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For the ask game: Vigilant and Nightingale. I was particularly interested in hearing about Chantilly Leice and Melka, but feel free to switch around to other characters if you prefer!

WHOOO YEAH I get to talk about Melka! I like their story cause it's somethin different than what I normally write. Vigilant will be under the cut.

Also ignore why the pics are blue, it was to help me find it easier in the massive sea that is my phone album roll. The letter was to also help me and the reader see each different letter is a different conversation.

Nightingale-If the player wasn't the DB, what would they be doing?

CL would be doing what she's trying to do now, put the DragonBorn legacy behind her, focus on her family (hubby, 3 adopted kids and her 3 dogs), keeping them safe and go about her typical business like DBH contracts, being the Listener, Nightingale and Guild Master, building connections for the Theives Guild and occasional jobs for the Companions and EETC. She does it all. She is also the Arch-Mage so she does the rare jobs for them like killing the anomalies or dealing with some rogue wacko wizard (based on cut content I found on UESP). She also does the occasional odd mercanary job for the Bard's College (I expanded upon it on her story and added a new NPC/someone who had a past with her). She takes up odd jobs as well as our player does in game. Currently her goal is to explore every Nordic ruin, every dank dungeon on both Skyrim and Solstheim. She dislikes the Dwemee ruins due to how loud they are (her Lycan senses amplify sounds).

Melka would be doing what they were before they found out they were the DragonBorn, mostly work for the Companions and helping Kodlak find a cure for the Beast Blood. Melka's story is that they aren't from Skyrim, they're from some other unnamed land where humans had to live underground cause above ground had too many dangerous monsters, along with dwindling resources. They eventually leave that place and travel around until finding Skyrim. They love the cold weather and eventually found themself in the company of the Companions. Most of the other ingame guilds aren't their jam nor do they have any interest in them. When Melka finds out some of the Circle are werewolves, they refuse the Blood. In Melka's land, 'transformation magic' is an evil corruptive magic that permanently turns the human it 'infected' into a monster after some time. It's given by a being of higher power (read, NOT a god, not Aedra or even Daedra), and at first it seems good. It gives the human strength, power, all the things they need to survive. But beings of higher power have no interest in bettering humans. The 'boon' uses the humans body as a host, and eventually the 'monster that was always inside claws its way out'. At that point the human isn't human anymore, it's a monster and must be killed like one. Skyrim challenges alot of Melka's previous opinions and views on various subjects, one being transformation magic, aka the Beast Blood. When Kodlak confides in Melka that he along with Vilkas and Farkas want a cure, somethin impossible where Melka is from, they offer their help in any way they can.

Vigilant-Do your characters follow any religion, deity, do any worship?

CL is very clear in that she does not worship any being, no Aedra, Daedric Princes, beings of higher power like Sithis, ect... However that doesn't change her situation. She is still the Listener, killing souls for Sithis, she's still a werewolf that chooses to keep the blood even after knowing there's a cure, she's still done favours and has various boons from Aedra and Daedric Princes like Mara, Dibella, Kyne, Sheogorath, Sanguine, Meridia and Hermaeus Mora. She's aware doing acts for them is still doing what they want, but she does it 'out of necessity'.

She will place no offerings at alters or shrines, she will not spread the word or teachings of someone, will not bear their symbol, doesn't invoke the name of someone for power, follows no religion, does no prayers. She also doesn't like Akatosh cause she hates being the DragonBorn, so she has a bone to pick with him.

Melka is from a land where there are no gods. Gods are simply faceless beings from a child's bedtime story, they were never real and still aren't. Even coming to Skyrim Melka still doesn't believe gods are real, and, you can't really blame them. Their world was ravaged by monsters, yet these gods of Skyrim have done things to help their followers? Where were the gods in Melka's land? What have the humans done to never be allowed help from these 'so called gods' of Skyrim, or Tamriel, or anywhere? Why did no gods look upon these humans, clearly struggling to survive, their population becoming increasingly low, near extinction levels and never offer them help or made themself known? So Melka is a bit spiteful against gods. For a while they don't believe in Daedric Princes either. But here's the thing about Daedric Princes, they actively make themself known to mortals. They wander among them in disguise, they speak to their followers, they show them their domain and give them power. Sure you could argue some Aedra do the same things, but they certainly don't do it on the same level as Daedric Princes.

