#as a result of such a large vocal range they are a very good mimic and do not hesitate to use this ability to pester their friends

[tracle0]

hi yes hello trade i?? have snuck around your blog long enough to appease my stray cat distance and. would like to be. friends. hello. hi. can I??? ask about atlas? i think i love them and would like to ask the highest import question i know which is to ask their feelings on Hot Drinks

I feel like I've tempted a cat in. pspspsp! here's some interactions and mild stalking, come! Friendship! Observe! psspspp!!

HI HELLO first of all can I just. Excitedly go !!!!!!! at you and also your!!! cool!!!! art!!!! from today!!!!! I'm still thinking about it!!!!! God!!!!!! His neck!!!!!!! The goop!!!!! THE GOOP!!!!! Genuinely was sitting in the bath just thinking about how you drew that. The neck especially. God. So good.

Ok ok I will continue to think about it for the next 3-5 business days/weeks depending. I'll calm down. Very cool art. Enjoyed that greatly. Tell me if you do more art pleaes I am in AWE

And yes! I can totally talk about Atlas I am also a big fan of Atlas and am always delighted to talk about that lad (Atlas)

So uh general summary in case you don't know cause I know I'm very bad at actually talking about things properly, Atlas is a cool lad/main character from my WIP The Spiders Song, which is just me taking my first WIP and spinning it into a fantasy setting. They are stubborn and proud and very firmly anti-authority, but when they decide they like you it's pretty hard to get them to stop.

They used to be a radio host in original WIP. They are no longer a radio host in fantasy WIP, and are instead a servant to a pretty insidious god, which grants them magic in the form of illusions and also keeps trying to fuck up their life from far away. No spoilers, but it was a pleasure and pain to write.

Their full name is Atlas Barnabus. This is important just because.

Their general feelings on hot drinks are mostly positive! Big fan of tea, because I wrote it, and my go-to for characters doing stuff is 'idk, make tea'

I know they make black tea with milk and two sugars

I can totally see them liking fruity teas. Apple and cinnamon, my beloved

I don't think they'd like green tea. Too easy to make bitter innit

yea

I can see them liking funny coffees. Like. Weird and wild and festive coffees that are far too sugary but mmmm tastes so good

Hot chocolate good and tasty hell yeah, make it with milk because they are able to digest milk, unlike yours truly. Whipped cream on top. Put some chocolate flakes on it, great for a chilly winter day

Most of the time, they'd probably go for a tea for themselves, but their boyfriend is more of a coffee kinda guy, so they're decent enough at making that too, because he cannot cook to save his god damn life. mmMMMmyep

I'm trying to think of more hot drinks this is a struggle uh

It's not really a drink but soup is good also. Who doesn't like soup. They make soup at the story of TSS. They do not eat the soup, but they sure do make it. Once again, they do most of the cooking at their home cause their boyfriend would burn water if given the chance.

If we're going down that route, uh, gravy? Yknow it's. It's gravy. Depends on the meal probably, but they're probably not uh. Against it.

This route is stupid. I'm gonna stop there.

So like. All in all, good ratings for most hot drinks, solid 9/10 in that department. Yea. Thank you for asking. I hope you have a good day and I will hopefully come to pester you for your own character opinions on important topics

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D&AD: initial idea, research

After many brief and dissccusion for D&AD, after thinking and researching, I chose monotype for my final decision, due to the reason that I don’t think I am good at promoting brand’s value or those kind of stuff. And monotype’s brief is more like discovering the story behind communities.

Notes from briefing

The important part is to find a community that has its value and context that has a point to be presented and celebrated with type. In the begining I wasn’t sure which kind of community they want. But I found a few stuff that I was interest in.  

In the first tutorial, I have 2 very initial ideas,  the first one is ＃This is 18, which is a project that runs by the New York Times. They asked girls to share what their communities look like all over the world.  They asked young female photographers to take photos of the girls in each place and asked them about what they like and what they up to recently or giving advice to other young women.

