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GLIOCA SARGONNAI
THE SILVER ECLIPSE
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Glioca Sargonnai.
■ CURRENT ALIAS... Glioca Sargonnai ■ PAST ALIASES... The Silver Dragon ■ RACE & CLAN... Elezen, Wildwood ■ GENDER... Female ■ AGE & NAMEDAY... 227. Born 22nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon, 1350 S.A.E. ■ ORIENTATION... Pansexual (Male Preference) ■ MARITAL STATUS... Bonded |
■ CITIZENSHIP... Ul'dahn. ■ FAMILY... Sarrasin (Maiden), Sargonnai (Wed) ■ RESIDENCE... Ul'dah, Phoenix Estate ■ OCCUPATION... Artisan, Businesswoman ■ PATRON DEITY... Nymeia, the Spinner ■ HEIGHT & WEIGHT... 6 fulms, 5 ilms. 215 ponze. ■ ALIGNMENT... Type 4 Chaotic Neutral. |
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- Details
- Combat & Abilities
- Business & Artistry
- History
- Relationships
- Rumors
- Music
- Gallery
- OOC Notes
- Credits
Details
General Information
Glioca Sargonnai (Pronounciation: GLEE-kuh sarr-goh-NY) is a Wildwood Elezen who originally hails from the Black Shroud, but who has traveled across much of the world. She has held a number of occupations in her considerably long life, and current resides in Ul'dahn territory in the Goblet, where she and her husband run the Rising Phoenix Free Company, a modest mercenary group for hire. Aside from her position as leader of the company, she is the business mind and often the labor behind Black Phoenix Oddities, the shop which is the front for their company, and their off-again on-again primary source of income. When not serving in either of these two capacities, she spends much of her time training her mental and physical attributes, expanding her knowledge base, and teaching those who come to her for the various subjects she's knowledgeable in.
Appearance
Eyes | Hair | Skin | Body Type | Voice |
Silver. | Black and white, mid-length. | Pale, generally smooth. | Athletic, voluptuous. | Smokey, lilting, warm. |
Bearing | Laterality | Scars | Tattoos & Piercings | Style |
Ethereal, flowing. | Ambidextrous. | One major, many minor. | Two, four. | Mixed: leather, cloth & plate. |
- Hair & Eyes
- Her hair has carried a variety of styles and shades over the years, having started out her life with platinum blonde hair that lightened to white over the years of her youth, but has in recent times darkened to the color of ink, with only scarce streaks of the pale color beneath visible amid her midnight black hair. She wears it to just about her shoulders, sweeping forward to frame her face gently, giving her as close to a distinguished appearance as one might find her in. She doesn't bother binding it up, and expressions of frustration will find long fingers tangling in her hair and tugging. Her eyes are a steely shade of silver naturally, though when she was younger she wore thin alchemical lenses of differing colors, either as part of a disguise or costume she wore, or simply for variety because her own eyes had so little color. As she's aged, she's ceased this practice for the most part, unless needed for infiltration of somewhere.
- Physique & Markings
- Standing at six fulms and five ilms, Glioca is tall for a woman, even an Elezen, and is a scant two ilms shorter than her husband, A'rklonn. Physically she's stockier than most Elezen, with a heft to her body that is a mixture of curve and muscle, the former much more apparent at first glance than the latter. She's grown more slender over the years, though her weight maintains because of the physical regimen she follows, easily half again as heavy as most women of her height and size. Facially she appears mature, but not old, looking to be in her late twenties to early thirties. This youthful appearance is somewhat superficial, as the woman has easily seen more than the usual years of an Elezen of age, a lifespan is attributed to the unique aetheric condition that affects her, some damn fine alchemical work, and the ability commonly known as the Echo. She bears a single scar on her face, stretching up over her left eye and ending in the middle of her cheek. She has numerous smaller scars across her body, representing a life full of accidents, conflict, and the little things that leave their marks on us.
- Hygiene & Attire
- While she won't hesitate to get dirty, and even bloody, she prefers being clean a majority of the time. She carries a strong scent of evergreen and roses around her, beneath the smell of whatever other plant or alchemical mixture she happens to have been working with most recently. She does her best to wear clothing that is in excellent shape, but her attire is as varied as anything else about her might be. When in combat with a sword she prefers heavy plate, when utilizing her martial arts she prefers flexible leather armor that doesn't inhibit her movements, and when working spells she prefers robing with pockets and pouches to carry all of the components and other miscellaneous items she might need during the course of her work.
