Daenora Vaelaros

## Daenora Qoheros née Vaelaros

Lady Consort of House Qoheros

Lady of the Watering Hole

Triarchy of Volantis

Volantis

Saera Vaelaros, sister

Lady **Daenora "Nora" Qoheros** née **Vaelaros** is the wife of Triarch Qavo Qoheros, younger sister to the Patriarch Lucerys Vaelaros, great-niece of Laerys Vaelaros, and an abolitionist.

She was born to Patriarch Valerion Vaelaros, known for his kind treatment of slaves in his household, and his sister-wife Alysanne and has one elder brother and one younger sister. She was once set to marry Lucerys, but the engagement has since been broken off.

## Appearance

While a very common sight for a noblewoman in Volantis and not the most beautiful woman behind the Black Walls, Daenora is far from uncomely. Pale-skinned, and violet-eyed, with long, silver-white hair, she represents the tell-tale Valyrian. A once laughing, usually happy expression is now a rarity on Nora's face - deaths of her lover and father had taken a toll on her, after all.

While she isn't in any way overweight, she does have a natural predisposition to fat, just like her mother, resulting in a somewhat chubby belly. Nevertheless, she has a narrow waist, which she accentuates by using belts to her silk dresses. Her dresses are respectable, never too revealing, yet not hiding her form or chest. She can wear a veil occassionally, but even then, it reveals her hair, which she wears in various more or less elaborate hairstyles. She has a penchant for jewellery.

## History

Daenora came into the world with a scream one warm day in 355 AC,
behind Volantis' Black Walls; her parents, Patriarch Valerion Vaelaros
and his sister-wife Alysanne were overjoyed, as she was their third
child, but first daughter. Another girl came only 4 years later, one
they named Saera, in honour of Valerion and Alysanne's mother.

Patriarch's rule was kind and just, both over his estates and his
family, and Daenora's earliest memories include her father sitting with
children of his slaves and teaching them to read and write. Ever since
she could remember, the Tower of Stars was a safe place for runaway
slaves, who Valerion would buy from their previous master and treat them
 with love and attention in his own home. Every other member of the
family lifted their nose at that, including her eldest brother Lucerys,
who was steeped into the traditional profile of what a Vaelaros
Patriarch was.

House Vaelaros is a House dipped in traditions - they follow the
Valyrian Gods, they marry brothers and sisters, and everyone knew their
place. It wasn't to say Daenora and Saera was cut short on opportunities
 to be equal to their brothers Lucerys and Aerion - they received an
education just as good, in the same things. The elder sister was
slightly better at it, learning things with ease, proving herself truly **autodictatic**
 as soon as she could. Traditions only meant that from an early age,
both of them were trained to be Patriarchs' wives, with specific focus
on Daenora, who was set to become Lucerys' wife once they came of age.
But Daenora didn't mind - marriage to Lucerys, although a destiny she'd
have to bear, was something her mother drilled into her from an early
age, and it didn't stop her from being a happy, lively girl she always
was.

However, Lucerys frowned upon his future bride's activities. When she
 was 12, she joined her father in educating the slaves, making bread
with the kitchen maids; to her, there was no difference between them and
 her, for they all shared the same, red blood though Daenora's skin was
pale and some of the slaves' skins were a pretty, nut brown. To her,
tattoos on their bodies didn't exist. She learned their words on their
tongues, wore their traditional clothes if they weren't Volantene, and
Valerion aptly incouraged his daughter's blindness to the legal status
of the household servants.

When she was 13, and Lucerys 18, the heir to the Vaelaros line
decided he'd curb his future wife's behaviour, in hopes of cutting its
roots entirely. She was the future matriarch of the household, she
couldn't be running around with slaves! Knowing he couldn't use force
under his father's rule, he argued with yells and threats, and thus,
their distant relationship became even more distant, downright negative,
 to the point Daenora thought about refusing to marry Lucerys.

Mayhaps that was the reason why, once she was on the sunrise of 18
and starting to realise that girls were equally as appealing as boys,
Daenora took a liking one of the newly bought slave girls of Daenora's
age. The girl was shy and quiet, not wanting to reveal her actual name,
so Daenora named her Shrykos, after the goddess of new beginnings.
Shrykos was not an apt name, for the girl was dark-skinned, dark eyed
and dark-haired, but eventually the name stuck. After a few moons,
Shrykos began to get out of her shell, spending days with Daenora with
books, as the Volantene was teaching her how to read and write High
Valyrian, laughter and a light-heartedness of a first love. Together,
they explored how intimacy felt, how touches felt good.

Once Lucerys learned of this, tragedy struck. Shrykos was found
hanged in her bedroom once morning, right after Daenora had turned 18.

The siblings fought even more. Broken-hearted, she didn't wish to
trouble her father, whose health had declined over the years, but had no
 other option but to yell back passionately at the man who was to be her
 husband and who killed her first true love. During one argument,
Lucerys shouted how ungrateful she was, how tainted now that the slave
had touched her (he deserved only a pure maiden for a wife) and a week
after, bethrotal between Lucerys and Daenora was no more.

Volantene public knew nothing of this. What they knew, however, was
Daenora's resolve and her vocal anti-slavery stances - to spite her
brother, she took his money and every morning for hours under humid
weather of Volantis, she walked to slave merchants, bought every one of
the poor souls and then set them free. In that endeavour, she discovered
 her **diplomatic** talents, making even hardest of heart
fall under her tongue. The more he made, the more she spent on freeing
slaves. He yelled, she yelled back, and did the same next morning.

The quiet life of the Vaelaros family was no more. Valerion succumbed
 to his illness in 375 AC, leaving his wife a widow, and his puritan son
 the next Patriarch. Once under her father's protection, now left to her
 own devices, Daenora knows she isn't safe anymore in her family home.

## Recent events

### 10th Moon, 375 AC

Tolī aderī??

Omnis sola

Stars in your eyes (by /u/MilamberV)

Three's a Crowd (by /u/BeronzeTheWall)

### 11th Moon, 375 AC

The wedding of Qavo and Daenora

The wedding of Lucerys Staegone and Daenerys Vaelaros

### 12th Moon, 375 AC

The abolitionist BFF club ( by /u/I\_Speak\_Fire)

## Family

http://www.familyecho.com/?p=PXK0A&c=iw75xzg7kw&f=961351891511390277