Even when told about the Beast Blood, Melka thinks Hircine is nothing more than a being of higher power giving mortals transformation magic and corrupting them. Fighting feral savages doesn't help, it further proves to them the Beast Blood is a curse and that everyone who has it, Kodlak, Farkas and Vilkas included will all fall victim to it. One day they won't be able to turn back, they will be a monster forever.

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Ginseng Thorn-Summons would dislike everybody. Many of my characters are someway or another associated with Daedra; CL with Hircine, werewolves, Nocturnal and Nightengales, Desdemona with Molag Bal and vampirism, Stalleo-Io with Azura, Vanta Iris with Boethia and Nocturnal, 404 with both Boethia and Mephala. 404, CL, Desdemona and Vanta Iris also acknowledge Sithis as another power in the world. Only 404 worships him but the others treat him with respect and acknowledge the force he can have on the mortal world. I think Ginseng would only get along with Nel Burn-Steel and even then Nel isn't above stealing or killing for a greater good. Nel just keeps it to a minimum.

Even thou Leif keeps himself away from Daedra, Ginseng still wouldn't like him due to his aggressive views on the independence of Skyrim and his choice to be so very pro StormCloak. In return Leif would not like Ginseng simply because she is a Legionaire. He will only be respectful to her face cause she served in the Great War but still won't like her.

Ginseng would very strongly dislike Chantilly Leice and Desdemona cause of their grey morals and especially Des for how loose to no morals she has. In return Desdemona would say that Ginseng is a goody two-shoes who needs to get the stick out of her ass and loosen up a bit, go commit some crimes with that suppressed rage in her (Gin's) heart, and she's right, to an extent.

CL would be okay with Ginseng and respects that Ginseng is tryin to be a good person but admits Gin needs to let go of some of her personal rules if she wants to make it in Skyrim.

Despite CL's grey morals, she would open Ginseng's eyes to see not everything is so black and white. CL is a werewolf Harbinger who chooses to keep the blood but will absolutely refuse to pass it on and will lead the Companions in the honourable sense Kodlak wanted them to be led with. Ginseng is terrified of anythin Daedric related so if she found out CL was a werewolf she would try to kill her. It would take alot of time and honest discussions but Ginseng would learn that not everythin is so cut and clear, people add facted views and choices to the situations they were put in.

Electra and CL would get along well. CL would look out for Electra in battle due to her age cause CL has a soft side for the elderly (Electra is almost 500 with some grey streaks and visibly looks older). I think their personalities would mesh well despite their MASSIVE age difference (CL is 30 at the beginning of her story. Not a she's 30 in elf years but like 300 in human years. She's a literal 30, both in age and looks. She would age like a regular human for the most part but around 40-50 her looks would stop aging and get very very slow).

Technically Vanta Iris and Stalleo-Io exist in the same universe and they get along well. However sometimes their views clash and this later causes a divide in the friendship.

Leros doesn't really care, he just wants to keep to himself. Braun would get along with CL as they are both Theives Guild members so they share the same views on that.

Random prompt for my fellow Skyrim enjoyers:

How do you guys think your Skyrim oc's would react if they were in the same universe together?

Just a wiiiiiild thought I had recently lmao

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They all run like scared little rabbits

Run rabbit

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my tattoo, by zob rombie @ holy bones, leic, england

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Analog Athens, September 2024

A roll beginning at Omonoia

Leice IIIf, Industar 61 52mm f/2.8, Ilford HP5+ @ 800 ISO

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MORTAL SANCTUARY

Summary: The one year 'anniversary' of Astrid's betrayal weighs heavy on the guilty conscience of Listener and Matron, Chantilly Leice.

Content warnings: Paranoia, regret, betrayal & guilt. Canon events, violence and death. First person PoV.

