MatrixOps

Links to:

Judith Aillard-Ridenow

• a.k.a. She is called "Stepwitch" behind her back by some of her stepchildren.
• Age: 49
• Marital Status: Married to Lord Martin Ridenow
• Occupation: Wife, Stepmother, Nuisance
• Former Occupations: Widow of Lord Elhalyn, the former Lord of Stone Haven, Stepmother to Auster Elhalyn y Lanart, the current Lord Stone Haven
• Residence: The Ridenow Estate
• Laran gift and laran training: Minimal laran, nearly headblind
• Politics: Pro-Comyn (don't get her started)
• Personality: She is intelligent minded and very used to getting her way and knows how to achieve it. She likes knowing other people's business and thinks it is her business to know it when it is not. She can be sensitive, she is very attentive to her husband, and she adores her youngest stepson, Rory Ridenow, and her stepson from her previous marriage, Auster Elhalyn y Lanart.
• Strengths: Intelligent, creative, can put together wonderful parties, and cares for those that care for her.
• Weaknesses: She has a quick temper that is set off easily. (Also see "Personality")
• Combat training: None
• Horseback riding: Very little. She prefers to travel by carriage.
• Appearance: She has very dark red hair with very few gray streaks, gray eyes, tall and slender, very graceful and statuesque, with the poise and beauty of the Aillard women. She takes care of herself and looks younger than her age.
• Romantic relationships: Her second husband, Lord Martin Ridenow
• Friends: A few friends from her childhood
• Pets: None of her own.
• Hobbies: She enjoys embroidering and her work is considered beautiful.
• Other Information: Judith was a younger Aillard daughter who knew she would not inherit much so she married Lord Elhalyn who was taken in by her beauty the moment he saw her. She was happy at first and she adored little Auster and treated him as if he were her own. But her happiness slowly diminished when her husband found out she was barren after several tries to have another child. Her marriage became cold and barren but her relationship with her stepson grew and the became very close as her husband treated Judith and Auster with more and more coldness. Finally her husband died but her close bond to her stepson, Auster remained. Four years after her husband's death she met Martin Ridenow. She recognized him to be a kind and loving man, which is what she felt she needed most in her life.
• Family Tree: Aillard
• E-mail: LdyKeara at aol.com
• ICQ #
• AOL IM: Ldy Keara
• Darkover website:
• Non-Darkover website: