Veridel
Scion Lady Veridel Uiry
Forty-seven years ago, Lady Veridel was away at boarding school with her little brother Oirel when a strange visitor came to Uiry Manor and murdered every member of her family and household staff in one of Absalom’s most gruesome unsolved mysteries. House Uiry, which is to say Veridel and Oirel, did their best to weather the storm and hold the family’s business interests together after the stunning tragedy, but this proved impossible.
As soon as he came of age, Oirel enlisted in the First Guard to lower his financial burden on his older sister. Veridel, who refused to ever again step foot in the family’s Petal District mansion, nonetheless approved trusted caretakers to open the opulent home as a museum commemorating the grisly crime. In the years since, Veridel has attempted to ride her family’s slide into oblivion as gracefully as possible. Unmarried and without children, she sees no future for her family. At her brother’s insistence she has not yet submitted to the final indignity of selling off noble titles, but if not for Oirel’s flat rejection of the idea Veridel would have resorted to it years ago. As time goes on, and especially after her beloved Oirel died defending Fort Tempest during the Black Echelon Uprising three years ago, Veridel has come to believe that her family is cursed.
The unexpected public celebration of Oirel’s martyrdom, and the considerable charitable donations that came with it, gave Veridel a sliver of optimism, but she wears it uneasily, like an unfamiliar cloak. Oirel, newly resurrected and back in control at Fort Tempest, assures her that the future will be very bright for House Uiry, but Veridel imagines that the next tragedy must be just around the corner. Lady Veridel is a mainstay at Westgate’s Groggy Froggy tavern, not far from her apartments. There, she shares the woes of her family with anyone willing to listen, often prodding them to pick up the tab on account of House Uiry’s star-crossed circumstances.
As soon as he came of age, Oirel enlisted in the First Guard to lower his financial burden on his older sister. Veridel, who refused to ever again step foot in the family’s Petal District mansion, nonetheless approved trusted caretakers to open the opulent home as a museum commemorating the grisly crime. In the years since, Veridel has attempted to ride her family’s slide into oblivion as gracefully as possible. Unmarried and without children, she sees no future for her family. At her brother’s insistence she has not yet submitted to the final indignity of selling off noble titles, but if not for Oirel’s flat rejection of the idea Veridel would have resorted to it years ago. As time goes on, and especially after her beloved Oirel died defending Fort Tempest during the Black Echelon Uprising three years ago, Veridel has come to believe that her family is cursed.
The unexpected public celebration of Oirel’s martyrdom, and the considerable charitable donations that came with it, gave Veridel a sliver of optimism, but she wears it uneasily, like an unfamiliar cloak. Oirel, newly resurrected and back in control at Fort Tempest, assures her that the future will be very bright for House Uiry, but Veridel imagines that the next tragedy must be just around the corner. Lady Veridel is a mainstay at Westgate’s Groggy Froggy tavern, not far from her apartments. There, she shares the woes of her family with anyone willing to listen, often prodding them to pick up the tab on account of House Uiry’s star-crossed circumstances.
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