Viselda Faendryl

Viselda Faendryl Storyline Lost Palestra Gender Female Race Dark Elf Culture Faendryl Status Alive Hometown New Ta'Faendryl Alias/Title Palestra Blade Affiliation(s) Palestra

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

Full NPC

You see Blade Viselda the Palestra of Shamsiel Academy.
She appears to be a Faendryl Dark Elf.
She is average height. She appears to be mature. She has long-lashed sea green eyes and dark skin. She has long, platinum hair. She has a delicate face, a classical nose and thin pointed ears.
She is in good shape.
She is holding a barbed high steel claidhmore in her right hand.
She is wearing a long grey cloak, a well-fitting weapon harness, a black leather bodysuit, a lor triskele inset with three wine-veined scarlet despanals, some grey rugged pants, and some black leather boots.

Automated NPC

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.

Logs

• 01/05/2026: Lost Palestra - 2026-01-05 - Moravius' Heart Grows Three Shades Lighter
• 02/04/2026: Lost Palestra - 2026-02-04 - Astrolabe-or of Love

Ambients

In January and February 2026:

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."

In March 2026 there were more:

Viselda says, "Imagine a murderer on trial claiming immunity from the law.  He is above answering to the Palestra, as he is a Chosen of the Patriarch.  The Patriarch will not intervene on his behalf, of course, because that would reveal his secret.  That is how ridiculous it is.  The law reduced to invoking your imaginary friend, and trading the crime of murder for treason.  Arrogating the Patriarchal authority is itself cause for execution.  There is as much sense in homeless madmen thinking they are Korthyr."

Viselda says, "There are cynics who say the sorcerous laws are not for safety, as such, but so that the summoner is always at fault and not demonic summoning itself.  When the methods are perfected and safety is the highest ideal, there is nothing left to blame but the summoner being unworthy of his sorcery.  They are not wrong."

Viselda says, "There are Palestra who are employed by the state itself, others such as myself are attached to institutions.  The absence of pecuniary guarantees for Palestra keeps us precarious.  The complementary halves to the unfunded mandate on summoners.  It is a way of preventing us from being an independent faction of power."

Viselda irritatedly says, "These 'wandering' Palestra, I have to think, were partly meant to wrist slap the humans.  Their knights errant often meddle where they do not belong, of their own volition, bringing the interests of their masters who shrug and plead ignorance of it.  The other part was provoking the rest of the Palestra."

Questions and Answers

In January and February 2026:

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."

In March 2026:

Aralyte
Viselda says, "What I witnessed was unambiguous.  The Blade Aralyte survives, mutated with dark powers.  Whether by willful intent or haphazardly, she caused the insurgence.  The Palestra must assume that she has become a force for malevolence unless proven harmless.  Whether her mind is whole or lost to madness."

Bleaklands
Viselda says, "I reported what happened in the Bleaklands to the Palestra.  There were insufficient Palestra present to ensure regulatory enforcement.  It may be no matter to the Harrowers if the veil collapses into another valence, but it matters a great deal to us when such happens in our own world."

Chosen
Viselda says, "The Patriarch's Chosen is a myth.  It is a delusion of grandeur for aspiring Palestra in the academies, especially those of the lower classes, who dream of being the special hands of the Patriarch.  Such a thing makes no sense.  It would only undermine the authority of the Prefect, who is able to mediate whatever clandestine actions the Patriarch wishes.  Extrajudicial authority is delegated, not a blanket license to kill.  The idea of 'those who answer only to the Patriarch' is as sophomoric as it is childish."

Extrajudicial
Viselda says, "The extrajudicial authority of the Palestra in matters of sorcery is not lawlessness.  All such power derives from the imperium of the Patriarch.  Whether the Patriarch's justice is made through trial courts, or Palestra blades, is merely one way or the other according to jurisdiction.  They are separate branches of authority from the same trunk.  Our branches do not cross.  If a Palestra has been allowed to execute a sorcerer, it is because a higher authority has sanctioned it.  Much as a judge derives their power.  It does not matter if there was no public audience for it.  Not all guilt takes the form of evidence to be gathered by lictors and put before adjudicators."

Harrowers
Viselda says, "The Harrowers are not above the law.  But they work mostly in other valences, where they can do nearly anything, without posing a hazard to society.  They are not allowed to travel from there to Lorae'tyr, for example, but otherwise matters are much more lax than would be the case in Ta'Faendryl.  They will seek Palestra with particular expertise, for whatever they are doing.  But they enjoy being off-world in no small part for the freedom it gives them from us."

Laws
Viselda asks, "The sorcerous laws are universal.  But they do not apply equally in unequal places.  What is unconscionably reckless in Ta'Faendryl may be harmless in an infernal realm.  It might even be necessary.  This conceit of 'equality' so often clouds the understanding of foreigners.  What could be more unequal than the law?"

Mahkra
Viselda says, "The lack of wandering Palestra in all of this will only help Dracovir press his own intervention.  It loses face for the Patriarch's initiative with Mahkra academy.  But that is Basilican politics.  Wandering Palestra without schooling are a manipulation, trying to make us concede to more Palestra academies beyond the borders."

Mercenary
Viselda says, "The Palestra are not mercenaries.  We have what you might call a paramilitary aspect, in that we must obey our Prefect, and have loyalty obligations to the Patriarch.  We must answer to the Faendryl government.  But to be a Palestra is not a vocation.  It is a qualification.  It is an irrevocable responsibility and duty to House Faendryl.  Those who work in the so-called 'private service' are still forces of the Basilica.  There is no such thing as merely being some hired bodyguard against demons."

Palestra
Viselda says, "It is incoherent for anyone other than Faendryl to be a Palestra.  No more than a Knight Errant may exist without a liege lord, nor a Vaalorian legionary who does not serve the Sovereign Commander.  The Palestra hold power over Faendryl.  That we would allow anyone who is not Faendryl to do so is a self-contradiction."

Venator
Viselda says, "Venator is a very old word, from much earlier in our history.  They are hunter-killers.  Those who are tasked to go after strongholds, including dark forces in other valences.  When those who would threaten House Faendryl do so from the depths, these are the Palestra who harrow the abyss and rip them out.  Dracovir will undoubtedly be sending them imminently."

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)
• Faustina Faendryl (Emporion trader)
• Moravius Faendryl (Harrower of the Extrachthonic Cartographer's Guild)
• Thagoria Vespiria Faendryl (Basilican liaison to the sorcerer guilds)
• Tiberius Faendryl (Envoy liaison between Ambassadors Vespasius and Tredohal)