#eryali answers

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⁇⁇ and ancestor edition version!

>:D 

Eryali -> Boneseer

Why won’t you leave me alone?

Who died and made you Empress of the fortunetellers, huh?

You don’t… actually buy what you’re selling people, do you?

What’s that supposed to mean?

Do… do you eat bones?!

Aioane -> Sayyid

Did you leave anyone behind when you went to prison?

Don’t you think you’ve had enough for tonight?

Do you miss sleeping on the floor sometimes?

Is it irresponsible of me to want to be with Azaron, for a while, before this whole thing goes down?

Am I doing the right thing?

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Eryali, thoughts on the descendant?

That girl ix going to die young, and mexxily. 

That may xound harxh, but xhe throwx herxelf at anything that movex and refuxex to maintain any xort of caution. How elxe could it poxxibly end?

Worxe, xhe’x acquired a HarjaX, and I know too well what the HarjaXex are. 

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Eryali: would you rather quadrant, permanently, with Hornblade or the Warlord?

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Fucking kill me now. Pardon my language, but what givex you the imprexxion I am interexted in quadranting either of them? A drunken failure of a thief who cannot leave well enough alone to xave her own life, and a loud, boorixh brawler who makex hix living through indexcriminate xlaughter? That ix no choice at all.

>You have to pick one, Eryali.

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The Warmaxter. After xweepx of lukewarm nagging, one almoxt mixxex simple brutality.

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Kronos for Neirin, Thanatos for Eryali, Hera for Aioane!

Kronos: What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever eaten?

The ſtill-beating Heart of a Troll… ‘Twas nowhere near as exhilarating a Moment as the Legends wouldſt portray it, however. I had Great Diffi€ulties in €onſuming it entirely, and I €are not to repeat the experien€e.

Thanatos: Is there anyone you just really, really hate?

Mn. Xometimex I hate the thief-girl, for her curioxity and her xnooping and her following me everywhere. But that never laxtx long. Xhe ix too pathetic and dixaxtroux to properly hate.

Hera: Are you the jealous type?

–>↑ must adm→t that ↑ am, cher→e. ↑ s→mply cannot ab→de any attempts to come between me and my beloved!

–>But ↑ also trust my beloved without reservat→on. She →s her own troll, and no one’s possess→on –> and →f she says ↑ have no cause for alarm, then ↑ do not!

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Tartarus, Thanatos for Taz! Hermes, Nemesis for Vide! Hecate, Hades for both ancestors?

Tartarus: What’s your personal hell?

TAZ: –/’m stuck -n a horr-ble landlocked c-ty TAZ: –everywhere -s crowded and everyone -s wear-ng den-m everyth-ngTAZ: –plus they’re all seadwellersTAZ: –at that po-nt just fuck-ng k-ll me tbh

Thanatos: Is there anyone you just really, really hate?

TAZ: –l m a oTAZ: –more l-ke -s there anyone / d o n t just really, really hateTAZ: –/’m not what you would call a people personTAZ: –/ lowkey hate most people / meet and some people / haven’t metTAZ: –/nclud-ng my bossTAZ: –uhTAZ: –P L A T O N / C A L LY that -s

Hermes: Have you ever stolen anything?

VIDELE: Um! No, of course not!VIDELE: SteaL-Ling is bad, and if you aren’t carefuL-L than the person you stoL-Le from comes back and beats you up about it.VIDELE: It’s just not worth it! Don’t steaL-L!

((Yes, she has.))

Nemesis: What’s a time you helped deliver justice?

VIDELE: Oh that’s… um, that’s not reaLL-LLy my pL-Lace!VIDELE: Isn’t that for the L-LegisL-Lacerators to do?VIDELE: (’Cept for… weLL-LL…)VIDELE: (I dropped snow down the back of Mister Agorat’s robe one time! ‘Cause he caLL-LLed Vatrra a harL-Lot and made fun of Jerath’s scar the first time we met, and that was mean.)VIDELE: (I was up a tree, so he stiLL-LL doesn’t know it was me! So don’t teLL-LL anybody!!)

Hecate: What do you think of magic?

AIOANE: –> Oh, cher→e, →t →s of course real! AIOANE: –> ↑ have traveled far and w→de, and ↑ must tell to you, there are many th→ngs →n th→s world that are, how →s →t sa→d? ↑nexpl→cable, by any mundane means. AIOANE: –> My beloved, she grows flowers from noth→ng! Bare so→l, a wave of her lovely hand, and there →s a stand of roses where there were none before. How →s →t that we may bel→eve th→s, and not mag→c?

ERYALI: It ix poxxible. The world ix large, and our underxtanding of it ix xmall.ERYALI: But highly unlikely. Moxt magicianx I have met were charlatanx.

Hades: Have you ever had a near-death experience?

AIOANE: –> Perhaps…AIOANE: –> ↑t →s a story best told by a f→re, however, →n the stormy dawn. AIOANE: –> W→th w→ne ;)

ERYALI: I have nearly died a few timex, I xuppoxe.ERYALI: If you think that I had xome xort of myxtical vixion during the eXperience, however, I am xorry to dixappoint.

