Revenge is Sweet


 * "'Know that there was once a Scarlet Witch of Anvil. And that she cast aside that role, was exiled, and found a new purpose. But there must always be one like her, one that holds the knowledge of betrayal. Who has been betrayed in their heart, and will betray in turn.'"
 * "―Thrynniril Ael'druin"

Elvyria Roman (neé Elvyria Asteria), known in her later years as the Blood Matron of Scion, was a female Breton vampire turned Matron of the Blood Pact during the Covenant Wars and the Queen of the Covenant, ruling over the remnants of the Scion vampires and the territories her husband, Bor Roman, gathered in his conquests. Prior to the Covenant Wars, in the Second Era, Elvyria was a servant of the King of Daggerfall, who was exiled of the court because she was turned into a vampire. After Asteria withdrew from High Rock, she traced the steps of her fate to Cyrodiil, being drawn to the forces that were giving strength to the vampires, a prelude to the opening of the Oblivion Gates. In the years following her arrival, the Oblivion Crisis took place and she played a small part in its conclusion. Eventually, she met with a vampire of great power that foresaw her future and entombed her, only to be awakened centuries after.

After much having suffered because of her nature as a vampire, she started to hold a mild abhorrence of her condition, and of how breeds were used by Molag Bal to his own ends. Found by a Prince, Kydonius Therin, and reawakened, she went under the guise of the "Scarlet Witch of Anvil", joining his knightly Order of Light. Therin saw her as having the potential to bring his plans to fruition, and took it upon himself to "rescue" Asteria and train him in his own views. Even as Therin orchestrated a war in a political setting that was too morose against the threat of rebel cells in the North, he continued in his attempts to mold Asteria—and those that followed him in the Order of Light—into his own image. He eventually raised Asteria to the position of spymaster of the Order of Light, using her foresight to predict the actions of the enemy armies and counter them.

Therin's blind faith in Asteria's power would lead him to assign her to the dangerous mission of infiltrating the Dark Brotherhood. Shortly after the Battle of Bal Oyra, in which she participated, Asteria traveled to Riften and convinced the political masterminds behind the Covenant to accept her entrance in the Brotherhood. Although she was accepted, the Brotherhood knew where her allegiances truly lied and soon ambushed her, imprisoning, torturing and raping Asteria. She was only freed by the intercession of one Bor Roman she had met at a party days before, whom illegaly returned her to safety in Cyrodiil.

Although free from the clutches of the Dark Brotherhood and the Covenant, she grew disillusioned with the Empire and, most importantly, with the now Count of Anvil, Kydonius. Traumatized from the events that had befallen upon her in Skyrim, Elvyria found comfort only in the illicit visits she received from Bor Roman, whom she had discovered to be an important political figure in the province she had just managed to escape. Unable to resist his allure, and unwilling to remain a servant to the man that had sealed her fate by sending her in a mission without expectancy of success, she eventually abandoned the role of spymaster in the Order of Light and abandoned Anvil in Roman's yacht. They eventually developed into a romantic relationship, going so far as marrying and having offspring.

Afterwards, she ruled Dawnstar alongside Roman for the rest of the war. At one point, she was approached by Lamae Bal to take her place as the Blood Matron of Scion, the destiny the forementioned vampire had foreseen for her centuries before. Holding nobility not only in the courts of Skyrim as her husband rose to the position of Bandit King of the Covenant, but also as a Matron to a cult of vampires, she helped train and instruct some of the most notorious warriors of the Free Armies of the Covenant.

Early life
Throughout the days of the Three Banner War, Elvyria was raised to a mother and father in the great city of Daggerfall. Her mother, a baker, and father a smith for the soldiers of the Daggerfall Covenant. After a tragic incident in her adolescence that caused the loss of her friends, Elvyria turned to serving her king as a small bandit control enforcer. For years, she battled off the Red Rook Bandits until their numbers dwindled to near nothing, defending her King with honor as a young woman nearing her adulthood.

At the age of eighteen, she encountered her lost friends outside the Daggerfall walls to discover their vampirism in a feast around a pile of bodies. Guilted into being turned, Elvyria returned to her people only to be exhiled for her crimes; her king was too weak to execute her himself, and left her with nothing but a strike to her cheek that would leave a scar along her left cheekbone. For years she fell back and forth into working with her long lost friends and fleeing from them and their worship of Molag Bal, which eventually lead to a vampire named Verandis discovering her. She trained under him in the ways of controlling her hunger and working amongst humans again in return of service of protection.

Their time was short in terms of a vampire's life as Verandis later sacrificed himself to Molag Bal to save mankind. Elvyria was alone, again, and turned away to live in Solitude. She was encountered by a vampiress who gave no name nor purpose who gifted her with a higher purpose, but told her she must sleep. In doing so, answers in her reason to exist and awaken would be given to her in dreams, and while Elvyria was confused, she had nothing to lose. She fell into a deep sleep that lulled her into the Oblivion Crisis to which she aided in closing the gates, but she made no great remarks in history to be remembered. Again, she was entombed and forced into sleep, not to awaken until the late years of the Civil War within Skyrim.