 I like the concept of linking every young female together and it is interesting to see what other young girls life is in completely different places as myself and found out even though they are in another country that is far away, they still have the same kind of issue when I was 18. And I also found their visual design of the website really interesting. It looks like online zine, using collage style to make gifs and there is even a spotify playlist that they collected the young girls the songs are listening to, and put them together.

website link:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/11/style/this-is-18.html

“Marking the transition from childhood to adulthood, 18 means you can finally vote, sign a lease on an apartment, obtain a credit card and buy cigarettes in the United States. In the UK, China and parts of Canada, 18 grants you entrance to a pub, while for most Israelis, it means a mandatory draft into the military. By 18, one in five women across the globe will be married. Millions will enter college or university.

The young photographers were asked to document girls in their communities – taking the photos and conducting interviews themselves, with each photographer paired with a professional mentor to guide them through the process.

Featuring 21 girls from across 12 time zones, and 15 languages, the end result is a celebration of ‘girlhood’ across oceans and cultures, through girls’ eyes – from Mexico to Mississippi, Ramallah to Russia, Bangladesh to the Bronx.” （https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/this-is-18-the-new-york-times-celebrates-girlhood-with-though-provoking-project-/）

The second idea is a facebook group that created for Asian people who living abroad posting memes and stuff that happened to them or funny things happened to their immigrant family. It entertains my life a lot since I join this group and it feels like you are not alone because there are so many people out there had similar experience and sometimes sees this negative stuff from a funny perspective. It change my way of thinking when I met something that is ignorant of culture or race. 

Subtle Asian Traits  is a Facebook group dedicated to Internet memes, jokes, and discussion surrounding the Asian experience in the West. Though the posts on the page cover a large range of topics, they mainly focus on Asian culture as experienced by the children of migrants. The group has over 1 million members and has been featured in a variety of mainstream news sources for its insights into the Asian diaspora. (wiki)

memes from Subtle asian traits

But after discussing with David and people in our group,  the first idea is off brief, it doesn’t fit with the ideal of the communities monotype are seeking for.  And the asian trait is at the edge of the off brief, but if I find a smart aspect of it, it could be potential but I feel like it is too board and I decided to research more for other ideas. I went back to read the brief again, and I did a bit brainstorm. I decided to focus on the communities in Taiwan, which people don’t really know about.  

Until now, in most of the Asian countries, same-sex marriage is still illegal. Even though society is more open to different sexual orientations than before, there are still many narrow-minded people. In 2017 the Taiwanese top court decided that not protecting same-sex marriage is against the law, which will make Taiwan the first country that legalized same-sex marriage in Asia.

A panel of judges at Taiwan's top court are hearing a case that could make the island the first place in Asia to introduce gay marriage.

The case has been brought by a gay activist as well as municipal authorities from the capital, Taipei.

Taiwan's parliament has also been debating whether to pass laws that would allow same-sex marriage.

The movement has split society and prompted a conservative backlash, with vocal protests in recent months.

A panel of 14 justices are hearing arguments and will debate whether a line in Taiwan's civil code, which states that marriage is between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39376423

But it also brings a huge conflict between a group of people who are homophobic and call themselves Family Guardian Coalition. They are trying to stop Legislative Yuan, which is one of the five branches of government stipulated by the Constitution of Taiwan, from changing the original law to all gender. Instead, they are hoping to make another special law for same-sex marriage which is not truly equal, because that would be creating a separation once again. Their ideals cause even more people who already don’ t understand LGBTQ have wrong impressions of them and may even go against them. They used fake news and spread it out in group chats and also sign petition to referendum against. It is an act that against human right. And the group that support Marriage equality also sign a pettition to against the Family Guardian Coalition to make another referendum to hope to remain the truly equal law. But unfortunately, they win result of referendum. It broke many LGBTQ people’s and my heart, they tore the society apart, and even cause many LGBTQ people suicide. 

The power of ignorant and fake news is terrifying and more extreme than people’s imagine. And because the Family guardian group has a certain style of making fake news, the marriage equality group people starting to make similar style of how they make fake news, instead they try to make right information on those photos so people could sent to their parents who do not quite understand LGBTQ communities and marriage quality. 