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♫ for eryali!

Everything we stole, everything we broke,Everything we bought is gone.A couple dumb mistakes, bigger than we thought:Nothing left to do but run.If I could put it back, fill in all the cracks,Nothing there I wouldn’t change…But wishing never helps, wishing never helps,Wishing never solved a thing.

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🎁ancestors of choice >:D

Omg omg omg >:D 

Aioane gets Sayyid a custom sapphire-and-lapis chessboard, with the pieces made of whale ivory and carved to look like individual ships in Sayyid’s fleet. And a machete in a jewel-encrusted sheath with a fancy hilt. Because Aioane thinks moderation is something that happens to other people.

Earlier, Neirin gave Sayyid a harp suited to her smaller hands, which he’d made himself.

He probably never gave the Boneseer anything except their survival, because he’s horrible.Though maybe he left them like, some meat he hunted or something

Eryali is also horrible! But she may well have given Boneseer a shiny pebble, or else a perfectly articulated bird skeleton, hung in front of their cave door in hopes of spooking them when they walked out.

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Best booty for the ranking thing?

I… lol what booties? I’m… I’m not even gonna try and explain these much, but this is the question i’ve been asked and by jove I’m bound to answer.

1. Adicia. Decent booty. Maybe a solid 6/10.

2. Minthe.

3. Aioane.

4. Eryali.

5. Neirin. Pancake.

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Least self-preservation?

1. Minthe. Oh god, Minthe. The woman passed out drunk in the middle of an open alleyway just before dawn. She fell in some complicated form of love with and subsequently courted the troll responsible for the loss of her arm, while attempting to get revenge on them. She jumped off of the wall of Eryali’s lighthouse routinely. She was made of unsafe decisions.

2. Aioane probably should have not made jokes about her revenge schemes to the people she was scheming about. Also, possibly less arson and less falling head over heels for dangerous ladies… would have been better for her health… possibly.

3. Adicia was a mature and responsible adult with duties to her land and vassals to think of, and therefore wasn’t foolhardy or reckless with her life. But she did like fighting and she did like hunting and she did have more or less unlimited authority – so she took any available opportunity to just wreck stuff. And/or boarhunt.

4. Neirin was a pretty cautious dude for his time – but then, caution wasn’t exactly a defining trait of Kirog Leth culture. Maybe he wouldn’t jump at the chance to put himself in harm’s way, but he was no stranger to the adrenaline rush of, say, riding in a charge on another kingdom, or insulting a boorish member of the court to their face.

5. Despite myriad Bad Decisions, Eryali at least tried to stay out of trouble, and so claims the coveted “least deficit of self-preservation” spot on this list. That’s what happens when even the potential of getting hurt has you faking your death and moving across the continent, I guess.

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Most appearance conscious!

1. Aioane! By a long shot, tbh. She put considerable effort into maintaining her image of artful and opulent dishevelment – the sort of “my clothes are still worth more than your life, but I can afford to pass out in the dirt while wearing them” vibe.

2. Neirin liked to be well-put-together and got extremely fussy about it – right up until the point when something made him furious enough to wade into mud and gore himself. His clothes were always the latest fashion, usually from outside Kirog Leth.

3. Adicia cared about appearances only insofar as they related to how much her subjects respected her. A liege of Kirog Leth was expected to wear bright colors, lots of jewelry, and long hair – left to herself, she would probably have mostly worn deep orange/one bracelet/a few earrings, and shaved her head.

4. Eryali didn’t care about her physical appearance (except that she got anxious when people paid attention to it), but she was very conscious of how she was perceived by others. Hence freaking out at PDA.

5. Maybe Minthe had once been proud, or at least bothered to comb her hair once in a while. But by the time she stumbled into Eryali’s life, she could not care less what she looked like, as long as she got what she needed.

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💟 What is their stance on PDA? For Vide and 💓 When did they have their first crush? for Weeds uvu

[Gonna answer for their ancestors!]

💟 What is their stance on PDA?

Eryali would rather die than participate in PDA, she could not stand the thought of anyone knowing that she had feelings and relationships. =:-[

💓 When did they have their first crush?

Neirin had a pale crush as a wee bab, but it did not work out, and he left his crush behind when he went journeying to Kirog Leth.

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💗💌💖 for all three, or just the girls if you have a pref!

💗 What advice would they give a potential partner about making their relationship last if they could with no judgment?

Neirin would say that making the relationship last was unlikely in the extreme, and accepting that would be the best way to have as much fun during the relationship’s course as possible.

Eryali would say not to try to figure anything out about her, or assume that she was going to stay with them forever, or try and possess her in any way, or tell people that she exists, or claim that she’s their quadrant, or switch quadrants or– (Eryali was not very good at relationships)

Aioane would say that their political views have to align with hers, and they have to be prepared for a life of danger, since she was essentially running a long con that targeted the nobility.

💌 When was their first serious relationship?

Aioane had a kismesis that she got together with at maybe 7-8 sweeps old, and stayed with until she was imprisoned. Said kismesis did not get the memo about Aioane’s escape, and presumed her dead.

Neirin didn’t really have serious relationships, just a series of torrid flings – primarily in pitch and ash, but occasionally in the red quadrants. (The difficulty with red flings is that Adicia tended to get… jealous.)

The seriousness of Eryali’s relationships was likewise debatable, but the first relationship she had that made her panic enough to fake her death would have been when she was about… nine? Maybe?

💖 How do they say ‘I love you’ without really saying it?

Eryali’s is answered here!

Aioane lavished gifts on people she cared about, spent a lot of time with them, draped herself across them when tired, and… also made their enemies her business, often “disappearing” people who threatened or offended her loved ones.

Neirin would be more attentive to their preferences and desires, stop gossiping about them, and compose songs more in their honor than ridiculing them. But usually he avoided showing much interest! Because the only person he really, deeply cared about was Adicia anyway.

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Speaks the most languages?

1. Minthe probably spoke at least eight – being an ex-spy, she was expected to, and retained fluency even after she fell from grace.

2. Eryali was somewhere in the 3-5 range, due to hopping around the world all the time. She liked Hindi best.

3. Aioane spoke three – Imperial, French, and her home dialect of Catalan. She spoke mostly Imperial in her later sweeps, with French for the #aesthetic.

4. Neirin spoke Imperial, the Kirog Leth dialect, and whatever smattering of Mandarin he picked up from his squire Sayyid

5. Adicia spoke only the Kirog Leth dialect and did not bother to learn more than like two words of Imperial

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💖 😕 for vide!

[Gonna answer these for Vide’s ancestor, Eryali, since it’s fancestor week ;0]

💖 How do they say ‘I love you’ without really saying it?

She might tolerate you touching her, or (less likely) touch you herself – combing your hair, brushing her hand against your arm as she passed. She’d also spend more time around you, actually remember things that you tell her about yourself, and take an active interest in your well-being (despite actively pretending she’s not interested at all.)

😕 Have they ever said ‘I love you’ without meaning it?

Very, very often, to a lot of people, without many qualms. Eryali wasn’t particularly good at feelings, and would tell people their sentiments were reciprocated to avoid any hassle (and then “die” shortly afterward).

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⏀✜⌆ for the ancestors of your choice!

My choice is all the dang ancestors, all of them

⏀ describe their usual smile

NEIRIN: Proud, close-lipped, maybe even a little sly. Isn’t fond of his teeth and usually covers his mouth when he laughs or smiles open-lipped; only forgets about this when singing.AIOANE: Slightly less incredible dimples than her descendant, but exudes confidence and mystique in a way Taz can only dream of. Has never bothered to be Customer-Service-Approved™ in her life. Teeth very prominently featured.ERYALI: thin, amused smirk, usually only visible in her mouth with no effect on the rest of her face. Think Dave’s one-pixel smile from homestuck.

MINTHE (HORNBLADE): devil-may-care snarl of a grin, a bit of desperation and deep-seated misery in the eyes. Eternally bleary, because she’s eternally drunk.ADICIA: smiles easily, laughs even more so. Corners of mouth are usually turned up even at rest. Laughter-lines for days.

✜ what’s their posture like in a normal situation?

NEIRIN: very proper Bardic posture: straight back, chest thrown outAIOANE: a lazy, languorous sprawl. Will attempt to sprawl elegantly/coolly if there’s company present; otherwise just flops.ERYALI: ramrod-straight and incredibly wary at all times

MINTHE: leans against things more than she should, rarely straightens her shouldersADICIA: proud and straight-backed, if slightly bow-legged. Horseback-rider’s posture, except she doesn’t exactly ride a horse

⌆ a nervous tic or habit they do

NEIRIN: hums snatches of melody, drums his fingers, pacesAIOANE: buffs her nails on her clothes, rubs the connection between her wrist and her prosthetic hand against the edge of a tableERYALI: touches two fingers lightly to the base of her throat, smooths her hair back behind her ears, drags her teeth across her lower lip

MINTHE: drinks picks pockets NONE OF YA BUSINESSADICIA: tugs gently on whatever piercing has been most recently redone

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How would Taz and Vide feel about each other's ancestors?

Taz would understand Eryali’s penchant for paranoia and approve of it, but then she’d realize the amount of melodrama with which Eryali goes about her daily business and be… just completely flabbergasted. “Like… do you need help faking your death? Because there’s way more efficient ways to do this – wait, you’re doing this WHY? –Aaand you’re gone again. Okay then.”

Vide would be deeply horrified by Aioane’s murderous and arsonous ways but would also think she was impossibly hot, because of the teeth and the scars and the aura of mystique. She’d try and meddle politely to prevent Aioane’s schemes, slip up and call Aioane pretty, panic, pap her directly in the face –  and then Aioane would realize what was going on, be like “…no, nope, you’re like twelve, I’m not dealing with this” and ditch her immediately.