Post by Valen Storyteller on Mar 4, 2016 19:07:45 GMT
Race: Human
Class: Psion 5
Alignment: Lawful Good
Faith: The Triumvirate
Many people are born to great riches, descended from well-off nobles or successful tradesmen. The vast majority of them seem like paupers when compared to Baroness Longstable, a woman who has the unique fortune of inheriting more than half of Valen’s waterfront, and the extraordinary incomes that come with it.
At most times, when seen in public, there is enough gold on Maura to keep a whole family fed for months, perhaps years. She favours broad, purple gowns richly embroidered with gold thread, especially about the cuff and neck. The striking color makes her skin stand out that much more richly, a strong olive tone, faintly coppery. She wears kohl thickly about her eyes, making the deep dark pools seem even wider, and bright red liptick on lips that seem perpetually set in a small, polite smile. Her dark hair drawn backwards along her scalp only to puff up behind the back of her head.
The Longstables came to Valenpoint almost a millennium ago, when Valen was still a small town set upon the four hills by the Brightwater. The baklunish family of horse-breeders and knights quickly allied with the queen who ruled over the region, and through extraordinary service and diligence they were eventually given ever-higher authority, power, and even nobility. Ennobled as Barons, they were made to rule over the union between river and sea, which at the time was for the most part unproductive marshland. Soon they built windmills to drain the marsh out, and turned their land into the most profitable in the entire peninsula, proceeding to buy up the lands of many of their neighbours. Though they fared less spectacularly once the Samaran Empire arrived, they remained one of the region’s greatest families.
As the sole inheritor of this fantastic wealth, Maura was expected to be raised at court, and it was a surprise to many when the young woman was sent off to study in distant Klinerra, right around the time she hit puberty. She was not seen or heard of for nearly a decade after that. Though her return to Valen was rocky at first, within a few years she established herself in the city’s high society, and in time earned her position in the Cabinet. More recently, during the war with the undead, Maura inherited the whole of the Longstable barony, with her mother dying heroically while serving as one of the Riders of Valen despite her advanced age. It is well-known that the loss hit Maura hard, and she is seen to be very publicly attempting to live up to the legacy left by her mother.
Class: Psion 5
Alignment: Lawful Good
Faith: The Triumvirate
Many people are born to great riches, descended from well-off nobles or successful tradesmen. The vast majority of them seem like paupers when compared to Baroness Longstable, a woman who has the unique fortune of inheriting more than half of Valen’s waterfront, and the extraordinary incomes that come with it.
At most times, when seen in public, there is enough gold on Maura to keep a whole family fed for months, perhaps years. She favours broad, purple gowns richly embroidered with gold thread, especially about the cuff and neck. The striking color makes her skin stand out that much more richly, a strong olive tone, faintly coppery. She wears kohl thickly about her eyes, making the deep dark pools seem even wider, and bright red liptick on lips that seem perpetually set in a small, polite smile. Her dark hair drawn backwards along her scalp only to puff up behind the back of her head.
The Longstables came to Valenpoint almost a millennium ago, when Valen was still a small town set upon the four hills by the Brightwater. The baklunish family of horse-breeders and knights quickly allied with the queen who ruled over the region, and through extraordinary service and diligence they were eventually given ever-higher authority, power, and even nobility. Ennobled as Barons, they were made to rule over the union between river and sea, which at the time was for the most part unproductive marshland. Soon they built windmills to drain the marsh out, and turned their land into the most profitable in the entire peninsula, proceeding to buy up the lands of many of their neighbours. Though they fared less spectacularly once the Samaran Empire arrived, they remained one of the region’s greatest families.
As the sole inheritor of this fantastic wealth, Maura was expected to be raised at court, and it was a surprise to many when the young woman was sent off to study in distant Klinerra, right around the time she hit puberty. She was not seen or heard of for nearly a decade after that. Though her return to Valen was rocky at first, within a few years she established herself in the city’s high society, and in time earned her position in the Cabinet. More recently, during the war with the undead, Maura inherited the whole of the Longstable barony, with her mother dying heroically while serving as one of the Riders of Valen despite her advanced age. It is well-known that the loss hit Maura hard, and she is seen to be very publicly attempting to live up to the legacy left by her mother.