Marriage quality group information adverts(left)/ Family guardiangroup infromation adverts(right)

Marriage quality group information memes mimic family guardian group memes. 

So I present this idea to David and he suggested me to find a specific or iconic traditional Taiwanese or Chinese symbol to use it as a starting point to communicate the idea.  

I had another research which is about indigenous people’ languages in Taiwan. There are 16 main groups of indigenous people, and the problem is they do not have written characters that they couldn’t record their history on papers. They tell their story though founding member in each tribe and the main speaking languages in school is mandarin so more and more indigenous young people couldn’t speak their own language anymore, they also moved out from their villages to big cities to seek better jobs opportunities. And history and culture are dying quickly more than people’s imagine, and the government isn’t doing anything to protect their culture, because the main people in politics are Han- Chinese people. Doing anything for indigenous people does not benefit them. They keep taking more and more of their lands and limited more of the tradtional territories.

 Background: 

The original population of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, i.e. not including Kinmen and the Matsu Islands, consisted of Taiwanese aborigines, speaking Austronesian languages and sharing mitochondrial DNA contribution with island peoples of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Immigration of Han Chinese to the Penghu islands started as early as the 13th century, while settlement of the main island occurred from the 16th century, stimulated by the import of workers from Fujian by the Dutch in the 17th century. According to governmental statistics, over 95% of the Republic of China's population is of Han Chinese ethnicity, while 2.3% are Taiwanese aborigines of Malayo-Polynesian ethnicity.  Half the population are followers of one or a mixture of 25 recognized religions. Around 93% of the religious population are followers of a mixture of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, while a minority 4.5% are followers of Christianity (include Catholics and Protestants). 

The official national language is Standard Chinese, although around 70% also speak Taiwanese Hokkien and 10% speak Hakka. Japanese speakers are becoming rare as the elderly generation who lived under Japanese rule are dying out but many young Taiwanese use English or Japanese as second language. Aboriginal languages are gradually becoming extinct as the aborigines have become acculturated despite a program by the ROC government to preserve the languages. (wiki)

Where the indigenous groups mainly live. (mostly in mountain area)

I am aware of this issue because of many young indigenous people are trying to help to protect their lands and culture, and are shown on social media. But I never research that deep into this topic. After researching I felt like I need to do this project to bring more awareness to this topic. Even though I am just a nobody, but someone has to do something to start changing situation.    

I found out that president Tsai had only officially apologized to indigenous people for the first time in history and admit that before not protecting indigenous culture and lands is a mistake. She made an indigenous history justice committee to hope that they could improve the laws which to protect their rights.

President Tsai Apologized video

https://indigenous-justice.president.gov.tw/EN

But I don’t want to be too political on doing this project because it says on the brief that they don’t want anything too political.  The more I research I got more confuse and lost. 

So I try to focus on the point that they don’t have their written characters, but now they are using English letters (Latin letters) to spell and write their languages. It could trace back to  the past, when Dutch people came to colonized in Taiwan, they started to use Latin letters to spell their languages, and use to o preach Christian and wrote the first bible in one of indigeous language:  

The Sinckan language, spoken by the Siraya people who lived in what is now Tainan, was employed by Dutch missionaries to facilitate both missionary and government affairs during the reign of Dutch East India Company in Taiwan. They also created a romanized script, compiled a dictionary of the language, and taught the natives how to write their own language with these romanized characters. 

And they indigenes people just keep this way of recording until now. Although, when they once try to use Japanese characters and Chinese letters to spell out their languages through the colonized history. But it won’t match with how they actually pronounce it so they went back to use Latin letters instead.  That also causes a huge problem, because the main language Taiwanese use is traditional Chinese letters. People aren’t familiar with Latin or English letters. The government used to refuse them to spell their original name in their languages. The government forced them to have a Chinese name and only until recently they could use Latin letters to register their name in the official document.

There are so much could be done to protect their culture and languages, they are the owner of this island and sadly, no one is respecting them. Their culture is so beautiful which are sustainable and loving the motherland, which is the stuff we need now due to climate change and capitalism. who are we to force them to fit in the “modern society” which took away their identity. 

