Asme (Asmoday)

Asme, otherwise known as Asme of House Daye which was later bastardised by herself to Asmoday whilst running from the Inquisition.

## Early Life

Asme was born into one of the wealthiest slave trading families in the Macendenian Higher Circle.

Unknown to most of the Higher Circle it has been the goal of House Daye for them to born the most powerful magician through the use of selective breeding. It was early one in the history of the Higher Circle and of the Dragon Academy who were closely linked, that the strength behind channeling was defined by the blood ratio of human and what the Academy called Silver Blood. Finding that those who had more human blood and less silver were able to control magic more freely and with more power. So through almost 12 generations House Daye actively sought that breeding members of there family were to be matched with people with less silver blood content in order to create the strongest channeler. The earliest members of House Daye believed this was integral to dominating the Higher Circle.

Her mother (Marie), at the behest of her husband and paternal father (Delvon), that Marie be paired with someone of less silver blood then himself. Agents of House Daye knew of one person with an almost human capacity in blood through recent battles in quelling the Northern Lands into Uronia. They told Delvon of a Northern War Party lead by a man called Rognar who resided in a fort on the borders between Macenden and the Northern Lands. Knowing this Delvon started to campaign for amnesty between the two nations, bringing it up multiple time to the Higher Circle with no avail. The Higher Circle continue to strive to take over the Northern Lands without the support of House Daye.

Delvon in secret, with some of his house staff and Marie, snuck across the border with the intention of meeting with Rognar who they had contacted prior, seeking for peace between the Northern Lands and Macenden. They were given an audience, with Delvon and Marie attended with Rognar speaking of peace between the two nations. Delvon suggested that this could be done through conventional methods, and offered his wife under the guise of it being Delvon's sister to marry and consummate the relationship and begin to repair the tears of war. With the sole purpose of creating peace Rognar accepted, believing Marie to be Delvon's sister and they were wed under Northern Standards (this would create the tradition later in history of Lords of the North marrying women of Macenden in order to consolidate peace).

However once the marriage was consummated and Marie with child, her death was faked and she escaped back to Macenden, leaving Rognar vulnerable. Delvon turned his back on Rognar, stating to the Higher Circle that Marie had been raped which fired the flames of war further, so much so that Rognar would lose his territory of the fort and Macenden would slowly encroach and overtake the Northern Lands. After this defeat Rognar still continued to fight, eventually finding out the inevitability of his wife and would fight to survive. This final war would last for another 10 years before the Northern Lands was assimilated into Macenden. However Rognar survived, and would become a fugitive within his own country and ran for many years until his eventual re connection with his daughter, Asme.