- Worn Items of Note
- ❄ Rimless glasses in silver.
- ❄ A simple silver band with an ornate multicolored gem, her bond ring.
- ❄ A silver charm bracelet; moonstone & clear crystal charms.
- ❄ A single stud piercing through her tongue, made of highly polished gemstone.
Personality
Positive Traits | Negative Traits |
• Affectionate • Confident • Intelligent • Honest • Loyal • Patient | • Aggressive • Blunt • Contemptuous • Cynical • Mistrustful • Prejudiced |
- Psychological Profile
- Intelligent. Cynical. Playful. Predatory. All of these words have been used to describe Glioca at one point or another. In her youth she was a very quiet and studious intellectual who mostly kept to herself, the primary company in her life her father, aunt and the voices of the Elementals. Time and life experience has changed her into a woman with much more serious outlook on life. She's open-minded and eager to learn anything and everything she can about the world around her; whether that involve people, magic, or combat. Many who interact with her find a kind of subtle melancholy seems to hang around her like a shroud, likely the result of a long life of leaving those she loves behind.
A lifetime littered with loss and sorrow has changed what was once an sweet and somewhat innocent girl into a worldly woman who flits from interest to interest, pursuit to pursuit in a very fey-like fashion. When it comes to her family she is a very dedicated and affectionate individual, but also very protective and sheltering of her loved ones. It takes a lot to rouse her to action on something, but when she gets going she's a very hot-blooded woman with a cynical and sarcastic streak a mile long who is just as likely to start a brawl as she is cut someone down with her words. She doesn't shy from conflict, and while many might find her charming, she considers herself quite average.
She has a deep wanderlust that causes her to spend a great deal of her time either traveling across Eorzea whenever she has the time to spare: the wide roads of the Goblet, the deep paths of the Shroud, the cluttered streets of Ishgard, or the wide open spaces of Dravania are all places where she might be found. Regardless of her desire to wander, she's very faithful and loyal to those she comes to care for, and would drop nearly everything to come to the aid of someone she'd grown close to.
But some things never change: she'll always be a healer at heart no matter how many blades she picks up, she's still got a sharp mind, a charming manner when so inclined, and easily able to keep pace in intelligent conversation. She's got a good business sense, but a greater mind for magic and combat, and almost bottomless potential when it comes to learning and taking in information. The one truly consistent side of her is her personal set of values, which she holds to be a kind of law in her life. It's not that hard to glean when one interacts with her. She's not a hero by any stretch of the imagination, not does she consider herself a villain, but if push comes to shove, she's more than willing to prove that she can be either as the situation calls for it.
- Voice
- Smoky, warm and lilting, Glioca's voice is exactly what one might expect from an older woman, with the mannerisms to match. She speaks with a very even tone, rarely raising her voice even when angry, or highly emotional. Her accent is difficult to place, a cultured voice with a mostly indiscernible mixture of tones and words gained from her years of travel across the world. When incredibly upset, her voice comes across with a thick brogue, one that makes her much more difficult to understand. Her singing voice is similarly husky, the kind of rich sound that makes one think of quiet bars with piano music flowing, or mothers cradling their infants and singing them to sleep in low tones.
- Philosophy & Mannerisms
- Glioca has strong opinions and views, and her philosophical outlook tends to be just as strongly opinionated. As a woman who lives an open and relatively free lifestyle with her husband, she understands that free will and choice are extremely important in life, but just as important is maintaining that free will for others. As such, she does her best not to shove her attentions, affections, or interest on an individual who is unresponsive to her in any way.
Her age has given her a unique perspective on life and the way many people live it. Many consider themselves good or evil, but she knows that life can't be quantified down into black or white, good or evil, and instead is fleshed out and flourishes only when the many shades of grey that lie between the darkness and light, between the two absolutes, is explored.
When it comes to mannerisms, Glioca has a few consistent traits to her. She's incredibly loyal when someone gains her trust. She does her level best not to make any promise she doesn't feel she can keep, even if that promise happens to sound rather outlandish at the time. She won't hesitate to teach anyone else who asks after her about any of the knowledge she's gained over the years. And she'd give up absolutely anything to protect her family, even her own life.
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COMBAT, ABILITIES & WEAPONRY
- ● Aetheric Cycle: Glioca's body is under a constant aetheric cycle. This cycle means that she regenerates and heals at a much faster rate than most other individuals. This also prevents her from aging in any normal fashion beyond what would be considered her physical ‘peak’ condition, as her cells continually rejuvenate themselves. She can be scarred if a wound is inflicted with particularly nasty magical means, or if the wound is very deep. Her regeneration is limited, however, and can only do so much to stave off death. If she's under extreme duress, or focusing her aether in other ways such as spellcasting, or channeling during physical combat, this regeneration is suspended to a degree. She won't heal until after her aether usage goes back to a minimal level.
