Clouded Horizons:Katal Corelia

Katal Miyu Corelia-DeValle Dovahkiin of the Flashing Blades
Katal in a Galbadia City Park.
Character Profile
DOB:	April 2, 2109
Age:	43
Race:	Hume
Gender:	Female
Profession:	Freischütz
Theme:	Crimson Blade
Artist:	Hitoshi Sakimoto
Garden Profile
Garden Attended:	Trabia Garden
SeeD ID Number:	51601
Highest Rank:
	Headmaster Command Division
Additional Information
Birth Realm:	Eighth Realm

Katal Corelia is the wife of Darius DeValle, Sr., the head of Senatorial Hall, and the current Headmaster of Trabia Garden in the Clouded Horizons series.

Personnel Information

Biography

Katal Corelia was born on April 2nd, 2109, to a small family of con artists. pickpockets, and ne'er-do-well's, who made a living playing the odds, always on the lookout for a big score. Most of the larger families in Trabia mostly ignored them, although a few took it open themselves to try to make examples of the family, and because of this, few days in Katal's young life didn't involve bloodshed. For this reason, she began l practicing knife-fighting and archery, and became especially well-known for her knife-throwing ability.

Eventually, several larger families finally grew tired of the Corelia family's undercutting of their profits and began actively working together to cut them down. In 2120, the family was forced to flee the country to Dollet in hiding as members were being cut down one by one. Nearly penniless and in a foreign country, the Corelia family was forced to make some difficult decisions in order to stay afloat, including making deals with a Galbadian gang known as the Catorces which had been making inroads into Dollet territory.

Despite this, life went on for the family, and Katal was forced to do whatever it took to ensure that her family survived, including taking on assignments that, especially at her young age, were dangerous and morally questionable at best. In 2121, however, the big chance the family had been looking for would finally present itself. A local official and political administrator was hiring labor in the wake of a number of deaths due to sickness. Katal and her family were able to secure positions within the family as servants, and her parents decided that they would use this opportunity to vault themselves up into the nobility.

Over the course of the next two years, Katal would manage to work her way up as one of the minister's personal servants. Katal's mother, working the kitchen, would slip a slow-killing poison into his food and Katal would take it to him, and as he grew increasingly more ill over the years, would become solely responsible for his care and health until, in 2125, he would die. His will dictated that Katal and her family would become responsible for maintaining the estate, and with that the family became established members of the aristocracy.

Of course, this raises suspicions almost immediately, and at first the family was able to keep the official investigations at bay as all the paperwork was in order, but even that wouldn't hold up for long. Then, in 2126, Darius DeValle paid them a visit, promising that he could make all of this go away if Katal would accept his hand in marriage. Having connections in Dollet would prove invaluable for him, while the DeValle family's protection would be enough to keep most away from Katal's family while they consolidated.

Katal's parents quickly accepted, ignoring their daughter's many objections, and the next year, the two were wed. As promised, all of the Corelia family's problems disappeared, and they slowly began to flourish with their newfound wealth. Katal, meanwhile, make it clear her feelings on the matter with the Senior, who pointed out that he was just as uninterested in the situation as she was. Eventually, they would managed to reconcile somewhat, and while they would never be described as midnight lovers, it was clear to everyone that they had some kind of understanding. For the next few years, she spent most of her time cleaning up her parent's mistakes in Dollet and putting the family's that had wrong her in Trabia under the DeValle family's thumb.

In 2133, she heard of a family that had been assassinated by the Catorces, leaving only a young child behind. By then, she had long cut her family's ties with the gang, and enraged, she spend the next few weeks assassinating various members in ways that would look entirely like accidents - falling out of carriages, choking to death on food items, drowning in bathtubs, and worse, until the group eventually began to destroy themselves infighting.