Fast Facts

Status	Alive
Domains	Torture, Murder, Ruin, Injustice, Illusion, Vice
Holy Names	The Ascended, The Usurper, The Traitor
Holy Symbol	Currently Unknown
Religion	Cult of Valtharn
Location	Currently Unknown
Mark	Under Development
Notable Creations	None
Parent	Raskalarn
Allies	Unknown
Enemies	Unknown

Personality

General Traits

Sadist: The most defining aspect of Valtharn’s personality is her sadism. Valtharn enjoys hurting people, plain and simple, to the point where torturing and murdering someone is her idea of a pleasant afternoon.

Lack of Empathy: Even outside of her sadism, Valtharn has never felt any genuine care or sympathy for another living being in her entire life.

Cheerful and Easygoing: Valtharn is by nature a very cheerful person, to the point of coming off as friendly and pleasant to deal with at first glance. She’s also incredibly difficult to anger.

Honest Monster: Valtharn knows full well that by most definitions of morality, she’s evil. She makes no excuses or justifications for her behavior and is very open about being the way she is because she genuinely enjoys it. Consequently, she has very little patience for those do try to make false excuses or justifications for their own evil actions.

Strengths

Warrior and General: Outside of her powers, Valtharn is a very well trained and highly skilled fighter and leader, having spent almost the entire first half of her life in the Imperial army, even serving as the Marshal of the Winter Reach. Consequently, she’s both dangerous in a fight and a capable leader.

Varied Powers: Between her own Mortalborn powers and the powers she stole during Ruin’s Dawn, Valtharn has a surprising degree of variance and flexibility in her powers.

Anatomical Expert: Valtharn is an expert in the anatomy of not only every mortal race, but most species of animal. While she gained this knowledge from torturing people and animals, and normally uses it there, it has the side effect of making her a surprisingly skilled surgeon and butcher.

Weaknesses

Pain Over Efficiency: Valtharn’s sadism does provide a weakness, as she’ll often prioritize causing additional harm over accomplishing a goal efficiently or killing an opponent quickly.

Unfamiliar Power: Valtharn’s powers were stolen, rather than being something she was created with. Consequently, she’s very unfamiliar with her stolen powers and can’t make full use of them. She’s also not familiar with, or perhaps doesn’t possess, the inherent physical and regenerative abilities of created Immortals. Consequently, she usually relies more on her physical abilities or her old Mortalborn Domains.

Lack of Drive: Valtharn has no overarching plans or goals, and isn’t really dedicated to any cause. Consequently, while she is very dangerous and difficult to kill in a fight, she’s fairly easy to drive off by simply making things troublesome enough that she decides it’s not worth it and bails.

Personality and Verbal Tics

Well Mannered: Valtharn is very well mannered and even polite, even at her most monstrous, and actually dislikes cruder behavior or rudeness, though she will make an allowance for extenuating circumstances, as she does find it rude not to acknowledge the circumstances of the moment.

Appreciator of the Arts: Valtharn is actually a generous, if largely unknown, patron of the arts and is able to comment on matters of painting, music, poetry, sculpture, literature, forging, construction, theater, and cooking with surprising authority.

Slaver: As a result of her outright enjoyment of the suffering of others, Valtharn had a great many followers among both legal and illegal slavers even before her Ascension. This has only grown since the events of Ruin’s Dawn, and she also keeps slaves of her own.

Hates Compulsion: Valtharn has a particular dislike for those who out of compulsive need, particularly in regards to torturers and murderers. Consequently, she has a particularly seething disdain for compulsion-driven serial killers, viewing them as utterly pathetic.

History

Born shortly after Raskalarn took over the Eternal Empire Ithecal, Valtharn's father was a general who had been in service to Raskalarn since before the Immortal of Conquest took over Ethelynda's forsaken creation. During her childhood, she had little contact with either of her parents, and only after she got old enough to join the military did she receive much attention from her father, though she was still largely ignored by her mother. As time went by, Valtharn's savage conduct on the battlefield and her constant attempts to get the soldiers of Raskalarns army to serve her as they would her mother, despite her repeatedly using them in suicide attacks, led to her imprisonment by her father.

Unable to stand the indignity of being imprisoned despite her birth, Valtharn took her first chance to escape, murdering her guards and cutting down any member of the army that tried to stand in her way. Eventually, her father joined the fight to stop her and the two fought. During the battle, Valtharn's father landed a solid blow over her face, leaving her badly bleeding, but unfortunately it was not enough to stop the bloodthirsty Mortalborn and Valtharn beheaded her father, laughing gleefully as his body fell to the ground at her feet. Unfortunately for her, this was the act that finally got her mothers attention, and Raskalarn personally took the field against her daughter. While Valtharn was skilled, she was no match for the enraged Immortal of Conquest and she was quickly defeated. Despite her rage, Raskalarn was unable to order her daughter, who she did love, to be executed and instead banished her.

After being banished from her mother's territory, Valtharn wandered for a time, slaughtering as she pleased, but a festering hatred of her mother grew in her, and with it a desperate hunger for revenge. Before long, Valtharn stumbled across another Immortal, one of Faldrun's supporters, and threw her lot in with the Immortal of Turmoil, hoping that in service to him, she would have the opportunity to see slay her mother.

Daughter of the Immortal Raskalarn, Valtharn had surprisingly little contact with her mother, which people generally suspect is what led to her becoming even more violent and brutal than her mother, as many believe it was initially an attempt to get Raskalarn's attention. Whatever the reason, a brief glance at Valtharn's brief history as a commander in her mothers service will quickly show that she is a complete sociopath, taking a sadistic glee in the suffering of other beings and caring absolutely nothing for anyone other than herself, even her own allies.

Following a long career as a mercenary for hire and cult leader, Valtharn wound up betraying Faldrun during the events of Ruin's Dawn. Killing him with the assistance of a man named Cad Revel, she usurped control of a machine known as the Ascension and used it to absorb the essences of Kata, Mastes, Aelig, and Belaera, becoming a fully fledged Immortal.

Appearance

Valtharn has black hair and amber eyes with a similar facial structure to that of her mother and is typically seen wearing black plate armor with a red leather tabard worn under the armor and carrying a long sword. A true sociopath, Valtharn is incapable of genuine compassion or love, and any kindness or mercy from her is entirely manipulative in nature. Arrogant and cruel, Valtharn delights in the suffering, pain, and humiliation of others and will commit the most atrocious acts to the most innocent of people for no reason other than her own amusement. Despite this, Valtharn is an able military commander and oddly charismatic, a leftover from her time serving as one of Raskalarn's commanders.

At first glance, Valtharn seems friendly and easygoing, largely due to her habit of breaking out into fits of giggling or laughing at any given moment. This is an effect of her insanity however, and she is most prone to these fits when engaged in combat, though she maintains enough control of herself that this doesn't provide much of an advantage to her opponents.

Memories of the Past

Valtharn remembers Raskalarn as distant, cold, and commanding, more an empress and a commander than a mother or even a teacher.

Presently

Valtharn is currently practicing with her new powers and deciding what the future holds for her, now that she's a true Immortal.

Useful Links

Useful links and information for the Immortal Ethelynda.

• The Mark of Valtharn
• Mortalborn of Valtharn PCs past and present who were sired by this Immortal
• Blessed PCs who have been blessed by Valtharn
• Cursed PCs who have been cursed by Valtharn
• Threads Stories which have particularly involved Valtharn.