Valeska Von Spreichner

==Stats==
===Mark Tracker===
Marks: 0-21
Afflictions: (List of Afflictions resulting from every third mark above.)
===Advances===
*Isaac Von Spreichner (+1 Beat Back the Darkness)
==Background==
Valeska Von Spreichner was born into the minor vassal house of Teufel, under the rule of House Menthman. Like all others under House Methman, she was raised to follow the Crimson Templars, and was a devil-worshipper who rejected Pelor and instead gave praise to Asmodeus. At twenty years old her family, desperate for recognition and power, gave her hand in marriage to Ludwig Von Spreichner. Von Spreichner was the lieutenant and Head of Worship for the Crimson Templars, second in command only to Amala Deiter. 
She was married with silent reluctance, like the entirety of her life and her worship, and became the Lady of the Von Spreichner house, high up in official and unofficial power in the Crimson Templars. She lived her life as a good Lady, followed the orders of the Crimson Templars and her husband, suffered his brutal punishment when she failed in her duties, and turned a silent eye to the horrors he committed under the orders of Amala Deiter and House Menthman. She became pregnant at twenty-two, a cause for celebration by her husband and maybe the only moment of true gentle kindness he ever showed her. Six months later, the Crusades led by the council of Athesia swept through the lands of House Menthman, wiping out the Crimson Templars, House Menthman, and the vassal houses. This included all of her family, and her husband.
Her life was spared when they saw she was with child and she took this chance to save herself and escape. To coin a phrase, Valeska sold out every member of the Crimson Templars and House Menthman that she could, and threw herself on the mercy of those who spared her. Granted a chance at a second life she gave birth to a son, Isaac and moved to a remote corner of the Dark Plains to devote her life to the Church of Pelor. She was given a place in a church school as a teacher and spent six years working. Six years of raising her son on her own as a once-noble woman now with nothing but the clothes on her back and a name that incited suspicion, hatred, and once even violence.
However, after these years of hard work, she found in herself true repentance and a true turning towards Pelor. As a reward, she was gifted divine power. She decided to continue her simple life as a teacher, preferring the hard work and caring for people who would never have half of what she had been provided on a plate. Events further afield resulted in a series of events that turned her new divine powers infernal, an event she was hideously ashamed of: reminders of her husband’s visible corruption and her past actions as a Templar visible on her hands. Then, the actions of the council started having physical consequences. Earthquakes destroyed the area she now called home, and the boarding school she worked in, causing chaos, panic and death. Still a lady of a noble house at heart, she took the task of evacuating in her stride, removing children to the rocky hills to shelter in low-lying caves. However, when a stronger wave hit, tragedy struck. A rock fall was triggered, seconds from crushing numbers of her students. An instinctive reaction from Valeska, desperate to save live triggers a wall of infernal flame, strong enough to vaporise the first of the falling rocks. As the rocks continue, her infernal powers restore to their original divinity and instead form a heavenly shield that encompasses and protects all the students until the earthquakes pass.
News of this event spread and she was eventually approached by the council of Athesia, who invited her to join. She refused at first, wary of the prominence of the role, the target on her given by her married name and joining the organisation that had hunted her family and her husband down. Eventually she was encouraged by members of the town she lived in, the children she cared for, and her own son to join the council, persuaded to make a difference in Athesia for the better for her son and all future generations. Thus, starts her story here. 
A woman who would rather not draw attention to herself, Valeska is still determined to cleanse her name and make sure her son grows up in a world where either the good deeds or the complete lack of recognition of his mother outshine the horrendous deeds committed by his father. She is calm, cool-headed, and a stickler for the rules, that noble blood giving her airs and graces, a backbone of steel, and a poker face used to threats and violence.
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