Alissaundra Kinsington

Alissaundra Grace Kinsington
Since birth, Alissaundra had proven the very epitome of her station as the baby of House Kinsington. As a child she was often doted upon by her parents, William and Catherine, as well as by her eldest brother, William II. Her other brother, Aidan, had taken the role of the perpetual antagonist. While Will adored her, Aidan always seemed to find a way to cause her grief or tease her relentlessly. Even so, Alissa adored them both and looked up to the three men in her life for nearly every comfort in her early years.

Even though her brothers and father held so much of her affections as a child, there was one figure that eclipsed even her most beloved of kin...her mother. A lady of grace and propriety, whose kindness was matched in her lifetime only by her exquisite beauty. The day her mother taken from her haunts her dreams to this day. Alissaundra was six years old, making Aidan 11 and Will 16. Her memories are scattered, but they linger still.

As the Earl of Somerset was faced with the challenges of running his household without his wife at his side, he became more a stranger to Alissa than ever before. Perhaps she reminded him too oft of the love he’d lost to the grips of the sweating sickness. In the years to follow Aidan and Alissaundra grew closer, their loving brand of taunting now focused upon a newly stoic and fiercely focused Will. And so they would live as an incomplete family, loyal to one another to the point of obsession as they each healed their wounds in their own way.

As time moved on Alissaundra found it increasingly difficult to find her place in the world. Will was fast becoming the pride of Arathor, with Aidan close behind him save for the people's contempt for his temper. Alissaundra was left to endure her mediocrity apart from the greatness of her siblings. With each passing day she finds herself a bit more, despite the lack of a mother to guide her hand.

The eighteen summers of Alissaundra Kinsington’s life have found her full of beauty and wonder, awaiting her fate with open arms...and open eyes. She now spends her days in study of the healing arts, taught the ways of The Light by a wise and wonderful lady who has since passed into night.