Name: Vexia Velis (Vallens)
Age: Uncertain
Gender: Female

Appearance: Vexia has quite a unique appearance, her skin has a faintly purple tint to it, and her eyes are a pale violet in color. Her hair is white gold and worn quite long. It typically is bound intricately together in a complicated braid that falls roughly halfway down her back, and alongside this main braid of her hair are two others that also fall down her back, though these are each thinner and shorter by virtue of using less of her hair. Her face is not quite what would be considered beautiful, being altogether too narrow and predatory. Her mouth is too thin, her face too long, her eyes a bit too off putting, for her to be considered beautiful, still she is attractive in her own way. Her body is thin and not particularly well muscled, likely due to her lack of physical exercise, and in much the same way as her face it is not quite beautiful. She is approximately 5'8 in height. Her age is uncertain as she has been living as a member of the D'Cerfs for nearly 50 years and has not seemed to age noticeably, perhaps there are a few grey hairs amid the white gold locks but otherwise she still looks quite young.

She typically is dressed in robes that are both hooded and veiled. These robes are typically made from a combination of dark purple and golden fabric and some of them are believed to be quite ancient. The vast majority of these elegant robes bare the sigil of the D'Cerf coven upon them to show loyalty and solidarity as well as to mark her membership in the coven. There are though some that do not bare the sigil of the D'Cerf. These are the oldest of her clothing, and instead of containing the D'Cerf symbol they instead bare an old marking emblazoned upon them, that of a pair of clawed hands clutching what seems to be large crystal eye. This design is extremely ornate and the level of detail that is present in each depiction is very high. She does not wear those robes about the castle and it has been many years since they have been used. Her attire also includes claw like attachments that are worn on the fingers of her hands and occasionally an ornate porcelain mask that is completely blank of features, showing just her eyes through a pair of holes. Also of some note within her robes a number of small boxes hang from smaller sleeves within the ornate ones, these boxes are 'soul' traps containing souls that she can draw on. 

Role: The Court Executioner, Torturer, and Crypt Warden. (Basically she performs executions when necessary and is in charge of disposing of and arranging for the final fate of bodies of the deceased.)

Interests: Vexia appears to be fascinated by death and to have an uncanny affinity for it. The study of souls and spirits seems to be her life's work and her calling as she has historically been eager to perform the needed executions and inflict punishments if only to study exactly how the soul and spirit function in death or in response to various tortures that she has devised. She has been known to experiment within the bowels of the ancient D'Cerf crypt beneath the castle and the exact nature of her experiments there are known to very few. It is said that she meddles with the stuff of life and death itself but exactly how true this is, is uncertain within the Coven. 

Skills: Vexia is most known for her skills in what is occasionally known as necromancy or magics specifically involving death. But in truth it is not death related arts that she is most skilled in. Her expertise lies in the manipulation of the soul and spirit. When people are troubled by a ghost, or some other manner of haunting she is the one who is called to deal with it, when enemies 'raise' the dead and use them against the D'Cerf it is her that they turn to with the expectation that she will strip the risen dead of their spirits and souls. Of particular note in this area is her extremely advanced knowledge of soul traps. These heavily enchanted items are capable of capturing ghosts and other beings that do not inhabit a body and storing them. These traps also can serve as magical batteries as with the proper inscriptions excess energy can be siphoned from the soul and spirit of the beings contained within. The art of capturing and using these spectral remnants to increase ones own power is largely unknown and the precise rituals were said to have been lost long ago with the demise of a certain secretive line of witches.

Personality: Vexia is secretive and private, she is rarely one who seeks out company or companionship. The few friendships that she has with other members of the coven typically came about because the other partner in the friendship actively courted her attentions and worked to get her to view them as a friend. (Any who desire to have a friendship with her can message me.) Her interests are turned away from the living in many respects and she has historically been shown to care very little about politics. The only time she actively intervened in coven politics without being either requested or ordered to do so came in response to an attempt by another member to usurp her position. She is not a particularly ambitious person, being largely content with her own existence. Typically Vexia would be described as cold and aloof with little tolerance for nonsense or overly emotional people. This is a trait to the extent that some have remarked that she seems almost soulless in jest. In truth her lack of emotion and desire to simply obey orders from on high comes from both the method through which her life has been artificially extended and spells cast upon her by her father years ago. Her father tolerated no disobedience and actively stifled the ambitions and desires of his children to keep them obedient, and the nature of drawing on the energy within other spirits and souls to retain youth causes a slow degradation of emotion as well.

Biography:
Vexia Velis (Vallens) is the last scion of the line of Aldranes Vallens, a great witch who lived nearly 300 years ago. The exact details of the life of Aldranes Vallens have largely been lost and historically he is a figure that has been written out for a number of reasons. Some say he was a twisted fiend who sought immortality and gained it at an unimaginable price, some say he was simply a great visionary who revolutionized a long defunct field of magic, some say he was considered a threat by the D'Cerfs of the time, some say that he made deals with the beings that lurk beneath the surface of the world, some say truly absurd things. What little is known of this figure is that he did indeed revolutionize an area of magic, and that he was a great witch whose power rivaled the greatest among the D'Cerfs of the time. The official records say only that he challenged their authority and that he and his line were extinguished when they refused to bow down. The truth of the matter is something rather different.

In reality Aldranes Vallens and his line, a coven made up primarily of his immediate family and their servants was an ally of the D'Cerfs of old. There were always rumors that surrounded the Vallens coven, rumors of sinister dealings and dark rituals, of black sacrifice and infernal bargains. Some of the rumors even seemed to have truth to them, for Aldranes himself lived seemingly unaging through several different iterations of the D'Cerf leadership. The Vallens were a valuable ally, and the D'Cerfs were no saints and so a blind eye was turned towards their antics. At least until the Vallens were wiped from the map. Other covens having grown disturbed and enraged joined together to destroy the Vallens. It had taken an alliance of many of the minor covens but by the time the D'Cerfs arrived to aid their vassals there was little left.

What little remained sickened even many of the D'Cerfs of the time, mass graves buried beneath the old Vallens castle, and other things best left unmentioned. The D'Cerfs decided the best approach was to simply wipe away all memory of the Vallens and they were expunged from nearly all records, leaving only a brief fictional account of an uprising. In time the truth has been largely lost and few remember them at all.

What was not known was that one member of that particular bloodline avoided the destruction that was brought down upon the family. There are no records of this individual and for over 250 years there was nothing to suggest that any scion of Vallens still lived. It was 50 years ago that Vexia Velis came before the D'Cerfs and after aiding in expunging a particularly potent necromancer pledged her willingness to serve and her desire to join them. At the time there was one elder among the D'Cerfs who guessed at what and who she really was upon seeing her skin and the 'soul' traps and it was the counsel of this elder that led to her being welcomed into the coven.

Vexia has been a timeless staple of the coven since then. She has never been hesitant to obey an order from leadership and has gladly performed all duties asked of her save one. She has refused to teach the arts needed to create the 'soul' traps, and while others have tried they have not yet reached a level of success that can equal hers. Her lack of personal ambition and desire to serve has made her a valuable member of the coven.