#demmi beetletun

[archesa]

hi hi :) you made me think of personal story characters, so have a couple that you originally meet there--demmi and caudecus? @kerra-and-company

Ohhh! Two characters I never went in detail about! 😶😁 *cracks fingers* That's gonna be interesting! 🖋️

Let's start with Demmi!

She'd probably have been Elianora 's bestie amongst the Order of Whispers!

I like her character and her arc — rebelling against her corrupt minister of a father was kind of a big deal in the early PS but it's completely eclipsed by everything else until Season 3 where she just... dies?! Ex-fucking-cuse you, Logan, I thought you were a Guardian! Heal her, for Dwayna's sake!

There's another death where I was like "no, nope, never happened, she was shot, she fainted, but Meryw, Anwen and Logan did what guardians flippin' do and saved her!

As for Minister Caudecus, my beloathed!

From the very first instances of PS, we know something is afoot with Minister Caudecus and that he's sabotaging Jennah's authority under a mask of respectability, but having him as the first antagonist in LWs3 was a pleasant surprise, especially considering Anwen's background!

From a very personal perspective it went something like this for her: Minister Zammon, as a straw man for Caudecus, is responsible for Faren's abduction, which she took great care to avenge him for and let him avenge himself by picking her brother as her second for the trial by combat, so Caudecus sees them tear Zammon to pieces, and starts getting a glimpse of what he's dealing with. After the trial, the White Mantle try to eliminate Anwen, who disrupts a great deal of their operations in Queensvale — under the guidance and in collaboration with the Seraph and the Shining Blade — and discovers the truth about her birth parents fate. She makes her peace with this part of her past and keeps on living her life — once again meddling in Caudecus' affairs by exposing Minister Estelle's lies about the Queen! — and when she had all but forgotten about the Mantle, they blow up the Bloodstone and set siege against Divinity's Reach, directly threatening all that she loves again! Add to this a dear friend of hers being tortured in Caudecus' dungeons and you get a picture of how much Anwen wanted him dead.

[theleafwarden]

who's Michael?

So because I lack the funds for extra character slots and I have more side characters than I know what to do with, this asshole would be Laiari’s ex-fiance, Michael Loren Palmer, heir to the Palmers Merchant Co out in Ebonhawke, who is the nephew of Minister Caudeus Beetletun and cousin to Demmi. Caudeus had a sister who I aint bother to make. Of course, when I found out that he killed his wife, I hatched up a plan to give a very elaborate backstory to tie Laiari, Trev, and Hawke’s backstories together. 

It’s actually a shame how much thought went into their characters and I don’t know what to do with my Charr and Norn.