#mercer valerio

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Okay, I don’t think Poston had fully decided on which one -- Mercer or Cynthia -- was going to be Valerio-born. Obviously, they can’t both be, because they got married and had kids. Robb says that he and Ana are cousins because his mother is Ana’s mother’s sister, and it’s stated that the Valerios are related to the Armoravs by marriage, which would be consistent with Robb’s statement. 

But then Robb’s father is described as, “...thick beard and blue eyes and a lightsword on his back." (HoI, I: Iron Thief, Robb) but blue eyes are very much supposed to be a Valerio thing -- not that nobody else can have them, it would just seem sloppy to me to have an important character have this often-mentioned trait that’s better known as belonging to a family he married into. Finally, the graffiti at the tomb -- which was written when Mercer, Di, Nicholi, Meri, Selena, and Cynthia were all at the Academy and thus Mercer and Cynthia were betrothed but not yet married -- reads MV, Mercer Valerio, which would be a weird thing to do when you weren’t yet a Valerio. 

I think there was a time during the writing process where Cynthia was intended to have been born to the Malachite family -- an Ironblood family mentioned in passing, but also her and Erik’s middle name as announced at the pre-coronation ball (Erik’s middle name is retconned to Mercer at his funeral, but that’s besides the point). This would make plenty of sense as characterizing Cynthia as someone who married to a higher status. 

I think it was definitely more interesting, however, to do what Poston -- mostly -- ended up doing, which was having Cynthia being Valerio-born. It makes her idolization of the family name and motto make more sense as something she was raised on rather than married into. I also think it’s really cool to have Robb, the otherwise spitting image of his father, have a very prominent and unmistakable trait from his mother -- which matches his brother -- because that adds another layer to Robb’s relationship with his identity as a Valerio and as his parents’ son and as an overall person.

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Listening to the JATP soundtrack like

Now Or Never, Bright, The Band Is Back, Wow, Flying Solo, I Got The Music, The Other Side Of Hollywood, All Eyes On Me, Finally Free, Edge Of Great...

Wake Up, Perfect Harmony, Unsaid Emily, Stand Tall.

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a couple of info about my t.wd muses after the 20 years time skip, for reasons.

fabrizio: he’s around 54 years old. he lives in a house not far from the community that was once known as the kingdom and has resumed his job as journalist as soon as he was given a chance. he has a son, valerio, born from his marriage to eileen — the couple split up and the boy lives with his mother.

fran: she’s around 48 years old. she worked with doctor carson in the hilltop for almost a decade before she and natalie move to commonwealth one together. while never ending her studies due to the beginning of the outbreak, she was formed by carson and works as a doctor in the city’s hospital. much to her surprise she found out her step brother survived and lived in the western alliance and they reunited after over 20 years.

magna: she’s around 47 years old. for some years she remained alexandria’s de-facto leader, being put in charge by rick before he left — and has insisted the former leader had a staue just outside his house, smaller than the one in commonwealth one, as a homage. despite rising to a role of leadership she was ready to step down once an election was called and took charge of the militia until it officially merged with the commonwealth army. she married yumiko shortly after stepping down as leader and they adopted to orphaned siblings, a girl and a boy.

mercer: he’s around 62 years old. after rick’s death and the definitive fall of the miltons, he was in charge of the commonwealth as the co-leader of the commonwealth resistance. once a new president was elected he returned to his position as leader of the commonwealth army. he and juanita still live together in ohio, in commonwealth one.

paul: he’s around 56 years old. for a while he’s been at maggie’s side in the commonwealth, helping her to deal with the aftermath of the miltons’ fall from power, but returned to the hilltop colony when the situation looked stable once more. he kept being a member of the militia for a couple of years, all the while also training in hand to hand combat the more inexperienced members. by the time of issue 193 he’s married to aaron and they both “retired” and live in a farm.

