Ardina Bolas

Ardina Bolas is one of the Westrian councillors, and belongs to the Heirs of Westria roleplay. She is seen almost as the villain, and the one who makes a lot of rules that are found unfair by the heirs. She is in a relationship with the High Councillor, Raugus, much to everyone's surprise.

Childhood
Ardina was born into a wealthy family who governed over the town of Ascot and the surrounding area. Her parents were both incredibly close with the king and queen, and she often visited the palace as a young girl. She had one older brother, Tobin, and the two had a very rough relationship, constantly fighting with one another over the smallest things. They could never agree on anything.

Ardina was raised to be married off to some rich suitor, seeing as she was the younger child, and the estate would go to her brother. Ardina was given an excellent education, so she could be desirable to someone. She loved learning, and her tutors adored teaching her, because she was a quick learner and a good student. However, marriage didn't seem appealing to Ardina. She wanted to have a job, a career. Her parents called her a modern thinker, and greatly disapproved.

When Ardina was seven, and Tobin was ten, the two of them were sent to stay with their grandparents for a week. The two were sent alone, in the family carriage, which was attacked on the way there. Ardina was harmed, and ended up losing a finger in the fight. She no longer has the little finger on her right hand. Fortunately for her, she is left handed.

Teenage Yeers
Ardina was sixteen when her parents betrothed her to Lord Curtis Byron, a man twice her age who was incredibly wealthy. She was introduced to him at court, and her parents quickly arranged the marriage. It was called off, however, two weeks before the wedding, when Ardina, using the things she had been taught, revealed that the Byron family was mistreating their servants and treating their townsfolk as slaves, one of the many nobles who did so. The Byron family was punished, as this was back before the queen got sick, and the marriage fell through. Ardina was temporarily spared from matrimony.

At eighteen, Ardina took a vow that she would never marry, nor would she love, because in her mind, love was twisted, something manipulated by the world. She thought it was fake, an emotion that people claim to exist to justify things they do and choices they make. Instead, she decided to be the youngest female councillor Westria had ever seen. Her parents, of course, weren't thrilled with this vow, and made arrangements for another marriage, so Ardina ran away from home, and found a noble lady living in the palace to take her in. There at the palace, Ardina began her training to be a councillor.