Context: I know Arnbjorn is scripted to die in game. In my story CL arrives just in time to save him. Everyone else dies thou.

Fun fact there is actually in game a NightShade plant by the escape tower. It's inside Solitide by the gate of the tower if you were using it to go outside. It's near the food stalls.

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"You're part of the Family, after all. This, as you can see, is our Sanctuary. You won't find a safer place in all of Skyrim."

"Our Family, my dearest. Our Family."

Eight years. Eight years ago you told me that after I was recruited into the Dark BrotherHood. Family, safety. For seven years I was part of your 'family'. For seven years I did as you told. I served, and I killed, and I was part of your family. In some strange twisted way, you became the closest thing I ever had to a mother figure in my life.

But just like the people who were supposed to be my parents, you sold me off. A year ago you betrayed me. You saw me as a threat to your authority, your leadership. Years of loyalty meant nothing to you. I was nothing more than leverage in the end. And I still wasn't enough. My one purpose to you, my one final use, and I failed that as well.

I couldn't save them all. I couldn't save your family. I barely had enough time to protect the ones that survived. I am forever grateful for the ones who did, but I am forever haunted by the memories I have of those who didn't. The memories I have of them are tainted, thanks to you. I lost them. They're dead. It's my fault they died.

Do you know NightShade grows in areas associated with death? Areas where dead bodies lie. Places where someone was killed. Caves and homes that undead vampires inhabit. The exit tower you told me to take after poisoning the fake Emperor.

Some grow outside both Sanctuaries. There were always a few outside the Falkreath Sanctuary, even years before that day. Now, there's five more plants. Festus Krex. Gabriella. Veezara. Lis. You.

They others are doing well. Arnbjorn, Nazir, Babette, Cicero. There's been three new recruits since then.

I'm not doing well.

When I see a flash of black and red, my blood runs cold. Fear pumps through my veins faster than any drug could take affect. I instinctively reach for a dagger and search for a shadowy corner to drag them off to and slice their throat out. It's usually not a Penitus Oculatus agent, but there have been the rare times it was. Too many times for my comfort. What a sick irony that the BrotherHood and Oculatus uniforms share a similar colour scheme.

I'm constantly terrified that I'll loose them. That I'll come back to the DawnStar Sanctuary one day to find it ablaze, or that I will arrive far after the embers have died down, and find their charred corpses. That once again I will be too late to save someone.

They are the closest thing I have to a family, and I'm terrified at the thought of that. I'm terrified that if I say it aloud, if I think about it too much, they'll die. They'll be killed. And it will be all my fault again.

You were an idiot thinking you could go against somethin more powerful than you. I was a fool thinking I could allow myself to have a family.

Now I carry the Blade. I'm the Matron and Listener. Maybe it was supposed to be this way. I knew for years the way you ran the Sanctuary was wrong. Abandoning the Tenets, disregarding the Night Mother's authority. My authority, as Listener.

But what I wouldn't give for everyone to alive today. Arnbjorn said the others were already dead by the time I arrived. But that doesn't prevent me from thinking what could have been. If I was just a little faster, if I left a bit sooner.

I'll never have a family again. I can't allow myself to have a family, to cars for someone, anyone, like that again. Not after what happened that day. Not after you.

I hope you're happy with your decisions. I know I'm not with mine.

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Thanks for the tag!

I've been makin playlists for some of my DB OCs so I already have some lyrics in mind.

I won't do all my OCs or even all the DB ones cause this post will get too long.

Chantilly Leice & Ginseng Thorn-Summons▪︎Hero by Mountains vs Machines

You could be a hero

But here you are

Scared of your shadow

Looking at the stars

When everybody runs you gotta stand tall

Hit after hit, you can never fall

When the world comes crashing down you'll take the pain

You could be a hero

You'll find a way

Every battle led you closer to today

But you gotta keep fighting

Gotta stay prepared

Gotta give it your all before its too late

This is your moment

It's time for you to take it

There's more songs associated with them but this was the one I thought of first. I could go on and on about them.

