Viselda Faendryl
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Viselda Faendryl is a Palestra Blade of House Faendryl, having graduated from Shamsiel academy. She works on commission in the Clerisy with the Extrachthonic Cartographer's Guild. She followed Harrower Moravius Faendryl to the Darkstone Bay region at the beginning of 5126 Modern Era, who had been directed by the Basilican Sorcerer to help investigate the veil related to shadowy Ithzir invasions. Viselda is from the upper-middle class of Faendryl society, and has a distaste for speaking Dark Elven. She is fluent in Common as part of her formal education, but regards its use and speakers as low class. She pragmatically acknowledges why the Palestra keeps being expanded, but feels it is degrading the institution and going too far.
Viselda is a Faendryl nationalist and holds views which are an expansionist variant of isolationism. She feels House Faendryl should put itself first, without trying to improve things with other Houses. This is in a certain degree of tension with her role as a Palestra, which exercises universal jurisdiction, which means she has no issues with performing extraordinary rendition or executions in other countries. What she opposes is playing the losing game of getting bogged down with ruling a multi-racial Empire. But this does not necessarily mean she would oppose expanding the integral borders with outright annexation, rather than provinces and colonies, if it involved also getting rid of the inhabitants and abandoning the rhetoric condemning the Exile.
Appearance
Palestra Blade Viselda.
She has a long grey cloak, a small scarlet triskelion, a black leather bodysuit, some grey rugged pants and some black leather boots.
- Ambients
Viselda warns, "Dracovir is as ruthless as he is cunning. You do not become Prefect of the Palestra without being cold blooded. Aralyte better have her house in order."
- Questions and Answers
Aralyte Viselda says, "I did not know Aralyte myself. I work in the Clerisy with the Harrowers. She was working for the Basilica, under assignment from the Prefect. I know she led a team of Palestra to seek and destroy the profaned aegis of the Shadows. But she seems to have taken matters into her own hands. I would never go into that kind of valence without the proper support and oversight." Armata Viselda says, "There is a lot of friction with the Palestra, as we enforce sorcerous laws everywhere, while the Armata is constrained within the borders. But that is what was intended. The whole point of the Pentact is to make frictions between its competing domains and overlapping jurisdictions." Ashrim Viselda says, "Our cousins in the East did not fall over themselves rushing to cede their own coasts to form a new homeland for House Ashrim. They chose to condemn us as Dark Elves, forcing us into a war of annihilation." She stares coldly. "Spare me your sanctimony. The Ashrim were exiled, as we were exiled. That they did not survive is their own failing." Chesylcha Viselda says, "The whole wedding party of Princess Chesylcha went missing. It was full of important and highly influential figures. Most people back then knew someone who lost somebody. But there was no one who did not know multitudes killed by the Sea Elves." Crimson Fist Viselda says, "The Order of the Crimson Fist are feudal brigands from beyond our integral borders. They raid our sovereign lands from their Demonwall, and we expel them much as we do with other terrorists." Dark Elf Viselda shakes her head, "You are hopelessly indoctrinated. Do you even hear yourself?" Empire Viselda says, "House Faendryl should resign itself to being a nation and put itself first. The masses will not suffer the burden of governing ingrates who would only bleed our coffers, forcing us to live among foreigners and inferiors, including those who reject our traditions and do not speak our languages. The only way I see a restoration of the Empire is by expanding the borders and getting rid of the inhabitants. It would become pure hypocrisy to condemn the Exile." Kasendra Accords Viselda says, "You stand there and talk to me about peace and mutual understanding between races. What a wonderful world, what a historic moment! But how do you not see that there was no question of including us? When is it peaceful and not militant to ally forces on the borders of your adversaries?" Palestra Viselda says, "The Palestra were greatly expanded after the Sea Elf War. The more widespread sorcery is in our society, the greater the need for more Palestra. It is said that the Rachis is the backbone, and we are its nerves, spreading throughout the body of the nation. Much of what we do is ensuring the Patriarch knows what is truly happening." Pentact Viselda says, "The Pentact was an ingenious way to enforce stability in the social order after the disaster of the Sea Elf War. But I think it is ultimately imprisoning us. It is incompatible with an Empire that incorporates others than Faendryl."
See Also
The following were other bolded NPCs in the same period that at times provided automated interaction:
- Vorenus Faendryl (praetorian guard)
- Titus Faendryl (praetorian guard)
- Severina Faendryl (praetorian guard)
- Quintus Faendryl (praetorian guard)
- Caius Faendryl (Agrestis mining surveyor)
- Moravius Faendryl (Harrower of the Extrachthonic Cartographer's Guild)
- Thagoria Vespiria Faendryl (Basilican liaison to the sorcerer guilds)