Valesha Ferrano

Born 1304 in Rome, Italy

As one daughter too many, sent into a convent in 1308, later flat out purchased and put under wage as part of the Templars' massive support staff.

1312, the order was officially disbanded. Valesha, at the time, was with the order in Jerusalem. When news reached them, far from home, early in 1313, the members went into hiding, instead of dissolving, hoping to outlive the papal decree and curry favour with the pope's successor, whomever that may be. Life, then, changed for her, as more and more of the order were exposed and slain not only by heathens, who were keen to settle scores with the relatively helpless knights, but also by their own former brethren, who'd been assigned to other orders. She went from cook to spy, supplying the order with information and was officially inducted into full service in 1328. Five years later, they were exposed by a fundamentalist member who could not abide the womenfolk "infesting" the ranks and Valesha had to flee the holy land, but not before she and several other former Templars forged documents that detailed their resignation and reassignment to other orders. Come a trek through greece and thanks to sketchy recordkeeping in the vatican, by 1334, she was a full fledged nun again.

She will never admit to having taken the blade to the enemies of her order like a full templar would have done. That would be most blasphemous, after all.


Prior allegiances:

until 1334: ordained sister and cook for the Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici (The Templar Knights; disbanded 1312); given the order's strict rules, she rarely saw a full knight until 1312, when persecution began and the order went into disarray and some cells into rebellion.

Current allegiances:

Roman catholic church
Father Patrick in Omen