Adeline Porvis

Lady Adeline Porvis is the daughter of Baron Vermont Porvis and Baroness Ramona in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. She is known only through what others say of her: she does not herself appear while Kemp Corvus's company is in the Porvis country.^{1 2}

An absent daughter

An imperial agent who met the company on the road described her as the eldest child, a woman who wore armour and, since the house had no male heir, had been brought up like a knight. She had left home some time before with a number of the household's soldiers; why, and whether at her father's order, he did not know. Her mother told Kemp that Adeline was their only child.^{1 2}

At the forest house the baron said that his daughter was out in the countryside and that he expected the family to return to the winter house, since she did not like that country. Kemp said he was interested in the deeds of women knights and would like to meet her. When he gently asked whether she was ill or worse, the baroness answered that it was no illness, that Adeline was not at home and that she missed her but knew she was well, and turned the talk to the loss of Kemp's eye. Later, alone, she told Kemp she believed the rebels had taken her daughter.^{3 4 5}

The company wondered among themselves whether she had broken with her father, or had a gift for magic and been taken to Archon by the house wizard Klobus. Klobus himself said she was not in the town house, though he did not know exactly where she was.^{6 7 8}

Accounts of her choice

Speaking privately in the company's camp, Vermont said that the family had meant only a political movement, to delay taxes and seek talks through an elector count, but that Adeline, stirred up by grievances such as the house's loss of its castle in the past, had joined the rebellion of her own will. She was not its leader, and he did not know who was. His house, he said, no longer supported the rising willingly. He wanted assurance that she would be pardoned if she repented and swore fealty, or taken alive in battle, and feared that if she married another rebel noble it could give a lawful claim to his lands.^{9 10}

When the family was being smuggled away, the baroness again begged the company to rescue her daughter, and the baron said this was not the moment.¹¹

The household knight Kleber, the baron's nephew, said that his cousin was with the rebels of her own accord and that she was angry with her father over rising taxes and the loss of Riverguard; she might be in one of two large camps, but he did not know which. He did not think she would take up with a commoner such as the rebel leader Rainer Karga.^{12 13 14}

Vermont told the company that he had sent her away before on various errands, and that when she did not come back a letter arrived declaring her loyalty to the cause; he could not say whether she had truly written it. The idea of a marriage, he admitted, was only his own guess that some man had swayed her. He thought the family seal might have been taken from her, but did not want to believe she could have had a hand in the burning of a village.^{15 16 17}

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After the rebellion was put down, Vermont said he knew she was alive and among those who had fled, but had no word from her. Under the pardon granted to his family by the prince, she would be handed over to him if she were caught.¹⁸