ALLESANDE
The Lavender Songstress
I think back on the day I lost everything.I didn't know what to do without my freedoms, and because of my vows, I didn't know what I could do. But then, I heard a certain song. And the next thing I knew, tears were streaming down my face. Perhaps the lyrics just happened to resonate with my battered heart at the time, but that was the moment I realized songs hold an intangible power that can set people's hearts in motion.So this is why I sing—because I trust in that power
to help me do what I must.
HOUSE HAILLENARTE
Requests the honor of your company
for an evening of music and dance
at the Haillenarte Manor
on the Tenth Sun of the Second Umbral Moon.
Music will be performed by the Illustrious
Lady Allesande Lemieux.The doors will open half past the seventh bell in the evening, with drinks at the eighth bell. Please bring your invitation to be allowed through the door.
She was brought up amidst the clouds and sky. Not born of this nation, but now a part of it. Her mother had given up everything to see her given opportunity. Through her mother's marriage, they saw their station rise. The man who would become her father loved her as his own flesh and blood, and did all he could to raise her up and encourage to pursue her dreams.The Ishgardians were a grim people, but she would come to admire their determination in the face of an implacable foe. And though her father had forbidden her to join the Temple Knights, she would find other ways to aid the people. Through music and song did she find her way.But though she found peace and contentment in her own way, the dream that had been inflicted upon her would not be so easily forgotten. She would return to the place of her birth, taking up the mantle of...
