Alianne Mindels

Alianne Mindels is the head maid of the Charleston Estate and has been for over 15 years. She knows how to run the extensive farm business of the Charleston family and helps keep Duke Nicholas Charleston organized. Prior to being staff at the Charleston Estate she was engaged to a wealthy businessman in one of the outlying villages of Asmodin. A carriage accident on the eve of their wedding killed both her husband and her unborn child. Through her own magic going out of control with her strong desire to live as she was gravely injured in the carriage accident as well, Alianne magiced herself to be immortal. This created a strong fear of her magic as she wasn't sure it wouldn't go out of control again. This fear is waning as she's been forced to use her magic recently, but it is still present. As of this moment, only King Sayoko and Duke Elijah are aware of her magic.

Biography
Alianne Mindels is the second child of Frederick and Diane Mindels. The Mindels family was a line of wizards living in a small wizarding community just outside of a city on the outskirts of Asmodin. As such her family quickly began to try to determine what field of magic that Alianne specialized in. Soon they discovered that she specialized in healing magic, but several other types of magic came almost as easy as healing was to her.

Alianne loved putting her magic to use, especially her healing talents. She healed children for free, but charged a bit of a fee for most adults. She constantly got praised for her magical talents, but unlike many kids, she didn't let it go to her head. She was friends with most of the kids her age as well some who were older and some who were younger than her.

The only person she really had a strained relationship with was her older brother Xander. He was three years older than her and was just as talented with magic as she was. The strained relationship was mostly due to Xander's desire to learn all forms of magic, including the taboo talent of dark magic.

At 13, Alianne discovered that her brother had used his magic to kill a person and then covered it up as an accident with the help of magic. Alianne got pissed at her brother for it and did nothing to stop her brother from running away from home, though she did not alert authorities to her brother's misdeed.

A couple of rather uneventful years passed for Alianne before she met Thomas Erikson while visiting the nearby city with her parents. The two hit it off and started a friendship that would in time turn to romance when both were 17. A few months after they started seeing each other romantically, both were 18 and both gave into the impulsive desire to go all the way and a few weeks later due to her own magic, discovered she was pregnant. She immediately told Thomas. A day or two afterward he asked her parents if he could have Alianne's hand in marriage and soon the couple was engaged.

On the eve of their wedding day a few weeks later, while riding with her fiancee and parents, their carriage went out of control and rolled down an enbankment. Frederick and Diane Mindels were killed instantly as was Thomas Erikson. Alianne Mindels was gravely injured and would likely not even make it without immediate action. She gained enough consciousness for her magic to work and Alianne's strong desire to live caused her magic to go wildly out of control and place on a constant healing spell. However, Alianne lost her unborn child, she is unsure even to this day if it was her out of control magic or the accident which killed the child.

Her magic going out of control like that scared Alianne to such a degree that she left the wizarding community very soon afterward and vowed to never use her magic again. As Xander had never been disowned by her parents, the estate went to Xander and as she was still not willing to attempt to find him to obtain some form of stipend for living, Alianne was penniless. She eventually found herself in the capital city of Asmodin.

Not long after she arrived in Asmodin she found herself on the doorstep of the Charleston Estate. She asked the Lord and Lady of the house if she could be hired on as staff. Whether there was a direct need for a maid or if Alianne just looked so desperate for work, Alianne found herself hired on. She was deeply in debt to the Charlestons as she didn't know what she was going to do if they had turned her away. No one else would see her or if they did, wouldn't hire her.

Alianne worked so hard and so diligently that a year later when the head maid of the estate retired, Lord Oliver appointed Alianne as head maid. She was 19 at the time. A year later she was witness to the adoption of Prince Nicholas Venomania into the family. And alongside of the Lord and Lady, also helped keep the boy in line and studying. While the Lord and Lady pushed him towards politics, Alianne did help him realize that he needed to do what he wanted to do as well. And reminded him that good politicians would have knowledge other than about politics.

When Nicholas's parents died, Alianne helped Nicholas run the farms and estate as she had learned a lot about running them from just observing the late Lord and Lady as they ran the place. When King Luca dropped off his triplets at the house, or at least attempted to drop all of them off, she welcomed the two that were allowed to stay with open arms. She quickly began to think of them like her own children and treated them as such.

During a festival one day when Princes Sayoko and Elijah were teens, she was shocked to find out that Sayoko had raped Elijah. At some point during that ordeal, Sayoko had been injured and in an attempt to not bring another scandal to the family, eventually caved and used her magic to heal Prince Sayoko. It was around this time that she discovered that Sayoko had been drugged.

When Nicholas was appointed as regent after politics forced King Luca to abdicate, Alianne went with him to the castle in order to help get its affairs in order. Neither the previous King or Queen had really done much in the way of upkeep and it needed her full attention. Now that Sayoko has taken over the thrown she pretty much lets the castle's staff run itself only coming in to help if she's needed.

It was also during Nicholas's regency period that her brother, Xander, re-entered her life having finally found her. Alianne tried to push him away, but she was unable to. She hasn't outwardly warmed up to yet, but deep down she's forgiven her brother. She just doesn't know how to let him know that. So for now she avoids him.

Career
Alianne's first job was as village healer. She loved doing the job at the time and only charged to care for adults, believing children had every right to grow up to become adults. She quit this job and left the village after the carriage accident.

She was hired on by the Charlestons to be their maid not too long after quitting her healing job and after a year she was appointed Head Maid. She's been in that job ever since.

Relationships
She's had some casual relationships as all teens do, but she's only had one serious relationship. That was with Thomas Erikson. The two had a whirlwind romance and when Alianne ended up pregnant due to their carelessness, became engaged. The relationship was abruptly ended when a carriage accident claimed the life of both Thomas and the unborn child.

She's a close friend to Nicholas Charleston. Their relationship is strictly platonic, though from the outside it could appear that they are more than just friends.

She was on good terms with her parents before they died and she's still estranged from her brother, though they do talk at times when Xander corners her.