Alignment
Lawful Good
Personality Traits
Although she can come across as spoiled and naive, beneath the surface lies a genuine (though largely untested) desire to be good and brave like the grandparents she loved so dearly.
Vala has a soft spot for children and will always go out of her way to befriend them or protect them.
As Vala is beginning to witness the struggles of ordinary people, she's starting to develop a greater sense of empathy. She's realizing that she has a responsibility to use her privilege (even in its diminished form) to help others.
Flaws
As Vala has spent most of her life around seers and wizards and was trained in divining, she is extremely superstitious.
Vala's introduction to adventuring involved a shocking amount of mud, dirt, and general unpleasantness. This became a recurring source of complaint and a symbol of her struggle to adapt to her new life. It's also a constant reminder of how far she's fallen from her previous pampered existence.
Bonds
Vala loved her Grandmere, Edda Everfall, with all her heart and desperately wants to be someone she would be proud of if she were alive.
Recently, Tomlin Helder, the sole survivor of the Everfall Household and staff, has located Vala. There is nothing she wouldn't do to keep him safe.
Vala is rather attached to the noble houses she was born into (especially her grandparents family, House Everfall). While the Silvertons, and her parents in particular, were a self-serving greedy lot, House Everfall was known as a truly heroic house that served commonfolk and kings alike.
Vala loved her Maman, Amafrey, though their relationship was complicated by Amafrey’s fragile mental state and addiction to the poppy tinctures that kept her too sedated for her fits to take her.
Ideals
Heroism. Walking among regular people has made Vala realize what her Grandmere meant when she said nobles are meant to serve the people of the realm, not the other way around. Deep down, Vala yearns to become a true hero like her grandparents,
Romantic. There have been more matches made for Vala than she can count and they all reminded her of her father: self-serving drunks with grasping, wandering hands. Her Grandmere helped her slip out of every match she found distasteful and told her wistfully of her grandfather and what a good strong man he was. Vala has built a romanctic archetype based on that without realizing it.
Short Term Goals (early campaign)
Master her prophetic abilities: Rediscover the true source of her visions and learn to control them reliably.
Become useful to the adventuring party: Overcome her aversion to hardship and contribute meaningfully to their quests.
Protect & build up Phandalin: Vala's grown fond of the townsfolk in Phandalin and is desperate to help the town defend itself & increase it's foothold in the area. She additionally hopes to help usher in new leadership (or potentially a different form of government) so the town can thrive.
Long Term Goals
Secure a safe haven: Vala's ancestral manse lays in ruin and gaining the coin to rebuild and fortify it is paramount, especially now that Tomlin has been found alive. Vala feels an additional responsibility to return him to the life he was accustomed to.
Continue her line: Vala is the last of two noble houses, and knows it will be her duty to marry and bear children. She will do so gladly, she adores children, but has been given dire warnings about her fathers choice her entire life.
Deities Worshipped
Savras (Vala's main diety, whose voice went silent in 1451)
Mystra
Tyr (Vala's grandfathers god, whom Vala prays to when she believes lawlessness or evil threatens the stability of the realm and it's people)
Occasional:
Siamorphe
Waukeen (Grandmeres families god, who Vala prays to least frequently, for good fortune in trade or for increasing the wealth of Neverwinter as a whole)