Tagging @friend-of-giants @rosette-dragonborn & @ghostfacedbat

OCs as Lyrics

Hey all I decided to event this tag to get folks talking about their ocs and their favourite songs

Rules: Pick one of your favourite songs and assign a lyric that you think suits them, you can do as many ocs as you like!

Tagging: Since I invented this tag I get to tag everyone hehe @sheirukitriesfandom @akaviri-dovah @dirty-bosmer @thequeenofthewinter @nerevar-quote-and-star @your-talos-is-problematic @kartaylirsden @lucien-lachance @crysdrawsthings and if I missed you and you want to do this, consider yourself tagged <3

Song: Francesca by Hozier

Theodora: In any life // If I could hold you for a minute

Valeria: How could you think, darling, I'd scare so easily?

Rochelle: My life was a storm, since I was born // How could I fear any hurricane?

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Ciel bleu / uelb leiC, 2024

Par Axel Cormont

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SE Staffel 1 Rewatch (Folgen 34-38 / Halbzeit 🥳)

Guppy: "Die Schüler legen Wert darauf, dass sie alle an dem Schilderdiebstahl beteiligt waren." - Wolfert: "BanDeNKriMinALitÄt!!!!!" Er ist so ein Clown manchmal 😂

Oliver hat ein Straßenschild geklaut und kann mit einem Dietrich umgehen. Kann verstehen, dass Nadine sich instant verliebt hat, das waren zwei der coolsten Skills, die man damals auf dem Dorf haben konnte ✌️😄 Aber SE hat es schon wieder gemacht: zwei Figuren, die vorher nix miteinander zu tun hatten, sind jetzt plötzlich im Fokus, weil sie sich offenbar verliebt haben. Wann ist das passiert? Und warum durften wir das nicht sehen? (Trotzdem find ich die beiden ganz cute zusammen. Gibt mir auf jeden Fall mehr als Budhi/Katharina oder Weber/Pätzold.) Tine mal wieder die Coolste, wie sie Oliver Tipps in Sachen Liebe gibt! An Olivers Stelle hätte ich auch sie um Rat gefragt. Aber Wolf ist natürlich auch Experte, wenn es um M��dchen geht. Nicht. But nice try 😅

Iris will eine Diät machen. Sie ist 12!!! 😭😭😭 Bitte sag ihr jemand, dass sie das nicht machen soll und toll so ist wie sie ist. Bitte! 🙏 (Und Katharina ist zum tausendsten Mal gemein zu ihrer "besten Freundin". Kann Nadine der vielleicht mal wieder die Leviten lesen? Ist ja nicht auszuhalten...) Ah ja, Atze übernimmt es, Iris zu sagen, dass sie toll ist. Er ist richtig lieb 🥹 Und er braucht auch genau einen Satz, damit sie die Diät aufgibt. Irgendwie nehmen die mir das Thema nicht ernst genug. Klassische SE-Lösung eines Problems: wir sprechen einmal drüber und dann ist es geklärt. Unbefriedigend.

Die Spannung zwischen Pascal und Guppy ist genauso schnell gelöst, wie sie aufgetaucht ist (auch hier ist ein Gespräch absolut ausreichend). Ich find Pascal als Charakter so komisch, keine Ahnung, wo sie mit ihm hinwollen. Er ist schrecklich selbstgerecht (das hat er vielleicht von seiner Mutter gelernt, die fand ich bei ihrem kurzen Auftritt auch ziemlich unausstehlich), aber wie bei Katharinas Verhalten wird das zwar immer mal wieder angesprochen, aber es gibt dadurch keine Entwicklung, sondern es geht nur immer wieder im gleichen Schema von vorne los. Weird.

