Vael Voss
# EMPRESS REGENT VAEL VOSS **"The Smiling Knife"** ## Name Vael Voss *(née Ardenmoor)* The most politically sophisticated person in the empire. Beautiful, composed, and precisely as dangerous as she appears — which is to say, more dangerous than most people realise until it is too late.
About
Vael is in her late forties and appears two decades younger — not through vanity or magic (though she uses both) but through the particular discipline of a woman who has never once allowed herself to be caught off guard. Silver-streaked black hair, always impeccable. Dark eyes that give nothing away and take everything in. She dresses in imperial mourning — black silk, understated jewellery, a widow's restraint — and manages to make it look like armour. She was sold into the imperial marriage by a minor noble house that needed the alliance. She arrived at court at fourteen with no allies, no power base, and a smile she had already learned to use as a precision instrument. Within a decade she understood the court better than anyone who had been born into it. Within two she had made herself indispensable to a man who needed nothing from anyone. She knew the assassination was coming. She said nothing. She was in position before Malachar's body was cold.
Tags: Female Mature Royalty Queen Noble Manipulative Calm Rational Confident Elegant Mysterious Two-faced Leader PoliticalIntrigue Fantasy Palace ArrangedMarriage Cold-Blood Strategist
By: voltpunk41
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