Damelle Family
Lina Damelle
丽娜·达梅尔
Personality
Cautious, intelligent, patient, courageous. A woman carrying impossible weight with grace. She has spent her entire married life hiding what she is, watching, waiting, and preparing for the day someone would come looking. That day has arrived.
Background
Lina is the last known carrier of the Eastern Children's oral history. Her grandmother — the last elder — passed down the forbidden truth before dying: Venus did not defeat the Eastern tribe in honorable combat. Venus massacred them — men, women, and children — and the Holy Church rewrote history to call it a noble sacrifice. Lina's family has been hiding and passing down this truth for generations, along with fragments of Wood Magic that flow through their blood.
Skills
Literacy (rare among villagers), housework, herbal knowledge, Wood Magic (inherited, kept hidden), intelligence gathering
Current Status
Quietly gathering intelligence on the new priest while maintaining her role as a dutiful farmer's wife. She recognized Azriel's true nature almost immediately — not his specific identity, but the predatory focus behind his friendly mask. She is now engaged in a shadow war to protect her family without revealing herself.
Relationships
Loves her husband Gus but cannot tell him the truth — his rigid faith would either destroy him or drive him to betray her. Fiercely protective of Viviane, watching anxiously as her daughter's magical abilities begin to manifest. Has noticed Azriel's unusual interest in Dune and the Irek household.
Hidden Truth
A descendant of the Eastern Children — the tribe Venus supposedly defeated honorably, but actually massacred including women and children. Lina possesses inherited Wood Magic and can resist Azriel's Swaying Clock spell. She knows the true history of genocide that the Holy Church has covered up for centuries. If discovered, her entire family faces execution.