Wölfchen gründet eine Mittelalter-AG und ich weiß, wer da als erstes drin säße, wenn er damals davon erfahren hätte: Heiner Zech ☺️ Sie wären best Mittelalter-Buddies gewesen und hätten gemeinsam über die Askanier fangirlen können ❤️ (Ich freu mich aber jetzt schon ein bisschen drauf, dass Tom mit seiner Theorie zu dem alten Stein, den sie gefunden haben, Recht behalten wird. Nachdem Wölfchen ihn so von oben herab behandelt hat, hat er den Dämpfer verdient. Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall, Herr Doktor! 🤓)

An Stelle von Olivers Mutter würd ich echt bald schreiend weglaufen. Ich find sie mit ihrem ständig jammerigen Tonfall zwar auch ein bisschen nervig, aber Herr Schuster ist so ein Ignorant. Und jetzt schmeißt er sich auch noch an die neue junge Mitarbeiterin ran 🤢 (Linda selbst ist aber glaub ich eine coole Socke. Mit ihrer Fahrradbegeisterung erinnert sie mich ein bisschen an Ava ☺️)

Uuuuund, ich bin bei der Hälfte der ersten Staffel angekommen!!! 🥳

Meine bisherigen Highlights:

- Herr Pasulke, ganz besonders die Alexandra/Pasulke-Freundschaft

- queere Dorfgang (Vera included)

- Guppy als Schulleiter

- viele cute kleine Mini-Stories (Wolfert klaut Pasulkes Fahrrad, das Mäuserennen, die Aquarium-Sache und natürlich die wholesome Karaoke Aktion ❤️)

Nicht so überzeugend:

- kritisches Verhalten wird nicht reflektiert, sondern einfach hingenommen, "dass das eben so ist", auch wenn es sich immer wieder wiederholt (besonders bei Katharina, aber auch bei Pascal, Olivers Vater, Wolfert und anderen)

- heikle Themen werden angeschnitten und mit einem einzigen Gespräch für immer aus der Welt geschafft

- die Basketball-Story war Panne

- die Aram-Sache hätte man heute sicher auch anders gemacht

- Die Kinder sind mir für manche Sachen einfach zu jung, da hab ich ein schlechtes Gefühl beim Anschauen. Das geht bei unnötig leicht bekleideten Szenen los und endet bei Beziehungen und Küssen. Ich bin ganz froh, dass das heutige SE die Kiddos nicht mehr im Alter von 12/13 Jahren in Liebesgeschichten schreibt, sondern die für die Älteren aufhebt und offenbar auch ausführlich mit den Darsteller*innen vorher drüber redet, was sie sich vorstellen können. Ich weiß es natürlich nicht genau, aber ich hab das Gefühl, dass das damals nicht passiert ist 🙁 und die ständigen oben ohne Szenen sind einfach richtig überflüssig...

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Woman can't stop won't stop putting herself in dangerous situations wether it was her own doing or not. Also has identity issues.

Describe your fic but poorly:

Woman goes home and fights with self about falling in love with broody man having a tantrum. Boinking ensues.

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Edward Despenser was fortunate in making a prosperous marriage to a tenacious businesswoman. Elizabeth (de Burghersh) was skilled at upholding her rights on the estates and worked hard to protect the lands of her two-year old son after Edward's premature death in 1375. There is abundant evidence of her willingness to maintain, even augment, the enormous Despenser inheritance and she combined shrewd business acumen with a clear awareness of the problems that a long minority could bring. This was a time when widows, as well as wives left at home during military campaigns, needed to be able to manage property. The French noblewoman Christine de PiZan wrote in The Treasure of the City of Ladies of the need for preparation for this task- 'they should have the responsibility of the administration and know how to make use of their revenues and possessions ... [and] they will be good managers of their estates'. It was a call for female entrepreneurs, and Elizabeth Despenser was a woman after Christine de Pizan's heart. The trust that her husband placed in her is made apparent by his choice to remain in Italy when Bartholomew Burghersh died, trusting his wife to look after the enlarged patrimony. Ten Suffolk manors fell to the Despensers - Carlton, Middleton, Clopton, Little WeInetham, Blaxhall, Swilland, Witnesham, Cock-field, FenhaH and Chesilford - together with Ewyas (Heref.) and Bosworth (Leics. ), and the patrimony was greater than it had ever been.

After Edward's death Elizabeth vigorously pursued lands farmed out by the crown and within five years recovered control of Shipton, Burford, Sherston, Kimberworth, Caversham and Great Marlow, collectively worth over £100 per year. She also obtained seisin of lands of her Despenser relatives, Gilbert (d. 1382), and Thomas, her brother-in-law (d. 1381). From Gilbert came the keeping of Broadtown (Wilts.); from Thomas various Lincolnshire lands and two-thirds of the manor of Mapledurwell (Hants.), which she later demised to her esquire Henry Yakesley. Via her daughter Anne, married to Hugh Hastings, came the Norfolk manors of Gressenhall and East Lexham. In 1392 Elizabeth obtained the wardship of Peter Veel after the death of his mother Eleanor, a tenant of the Despensers in Glamorgan. She held onto this as long as she was able, and it was fully ten years later when Henry IV ordered her to release the lands to the heir. In the meantime, Elizabeth had convinced Richard II to re-grant the Irish manor of Killoran, county Waterford, that had originally been held by her husband. At the same time, she had to contend with paying out two major annual sums. The first came in 1378 when £200 from the farm of Glamorgan was ordered to be paid to Sir Degary Says. Says had sustained losses in Aquitaine and also made forced loans of gold to the crown for the upkeep of the English armies, and King Richard's regency council decided that recompense should be made from the Despenser estates. The second came two years later, when Edmund earl of Cambridge, son of King Edward III, was awarded Thomas Despenser's wardship and 500 marks per annum. from Elizabeth's dower lands. Shortly before his death Edward Despenser spent his final military campaign in Brittany with the earl and it is possible that an arrangement was made at this time about Thomas's guardian. In 1384 Richard II gave permission for Thomas and the earl's daughter Constance to be married, and Elizabeth was then required to pay for her daughter-in-law's upkeep. Some idea of the considerable annual turnover of the Despenser estates may be found from documents dated between April and October 1391, where expenditure on annuities alone totalled 1016 marks (£677 6s 8d).

Elizabeth was vital to the continuing presence of the family in the last quarter of the century. Had she remarried after 1375, her dower lands would have been demised to her new husband and the Despenser inheritance impoverished. As it turned out, the ease with which Thomas took over the estates owed everything to her tireless efforts. She continued to pay annuities owed to members of Edward Despenser's retinue, and the fact that a number of these men served the family throughout this period tells us much about the advantages of continuity in estate management. We know that she held court in Glamorgan in 1393, and doubtless did so on other occasions. Her name also appears on two charters of 1397 confirming the privileges of the burgesses of Cardiff and Neath. However, Elizabeth's longevity was eventually to cause problems for Thomas who never enjoyed full possession of his inheritance. When he died at Bristol in 1400 she was still in possession of her dower as well as her own Burghersh inheritance. Other properties, such as Mapledurwell, had been safeguarded through grants to retainers or were held by cadet branches of the family. Only after Richard Despenser's early death in 1414 was the entire inheritance reunited under his sister Isabel and her first husband Richard earl of Worcester. The survival of the patrimony was due in no small part to Elizabeth Despenser, whose efforts, in the context of incessant Marcher power struggles and the Glyn Dwr revolt of 1400-8, should not be underestimated. It is a testament to her ability in the eyes of successive kings that in 1375 and 1400, unlike in 1349, no royal justices were appointed in Glamorgan to hear pleas of the crown. Everything was left to the Despenser women. Like her earlier kinswoman Elizabeth de Burgh, Elizabeth Despenser proved the value of a dowager administrator.

- Martyn John Lawrence, “Power, Ambition and Political Rehabilitation - the Despensers”

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A collection of Simple Character Profiles

I got creative today and decided to make profiles for the main characters featured in my book Symphony of Dusk. They're pretty simple I know, but I think I got everything for a baseline description which I can flesh out later.

