Ailene Welsch

Ailene Welsch is the second child and only daughter of Ciaran and Joanna Hapley.

Childhood
Ailene, the only girl in a family of boys (and a mother who had a less-than-ladylike childhood), was an enigma to Joanna. Ailene loved new dresses, sitting primly and beautiful old songs detailing lost loves. She looked remarkably like her maternal grandmother, Marin Bear, something that her mother could have done without. Ailene did retain one facet of her mother's personality; her impeccably fast wit in taking her brothers down a peg or two.

Marriage and Children
Ailene was sent to Crayfish Point when she was fourteen years old. Her father had arranged a marriage between her and nine-year-old Hostram Welsch; the young lord.

The marriage took place in 1052, when Ailene was eighteen and her young groom thirteen.

They had three children; Hostmore, Hamish and Hostra.