Sinckan manscirpt ( right)of a land selling contract with chinese letters(left).

Bunun symbol for their calender which recorded when to hunt or when to harvest.

Paiwan snakes pattern.

16 tribes logo pattern design 

Kavalan’s textile pattern.

Atayal knit their characters in textile which represent number.

Atayal illustration.

Taiwanese indigenous groups are famous for their unique patterns, every tribe has its own special patterns of textile or symbol to present their spirit.

So I try to research more about indigenous people’s pattern to try to find insight and common to build an idea into my design. But I found out that it is so difficult, there is no website that recorded officially or clearly. There are also various meaning and story behind each group and their patterns. The lack of information made it more difficult and I spent too much time to research, now I don’t really have time to work on it. All of their languages are almost completely different. My first idea is to present 26 Latin characters with their 16pattern but the number isn’t right. It doesn’t make sense and I don’t want to be inappropriate to use their pattern or symbols.

I message one of the facebook pages which runs by the indigenous people that how can I design and find a common point to make my project happen. They just told me to talk to the tribe which is kind of impossible because I can’t go back to Taiwan now.

And I think of an idea is, their common is they have their own patterns and symbol in each group, so what I could think of is making an example of how they could create stamps in their patterns and those patterns could make it into both Latin letters and Chinese letters.

Caculating using 16 tribes as main point and create 26 latin character. (idea 1)

Linocut idea sketch.(idea2)

[entilzhafiresong-blog]

Angst Questions Part 1

Entilzha’s answers to the first half of angst questions from @ lady-baratheon! You’ll probably pick up something new even if you know him well; shit I’ve been him 6 years and hadda think on a bunch.

1. What’s one experience your character had that made them very afraid?Entilzha's wife Valeria died giving birth to his 7 year old daughter Ysandre, whom had a stillborn twin turned wrong, resulting in the death of her mother. Entilzha has only Ysandre and desires a male heir to carry on the 11,000 year old Firesong bloodline, but has been hesitant to remarry largely because of another pregnancy. 

2. Does your character have a deep and/or dark secret? If so, what is it?

Well, I can't give them all out, but his magical addiction being at a much higher level than most blood elves is something he generally keeps to himself, as he sips triple-infused arcwine - hints. 

3. Have they ever lost a loved one? What happened to them, and are they the same as they were before they lost them?

Every Blood Elf over age 12 will answer this as "Yes", but Entilzha was more recently shaken by his wife's loss stated in question 1. The deaths of his parents and grandmother were never recovered, and uncertainty over their fate, whether or not they were risen as undead and continue to suffer, haunted him deeply for years and prompted him to go to Icecrown to face the scourge, fearing their unwilling service. No record of them existing as Forsaken or Death Knights  turned up, and when Entilzha was back in Ashal'Thalas, he received a sense of solace during a family ancestral ritual, that leads him to believe his parents and grandmother are not actively suffering. Their loss emphasized the sense of duty he was raised with to House Firesong and Quel'Thalas, though the loss of his wife Valeria is the most recent and deepest wound Entilzha carries, if he seldom speaking of it.

4. Has your character ever been hurt or betrayed by someone they thought they could depend on? What happened?

Yes, though the IC/OOC waters are murky and as I don't recognized powerplayed events, I consider that an OOC thing. The deepest sense of betrayal Entilzha encounters is Sin'dorei whom place the Horde before Silvermoon, elves he sees as traitors, or deeply misguided at best.

5. Would they ever turn on someone they just met in order to save themselves?

If they aren't of Highborne blood, without question. To clarify that I do not advocate real life racism, as Thalassian culture is very ethnocentric and xenophobic, and Entilzha is from a conservative region of that state; Ashal'Thalas is a coastal enclave only accessible by sea or portal, and though small (only around 2k elves live there, mostly woods), his family's lands suffered only minor damage in the invasion, and Entilzha would place his seven year old daughter, his duties to Ashal'Thalas and House Firesong, and vision of Quel'Thalas, as paramount to the life of one he views as of a lesser bloodline. 

