Ljónynja Øringr

And just as the lion protected her eagle, the eagle watched over his lion.

Ljónynja Øringr
Concept:	Matriarch of Prestigious Noble Family
Clan:	Gangrel ••••
Covenant:	Invictus •••••
City:	GSS (No Home VSS) •
Title:	Matriarca Serratura di a Casa di Temperance, Alder Lord
Sire:	Ylva Úti
Bloodline:	Kerberos
Group:	Villr, Casa di Temperance
Embraced:	1207
Player:	Sara
Storyteller:	GSS (No Home VSS) VST

Who She Is

Appearance

Dressed starkly, but warmly, Ljónynja embodies the very essence of her namesake, appearing all at once as regal, wild, beautiful, and terrifying as the Lioness who protects her pride. A cloak covers her back and arms, but does not restrict movement. Just as the chains along her skin, she is at once bound and free. A scarification of the Casa di Temperance's Coat of Arms on her back signifies her as the Leader of the strong Invictus Household. Her lithe yet striking body is covered in the deeply carved reminders of the travesties she's endured, a testament to her both her determination to survive and a refusal to let the years beat her. Perhaps the most startling feature of Ljónynja are her icy-white eyes, a permanent reminder of what time, torture, and loss can do.
Once a naive young shield-maiden, with the kind of pure innocence that artists would sing of and illustrate so fervently. Yet that beauty is tinged with the harshness that comes from losing a lover, a brother, and the sheer weight of centuries. The once-wild Lioness has been tamed mercilessly by decades of torture and suffering at the hands of an Invictus Lord she never wanted and could never leave have withered away the young naive girl who died at the hands of her twin brother's betrothed.
Ever graceful, always polite, yet she gives the sense of an uncomfortably close relationship with her beast. And perhaps it is this which best reminds he who would tempt the Lioness that the tameness does not equate to weakness for she is still a figure of fear, but only to those who give her reason to unchain the animal beneath. For she has not just survived for centuries, she has thrived.

Personality

Calm, quick thinking, and slow speaking, Ljónynja is the very essence of an Gangrel Invictus Elder. She moves slowly, with the grace of ages, but with presence and purpose too.
She is gentle in her own way, but her lessons are harsh, and quickly learnt. She teaches by doing. All those she has turned her hand to teaching seem to have come away with a refinement that is somehow tinged with fire. And while many enter her tutelage unwillingly, they come to find themselves loathe to leave it.
This is not of supernatural doing, Ljónynja teaches the lessons of danger, of etiquette. How to get what you want without having to learn disciplines. Yet those too seem to have a place in her learning, having the young discover exactly how to use what gifts they have been given. For what use would a sword be in the hands of a man trained only to be to an archer? No, the Lioness does not teach new skills, she shows those who come searching how to use talents they already have with the gifts they have been given.
Should a young kindred seek to learn new tricks, she also seems to always know the best teacher for those as well, and is willing others rise. She accepts that some may not wish to tell her what she wants to know, but loathes betrayal and those few who have betrayed her, or her family, have not lived long to tell of the tale.
The innocence of youth that lurked at the time of embrace remains on her face, and she has wielded it as a weapon more than once. These nights, she prefers to operate through her network, allowing those younger and more agile than she is to take the reins. One would be foolish to assume that as Head of a Household, it would fall if she did so, yet none have claimed the position. For while Ljónynja may be cruel in her punishments, she is always fair in judgments she makes.
The bindings of both Invictus and kindred society hold her strongly. If not for her holding so tightly to such chains, she may have fallen to her beast long ago. The proof of which lies in those cold dead eyes that even in their shallowness show the depth of her age and the monster who still lurks beneath.

Mortal World

What once might have been is no more. A woman of grace and age, no amount of searching by any agency could find her in their system, for she was never there to begin with. There is simply no record of the Lioness in the mortal world. There was no such technology when she was born, nor when she was taken so violently.
Ljónynja operates within the mortal world almost entirely through her retainers, vassals, and other allies.

