Alain deVahl/Description

A former Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State, Alain was a diplomat before she was taken. Her Durance lasted nearly a millennia in Arcadia, but only a few days back home.

The disorientation was staggering, and she suffers profound memory loss about her pre-Durance life, as well as her Durance itself. As that made it all but impossible for her to carry on in Chicago, where she'd lived for nearly a decade, so she cut ties, and moved to Philadelphia to start over again.

Although her memory was foggy, her references were sterling, and she rose through the echelons of regard and reputation in Philadelphia's high society and local political circles as a well-to-do, impeccably manicured director of a regional charity foundation with, it's rumored, deep governmental and political ties.

She has a reputation for keeping to herself when the lights go down, but is by no means unkind; quite the opposite. Prominent enough to be called a "socialite", she's cultivated a dedicated social media following and sometimes disseminates her thoughts on current events.