Vittoria Hale

**Nation**
 **Born**
 **Titles**
* Corporal of Stormwind Constabulary's Special Branch
* Marchioness of Death's Howl
* Baroness of Destiny's End
* Countess of Ravenhart Haven
 **Beliefs**
 **House**
 **Relatives**
* Finnegan Cayden Quill (Adoptive Son)
* Zoe Dawnreaver (Adoptive Daughter)
* Kairi Lightweave (Adoptive Daughter)
* Alissa Bristol-Hale (Adoptive Daughter)
* Godrick Hale (Grand-Father)
* Matthias Hale (Father)
 **Coat of Arms**

Lady Vittoria Elizabeth Hale is a Duskwood noblewoman who rules over the County of Ravenhart Haven and the March of Death's Howl. Known for being an enigmatic recluse, Vittoria is a wearer of many hats, from Head of House Hale, to upstart business mogul, it's hard to tell what one she's wearing at any particular moment. She is a medical doctor and mortician by trade, and has been proven fairly capable at both. Learning the noble art of funerary preparation since she was a small girl, she has developed into an accomplished physician that is fairly well known throughout the poorer peoples of Duskwood and Stormwind for assisting others no matter the cost. She can often be found roaming the streets with her loyal companion Ebonmere, sipping from a wine glass and chatting with varying members of the populace.

## Personality & Beliefs

Vittoria is rather...odd to put it simply. She is both the kindest soul that most come to know, but she is also the most morally grey that most can name. Damage from years of trauma have left her with a bit of a skewed view of the world at large. She believes all people can be redeemed, but that there is also a line at which one's only hope is their own will to thrive; that right and wrong are not always absolute. She understands that sometimes the sweetest of things can come from the most languid of places, and has no problems voicing that fact.

For friends and family they will find a staunch supporter and leader, oftentimes being the family cheerleader for others accomplishments and rarely speaking of her own unless asked. She believes that keeping busy is what keeps idle hands from straying to ill means, and strives to help others around her find fulfillment in themselves and their lives. This comes in many forms, from offering a job to someone in need, to a guiding hand for a soul that seems lost. Vittoria feels that to judge another is to open herself up to the same, and she much rather would live her peaceful life of corpses, wine, and her adoptive children.

Perhaps the most striking part of her personality is the aforementioned obsession with corpses. This obsession is her bread and butter, and the very foundation from which her multiple businesses began. From preparation of the departed, to holding the hands of the dying until helping one find the courage to care for their loved one with their own hands; Vittoria believes there is comfort in the passing of a life. That there is something sacred in the final breath, and that the respect due to someone who once lived is never to be violated. It is often joked Vittoria will fist-fight someone over a corpse, and it tends to show fairly soon after engaging her.

## Description

Vittoria is a strikingly beautiful woman, with pale marble like skin and bright viridian hues that seem to haunt the soul. Her thick ebony hair almost seems to stain as it travels down her back to end at her rump, and with the pairing of fine clothing and jewelry hide the myriad of torture scars her small frame possesses. She comes at short stature, barely hitting most men she meets in the chest, and such a slight frame that it's hard to believe her capable of swinging the cursed scythe that has become a family heirloom.

## Biography

Vittoria comes from the noble House of Hale, born to the knight Matthias Hale and the Light priestess, Lady Addison. She was born in Stormwind, and was raised there for years as her father had dubbed the barony gifted to him in Duskwood too dangerous for a little girl; until the night her parents were taken from her. That night is by all accounts the beginning of her own personal hell, and where her lifelong passion would begin. It took three days for the guards to come looking, meaning three days stuck under the corpses of her fallen family.

They left her in the orphanage then, they couldn't find the rest of her family and her mind was too damaged by the trauma for anyone to take her. For two years she lived there, trying to make friends and failing, collecting the skulls of small birds and animals she felt were lonely left on the street. She managed to make one friend, a little boy named William; until he too was taken from her by an accident in the Canals.

Little is known or discussed about what happened after she ran away from the Orphanage. It is rumored that she ended up in Duskwood, trapped in her own property by a madman who did horrible things to the child for years, but nothing can be confirmed other than her sudden resurgence at the ripe cusp of adulthood seemingly intent to claim everything she felt owed to her, or die trying. Since then, she's tried to let her past fade behind her, forging a new future for herself, her ruined house, and those who choose to put a little faith in a woman who is more of a mystery than the cases she loves to work on so much.

## Titles

### Marchioness of Death's Howl

Vittoria oversees the March of Death's Howl for her son, Finnegan Cayden Quill. Beneath her are his vassals that are part of her own family, or in her employ. For the most part she lets them run themselves, only stepping in when requested or handling the more larger scale paperwork that the others cannot do themselves.

### Countess Of Mourn Hallow

Vittoria technically has this county from birthright, though it's fairly recently gotten a populace stable enough to call a county once more. It is a heavily wooded area, and still has some issues with undead on the outskirts

### Countess of Ravenhart Haven

Vittoria's bread and butter, Vittoria has grown with this land as much as she has grown it. The people of the land are firecely protective of herself and her house, feeling like they owe them a debt from freeing them from the short reign of a previous wayward house steward.

## House

Vittoria is a member of House Hale. It is known for its skill in warfare and battling against the forces of the occult.

## Relationships

Vittoria has been married to her husband Sveinn Griersonn for five years. They make quite a handsome match. Vittoria brings vibrance to Sveinn's preferred quiet life of blacksmithing and mead making.

Vittoria is also the adoptive mother of Finnegan Cayden Quill, Zoe Dawnreaver , Alissa Bristol and Kairi Lightweave. Unable to have any children of her own, Vittoria has collected a diverse set of adoptive ones. From statesmen, to orphans she found on the street, these four are her pride and joy. Everything she does, she does for them.