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|Description=Delicate and sylphlike, Graziella's petite frame as is graceful as her name suggests, with a poise and economy of movement that often makes her seem almost to float: especially when coupled with her waist-length blonde hair, and the gauzy gowns she favors. Her small stature, at about 5'3", might have run the risk of making her seem childlike, but her beauty is the sort which makes plain that despite her short height, she is a young woman in full maturity. Her clear blue eyes look kindly on the world with a sort of pleasant innocence, though at times there is a penetrating perspicacity to them which suggests a colder mind behind the outward warmth.
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|Description=Sinuous and sardonic, Graziella's frame is as graceful as her name suggests, with a poise and economy of movement that often makes her seem almost to float: especially when coupled with her waist-length blonde hair, and the gauzy dark gowns she favors. Her beauty is the sort that draws the eye even in her subtle movements, which although not design to grab attention, hide underlying hunger that stops others dead in their tracks. Graziella is a woman in full maturity, full of potential, her clear blue eyes looking on the world with a sort of sharp scrutiny, a burning want and a penetrating distaste for the ordinary.
|Personality=Graziella is pleasant company to those around her. She smiles back at people, she always has stories to tell and never leaves other people feeling alone during any one party if she can help it. For such a social butterfly, however, it is often surprising to her fellow Sins that if allowed, Graziella will just vanish in the background and just observe, watching as if to her it is enough to be there. To be part of it.
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|Personality=Graziella can be pleasant company to those around her, but there is always a certain fakeness to her niceties. It is rare for someone to grab her full attention, and those people are often intense, passionate and have something to say. Life is short and there is an unsatiable craving within Graziella to live it in non-ordinary fashion, even if it might make it shorter. She will always bring a book to the Assembly of Peers and in general parties in Arx are not to her liking. At her best Graziella enjoys a little bit of chaos and bite to things, at her worst she is self-destructive in her pursuit of something that makes her feel alive.
  
To anyone who doesn't know the Pravus it comes to a surprise when the young socialite smiles and takes over an interaction. Grazi is just not the sort to make herself known, until she feels her presence is necessary, always looking at people with a certain admiration that is at the same time starry-eyed and almost creepy.
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Her family is a particular subject. She loves House Pravus deeply, and their larger than life style suits her perfectly. She inserts herself in their lives like she needs to consume her relatives, learning about them as she does to anyone whom she finds interesting, but in the end Graziella is a poor servant: she often needs their succor more than she provides herself. For some reason the woman cannot help but want to fill a void, and although she can control herself, the wyrm within her cannot be held back forever.
|Background=Graziella was born in the most extensive branch of the Pravus family, being the youngest daughter of Tiberio and Aurora Pravus. With years separating her from her other siblings and too frail of body, Grazi was not destined to join the fray with sword and shield like the other two. Instead, Lady Aurora took the little girl under her wing.
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|Background=Graziella was born in the most extensive branch of the Pravus family, being the youngest daughter of Tiberio and Aurora Pravus. With years separating her from her other siblings, Grazi's interests laid elsewhere than battle and adventure: hers was a desire for intellectual pursuit, and her acute curiosity was always her defining trait, something that made Grazi Lady Aurora's unofficial favorite child. She was sweet and comely, always smiling, but the twinkle in her eyes was her mother's pride.
  
Known for her tenacity and obsession when it came to her family, Aurora taught Graziella how to bear herself, how to read others, how to manipulate a room and influence the outcome of whole engagements in the battlefield. She was raised to be the closest thing to Aurora herself, the power behind the curtain and protector of her siblings. Even if the teachings didn't always go smoothly, with Aurora and Graziella clashing due to the young girl's propensity for daydreaming and refusing to live in the present, Grazi excelled.
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The Argento matriarch taught Graziella courtly grace and political shrewdness, raising Graziella to be the closest thing to Aurora herself, the power behind any throne and the secret protector of her ever more reckless siblings in Gabriella and Lucrezia. While Graziella learned she always did so out of respect for her mother and a sense of duty to her family, her love for Gabriella and Lucrezia trumping her desire to control anything behind the scenes. Truth be told, the girl just adored to spend her days thinking of fabulous stories and dreaming of times when things such as demons, dragons, powerful queens and elven lords were possible.
  
For a while, life settled down and Graziella grew up with the other Pravus at court, but that would come crashing down the night her father was murdered along with her uncle, Duke Piero. Graziella got lost in the castle looking for her family, but unlike Lucrezia, who would vanish for years, she simply disappeared for hours.
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Unfortunately, when House Argento and its agents struck, the whimsical Pravus was ill-prepared to protect herself, and in the same night her father Tiberio and her uncle, Duke Piero, were murdered, Graziella vanished without a trace. For years, she remained at large, most assuming she was yet another casuality of that coup until, recently, she returned to her family. No scars, no stories, but different, somehow.
  