A Woman of Ancient History

Ljónynja 1230

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1101-1200

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1189 Ljónynja is born several minutes after her brother Ári.
1198 Trained by her father in the way of the sword, beside her brother. He shows a talent for singing, while she shows skill with the weapon.

1201-1300

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1203 Married to a gentle, but older man named Fiske Odyrsonn. Within the year she births to twins of her own. One male, Tyr, and one female, Alvida. She is borderline worshipped for the luck she has brought their marriage and new family.
1204 Ljónynja births another son, Odyr. Much of her time is spent raising the children.
1206 Ári grows jealous of the affection shown by Ljónynja to her children. He ventures out and meets Ylva Kára while hunting. He sees her again several times, before she finally ghouls him, so that he can focus on her rather than his beloved sister.
1207 Ári tells his sister he wishes to marry Ylva. Ljónynja, not consumed the way her brother is with false affection, sets out to speak with Ylva. Ylva tempts the hot-headed young woman into a fight. Ljónynja thinks it will be easy, for she is skilled, but Ylva is ready, and strikes her down. Ári promises unending loyalty for Ylva is his sister is spared. Ylva accepts, and instead of killing her, she embraces both of the twins.
1211 The twins get to know their blood brother, then known as Turstin, and take to him well. He is a soldier, but a caring and old soul, even back then.
1232 Ljónynja seeks out her family with Ári. She finds her children are older than she was at the time of her embrace, and her husband is an old man. Confused, she seeks to comfort him, but he denies her, for the embrace has frozen her face in time, and he calls her a vengeful spirit and demon, talking of an Oracle's prophecy that she has come to send him to his death.
1233 After trying to remain at his side for a year and being turned aside each time, she grows angry, eventually frenzying. In her frenzy, she kills him, fulfilling the prophecy, and forever staining her hands. Her son, Tyr, tries to protect his father from who he perceives to be the vengeful demon. Failing, he is almost killed. With no idea of what to do, she takes Tyr to Ylva, who tells her that without the embrace, he will die. She embraces him and revels in how much she has missed having her child by her side. The feelings are not entirely reciprocated, for he has not forgiven her for his fathers death. Her twin finds himself growing jealous once more as she tries to regain her childe's favour.
1234 Ári and Ljónynja argue about Tyr, and in trying to show what it is like to share blood with another he blood bonds his sister to him. Within a few months, they are bonded to one-another.
1245 Ljónynja hears about the death of her daughter and other son at the paws of a polar bear. Bitterly upset, she seeks comfort in the arms of Ári, while Tyr is pushed from her inner circle in her distress.
1248 Tyr raises this with his sire, she takes him hunting. Together they kill indiscriminately, drawing unwanted attention to the family. Ljónynja and Tyr are put into torpor, with Ári watching over them.

1301-1400

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1322 Woken from torpor by Ári. Tyr is nowhere to be found. When questioned, Ári is vague about details.
1324 After watching the Lioness kill several people, a young girl walks up to her in a daze, her eyes glazed over. Ljónynja growls at her and warns her to leave before she is also killed. When the young girl speaks, Ljónynja hears her words and chill runs through her dead body. But she pushes the girl away, leaving blood of the men she killed on her, trying hard to forget her words.
1345 The family travel together for years, at Ylva's behest. Partway through Ljónynja is torpored once more for daring to question Ylva.
1375 Tyr returns to the family, having somehow survived. Turstin claims to have found his body while hunting, and woke him. Ljónynja is overjoyed at her sons return, Ári less so.
1400 In a betrayal Ári is killed. Ljónynja is immediately forced from the scene by her childer Tyr, while she frenzies at the loss of one she loved so dearly. Pulled away, she is forced to leave Ylva and Turstin behind to her devastation.