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Capitale umano e innovazione: ecco cosa sta cambiando nel lavoro in Italia

Capitale umano e innovazione: ecco cosa sta cambiando nel lavoro in Italia

Milano, 18 maggio 2018 – L’intelligenza artificiale e più in generale la digitalizzazione stanno mutando profondamente le aziende italiane, in tutti i loro aspetti costitutivi. Non è certo un caso se, a proposito del Report Mercer Global Talent Trends Study 2018 ‘Unlocking Growth in the Human Age’, l’ Amministratore Delegato di Mercer Italia, Marco Valerio Morelli, ha parlato proprio di una…

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Pro14: Zebre 37-14 Ospreys

Pro14: Zebre 37-14 Ospreys

Pro14: Zebre 37-14 Ospreys

Dewi Cross watches his kick ahead in Parma

Pro14: Zebre v Ospreys Zebre (22) 37 Tries: Biagi, Bellina 3, Bisegni, Di Giulio Cons: Canna 2 Pens: Canna Ospreys (7) 14 Tries: S Cross, Morgan-Williams Cons: S Davies Pens:

Zebre set their new wins record as they hammered much-changed Ospreys in Parma with a bonus-point Pro14 triumph.

It was the Italian club’s sixth win of the season, beating their previous best of five in the Pro12 in 2013/14.

Wing Mattia Bellina’s hat-trick underlined their superiority, while George Biagi, Giulio Bisegni and Gabriele Di Giulio also went over.

Sam Cross and Reuben Morgan-Williams replied for the visitors, with Sam Davies converting twice.

The win took Zebre to 32 points, two fewer than Irish side Connacht at the bottom of Conference A with only the final round of games – a derby day across the competition – to come on Saturday, 28 April.

If Leinster win at Connacht and Zebre triumph at Benetton, Connacht could end up bottom.

Ospreys changes

Ospreys made 13 starting changes, with only lock Adam Beard and back-rower Sam Cross surviving from the defeat by Ulster.

The Welsh team can qualify for the top-tier European Champions Cup in 2018-19, but only via a play-off.

They also face Cardiff Blues on Welsh rugby’s Pro14 Judgement Day at Principality Stadium next Saturday, when many of their established stars can be expected to return.

Interim coach Allen Clarke gave starting debuts to wing Dylan Moss and Georgian international back-row Giorgi Nemsadze, while Dewi Lake made his debut off the bench.

Impressive Bellini

They were led by veteran James Hook at full-back, but there was little the Wales and British and Irish Lions player could do to prevent defeat.

Biagi powered over as Zebre’s forward took control early on.

But Zebre produced some exhilarating back-play for Bellini to strut his impressive stuff.

He crossed twice in the opening period and added his third in a less lively second period.

Centre Bisegni showed his attacking prowess to burst clear, as did Di Giulio after he came on in the 71st minute.

Sam Cross and scrum-half replacement Morgan-Williams took their tries well, but the scores meant little amid Zebre’s dominance.

Zebre: Matteo Minozzi; Mattia Bellini, Giulio Bisegni, Tommaso Castello, Giovanbattista Venditti; Carlo Canna, Marcello Violi; Andrea Lovotti, Oliviero Fabiani, Dario Chistolini, Leonard Krumov, George Biagi, Jacopo Sarto, Johan Meyer, David Sisi.

Replacements: Luhandre Luus, Cruze Ah-Naum, Eduardo Bello, Valerio Bernabo, Derick Minnie, Guglielmo Palazzani, Edoardo Padovani, Gabriele Di Giulio.

Ospreys: James Hook; Dewi Cross, Joe Thomas, Luke Price, Dylan Moss; Sam Davies, Matthew Aubrey; Rhodri Jones, Ifan Phillips, Ma’afu Fia, Lloyd Ashley, Adam Beard, Giorgi Nemsadze, Guy Mercer, Sam Cross.

Replacements: Dewi Lake, Gareth Thomas, Alex Jeffries, Matthew Dodd, James Ratti, Reuben Morgan-Williams, Kieran Williams, Tiaan Thomas-Wheeler.

Referee: Lloyd Linton

Assistants: Keith Allen (SRU) and Andrea Piardi (FIR)

TMO: Charles Samson (SRU).

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Congratulations! The following have been accepted into Astor University. Please send in your accounts within twenty-four hours and remember to track everything on this list. Welcome to Astor University!

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Cannon Character Descriptions

Here’s a big master post of cannon character physical descriptions, for all your related needs. Let me know if there’s anything I missed/should add!

Ana

"She had warm bronze skin and wide golden-brown eyes, full lips, and a heart-shaped face. Her hair was as dark as space itself, but it always curled into tangles. She wore it atop her head in a long braid and shaved the sides. She was moderately tall, solidly built for a life of evading death at every turn, and wore hand-me-down coats like the red one she wore now and darned trousers that never fit right. She looked like a girl from any part of the Iron Kingdom—and nowhere all at once.” (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Ana)

“Tattered burgundy coat, a Metroid at her hip, long black hair in a renegade braid, and looking like she hadn’t bathed in a week—the girl must’ve been an outlaw.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Robb)

When Ana arrives at the palace and is shown to her new quarters she has a little break down in the bathroom -- and who hasn’t had one of those? -- and shaves her hair off. In SoS, 6-months have passed since the coronation day and her hair is describe merely as “short”.

