Valerie Ost

## Relationships

* Augusto Garibaldi (Son)
* Idunn Mannerheim Garibaldi (Wife)

**Valerie Ost** (Veneto Garibaldi) is the power in the shadow who controlled the dukedom.

## History

20 Years ago before the start of the story.....

He was the best friend of Count Viktor Pazarov, who got executed. Originally it wouldn’t be strange even if he got purged together with Viktor.

Fortunately Valerie was staying in Mauricia Kingdom at the time for recuperating from a sickness. Because of that even Duke Sforza’s scheme was unable to reach Valerie. After Valerie returned home, he acted as though his friendship with Viktor had never existed. If he didn’t do that then it was highly possible that Duke Sforza would target him once more.

He knew about Dahlia and others whose life were targeted by assassins at the detached palace, even so Valerie only remained an idle spectator without doing anything to help them no matter how heartrending it was for him to do that. Valerie didn’t have any son or daughter. For him Dahlia was already like a beloved daughter.

King Umberto who abandoned Dahlia was nothing but a despicable traitor for Valerie.

After the unfair death of his best friend due to the Queens scheme who was jealous of Dhalia for obtaining Kings affection along with arrogance and wrong doings of Nobles, he decided the fate of Trystovy kingdom, that it needed to be changed at the very fundamental level and for that the current system needed to be destroyed for new one to be born. Thus, the abstained from everything and went ahead with one goal in mind, the emergence of a new, improved and powerful Trystovy kingdom.

For that, he worked in shadows to cause revolts. His schemes killed the king, the queen along with almost the entirety of Royal family at the time along with many nobles who he considered to be the ones responsible for killing his friend Victor who was the very definition of upright and honest person. But he didn't stop there, he stood behind the new king as his advisor and manipulated him and the country waiting for that one chance, for someone to appear through whom he could see hope for a world envisioned by his late friend Victor.

20 years later.....

He still went on manipulating everything, even creating his own secret faction. He wanted a country where Humans and Beastmen could live together in harmony but that wasn't possible due to not only the current religion and state of nobles and royals BUT also public who too didn't view Beastmen in any sort of great light due to propagandas ranging over several centuries. This idea itself would also have been rejected by literally everyone in Trystovy so the best course of action was to make it so that the public would have no choice BUT to accept this and for that they needed to face horrors of current government. His schemes tormented the commoners and gave negative light to royals and nobles of current divided Trystovy kingdom while he himself still waited until the great-grandson of his late friend Victor came to declare himself as the true heir and also announced to the entire world of his heritage of a beastman.

He tested Bard through various means until he was certain of Bard being the man he had been waiting for thus began the true mayhem and despair. Through nobles he utterly destroyed any sort of morale or safety of the public, from massacres to abductions and much more until the public itself wished for a hero to save them. Bard also didn't disappoint him by winning in every battle, subverting the odds stacked against him again and again. By this time the commoners were destroyed with their wills and voices crushed and they started seeing Bard as a hero of salvation. By this point it didn't matter even if a Beastman ruled them so long as they could get-out of this hell hole

After Bard became the king of Trystovy, he killed himself to atone for all the sins he committed without anyone knowing his true intentions