Duchess Valdemar

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## Duchess Valdemar

* Portrait
* Ghost
* Flashback

### Relatives

* Duke Valdemar (Husband)
* Johannes Valdemar (Son)
* Giovinetta Valdemar (Daughter)
* Winfried Valdemar (2nd Son)
* Giovinetta Ducommun (Ancestor)
* Abel (Half  Brother)

## Biographical information

### Birth

Ducommun

**Duchess Valdemar** of the North is the wife of Duke of Gustave and the mother of Giovinetta Valdemar, Johannes Valdemar, Winfried Valdemar. She is the last surviving descendant of the Ducommun name.

## Appearance

The duchess is a strikingly beautiful woman with blue eyes, light skin, and black hair. Her twins, Giovinetta and Johannes, bear close resemblance to her.[?] Towards the end of her life, her health deteriorated rapidly. She would excessively scratch her throat, forcing her to speak with a wheeze. Her hair turned white and she grew gradually thinner, weaker and paler, as if she had succumed to frostbite.

## Personality

The duchess was harsh and distant from her children, harboring a deep-seated aversion to her son, Johannes, as she asserted that she would protect Giovinetta from him at all costs. She can be ruthless, as she gruesomely dismembered Johannes' left hand to prove his true nature, despite him being a child. The duchess also shows signs of mental instability.[?]

**Duchess Valdemar** to Devil: *"But listen, devil. I have no more wishes for you… And I cannot place this on my daughter's shoulders either. As this curse may distort my wish to the very end… What could I possibly wish for anyway? Haa… human greed has no limits… It's endless. What I lacked instead is courage. I'm a terrible mother. I don't even have the courage to die. I feel sorry for my daughter."*

## Biography

The day Anette's marriage was set, she began questioning what she'd done to her daughter these past years, before feeling faint and beginning to hallucinate about the entire castle being covered in spiderwebs, causing her to scratch her neck excessively. Before dying, she begs for his forgiveness and pleads him to let Anette be, until she realizes he was not the one who cursed the Ducommuns and sends him to summon Kretschmann for himself. She passes away five days later at the mere age of 29.

## Relationships

### Johannes Valdemar

To Johannes: *"I thought the only way for us to survive was to keep our distance from you. It was the only way this foolish mother could think of… I know it was cruel, but please forgive me. (…) … I see, it wasn't you. You, too, are a wretched creature trapped by this curse. Child… Who exactly are you?"*

Upon birth, the duchess was appalled by Johannes' unearthly appearance as the devil. After her initial joy returning to the nursery and finding a human son, the duchess learned that the devil was still dormant.[?] She abhors her son. As John grew older, her body grew weaker, until the only strength she had left was in her toxic words. Before dying she pleads for him to leave Anette be, and blames him for not dying even after she begged him to.

### Gionivetta Valdemar

*"That woman I called mother saw everything."* Giovinetta recalling the duchess's outrage after she kissed Johannes
## Quotes

To Griselda: *"Griselda... w-what must I wish for to make myself... even the tiniest bit... less miserable?"* The duchess after learning her of the duke's involvement in her family's murder to own the Ducommun's coffins

## Trivia

* Her hair color is the same hue of black as Idris and Kretschmann.

## Gallery

Duchess laments the sarcophagi's arrivalPortraitGhostFlashbackFirst time meeting the dukeSecond son
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 82 (Webtoon)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 83 (Webtoon)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 84 (Webtoon)