Valeria Marsh

## Background Information-

Valeria is the daughter of a fallen noble family with few prospects, until her paths cross with Alex Brit.

## Plot-

Valeria was an instructor in espionage and assassination techniques before being assigned to assassinate Alex Brit by approaching him at a matrimony ball.
Captured (by Carla) and imprisoned by Alex, Valeria becomes one of his projects. This lead to her transformation to Three.
After his return to Brit, Alex convinces Valeria that her previous employer had disposed of her by assigning her to assassinate him without any plan for being able to successfully escape afterwards and offers her a chance to work for him.
Valeria accompanies Alex on the Tanulf campaign and proves a valuable addition to the team by preventing supply thefts, and an attempted assassination.
After the events surrounding the attack by Count Ridge, Alex is able to determine that Valeria's former lord is Count Ridge, and he's behind multiple attempts on Alex's life. This lead to the famous destruction of Ridge's champion by Nannie.
For all her good work on campaign Alex offers Valeria a permanent deal as his covert operations trainer and coordinator.
During the Ridge campaign Valeria's new pupil (Coffin) is instrumental in capturing Ridge Keep with a minimum of conflict.
Despite her masochistic kinks, by the end of FF1, Valeria has a genuine affection and appreciation for working for Alex, especially after he allows her to kill her former lord.

Among the original Numbers, Valeria seems to have the best understanding of Alex's mental and emotional state. This gives her the unique opportunity to help Alex as a tool to help the other Numbers along in their development.
Valeria forms a close partnership with Four as their areas of responsibility overlap somewhat.
Of all the Numbers she is the least changed by Alex extending his patronage and protection to the Number's families, but it has a noticeable positive impact.

Valeria operates mainly in a support capacity, during the events in FF2, but it's clear that the emotional changes that Alex desires are proceeding steadily. Her affection for Alex, and her cohesion with her other Numbers continues to increase.

Hot on the heels of her emotional epiphany, Valeria orchestrates the revelation that she was actually sworn to Amy Ridge, and that oath is still valid. Valeria has been the reluctant tool of Amy and has been passing information to her which has been used by Amy and through her, by Gaelis and Glint to attempt to neutralize Alex and his support for Regina.
Alex, realizing that Valeria has been squeezed between two conflicting oaths, forgives her, but puts her on house arrest until such time as he can deal with Amy. The consequence of this is that Valeria is in Brit during the entirety of the Xer campaign.
After Alex returns from Xer, he holds a Vassals feast during which he knights Valeria's cousin Greg Rubin. Valeria participates in the ceremony and finds it to be very emotional.
Alex also arranges for Carla to eliminate the Amy Ridge problem and free Valeria from all other oaths.
After the destruction of Gaelis Valeria accompanies Alex to Hefen where she directs Coffin and her other agents in their campaign of sabotage and destruction. When Alex is arrested, she accompanies the rest of the Numbers to petition the Emperor.

## Appearances in other Novels-

Fostering Faust 2

Fostering Faust 3