- ● Aetheric Capacity: Those who have a strong aether sense may be able to detect the abundance in Glioca. Her aether flows through her body at a fairly exponential rate, or did, until recent times when her husband helped her create a stop-gap measure that's used to control the flow of her aether. She still gives off a feeling of strong aether around her, aspected such that it actually makes her skin feel slightly cooler than normal to the touch.
- ● Aetheric Channeling: When it comes to channeling aether, she has an easier time than some do, because of the way it's a constant in her body, instead of shifting and flowing as it usually should. Interestingly enough, Glioca doesn't have an endless pool of aetheric power to draw from when using magic, as it's a different direction than her aether usually takes. The aether required to fuel her body and regenerate is a rather large amount, and this limits the amount she can devote to her spell casting. Her pool would be considered large in comparison to some, but decidedly not limitless.
- ● Boosted Physique: Glioca’s skill with conjury is such that she has learned to utilize the magic in a way that many wouldn’t expect, reinforcing her body in such a way that her physique is incredibly boosted, an act that has provided her with increased endurance and somewhat increased agility. Additionally, it has greatly increased her strength, resulting in permitting her to make pinpoint strikes that are capable of crippling in one punch, or in the case of many inanimate objects, blowing holes in, or through them. She can punch through weaker steel plating and some armor, but only with extra boosting from her gates, now that her abilities are locked behind limiters. The downside is that she no longer suffers under the monstrous strength she used to. The bright side is that she no longer suffers under the monstrous strength she used to.
- ● Echo: The Echo is an ability that some rare individuals possess. Those that have been 'gifted' have the ability to resonate with other people's souls. This permits them to see their past, albeit not able to interfere or change it, as well as being able to speak every language in the world. As a side effect, the Echo also seems to prevent it's user from being tempered by the Primals. Interestingly, Glioca's Echo came to light some 15 years ago. This led to a lot of misunderstandings, headaches, and a worsening of her aetheric condition for a number of years. Her husband assisted her with the use, and she can now willingly keep herself out of the memories of others. When the Calamity came, she, like many others, began getting the visions of meteors falling from a burning sky. It is thought that the Echo is in part responsible for the changes that later occurred to her. Disclaimer: This power is never used without explicit player permission in role-play. ***
- ● Eidetic Memory: Eidetic memory is the ability to recall visual information, such as pages from books and other visual sources, in great detail after only brief exposure to it. In Glioca, this trait developed in early childhood, and was nurtured by her parents and grandparents to allow her to more readily retain information from whatever source she might learn from. The ability was nurtured very early on, and is one of the reasons that Glioca is multi-talented, especially in the field of magic, where much of her study into Thaumaturgy and Arcanima relied on her ability to first memorize theory and calculations, and opposed to the expression strictly of aether itself, as with Conjury. Further, Glioca has a secondary trait that rarely presents itself in those with Eidetic Memory, and that is that she is Photo-reflexive. She often uses these two abilities in conjunction to attempt to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible, though she is sometimes (often) hampered by her own bodies abilities, and the aetheric condition which she is under.
- ● Magical Prowess: A conjurer since her youth, she is quite capable with the manipulation of aether. As such, conjury is her strongest magic. Because her conjury predates the Calamity, she is capable of using spells that were later practiced more heavily in thaumaturgy, resulting in a mixed magic style that seems to allow her to draw from many different schools and types of magic. She has training in arcanima, some minor training in astromancy, and knows a little bit of bardic magic. She is trained in thaumaturgy, but like her conjury, the form she practices predates the changes that came after the Calamity. She is actually incapable of utilizing fire magic because of her strong attunement to the ice element. Coupled with her aetheric imbalance, she is always considered to be in a state of umbral ice. She is striving to formulate a unified magic theory that breaks the divisions between the different types of spellcasting into a type of multi-casting or hybridized casting, which is still a working theory, though she has made a little headway into the style.
- ● Ice Resistance: Her strong attunement to ice and water magic have made it so that not only is she in a constant state of umbral ice, but she is highly resistant to frost and ice-based attacks. These attacks do a minimal amount of damage to her, and further, she is relatively unaffected by the cold.