Character Name: Luka “Cotton” Laskyr

Age: 19

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: five foot eleven, plum hair, caucasian, heavy freckles around cheeks

Personality: Nihilistic, loyal, protective

Quirks: Has an eye for quality and subtle detail, has Insomnia and chronic night terrors, gets nervous when around overly friendly people

Fun Facts: He’s an unparalleled rifleman who once shot a hawk out of the sky while it was dive bombing, fastest reload to fire was two seconds, treats Leice to parfait whenever they go out on a date

Backstory: Cotton grew up in an orphanage in the city of Minoria as the only child who never knew his parents, this led to him being relentlessly bullied until he grew too old to stay in the orphanage. After joining the Guild of Heavenly Knights, he met Leice during a rather awkward lunch. 

Name: Aleice Serpentia

Age: 19

Eye color: Amber

Physical description: Eight foot two, Snow white hair, Caucasian (Light Tan), Red scale coloration

Personality: Curious, reserved, Outgoing

Quirks: highly protective of children, self-taught swordswoman, amateur dark mage

Fun facts: She has Ophidiophobia, refers to Cotton as Pookie Bear because of a joke he made while they were sleeping together, really REALLY likes parfait

Backstory: The youngest of the five sisters of house Serpentia a splinter group of house Nagara one of the coinciding families of Emeralis. her abusive xenophobic mother Leice was disowned after she was found having a relationship with Cotton. She later joined the Guild of Heavenly Knights full-time as a Red Hood to be closer to Cotton.

Name: Grelido Iorian

Age: 24

Eye color: Yellow

Physical description: Six foot eight, Grey Hair, Stone Skin, Grey Scale Colouration 

Personality: Laid back, Kind, Honorable

Quirks: His magma blood acts as a mood ring signaling what his feelings are depending on the color, A master of shield combat, Expert leader, and grenadier

Fun Facts: Has a surfer dude accent, is an excellent cook, has over three dozen siblings

Backstory: The twelfth child of The Maiden of Fire, also known as Maltaisa, Grelido was raised in the strict and harsh society of The Firelands where combat was second only to work in service to his father Cinder. He luckily managed to keep a positive disposition and acts as his family's supportive backbone alongside his sister, Malia.

Name: T’dor Nraki “The Decayed”

Age: 30

Eye color: Blood Red

Physical description: Eleven foot, Silver Hair, Grey skin,

Personality: Loyal, Friendly, Protective

Quirks: Can decay anything he touches as long as all five of his fingers touch with the target, Pure-Blood Incubus, Martial arts expert, Leader of The White Hand

Fun Facts: He believes in Necroeternisum a religion based around the cycle of life and death, and has extremely lanky and distended limbs that give him an unnatural gait, he is also great friends with Vance Midori. Is married to a woman named Irina, has a daughter named Eri, and a son named Elric

Backstory: Hailing from a world long forgotten, N’raki’s life was fated to be one of evil until he was saved from his life of villainy by one Vance Midori who showed him that he could use his power for good, after the death of his world N’raki was then adopted by The White Hand, a group of disfigured succubi and Incubi that helped him find purpose again. 

Name: Egg

Age: 10

Eye color: Golden

Physical description: Four foot seven, golden hair, caucasian

Personality: Caring, Protective, Cinnamon roll

Quirks: Makes egg puns, can use Lightning magic, is a gold-winged phoenix harpy

Fun Facts:  Likes reading books about birds, thinks Luka is her father despite the two looking nothing alike, will revert to an egg if she sustains too much damage, being born again after a week or so.

Backstory: A legend among the people of Emeralis, Egg is what is known as a golden phoenix harpy, an immortal creature that can not die no matter what happens to her. Although she is currently ten she has lived since Caelus created her millennia ago as a friend to the developing Maidens and Guardians.

Name: Champ Vinessa

Age: 420

Eye color: Emerald

Physical description: Six foot, Green

Personality: Loyal, flirtatious, protective

Quirks: Chromarian tactician, champion of the arena, Master of Tactics

Fun Facts: Likes jello, believes jello to be the same species as her, has a collection of different flavored jello she refers to as her family

Backstory: Born from the elemental rose, Champ has traveled Eulogy for years growing in power as a wind slime, she settled down in Chromeria and became its champion gladiator after a comedic opportunity led to her fighting and beating every challenger in her way.

