Val Thorvald is an assassin in the service of the military. When magical creatures harm people, she deals with them permanently. The magical community does not like Val, to say the least, especially if you count all the assassination attempts, she has endured over the years. But Val is half-elf and has physical traits inherited from her elven father, which allow her to both identify magical creatures and defend against their attempts to kill her. Besides that, she has a stron