Di

As D09: “His hood was pulled low to disguise the slats and plates that made up his face, without a nose or ears or eyebrows. He was more dented than other Metals, having fallen through mine shafts on Cerces and been shot at by mercenaries on Iliad. She felt bad for a particular ding on his forehead, but she had apologized a thousand times for accidentally running him over with a skysailer.” (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Ana)

As Di/Dimitri: “Redheaded and dark-eyed, a strong jaw, and broad shoulders that filled a slightly-too-small lavender evening coat. He smiled at her—lopsided, imperfect. He looked familiar, but she couldn’t place from where. ... So close, the individual strands of his hair looked woven with sunlight, his skin pale—but not like Jax’s, more like a boy who had never seen the sun." (HoI, IV: Iron Will, Ana)

“So she memorized how the light from the windows slanted across the sharp edges of his face, the way he leaned toward her like a shield, how there were a thousand stars in his eyes, which sometimes made them shine as silver as moonlight—as they did now.” (HoI, IV: Iron Will, Ana)

Di received a cut on his cheek during Coronation Day that is held with silver stitches during SoS to prevent the cut from revealing the metal underneath. He also has a little breakdown -- as one does -- in which he busts up the skin on his knuckles, which he hides then with gloves.

Throughout SoS, Di’s hair is often remarked very specifically as “Blood red”, and he wears quite a bit of black.

Jax

"A Solani. The one from the skysailer. He must’ve been close to Robb’s age, but his silver hair made him look old—ancient—and his skin shimmered as if starlight hid just beneath. He wore a ruffly purple evening coat, golden filigree decorating the collar to match the lining, and buttons so polished they gleamed. Underneath that insufferably garish jacket was a silk shirt, stained with what Robb figured was his blood. A pair of goggles sat around his neck.” (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Robb)

Wears purple often; after the event with Koren Vey, his skin literally glows. ���”It’s a long story, but yes, I’m a glowlight. It makes reading in the dark riveting.” (SoS, III: Starless, Jax) Also in SoS, Jax has to chop his own hair off during the final fight, resulting in him sporting a shoulder-length cut during Erik’s funeral; according to Robb, he looks no less dashing for it.

Robb

“He looked the most like their father, broad shouldered and stocky, with hair that curled like the lies that fell from his tongue.” (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Robb)

Like his mother and brother, Robb also has olive skin and signature Valerio-blue eyes, often compared to the Erosian sky. In HoI, Jax threatened to make a short joke (mind you, Jax is tall); in SoS, Robb notes that he was always shorter than his brother, but a recent growth spurt had now made them eye-to-eye.

In the conclusion of HoI, Di -- then HIVEd -- made his tracking chip go haywire and an impromptu amputation was needed, cutting his right arm off between his elbow and his shoulder. Robb got a cybernetic prosthetic about a month before the events of SoS.

Elara

“She was around Ana’s age -- eighteen, maybe -- with shoulder length silver hair that partially shadowed her sharp face, and wide violet eyes rimmed with kohl.  Her lips were painted black to match the rest of her wardrobe. She was short and curvy, with wide hips and thick legs that tapered into knee-high gravity boots. She was a Solani like Jax, but her skin was darker, reminding Ana of the cold deserts on Cerces. There was a wire that looped from her right ear down into her collar and disappeared. A hearing apparatus.” (SoS, I: Starship, Ana)

Xu

"Then -- like twin stars igniting -- moonlight-colored eyes flickered to life on a face made of metal slats, forming angular cheekbones and mouth and chin. There was a horrible, deep scrape across its temple that had been soldered closed. A Metal.” (SoS, I: Starship, Ana)

Malifare

“She walked with the grace of a dancer, floating without a sound. The pins in her flaxen hair matched her black dress. Floor-length, high collar, the insignia of the crown on her sleeve.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Di)

“Flaxen hair, narrow face, wearing the deep purple of a royal handmaiden." (HoI, IV: Iron Will, Di)

Siege

“The captain’s black hair framed her brown face in wild, electrifying curls, glowing with interwoven fiber optics, simmering orange like a stoked fire— Oh, Ana could tell by the color that she was mad.” (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Ana)

Siege has green eyes. When she isn’t mad her hair is typically a golden yellow, though it grows dull when she’s drained or injured, and can be blue though it happened very rarely. As a teenager -- in a very hazy recollection by Di -- she’s described as someone who never smiles.

