Saethe Calareon
NPC (Temporarily ST Controlled)
Head of Family
Name: Saethe Calareon
Status: Married to Aemond Calareon (Half Brother)
Age: 30 Namedays
Dragon: Vermithrax
Children: None
Status: Married to Aemond Calareon (Half Brother)
Age: 30 Namedays
Dragon: Vermithrax
Children: None
Appearance And Character
Saethe is the spitting image of her dragon-riding mother. She is slenderly built with long arms and legs, resulting in her being a head taller than many of her male and female peers until her late teenage years. Silver-haired and violet-eyed, her makeup boldly betrays the strength of her dragonlord blood, of which the woman is boastfully proud. Obsessively xenophobic Saethe is passionate about the preservation of her Calareon bloodline…and obsessive about preserving the blood purity of all births of any Calareons to follow.
In the most generous terms, she's considered cold, aloof, and punitively dismissive, with a tight sphere of those she trusts and an even more intimate circle of those with whom she shares her confidences. By those less inclined to give the woman the benefit of the doubt, she's superior, vain, arrogant, violently imperialistic, and sadistically cruel.
History
Early Life
By her 12th birthday, Saethe was bonded and could finally mount her dragon Vermithrax, and it was her mother's turn to watch from the yard as her daughter dipped into the clouds. From on high, Saethe relished in the triumph of the moment, her one desire to display her accomplishment before her father upon his return from off the shores of Sothyros.
But he never returned. Father, uncle, and two of the Calareon's most prolific dragons were killed in the skies, if accounts were to be believed, by Taeron Valcoran in defense of his life against a roguish attack by the elder dragonlords. That is, of course, if one were to believe the Valcoran account. Saethe never believed it. In her estimation, it was too opportune, the fulcrum on which the power dynamic between the two families tipped. The counterweight that elevated the Valcorans to their present perch of power was the one that dropped her family to a relegated post of second place. It did not sit well with the young woman; resentment grew alongside her and her dragon. Burgeoning, enlarging, aging resentment that, unlike she or her dragon, had yet to reach the apex of its potential.
Middle Years
The daughter of a visiting dignitary goes missing while in the company of an 18 year old Saethe. She and the son of another prominent dragonlord house were the last to be witnessed keeping the girl’s company. Despite exhaustive efforts to find her she is never located and eventually presumed dead. To this day Saethe offers little more than a lofted shrug when greater detail about the fateful night is demanded by those she even deems worthy of more than outright dismissal and ignoring.
Later Years
Saethe Calareon is married now to her half-brother; Aemond. A bond that has left them childless. Their marriage quickly followed by the death of her mother, a murder by poisoning in 4844.
Saethe's mourning was profound. The beginning of it was a pitiful, weeping wailing that haunted the halls of the Calareon keep. The apex cresting into long departures on the back of Vermithrax where she left her husband to his own devices. However, the culmination of her grief was the stoking of flames of vengeance. She was now parentless, both dead at the hands of others, and Saethe seethed at her core like a Valyrian volcano with want for payback.
She assumed her mother's seat, literally and figuratively, and crafted a plan. A long game where the first move upon the board was the assumption of overt and apparent power. She aimed to become one of the Council's triad of Archons. Her candidacy was unheard of. Still very young compared to any who had ever held the seat in the Freehold's history, she scratched and clawed her way into political annals with a prohibitively costly campaign. A campaign during which no expense was spared to coax the needed vote count, by any means necessary.
As a result of this election and the four that followed, which placed her in the role of Archon for an unprecedented five successive years (4845-4849), Saethe earned the reputation of a political pyromancer. There was nothing she wouldn't figuratively raze to ashes if it stood in the way of her lofty ambition.
During a routine trip to the city of Mantarys (to attend the wedding of an appointed noble house in residence to govern the outpost in the name of the Calareons) Vermithrax suffered a torn wing. Had the dragon's enviable speed not been a factor, both beast and rider might have landed with minor cuts and bruising relegated to ego alone. Instead, the dragon was rendered temporarily flightless and retreated to a cave in the Painted Mountains to heal (eating poor mountain shepherds out of their livestock and livelihood). Saethe was brought to one of the opulent mountain villas in Mantarys, where she was treated for near fatal injuries until she was well enough to return and convalesce in Valyria proper. A convalescence that required what remained of her most recent political tenure. She stepped down from her final few months as Archon and did not, when re-elections rolled around, move to put herself forward for a sixth term.
Relationships
Is the rider of Vermithrax.
Current Location
Year of Birth
4820 AD
30 Years old
Family
Spouses
Aemond Calareon
(Husband)
Siblings
Children
Aligned Organization
Saethe Calareon
Strength
0
Dexterity
+2
Intelligence
+1
Wisdom
+1
Charisma
+1
Strength
0
Dexterity
+2
Intelligence
+1
Wisdom
+1
Charisma
+1
