Selestra Somniatis

**Selestra Somniatis** is the main protagonist of **Princess of Souls** she is a **witch** cursed to steal souls by an evil king.

### Relatives

Theola Somniatis (Mother), Unnamed father, Ascelpina Somniatis (Distant ancestor), Isolda Somniatis (Great great grandmother)

## Appearances

### Debut

Princess of Souls

Selestra Somniatis has been trapped in a castle on the Floating Mountain, preparing to take her mother’s place as King Seryth’s right hand. Tied by blood to steal souls for the immortal King of the Six Isles, the Somniatis Witch foretells the deaths of participants in the Festival of Predictions. To outrun your fate is to save your soul and steal the King’s immortality. But if you die, your soul is forfeit. And though thousands have tried, nobody has ever beaten death.

## **Appearance**

Green hair and snake eyes just like all witches. She wears a red cloak and black dress with gloves and boots that match.

## **Personality**

She is very serious, she doesn't approve of some things her mom and king do but she hides her flaws perfectly. She is very naive and does not understand much considering she's barely seen the outside world. She always tries to appear smarter then she is.

## **Etyomology**

Selestra means 'To be smooth, variant of Celestra, often a very thoughtful, tactful person'

## **Relationships**

* **Nox Laedric**
* **Irenya** - Best friend
* **Micah**
* **Seryth**
* **Theola Somniatis** - Mother

## **Powers & Weaknesses**

Using magic without practice or trying too hard can lead to their nose bleeding or other injuries which is why practice is so important.

### **Powers**

* **Seeing the future**
* **Wind powers**
* **Healing**
* **Draining someone's energy**

## **Full Story**

### **The Somniatis witches**

A long time ago snakes were highly hunted creatures, humans would skin them for clothing, eat them for food and carve weapons from their teeth. One day a young girl was hunting with her father when she fell into a snake pit, instead of being scared she saw how beautiful they were and refused to call for help knowing if they were found all the snakes would die. Sensing her pure soul the snakes bit her and she gained magical powers that allowed her to heal and help people escape death through seeing the future. She became the goddess known as Ascelpina Somniatis. It is unclear exactly what happened but one of her descendants, Isolda, made a blood oath to Seryth, blessing him with immortality and trapping the rest of her family in a cycle of serving him. Now they are known for being Seryth's witches and have many horrid myths told about them.

### **Childhood**

Selestra is the great great granddaughter of Isolda. She stayed her first 16 years in the castle, when she was little believe it or not her mother was not mean to her at all. Her mother back then was a good person who only wanted to protect her daughter, her mom would tell her stories of princesses and gods and called her pretty while singing lullabies. One time Selestra painted a picture of a girl trapped in a tower with hair long enough to touch the grass she never got to feel, her mother saw it and instantly threw it in the fire, telling her daughter that she should only paint for the king so she doesn't get hurt.

Plenty of times as a child she found ways to sneak down from her tower and explore the garden outside or many other places she was never allowed. She could get away with this thanks to the guard Asden Laederic who always let her be a child when the king wasn't looking. Despite caring so much for her Asden never spoke to Selestra, to avoid getting in trouble. He also gave Selestra private training sessions to teach her how to fight and protect herself.

At age 14 Selestra was allowed to tell her first prediction. The king forced her to foresee Asden's death one second before her mentor was killed. She cried and reached for her mother to help her but this is the day her mom's heart turned cold. From that day forward her mother became a stranger, telling no more stories, no more lullabies being sung and no more comforting her child.

### **Roleplay Canon**

During the festival of predictions at 16 was the first time in years she was allowed to tell someone's future. She touched Elian and saw that her death was linked to his, when her and Elian escaped the kingdom they somehow ended up in AWTRP universe. This is not canon to the books obviously. She spent a year in the AWTRP world and enjoyed her first time of freedom. She has now been told by her mom it's either she stays in her tower forever or stay on Earth forever, either way she feels unhappy but that won't stop her from trying to do what she thinks is right.