Daella Velaryon

130 AC

98 AC

Daella Velaryon, once the Lady of Tides and Master of the Driftmark, is the Captain of the *Sea Snake*. Much like her father Corlys, she has taken the title of the Sea Snake and sails with her fathers old fleet to explore the world. She is an accomplished sailor, perhaps one of the best in the world.

## Appearance and Character

Daella was once a short girl, scared and afraid, but is now a woman in her own right, beautiful even as she has gotten a bit older. Her silver hair is braided in her pony-tail that she loves, and she has dyed it partially golden. She wears leather armor mostly outside of casual wear.

Daella has what one today would call dissociative identity disorder, better known as multiple-personality disorder. This manifests itself as one “alter”, who goes by the name Vaella Velaryon. Vaella isn't as active as she was back when Daella was younger.

## **History 79 AC - 98 AC**

Born in 79 AC to Lord Corlys Velaryon the Sea Snake and Lady Alysanne Florent, Daella was doomed to a miserable youth from the start. Several weeks after she was born, her father Corlys, left her to start yet another expedition eastward. Leaving her in the care of a mother who resented her father and resented her. Handing over the child she never wanted to others to raise, Daella grew up without any familial affection. The task of raising her ultimately fell to her uncles, Malentine and Vaegon Velaryon, alongside the maesters and septa’s.

*Why don’t father and mother want me?*

 While Daella lacked in affection, she did not lack wealth. Born to every comfort and luxury she could ever need or want, the girl often felt guilty for feeling bad or wishing for her mother and father's affections.

### **Life under Malentine**

Malentine Velaryon and Vaegon Velaryon did nothing to ease her pain. They demanded perfection. Everyday since her sixth name day in 85 AC, she was driven to perfection. Emotionally and physiologically abused in every way.

“Imperfect girl!” Malentine would shout!

“A Velaryon must be perfect. An heiress must be PERFECT!”

Daella was forced, without any care for what she wanted, to become the perfect Heiress. The perfect lady. She would be instructed without end on how to perfectly dance. Sing. Write. Read. Curtsy. Behave. She learned history and law from the maesters. The Faith from the septa’s.

Everything was molded by force to be perfect. While Malentine emotionally abused her, Vaegon would sometimes hit her when she failed to be perfect in any of her lessons, claiming she was the reason their eldest brother was never present. The marks were always in places that would not be seen.

She was to be the perfect lady. She would have to be able to sing and dance perfectly. Curtsy perfectly. Entertain, learn the laws of Westeros, the mysteries of the Seven. All perfectly. He showed her nothing but scorn each time she was not perfect, with nothing but disapproval in anything else. This destroyed her self-esteem, her belief in herself, and broke her into being perfect and without any regard to what she wanted. To protect herself from being hurt, yelled at, scorned, disapproved and betrayed, Daella became cold, distant and withdrawn. Her mask of perfect ladylike behavior went up whenever she needed, but underneath, was a bitter, sad, scared and lonely girl whose father ran away, mother didn’t want her and uncles who hated her.

*Years of scorn will leave you cold*

*Forget your dreams, do what you’re told.*

*When disapproval is all you’re shown.*

*The safest place becomes alone.*

Jon Sunglass was different to those that pursued Daella as she grew older. The boy had been raised alongside her as a ward ever since the failed rebellion in 78 AC, having been born a month prior to Daella in 79 AC. While she was just as cold to him as she was to others, this often times dunce of a squire grew on her. Though she would never admit that they were really friends, she did let him closer than others. Jon on the other hand, had fallen madly in love with her, not for her name or wealth like all the others, but for her. Something he wishes she would see.

### **Broken Mind: The Birth of Vaella**

Daella’s life would soon enter its greatest tragedy, and her most defining moment. On her fourteenth name day in 95 AC, Jon Sunglass bought a rapier, a bravo’s blade. He had purchased it in secret and gave it to her and asked if she would like to learn how to use it. The cold girl smiled, lit up and agreed. She had always wanted to learn how to use a sword but her uncles denied her.

But it was not to be. Malentine had found out and planned to crush what was left of her spirit. Perfect ladies did not play with swords or sail on ships.

