Thorned

Ophelia wasn't the most beautiful woman in the Realm... 

She wasn't soft.

She wasn't even cute. 

She was a Princess... but she didn't give off the aura of a damsel needing to be saved from a winged lizard. 

A typical Princess... one of King Adal's children, perhaps-- or the inbred nobility of the Sleeping Country... they were fragile flowers, better seen than heard.

Those Princesses, they were protected... by their suitors and husbands, by their armies of their fathers and brothers... 

Ophelia... should have had her Arcanite Prince by her side. 

She did not.

For her to survive on her own... she had to grow thorns. 

And so she took on the persona of a self-sufficient Warrior Princess. 

She trained in the Blade Dance... She developed her own style of magic, rooted in druidic knowledge and the secrets of the winds. 

She allied herself with the wealthy and the strong.