Selene Justina Jove is the youngest daughter of Severin and Justina Jove and granddaughter of the late Emperor Justinius. Born into the noble House Jove, founded by Zeus Jupiter, she lived a life of comfort and luxary. Her entire life had been spend in the Empire's glorious floating city, Civitas Dei, where she was taught by the Empire's finest scholars, philosophers and artists, the latter sparking her curiousity, and later, deep love for Empyrean Art. She has continued a vigorous study of the arts, focusing on the painting and sculpture of the five hundred year period on Empyrean history known as the Golden Age. Her collection of these fine works began at an early age, and now she owns one of the finest collections of Empyrean art in Civitas Dei.

Selene Jove was named after the Empyrean goddess of the Moon, Celene. Born on the night of a full moon and with the pale features of the celestial being, her parents thought the name befitting their second daughter. Selene has taken the goddess Celene as her personal goddess, seeing her as a protector for while the woman turned goddess was never a member of Jove, her gentle beams bathed Selene in their light on her birth and has always felt a pull whenever the moon rises full in the night sky. Selene's worship for the goddess never takes place in the cella where she spends time in prayer to the Kronian, but rather her vigils are spent in the night air on the roof of her house when the moon is full. Her ceremony is simple and has no set prayer. She gathers a basket of flowers, stems still attached and she weaves them into a small wreath. With each flower woven into the circlet, a prayer is spoken, eyes raised to the goddess watching from above. When morning comes and the moon fades from view, Selene returns to her room and places the wreath on a pillar before an image of the goddess, setting a candle in the center of the wreath to burn uninterrupted until the next full moon. At that time the old wreath is burned with the flame of its candle and the ashes are set adrift and a new wreath of prayers is woven again.

It was her grandfather's death that truely made her aware of the city of Haven. Certainly she had heard of it but had never much use for a city where those meant to be slaves could walk free, as equals. She left her floating city to journey to Haven, immediatly taking residence in the family home located in the Empyrean embassy.

Oddly, her love of art has also drawn her to Haven. She still focuses on the Empyre's Golden Age, but she has also began study on the style of Empyrean artists in Haven. Would they remain true to the masters of their own race or would they be influenced by the other races living in the city? She is truely hoping for the former, but fears that the purity will be destroyed as artists becin to incorporate foreign elements into her work. She has just recently taken a young artist, Devin Atriatus Malipheus, as her protege and into House Jove, hoping that the beauty of the Empyrean artistic soul will not be darkened by the city in which they live.

She has always been a supporter of Empyrean superiority, seeming arrogant at times to those who take a different view from the one she holds. She keeps slaves instead of servants, though she has never been known to treat them harshly, to her they are like young children whose minds are not as advanced as those they serve. Only one of her slaves, a mongrel girl by the name of Melora, has been taught to read and write. Melora was given to her when Selene was 17, the mongrel was only 7 at the time, but Selene realized that having a slave that could read and write would be of great help in her studies. So while other slaves in House Jove preform a myriad of tasks, Melora's only work is with Selene's study of art history.

Selene had been content with the life of a scholar, her studies had, until recently, taken up almost all of her time. But a scroll, somehow slipped onto her person while shopping wither her cousin Helena in the Rialto changed all of that. The scroll contained a poem, on its own it was beautifully written, but Selene has little knowledge of poetry, and a name contained within was unfamiliar to her. She sought the help of Pantoleon Acesius, a member of another noble house, for she had learned that he had made a study of the other races in Haven. After discussion of the poem, now found to have a disgusting underlying message, both Empyreans seems to sense a kinship of sorts, but neither made a mention of it and Selene let it pass. Pantoleon had promised to speak with her brother, Arahael, about the poem, perhaps he knew of someone who wished ill-will on the house. The Acesian did speak with Selene's brother, but the poem was not his only concern. Much to the surprise of everyone, Pantoleon asked Arahael for permission to court Selene, with her brother giving his consent. Selene was as well surprised when Pantoleon approached her with the news but happily accepted as well.

Selene's future has quickly changed from what she had always considered it would be, but this new future is one she eagerly embraces, finding that there is room in her heart for more than just her studies and her sculptures.

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