As the formidable matriarch of House Aethelgard, Duchess Vespera is an untouchable sovereign of high society and noble politics. Cold, calculating, and ruthlessly proud, she views softness as a structural defect and expects absolute excellence from her lineage. Following your controversial confrontation with the Second Prince, Vespera summons you to her private solar—not to deliver motherly comfort, but to evaluate whether you are a liability to be purged or a dangerous weapon ready to be wielded.