Name: Libby Other Characters: GwenaΓ«lle, Petrana, Joselyn, Tsenka
CHARACTER
Name: Sibylla-Therasie "Lalla" Vesperus, nee Lovita Race: Human Nationality: Tevene Mage? Yes Age: 35 Affiliation: Tevinter Occupation: PTA church mom
Goal: At this stage, indefinite side character with the potential to one day graduate to a whole real girl, dependent on what I'm doing with the rest of my cast and how engaged Lalla becomes with The Cause. (She will be arriving with the intent to "assist the Inquisition without joining", but realize along with her husband the necessity of actually joining Riftwatch, which at the moment she doesn't actually know is a separate thing, for various practical reasons fairly quickly.)
About: Lalla was born the youngest of five children born to a successful merchant family of Laetan mages in Tevinter, a "happy accident" that came along twelve years after the Lovitas thought they were done having children. Less the baby of the family than the afterthought, she was considered biddable and sweet-tempered, but was expected to go with one of her elder sisters as a help in their home. A rising tide lifts all boats, and her parents had put a lot of work into their older children already, so not much was expected of the littlest Lovita and accordingly she had a lot of freedom and rarely heard the word "no". Deciding that she would rather be the tide than a boat, Lalla surveyed her options and parleyed a knack for sight-reading into an opportunity to spend time with up and coming clergymen of the Imperial Chantry β charmingly volunteering to sing and test their compositions. Through this, she met Nicomedes Laurentius Vesperus, determined that no other husband would do, and waged a tireless campaign with her parents to have him. She can recite his lineage back to the very first exhibited sign of magic in the Vesperus bloodline, and on paper there was nothing to object to except that twenty-somethings arranging their own marriages raises an eyebrow.
An avid student of spirit magic with an affinity for storm magic, Lalla pivoted from her own studies to focus on preparing her children (Therasia, 13, Damita, 6, and Marothian, 5) for when they develop magic and devoted herself to the ambitions of her husband's clerical career β she has long harbored dreams of one day being married to the Imperial Divine. She has a knack for the kind of ruthless maneuvering required for advancement professionally and socially, and a keener sense for other people's angles than her husband, less clouded by his sincere passion for theology. (She doesn't not care about the Maker*.) This meant that it was Lalla, first, who recognized the danger that his outlandish ideas were putting their family in; what might have inspired vigorous intellectual debate in the Tevinter of ten or fifteen years ago might now be heresies they can't take back. Sending their children to stay with an aunt in the hopes of distancing them from any fallout and salvaging their futures, she and Nicomedes fled Tevinter abruptly under cover of night a week later, buying the silence and assistance of their household slaves with coin and freedom when they reach the south.
Lalla, who believes staunchly in the superiority of her homeland, is not thrilled about this development β but she's a ride or die bitch, and hopes to one day return to a better Tevinter that maybe her husband can still become the Imperial Divine of if Corypheus is defeated.
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Name: Libby
Other Characters: GwenaΓ«lle, Petrana, Joselyn, Tsenka
Name: Sibylla-Therasie "Lalla" Vesperus, nee Lovita
Race: Human
Nationality: Tevene
Mage? Yes
Age: 35
Affiliation: Tevinter
Occupation: PTA church mom
Goal: At this stage, indefinite side character with the potential to one day graduate to a whole real girl, dependent on what I'm doing with the rest of my cast and how engaged Lalla becomes with The Cause. (She will be arriving with the intent to "assist the Inquisition without joining", but realize along with her husband the necessity of actually joining Riftwatch, which at the moment she doesn't actually know is a separate thing, for various practical reasons fairly quickly.)
About: Lalla was born the youngest of five children born to a successful merchant family of Laetan mages in Tevinter, a "happy accident" that came along twelve years after the Lovitas thought they were done having children. Less the baby of the family than the afterthought, she was considered biddable and sweet-tempered, but was expected to go with one of her elder sisters as a help in their home. A rising tide lifts all boats, and her parents had put a lot of work into their older children already, so not much was expected of the littlest Lovita and accordingly she had a lot of freedom and rarely heard the word "no". Deciding that she would rather be the tide than a boat, Lalla surveyed her options and parleyed a knack for sight-reading into an opportunity to spend time with up and coming clergymen of the Imperial Chantry β charmingly volunteering to sing and test their compositions. Through this, she met Nicomedes Laurentius Vesperus, determined that no other husband would do, and waged a tireless campaign with her parents to have him. She can recite his lineage back to the very first exhibited sign of magic in the Vesperus bloodline, and on paper there was nothing to object to except that twenty-somethings arranging their own marriages raises an eyebrow.
An avid student of spirit magic with an affinity for storm magic, Lalla pivoted from her own studies to focus on preparing her children (Therasia, 13, Damita, 6, and Marothian, 5) for when they develop magic and devoted herself to the ambitions of her husband's clerical career β she has long harbored dreams of one day being married to the Imperial Divine. She has a knack for the kind of ruthless maneuvering required for advancement professionally and socially, and a keener sense for other people's angles than her husband, less clouded by his sincere passion for theology. (She doesn't not care about the Maker*.) This meant that it was Lalla, first, who recognized the danger that his outlandish ideas were putting their family in; what might have inspired vigorous intellectual debate in the Tevinter of ten or fifteen years ago might now be heresies they can't take back. Sending their children to stay with an aunt in the hopes of distancing them from any fallout and salvaging their futures, she and Nicomedes fled Tevinter abruptly under cover of night a week later, buying the silence and assistance of their household slaves with coin and freedom when they reach the south.
Lalla, who believes staunchly in the superiority of her homeland, is not thrilled about this development β but she's a ride or die bitch, and hopes to one day return to a better Tevinter that maybe her husband can still become the Imperial Divine of if Corypheus is defeated.
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