1401-1500

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1402 As Ljónynja is so unable to deal with her pain and rage, her childer is forced to put her into Torpor.
1430 Wakes from Torpor.
1431 Still hurting from the death of her beloved twin, Ljónynja leaves her family's side and begins to journey alone.
1435 Brought into the Invictus, and to the Casa di Temperance by Signore di Tirruri. Within the year he begins to refer to her as Øringr, and it becomes somewhat of a nickname for her. During her time with him she embraces four childer. Three of them are killed.
1479 Embraces her fifth childer for Signore.
1482 Put into Torpor for her safety.

1501-1600

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1512 Woken from Torpor by her childer and one of his allies. She ask's Tyr about Turstin but he does not know, for they were separated so many years ago. The two begin searching for him. During their search, they meet Yr Ysgolhaig. He has not heard of Turstin.
1522 Tyr gives up the search, by now they have travelled through most of the world, and have been unsuccessful in finding Turstin. Tyr announces he intends to return to Norway, to sleep in his father or twin sisters grave, so that he may be near them once again. Ljónynja does not argue.
1524 After searching on her own for two years, she finds her brother after bearing witness to a catastrophic event that leaves the both of them damaged, and which they will remember long it happened. In spending time with her brother, she finds he has changed as much as she has by his own experiences since their separation. He has taken a new name, fought long battles, and become a darker soul. The wise and kind soldier that Turstin once was, Wodan is not. She too has changed, her eyes have lost all hint of colour, giving the impression of blindness, and the scars she bares on her slim body tell a story that Wodan can read all too clearly. The two try to remain close, but the gap that Ári has left in both their hearts is too great, and they come to realise that eventually they will separate again. Wodan tells her the story far too clear, and Ljónynja has worked too hard to change it.
1542 She leaves him to return to Corsica, the place of her nightmares, intent on bringing a cleaner slate to the once great House. On arrival she is concerned to note that it has been taken over by Margarita del Spada. But she is pleased to learn that what bad blood there might have been was erased along with the blood-bond both suffered at the hands of Signore.
1591 Embraces Natalia Einnar, a ghoul of hers, when a hunt with one of Wodan's childer ends poorly. Ljónynja writes to her brother shortly after, questioning the misguided motives of his childer. he confirms that he had not sent anyone after her, reminding her that if he sent a childer of his to her, it would be for training, or death.

1601-1700

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1602 Falls to torpor when her blood grows too thick.
1688 Wakes from torpor.

1701-1800

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1720 Meets Gaspar Acosta Da Blanca in Spain, the two become allies, and she watches him over the years deteriorate from human to psychopath.
1740 Starts teaching Gaspar Acosta Da Blanca about her Old Norse history.
1752 Speaks with Gaspar Acosta Da Blanca about his need to go into torpor. He refuses to willingly fall to torpor and she does not push him as she knows his sister will take care of him.

1801-1900

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1834 Embraces Orestes Romanos in Kos.
1841 Travels to Britain, meets Charles Brock, and begins grooming him for his embrace.
1859 Embraces Charles Brock.
1890 Travels to what is to become Canberra for the first time.
1900 Participates in the Unseen Pact in Canberra. Something scours from her mind, the knowledge of what occurred, along with all others present. She only knows that it must be upheld. She relays what she needs to her childer, Orestes Romanos and the two settle down in the country. Intent on remaining long term they begin setting up a haven for family.