- ● Martial Arts: Having begun training in her late youth, Glioca has been fighting since she was approximately 26 years old. During her travels across the world, she picked up a number of different martial arts styles, though a few still prominently feature in her common combat style which is a mixture of overwhelming power, strong defensive techniques, and battlefield control. Her years of honed skills coupled with her physical reinforcement, photo-reflexivity and enhanced reflexes have turned her into a devastating fighter. More recently, she has begun training with a Fist of Rhalgr, learning Ala Mhigan martial techniques as well as picking up techniques more recently from the Pugilists Guild in her spare time, usually by watching the other fighters during their bouts. Her martial arts techniques are unique in that while channeling aether during them is the only time she can easily utilize fire, as her ice doesn’t seem to translate the same way when used as part of a martial style.
- ● Jūken: Referred to as ‘Gentle Fist’, this fighting style utilizes circular techniques and movement patterns to allow the martial artist a wider range of motion and full use of momentum to control the flow of the fight. It utilizes various strikes (with palm, fist, elbow, fingers, etc), kicks, joint locks, throws, and distinctly evasive circular footwork. Many of these techniques cause internal damage and do not require a large amount of force to be exerted to deliver them, hence the reason the martial art style is called ‘Gentle’. It was also necessary at the time of her teaching for Glioca to utilize great care when fighting anyone as she had limited control over her strength. Though this is no longer the case, she continues to utilize this style the most heavily of all of them that she uses. (This fighting style is based largely on Baguazhang.)
- ● Piercing Palm: One of the most dangerous abilities of Jūken is that coupled with her knowledge of anatomy and the internal workings of the body, she is able to reinforces her strikes with her own aether to use them to counteract a casters ability to channel aether, either from outside, or through their body. This effectively cuts mages off at the knees, and in someone else who utilizes chakra or chi, such as a monk, or a practitioner of ninjutsu, it cuts off their ability to channel these skills as well.
- ● Tenchi Jouge: Also called the ‘Stance of Overpowering Annihilation’, it is a highly offensive combat stance, one which lends itself to the secondary style which Glioca uses, typically when in a truly lethal battle with a strong opponent. If she cannot successfully disable an opponent either with spells or if an opponent is so dangerous that she knows death is the only way to stop them, she will switch into this stance for the duration of combat, either until her opponent is on the ground, or she is.
- ● Jūken: Referred to as ‘Gentle Fist’, this fighting style utilizes circular techniques and movement patterns to allow the martial artist a wider range of motion and full use of momentum to control the flow of the fight. It utilizes various strikes (with palm, fist, elbow, fingers, etc), kicks, joint locks, throws, and distinctly evasive circular footwork. Many of these techniques cause internal damage and do not require a large amount of force to be exerted to deliver them, hence the reason the martial art style is called ‘Gentle’. It was also necessary at the time of her teaching for Glioca to utilize great care when fighting anyone as she had limited control over her strength. Though this is no longer the case, she continues to utilize this style the most heavily of all of them that she uses. (This fighting style is based largely on Baguazhang.)
- ● Photo-reflexivity: Photo-reflexiveness is the pinnacle of the rare genetic trait found in those with an eidetic memory. The ability to become physically attuned to the movements of others simply by witnessing them, gaining their expertise and experience through mere moments or less depending on how comfortable one is with their trait. Once seen or heard, the user is now permanently filled with the knowledge, and their body adapts to be able to perform it to the best of its ability. Training is required for the body to meet the challenges presented by the knowledge taken in, and obviously, some things can’t be mimicked based on the limitations of the body. This ability also functions as highly accelerated learning, as the user can do whatever they wish with their new knowledge - even building upon what they've witnessed, not limited to simply mirroring what has been observed. The limitation, of course, is provided that the user's body can actually physically perform the movements it is now educated in doing. Witnessing someone running at extreme speeds does not make them just as speedy... nor does witnessing someone juggle cinderblocks mean that they can even lift one. While this means she wouldn’t be able to mimic a quadruped’s combat movement, for example, she will memorize it and if reasonably skilled in that area - might draw inspiration using it as a basis. This also extends to audial perceptions as well, giving her the ability to perfectly mimic sounds and voices to the best of her physical capability.
- ● Technological Prowess: Among the things that Glioca has studied during her long life, Garlean and Allagan technology are in the forefront, though this aptitude has only been honed most prominently during the last 30 years or so of her life. She is capable of reverse-engineering different technological devices, though much to the frustration of those around her, many of her technological developments have been used solely for defense, and any application she can use that will permit her to greatly enhance her healing capabilities. She has developed a few weaponry systems, mostly minor. Primarily, she tinkers and dissects, using the technology to expand her library and find a way to create workable and easily utilized devices that improve the quality of life for those who have suffered some body failure.
- ● Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets (DRSG’s): Built out of a desire to be never without a failsafe for those times when her aether is limited or she is unable to get across a battlefield to an opponent, Glioca developed a gauntlet that permits a free range of motion while utilizing her martial arts, while simultaneously containing a powerful firearm, boosting her utility. These collapse down into bracelets for day-to-day wear when not in their gauntlet form, and are powered by magazines of magitek rounds. Each magazine consists of 12 shells, giving 24 shots in total when both gauntlets are fully loaded. These rounds don’t traditionally pierce, but instead explode upon impact.
- ● Tiny Angry Magitek Reaper: The guardian of the Black Phoenix Oddities shop, this is a miniature Magitek Reaper replica which contains several magitek rounds, each of which will explode on contact, causing considerable damage to anyone who is seen as ‘intruding’ in the shop. Theft will technically also trigger this defense mechanism. He is tiny, and he is angry.
- ● Scientific Knowledge: She has extensive knowledge of the workings of the humanoid body, and has studied anatomy on all of the Eorzean races, albeit one of them not in the last hundred or so years (Au Ra). She has scientific knowledge that has been bolstered by the study and research of Allag technologies, and as such is capable of utilizing things like cloning techniques and genetic splicing. Most of her scientific knowledge is medical in nature, and like most other things she does, she uses this to further her healing, enabling her to solve common problems that would otherwise stop many healers from aiding the sick. This knowledge also causes her great frustration when dealing with less learned healers who think that simple diseases with easy treatments are a death sentence for their patients.
- ● Weapon Proficiencies: Necessity has dictated that Glioca grow proficient with several weapons. Included among these are Long-swords, Short-swords, Great-swords, Daggers, Axes, Lances, Staves and Pole-arms. Glioca is fairly much incapable of using Bows, and given her DRSG’s, is quite capable with firearms. In a twisted sort of irony, she considers utilizing swords to be a handicap for her, as she is much more capable when utilizing bare-handed martial arts styles. As such, when fighting an opponent she doesn’t want to kill, she uses swords rather than martial styles. She is capable of using hora and other pugilist weaponry, but prefers not to, as they interfere with the fine control needed for her piercing palm techniques.
OOC Note: When it comes to unavoidable combat RP, I'm willing to go with either Dice, or Freeform, depending on what's decided on by those of us fighting. That said, I prefer freeform, and use what is referred to as an "interrupt" style of RP combat, in that when an action is performed, a description of the effects it would have is included. It is then up to the other individual to defend against the action and/or mitigate the effects as they're described. Don't hesitate to send a /t if you have questions, or are uncertain about a specific action performed in a battle.
BUSINESS, ARTISTRY & TRADESKILLS
Glioca and her husband A'rklonn started a small business out of the front of their home in the Goblet, where they might ask for gil, or for rather unique forms of payment, depending on the good purchased. Black Phoenix Oddities is not the only work that the pair do, however, and Glioca is currently the head of the Rising Phoenix Free Company, a mercenary guild that operates out of Ul'dah, but technically under the banner of the Maelstrom. They work collectively within all four major city-states (Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah and Ishgard), and have appropriate permissions and paperwork required for each group. This gives their collective company a sense of autonomy within city-state boundaries, as they can technically operate just above the law, so long as they cooperate with each city's primary source of law enforcement. She also holds an enlisted officers position within the Maelstrom itself.
Her long life and certain life choices have given her a more practical eye for the things one might create and the craftsmanship, attention to detail, and quality that one might place upon their work. Rather than perfecting every combat skill, Glioca instead opted to pursue and perfect her skills in regards to the creation of items. She considers her strongest points to be botany or gardening, alchemy and cooking, but neglected no other craft in favor of another, instead preferring to dedicate herself to each one equally. In Eorzea, she sought out membership with each guild in order to maintain her level of capability, and indeed, improve upon techniques drawn from other places. She is a rather inventive person when she wants to be, and has created all manner of goods, including some rather interesting bedroom aids made by utilizing all of her skills. While unorthodox, she considers them a point of pride, as they stretch the limits of her skills.
