Veronyka Ashfire

## Veronyka Flameheart/Ashfire

[Book] Official artwork by llstarcasterll.

Notable Ashfire Ancestors:

* Nefyra Ashfire †
* Calliope †
* Otiya the Queen of Bones †
* Aurelya the Golden Queen †
* Queen Liyana the Enduring †
* Queen Lyra the Defender †
* Elysia the Peacemaker †
* King Damian †
* Anya †
* Cara †
* Rylia †
* Darya †
* Queen Ellody the Prosperous †
* King Justyn the Pious †
* Queen Malka the Wise †
* King Worrid the Learned †
* King Hellund the Just †
* Queen Genya the General †
* Queen Bellonya the Brave †

> "*She was the kind of person who led by example, and like a lantern in the darkness, she made you want to follow.*"
> ― Tristan (thinking about Veronyka), in Heart of Flames
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**Veronyka**, or **Veronyka Ashfire**is the main heroine of the *Crown Of Feathers* series. She is 17 years old as of *Heart of Flames.*She is the daughter of Pheronia Ashfire and Theryn, which makes her one of the two Ashfire princesses, along with her aunt Avalkyra Ashfire. She is a shadowmage and animage, and is also a Phoenix Rider, and rides her bondmate, Xephyra.

Veronyka is shown to be strong and fierce, along with being compassionate and determined. She treats everyone with utter kindness, and believes that animals are her equals, and not servants, unlike some people.

Her compassion led her to sacrifice herself for the strixes to become phoenixes.

## Appearance

Veronyka is at least a little more then a quarter Pyrean (possibly more; Theryn's family is not confirmed as fully Pyrean) and one quarter Stellan. In the beginning of *Crown Of Feathers,* Veronyka has brown skin, dark brown eyes, and long black hair that was dressed with several plaits. The plaits were decorated with charms, coloured threads, shells, and a piece of Xephyra's egg shell a little later on. She is described to be looking young, partially because she looked optimistic. She is also described as somewhat short and scrawny, partially due to not having enough food to eat prior to joining the Phoenix Riders.

Once Veronyka learned that the Phoenix Riders would only recruit boys, she disguised herself as one so she could join them. She cut her hair short, and undid all the braids, because the braids were supposed to be symbolic, which would cause questions. Along with that, she also bound her breasts.

After she revealed that she was Veronyka, and not Nyk, she let her hair grow a little longer, and it is currently at chin length.

## Personality

Veronyka is nice, kind, and respectful and caring to all. She grew up with very little when her 'maiora' got captured. She loves Val dearly, but is acutely aware of Val's major issues.

She is described as being 'surprisingly ruthless' by Val, and queenly. Additionally, she is also (albeit possibly in a mocking way) said to be like the 'goddess of mercy Miseriya herself reborn'

### Strengths

Veronyka is very caring, and is always genuine. She is trustworthy and dependable. These instill immense trust in her from others.

### Flaws

Her kindness sometimes makes her into a pushover, and Veronyka is naive, especially in the first book. She's very determined, which can sometimes be detrimental to her. An example of this would help be that she is unwilling to give up on her sister, even though all signs point to Val using her or valuing her as an idea and not as a person.

## Abilities

### **Animage**

As an animage, Veronyka has a strong affinity for animals. She always does her best to treat them with respect, no matter how common an animal may be. She always requests for them to do an action, instead of demanding them to, like how other animages were taught. Due to this, her magic is shown to be a lot stronger, because she lets them trust her, so it's less difficult overall.

### **Shadowmage**

Unlike being born an animage, being a shadowmage isn't decided on genes. It only happens when a person is born from death. Veronyka was born as Pheronia died from an arrow wound. Her shadowmage adoptive sister did teach her the bare minimum, leaving Veronyka rather underdeveloped. Other than that, Val never teaches her how to do anything, other than guard her mind. Because of this, Veronyka was never really good at controlling it, which impacts her a lot, like when she constantly reaches into Tristan's mind in the end of *Crown Of Feathers*, and throughout *Heart of Flames*. She fears what she could do, and did her best to ignore it for as long as possible. However, since her animage and shadowmage powers are connected, shutting down her shadowmage abilities affect her animage bonds as well. She eventually learns that rejecting it isn't even a good solution; she needs to, if not embrace, at least accept them.

### Apex Abilities

When transferred these abilities from Ignix, she and Xephyra utilize it to purify [[Black Horde|Val's strixes]] into phoenixes. She ultimately sacrifices her magic to it to finish the process. Xephyra can breathe Heartfire as Veronyka's bondmate, and so she purifies the strixes best she can, even purifying Val and restoring her sanity.

## Trivia

* Her Harry Potter house would be Gryffindor, as confirmed by the author.
* "Veronica" in Latin means "she who brings victory" or "true image". Veronyka is just a spelling variation of Veronica.
	+ Veronyka is canonically the Pyrean form of 'Pheronia.

## Veronyka Ashfire

From German covers

From the French Heart of Flames cover

Veronyka 🔥 Tristan 🔥 Anders 🔥 Latham 🔥 Ronyn 🔥 Lysandro 🔥 Kade 🔥 Elliot 🔥 Cassian 🔥 Beryk 🔥 Fallon 🔥 Darius 🔥 Alexiya 🔥
Rider Associates People
Sev 🔥 Morra 🔥 Ersken 🔥 Jana 🔥 Old Ana 🔥 Lars 🔥 Sparrow 🔥 Riella 🔥
Phoenixes
Xephyra 🔥 Rex 🔥 Xane 🔥 Jaxon 🔥 Maximian 🔥 Ximn 🔥
Other Animals
Wind and Storm 🔥 Chip 🔥 Ash, Carrot, Lucky and Larry 🔥 Bluebird 🔥
Bondservants
Junior 🔥 Mia 🔥

Lord Rolan 🔥 Bertram 🔥 Alastor 🔥 Belden 🔥 Captain Dill 🔥 Hestia 🔥 Corem 🔥 Officer Yara 🔥

Val 🔥 Sidra 🔥 Val's Bonded Strix 🔥 Oxana 🔥

Pheronia 🔥 Theryn 🔥 Lord Rolan 🔥

Avalkyra's Army
Avalkyra 🔥 Nyx 🔥 Sidra 🔥 Oxana 🔥 Doriyan 🔥 Daxos 🔥 Alexiya 🔥 Ximn 🔥 Ilithya 🔥 Bellatrix 🔥 Olanna 🔥 Cassian 🔥 Alys and Sevono Lastlight 🔥 Morra 🔥 Aneaxi 🔥

Nefyra Ashfire 🔥 Callysta Lightbringer 🔥 Adalyn Brightblaze 🔥 Devyn Fleetfeather 🔥 Eelya Skyfire 🔥 Halyn Smokewind 🔥 Inara Sunflare 🔥 Kiyana Nightstar 🔥 Myra Coldflame 🔥 Natalya Starfall 🔥 Oriyana Flamesong 🔥 Roza Heartlight 🔥 Siytara Strongwing 🔥 Talliya Dawnstar

First Phoenixes
Ignix 🔥 Cirix 🔥 Nyx 🔥 Axalea 🔥 Xariah 🔥 Niaxi 🔥 Meraxis 🔥 Ixiya 🔥 Xelda 🔥 Lexara 🔥 Elexa 🔥 Xhea 🔥 Roxana 🔥 Ajax 🔥 Ximena

Other Notable People
Calliope 🔥

Deities
Axura 🔥 Nox 🔥 Xenith 🔥 Miseriya 🔥 Teyke 🔥 Hael 🔥 Mori 🔥 Eo 🔥 Nors 🔥 Soth 🔥