1901-2000

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1909 Is warned about a potential assassination attempt by Margarita. She is concerned they mean to kill one of the two of them, and that if she dies, she wants Ljónynja to hunt down three kindred she believes would be involved with said death. Two of these kindred are high ranking members of Casa di Temperance.
1911 Margarita meets final death. Ljónynja begins her attacks on the three kindred responsible for this, killing one in Corsica and one in Antarctica. She leaves her childe in Australia for the purpose of meting out justice should a kindred break the pact.
1912 The string of kills culminates on the Titanic. Ljónynja takes on the mantle Serratura di a Casa di Temperance, and in doing so, fulfills Margarita del Spada's last request. She spends the next few decades of the wars in Corsica and France, staying out of trouble but protecting her House. During this time, she writes to Australia and organises for the Australian wing of the House to be built.
1916 Decides she wants a new Ghoul. Her people find an Australian nurse separated from the rest after explosions. Ljónynja gives her the option of working as her peoples nurse, or death. Sister Rosetta Day chooses life. She shines and is recognised by an allied kindred, who, upon carrying out all tasks asked of him, is rewarded with the ghoul.
1925 Embraces Arthur Fitzchambers in France.
1945 Travels to Britain again, to investigate an interesting prospect.
1958 Finds a fortune teller who she believes to be somewhat of an Oracle. Visits her many times over the next three years.
1959 Ghouls the Oracle and brings her into her world. She looks after her well.
1959 Requests that her Childer to to Australia when another asks for her assistance.
1962 An arrangement between the Invictus and the Circle of the Crone goes badly. Lirriana of the Circle informs her of the only thing they will accept, Ljónynja provides her ghoul Celene as payment. She does not see Celene again for a very long time.
1970 Returning to Australia, she finalises her orders for the Australian wing of the House.
1982 Takes the newly embraced and abandoned Gangrel Tresalda under her wing, and on to Europe for a period of years to teach her the ways of the Gangrel and of politics. She brings Margarete Wulfhild for part of this training as well, to show the differences between clans.
1988 Returns to Australia with Tresalda.
1992 A young Mekhet comes her way and is taught of the Invictus, and of political plays. She takes longer than others to learn, and it is slow going.
1992 Advises Isabelle that she must leave. Encounters Jakob once more while travelling. He has changed for the worse, and she capitalises on an opportunity.
1993 Meets with Chantilly Lace Roe in France at the request of Jakob. She teaches her the ways of the Invictus, and brings along Isabelle, believing that having the competition will encourage her speed of learning.
1996 Satisfied, Ljónynja recommends Isabelle go and represent the Invictus in Brisbane for a short time.

2001-2016

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2007 Helps out a young Invictus, Olivia with her Invictus training. While in Perth, the ghoul she is provided with turns out to be quite divine.
2008 Meets her grandchilder Dr Teeth.
2008 Ghouls a member of the Yakuza after saving him from near death.
2010 Loans Onryō to Teresia Pieretti, a member of her house for assistance with travelling through Japan. She does not hear from either Jezira nor Onryō for two years. This is not unexpected, the journey was to be long and the ghoul well paid for, the only condition was no embrace, on punishment of death.
2012 Discovers that Teresia has embraced Onryō. Teresia is killed as punishment. Ljónynja takes the once ghoul under her wing, and he is brought almost immediately into the Invictus.
2012 Begins training Brandon Fitzchambers. This continues for the next four years.
2014 Travels to Darwin. Months after arriving, she provides a place for the Roe family to stay. When they are betrayed by other members of the covenant, she cleans up the mess, and provides an appropriate apology.
Year .

The Recent Years

2017

• JUL –

The Pride

The Lioness will always have her pride, can you say the same?

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• Bärbel der Schlachter (Unknown)
  • Decimus (1253)
    • Merick
    • Daniel Küchler
    • Henry Worthington (1902)
      • Wallace MacDougal (1925)
        • Laura Jakande (1987)
    • Tolisan Black
      • Delilah Kane
        • Dr Carver
  • Ylva Kára (Unknown)
    • Wodan (1049)
      • Camden (???)
      • Ashtyn (???)
      • Those expunged from recorded history
      • Hremmtun (???)
      • Kane (???)
      • Vala (1942)
      • Garmr (1945)
      • Ári (1207)
    • Ljónynja Øringr (1207)
      • Tyr (1233)
      • Eiro Han (1403)
      • Saveria Villanueva (1405)
      • Antone Garossi (1442)
      • Elodia Agostini (1455)
      • Jorden Silmar (1479)
      • Natalia Einnar (1612)
        • Dr Teeth (2002)
      • Orestes Romanos (1834)
      • Charles Brock (1859)
      • Arthur Fitzchambers (1925)
        • Nora Quinn Fitzchambers (1976)
          • Hyena
          • Adrien Durant (2018)
        • Ariadne Fitzchambers (1988)
        • Kalia Fitzchambers (1993)
        • Nathaniel Fitzchambers (1998)
        • Eddie Fitzchambers (2016)
      • Viktor Reynder (1967)
        • Daequo (1974)
          • Tresalda (1980)

