Difference between revisions of "Shallan Davar"

As a child, Shallan had a happy life with her parents and four brothers; she can recall a time when [[Lin Davar|her father]] rarely became angry. However, after her abilities began to manifest, the situation deteriorated, culminating in the night when her mother and an associate attempted to kill her. Her father stepped in, fighting the associate, but was soon pinned down as Shallan's mother approached the eleven-year-old Shallan to end her life. The stress of this moment was enough for Shallan to summon her Shardblade for the first time, using it to kill her mother and the associate. Her father took the fall for the bloody events to protect her, and though there was no proof to send him to court, the general understanding, held even by his sons, was that he had killed his wife and her lover while Shallan watched; these traumatic events and the following cover-up were enough to shatter the once-happy family and twist her father into a violent, easily-enraged, and abusive man who verbally and physically hurt the members of his house. Shallan repressed all memory of the night, refusing to recall her part in the events. After weathering years of abuse by her father (who hurt others in order to manipulate her, as he feared her too much to hurt her directly), Shallan finally took action when he seemed bent on killing her brother Balat, giving him poisoned wine and then strangling him with hisa Soulcasternecklace he had given her. It is only after his demise that Shallan and her brothers can attempt to come together as a family once more, banding together to cover up the truth of his death while also working to save the House from the many debts their father accrued.