Her long life and certain life choices have given her a more practical eye for the things one might create and the craftsmanship, attention to detail, and quality that one might place upon their work. Rather than perfecting every combat skill, Glioca instead opted to pursue and perfect her skills in regards to the creation of items. She considers her strongest points to be botany or gardening, alchemy and cooking, but neglected no other craft in favor of another, instead preferring to dedicate herself to each one equally. In Eorzea, she sought out membership with each guild in order to maintain her level of capability, and indeed, improve upon techniques drawn from other places. She is a rather inventive person when she wants to be, and has created all manner of goods, including some rather interesting bedroom aids made by utilizing all of her skills. While unorthodox, she considers them a point of pride, as they stretch the limits of her skills.
Goods... Glioca offers a number of unique products, primarily of her own design, at the shop. These can include things like makeup and cosmetics, but more commonly range to things like philters, draughts, and elixirs. She also sells confectionery treats, plush creations, and a variety of other things, but the real pride of the shop is their other range of more unique items, tomes, and other miscellany goods. Glioca keeps a trove of commonly created potions and requested items, both infused with aether, and not, readily available for purchase. Services... While much of what is seen on the shelves of the store are all that's offered, the duo are capable of obtaining a great number of things, and their skill with artistry means they're capable of creating unique items that an individual might need. Everything from jewelry to rare texts and even discreetly obtained Allag items. Much of what they create in this way is obtained by commission, usually for those that the pair find interesting. The most interesting thing that they offer, outside of the shop, is a service that's in high demand, but low supply: revenge. The pair will take revenge for those who are unable, for a certain price, regardless of the fashion of revenge that is requested, usually delivering equal suffering upon an individual, however, the exact terms is dependent on their client. This type of service is offered on a person by person basis, and is contingent on the OOC approval of all parties involved (the asker, and the intended target). Contact... Feel free to approach me for RP relating to Black Phoenix Oddities or to NPC / handwave the more common purchases, whichever is more convenient for you. If you choose the NPC / handwave route, note that the (NPC) employee overseeing most day-to-day business affairs, consults, and sales in the boutique is a Wildwood Elezen woman by the name of Melisine Sorel. |
Rising Phoenix... The Free Company currently operates in a very extensive base in the Goblet in Ul'dah. With discreet builders who were paid well, they carved a larger base into the mountain beside their home. They have the ability to self-sustain for an extended period of several months if under seige, and have a number of workshops and laboratories under the stone of Thanalan. This information however, is a very closely guarded secret, and none within the company would divulge said secret. The workers wouldn't be likely to do so either. Services... The mercenary company will take on any number of different jobs, from finding rare components, escort and bodyguard services, and though discreetly done, the very nasty business of assassination, if so requested. The members have a range of skills, and are willing to undertake any number of jobs upon request. Payment is always expected in advance for certain jobs, but the group will rarely turn down a job. They will not, however, meddle in local government politics, and have a strict policy against doing anything that would upset the very delicate balance in the City-States, as it would be considered bad business all the way around. Contact... To contact anyone in the Free Company for a job, it is suggested to go through Glioca or A'rklonn Sargonnai, as they are the ones who openly charge the mercenaries in the company with their tasks. Similarly, if an individual was interested in joining, Glioca Sargonnai would be the one to contact. |
Glioca has the most experience with cooking. She tends to cook with an elegant flourish, and favors candies and cakes, but she can make just about anything, ranging from traditional Eorzean dishes to the more unique cuisine of Othard, and indeed, lands far beyond. But take away her fancy pots and pans, and she's just as happy cooking over an open fire with a simple metal pot and fresh spices. She's more of a personal fondness for savory rather than sweet, and sells a number of her wares at Black Phoenix Oddities, the store she runs with A'rklonn. She did undergo training at the Bismark, to learn how to appropriately and adequately prepare traditional Eorzean cuisine as cooking can often change over the years, and she spent a great deal of time out of Aldenard. Her specialties are small chocolate candies, filled with cream and fruit, a sort of cordial cherry type dish, which she makes with a number of both sweet and sour fruits. This has more recently expanded to include Ishgardian cuisine as she spends more time in the area, and even some rare Dravanian style dishes, when she can locate appropriate sources for the information. To go along with her skill at cooking, Glioca spends a great deal of time pushing the envelope with recipes in Alchemy that would probably make people raise an eyebrow, blink, or do a little bit of both. She experiments, creating things like poison and "love potions" with equal ease. She crafts natural and magically based philters, draughts, and elixirs, all of which she offers for purchase. She also creates experimental potions and drafts, including ones that are used for transmutation of an object into another substance, and more notably, a potion which, taken daily, helps prevent conception. One of the ways that she utilizes her alchemical cooking is in taking the sting, as it were, out of some of the more nasty tasting potions. She has also used these