Faustine Belrose

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 **Relatives**
* Julius Comtois (Father)
* Euphémie Comtois (Mother)
* Leopold Comtois (Brother)
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Lady **Faustine Belrose** is a Stormwind noblewoman who rules over the County of Carafonte. She took official power as Countess after a brief struggle over succession against her late husband, Alfonso Belrose's nephew César. She is a soft-spoken and observant woman, known for being able to apply a firm hand judiciously but without excess.

## Personality & Beliefs

Faustine Belrose is a woman of calculating reservation, with watchful eyes and an observant demeanor that communicates that she is a woman with an attention to detail, she can be easily described as a shrewd leader, willing to do what she must in order to ensure her future and that of her house, applying a firm hand in spite of her understated social presence, when need calls for it.

A woman of great personal faith, she has thrown her lot in with the Convocation of the Flaming Heart, which claims to purify sin from the soul using flame, inviting them and their shepard, Bishop Azalais, into her lands that they might take refuge, using them to cement her rule in the County of Carafonte.

## Description

Faustine Belrose is possessed of soft features that aid her in seeming unassuming, a plain expression permanently adorning her face that she might give nothing away. With light skin and light hair to match, kept up in any number of up-do styles or let down into some other intricate styling that takes another step in giving her an air of quiet dignity and regality.

With piercing golden eyes, she scans her court coldly, revealing nothing of herself and cultivating a strong image in the hearts and minds of her vassals.

To her people, however, Faustine cultivates an image of compassion and care for the state of her subjects, presenting her most amicable side to those less fortunate, that she can win their favor as a ruler and a figure of faith.

Typical of aristocracy, Faustine is often dressed in extravagant clothing and adorned with jewelry made of rare gems and precious metals, though most significant is a plain golden band, an old signet ring, many hundreds of years old, given to House Belrose by the northern lords of Balor as a token of appreciation in the 300's.

## Biography

Born to House Comtois, a family from Elwynn Forest, Faustine was set to inherit some barony someday, when she came of age, but when the First War brought terror to the Kingdom of Stormwind, and an infant Faustine was ferried away to Lordaeron in her youth to live safe away from the reach of the Orcish Horde.

When Faustine and her family returned some years later, they found their lands in utter ruin, and their house left with no funds to rejuvenate their holdings, they were forced to sell their devastated lands to a bordering lord, that they might buy themselves a manor close to Stormwind City and live as part of the urban court of the capital, a disgraceful fall from where they had come, but one that allowed them to cling onto their status.

In the years before the Stormwindian Civil War, Faustine went to the isle of Balor to marry then-count of Carafonte, Alfonso Belrose, who wished for further connections to the capital, and an heir.

However, five years into their marriage, and just before the cessation of hostilities in the Civil War, Alfonso died of a long-lasting illness that had taken hold and seen to the deterioration of his health, leading to a crisis of succession between Faustine and her late husband's nephew, César.

Making close ties with the Convocation of the Flaming Heart and the Duchy of Alcestenne to the north of Carafonte, Faustine won in the War of the Clerical Countess against the Belrose 'Legitimists' who wished to seat César in Sorieti at her expense, and ultimately the foes of the Convocation and Lady Faustine were purified in the flames of the Holy Light.

Now, having won her independence from the Duchy of Athlone to the south, Faustine has sworn herself as a vassal to House Laurent, earning the protection of the Duchy of Alcestenne, giving her the space and time to secure her rule in the County of Carafonte.

## Titles

### Countess of Carafonte

Faustine is the Lady of the County of Carafonte, a comital fiefdom in northern Balor.

## House

Faustine is a member and head of the branch of House Belrose that currently reigns in Carafonte, opposing the Belroses of Athlone, the Legitimists led by César.

## Gallery

Faustine BelroseFaustine's SignatureBelrose of Carafonte Crest