This became the day her face was adorned with a scar. When trying to practice in secret with Jon that morning, Malentine came before them and demanded she cease. He reprimanded Jon, but Daella stood up to Malentine, for once standing up for herself. Malentine moves to crush this defiance. While trying to forcibly wrench the blade from her, the weapon swung up and cut across her face. Blood soon began pouring wildly, the beautiful face of Daella Velaryon was marred. She would have a scar for the rest of her life that began from the middle of her right eyebrow and ended slightly below her right eye.

Something truly broke then. Something truly cracked. The unceasing abuse, physical and emotional finally had its day. Her mind splintered to protect itself. She had to forget, she had to escape.

This was Vaella’s name day. A month after the incident, Daella had begun to suffer blackouts. Large times without any memory. As if she had fallen asleep. Others would speak of how they had seen her all day.

And to their great shock, she had sworn and wore her hair down. The perfect Heiress had sworn. She had acted in a way un-befitting of a lady. Malentine was truly shocked and ordered her to stay in her chambers for a week. The septons claimed she was cursed by the Seven. Some maesters theorized it was an affliction of the mind. Some said she bore a second soul. The person that appeared when she was unconscious went by the name Vaella Velaryon. She was rude, loud mouthed, irreverent, imperfect and seemed to return Jon Sunglass’s affections. (Jon did not take advantage of Daella through Vaella. He was not the kind of man to do so.) She also seemed to be aware of Daella, shared her memories yet did not share those of Malentine and Vaegon’s abuse. For several weeks, the Septons prayed and the maesters produced treatment after treatment. Daella did not seem to change. Both faith and science decided that the only thing that was certain was that Vaella was permanent and that Daella knew not of her presence. House Velaryon decided that it would have to become their secret.

For two years Daella went on without knowledge of Vaella. Anytime her other personality emerged, it would be like a deep night’s sleep. Ultimately, Jon Sunglass could not bear it any longer. In 95 AC, Asking her not out of any ulterior romantic ploy but if genuine care, he watched her for three days and nights in her chambers and wrote everything down. That night, Vaella wrote to Daella, her primary “self” as she figured. When Daella would return from her blackouts, Jon would show her what Vaella wrote and told her about her other “self.” Daella decided she would write back. This was the birth of their strange “friendship.” Every night from then on, whoever was in control and awake would write what occurred during the day for the other to read when they were in control and conscious. Whenever she was away from Driftmark, the journal never left her person. The cold, distant Heiress of Driftmark never left a detail from Vaella, the rambunctious, foul mouthed woman that shared her mind and body. Vaella did likewise. Together they would survive, together they would protect each other.

(And if Vaella got her way, show Jon Sunglass the most incredible night of his life, marry him and bear him a dozen children. Daella of course was opposed, though could not deny the dolt had grown on her all these years. She’d never say it to him of course.)

### **Ember: Training in secret**

Despite being stopped once before by Malentine, Daella would never cease to hunger for her bravo’s blade. With no one but Jon to help her (who himself was not that fine of a knight-to-be), the two began training with the rapier in 94 AC. Despite his best efforts, Jon was only somewhat trained with a longsword. Having no choice but to go behind Malentines back to find a teacher, in 95 AC she found just the man willing. A bravo by the man of Belasario came to Driftmark under the guise of teaching the perfect Heiress a Braavosi dance. Malentine agreed and the days he checked on them did indeed prove that she was being taught a dance. But when Malentine was not present, Belasario taught Daella (and Vaella) how to use Ember, her bravo’s blade. It took both her and Vaella until 97 AC to finally become adept and experienced with the bravo’s blade, though she was no water dancer. To make matters even better, she had used what she learned to fake a dance to Malentine, which pleased him greatly. Her teacher would return to Braavos in 97 AC as well.

