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[color=#D4AF37][sup][i]"Gentle Mother, font of mercy, save our sons from war, we pray, stay the swords and stay the arrows, let them know a better day."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b]
[color=#D4AF37]P E R S O N A L    D E T A I L S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray][b]Age:[/b] 49
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[b]Allegiance:[/b] The Faith of the Seven — Starry Sept, Oldtown[/COLOR][/sub]
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[sup][COLOR=darkgray]Rhaena Targaryen has aged into the kind of woman that the Faith seems to produce at its best. Her hair, always more gold than silver even in youth remains so, worn beneath her septa's veil in the careful, coiffed manner she has maintained since girlhood. Her Targaryen blood shows in the softness of her violet eyes, though they are warm rather than piercing. She was ever the softer of her sisters, in form as well as manner. Not having to bear the burdens of childbirth or rearing like her sisters, her silhouette remains much as it was. Some part of this is no doubt a hidden aspect of her vanity, and perhaps memories of harsher words from her sisters in youth, does continue in the way she dresses, hiding any additional softness the years have brought with them. Her robes are the finest permitted to a septa — white with gold trim at the cuffs and hem, always impeccably maintained, often embroidered at the sleeves with her own needlework, the Mother's face, the Maiden with a white hart, small devotional scenes she has been stitching since she was a girl in the Maidenvault. She retains her love for silk and often embellishes her outfits with it, although most of her creativity for such things benefits others in the form of gifts for the ladies of Old Town.[/COLOR][/sup][/INDENT]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Weaponry:[/b] None. She is a septa and carries no weapons, nor would she.
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[b]◼ Notable Skills:[/b] An exceptional reader and correspondent — her letters are models of clarity and discretion. Two decades of managing the Starry Sept's charitable works have given her considerable administrative competence. She is a patient and skilled teacher of novices, and has a sharp facility for separating reliable intelligence from rumour.
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[b]◼ Valuables:[/b] Her embroidery tools and materials, of unusually fine quality. She has a fairly expansive wardrobe and collection of jewellery for a humble Septa, for she is still the blood of the dragon and travelled to Old Town with no small means of sustaining herself should the need arise.
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[b]◼ Retinue:[/b] Novices who attend her directly and carry her correspondence. Lay brothers and sisters who manages the practical logistics of the sept's charitable distribution and reports to her daily.[/color][/sup][/indent][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/hider][/INDENT][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Rhaena was born in 147 AC into the diminished court of Aegon III, the Dragonbane, a king whose grief and trauma had settled over the Red Keep like a permanent weather system. She was the second daughter, softer and quieter than her elder sister Daena, and from the earliest age she seemed to find the world of devotion and needlework more comprehensible than the world of courts and politics. Where Daena chafed and struggled, Rhaena seemed to quietly accept her role. It is possible she was simply better at hiding what she felt, though she would not say so.

When her brother Baelor came to the throne and confined his sisters to the Maidenvault, it was Rhaena alone among the three who did not resent it. She was, by that point, already more than half a septa in her habits and her heart, and the confinement gave her libraries and silence and time for prayer in a way that she had not known she was hungry for until it was provided. She was almost as pious as Baelor himself, or at least that is how it is remembered. Those who were at court during the later reigns of Viserys II and Aegon IV may remember a royal princess more involved with the gossip and goings of court than the histories say. She had a particular fondness for the pious lords and ladies of the Vale at court, even as her nephew's reign became increasingly corrupt. There were rumors, at one point or another, that she may have married a Valeman of good title and greater piety, a match she would have approved of dearly. Instead, the mercurial whims of the King turned away from seeking an alliance with any Vale house, and Rhaena's happiness was never considered again.

When the opportunity came to take her vows properly, she did so with a conviction that was entirely her own. That it was also politically convenient for a Targaryen princess to be removed from the board of succession in a period of instability was not something she ignored, she simply did not find it diminishing. One could serve the Seven and still understand the world.

She has been in Oldtown for the better part of two decades now, a respected figure at the Starry Sept, known for her needlework, her patience with novices, and a quiet competence in the management of the Sept's considerable charitable work among the city's poor. She is liked rather than feared, which suits her. She is also more informed about the state of the realm than most would expect of a woman who has spent twenty years in prayer and domestic devotion. Letters arrive at the Starry Sept from a great many places, and Rhaena has always been an attentive reader.[/indent][/COLOR]

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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]Rhaena's primary purpose is the Sept and the people in her care; the novices she trains, the sick she tends to, the charitable works she has spent years quietly expanding. She is not naive enough to think the rebellion will leave Oldtown untouched, and she is engaged in the practical work of ensuring that whatever comes, the Sept and its people are protected. She is the sort of woman who will not tell you she is doing anything in particular, and will have already done it by the time you think to ask.

Beneath the practical work is something more calculating. A woman in the second half of her life examining what she has been, what she chose, and what it cost. She does not regret her vows, but she is forty-nine years old and has spent the last twenty of them in a city that is not her family's, serving an institution that is not her house, and sometimes in the small hours she thinks about her sisters and what became of them. She is grateful for the silence and the candlelight that do not require her to resolve those thoughts into answers.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][sub]__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sub][/COLOR][/INDENT]