methods to make unique treats, such as delicate spun chocolate creations, and frozen sweet cream made into tiny dots of flavor which melt together to become a rather delicious whole. Probably Glioca's greatest hobby, the cultivation of plants and new subspecies of flora is one of the things that the woman prides herself on. Through careful study and experimentation, she has begun growing plants that are often not found in Eorzea proper, typically for personal use and never shared with others except in the form of an ingredient used in one of her many concoctions or tinctures, or as part of an herbal tea. She keeps a number of small gardens at her home in the Goblet, and when she isn't reading or training, she can be found speaking to and tending these plants in the underground complex of her Free Company home. A very casual fisher, Glioca's favorite spot in somewhere deep in the Twelveswood, nothing but a lot of quiet around her, and her fishing pole in hand, watching the water. She could easily spend hours this way, but sadly, doesn't get to fish as much as she'd like. She doesn't trophy fish, however, instead preferring that anything she catch be used for a meal, for alchemy, or some other craft. This usually results in her only spending sporadic bursts fishing, depending on what she is creating and what that thing requires. |
Pounding on a sheet of metal is easy when you've got a lot of strength, and that's definitely something that Glioca has in spades. She maintains all of her own armor; a suit of silver half-mail created with a mixture of weaving, smithing, metallurgy, alchemy, goldsmithing and leatherworking. This unique combination allowed her to create an alloyed metal that is light as leather and flexible like cloth, while still affording her the protection of a full suit of armor. This gives her the flexibility to utilize her unique combat styles, as well as the necessary protection to still take the brunt of the damage she does. She rarely takes on commissions for others, as she doesn't feel her armorsmithing to be one of her best skills on it's own, but she does, as with everything else, try her hand at furniture that utilizes the strong plates, rings, rivets and other components that armorsmithing is well known for. She has a fair hand at blacksmithing, with long hours spent in study to make the most of her skill with the craft. She utilizes her knowledge of magic to carve runes and symbols along the weapons she creates, allowing them to be used, with some infusion of crystal somewhere into the weaponry, to be used as a magic focus. This is part of her experimentation in cross-combination magic, and she uses her sword as a singular focus when casting just about anything. She utilizes blacksmithing in conjunction with her carpentry to create weapons that are both elegant and functional, enjoying the decorations she can add that makes each individual item she crafts unique. She's not a bad hand with anything else you could make with the smithing craft, and utilizes it to create the small components she uses in her magitek work, as well. She's currently working on a gunblade based on a Garlean prototype. This project is still in the works. Goldsmithing requires a finer hand and touch that while Glioca has it, she prefers mixing metals into unique alloys for the craft more than she does crafting the actual pieces of jewelry themselves. That said, she can make a ring as intricate as anything one might have seen - but she'll probably never call it her favorite craft. She's much more fond of using her skill to make links and rings for armorsmithing work. As far as gathering metal, she tends to leave that to her husband, though she can mine, and does mine when the situation calls for it. Regardless, she prefers to leave the largest orders of heavy metals to him, as he has a greater talent with finding the best nodes to tap. Otherwise, she prefers to go through Amajina & Sons Mining Company. |
Her skill with botany has given Glioca a good eye for what types of wood would be best with what project. Her time in Othard helped in sparking her interest, as she spent a good deal of time working with her hands. She could build a house for someone, given time and materials, starting with the frame, and ending with the furniture. She enjoys the craft of working a log or piece of timber into a work of art, whether that's a decorative carving, or a weapon to be used by an archer or lancer. She tends all of her own needs in terms of weaponry, using her skill at carpentry to supplement and augment her skill at blacksmithing where necessary. Nothing nurtures weaving quite like the need to make clothing for day to day use. Glioca's specialization in weaving comes not from an intricate pattern or decorative clothing, but from her skill at crafting practical things - pillows, and most especially plush dolls. She's made a number of plush dolls over the years, including a dancing cactaur ballerina powered by a special wind cluster. She put in her time at the weaver's guild, and can craft just about anything you want from her, but she finds the most joy in dolls and the other types of things she creates, rather than just clothing, intricate or not. She does enjoy weaving for the sake of it's own craft. Glioca honed her leatherworking to accompany her weaving, knowing that working leather was a practical skill to nurture as the two often go hand in hand, especially when a piece requires both finely worked leather and well-woven cloth. Just as with weaving, she spent time working with Fen-Yll, learning patterns and practical knowledge. She's developed a few patterns on her own, mostly for styles of gloves that are easily used by combatants who want a lighter armor that allows the free use of magic. |
HISTORY
Glioca is a very private individual, and while she is likely to explain bits and pieces of her history, no one individual should expect to get all of the details out of her until they're very close. Some details she'll share freely, such as her time spent in Othard years ago, her parents and lineage, and snippets of her life since she returned to Eorzea. All of the details here are expected to be kept OOC unless an individual is given the information by Glioca personally.
