#marquise of serault

[stainedglassserault]

original Serault worldbuilding posts

Putting Serault, the River Last, its vassal villages and other rivers on the map:

LINK HERE to the original map post. This reference is made out of a cropped piece of the high resolution map by the wyrd sisters.

LINK HERE directly to the map in a new tab, which is where if on desktop you should be able to see the higher res details. Sometimes I have to refresh the link to make it work.

Villages with vassal 'barons' or chevaliers managing them for Serault include: Castanafeu, Guenoles, Pastulaire, Lud-dans-la-Brume, Plaine Dorée, Champlevé, Gothivallon, Bellitaneaux, Chateau Estival (this one actually less a village, more a dragon research station)

Villages which are vassals to Alyons include: Val Colline (which exists in canon), Lys-en-Champs, and Ton Chemin. And I am imagining they have vassals in the Heartlands too under the same Marquisate but not contiguous with the rest.

LINK HERE to where the villages and decisions are described & discussed.

Rivers listed and discussed HERE

There are many smaller and unlisted hamlets and farmsteads, collections of charcoal burner huts, creeks, streams, ponds, with or without names, scattered around.

My story set in this version of Serault is HERE.

To be updated.

[nam-imperii]

RAPHAËL DE BOUGAINVILLE:

-Orlesian

-Marquis of Serault

-The Shame Of Serault, Marquis Sylvaine De Bougainville, was his ancestor. Being a powerful wizard, even in death a shadow of the Shame manages to visit Raphaël in dreams occasionally

-Raphaël dislikes those dreams and always refuses him, blaming him for the fall of their family

-Raphaël mother, Cristhine, was an Evil Orlesian Standard and abused him to study and be racist. Little Raphaël wanted to make everyone happy but he was still not racist, only studying hard and a continued "yes mother"

-Raphaël father was usless. Raphaël mother was basically a barbie villain love is for peasants is her song

-Raphaël owned a big orange cat who looked always angry when he was little... His mother killed the cat to punish Raphaël once.

-Raphaël never took part at his mother funeral and becomed the Marquis of a ruined land. He needed years only to put Serault out of the ruins

-When the Mage Rebellion started, he sided with the Chantry in hope of having the Divine blessing and the family name restored (and also because he's still an orlesian noble and victim of chantry propaganda)

-This doesn't stop him from having his magical great-grandma in his palace because yes she's the apostate daughter of the Shame but she's still family

-Succesfuly restored Serault name and lately supported the Inquisition

-Despite having supported the chantry, when the war ended he offered Serault glass to tranquils to study and a sanctuary. Some of the tranquils decided to accept the offer and Serault glasswork combined with their work made Serault incredibly rich while the tranquils where being cured.

-A good player of the game but his true passion is writing history. A true ravenclaw

-Becomed more comfortable with magic after the war, now that the free mages where free to do the fuck they wanted and live where they wanted

-The new Divine Victoria I (Leliana) made him create new glass windows for the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux so obviously Empress Celene requested the same shortly after and Raphaël becomed an important Marquis in court

-The Alienage of Serault is one of the few alienages who aren't slums and elves live a good life.

-A big supporter of Empress Cèlene, especially for her work on the University Of Orlais

-Romances Krem in Inquisition

-The bambooze is his spirit animal because they're incredibly smart and engage in politics in their tribes but are also very protective of their family

-Insufferably orlesian sometimes

[stainedglassserault]

Colors of the Serault heraldy mentioned in this passage:

"Your guards draw their swords, a narrow line of Serault green-and-silver against the pressing tide. Your chevalier-commander spurs her horse forward. The sea turns. Parts. You follow her between the crush of faces, twisted as the gargoyles perching on the chantry, and up to the Chateau."

[stainedglassserault]