Valencia an Ishtar-Mariae

**Valencia an-Ishtar-Mariae** (Real name **Valence**) is the current head of the house of Ishtar-Mariae, and is Margravine (*De Jure: Margrave*) of the Westmarch.

## Background

### Bloodline Dispute

Valence's bloodline is rather disputed within the Ishtar-Mariae family. According to some recordkeepers of the family, the Ishtar-Mariae family were Niedthena Merchants that got lost at sea. However, another tale is that the bloodline is a result of the Mariae family a long time ago, meeting a member of the Ancient Elf species, which was related to the Pharaoh of their old Kingdom of Khu, which explains the rather foreign name "Ishtar" in the last part of the name. This mixed Elven ancestory could possibly be the reason why Valence's skin is rather feminine, as well as his voice, body and such. Regardless, both seem to end where they encountered the light of Anetos, and ended up in Stribrna Joraje, eventually becoming the Margraves on the Westmarch.

### Life

Valence was born around 19 years ago before the present. As a young man, Valence was often mistaken as a female, due to his more feminine looking features and appearance. Infact, even the wet nurse thought that that Valence was a baby girl. Despite this, his father would still educate him, and treat him as his son. Valence was said to be quite intelligent for his youth, being knowledgeable in subjects a few paces ahead of his age. As a result, he excelled in many subjects when it came to reading and to problem solving. His leadership skills even shined when a bully in his neighborhood was causing trouble for some of his peers. He would rally together other children, both boys and girls to rally behind him, to stone the bully in a coordinated attack on them. His interest in armies and formations attracted the attention of his father, which would have him be arranged to train to become a soldier. However, he was denied multiple times due to the fact that Valence looked too much like a female, even with his voice not even sounding like a man.

It was just as well for Valence, however, as he did not really saw himself too much as a man, but rather, a woman. Even if he was educated, he still was keenly interested in looking more like a woman, but in military uniforms. Often, he would pad his chest with fake cups to allude to small breasts, and have himself appear as a female on multiple occasions. Despite his father's protests, he would come to embrace this fact, that it could actually be pretty useful, since his beautiful looks, caught the ire of multiple rich noblemen. However, Valence himself was not particularly fond of men, rather preferring to be in company of women, usually flirting with them sometimes.

Growing up, he would eventually change his name to "Valencia" to embrace his female identity, seeing he already introduced himself as "her", rather than "him". This act of crossdressing went largely unnoticed, as many would begin to start identifying Valence as "Valencia" many times, although, was rather curious why a woman would even be interested in armies and that like. But it usually passed through peoples heads. More often than not, Valencia would continue on with. Though, a few do know that Valence is a rather handsome young man behind close doors, which he does not mind if he is found out.

### Appearance

Valencia appears at all times in public as a female with pads on them, appearing to have slightly small breasts showing. But oddly enough, Valencia appears to be wearing normally male clothes. Though, at times, they will wear dresses. Although they are Nidenae, their elven genes show with the lack of any body hairs around their body, and mouths, as well as their rather curvy appearance, and purple eyes. Valencia has blonde hair that is always kept short to shoulder length to allow for them to put on their helmet.

Another noticeable thing is their height, which is quite short at around a 5'3, even for an average person their age. This is likely from their elven genes, which possibly indicates that they had not yet had their growth spurt, or something.

## See Also

Huost Teraloj, an influential nobleman at the court of Geralt of Loren