Rose Millstone

Rose is a member of Valkyrie Team, a division of the Office of Doomsday Intelligence, along with Sebastian Liadon, Findall Tallfire, and Felicity Wake. She is one of the four main characters in the Requiem story.

Biography
Rose didn’t grow up religious. She lived a very average life in a modest home with her parents. As an only child, she was close with her parents and loved them dearly.

Rose lost her parents when she was 9, when her home was invaded in the middle of the night. After her parents’ death, she had no idea where to turn, so she wandered through some nearby towns on her own for a couple weeks, until she was found and taken in by a priest in the church of Elayma. She helped Rose deal with her grief, and taught her how to be a healer, as well as raising her as if she was her own. The church and the community she lived in was very conservative in ideals, and as such she did not gain much exposure to the world. She has a strong sense of loyalty to her goddess Elayma and the Church of Life.

After the rescue from Tethys with her other team members and the revelation that she was in a simulation, Rose has been struggling with the lack of knowledge about her real past. Now that Rose knows that her previous world was a simulation, she holds onto a sliver of hope that her parents exist in this world too and are still alive. She justifies this hope with her belief that Elayma is a force for good in her life and will allow everything to work out.

Rose's experience with the simulation is wholly different from Sebastian, Findall, and Felicity. She was somehow released from the simulation from something or someone other than Jeff Aldefer and Justina Halstead's rescue efforts.