If the person in question is Thalassian the waters get murkier, also Highborne and Nightborne but Entilzha hates seeing Sin'dorei and Quel'dorei die (especially when they kill each other), and would do anything possible to avoid this outcome, but at the end of the day if 2 people walk in a room, and only one is coming out, Ent has too much left to do and people whom need him for it to be anyone else, though he'd probably just make a portal for them both, and wouldn't casually dismiss the life of a non-elf as meaningless, but  it lacks the dilemma (Side Note: Thalassian culture is based on an extremely isolated and xenophobic culture, and I strive to roleplay that accurately. 

(I take issue with people who throw around the real life term "racist" in a video game where pretty much everything is divided by race; they are biologically distinct species, and it would be fundamentally wrong to play a 350 year old elf from a conservative part Quel'Thalas, a nation he seldom left until it was sacked, as a modern politically correct cosmopolitan person, is not true to lore. Please don't mix in real life racism. I feel like this is more an issue with ally side high elves (where sadly the RP is in a sorry state with some of the worst people I've ever met taking a Pandaren shit on lore), and more accepted as just the cultural fact is is on horde side, but as people IN ths game toss around the R word and people who don't even know what a Blood Elf is may read this, had to extra clarify there). 

6. Have they ever committed a crime, or something they felt was wrong? What was it?

Crime yes; during the Ghostlands Restoration effort, Entilzha recognized the need for druidic aid, and sought out the Cenarion Circle, although Quel'Thalas had chosen not to accept their aid. This was kept low key and there were a few Kaldorei among them which violates Quel'Thalas law, though Entilzha views not accepting help restoring the Ghostlands as morally justified. He's worked undercover which naturally violates the laws of those he was spying on, and as a noble has used the range of secrets, blackmail, extortion, and the occasional murder to protect House Firesong, though having survived a number of assassination attempts himself and learning of the nasty side to nobility from his father Xarian, Entilzha views acts necessary to safeguard House Firesong and his immediate family, his daughter Ysandre and sister Salandra at present, as the most necessary, followed by what is necessary to safeguard Quel'Thalas. 

He takes no joy in suffering, but somewhat of a Machiavellian view at least as pertains to his family and his people; there are situations he would sacrifice himself. And nobody said anything when I took those bottles of arcwine, so that's not stealing, right? 

7. If your character was allowed to murder one person without any consequences, who would it be and why?

Entilzha despises those whom pit elf against elf, and holds a special hatred for orders and "leaders" whom increase division for personal power. There are a number of RP actors in Silvermoon Ent would not hesitate to kill, but they'd be replaced without their counterpart to drive the wedge; and the purge of Dalaran needs to be punished. 

Lore characters, Vereesa Windrunner and Jaina Proudmoore, and while I despise Jaina, I'd kill Vereesa because if the Silver Covenant collapses and the "exiled" High Elves lack leadership it ought make more return home as Ent desires. In terms of roleplayers, along those same lines, Silver Covenant leadership, namely Aeriyth Dawnsorrow. 

8. Does your character have any enemies? If so, who and why?

Lots. Entilzha  is vocal about opposing Silvermoon's membership in the horde, advocating reconciliation with the Quel'dorei, and restoring the Ghostlands as part of a return to full sovereignty. Given the state of the Ghostlands, this is not a priority for many in Quel'Thalas, and he considers Dominion of the Sun and others whom actively slay for the horde and widen the Sin''dorei-Quel'dorei gap for personal power as enemies of the highest order. His feelings about the equally extremist High Elven, pro-Alliance Highguard are similar, two halves each benefiting from the death of their kin, and two large and powerful enemies for one minor noble. Good thing Ent's good with wards and usually has guards. And snipers. Watch out. I mean it. 

9. Is the character a victim of abuse?

Not any more than any other Sin'dorei. His withdrawal from the loss of the Sunwell was especially bad due to his higher addiction level.