Talle

“Talle—short and thin, with black hair in a pixie cut and hands so steady she could slit a throat clean while navigating the skyways of Nevaeh...” (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Ana)

In Jax’s flashback in Soul of Stars, Talle is described as tall with long black hair, but I’ll just assume that Talle is simply tall compared to an 8 or 9 year-old Jax. (SoS, II: Starless, Jax)

Also, her voice is often noted as sweet.

Lenda

““Seriously?” Lenda groaned, brushing back her floppy dishwater-blond hair. She was solid, with narrow brown eyes and tawny skin with rosy undertones. She displayed the scars on her arms like trophies—battles won in the fighting arenas of Iliad. Lenda was twenty and unafraid of everything— Except, maybe for Palavar.” (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Ana)

Riggs

"Riggs, fiddling with a ball bearing in his mechanical leg, grumbled a reply and heaved it off the table, setting it on the bench beside him. He’d lost his right leg to the Plague twenty years ago—cut it off himself right above the knee. He lost his family to the disease on Eros, and kept a photo of his daughter in a silver locket around his neck. Sometimes at night, Ana heard him talking to her in his dreams." (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Ana)

Wick

““No one [likes Palavar],” rumbled Wick, who had a habit of being quiet. He listened, and that made him a talented communications specialist. He absorbed languages like a sponge, so many that Ana could only hope to wrap her tongue around a quarter of them. He was Cercian by birth, the markings under his eyes so faded Ana couldn’t tell which clan he hailed from, and he never told, having left that life years ago. His skIn was a shade darker than Siege’s, with a warm hue to it—like the dawn.” (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Ana)

Barger

““Eh, don’t bother me. Three jacks,” said Barger, a stout man in his mid-twenties with a ginger mustache. His fingers were always grease stained, nails ripped short, the signs of a tireless weapons mechanic.” (HoI, II: Iron Ships, Ana)

Cynthia Valerio

“Lady Valerio looked wicked, from her bloodred lipstick to her bloodred dress, as she gave a gracious bow.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Ana)

“Tall and thin, with olive skin and graying brown hair swept into a bun, cheekbones so sharp they could cut ice. She wore a finely detailed coat and trousers, a Valerio crest pinned above her heart. She appraised the small crew with shrewd blue eyes—he knew that color. He knew it achingly well. The color of Erosian skies.” (HoI, III: Iron Blood, Jax)

Mercer Valerio

Robb is his spitting image, except that Mercer wore a thick beard.

Erik Valerio

“At nineteen, Erik Valerio was dashing, popular, and conniving in a way that granted him whatever he wanted. He looked like their mother—tall and olive skinned, a sharp face, with straight dark hair and a smile that made you want to trust him.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Robb)

“His brother stood blocking the doorway in a deep brown leather jacket with mink fur at the collar and dark trousers. His boots were well polished and decorated with the Valerio insignia—a snake eating its own tail. He filled the doorway just like he had in Robb’s nightmares, his hair short, the sides shaved with celestial designs, and he narrowed his eyes like their mother always did—disapproving, but not surprised, as if nothing Robb would ever do would be worthy of approval.” (SoS, IV: Star Crossed, Robb)

Erik and Cynthia often match, both wearing red at the celebration for Erik becoming the heir, both wearing black at the pre-coronation ball, and both -- this time including Robb -- wearing white at the coronation itself.

Nicholi

“The Emperor, clad in royal purple, had a hand on his wife’s shoulder. He looked like all the pictures she’d seen in the newsfeeds. Golden-brown eyes and rich brown skin, like the Grand Duchess, a full beard over a strong face.” (HoI, III: Iron Blood, Ana)

Selena

“Beside him, his wife, the Empress, smiled out of the portrait, brown curly hair and Valerio-blue eyes.” (HoI, III: Iron Blood, Ana)

Rhys, Wylan, and Tobias Armorov

Ana’s three older brothers are described as having dark curly hair, and the youngest, Tobias, has Valerio-blue eyes. They’re described further in short snippets Ana recalls in the palace, chasing the ghosts of their voices:

