Selenia Varnel
Contessa Selenia Varnel is the wife of Count Roland Varnel and mistress of the villa at Teryk — a beautiful woman of thirty-two with chiseled cheekbones and a haughty manner.
Selenia was classically educated in Metrol, and when she is not running the household she delights in the great writers and philosophers of the Empire.
The dinner table
She hosts guests in the villa dining room at lunch and dinner, and an invitation is worth angling for. Her parties put everyone in Teryk worth knowing in one room in a good mood.
She is well disposed toward anyone bringing news of Pashlatine, whose adventures she followed and who has not written or visited since last autumn.