Deirdre Valour

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Deirdre Valour
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Full name Deirdre Valour
Physical information
Species Human
Gender Female
Hair color and style Strawberry blonde
Eye color Blue
Skin color White
Biographical information
Date of birth 1650 AN
Place of birth Cabbagefall, Shireroth
Residence(s) Iridian Isles
Nationality

Benacian Union Benacian Union

Allegiance(s) Benacian Labour Reserve
Occupation Rehabilitated penitent protected person

Deirdre Valour, a penitent former environmentalist. Famous for campaigning for deindustrialisation and the mass sterilisation of all subjects not in receipt of "licences to reproduce".

Leader of the Ecological Movement, Goldshire after the Kalirion Fracture. Finished second in the second round of the 1682 Elwynnese princely election.

Taken into protective custody during the second term of Kamilla Winther as Princess of Elwynn. Removed from the UDF Facility Dragonsfold amongst a number of prisoners evacuated ahead of its capture by rebel forces during the Second Elwynnese Civil War. Spared from her scheduled execution by the collapse of the civil administration and the loss of the order specifying her inclusion in the list of political prisoners to be liquidated, Deirdre was instead pressed into service as an auxiliary nurse in the loyalist branch of the Red Orchid Society. The majority of her war service would be spent with a venirial disease clinic attached to a comfort station for the Elwynnese Landstorm in Avakir. Discipline amongst the Landstorm had been woeful from the moment of its inception and in rear areas would often breakdown for weeks at a time before deserters could be rounded up and returned to the front lines. During one such episode of chaos, Deidre found herself repeatedly raped by patients in her assigned clinic. In spite of having the satisfaction of watching her assailants hang on the strength of her testimony, Deidre would nonetheless be stricken with a variety of the so-called Vanic Pox, which would see her hospitalised with a steadily worsening condition.

In spite of being evacuated to Kingsgate, the treatment she received proved to be of no avail, and finally on 19.XIV.1695 AN she was sent down to the cavernous dying rooms beneath the city's Temple of Mors, there to await her end. This would have the consequence of saving her life, as on the very next day the full horror of the Scouring would be unleashed upon the city which, alongside Islus and Tephal, would endure the nuclear retaliation unleashed in response to the use of anti-matter weapons against northern cities earlier in the day by the Raspur Pact. She herself was never able to provide a coherent account of how she survived that day, being discovered alive by rescue workers in the same funereal chamber where she had been sent to await the inevitably of death eight full days after the Scouring had burnt away the surface layer of the city. She was brought out into a landscape reduced to charred ruins and subsequently evacuated across the River Elwynn, as the roads towards Ransenar were closed on account of fighting breaking out between the refugees fleeing the city, and mutinous UDF soldiers who were intent upon seeking to plunder the survivors rather than follow orders and go to their deaths in joining the search and rescue efforts within the blast zone.

After passing through a triage centre at Lake Camel, overwhelmed to the point of collapse by the influx of stricken and dying victims of radiation sickness from Zoroaster and Islus, Deirdre, as one of those still able to walk, was sent westwards to find her own way towards a relief camp which had been established in the bailiwick of Elfinshiyehafir. By the time she had arrived there, this camp had been overrun by UDF deserters turned brigands who were now in turn being hunted through the countryside by contingents drawn from the Black Legions. With no real expectation of survival or any semblance of a sensible plan, Deirdre joined a party of Babkhi refugees heading towards Ardashirshahr. She was however beaten and robbed by them after they realised her identity as a former leader of the Human Ecologists, Alalehzamin, the cold desert whose roads she was traversing, was the heartland of the rival Humanist movement in Elwynn. She would be rescued from this plight by a contingent of Landstorm who had raised the banner of Umraist revolt in the face of what they now perceived to an insane and dying regime[1]. After discovering that the pockmarked, burnt, and severely beaten woman they had discovered by the roadside was a nurse, the Umraids loaded her into one of the lorries of their convoy and took her with them as they continued into Dar-ul-Tazim.

Even after realising her identity, the Umraists did not beat her again or throw her from the truck, but instead arranged for her to be taken by a volunteer driver to the bailiwick of Allswell. This driver, a certain Murad, cared for her wounds as best he could, fed her, provided clean water, and did his best to try and ensure her comfort during the long drive to Allswell. The only negative, from her dazed and bewildered perspective, was that he insisted on lecturing her at length, and in an incomprehensible dialect of Baatharzi, on the sinful nature of her beliefs and her rebellion against the highest divinity for the whole duration of the journey.

  1. ^ This band of Umraid rebels would be amongst those suppressed in the events leading up to Benacian Confrontation.