“Rhys— He let her taste the sweets from the kitchen. The scent of cinnamon. Warm brown eyes, a melting smile. He used to kiss her bruises when her middle brother, Wylan—a cocky smile and a mess of black curls—knocked her down when they pretended to be outlaws. All the horseplaying would scare her youngest brother—Tobias. Valerio blue eyes and a small smile and a love of violins and sweet candies and stories.” (HoI, IV: Iron Will, Ana)

Lord Rasovant

“An older man, graying beard braided down his chest, appeared at the far end of the hallway. Dark eyes and deep wrinkles and ghostly-pale skin. The clank of decorative medals on his breast accompanied his footsteps. He was dressed in a simple royal-purple evening coat with uneven tails, gilded buttons and filigree across the collar and sleeves.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Di)

The Grand Duchess

“Ana drank the woman in, from the delicate wrinkles across her face to her silvery-white hair pulled back into a simple bun, making her cheekbones look sharp enough to cut. Her skin was the color of soft earth and speckled with age, her hands bony knobs. She looked old, but in a terrifying and timeless way, the way mountains looked old but immovable.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Ana)

She also has “...stone-cut green eyes...” (HoI, IV: Iron Will, Robb), similar in description to Siege’s

Wynn Wysteria

Wynn has a freckled face and long, curly strawberry-red hair. (HoI, IV: Iron Will, Ana)

Viera

“She was tall, with white-blond hair and arrowhead-shaped markings under her eyes—heritage markings for certain Cercian clans.” (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Di)

Messiers

“A patrol of six Messiers appeared in the doorway. They were sharp, metallic. Made of planes and slats she knew well, because they looked like D09. Like Metals. Because once, they had been. Now HIVE’d, the Messiers’ blue eyes blazed like virtue incarnate. They moved in unison, their blue-and-black uniforms pristine, shined boots making solid thumps on the masonry floor as they marched into the shrine.”  (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Ana)

Mokuba

“A tall, burly gentleman in a stained long coat and trousers, the seams frayed and boots greasy.” (HoI, I: Iron Theif, Ana)

Redbeard

“He had been an imposing man, as thick as two men. He had a braided red beard that reached halfway down the front of his barrel chest, and it glowed with optics the way Siege’s did, although Ana much preferred the way they looped into her curls.” (SoS, III: Starlit, Ana)

Cullen

Ana spun around to the owner of the voice, a tall androgynous person with long black hair that reached well below their waist, and warm brown skin, decked in gold jewelry and a coat the color of a nebula. They grinned at her, and the neon implants in their cheeks glowed a brilliant teal. (SoS, IV: Star Crossed, Ana)

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(Partial) Royal Bloodline

Pretty self explanatory, description under the cut!

[Image: A family tree describing some of the royal bloodline of the Heart of Iron universe. It is a web of boxes containing names with three distinct rows, the top row of boxes being burgundy, the middle green, and the bottom blue. The boxes are connected by various lines indicating how certain characters are related. In the top row, there’s boxes indicating Gregori Rasovant, The Grand Duchess (Aragon Armorov), and Nicholii Armorov I. The Grand Duchess and Nicholii I are connected by marriage. In the second row there is Dmitri Rasovant, Siege (Marigold Aragon), Nicholii Armorov II, Selena Valerio Armorov, Cynthia Valerio, and Mercer [Maiden Name] Valerio. Dmitri and Gregori are connected as child/parent. Siege and The Grand Duchess are connected as aunt/niece, Nicholii II is connected to The Grand Duchess and Nicholii I as child/parents. Nicholii II and Selena are connected via marriage. Selena and Cynthia are connected as siblings. Cynthia and Mercer are connected via marriage. The third row contains Ana (Ananke Armorov), Tobias Armorov, Wylan Armorov, Rhys Armorov, Robbert Valerio, and Eric Valerio. Ana, Tobias, Wylan, and Rhys are all connected to Nicholii II and Selena as children/parents. Ana is connected to Siege via adoption. Robb and Eric are both connected to Cynthia and Mercer as children/parents. End Description]

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Quick reminder that Captain Siege responded to an SOS out in the middle of nowhere and that’s how she learned 1) Most of her childhood friends were murdered in an intentional fire, 2) The childhood friend that escaped the fire didn’t escape the ship he escaped to, and 3) She was now holding her 10-year old cousin once-removed

Also, she knew for a fact that Mercer Valerio was dead when she was questioning Robb and didn’t let that slip once

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Cannon Character Full Names

Or, at least, as full as I can find them, for all of your name-related needs; may be updated as I re-read and find new names. Let me know if there are some I should add!