Name: The Red Hood (Scarlet Grimm) 

Age: 22

Eye color: Blue

Physical description: Five foot five, golden hair, Caucasian

Personality: Solemn, repentant, withdrawn

Quirks: Likes hunting( Wolves Specifically), Has a beautiful singing voice, likes steak a lot, takes the name of however she kills

Fun Facts: She is Captain Grimm’s daughter, she’s the reason Red Hoods like Luka and Alice have their hoods, has a spirit wolf named Poro Lobos

Backstory: Born to Red and Grimm two souls belonging to The Epitaph The girl now known as The Red Hood disappeared during a walk in the woods which led her to find a transversal mirror, leading to her being trapped in the hell that was The Equestrian. There she learned to survive by any means, forging a legend once she got out as an enigmatic and cold assassin hell-bent on surviving at any costs and killing those who cause terror to the people of the lands she inhabits.

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Leonard Da Vinci’s studies of the illumination of the moon (Leic.1A (1r))

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William Dobson - Group portrait of Prince Rupert, Colonel William Legge, and Colonel John Russell - ca. 1645

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried)) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as “the most excellent painter that England has yet bred”. He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 (O.S.) / 27 December (N.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.) 9 December 1682 (N.S)) was an English army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalry commander during the English Civil War. Rupert was the third son of the German Prince Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England.

Prince Rupert had a varied career. He was a soldier as a child, fighting alongside Dutch forces against Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), and against the Holy Roman Emperor in Germany during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Aged 23, he was appointed commander of the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War, becoming the archetypal "Cavalier" of the war and ultimately the senior Royalist general. He surrendered after the fall of Bristol and was banished from England. He served under King Louis XIV of France against Spain, and then as a Royalist privateer in the Caribbean Sea. Following the Restoration, Rupert returned to England, becoming a senior English naval commander during the Second Anglo-Dutch War and Third Anglo-Dutch War, and serving as the first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. He died in England in 1682, aged 62.

Rupert is considered to have been a quick-thinking and energetic cavalry general, but ultimately undermined by his youthful impatience in dealing with his peers during the Civil War. In the Interregnum, Rupert continued the conflict against Parliament by sea from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, showing considerable persistence in the face of adversity. As the head of the Royal Navy in his later years, he showed greater maturity and made impressive and long-lasting contributions to the Royal Navy's doctrine and development. As a colonial governor, Rupert shaped the political geography of modern Canada: Rupert's Land was named in his honour, and he was a founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupert's varied and numerous scientific and administrative interests, combined with his considerable artistic skills, made him one of the more colourful public figures in England of the Restoration period.

William Legge (1608 – 13 October 1670) was an English royalist army officer, a close associate of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

John Russell (1620-1687) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1641 to 1644. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War.

Russell was the third son of Francis Russell, fourth Earl of Bedford, known as the "wise earl", and his wife Catherine Brydges, daughter of Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos. He was a wealthy man with estates at Shingay, Cambridgeshire.

In 1641, Russell was elected Member of Parliament for Tavistock in the Long Parliament after his brother William Lord Russell inherited the peerage. Russell served in the King's army and was a member of the Sealed Knot. The family had divided loyalties in the Civil War. His father had been a champion of the parliamentary cause and his brother changed sides twice. He had many aristocratic equally vacillating connections among his brothers-in-law: the Parliamentarians, Lord Brooke and Lord Grey of Wark, the turncoat Earl of Carlisle and the Royalists Lord Bristol and Lord Newport of High Ercall. Russell commanded Prince Rupert's blue coated regiment of foot, and was disabled from sitting in parliament in 1644. He was prominent at the storming of Leicester in May 1645, was wounded at Naseby and was in the Oxford garrison before its surrender.

After the Restoration Russell was commissioned colonel and captain of John Russell's Regiment of Guards which became incorporated into the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, or later the Grenadier Guards. He commanded the regiment until 1681. He enjoyed dress, dance, and music although his taste belonged to the fashion of an earlier generation.