Y'Velle

The most recently arrived Prince of this region, Y’Velle, hails from The Great Kingdom. Originally the fifth daughter of a nobleman and knight, she grew up listening to tales of the Grail Knights and their exploits. Entranced by what she heard, she deeply desired to take up sword and armor and fight for the Lady of Paladins. But, being a woman in the patriarchal society of the Great Kingdom, this course was closed to her. It seemed her fate would be to marry a smelly, fat noble with warty feet. But then her father died, and her eldest brother became the lord. Instead of the good and lawful monarch her father was, he was a vicious tyrant, a brutal despot that loved torturing peasants and abusing his family. Horrified by the transformation power wrought in him, Y’Velle worked against him. She traveled alone into the wilderlands, opened an ancient grail shrine she found there, and pledged her service to Laranni. The Goddess heard her plea, and not only granted her the powers of a templar, but directed her to a place where ancient weapons and armor were secreted in the shrine.

Thus armed, she began to lead a double-life, pretending to be the dutiful sister but secretly leading a band of Herrimaults. Things came to a head fifteen years ago when her brother, frustrated by the constant raiding, led a band of knights to crush the uprising. He killed many and learned of his sister’s duplicity. Y’Velle had no choice. She fled her homeland, while her brother sullied her name and hoisted up some other poor woman to die in her place.

The surviving members of the Herrimaults vanished with her. As a group, they decided to flee to the broken lands of the Border Princes, where they hoped to bring some justice to this lawless area. For five years, they struggled against Greenskin and Human alike, until finally, Y’Velle decided to forge a principality of her own. She wanted to establish a new and just realm ruled by law and not the fickle whims of a cruel tyrant. However, this task proved more difficult than she imagined, and the failures to create a land of law and virtue have worn down her ideals.

Y’Velle was once a very pretty woman, but years of running, the hardships of the Borderlands, and her failure to realize her utopia have taken their roll. She still has hope, however, and it needs only a small ember to re-kindle the flame. She is a strong woman with short brown hair and a long scar running down the side of her face. She is of average height with a lean body, hardened from near-constant fighting.