Main cast:

Ana of the Dossier

-Born Ananke Armorov

-Nicknamed “Princess“ by Elara

Robbert Mercer Valerio

-Called Robb

-Later just Robbert of nothing

-Later still Robbert Aragon

-Nicknamed “Smolder” by Elara

Jaxander Taizu

-Called Jax

-Note: Siege calls him by Jaxander a couple of times, but I think he tried to keep his last name a secret from her (no cannon support either way, mind you, and she clearly knew who he was by how she was able to quickly call into Zenteli, as if she’d had this worst-case contingency plan already prepared)

-Nicknamed “Sparkles” by Elara

D09

-Later, just Di (of the Dossier)

-Later (earlier?) Dmitri Rasovant

Elara Vath’aka

-Vath’aka is, “a name given to Solani with no birthright.” We later learn that her parents were caught studying the ark in the valley of Zenteli, which is forbidden. We aren’t given her original last name, nor the fate of her parents.

-Went by “Starbright” when contacting Ana for the first time

Xu

Malifare

-Presumably she could go by Malifare Rasovant, but she wouldn’t have in the palace as it would have been very conspicuous 

Dossier’s Crew:

Captain Siege 

-Born Marigold Aragon

--Mari to her friends :)

-Nicknamed “Sunshine” by Talle

Talle 

-Nicknamed “Starlight” by Siege

Barger

Lenda

Riggs

Wick

Nobles:

Cynthia Malachite Valerio

Mercer Valerio

-Mercer took Cynthia’s last name, no particular reason is given, but it would be reasonable for it to be due to Valerios having higher status than Mercer’s family name. Mercer’s maiden name is unknown, as he was apparently using Valerio even at the academy when they were simply betrothed

Erik Malachite Valerio

-Malachite was Erik’s middle name in the first book, as announced when he accompanied his mother to the pre-coronation ball. However, during the funeral of the second book, he was celebrated as “Erik Mercer Valerio”. 

Celene/Selena Valerio 

-Unless Cynthia has two sisters and the Selena at the tomb with the boys and Mari was that second sister, the spellings of Ana’s mother’s name are inconsistent between HoI and SoS

-Cynthia’s sister, Ana’s mother, married Emperor Nicolii

-Thus presumably later Selena Valerio Armorov

Nicholii Armorov

Rhys Armorov

Wylan Armorov

Tobias Armorov

Gregori Rasovant

Wynn Wysteria

Quintin Machiavalle

Viera Carnelian

-Robb, at one point, curses his luck that “Viera Bastard-Born Carnelian was the Grand Duchess’s Royal Captain.”

Vermion Carnelian

The Grand Duchess is Aragon born, and married into the Armorov family

-I feel like her first name is in there somewhere, but where I could not find.

Misc (mostly other pirates/out-laws)

Mokuba

Redbeard

-Captain of the Illumine

Cullen

-Captain of the Prospero

Cavorn

The leader of the Red Dawn

-I think that’s just how they like to be referred to, similar to the artist formally known as Prince

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The timeline, as near as I could assemble it, with a little conjecture by me. I centered it around Coronation Day, aka the Holy Convergence, aka the 1,000th anniversary of the Iron Kingdom, so anything before that is BCD, anything after that is ACD. Details under the cut.

1,000 BCD:

Solani Ark crashes into what will become Zenteli, pursued by The Great Dark

Goddess bears a daughter of light that fights back The Great Dark

Goddess creates the Iron Kingdom, and from her heart the Iron Crown is carved; Ironbloods claim they can trace their lineage back to her court

The Goddess dies and is buried in her tomb with The Great Dark’s heart

The Cantos is written and the first shrine of the Moon Goddess is erected on Luna

25-20 BCD

The Plague -- The Plague is always stated as being “Twenty years ago” but plagues take time to first become plagues and then cause problems and then be eradicated. With the complication of having to develop and manufacture Metals before they could treat the plague well, I’ve given it a cautious life-time of five years, with it having officially ended twenty years from Coronation Day

In the scene with Nich, Mercer, Di, Selena, and Mari are at the Tomb of the Goddess, Mercer says he can’t call Cynthia because the Tomb has been off limits since the plague started, meaning that they were still going to the Academy during the plague. I propose that Mercer, Di, Nich, and Mari were all the equivalent of seniors and this was their last year, as it would be reasonable for Di to go off to try and help the plague after he’d finished at the Academy. That puts all of them around 16/17, since that’s the age Robb was when he was supposed to graduate. 