10. What were the character’s parents like? What was the affect the parents had on the character?

Entlzha's father Lord Xarian Firesong was a Magister as himself, in the tradition of House Firesong. While the Lordship of House Firesong is hereditary, the traditional leadership of Ashal'Thalas' Circle of Mages, which Xarian and most of Entilzha's Thalassian paternal ancestors held, is not, and must  be recognized through skill in the arcane. Entilzha's first century or so was extremely demanding with  full time schooling from age 7, until he was named a Magister of the Sunwell at 114. 

Xarian and Entilzha had little time together, and while the path of a leywalker is both of Entilzha's own choosing, the loss of the Sunwell, and advancements in his work, his tireless approach to the arcane and magical mysteries, was instilled by his father, as was the necessity to respect magic. Xarian enjoyed fishing, and it was one of the few things him and Entilzha, whom retains the hobby, did together, and Xarian spoke deeply of his sense of duty to the people of Ashal'Thalas, speaking of them as extended family with an obligation to protect, as well as the duty to maintain both House Firesong's ancient bloodline and governance of Ashal'Thalas, and to do what is necessary. Entilzha's style as Lord Arcanist heavily mimics his father whom was his earliest role model for both, and Xarian's deep sense of duty to his House and people and dedication to the arcane live on through Entilzha. 

Entilzha's mother, Ranger-Captain Ariella Firesong, bucked typical tradition in joining the Farstriders, and not taking the Sun Crown, the Matriarchal head of House Firesong and governess of the capital of Ashal'Thalas, Bal'adeni. Entilzha's grandmother, Sun Matriarch Sarenthia Firesong, held the crown until she was slain with Lord Xarian, whom were at the Sanctum of the Moon when the invasion struck. As a child, Entilzha was fascinated by his mother, whom made time for her son and daughter, but as a Farstrider, a Ranger-Lt. for most of Entilzha's life, she was away for long stretches, and as the sense of duty to House Firesong sunk into Entilzha, the sense that his mother was not fulfilling hers to gallivant in the forest while his grandmother had handled the endless diplomacy and noble politics for over four centuries by the time of her death.

Sarenthia pushed Entilzha's sister Salandra to be prepared for the Sun Crown, and while Salandra did much of the actual legwork by the time of the invasion, the crown was not passed until after, likely for political reasons, as the Sun Crown often is donned by a Lord's wife, and its unavailability would have dampened Entilzha's marriage prospects. By tradition, his mother would have passed the crown at Entilzha's wedding or upon the birth of his first child, though the division of powers in House Firesong grants substantial powers to the Sun Matriarch, powers a younger sister whom had prepared for centuries and held only briefly, may not be inclined to part with, and aside from death, the crown is passed only by will, and has been retained over convention in past situations. 

Entilzha has since given his mother much thought, and realized that she served House Firesong and Quel'Thalas in her own way. As he came to understand that the bond Rangers share with nature is as profound, perhaps even more than, his own arcane gifts, and that in pre-invasion Quel'Thalas, Ariella had no reason to believe Salandra would not grow up to succeed her, and do so likely far better than a woman who yearned to be outdoors, not at endless balls and formal affairs. 

Salandra was more than prepared for the crown, as her current strength shows, and Ariella serving as a Farstrider meant much to the Emberstriders, the Rangers of Ashal'Thalas, whom generally serve a period among the Farstriders before returning to guard Ashal'Thalas, as the central defensive force of the pre-invasion era, were often overpowered by the towering Dal'felo "Firestar" Tower, and the accolade which went to the magi of Ashal'Thalas, while the narrow sea border with the Amani peninsula was kept safe by the Rangers. After his parents death, Entilzha read one her mother's diary, and her connection to the the Emberstriders meant much to her and to them. 

Ariella is the parent Entilzha was most concerned about, as she fell near Sylvanas, as he was hold, and what became of her any many of her rangers is well known. He's since ruled out her existence as a Dark Ranger, and with ancestral guidance, has a sense she's at peace, though looking back at his mother, and at the balance between arcane and nature Thas'alah maintained, very much wishes he could speak with her, as he saw her little in the decades prior to the invasion. 

