Marya Hopiar

== Appearance and Character ==
Long legged and slight of frame, Marya is a petite woman; she is thin and narrow-shouldered, with long brown hair and a longer heart-shaped face. Marya tends to only dress in whites chased with gold and silver. Despite her melancholy reputation, she carries herself with an air of elegance and poise, a relic the sharp expectations of her grandmother, Shara Opunia, who raised her with extremely strict expectations for how she ought to live as a highborn lady. Nowadays she often wears a black and red cloak with what looks to be blue waves throughout over her white gowns to mirror House Hopiar's colors.
Marya was born in 1,310 AC, and was born the first daughter of, Saloman Opunia and his widow, Elana Opunia who died in childbirth giving birth to Marya. She was primarily raised and mentored by her grandfather, Perceon Opunia, who had long served King Rhaelarys as one of the Keepers of the Keys.
Eleven years into her life, her aging grandfather too would pass. Marya stayed by his bedside for the full turn of day and night that he was bedridden, before he died of a burst stomach on the morning after he first complained of a stitch in his side. The maesters announced his departure in 1,323 AC, when the Four Year Winter proved its coldest and most disadvantageous for his health and livelihood as an elderly man.
In the year 1,336 during the War of the Three Dragons Marya was sent away from the Opunia family to meet the then sixteen year old Killian Hopiar the heir to the seat of Ingving. They got along quite well before officially announcing that they were to be wed. King Maegaron Vakerian and Queen Aniza Lakoran actually attended their wedding much to the surprise of everyone in the wedding party. Allegedly some secrets were passed around at this wedding that to this day nobody can truly say what was said.
The following year Marya grew pregnant with a child much to the joy of her mother in law Gilli Hopiar but shortly after figuring it the child died within the womb sending her down into a slight melancholic spiral until 1,339 when she turned it around by helping the troubled children of Ingving giving her the title of the Dove.