Selni

# Selni (Strong Betty)

**Selni** (**Strong Betty** Wolf of the Waves) is The Guardians guide in Esudel, the dwarven kingdom. She is a major smuggler and has many connections from the high courts to the shifty Red tier of Esudel (city). She is strong willed and isn't one to back down from a fight. She is very patriotic but hold much contempt for the ruling class of Esudel. Is refered to as: Lady Selni, Strong Selni, Wolf of the Waves, Strong Betty, Strong Betty Wolf of the Waves.

## Character Info

### Affiliations

Falda Balckglass, Lady Strada, Yushimi Forgedfist & Elizabeth

## Status

### Status

Lower ranking Consort of the Dwarven King

## Appearance and Personality

Has an immense distain for magic and gods, she wants to make her home a better place, and it is reveals that she has tried through out her life to do so.

She has a thick blond beard that is braided with lots of shells and strands of beads. Her hair is done up in a thick braided top knot. She wears a knee length dress with the skirts tied up at her waist, with tall wading boots.

## In The Beating Earth

Strong Selni first appears in episode 102 : The Beating Earth (Part 4) and stays in the party till the end of the arc. The Guardians get in contact with help of the pirates. They asked the pirates if they had a way to get across The Jaws of Certanus, a strip of volitile ocean controlled by the god of the deep and the only way to get to the dwarven kingdom. She refuses to tell them her name, allowing them to give her the name Strong Betty Wolf of the Waves. On their way across the passage, they are attacked by a dragon, which destroys Selni's ship. After The Guardians make a makeshift raft and arrive in the city of Roval, she is ready to just abandon them right there, but is presuaded with money to stay around and take The Guardians somewhere safe. This is where she discovers that Torva's forces are trying to break through the gates to Esudel.
She then leaves The Guardians there and spies on them from afar to make sure they don't get into the city. The next time we see her is when The Guardians have found a way into the city and she threatens Maeri before Corbin leaps out of the water in the form of a dolpin and lands on her as a dolphin, pinning her to the ground. The Guardians and then abel to have a "Reasonable" conversation with Selni where she agrees to give them the key to the secret door into the city. She says that they might be the only ones who can help and tells them that this is a test, if they can open the door then they can get into the city. It is around here that she reveals that her husband is the King of Esudel but there is no "love" it's more like a contract. The Dwarves have a very different concept of marriage then our western soceity does. She leads them through the city, where in their attempts to find Swann Rockson they make a huge scene and are captured by the city guard and brought before the king. Selni then has a private conversation with the king which results in The Guardians getting put into prison, they are put into the Dwarven Iron cell, which is conveniantly the same cell that Selni broke out of before she married the king. She helps them escape and then aids them on their investigation of the city and the Taitecairn.
Their first stop is Falda's Bar, where Corbin and Slake get ropped into a pit-fight with Big & Liddle Papa (also known as The Papas) where it is revealed that Falda has been asking for the Lady Selni's hand for sometime. At Falda's bar we are also introduced to Selni's main objective: Finding the source of the "Spores" and stoping it. The Spores are a drug that is sweeping across the city and ruining many peoples lives.
When it is discovered that the spores and the disaperance of Swann Rockson both lead to the taitecairn, she helps The Guardians break into the taitecairn and takes them somewhere safe after they absolutly wreck shop their. She takes them to her friend Yushimi & Elizabeth's place. Where Yushimi reveals why Selni is married to the kind and what happened to her old Justice Squad. After that, Selni takes the guardians to her husband Tret's house to drop off the injured Swann. We then learn about Tret, who is her Bond Husband.
Next they go on the investigation to try and gather evidence to defend The Guardians during their trail. Slake and her go see an old flame of her's, Lady Strada. To tell Lady Strada about the death of her son and learn more about how her son got involved in spores. Lady Strada's husband still holds quite a grudge against Selni.
During the trail, Selni takes the stand in the defense of The Guardians before Counselman Tairn sacrafices the king to Torva and they have to flee. As they evacuate, Selni directs people to the train, which she takes control of and takes the train out of station and away from the city of Esudel.

## In The River of Lights

She tells The Guardians she plans on returning to the city of Esudel to try and save the citizens that were left behind. But Falda Vetos that saying that Selni is now the heir to the dwraven throne after the king's death and his other wives statuses being unknown.

## Relationship

### SPOILERS FOR BEATING EARTH

##### Marriages

Lady Selni is married to two men and is being courted by Falda. Her first marriage is with the King, this is a political marriage and she states that there is no romance at all. She became married to the King after her first "Justice Squad" was captured, after some were killed, she decided to marry the king to save herself and her remaining friends. The marriage agreement was that Selni would control smuggling in the city by stopping the worst goods from entering the city (eg magical items, drugs, weapons) The King agreed to this arrangement. Selni has a very sarcastic relationship with her husband the King. Making fun of the length of his robes and object laziness. Because of her marriage she has a certain level of respect and immunity from government officials.

Her second marriage is what dwarves call their "Bond Spouse" or what Selni calls "The husband of her Heart" is with an incredibly normal looking dwarf named Tret. He makes croissants and does cross-stitch. We don't know that much about Tret, other than he seems like Selni's grasp of a normal life in her increasingly insane life. We meet Tret in episode 115.

##### Past relationships

Selni had an affair with Lady Strada, who is the Bond wife of Counselman Antoine Strada. The Strada family is the least powerful of the twelve ruling families that make up the counsel. From the hints of the relationship we get from Lady Strada, it was quite passionate. This past becomes a problem when her and Slake have to talk to the Strada family after discovering the remains of one of the members of the Strada house in the Taitecairn. It is very clear that Antoine Strada still holds a grudge.

##### Courtships

Falda Blackglass, who owns a bar that host the Big Papa and Liddle Papa pit fights has been asking for Selni's hand for quite a long time. Selni seems somewhat indifferent to this, stating she won't marry Falda because her husband Tret doesn't like her. Falda still works as a contact for Selni.

## Backstory

### SPOILERS

Selni started out with her original Justice Squad when she was young, she and her crew were smuggling dwarves who has left Barun back into Esudel. Because when a dwarf leave Barun they aren't allowed to comeback and there are many who regretted leaving. Since Esudel hasn't suffered from any of the apocalypse, they have been able to continually build, without getting destroyed after a few hundered years. When her crew was finally caught, the King started executing those of who he captured. This is when Selni approached the king and struck a deal. She told him she would marry him, and control what goods were smuggled into the city if he agreed to not kill her or her remaining friends. He agreed and their tenses alliance began and lasted up until the king's death. She carried out her duty of being the king's inside man for smuggling operations, stopping the worst of the goods from entering the city. Through her smuggling career, she has visited many of the cities on the surface and she saw how they were cities built atop ruins, that had been made ruins over and over again. This reenforced her belief that magic and the Gods were inherently bad, and he patriotism to Esudel and dwarven society.