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* Abusive Mother: As noted below, The Keeper of the Chronicle likes to overwork her proxy-daughter and gets off on the suffering it causes her. Literally.
* Bitch in Sheep\\\'s Clothing: Unlike her twin, who is genuinely psycho, The Keeper of the Chronicle is, to put it plainly, just a bitch. She maintains an image of mildly sweet absentmindedness around everyone else (although her dojikko tendencies aren\\\'t fake), but if you\\\'re one of the women in her life, watch out...
* Domestic Abuser: The Keeper of the Chronicle does love The Lady of Betrayal. She just loves abusing The Lady of Betrayal\\\'s paranoia more.
* Parental Favoritism: The warped elements of her personality aside, The Keeper of the Chronicle is basically a younger, female version The Guardian of Eternity. It\\\'s no coincidence that she ended up with a divine duty that requires her to work together with her father most of the time.
** Daddy\\\'s Girl: Of the \\\"stepmother = Wicked Stepmother\\\" variety. Her relationship with The Goddess Mother is strained at best, partially because of her inclination toward the Fallen Lover\\\'s side of things, but more often because she will intentionally hang all over The Guardian of Eternity and behave in a catty and spiteful manner toward her stepmother.
* Throw The Book At Them: Her general response to her mother\\\'s slacker attitude. Unfortunately for The Keeper of the Chronicle\\\'s proxy...
** Not So Above It All: ...The Keeper of the Chronicle doesn\\\'t have that much better of a work ethic. The aforementioned proxy generally finds herself filling in for \\\'\\\'both\\\'\\\' goddesses...
** [[spoiler:Obfuscating Stupidity: ...however, this is only partially genuine. Like Kameril, Allarine\\\'s ability to sense her portfolio has given her a special task: she can tell when someone attempts to gain access to the secrets that she had sealed away. If it turns out the researcher is getting too close to a breakthrough, Allarine needs to be able to react quickly in dispatching her hit squad, the Archivists, to control the situation.]]

* The Keeper of the Chronicle is the Lord of Seduction\\\'s mistress. They also have one child, a daughter whom The Lord of Seduction doesn\\\'t publicly acknowledge and who serves as The Keeper of the Chronicle\\\'s proxy.
** The Keeper of the Chronicle and her daughter have a somewhat more intimate relationship beyond that. However, it\\\'s one based around The Keeper of the Chronicle\\\'s love of tormenting her daughter to the point where her daughter snaps, at which point she gets to pull a \\\"Why Did You Make Me Hit You\\\" and then move on to the \\\"comfort sex\\\" when her daughter finally breaks down emotionally.


!![[spoiler:Reien Veldarine nee Nevarii]], The Lady of Betrayal
Tropes associated with The Lady of Betrayal:
* Properly Paranoid: ...Strangely enough...
** Selective Obliviousness: ...this doesn\\\'t apply to her own twin sister. The Keeper of the Chronicle loves to abuse this fact.

* The Lord of Seduction is at the center of two love triangles, which are both also sibling triangles and type 8\\\'s:
** With The Lady of Betrayal and The Keeper of the Chronicle... For The Keeper of the Chronicle, it became a case of Unlucky Childhood Friend, as she lost The Lord of Seduction to her (later) twin. The sisters genuinely love each other, but The Keeper of the Chronicle cannot forget that fact, so she takes delight in her sister\\\'s Selective Obliviousness and abuses The Lady of Betrayal\\\'s paranoia to the fullest extent by \\\'\\\'having sex with her husband right in front of her\\\'\\\'...


!![[spoiler:Kaenia Veldarine]], The Doll Princess
The goddess of suffering and torment, of masochists and the down-trodden, and also of winter. Worship of her is, like her parents, mostly warding in nature, but with the extra belief that the sufferings (or potential sufferings) of the worshipper will be passed onto The Doll Princess. However, she also receives a passive amount of faith from any owner of a Doll (see below). The rest of the pantheon views her far more favorably than they do her parents, seeing her as an Innocent Bystander in their fall. She is her parents\\\' proxy, but, unlike The Keeper of the Chronicle\\\'s proxy-daughter, is also a full-fledged deity in her own right.

Tropes associated with The Doll Princess:
* An Ice Person
* Combo Platter Powers: Being the goddess of winter kind of fell into The Doll Princess\\\' lap by default. Her few priests have cobbled together some sort of sense out of it, but, really, it\\\'s because none of the other gods wanted it.
* Meaningful Divine Title: Twofold. The first, straight meaning is in her status as an Empty Shell: She is a mere doll, to be played with according to her father and mother\\\'s whims. The second is a Ret Con tacked on later: Her \\\"creation\\\" was the inspiration for the \\\"Dolls\\\", a line of BlankSlate Artificial Humans that are customized in appearance and personality according to the client\\\'s wishes. Thus, she is the Princess of the Dolls, and any attention paid to them is, indirectly, worship paid to her.
* The Woobie: Technically, she\\\'s the goddess of woobies...

* The Grand Guignol
** The Oubliette of Winter, buried in the mountains at the northern edge of the Endless Battlefield, is the domain of The Doll Princess. Those who end up there are sequestered in their own private cells, where they are subjected to an eternity of excruciating torture and bitter cold. They are denied food or water, and the cold and the pain make it impossible to sleep. Denizens almost never come in contact with each other, and only rarely with the servants of The Doll Princess, as they are often bound by chains of ice that keep them from even moving in the limited area of their cells. None of this is punishment. The devoted worshippers of The Doll Princess are masochists, or those who have convinced themselves they deserve eternal torment, and so the suffering inflicted on the denizens of the domain are a blessing to them, not a curse. To actually punish a follower of The Doll Princess, one would need to let them spend eternity in the comfort of the Palace of Decadence.

Thinking about various things have lead me to reach two conclusions:
* I don\\\'t really have a firm grasp on The Keeper of the Chronicle\\\'s personality. The more I think about her, the more of a bitch she becomes, but then the more it begins to seem that she doesn\\\'t really belong among the neutral gods. She keeps sliding further and further into the ranks of the Fallen Lovers without anything to balance her back. If I abandoned the neutrality requirement of being in the Celestial Bureaucracy, then I might as well make a \\\"Department of War\\\" and move The Steel Falcon up there as well. But, since I\\\'m (for the moment) keeping the good/neutral/evil divide, I can\\\'t really have a blatantly evil Keeper of the Chronicle. So, I\\\'m dialing back her bitchiness and reevaluating her character.
* The Doll Princess probably doesn\\\'t need to be a goddess. I had sort of been thinking about it for a while, but putting in the Dolls thing is what has basically convinced me -- particularly since the Fallen Lovers were intended to have a special Doll which basically serves a lot of the same purposes as The Doll Princess. So, rather than have such a redundant creation, I\\\'m focusing on The Doll Princess\\\' existance as a proxy and giving her the duties that the Doll would have performed (and it puts her on the same level as her sister, whom she works with a lot).
** The other side of it would have been to make The Keeper of the Chronicle\\\'s proxy a goddess, since she\\\'s basically the same as The Doll Princess, but she LITERALLY would be the same as The Doll Princess -- I don\\\'t have anything for her to be the goddess \\\'\\\'of\\\'\\\', except perhaps overworked employees (which is suffering in its own right). Besides, it\\\'s a little weird that the two of them work together, but the one is constantly feeding the other divine power. So, The Doll Princess gets knocked down a peg.