### **98 AC and Onwards...**

With her nineteenth nameday coming and going, some wondered who the ice cold Heiress would marry. Corlys the Sea Snake had made it clear in 90 AC that only he would decide who she married, intending fully for any suitor to take her name and not the opposite. Daella herself, for all her hatred and bitterness towards her father, could at least appreciate that. She was a Velaryon, after all. By now Daella was well known throughout the Kingdom of Westeros, renowned for her unmatched beauty, her talented singing voice and her masterful dancing, as well as her cold and distant personality. There are also rumors about her suffering from some condition, but those are less savory than others.

As Malentine and Vaegon continue to rule Driftmark in both her fathers name and her name, the pained Heiress, with ice in her veins, must face her future and come to decide if she can truly believe in herself and *break free*.

## **History: 99 AC - 130 AC**

The turn of the century was turbulent for Daella, but also one of freedom. Not only did her beloved cousin Vaemond go off to fight the Ironborn, but he also went to fight the Dornish.

However, when her wicked uncle Malentine was named Master of Ships, she became free from his grasp. Assuming ruler-ship of Driftmark, the Heiress of the Tides secured both navy and army both to keep her uncle in King’s Landing for good.

Initially Daella found ruler-ship came to her naturally. While not officially Lady, she managed well enough. She celebrated Vaemond’s triumph and ruled quietly with his help for several years. During this time, she was trained by Vaemond to become an expert sailor, learning to *navigate* the waves perhaps even better than her cousin. She would marry Jon Sunglass who took the name Velaryon as well.

As she became a better sailor, she spent more and more time on the water instead of on the Driftwood Throne. As she grew older, she became more sure of herself, a far cry from the teenage girl she once was. Once, she cold and distant, now she was open, defiant and free spirited. The once beaten down girl was a woman in her own right, freest she ever could be on the waves.

Tragedy soon came. Her father, Corlys Velaryon, finally returned home only to pass at least in 109 AC, leaving Daella as the Lady of Tides and Master of Driftmark. Despite having a tenuous relationship with her father, she grew depressed at his passing. He left her everything, specifically noting that the Sea Snake and its treasure fleet were hers and hers alone.

Only the line of the Sea Snake could sail such a vessel.

Daella rules from 109 AC onward, trying her hardest to stay interested in the affairs of state on Driftmark. More and more time was spent at sea, for months at a time on the Sea Snake. Frustration with herself and growing hatred for the duty of ruler-ship. After spending the entire year of 113 AC at sea exploring in Essso, she decided in late 114 AC what must be done.

Announcing in 114 AC to her court, that she was officially abdicating, she would choose her successor in 115 AC when Malentine Velaryon finally died. There was only ever one choice to make. Choosing her beloved cousin Vaemond, she officially abdicated to him early in 115 AC.

Finally, she was free. Free from the burdens of family. Free from the burdens of ruler-ship and lady-hood.

She had inherited her father’s love for the Sea, his love for exploration. Setting sail from Driftmark with her father’s fleet and the Sea Snake and assumed the title of The Sea Snake from her father.

Daella first set forth to Braavos, Lorath, Sarnor and even as far as Ibben, exploring and recording her travels. Then she doubled back after using her *silver tongue* to purchase an estate in Braavos for herself and family before moving onward. Her second expedition went further East, exploring the Summer Islands and reaching Volantis.

During this, she was almost caught by slavers when visiting the Ghiscari lands, using only her wits and *diplomatic* prowess, she not only avoided enslavement, but reunited with her fleet and broke bread with the Masters of Astapor briefly before departing.

In 122 AC, she gave birth to her first child, Lucerys Velaryon, who lives in Braavos mostly when he’s not at sea. Her second child, a girl named Vaella, was born a year later. Her family is usually at sea with her, but when she’s visiting family in Westeros, they remain in Braavos.

Her third expedition took her even further. From 123 to 126 AC, she visited Leng and Yi Ti as well as Qarth, the Moraq Isles and all along the Jade Sea. She brought him treasures from Yin, as well as countless stories including serving as a neutral party between the Azure-Emperor of Yin and Fao Xi Long, a rebellious provincial governor and general, helping end the conflict, increasing her *renown* in Westeros oncce she returned.

