Evie

Only daughter to Gortius and Miriam, Evgenia (or Evie, when times were simpler and happier) is the latest descendent of House Valen, the royal family that has held the Elysian throne for generations. An obedient and magically adept young woman, Evie spent her earliest years in the cold steppes of Eiros, until the truth of her lineage was revealed. Almost overnight, Elysia's crown prince—long believed lost beneath the Northern Seas—had suddenly returned with a wife and an heir. After a tumultuous battle against the corrupt Council, Gortius managed to reclaim the throne. Evie viewed all of this with a sense of wonder and delight—few things were more exciting to a seven year old than gaining a magically adept aunt in Estia. Soon after, Gortius' health mysteriously began to fail, and Miriam was seized by a dark aspiration. Many dissenters in the court whispered it was the curse of King Radmuhl, while others blamed his ""Alethi spy"" of a wife. As soon as Evie reached adolescence, Miriam personally trained her rigorously in sword and sorcery. The colors and joys of youth all but bled out from Evie's life, replaced only by a bitter darkness threaded through with an ever-present thirst for her mother's recognition. Internal strife—largely the work of purists who believed the country should be ruled by a pure-blooded Elysian—had been simmering for a decade, and it reached a boiling point when wild rumors of the throne going to the king's ""tainted"" daughter began to spread. With a storm of darkness fast descending upon Elysia, the young princess must now choose: follow her heart and save her father's legacy, or submit to her mother's will...