11. What are your character’s coping mechanisms?

Spellweaving. Entilzha will poke at leylines and experiment with runes and formations for days on end to keep himself busy. He focuses in leylines, wards, illusions, and portals, each aspects of the arcane that are mercilessly unforgiving, and demand full concentration, pushing aside what was there. Reading can fill such a role, though not as effectively as the meditation Entilzha requires several hours per day to maintain inner harmony with his high arcane levels. 

He smokes thistle from a hookah and may consume more arcwine than is the norm if under much stress, but recognizing his arcane addiction tries to avoid that route, since assuming the Lordship while Entilzha was only briefly married before Valeria fell, he has had at least one consort in the Dal'felo Spire more often than not. 

Though if something is bothering Entilzha, the best recipe is the company of the few elves he truly trusts, his guard captain Israai, Jandissa, scribe and consort, and Morgane Devaux, a Nightborne arcanist Entilzha met during the Suramar Campaign, helping her escape from her Felborne-turned brother, and regain her family regalia. Morgane is older than Entilzha by much; she was born in Zin-Azshari and while her beauty and intellect fascinates him, he doesn't view Morgane in a romantic light, but she's come to be his closest and most trusted friend, likely the first elf he'd go to. 

12. Do they like to suffer? Like to see other people suffering?

Entilzha says quite plainly that to suffer is to be Sin'dorei, accepting such as the shared sacrifice of his people. The enemies mentioned previously, and some others Entilzha would shed no tears seeing suffer, though as retribution for their deeds he views as evil or unjust; Entilzha does not enjoy suffering, received or given, and when he's handed down death sentences, only three occasions, he's used an overpowered spell to kill them virtually instantly each time. He will however do what is needed to make a captive share what he needs to know. Lord Firesong is proficient at mental probes, but such is an imperfect art, and torturing captive foes, last practiced on any scale when House Firesong took captives early in the Iron Horde invasion, deeply confused and seeking answers. He got his answers, but as a means to an end. 

13. What does it take to make your character cry?

Entilzha last cried when his wife Valeria died, doing so as he held her dying hand. He typically hides his emotions, especially those that may be perceived as weakness, having learned from his father that a Lord cannot appear weak or he will be weak, is more likely to react to sadness either via anger or isolation. He would certainly cry if his seven year old daughter Ysandre died, though in such a tragedy would likely appear stoic and only further hardened in public, perhaps expressing such deep feelings in private.

14. What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

I'm not sure if this is a flaw or just a preference, and may well stem from the only true love he'd had, having known and grown close to Valeria while she mended House Firesong's wounded in the Ghostlands Campaign, he grew comfortable having her at his side, completed, and struggles with relationships that involve prolonged periods of time apart. Since Valeria, Entilzha would not involve himself to another without a time commitment, if not on the level of Valeria, though being in a relationship and alone most nights, Entilzha finds disheartening, a sign of rejection if indefinite. He understands duty well, and can certainly love someone whose time is limited, as his own is, but Entilzha would never claim being a Magister more important than one he wanted to marry; they occupy two entirely different spheres, and as a relationship awakens the feelings of loss Entilzha went through with Valeria, he found attempting a relationship with a Farstrider and then an Argent cleric, both elegant Sin'dorei, but with so little time, his sense of rejection grew stronger. This has impacted Entilzha but I am not sure if it's good or bad, as he wants someone who will be there for himself and his daughter, doesn't require that they be with him all the time, but that a partner share the sense of priority he does. Entilzha doesn't view wanting someone whom makes being an active part of his life and Ysandre's as a negative, but intimacy reopens wounds from Valeria, wounds loneliness does not comfort. 

15. What is their biggest fear? What in general scares them? How do they act when they’re scared?

Entilzha's biggest fear is losing his daughter Ysandre, followed by the possibility he will never love another close to as he did Valeria. Pragmatically, he fears the Undercity, with their population slowing going insane, plague weapons. He had feared that the culture of Quel'Thalas would erode from such unprecedented and prolonged contact with "savage" races, but sees the Sin'dorei maintaining their pride, and does believe they will be free of the horde while he lives.