Nathalie/history

It is not just the Noble Houses of Terre d'Ange that are proud betimes of their breeding and bloodlines. Cereus House, the First House, has several courtesans born and bred of their own for generations, and Nathalie Vintesoir is one of these. For those patrons of Cereus who consider themselves connoisseurs of their fair fragility, her name has had meaning going back one hundred years. For she is a fifth generation Cereus, the granddaughter of a Dowayne, the great-grand niece of another. Those asked to share their bloodlines with the Vintesoir line are only the best and most promising Cereus flowers. Whether the tales that they themselves tell are true, that they trace their blood back to a mingling between Enediel Vintesoir, the founder of the First House, and an avatar of Naamah herself? Well that is a matter for debates. Nathalie maintains it is true.

Her childhood in this illustrious position was perhaps predictable. She is a modicum of discipline and hard work, and every free moment was put into her training from the time she was four years old. It began with etiquette, with graceful movement, with making every act a pleasure for the ears, for the eyes, for the soul. And eventually she flowered and learned the arts of the boudoir, though those almost seem secondary to everything else Cereus provides. She debut a year later than many Night Court flowers, at the age of seventeen. But the Vintesoirs have a history of not allowing their children into full service until they are beyond perfection, certain to do justice to the family line. She did well enough at that, making her marque in a respectable three years. No one was surprised when her grandmother chose her for her second. When Elodie Vintesoir passed away, her life-force fading along with her beauty as all things eventually do, Nathalie rose to fill her position with all of the grace expected of her. None imagined it any other way.