Rosetta Paolure

## Lady Rosetta Paolure

**Her Ladyship, Lady Rosetta Annemarie Serenity Laycie Udele Paolure (née Schere)** is the daughter of a landowning family who lost everything in the Fall of Arleans. She became a key figure in the exile community after the Fall and took a primary role in establishing the League that would swear to cleanse the Blighted Arleans and restore the Old Kingdom.

## History

### Life before the Fall

The young Rosetta was born to Noble parents although they never held lordship over territory but were wealthy landowners. The young Lady Schere was allowed a strong education and her activities were largely focused on the social scene of Arlenian life.

Schere never worked a laborious job, nevertheless did throw herself completely into whatever work she had taken on and excelled in it. Her father, Lord Philippe Schere, was very keen to make a good match for his daughter in order to provide her a secure future when he passed his inheritance onto her brother Renée Schere.

She had drawn the eye of the kind Lord Archibald Mathers whom while handsome of the face was not a driven or passionate man. She did not care much for the gentle suitor who soft approach was interpreted as weakness by the young debutante. Instead, her eye lingered to the dashing Lord Julius Paolure who was some years her senior but was very accomplished in his field of publishing. She compelled him to pursue her and he was entranced. Not long later, Lord Julius appealed to the senior Lord Schere for his blessing to marry Rosetta.

Apart from the stresses of life and her goals, this life was truly idyllic to the life she would unwittingly find herself in.

### The Fall of Arleans

On the day the Curse of Malite was unleashed, Lady Paolure had only been married for several months. She recalls the sickening green wind that passed over the land and coated the sky. She saw the Dead stand from their graves as they desperately took what they could to run as the Eramallis Guardsmen bid all residents to pack and leave.

It was during her escape with her husband and family that she saw being torn apart all around her in the chaotic streets. If it was not for the intervention of Lord Mathers who took arms to join what Citizen Militia could equip themselves and leapt in the path of the Undead who were bearing down on the Paolure family. It was in this heroic action that Rosetta would see the suitor she spurned and mocked as a 'creep' die to give them the time to escape. And live they did.

Having run and fled for days, they progressively found themselves joining up with more and more other Arlenians fleeing the chaos. The crowds swelled until the reached the Plains of Thoraholm. There they stopped. They looked back at the land that fallen into darkness as they stood on the one part of Arlenian soil that had not been claimed by its curse.

It was here the exiles fell to their knees and sat in abject despair for days.

### Later Life

During her twilight years in her 100's, Lady Paolure suffered a Haunting of her manor that her staff were convinced were merely delusions created by her ill-health. Nevertheless, the Lady persisted and demanded that the League do something to protect her welfare. Instead, the League contracted the Brittlespear Company to resolve the issue for her and confirm whether there was a haunting or not.

Soon, the Six arrived as newly initiated members of the Brittlespears to investigate and put the lady's concerns to rest. It was the Lady's Chief Butler Hedley who confirmed the staff's belief that no real incidents of haunting had been observed and that the lady was far from ideal in her health. But it was during this investigation the Apparition of Lord Mathers attacked Lady Paolure in her bedchamber. The quick actions of the Brittlespear mercenaries resulted in the Apparition being felled and the haunting being confirmed.

The diligence of the Six eventually uncovered that the Apparition was forming from an anchor it has created with a Pendant that Lady Paolure buried in the City before its construction that had been given to her by the original Lord Mathers. This information only came after Vandor Tah had been killed by the Apparition as the Lady was simply unable to confront the realities of what was haunting her.

The Six worked out with some help that the Pendant's burial location was likely on the grounds as it was on a patch of land that the Lady had been fond of when she first arrived and believed it was indeed the location she chose to erect her home. Hedley advised they investigate the grounds of the Gardens. It would be there the Six would confront the Shade of Regret and undo the Haunting altogether, but not before the Six learnt of the full sorrow of Lady Paolure's life.