Valaeda Blackdawn

Fire from the Ashes
Valaeda Avrys Blackdawn (born Dawnscorn) is the daughter of the Ashen son Avryn Ashborn and his lover Tessaerys Bloodraven. Valaeda was born under the element of Shadow, but has since overcome the element to be reborn of Fire.

Valaeda spent her childhood raised by her father, Avryn, the Ashen son of Matriarch Sithesia I. The child grew up ignorant of her roots, instead brought up in a nomadic lifestyle as the two explored the Eastern Kingdoms. During this time, Valaeda learned key survival tactics and was also semi-trained in bladed combat.

When she was the tender age of twelve, her father saw in her the potential to be a great sorceress, like the women before her. It was then that Avryn left the young child on the doorstep of his mother.

Valaeda grew well into her studies, but always harbored a resentment towards her parents. The abandonment is what caused her to cast aside the Dawnscorn name and take up the sigil of the Pheonix on Fire.

Soon, shadow magic lost its appeal to Valaeda. She stopped the practice and began expanding her mind on other topics, such as demons and languages. Though she may come off as hot-tempered and stuck-up, her mind is as sharp as a sword's edge. During the period between the studies of different schools of magic, she developed her own indecipherable language complete with runic symbols and uses it constantly in her writing.