Once Di contracts the plague, Malifare takes advantage of his and his father’s desperation and becomes one of the first Metals, and, if the reports Ana found in the lab were correct, the first fully successful Metal, aside from previous-life memories. 

I also propose that it is sometime during this that Mari’s mother is murdered -- Erik mentions, when Robb dons the Aragon crest, that, “The old dame was murdered and her daughter went missing.” (SoS, V: Stardust, Robb) -- and Captain Siege is born. This would coincide with much of the Aragon family suffering and dying from the plague; the Aragon family is noted as magnanimous, and they may have opened themselves to risk in an attempt to support the poor, though that’s just my personal headcannon. Di also asks Malifare, when they first met, if she’s there because of Mari, which may have something to do with it, but what, I do not know. 

18 BCD 

Jax is born 

17 BCD

Ana is born and lauded as the goddess born anew

Robb is born -- his 17th birthday was the day Jax got de-lit (:

10 BCD

Jax runs away from Zenteli

10-8 BCD

Somewhere in here Siege and Talle adopt hire Jax after he pick-pockets Siege in Nevaeh

7 BCD

The Revolution

Rasovant asks Nicholii to approve HIVEing Metals; when Nicholii denies him he, in a fit of rage, kills him. 

Mercer finds Nicholii’s body and calls for guards

Malifare burns down the North Tower with the whole Royal Family inside

Mercer gives Ana to D09 -- Nicholii’s personal metal, according to Machivalle -- and Ana receives burns from his heated chassis. They escape in the Tsarina

Mercer sends out one message to his wife, informing her of what had happened and of the location of the heart. Cynthia would later go and take it from the tomb, storing it instead in the hands of the Goddess statue in Nevaeh

The Tsarina is infested with the HIVE too, though, with weird memory core-less Metals. Mercer manages to get the ship all the way to Palavar -- I propose he does this to disable the ship full of dangerous robots for the greater good -- getting shot in the process. As his last act, he gives Ana his family’s symbol and sends her and Di off in an escape pod

An undisclosed time later -- it could have been weeks depending on how well-stocked the escape pod was -- Siege finds the 10-year-old and Di floating in dead space between Cerces and Iliad; Di tells her who they are and then asks that his memory be erased -- Mercer’s instructions. Siege does erase Di’s memories, this being the cause of Di’s later glitches, but she doesn’t drop them at a weigh-station like Di asked, hoping that she could be able to keep Ana safe

7 Years - 7 Days BCD

Ana, Jax, and Di have life-threatening Shenanigans aboard the Dossier; everything after this is just a summary of the books

7-6 Days BCD

Di and Ana in the shrine -- job goes south

They follow Robb up to Astoria, that goes south and Robb gets shot and half-kidnapped 

2-hours towards Palavar Robb’s chip is activated

Palavar happens, killing Bergar and disabling Di; The Kiss happens and Jax knows how Robb will die; Robb finds what will become Di’s new body

~2-4 hours after Palavar, while Robb is in the middle of experimentally trying to upload Di, the Dossier is so very politely hailed via missile by the Catarina

Cynthia kills Wick, Ana and Jax are taken onto the Caterina, Robb feels really, really bad about it all

Di wakes up and he and the captain free the Dossier

Once at the Iron Palace, Robb reveals Ana as the princess

5-2 days BCD

Jax is Cynthia’s prisoner, Robb promises on Stars and Iron to save him

Ana has to get lessons, and hates every second of it. Tries to get information out of everyone but only has some luck with Machivalle

The Dossier works on their own plan

1 Day BCD

Pre-coronation gala!

Robb and Ana make their appearance; Robb soon leaves to go get Jax -- not that he has a way out of the palace, mind you

Ana meets Wynn and gets an important note from Machivalle; Ana and Di dance; Ana runs off when she realizes Di is “Rasovant’s Metal”

Di runs off, finds Rasovant’s office, steals his own old guard uniform, starts having memories that are not D09′s

Robb bumps into Di in the Hallway, E0S brings trouble around and they split up, agreeing to meet in like 3 1/2 hours at the docks

Jax reads Cynthia’s stars in exchange for Cynthia promising on Stars and Iron to protect Robb -- this changes Robb’s stars

Ana is lured into the North Tower to be killed, finds Rasovant’s secret office and the truth behind Metals and the HIVE, Di comes and saves her

