NAME: Lady Zarina Llyr
Age: 22
TITLE: Lady Zarina Llyr of the Silver Isles, The Golden Seer
HOUSE: Born of Thorne, married into Llyr
SPOUSE: Lord Roxas Llyr
OCCUPATION: Seer, Lady, Homemaker
ALLIANCES: Houses Thorn and Llyr
BIOGRAPHY: On a cool, fall morning when goldenrods across the Faircastle kingdom were in full bloom, a healthy baby girl was born to Lord Karden and Lady Milah Thorne. Having recently acquired their kingdom, the joyous parents chose a name fitting for their heir: Zarina, meaning Golden One.
Zarina was followed soon by Robbie, then Finn, both of whom the girl loved dearly. Family was everything to her. Her truest passion was learning and reasoning, understanding the world around her; thus Zarina spent her free time learning all she could from her mother, father, brothers, even the servants and other lords and ladies who called upon their family.
She was just eleven years old when her visions began. They came as dreams at first. Odd sorts of things she had dreamt became reality in days or weeks. And soon she started asking her father about it, who had been afraid at first. Lord Karden told Zarina to keep her gift a strict secret, which she vowed to do until she could not hide it any longer.
However, it seemed that even the best kept secret was bound to be revealed. News spread of Zarina's magic, her ability to divine the future. While it came naturally to her, over the years she had honed her skill of divination, realizing that certain flowers, when eaten, enhanced her visions, giving great clarity to them.
The spring before her twenty-first birthday, Zarina's visions turned dark. She envisioned their castle in shadow, saw ships from across the sea, sailing from a cold, grey island to their green moors which were bathed in shadow as well. She told her father, insisted that something awful was coming their way, that they should be prepared. But her father did not give much credence to these visions, as their kingdom was a peaceful one, and no one had reason to worry.
It had all happened so fast, the raid that pulled Zarina from her comfortable bed in the middle of the night. The Llyrs of the Silver Isles had raided their city, taking Zarina prisoner because of her magic. She remembered being brought before the sea captain, Roxas Llyr, to whom she was forcefully wed.
Zarina was taken to the Silver Isles where she, though married to the heir's brother, was captive. Since that time she had no contact with her family, but her visions only worried her about their safety. Lady Eilonwy had kept her close, demanding Zarina divine the future of the Silver Isles, until Roxas deemed that taking Zarina with him on raids would be equally, if not more, beneficial, as she could be good council for him in his conquests. And so she went with him on his raids, and spent the time back in the Silver Isles under close watch, longing to be reunited with her family.
In the weeks prior to recieving the invitation to the wedding, which Roxas insisted she attend as well, and she accepted readily in the hopes of reuniting with her family, Zarina had more unsettling visions. But the faces were unclear, the setting was foreign to her, and all she could understand was that death had claimed someone. She told Lady Eilonwy and Roxas of these visions, even though she herself wasn't sure what she was seeing. What did she see? She wished she knew herself.
