Surabhi/Introduction

"Times may be tough, but the heaviest rains make for the healthiest crops."

I was born into the Strongheart House, though not as a...Gifted, I believe they prefer to be called.

Despite our nobility, we're still a house of farmers, brewers, and *, and I grew up learning the family trades. It was

Father gave me taught me that every crown earned with your own hand is worth more than a hundred crowns of charity,

and Mum taught me that father could be a bit uptight, and for as much as he insisted that "nothing was sweeter than the fruits of one's own labor," he got mighty surly if she asked him to cook.