Public Description

A recent addition to the Court of Amber, this passionate, petulant young woman has seen a fast rise, from her status of ward of the Queen to her current position as Royal Trump Artist. While little is known of her past before her arrival at the Court, shortly after Andreas attempt on Dara, her life in Amber, which she rarely leaves, has been an open book ever since, and her short-lived, stormy romance with Merlin has been the delight of the gossipmongers. A familiar presence both at the Castle and in the City, she is a fervent amateur of theater and concerts, and finds moments of solitude sailing or riding in Arden.

Trump Image

Ariadne is standing in a corridor of the oldest part of the Castle, tall and willowy, wearing red and black, an elegant, if somewhat old-fashioned dress with a round neckline embroided with gold and long sleeves flowing down to the ground. Her dark, heavy hair cascades upon her shoulders, framing the smooth features of her face, underlining her slender neck, unadorned by any jewelry.

There is a hint of awkwardness in her posture, her back too stiff, her hands nervously held in her lap, as if she wasn't used to pose. Curiously, the artist has taken efforts to picture her embarassment, somewhat at her disavantage, but Merlin, as one can recognize his seal at the bottom of the card, has been known to play this sort of malicious joke in the past.

Yet he didn't manage, or wasn't willing to extinguish the sensuality in her face, the passion barely contained under her gauche poise, the smile that almost seems to show upon her lips. Her eyes look straight at the artist, warm and curious, full of untold promises, and maybe the slightest innuendo of mockery, and whoever holds the Trump is left with the eerie impression to intrude in the intimate face-to-face between the model and the artist, painted for posterity on the pasteboard of the card.