steel your heart

shadows fall, and hope has fled, steel your heart, the dawn will come. valene blackbriar, mage, servant, nohanwan

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❝Your heart is so generous. You always see the good in things.❞

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the sum is too great || you mean your pride is

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Garrick! Go to! See ‘em off!

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Poldark S2 Episode 10

Demelza + new dress

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a lil about val!!

valene is a twenty-six year old mage working as a servant in the castle, usually in the kitchens.

valene's father was a pirate, her mother a barmaid

her and her mother lived in the slums of a nohanwan town. 

when her mother was at work, valene would sing for coin to keep out of the house. usually sea shanties she learned from her father’s rare, scattered visits. (the rare song she learned that wasn’t completely vulgar.)

she discovered her magic on her own when she turned a glass of ice into a giant ice cube, and taught herself as best she could how to control it.

however, when she was around twelve, two boys attempted to mug her, she set one’s arm on fire, and it wasn’t long before she was sent to the castle to be kept under supervision.

valene is impulsive and pretty transparent, unable to hide anything she’s feeling, and she’s very opinionated, so it gets her into trouble.

she’s optimistic with a bit of a sunny disposition, and her curiosity can sometimes get the best of her

val looks like she’s about 80 pounds soaking wet, as talented as she is with magic, it’s still a ridiculous sight to see her being trailed by a small company of armed guards ready to take her down at any given moment.

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nexxis:

          Royal visits were a hassle. Even for the poor servants. Castles unfamiliar, yet found familiar within day’s time. If given a moment to roam. To snoop. Where was her Queen? Sleeping sound, no doubt. Within her guest quarters. Tucked in,  s p o i l e d  by safety like most royals were. And the other royal family? The one that lived here? Not her concern. Asleep too. And if they happened across her, surely some wide-eyed elf act would appease their worries. How simple minds could rule kingdoms made her LAUGH! But not here, she thought, shushing herself aloud. Slinking through the halls, discovering rooms and their contents, Nexxis hummed a lullaby as if all dreaming victims inside the castle could hear her, letting the tunes edge them further into their sleep. But no one heard, really. She squeezed into an open room, a sitting room must be, and wandered towards a desk. Opening up the first drawer and filtering through legal papers, her playful lullaby continued with an air of I can do as I please attitude. Because who would stop her?

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     valene had been working restlessly for days in preparation for the royal visit. as had the rest of the servants. the castle a mass of motion, cleaning and preparing whatever bedrooms would be necessary, and planning and prepping meals. she’d been assigned to the kitchen, and she was sure her hands were going to smell like a queer mix of parsley and saffron and mace until the end of her days. attending to her duties, tea tray in her hands, keen ears caught the sound of a foreign melody and rustling papers drifting from the cracked open solar door. years of service in the castle had etched it’s every twist and turn into valene’s mind. and the solar was definitely the queen’s. the queen of nohanwan was not known to hum lullabies, so curiosity quickly evolved into alarm and silent steps hastily pad to the partially opened door, taking in the dim candlelight that she was meant to put out after delivering the chamomile tea to the queen’s chambers. her quick scan of the room only drunk the silhouette of the intruder, the blurry outline of pointed ears and a glimpse of sleek hair. an instinctive, ill-advised, sharp intake of breath as she finds her suspicions confirmed, eyes snapping to the infiltrator’s back.

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aedithax:

Aeditha groaned as she opened her eyes slowly, the voice above her startled her and she tried to sit up a little but her head was swimming too much for Aeditha to get very far. She had no idea how she had suddenly ended up lying on the ground. “I- Do you know how I ended up here?” 

     valene’s hand immediately move to support her back, eyes scanning the well dressed woman for any clue as to what could have happened. “’m afraid not, miss, i was just walking and i saw you lying here in the snow,” any question that came to her seemed useless, as the lady seemed just as clueless as she was about this entire instance. “i’m no healer, but, do you faint often? or perhaps the cold air got to your head?” her arm is wrapped around her shoulder in an attempt to keep her upright and warm, concern clear in her eyes.

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