Heather Talloak
Viscountess Heather Khulgana Talloak
Heather Talloak is the lady of Old Tal on the Lake and Viscountess of Loch Wyrd. She has ruled since childhood, assisted in governing her domain by a council of scholars hired by her estate. As such, she has a phenomenal education and is lauded as one of the most intelligent non-mages in existence. There are persistent tales that she is an influential member of the Iron Shadow, and she does nothing to dissuade these rumors.
Physical Description
Body Features
Like all Talloaks before her, the Viscountess is abnormally tall for a human, measuring at just under seven feet tall. Due to her having the Curse of Skaldor, she is unnaturally pale for a human, especially her white hair. She is often described as wiry.
Special abilities
The Viscountess has shown herself to be supernaturally strong and quick, and capable of moving completely silently. She is also renowned for her skill in battle, in both her participation in The Battle of Totem Island and in her hunting trips and skirmishes with monsters over the years she has been seen to swing her ancestral hammer as though it weighed nothing at all.
Apparel & Accessories
The Viscountess typically forgoes the colorful clothing popular with the nobility in favor of dark cloth or black leathers. Her only outfit for attending official functions is a black dress worked with the same blood-red color her guards wear, often accessorized with small silver jewelry. She makes it a special point to not wear gold.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
To remain the sole power of Loch Wyrd
Likes & Dislikes
Viscountess Talloak loves hunting, especially alongside her pet cheetahs. It is no secret fact that one can win her favor with gifts of exotic creatures and plants, especially those with strange colorations.
The Viscountess makes it well known that she despises displays of wealth, considering ostentatious clothing especially an affront. She believes that the wealthy should not "make fools of themselves flashing gold around as though that were all we are". She has also been known to banish members of her court who are drunk at official functions.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Most nobility of The Darkwood are distantly related, the Talloaks no exception. Her mother was a Garthel, and both grandmothers were Darkhearts, meaning she is closely related to the families of Cloud City and Dragonscale. She is engaged to Ser Perilous Grimm of Darkhollow.
Religious Views
Viscountess Talloak is an open practitioner of the Blue Sky Way, one of the few Skaldoran nobility to keep the practice over the Cult of the Fifteen. She has had the uppermost floor of the Titan's Sword turned into an open-air Blue Sky temple.
Hobbies & Pets
While she raises, breeds, and sells large cats, Viscountess Talloak personally keeps a pack of albino cheetahs for hunting excursions, which she goes on quite frequently, occasionally personally leading her men below the city to combat the monster menace.
Relationships
History
With the 1398 union of Lancaster and Evermore, it fell out of fashion for Lancaster nobles to marry each other in favor of forming strong unions with the great families of the Empire. Both Ser Perilous and Heather Talloak served in Imperial wars and developed a distaste for violence despite understanding it's necessity to maintain the Empire. The match was first proposed by a mutual friend, Li Sun, King Richard's bastard sister.
Wealth & Financial state
As the sole noble in permanent residence, Viscountess Talloak is the wealthiest resident of Old Tal on the Lake. In addition to taxes she collects from those outside the city itself, she also has amassed a personal fortune selling Oenkanen artifacts to collectors and museums. Among her other assets, she is fond of albino big cats, which she breeds and sells as a hobby. Finally, her family weapon, the freezing greathammer Khotegner is worth a small fortune unto itself.
Alignment
Chaotic Neutral
Species
Conditions
Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Viscountess of Loch Wyrd, Lady of Old Tal on the Lake, The Giantess of the Darkwood, Shadowlord of the Wyrd, Mistress of the Titan's Sword, The Titan's Ghost
Date of Birth
11th of Venari
Year of Birth
1413 EK
32 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
Born to the position of Viscountess, both parents died shortly after
Birthplace
The Titan's Sword
Spouses
Perilous Grimm
(Husband)
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
The Titan's Sword
Gender
Female
Eyes
Light purple
Hair
white ringlets
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale
Height
6' 11"
Weight
230 lbs
Quotes & Catchphrases
"The only way to truly rule is silently, from the shadows, with the support of those who live therein."
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