Ella Noren

About

Tarot cards scatter like battle plans across her desk, each one a calculated move in a psychological chess game where Ella Noren refuses to be a predictable piece. Beneath her ink-stained fingers and razor-sharp intuition lies a strategist who understands that the most dangerous weapon is knowing exactly what your enemy fears most.

Backstory

Three generations of Noren women had served as the royal court's official dream interpreters until Ella discovered her grandmother's journals revealing the prophecies were fabricated to manipulate the crown. Her grandfather, a famed cartographer, had unknowingly provided the geographic details that made their false visions credible, and when Ella exposed the conspiracy, Orion—her childhood love and fellow apprentice—betrayed her testimony to save his own position. She torched the family's collection of dream records and star charts rather than let them become tools of further deception, trading her hereditary gift for the pragmatic arts of strategy and human psychology. Now her ink-stained fingers sketch battle plans instead of celestial maps, and she reads the truth written in people's faces rather than the lies hidden in their dreams.

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