Edelgarde Magfir-Vencaryn

## Description

The stern Queen of Syldor, renowned for her loyal hounds and leverage of populist ideals, **Edelgarde Magfir-Vencaryn**, is the current sitting monarch elect after winning in a shocking landslide vote. Taking the throne at age thirty, Edelgarde improved civil tensions amongst Syldori society and had two years of relative peace before her edicts became increasingly exacting and discriminating. Her people, provided with a sense of peace and certainty in hand with relative economic success, are salved enough in the meantime to excuse certain decrees she endorses.

## Personality

Edelgarde is stone-faced, carrying herself with an air of dignity and formality. To foreigners, she's considered exacting, cunning, and private; her people tend to see her as courageous and sympathetic, with a drive worth being proud of. In her personal life, she's surrounded by a small inner circle that includes her husband and some allies from past adventuring days. They are the rare few who would ever honestly know what's on her mind, and even then, some are left to assume and hope their test of bond withstands. Edelgarde and her family are still very close, except Demyan, who no longer lives in Syldor or keeps in touch with the Magfir-Vencaryns to any degree that is known. Many people consider him exiled or estranged as he left Syldor around the time of Edelgarde's campaign for the throne. Edelgarde's never obligated to release any public story, which leaves the consequence of the Syldori people enjoying their speculation of family drama.

Edel earned the alias the Queen of Salts and Hounds on a national scale, some use it as a joke, and others see it as a proud title. Salts refers to Syldor's yield of Aelundalum, while the loyalty of her hounds is pressed with an offhand moniker pointed at her and her army. There's no official word on her opinion of this nickname.

## Abilities

Edelgarde's an accomplished hunter and ranger that exemplifies particular keen skill with archery and animal handling; her legends of adventuring and monster hunting precede her even before the title of Queen.

Despite it never being a particularly notable piece of her upbringing in practice, she's an impressive and charming public speaker. Edelgarde is also a surprisingly exceptional hostess. She pays substantial attention to cultural detail and makes it her goal to only present respect for her ambassadors' cultures and rare foreign diplomats when they're her guests. It is often a tale that lingers with her guests when they're home; despite every detail of her chilly demeanour recited to them, she was exceptionally welcoming and attentive in contrast.

## Relationships

### Family

Raised in a military family, she's the youngest of five; the four older siblings, her brothers, Arkadiy, Benedict, Cenric, and Demyan, all served in the military or other similar enforcement occupations. Their father, Rustik Ippolit Magfir, was a general in the army. From the time they were young, he ensured his children knew how to protect themselves and understood the value of motivated self-discipline, which laid solid foundations for the interests of each sibling. Edelgarde was drawn to the bow and arrow, which her father happily obliged. Their mother, Hedy Vencaryn, was an animal behaviourist who handled army animals and oversaw rehabilitation and training. She specialized in understanding the many native species and beasts of Syldor. Her knowledge opened the door to military recruitment and access to equipment and funding that she couldn't say no to; she met Edel's father in the army, and they married.