Valent de Rosius

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Valent de Rosius Race: Auvergnian Born: 3th of Tobias's Bounty, Helena, Holy Orenian Empire Spouse: N/A House: Rosius Father: Philip de Rosius-Rourke Mother: Maria Darkwood

Valent Philip of The House of Rosius, (3rd of Tobias's Bounty, 1787-Present) born between the union of Maria Darkwood and Philip de Rosius-Rourke is renowned politician, solicitor and economist in The Holy Orenian Empire.

Biography

Early life

Anastasia O'Rourke was born into House O'Rourke to Padraig O'Rourke & Illaena Elendil. For the first few years of her life, she was moved between Aeldin & Arcas. Being constantly moved around gave her precious little time to make friends in either Realm which led her to lock herself in her room, reading & writing until she would pass out. She started to become more introverted & rejected the idea of going outside.

In 1783, the young Anastasia was awakened by a crude knock at the door by a house servant who came bearing a request for her presence downstairs. Peaking through a window in her room, she spotted a well-maintained carriage bearing the crest of an Aeldin house. Knowing full-well what this meant, she climbed out of her second-floor bedroom to the ground, seeking to escape. Almost seconds after her feet touched the soil the sound of a door splintering rang out from her bedroom prompting Anastasia to flee.

By nightfall, Anastasia found herself lost in the woods. Without a compass, she settled down, slumped against a tree to sleep the night away. The next day she was harshly awoken by the sounds of horses. A norlandic patrol had spotted her. The riders introduced themselves & befriended the young girl, asking her questions about where she was from. Not desiring to return to her home in Kaedrin she lied & said Curon; a former kingdom of Oren that was destroyed over a decade prior.

Feeling sympathetic for her, the Norlanders took her back to their home in Morsgrad & raised her until the age of sixteen. Through these three years, they taught Anastasia how to fight, hunt & ride. During this period of time, Anastasia picked up a job as a sell-sword; a sword for hire. On the 10th of Sun's Smile, one of her assignments took her to Helena, the capital of The Holy Orenian Empire where she was to distract the guards of the city so a small raiding party could kidnap an imperial nobleman. She was successful in doing such & due to that success, she was hired to do the same thing multiple more times throughout the same year until she was captured by a haenseni soldier & handed over to imperial authorities.

Once in custody, she was given the choice of death or joining the Imperial State Army by Joseph Clement, The Duke of Helena. Without a second thought, Anastasia chose the ladder. She spent the next two years in basic training which she completed with ease having already been training in combat since a young age.

Career

After completing her basic training, Anastasia was pushed by her father to pursue a political career in oren. It took a bit of convincing but Anastasia finally agreed. In 1788, she made her political debut by running for an alderman position in Helena. With ten sign-ups for election candidates, making the 1788 alderman elections the largest city assembly elections in Helena history, the competition was fierce. Two months later the voting process took place & to Anastasia's surprise she had won the first seat with forty-one thousand votes.

For the next seven years, she served on the city assembly, raising to the rank of Deputy Speaker appointed by Desmond Morgryn. When the descendants were forced to evacuate Arcas, Anastasia ran again in Providence, Almaris in the elections of 1797. Once more Anastasia won the first seat in the City Assembly with forty-thousand votes. During the first city assembly meeting in 1798, Anastasia ran for speaker of the assembly which she won with five out of seven votes. In 1803, when Anastasia's seat as speaker of the assembly was up for election she chose not to re-run instead throwing her support behind Olivier Halcourt. Two years later in 1805 Anastasia retired as alderman of Providence thus ending her mainstream political career.

In addition to her political career as alderman, Anastasia served as a city clerk for both Helena & Providence. In 1795, one year before the descendant's fleed Arcas, she was made Deputy City Clerk. Upon arriving at Providence, she retained her position as Deputy City Clerk. In 1808 when Annabelle Kelmenour resigned from the position Head City Clerk, Anastasia was voted in by the Providence City Assembly to be the next Head City Clerk.