 Alivda (D'if)
"OK, so she's
just a baby. But a baby what?"
Alivda is the second daughter of Ava Ameron Lor'Vrel and Ayrium D'Ander
and a different proposition to her amenable elder sister Amy. Deceptively
Demish in appearance, she is combative and ambitious, with her father's
grasp of power structures - in which, by virtue of her status as neither
contract nor gift child, she has no legitimate place. She makes no bones
about the shortcomings she sees in Ameron's acknowledged heir, her Pureblood
half brother Erien, and but for Amel's ongoing influence in loco parentis
(emphasis, some would say, on the loco), threatens to become the politically
disruptive force her father fears in his children. During her childhood,
she travelled extensively with Amel on his missions as Royal Envoy, watching
his back - sometimes without his knowledge - and exerting her possessive
influence. Hence Ann's sentiments. Amel's and Alivda's relationship is
formalized early in Avim Oath, when the teenaged Alivda unexpectedly
swears to him as his Champion, a move that pleases neither father nor
brother.
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