Evangeline Reiter

## History

Evangeline would be born to a noble house in Catania. She'd live rather comfortably in comparison to many, but it was clear that there was almost always a level of uncertainty in her declining house, wether if they would continue to retain their noble status or not. Each child of the house, except for her, would be groomed a bit more intensively than the average noble house, due to the need for them to become people of importance and improve the status of the house rather than simply being inheritors and continuing the trend. As is usual with noble and royal children, the female births are treated as lesser and sometimes even disappointing. With her house shifting to a military focus, female births were the last thing they wanted.

As there was already little hope for her to help advance the house, her grooming would be much lighter than her older brothers', and she gained little attention from her parents, so she'd have a lot more free time to do with as she pleased. Though from a young age Evangeline was determined to be just as, if not more, important as her brothers. She'd often spy on the boys' lessons and would often try to mimic their exercises later in the day.

Due to her family's negligeance and being a part of the nobility, she often felt quite lonely. She found that her only companions were the animals she'd find during hunts or the ones she'd help tame during her lessons, often spending her time outdoors training her beasts.

During her late-teens, her parents would've been putting together a plan that involved her, the one thing that came to mind for a use that she may have. After some discussions with another house, they were thinking of arranging a marriage between Evangeline and one of the house's sons, a marriage that would help solidify a bond between the two houses and help them throughout the coming years.

Unfortunately for everyone else, Evangeline didn't intend on getting married quite yet, her life having only gotten started she believed. When the marriage proposal came, she asked her rather flamboyant husband to be "Before I accept, please humour my request." Her request would be that he fight for her affections, a best of 3, 3 different competitions, one of her choice, one of his choice, and one of their houses' choice. If he won, she'd accept his proposal with joy, if she did, he would retract his proposal.

The three competitions were; A horse race, chosen by Evangeline. A sword duel, chosen by her potential husband, and then a test of leadership. Evangeline would lose the sword duel, her opponent a more than experienced duelist, winning with ease. The sword duel had already set the tone for the rest of the competitions, everyone already thinking that things that were decided and that this was just delaying an inevitability. In a heel turn once in the young lady's court, she'd just as easily beat him as he had beatten her in the duel. Then the last of the competitions, it would be a little one sided; find up to 5 companions who would fight for your honor, and then instruct them on how to defeat the other team. Being a loner, Eva had no one to call on and her opponent having plenty to choose from, one of her brothers even joining in on his side. Eva would go to the stables and go to the forest for some time. Her oponent was starting to think she had simply ran away when she hadn't been back for some time. When a search party was being put together, Eva would return, 5 animals in tow. Her horse from the stables, a raven she seemed fond of and was seen the most of these 5 animals, a large lizard, a boar and rather big wolf, all black in pigmentation. It was a little odd to see to say the least, some shook their heads, others simply laughed. Due to the specification of "companions" and not "people", it was accepted. The flamboyant man already confident in his chances of victory, simply told his men to do whataver approach they wanted, just defeat the animals. Unfortunately this was a major oversight for the man as Evangeline was rather effective in commanding the beasts, they followed her words without hesitation. Even though it was an odd assortment of animals versus a small band of trained knights, the mixed tactics would prevail.

Gaining her independance for now, she asked of her parents to start really teaching her and give her an opportunity, surely she had proven she could useful as something other than bargaining chip, and if they didn't give her a chance, she'd go find her own chance and mentor.

Which concludes to present day. :patcat:

## Appearance

Evangeline is a slim young woman with pale skin, purpleish eyes, and long white hair with ties to the side. She wears a red cape, on the side of her black and gold uniform, red tights, and black-heel boots. She can sometimes be seen wearing a black-alloyed gauntlet. She is usually at least accompanied by a raven which rests on an extended forearm or on her shoulder.

## Personality

* Compassionate towards the citizens of Catania and their allies.
* Proud
* Devoted
* Outspoken
* Well-manered
* Good with animals
* Ambitious
* ~~Envious, Vindictive and mildly power hungry~~

## Allies

Her tamed animals. Her raven Augen and her wolf Rachen particularily.

House Schwarz-Reiter

## Foes

The enemies of Catania

Those who would oppose law, order and civilization.

## Goals

What do you hope to accomplish in this world?

First let's become head of her house, or make her own

## House Schwarz-Reiter

(While I don't have a wiki page for it, here's a short bit for the house)

House Schwarz-Reiter, today mostly just reffered to as house Reiter, is one of Catania's oldest houses to date. The house holds a decent position among the others, specializing and providing an important ressources and quality of said ressource, demosticated animals, mainly horses. However over the years the house has been in decline of importance. The need for beasts becoming less necessary with the progressions made by other houses, like the technology of Arcturious or the magic of Lacina. The house has begun to take more of a military focus over the last couple generations, usually as Cavalry generals and breeding their horses for war.