Valyntina Sarmyr

Valyntina holds a seat as a representative of House Sarmyr in the Conclave of Myr. She is the first child of Trombo Sarmyr, patriarch of the family. With the recent passing of her uncle, she has been chosen to succeed him as a Magister of Myr.

Appearance and Character
Featuring a mix of Rhoynar and Valyrian features, Valyntina boasts long, silky, honey brown locks, inquisitive lilac eyes, and soft, pouty lips. Tall for a woman, her olive skinned frame reaches nearly six feet in height. With just enough curves to pique attentions, she accentuates them with form fitting silks, typical of woman of her station.

Due to her status and upbringing, Valyntina is accustomed to getting what she wants, immediately. While she would never admit it aloud, her recent elevation to Magister, and all the responsibilities it brings, scares her a bit. At the same time, she is excited for this new chapter in life.

Origin
Complacent. An accurate word to describe the state of the Sarmyr family, as well as its patriarch, Trombo. In his youth he dreamed of claiming riches and honor by sailing the fourteen seas, after his majority he aspired to the position of the newly powerful Prince-Admiral, but now, after seeing over four decades on this soil, he is content to count the coins that pour in from his family’s vast business interests.

It was into this complacent household, a sharp tongued, ambitious Valyntina was brought into, red-faced and screaming. The first born child of Trombo and his Lysene wife, Valla Lohar, Valyntina proved quite troublesome for the weary house slaves charged with her care. A precocious, manipulative youth, always determined to get her way, most of the household would agree her first and only words for some period were, “Why not?”

Rise of the Despot
Though news of conflict between merchants, pirates, and dragonriders swirled throughout the Free Cities, Myr as usual, remained complacent through the turmoil. An eight-year-old Valyntina followed the news as much as she could – especially the parts about dragons. She delighted in glimpses of the beasts flying overhead, instilling a lasting obsession with the creatures.

A more relevant dragon was the ambition held by her father, who having been settled in as a magister for some time, still struggled to have his voice heard throughout the city’s councils. He was among those who pressured the conclave to join the war efforts, and when whispers of a coup arose, lent his full support to the cause. Banking on his house’s strength and pedigree, he aspired to claim the Prince-Admiralcy and the new power it had been granted. Fortune did not favor House Sarmyr, for he was passed over twice in two separate coups for the position. As his dreams went unfulfilled, even little Valyntina could see the toll such futility took on her father’s spirit.

Val the Builder
As heir to the family, Valyntina was groomed for a magisterial position her entire life. Lessons on philosophy, numbers, commerce, and law filled her days. But her true passion lay with architecture. Myr lay claim to wondrous structures such as the Philosophers Tower and the Bastion. A teenaged Valyntina would sneak away from her studies, not to rendezvous with some fair lad, as the slaves assumed, but to the construction sites of some new manse or statue; projects the vapid upper crust never tired of indulging in. Watching and learning much, she even found herself contributing ideas to the erection of a new establishment, ''The Passion Fruit'', which she did not realize until much later was not a purveyor of exotic fruits, but rather one of exotic tastes of the flesh.

A New Prince-Admiral
Eighteen-year-old Valyntina smelled the regime change on the air, mixed with the perfumed scent of Nero Vashar as he came beseeching support for his ambitions to the Prince-Admiral. Beyond his wife being a Sarmyr, Valyntina could not see the merit in such a backing when the Vashar offered little else in return. But, her father, now content with staying out of politics, hand waved his house’s support, and soon thereafter, tragedy struck House Mar Noyne. Once again, Valyntina was dumbstruck by how such violence fueled ambition was rewarded, for the apparently complacent Conclave named Nero Vashar the new Prince-Admiral. From that day forward, she gathered her own network of intelligence, should any persons deign to design such horrors on her own house – she would be prepared.

Val the Magister
With passing of her uncle Enzo, Valyntina is selected by her family to replace him as a Magister in Conclave. Though she had been groomed for such a position her entire life, it remains a daunting position, especially in the wake of the recent, bloody rise of the new Prince-Admiral. Amidst the change in her life, she finds herself leaning on the unlikely friendship of her house's recent ward, Luca Terys

Family
Thoros Sarmyr b.360 d. 419

Mellaria Antaryon b.362 d. 422
 * Tormo Sarmyr b.380 d. 424
 * Trombo Sarmyr b. 395
 * m. Valla Lohar b. 400
 * Valyntina Sarmyr b. 418
 * Tytos Sarmyr b. 420
 * Thoros Sarmyr b. 421
 * Issa Sarmyr b. 424
 * Enzo Sarmyr b. 397 d. 438
 * m. Taena Selloso b. 400
 * Markus Sarmyr b. 418
 * Illana Sarmyr b. 422
 * Allya Sarmyr b. 422
 * Syrio Sarmyr b. 398
 * m. Mya Othomere b. 397
 * Manu Sarmyr b. 419
 * Karina Sarmyr b. 424
 * Vellona Sarmyr b. 380
 * m. Nero Vashar b. 381
 * Descendants of House Vashar

Household
Daario, Head House Slave, b. 389

Silas of the Rhoyne, Captain of the House Guard, b. 399

Ser Symon Storm, Captain of the Mother Rhoyne b.406