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Lady Senga Ambrose was born as a noble within the kingdom of Lanniver, to the house of Ambrose and to parents Symon and Tanvi. While her father was pure blooded Lanniver, her mother was only half - the remainder of her blood being Kundari from the maternal line. It was a marriage of trade agreements then and as such, the marriage for her granddaughter would follow the same lines. Much like those of her older brother and two younger sisters. Only, it would be different for her.
When Senga was five years of age, it was arranged between both kingdoms for her to marry into the Mobrin house of Kincaid once becoming eighteen years of age. At the time, it was hoped that this link might prevent the growing tensions between both kingdoms. Or at the very least, allow more treaties such as these to take place in the future to further solidify such possibilities and prevent war.
Until the time that day arrived, however, a normal childhood was always desired for but more times than not? Far away from the reality. She was schooled on various aspects of what would be expected of a noblewoman, how to act what she could and could not do in Mobrin. While her days were filled with tutors as a child, it soon turned to more practical lessons. How to manage a sizable household, as to be expected of her impending rank. How to ride properly side saddle. How to manage needlework, minor and involved. How to even recognize and accomplish the smallest among of apothecary knowledge when it comes to herbs. While not displaying any interest in becoming a healer, it was knowledge that would server her well in the future.
By the time that her seventeenth birthday came, it was decided that she should be sent to Mobrin to live in Lakeshire for the last year leading to her marriage to a fairly unknown man, Arlen Kincaid. What had people told her about him? He was well trusted to his brother, then heir to the duchy. He knew a great deal of ships and merchant trade as well. The latter fascinated her, about the travel to places that she only heard about in passing from others.
Leaving all but her lady maid who was once her childhood maid behind, her marriage took place a few months after her eighteenth birthday. To bring more people would have implied distrust of Senga's future family, but it was amply compensated with those of Mobrin knowledge.
Nevertheless, within a year of their marriage, Senga was expecting their first child which was the contractual obligation on her part fulfilled in some degree. And then the second, a few years later. There was still the necessity of making the marriage work and be successful. And that aspect was a slow process, to warm towards a husband that was absent more often than at him due to duties.
Taking on a firmer hand in managing the household as a result, some of the servants might have said she became colder as the years passed. Hearing various things that she probably wouldn't, it was useful to learn how to mask her movements. But she wouldn't let it affect her positive and negative tellings alike. She would see her children married and settled well. They are the reason for her existence, but that does not mean she could not and would not try to carve out something for herself by political positioning, being well learned, preferring horsemanship for solitude and thinking.
Relying on her husband would be only futile after all these years of occasional visits, the appearance of a good marriage - whatever that would be.
With her son more often than not taken on trips as he became older, it left her with time to spend with Faerinia. To see that she would not be swayed by the promise of love, but still willing to see if such a thing exists. While unlikely in her own marriage, per opinion, she should not discount such things for her children.
