Graendal

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Graendal

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Kamarile Maradim Nindar otherwise known as Graendal, is often described as fleshy and voluptuous, with elaborately curled red-gold hair. She is one of the thirteen called the Forsaken.

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She was a famous psychologist for nearly four hundred years, and was known to heal mental afflictions even use of the One Power could not cure. She was also a distinct ascetic, living an unadorned life. So much so that she thought that all who could not live to her standards were inferior. She thought that the life that most lived was simply too complicated and fast paced. Thus those who knew her had no love for her, after all, they could not live to her standards either.

There is no evidence that her change of character was brought out by the Shadow, although she was the second of the Forsaken to swear her vows. Indeed it seemed that she realized that the world would not live as she did. She became the exact opposite of before, wearing the most fashionable garments, taking the most perverse sensual pleasures.

Her alter ego, Graendal, is a creature of decadence and excess. One of the most physically beautiful women to have ever walked the earth, she habitually wears revealing clothing and expensive jewelry and keeps only the most attractive men and women near her as her servants. She is very particular about her servants, often choosing former kings and reducing their minds to empty husks. Though she has never led armies for the Shadow, she is well-versed in intrigue and Shadow plotting; her knowledge of the human mind has also led to an unparalleled skill in the use of Compulsion.