(Year Embraced)
indicates characters out of play, through death or retirement

Quotes

Ljónynja with her niece and nephew

Quotes By

"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters. Drag him to a hole and let him wake up naked, clawing at the ceiling of his grave. Mould his mind, chain his beast, break his barriers down, and bind him to your will. Then bring him to your lord as a loyal subject and trained childe."

- On how to embrace into the Invictus, 1477.

"You are hurt by your chains, and I do blame you. You have allowed the wrong master to bind you. I do not come here to break them for you. Au contrare, I come to tell you to return them, polished and perfected, to your master. Then you may visit my house, so that we might forge you a new chain. One which fits you becomingly and is worthy of use as a weapon, rather than a burden."

- To a Carthian, complaining of their covenant and seeking to join the Invictus, 1928.

"Nature and darkness can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who do not need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. My brother Wodan is the night, shadow and dread. He is your nightmare, and mine incarnate, and he does not require powers of the blood to remind me of that. But in the wild, it is the female lions who are far more ferocious than their male counterparts. I may not be as terrifying as my brother, and I may not show a mane as he does, but do not underestimate my ability to defend my pride. It is the oldest and strongest instinct in the lioness, and the one I find the most gratifying."

- When her brothers childer came to kill one of her own.

Quotes About

"Beware little lion, for the son of Horkos comes, and he will haunt more than your dreams."

- Delphi, 1324.

“You misunderstand why I uphold such a high standard of social etiquette, it’s not to control you or others, no it's to protect us from the monsters whom walk the night with us. It binds them more tightly than it does us, and without these chains of civilisation to bind them, they would consume us without a second thought. You doubt my word, meet the eyes of my Liege and tell me you don’t see your death in their reflection"

- Onryō to a neonate Carthian whom had rudely interrupted a conversation between him and his Liege.

"The Matriarca Serratura di a Casa di Temperance is a formidable woman- it is impossible to imagine the things she has seen and experienced, and all would do well to remember that. I am grateful that she chose to embrace the man that I love and even more so that she allowed us to wed... My happiness descends from her, for that I will be always loyal."

- Valerie Fitzchambers, about her mother-in-law.

"The first time I truly feared for my unlife was the time between my leaving the Invictus and when I next saw Ljónynja"

- Gaspar Acosta Da Blanca to one of his childer

"She taught me and refined me into who I am. Her teaching methods are second to none for results. Watch what you say around her, for la Matriarcha listens and remembers."

- Gahbrielle Chou

"Sometimes, I think and wonder. Of what could have been, and of what has come to pass. And part of me yearns, during tribulations and trials to have a taste again of that same familiar hand on my shoulder. So that maybe, in a night on a different path, I would feel young again. And full of life."

- Celene in regards to the Lioness.

"Don't mistake her slowness to answer for a slow mind. She is more than likely giving you a chance to fix your mistake. Politically I will do my Damnedest to oppose her, but I will always be polite about how I do so. I suggest you do the same"

- Victor Aurelius Roe to an unknown Carthian

"Anyone that will sit down with me over multiple nights, across weeks, and recall the heartbreak that was the Children's Crusade so that I might record it for future kindred to learn from has my respect. Anyone that works to make sure that never happen's again has my respect."

- Yr Ysgolhaig - when speaking of Ljónynja Øringr

"She defends and protects even the smallest of those she considers 'hers' with the ferocity of a lioness protecting her cubs. Whilst she's gentle enough, do not mistake it for softness or affection. You are an investment, and one she expects to pay off, not a companion''

- Meredith Winchester-Roe, to one of the other Invictus ghouls of House Roe.

"Ljónynja doesn't talk of power, she has no need to do so. A lion simply exists and you experience it in their presence, seductive and forceful. There are few I might entertain the offer of accepting being a Vassal to, but she is one of those few."