Robb rescues Jax, puts a vox collar on his brother

Ana and Di make out before Ana sends Di on his way so he can be safe

Malifare captures Di, he is not safe; Di gives instructions to E0S

Robb sends Jax off, decries the Valerio name

Di realizes he’s Dmitri, is promptly HIVEd

Coronation Day

Bad things happen. The following people die: Lady Valerio, Rasovant (Ana did that one), Riggs, the Grand Duchess, a couple other Ironblood guests, all human guards. Viera might also have died here, or she might have been kept alive long enough to be turned into a Metal later; I’m unclear on the Metaling process. Di stabs Ana. Robb loses and arm.

0-6 months ACD

Shrines are burned as Malifare searches for her heart

Siege and her fleet set up refugee camps for Metals

Ana recovers from her near-fatal wound

Robb and Jax are dating

5 Months ACD

Robb gets his robo arm

6 Months ACD

Ana meets Elara and Xu in Neon City

Ana is captured

Elara, Xu, Jax, and Robb go to save Ana; Jax and Robb split up and Jax recognizes the dreadnaught from Robb’s stars and knows he will die here

Ana is saved by E0S, runs into “Viera”, then Robb

E0S’s instructions from Di activate, and he leaves Ana to go to the bridge where Jax is

Jax and Di -- as a Messier -- fight; E0S/Di changes Jax’s stars and injects some code into Di

As Jax gets spaced Di instinctively tries to save him and accidentally touches bare skin, forcing Jax to read the stars of everyone consumed by The Great Dark, which drains his light in an instant

Ana and Robb get Jax to the Dossier and put him on life support

Siege sets course to Zenteli so Jax can die there

Very warm reception at Zenteli. Truly hospitable. Jax’s mom slaps Siege

Viera goes off and burns the Zenteli shrine

Jax has his star-induced vision of Di and Malifare in the plague ward

Elara takes Ana and Robb down to the ark where they meet Koren Vey, who gives them the coordinates to the Goddess’ Tomb as well as saying some cryptic stuff

Di is experiencing “glitches” from what E0S gave him, reveals himself to Erik, accidentally so to Wynn

Siege gets Jax and she and Talle come to rescue Ana, Robb, and Elara

Jax accepts Koren Vey’s light, collapses into Robb’s arms; he glows now. 

Siege, Talle, Robb, and Jax are taken back to the spire by the solgard while Ana and Elara evade them

Ana and Elara split, Ana to go to the Goddess’ Tomb and Elara to fetch Jax and the others

Lenda sends Ana off, she also bumps into Viera, through whom the HIVE now knows where Ana’s going

Elara fetches Jax, Jax’s mom helps him break everyone out

Robb and Elara break off to go after “Resonance”, the Dossier goes after Ana to the tomb

Ana arrives at the tomb, is followed by Di and Malifare. In the tomb she finds that the heart isn’t there, then blows them all up. Di finally breaks free of the HIVE.

The Dossier lands and takes Ana and Di; Malifare is nowhere to be seen 

Robb and Elara arrive at the Valerio estate and he fights Erik over the Resonance file, which reveals that Cynthia funded all of Rasovant’s research and herself found the heart first, as well as the heart’s current hiding place

The meeting at Havens Grave happens

Ana and Di get to talk

Robb tells Jax he loves him and they make out

A plan of action is solidified 

Robb and Di crash Erik’s party

Ana, Siege, and Talle go after the heart, Ana going into the shrine and Siege and Talle keeping watch

Malifare plunges Astoria out of the sky and takes off with Viera, now revealed as a Metal

Di saves Astoria, gets stabbed in the back by Erik for his troubles

Erik, unrelatedly and against the genuine attempt to save him by Robb, dies

Jax takes Robb and Di to the shrine

Ana gets the heart

Final battle: Ana and Di vs Malifare in the shrine; Dossier vs Messiers in the plaza

Siege finally takes Malifare out and Di destroys the HIVE

6 Months and Like 2-4 Week ACD

Ana is installed as Empress, introduces a wide range of new voices to the Iron Counsel

Jax accepts his role as C’zar, enjoys being a thorn in the Counsel of Elder’s side

Siege and Talle head off to hide the heart

Di says goodbye to Ana

Ana makes her speech at Erik’s funeral, runs off quickly after

Di doesn’t actually go and he and Ana kiss and everything is super sweet and nice, The End