Claude Élisabeth of Savoy
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Claude Élisabeth Hermine (13th of Horen’s Calling, 1818 - Present) was the second of the trio of Orenian Socialites that made up the ‘Madames de Savoie’, Princesses of Savoy as daughters of Olivier Renault Ashford de Savoie, restorer of Savoy in Almaris. They were raised in Orenian society within the Augustine Palace, boarded there in their youth under the reign of John VIII whilst their father realized himself in Global Politics. She’d additionally become Viscountess of Provins in the year 1839 by proxy of marriage to Lord Philip Pruvia.
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Birth and Early Life
Birth. Family info. ((all below are guidelines for writing or points that are important to make))
Procession to the Court of John VIII Important figures, fashion impact.
Education. critical judgement of orenian society. Father comes to Oren after Lburg collapse, claude doubles down on religious values when her mother falls ill because she wants god to help her get better. Develops intense zealotry and strong vindictions about humanity. Describe loving family dynamic with siblings, and with godfather and godfather’s family. Philip as elder brother figure.
The Rosemoor Convention
Petite Potins. Leads to Rosemoor Convention. Leads to Elizabeth death. Father leaves Oren for Sutica but Claude and her sisters stay in the courts. The dramatics become too much for Claude, who begins to judge everyone around her as lacking morality and GODliness. She decides to leave Oren for 2 years to search for religious clarity in nature. She learns to hunt for sustenance and furs, becoming especially fond of fur collection and organic craftsmanship. She believes it ties her to the natural way of life that GOD intended for society. Thus, she becomes fond of all activities tied to hunting, developing an obsession with weapons collecting and tracking.
To keep up with Orenian activities, she reads the Providence post regularly, which fosters her interest for journalism. She also begins to exchange letters with Philip Pruvia, and they create an untenable bond in her absence. When her godfather, Simon, notices this, she becomes betrothed to Philip. This implores her to move back to Providence, where her sisters and herself purchase their own home by each acquiring jobs, which the nobility judges fiercely, creating distance between them and the palace courtiers. Claude decides to leave the court for good.
The Social Season of 1835
Sometime around the start of the Social Season, they hear news of their father being elevated as the ‘Duke of Corazon’. Because of their estrangement, the girls do not attempt to be diplomatic with him.
Claude’s moral prerogatives had by this point developed a hatred in her towards the Social season and its associated social activities, including gossip like her writings in the petite potins. She hates her younger self and the drama she caused and is now fact-driven and seeking GOD’s truth. Thus she lamented having to participate in the season beside her sisters. This was manifested when she entered the season’s first debut lesson adorned in leaves and blood residual of a hunt she’d just partaken of. causes dissent towards claude. Then, for the debut herself, she appeared in a white debut dress layered with black over it, in what she described was an allegory for the social season: the death of godly womanhood, darkened by the stain of ‘romantic affection’ as opposed to seeking amicable life partnerships via betrothal.
The Wedding of Roses
Fitting of this same standard, she chose her wedding date to be the first event of the season, so that she would not have to be privy to flirtation and dances with men who were not her future husband.
She invites her father to Oren for her wedding, the first time she’d seen him in various years. Here, it is revealed that he and Adeline had birthed 2 other children in Sutica, Leufroy and Athenais. Claude is hurt by her father’s neglect to reveal that she had other siblings to lay her love on. She takes Athenais by the hand and goes to have a private conversation together, sister-to-sister. After the wedding, the garden party hosted by Lady Mary happens and she takes Athenais there as well. However, during the party she receives a letter from Eugenie suddenly, that tells Claude that she had been followed by their father’s men and they were trying to kill her. Claude rushed home with Lady Maisie and found the ISA protecting her sister and a soldier of Corazon rushing away from the scene. Eugenie explained that she had accused their father of having had bastard children because Adeline was too old to bear children, and he got angry. Then she left and suddenly two of his men appeared and tried to break in the house with threats and said they’d kill her. Eugenie reported it to ISA and Claude lost any and all affection held for her father or for any of her siblings that would remain at his side after the ordeal, ceasing all communication.
When their eldest brother came to attend Eugenie’s wedding following their father’s coronation as Prince of Savoy, Claude berated him for flashing his Savoyard armor in her face, threatening to draw her crossbow upon him if he did not remove it. All communications she’d held with the rest of her family would come to a grinding halt in light of this event.
As Viscountess Provins
Explain how they came to inherit: Anne exposes Simon as Azdrazi, Simon is denounced, Philip inherits, Claude and Philip burn down the estate to cleanse it of the heretical Azdrazi air.