That seemed to be enough to change something in the young woman.
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Her return was unheralded but it was greatly celebrated in Setarco, but in Graziella's eyes there was too much amiss. Her mother was lost in the heart of Setarco, her sister Gabriella juggled responsibilities in Arx and the command of the Swords of the Evening and Lucrezia was half-mad and leading the Black Fleet of Pravus. The world she knew was dead, and in its place there was a broken mirror that Graziella would have to relearn in the following years. Without any fuss the young woman positioned herself by her sisters' side, the less questions asked about her the better, as she reintegrates with a family that thought they had lost her and rediscovers her place among them.
 
 
Graziella doesn't speak of that night too much. She survived, and she hasn't been the same since. Sure, she looks well enough, but being so young and exposed to that much violence did a number on the poor girl, who grew up with a diminished light in her eyes.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 18:04, 14 October 2023

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Graziella Pravus
Social Rank 3
Fealty Pravus
House Pravus
Gender Female
Age 20
Religion Mirrormask
Vocation Noble
Height average height
Hair Color Ashen Blonde
Eye Color Baby Blue
Skintone Pale
Family
Parents Tiberio Pravus
Siblings Lucrezia Pravus, Lycoris Hawkmour, Gabriella Pravus
Uncles/Aunts Adela Pravus, Emiliano Pravus
Cousins Marena Inverno, Moros Inverno, Dimitri Velenosa
Journals
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Active


Description

Sinuous and sardonic, Graziella's frame is as graceful as her name suggests, with a poise and economy of movement that often makes her seem almost to float: especially when coupled with her waist-length blonde hair, and the gauzy dark gowns she favors. Her beauty is the sort that draws the eye even in her subtle movements, which although not design to grab attention, hide underlying hunger that stops others dead in their tracks. Graziella is a woman in full maturity, full of potential, her clear blue eyes looking on the world with a sort of sharp scrutiny, a burning want and a penetrating distaste for the ordinary.

Personality

Graziella can be pleasant company to those around her, but there is always a certain fakeness to her niceties. It is rare for someone to grab her full attention, and those people are often intense, passionate and have something to say. Life is short and there is an unsatiable craving within Graziella to live it in non-ordinary fashion, even if it might make it shorter. She will always bring a book to the Assembly of Peers and in general parties in Arx are not to her liking. At her best Graziella enjoys a little bit of chaos and bite to things, at her worst she is self-destructive in her pursuit of something that makes her feel alive.

Her family is a particular subject. She loves House Pravus deeply, and their larger than life style suits her perfectly. She inserts herself in their lives like she needs to consume her relatives, learning about them as she does to anyone whom she finds interesting, but in the end Graziella is a poor servant: she often needs their succor more than she provides herself. For some reason the woman cannot help but want to fill a void, and although she can control herself, the wyrm within her cannot be held back forever.

Background

Graziella was born in the most extensive branch of the Pravus family, being the youngest daughter of Tiberio and Aurora Pravus. With years separating her from her other siblings, Grazi's interests laid elsewhere than battle and adventure: hers was a desire for intellectual pursuit, and her acute curiosity was always her defining trait, something that made Grazi Lady Aurora's unofficial favorite child. She was sweet and comely, always smiling, but the twinkle in her eyes was her mother's pride.

The Argento matriarch taught Graziella courtly grace and political shrewdness, raising Graziella to be the closest thing to Aurora herself, the power behind any throne and the secret protector of her ever more reckless siblings in Gabriella and Lucrezia. While Graziella learned she always did so out of respect for her mother and a sense of duty to her family, her love for Gabriella and Lucrezia trumping her desire to control anything behind the scenes. Truth be told, the girl just adored to spend her days thinking of fabulous stories and dreaming of times when things such as demons, dragons, powerful queens and elven lords were possible.

Unfortunately, when House Argento and its agents struck, the whimsical Pravus was ill-prepared to protect herself, and in the same night her father Tiberio and her uncle, Duke Piero, were murdered, Graziella vanished without a trace. For years, she remained at large, most assuming she was yet another casuality of that coup until, recently, she returned to her family. No scars, no stories, but different, somehow.

Her return was unheralded but it was greatly celebrated in Setarco, but in Graziella's eyes there was too much amiss. Her mother was lost in the heart of Setarco, her sister Gabriella juggled responsibilities in Arx and the command of the Swords of the Evening and Lucrezia was half-mad and leading the Black Fleet of Pravus. The world she knew was dead, and in its place there was a broken mirror that Graziella would have to relearn in the following years. Without any fuss the young woman positioned herself by her sisters' side, the less questions asked about her the better, as she reintegrates with a family that thought they had lost her and rediscovers her place among them.