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