Name: Filiberta-Marie II of House Marietta
Titles: Duchess of Inge (pronounce ing-ay); Countess of Lake Bruna, Gotlinde upon Ingfried, and Diemut; Lady of Lake Bruna
Description: Filiberta-Marie is 38 years old, although she looks rather young for her age like many women of House Marietta.  Her face is pale and her nose is thin, her lips are somewhat pronounced while her eyes remain deep set.  She carries in aura of authority without any crown or headwear, letting her curling black and grey hair tumble down.  She wears a long woolen cloak with white fur as a collar, usually with some sort of cotton dress of a deep and dark color beneath.
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Claimant: Anyamara

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House Info: the House of Marietta
Coat of Arms: the symbol of the house, a female bear with a fish in her mouth, stands upon a blue and black checkered backgound.
Motto: "There is no beauty without fear."
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	Reputation: She is the Witch Queen of Lake Bruna, the dread lady of the Duchy of Inge.  In the wake of Filiberta-Marie lay cruelty and opulence, her posterity being the one thing she holds high and dear.  Rumors abound around the royal masques, the court of Filiberta-Marie, and the ancient hedonism she is supposedly leading. 
	Ambitions: Ultimately Filiberta-Marie wants two things: power and knowledge.  She wants to expand the influence of her realm, but this is primarily to fund the study of her people and the history of her house.  She is obsessed with the truths of the past, especially prior to the conquest by Adandum.  But her vision for the vastness of this project, bringing back a past she does not quite yet understand, requires much research and wealth.
	Aptitudes: Filiberta-Marie is first and foremost a master of branding, and she understands how to wear many different masks.  She knows how to strike fear into the heart of any peasent or ambitious merchant, yet she knows how to grease the palms of the rich in just the right ways.  Also, she is a student of social history.
	Vulnerabilities: Although she uses this to her advantage at times, the legacy of her house is ultimately a blemish upon her name.  Her house supposedly comes from a coven of hags, ancient and long forgotten, yet amongst the royalty her house remains ostracized for it.    Also, Marietta herself, although young in her face, suffers from a frail and atrophied body that she hides beneath her furs and wools.
	Additional Info: Men of House Marietta are known to often be born sickly and more commonly than not possess frail bodies and weakened immune systems. The women of House Marietta however seem to be mostly immune with the large majority of them being born healthy. The women also often appear younger than one would expect of their age. Popular superstition of House Marietta among the smallfolk says that this is a sign of their foul lineage and that their blood is cursed with the women taking the vitality of the men while still in the womb some how.
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	Domain Info: The Duchy of Inge.  House Marietta has ruled the duchy for time immemorial, nestled within the lakes and rivers flowing form the many mountains of the Stormlands.  She personally holds 5 baronies, while the rest of her duchy is divided amongst cadet branches of her house and burghers who earn their right to land via scholarship.
	Domain Summary: In the West of the domain lie the farthest mountains and the most remote villages, forgotten upon the international border and surviving off of hunting and gathering.  The East of the domain are the flooded valleys of Bolstadt, the breadbasket of the duchy.  To the south lie the rich iron veins of the Lindstendt mountains, and to the north are once barren lands now the home of blacksmiths, guildhalls, and universities, kept alive by the rest of the duchy.  In the center lie the wooded hills of the capital region, an ancient place in which the mist clings close to the ground all too often, and from this land the rivers flow and the House of Marietta reigns.

	Major Holdings: The Mariettan Palace, Hundsbeck upon Bolstadt (major farming county), Julechton (largest city), Lake Bruna (upon which lies the Mariettan Palace and many folk tales), the Sanctum of Anacht (religious heart of the duchy)

	Reputation: The Duchy is known for the military scholars and historians arising from the new universities, and the odd folk practices arising from the ancient and untamed hills.
	Wealth: Economically the realm survives off of the trade of military supplies and the provision of militant generals to the greater kingdom.
	Strength: The domain is somewhat thinly defended, as most military supplies are exported, but when the time comes mercenary armies are paid to fight for the realm.
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