Princess Raina Arlote

Seventeen year old princess of Lote. The Flower Court has often wondered over the mental health of its princess. When she was a toddler she would obsess over fabrics, collecting all kinds of cloth and material and fascinating over their feel. The first time she ever showed interest in traveling outside her home was at seven when she requested to see for herself the process by which Fasmier's famed hosiery was made. When given any agency in selecting what education be given to her, she unfailingly chose dressmaking or related fields. As a young girl, Raina showed little interest in socializing, and in any context unrelated to her obsession she was aloof and distracted.

Fortunately, Raina's teachers were clever. First, they expanded her love of fabrics and dresses to fashion in whole, a small and fully intuitive step. Then from fashion they introduced her to the broader scope of visual art, and her attention followed. From visual art, they eventually managed to get her interested in art as a whole, and from art as a whole, culture. With painstaking, cunning effort, Raina was groomed from an overly aloof, consumingly obsessed girl into a merely eccentric young lady. But while Raina's scope of interests have improved to the point of being able to at least simulate a normal, well-rounded individual, she is still rather inscrutable and possessing of many worrying flaws, such as the inability to fully grasp either the future nor the past, seeming to live only in the moment with voracious eyes and a twice as voracious heart.

This is, in part, why her elder brother is so willing to endorse the princess' most recent scheme. Baz's fall has been world shattering for everyone, and yet for years the only part of it that seemed to really reach Raina was her father's death. This "ensoulment" project at least seems to be an acknowledgment of the workings of the real world around her, with ambition and thought far deeper than what most of the Flower Court thought her capable. All wish for her success, for Raina has few real antagonists in the courts, but most wonder if the King isn't just wasting funds on a plan doomed by the naivete of its architect.

See also, The Arlotes.

Thus far
>Raina provided the main speech at the Ensoulment Campaign's commencement and has been present for every quest's briefing. In all cases, she has provided little exposition or easily read insight.