| Doña Salvadora Veronica is the daughter of the alcalde
(mayor) of Barcino, the marquis don Rafael Rodriguez de Barcino.
When Montaigne invaded eastern Castille, doña Salvadora Veronica
was away perfecting her studies in San Cristobal, where she had become
engaged with don Lucas de Aldana. While Lucas was travelling, don
Rafael called his daughter back to Barcino and gave her hand in marriage
to the Montaigne-backed puppet governor of the ducado of Torres,
don Marcao Ontivarès de Ochoa. Although Lucas later challenged
the governor to a duel with the intent of killing him and claiming doña
Veronica again, he was turned down.
Later, in Freiburg, doña Veronica reappeared, on the run from
Montaigne enemies and very pregnant. After Lucas let don Marcos Ontivarès
de Ochoa (don Marcao's brother and hitherto believed dead) go free, she
was furious. She went in labour while visiting him at the mansion
to berate him. Melisandre helped her deliver twins but discovered
doña Veronica had been poisoned and the infants were still-born.
Then a Montaigne sorcerer and swordsman, Jacques Lévêsque
d'Aur, kidnapped her from under Lucas's nose and murdered her, sending
her head preserved in a cask of wine to Lucas to taunt him. |
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