Valentinhide

Summary

Valentinhide is one of the eight beings imprisoned to power the Barrier. She is a high-sky or dark-sky figure associated with betrayal, lethal gaze warnings, Hannah Joy’s erasure, Bridged and Bright, and the old mage-school expedition. Her palace lies in a deep-sky domain on the crimson moon, and fragments or manifestations of her have appeared in a prison dome, Invar’s armour, and Eliana’s dagger. Valentinhide is distinct from Valenth Cardonal; earlier spelling collisions should not be treated as an identity merge.

Known Details

• Day 32 preserved Valentinhide's Betrayal; Day 34 skull visions showed a featherless female associated with Throngore and darkness.
• Valentinhide is one of the eight beings imprisoned to power the Barrier.
• Day 36 named Valentinhide and Kasha in relation to void elemental bargain terms.
• On day-42, a ring voice addressed Invar as wearing the ring of the betrayer, and Lord Bleakstorm described Bridged’s sister as nasty trickery, Valentinhide.
• On day-43, the Benu book and scroll warnings preserved One more glance a death dance, one brief look last breath Took, In her stare Bones laid bare, and In her gaze the end of days.
• On day-44, Geldrin saw Valentinhide killing Ennui’s wife, and Tale of Two Sisters described Bridged as the low sky and Valentinhide as the high sky whose position caused the void to open.
• Valentinhide held Hannah, said Bright had shown the party too much, and said Hannah had been wiped from time and space.
• After the party returned, they no longer remembered Hannah’s name, only an image of her turning to dust in a cave.
• On day-47, Palace of Valentinhide described her palace as forged in the deep sky, in a domain outside mortal realms, on one of the moons, the crimson, with walls of faces she does not have and unbreathable air unless visitors bring their own.
• The same book says Valentinhide exploited a loophole to remain at her palace when the gods were banished to another plane.
• Later on day-47, an accidental portal opened into a black corridor in Valentinhide’s house; the party saw Valentinhide, passed out, and Morgana heard Eliana while feeling cold hands on her shoulder.
• On day-51, a featureless figure in a prison dome said it was no one, lost, once part of Valentinhide, and that Thomas put it there and took what was there. It linked the elemental planes, pacts, world creation, the Vessel of Divinity, gods, and lostness.
• The same Day 51 figure answered Eliana’s question about why everyone thought they were a Hartwall with: “Because you are.” Joy warned not to trust it because it took her mum, but Dirk’s ancestors gave a positive response to letting it out.
• On day-52, a night-sky-serenity part of Valentinhide was described as a small shard of a powerful creature. Reuniting it would soften Valentinhide into a goddess of destruction rather than a mindless road-murdering force.
• Bridged would take the gold Valentinhide, smash the orb, and release her to Bridged.
• On day-56, Valentinhide appeared reflected in Invar’s armour, and a tapestry showed five wizards plus an invisible Hannah Joy-like woman whom Dotharl could not see because he knew she existed.
• The Grand Towers control room had Valentinhide’s statue attack Dotharl, Valentinhide’s prison unlit, and later a Valentinhide-related display showing an Attabre symbol and deactivation. The replacements thought Eliana may have stopped a statue trick and referenced my daughters / Lady Evalina Hartwall / Mama Hartwall.
• The prison index identifies her prison as Valentinhide’s Prison.
• Day 58 identifies the long-haired woman reflected in Invar’s armour and moving in Eliana’s dagger as Valentinhide.

Related Entries

• Valenth Cardonal
• Hannah Joy
• Bridged’s Doors
• Valentinhide’s Prison
• Riversmeet Menagerie and Old Mage School
• Known Passwords and Inscriptions
• Minor Items

Open Questions

• How do Valentinhide’s descriptions as Bridged’s sister, Bright’s sister, high-sky queen, and prison entity fit together?
• How did she kill Ennui’s wife, and what did Ruby Eye know about it?
• Why was Hannah visible if she was wiped from time and space?
• What are the faces in her moon palace walls, and what does it mean that she does not have them?
• How did she avoid the gods’ banishment, and is her house connected to Hartwall’s portal network?
• What did Thomas remove when he put the lost part of Valentinhide into the dome?
• Why did Joy say this figure took her mum, and why did the ancestors still approve releasing it?
• What does the gold Valentinhide orb contain, and what would Bridged do with it?
• Why did Valentinhide appear through Invar’s armour and Eliana’s dagger, and what does the Hannah-like invisible woman in the wizard tapestry imply?
• What does the Attabre symbol on Valentinhide’s deactivated prison indicate?
• Who are the daughters and Lady Evalina Hartwall / Mama Hartwall in the replacements’ comments?