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 Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:24 pm
NAME Catherine Pembroke, Lady Falconcrest
AGE A lady never tells.
OCCUPATION Widow of the Lord of Falconcrest, she has taken on the governance of his lands, house, and territory, as well as his finances, etc.
FAMILY Her husband is deceased; she has no children.
POSITIVES Intelligent, astute, decisive, fair
NEUTRALS Polite, beautiful, protective
NEGATIVE Depressive, restless, cold, vain
APPEARANCE Before her lord husband died, Catherine Pembroke -- known to most as Lady Falconcrest -- was a beauty. Her hair was glossy and hung in rich waves down her back, a deep auburn that other ladies attempted to match using henna; it was usually held back from her face in a long plait, or left loose down her back. Her eyes are a placid sort of blue, her cheeks flushed pink and her skin the color of good cream. She is tall and well built, her chest helped by a corset which also gives her a lady's tiny, trim waist. It was considered lucky that Falconcrest's colors (black, cream, and green) matched the Lady's so well; her clothing was normally always of the highest quality, the most exemplary fabrics, which made her beauty go from merely earthly to approaching sublime.
Some hinted that it was because her marriage, and its resulting happiness, helped. Some whispered behind their hands that Lady Falconcrest was just that beautiful. Others, who had no love for the Lord himself, hinted he had married her because she was beautiful, to take her beauty for his own.
But now that the Lord is dead, Lady Falconcrest has seemed to wither on the vine: she is pale and wan now, with dark circles under her eyes and less grace in her carriage. She moves with the creaky caution of a woman twice her age, and if her eyes dart here and there and her voice is less sure of itself, perhaps her grief is just that great.
PERSONALITY Catherine is, beyond everything else, a Lady. However, she is fair and educated, and would be a motherly sort if she'd had children (however, she is barren). She tends to rule the household with a fair hand, but has no issue with abdicating power when she needs to, or stepping up to take a firmer hand with the delegation of responsibility or punishment. Some would say that this makes her almost mannish, this ability to do and work -- it is merely because she understands what must be done to make sure that the earth continues to turn. The ruling of a manor and environs is no small thing.
However, for all of that ability to manage, her tastes are refined. She is a picky eater, though she prefers to dine on things like tunny and pheasant and snails. She enjoys singing, and when the Lord was alive, music nearly always accompanied dinner. She picked out the fabrics for her clothing herself, and still reviews each piece before she wears it. She hosts garden or dinner parties once or twice a month. Underneath the capable, steel-strong exterior she cultivates, however, is a woman who will still crack into a smile at a bawdy joke, or who enjoys riding through the woods on her horses, or reading books of poetry or the rather risque romances brought in from other land -- done all in secret, by herself, but done all the same.
Except all of that is gone now, disappeared. Who knows if it will come back again.
SKILLS Lady Falconcrest is a fine hand with numbers and sums, is relatively good at delegating responsibilities in large groups of people, and can sit a horse well. She has also written several slender chapbooks of poetry, though for her own personal edification. She is also, as befits a lady of her social standing, an impressively adept social butterfly.
HISTORY Under construction, but I do know that Lord Falconcrest died not six months back, and Catherine has not gotten over the blow.
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 3:25 pm
 why yes, he IS named after Loras Tyrell
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