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Marquise Solaine Belfours was a D'Angeline noblewoman who served as the Secretary of the Privy Seal. She was allied with Lyonette de la Courcel de Trevalion, the sister of King Ganelon de la Courcel.

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Solaine Belfours attended the fête that marked Alcuin nó Delaunay's debut as a Servant of Naamah, and was one of many attendees selected by Anafiel Delaunay as potential patrons for his young charges, Alcuin and Phèdre nó Delaunay. During the fête, Delaunay manufactured a situation where Phèdre bumped into Belfours, hoping to gauge her response. He introduced the pair and bade Phèdre to apologize. Resenting her master's interference, Phèdre did so with ill grace, to which Belfours commented that she needed a lesson.

Later, when Phèdre herself began taking patrons as a Servant of Naamah, Belfours contracted her services on multiple occasions. She took pleasure in assigning Phèdre with impossible to complete menial tasks, then punishing her when she failed to finish in the time allotted to her. One such assignation was a two-day affair at the Marquise's country estate. After Phèdre failed to complete the tasked assigned to her, as was Belfours' habit, she initiated a sexual act as punishment. During their engagement, however a courier with an urgent message from Lyonette de Trevalion came. When receiving the message, Belfours read the letter aloud to herself, allowing Phèdre to overhear its contents.

The King's sister proposed that Solaine draft orders to the ambassdor to Terre d'Ange from Khebbel-im-Akkad in the hopes of stringing along the Khalif with false promises until he ceded the rights to the island of Cythera. In return, Lyonette de Trevlaion offered her a title in Azzalle with two hundred men-at-arms and an income of forty thousand ducats annually. After considering the offer, Belfours accepted on the conditions that she was given the title before drafting the orders and promised safe passage to Azzalle, escorted by de Trevalion's son, Prince Baudoin de Trevalion, and his Glory-Seekers.

The counter-offer was meant to test Lyonette's earnestness, and the agreement fell through, because she deemed it not worth risking her son in the bargain. Some time later, Solaine Belfours fell out with Lyonette de Trevalion.

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