-Jakob Roe to Meredith Winchester-Roe before they meet for the first time

Conversations

Ljónynja - You understand why that is no longer possible, do you not?"

Lirriana - "Of course. But this will not please my covenant. Surely as a member of the Invictus you would understand that, my Lady."

Ljónynja - That is not my title, and it does you no favours to insult me with it. Tell me what it is you seek from me."

*The Vampire points to Ljónynja's ghoul, Celene*

Lirriana - "The circle wants her. That is the only price they will accept."

Ljónynja - So be it. Consider the debt paid. I do not doubt that she will serve the Circle as well as she has my own."

- Ljónynja cleaning up mistakes, 1960's.

Ljónynja- "Two from the same century, but no relation?"

Wodan - "Would you have preferred I embraced twins?"

Ljónynja- "It should have been you."

Wodan - "No sister, it should have been us."

Rumours

• Has had more ghouls than most kindred have fed from

Inspirations and Soundtrack

Ljónynja's childer are well protected

Theme Song

You're rolling me in gravel, I leave without a scratch You're throwing rocks in my way, but I just won't react The less I see the sun, the brighter I become Outnumbered and outgunned, that's where I'm shining at My skin is soft like velvet, but my nails are razor sharp My scent is sweet like honey, but I am diamond hard - Diamond Hard, Kerli

Songs

• Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart: This will never end, 'cause I want more, more give me more, give me more, if I had a heart I could love you, if I had a voice I could sing, after the night when I wake up, I'll see what tomorrow brings.
• Diary of Dreams - She: She wears a perfume of truly vicious taste, she has the wisdom in her empathic eyes, she knows the truth to all unspoken lies, she says she would sell her angel for a dream. She masters violence as if she fears no-one, she makes your anger turn into quiet tears, she makes you laugh about intimate fears. She knows the warmth she feels is not for long.
• Alan Walker - Sing Me To Sleep: Remind me how it feels to hear your voice. Living life as if we had a choice, anywhere, anytime, I would do anything for you, anything for you, yesterday got away, melodies stuck inside your head, a song in every breath, sing me to sleep now, sing me to sleep. Remember me, now time can not erase, I can hear your whispers in my mind, I have come what you can not embrace, your memories will be my lullaby.
• Digital Daggers - Still Here: Musing through memories, losing my grip in the grey. I'd die to be where you are, I tried to be where you are, every night I dream you're still here, a ghost by my side so perfectly clear, when I awake you'll disappear, back to the shadows, with all I hold dear.
• Sia - Alive: I had a one-way ticket to a place where all the demons go, where the wind don't change, and nothing in the ground can grow, no just lies, but I survived. I had made every single mistake, that you could ever possibly make. I knew what I wanted, I went in and got it, did all the thing you said that I wouldn't, I told you I would never be forgotten.
• Ljónynja and Wodan The Script - Superheroes: All the hurt, all the lies, all the tears that they cry, when the moment is just right, you'll see fire in their eyes, 'cause he's stronger than you know, a heart of steel starts to grow, when you've been fighting for it all your life, you've been struggling to make things right. Every day every hour turn that pain into power, she's got lions in her heart, a fire in her soul, he's got a beast in his belly so hard to control.
• For Celene Placebo - The Bitter End: Every step we take that's synchronized, every broken bone, reminds me of the second time, that I followed you home, you shower me with lullabies, as you're walking away, reminds me that it's killing time, on this fateful day, see you at the bitter end.
• For Gaspar Acosta Da Blanca VNV Nation - Chrome: Your actions turn conquest to dust. All creation has the promise of heaven, and still you travel the road to hell, I'm saying nothing for the good of myself, but I'm still talking and you're not listening, if I could change your mind, I wouldn't save you from the path you wander.
• [ :] .

OOC Information

Member Information
Player:	Sara
Number:	AU2014040010
Domain:	GSS (No Home VSS) Requiem CofD