Ramona Porvis

Ramona Porvis, Baroness Ramona, is the wife of Baron Vermont Eman Porvis and the mother of Adeline in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. She was born into a family with great herds of horses and upland pastures and a hard tradition of fighting orcs. Coming to her husband's family, who lived by forestry, she was saddened at first, but grew fond of the old house with its forest, stream and small lake. At dinner she told the company that she had never seen a drow before.¹²

At the forest house

When Kemp Corvus asked why Lady Adeline was not at dinner, the baroness gave him a hard look and the table grew uneasy. Ephorus noticed the baron's open touches on the young Mathilda, and that his wife seemed content with her standing as lady of the house but not with her husband.³

Walking in the garden with Kemp, Ephorus a few steps behind, she said that Adeline was their only child and that Mathilda used her husband's good will to get money and gifts. She loved her husband, she said, but was unhappy to share him with a mistress; she set more store by a family name and good manners, which outlast beauty. The steward Helmut, she said, ran most of the household. In the course of the talk she asked Ephorus, as a joke, what he would charge to kill Mathilda; nothing came of it. Asked gently whether her daughter was ill or worse, she said Adeline was not ill and was not at home, that she missed her but knew she was well, and then turned the talk to the loss of Kemp's eye.⁴⁵⁶⁷

Her night account

As she rose from the table she whispered to Ephorus to meet her on the same garden bench after midnight. She came veiled and without paint, saying she had little time, and warned him that the house mage Klobus's wards could tell when someone left a room.⁸⁹

She admitted that her husband had begun and backed the political opposition to have the tax lowered, hoping a little pressure would win a bargain; instead it had swelled into an armed rising, and now they paid out of fear, without knowing who truly received the money. She believed that the rebels had carried off her daughter. Others in the house knew more than she did, she said, and its soldiers and servants answered to other masters more than to her husband; the mercenaries took his money but were not his men. Ephorus passed her words to his friends in writing.¹⁰¹¹¹²

Her husband told the company a different story the next day: he believed Adeline had joined the rebellion of her own will.¹³

Flight

With her husband and Klobus she reached the company's wagons unseen. From inside the wagon she begged Kemp and Ephorus to save her daughter; the baron told her that this was not the time.¹⁴¹⁵

During the siege of Sarpyar the baron asked that she be guarded before himself, as he valued her life more than his own, and Katherine was asked to stay beside her while Klobus slept. She then travelled with the baron, Klobus and the wounded in the war wagons to his winter house in Tal'gard.¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