The Valrav Knight
Knight of the Foxglove, Lieutenant of the Unwelcome Order, Demigod of Hopeful Monsters
The Valrav Knight is an undead Material demigod and member of the Unwelcome Order, protectors and exemplars of "hopeful monsters", noble beasts and repentant villains. She is apparently the second most recent inductee in the order after their creator and captain, The Skull Knight and the second member, The Swamp Knight. Her arrival was then followed by The Fossil Knight. She's also known as the Knight of the Foxglove. In mortal life she was named Tam-Lynn.
Scant little is known about this company of ascendant warriors, save what can be surmised from their appearances and open motivations; indeed, they have never given names and the names used by The Author are just colloquial.
Like the rest of the Unwelcome Order (save for the Swamp Knight, who is Chaotic Neutral), the Valrav Knight's alignment is Chaotic Good.Appearance & Heraldry
See also: The Valrav Knight Image Gallery (External)The Valrav Knight is named after an armoured, humanoid species of fae of the same name. She is a near-impossible foe to fight directly, deft on her feet, flawless with her straightsword and possessing an arsenal of tricks, illusions and misdirections. Her humanoid form is lithe, insectoid and female in manner; she may likely have been human-elven or aikyo in mortal life. The crest she wears on her shield and breastplate is a pink foxglove plant on black. In humanoid form, he wields a tsurugi straightsword named Save the Queen.
History
One of the most famous stories on Waking Materia, with cousins across the plane, is the story of the warrior princess Tam-Lynn, who ventures into the shimmering jungles of Jabberwock’s Realm to rescue her true love from the clutches of The Toadstool Queen.
As is often the case with the Archfae, the true story of Tam-Lynn is even stranger, and more tragic. For one, it was not a lover the young warrior sought to rescue, but her younger brother. And while she was successful, it came at great cost: the Queen agreed to release the boy, but only if Tam-Lynn joined her Queensguard as a faerie knight (often known as vilderavn, valravn or sometimes tengu) for three hundred and thirty three seasons. Completion of the contract granted Tam-Lynn her freedom, but not her original body. Seemingly immortal, she adventured for a while before becoming the Unwelcome Order's third inductee.
Banner art: (Left to Right) Pau Minguell, Lianyue Zhang, Alexandre Chaudret
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