Sadly, this expedition also marked the death of her beloved husband, Jon Velaryon. He died in 125 AC, having lived a fulfilling, long and loving life with Daella and Vaella both. He died with his children and wife with him, his last request that they never stop sailing and exploring the world, as the Sea Snake ought to. Daella swore on her father’s legacy she would always be the Sea Snake until it came time for her children to take up the mantle.

Her fourth expedition started in 127 AC, after spending a year in Driftmark bringing gold and resupplying. Using her *leadership* skills she’d gained over time, she led the *Sea Snake* and her fleet even further this time. Returning to Yi Ti, Leng and Qarth but also going further to chart the coastline of Southryos. This was also her first time in Asshai and the Saffron Straits, managing to gaze and chart parts of the coastline of Ulthos, though she did not land there.

In late 129 AC, her espionage agents in Driftmark managed to get a message to her while she was in Myr to restock and plan her fifth expedition that her cousin Viserys was near death causing her to immediately take the Sea Snake to Westeros and pay try and see him one last time before he died.

Unluckily, she did not get to see him before he passed. The Sea Snake now comes to the capital after so many years in Essos to pay respects to her beloved cousin’s passing.

## Family

House Velaryon

* Corwyn Velaryon, d. 78 AC
	+ Saerys Velaryon, Queen Dowager of the Iron Throne, b. 52 AC
	+ Corlys Velaryon, Lord of the Tides and Master of Driftmark b. 53 AC, d. 109 AC
	+ m. Alysanne Florent, Lady of Driftmark and High Tide
		- Daella Velaryon, the Sea Snake b. 79 AC
		- m. Jon Velaryon, d. 125 AC
			* Lucerys Velaryon, b. 122 AC
			* Vaella Velaryon, b. 123 AC
	+ Aethan Velaryon, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, b. 54 AC
	+ Malentine Velaryon, Lord-Regent of Driftmark, b. 55 AC
	+ m. Alys Bar Emmon
		- Vaemond Velaryon, b 75 AC
		- Laena Velaryon, b. 80 AC
		- Valaena Velaryon, b. 89 AC
		- Delaenora Velaryon b. 90 AC, d. 90 AC
	+ Vaegon Velaryon, Co-Regent, and Castellan, b. 58 AC
	+ m. Meredyth Rosby
		- Naerys Velaryon, b. 79 AC
		- Aenys Velaryon, b. 80 AC
	+ Daemon Waters, b. 84 AC
* Jorgen Velaryon d. X AC
* m. Elaena Celtigar
	+ Maester Alyn Velaryon b. 55 AC
	+ Maelys Velaryon, b. 57 AC
	+ m. Alysanne Darklyn
		- Gaemon Velaryon, b. 79 AC
			* Alayne Waters, b. 98 AC
		- Rhaegar Velaryon, b. 80 AC
	+ Naera Velaryon, b. 59 AC
	+ m. Jacaerys Velaryon b. 60 AC
		- Rhaenys Velaryon b. 78 AC
		- Aerion Velaryon b. 83 AC
* Victor Velaryon, d. X AC
* m. Cassandra Estermont
	+ Jacaerys Velaryon b. 60 AC
	+ m. Naera Velaryon, b. 59 AC
		- Rhaenys Velaryon b. 78 AC
		- Aerion Velaryon b. 83 AC
	+ Addam Velaryon, b. 62 AC
	+ m. Alyssa Royce, b. 63 AC
		- Jacaerys Velaryon, b. 81 AC
		- Alyssa Velaryon, b. 87 AC
* Ser Daemion Velaryon, b. 63 AC, d. 93 AC
* m. Serra Osgrey
	+ Daeron Velaryon, b. 81 AC
* Valaena Velaryon, b. 64 AC
	+ Daena Waters, b. 84 AC

* Baela Velaryon
* m. House Caron
	+ House Caron
* Larissa Velaryon, d. X AC
* m. Rickard Manderly, d. X AC
	+ House Manderly
* Lainna Velaryon
* m. House Rosby
	+ House Rosby

## Skills

\*\*Skills:\*\* Silver Tongue(CHA) Leadership(CHA) Navigation(MAR) Diplomacy(STA) Espionage(INT)

\*\*Mastery:\*\* Renown(CHA)