Disclaimer: Her history is currently being adjusted to make certain it fits within a certain timeline of events. This is taking some lore delving, and allowing for spacing for certain gaps that can later be filled in through RP, or alternatively, as lore about other areas of the XIV world are filled in given both her age and the amount of time spent traveling across Hydaelyn. Consider this section to be a constant Work In Progress.
Childhood In Gridania
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Becoming An Adult
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Travel and Experience
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Home Again, Home Again
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Moving Forward
Chance Meetings
Unstable Stability
Unpleasant Surprises
In With The New
New Hope, New Loss
Problems and Solutions
Reconnections and Binding Ties
Growing Up, Moving On
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RELATIONSHIPS - NPC
♥ Family – ☀ Platonic – ∞ Involved – ღ Romantic – ♡ Passionate –❣ Physical – ♦ Friend – ★ Acquaintance – $ Business – ✝ Deceased – ✔ Positive – ✖ Negative – ● Neutral – � Unsure – ☠ Enemy
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RUMORS
Some of these rumors are untrue, speculation, or are greatly exaggerated. ◢ Common Rumors - Easily overheard. Use these freely!
◢ Uncommon Rumors - A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!
◢ Rare Rumors - Very rarely overheard. Please ask before using!
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Feel free to add your own rumors to this section. ◢ Player Character Rumors - Some of these are more rare than others!
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MUSIC
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OOC NOTES
Player Note I expect a clear IC / OOC division in RP. Glioca's feelings and my feelings are separate. I prefer clear lines of communication with whomever I'm RPing with, and those I'm RPing with should always feel free to send a /tell to clear up any questions. A large point of note, and I feel this is important, is that I do not believe in 'retconning' a storyline, even if it ends unfavorably for myself or my characters. Names may or may not be changed, and tidbits of information might be changed to better reflect a character's story, but I refuse to undo elements of her past that have happened. If your character was involved with Glioca in a storyline or other aspect, except those aspects to be recognized, even if negative, for the remainder of her play. If a player feels as if they need to retcon it from their story, that is their prerogative, but as a player I find it insulting to those I've played with to simply wipe out the existing history and hours of time and effort we both devoted to a story, no matter how it turned out in the end. There is a lot of information on this character wiki, but it is by no means completely comprehensive. There are chunks of backstory that are left intentionally vague so that details can be later added as developed through creative writing or in role-play revelation. Feel free to use Common or Uncommon rumors freely, if you want to use a Rare Rumor as a plot hook, I would ask that you send me a tell first, to make certain it's alright. Personal RP Limits I like to consider myself a flexible player who is willing to commit to a number of different types of scenes and role-play scenarios, but even I have my limits. If something is on the play list, assume it means yes, as long as it's within the context of the current play or ongoing plot. No's are typically a hard no, and it means don't ask, and if I'm in the mood for it, I'll be the one to initiate. This is in part because Glioca's already had such a screwed up backstory in some places, she doesn't need anymore mental anguish. She's already had a lifetime of it.
Character Lore Adherence Everything concerning this character that has not been confirmed by in-game lore should be taken with a grain of salt. While an effort was made to craft lore that was vague enough and would believably fit into what we know based on the Echo, until we have hard and fast information from SE. Changes made to make her fit more accurately within the lore will be noted below
Disclaimer Glioca is based on the goddess of the same name from Kru/Nexon's Dark Ages. Her story and lore was heavily modified after 13+ years of play in forum, tabletop, and MMO role-play. This iteration has been modified to fit into the FFXIV Universe, as Meallaire.
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Links Out Links that lead off the wiki, but are technically relevant to the character.
Potential Plot Hooks Glioca has done and seen a lot in her history. While the below is by no means comprehensive, it's a kind of spring board for walk-up RP. Longer plots that are meant to run for more than a few quick RP's, please feel free to send me a tell so we can work out a good reason for our characters to get to know one another. I'm always looking for RP, unless I'm actively spamming PvE content.
Tropes & Explanations A trope is a convention or device that is often found in creative works. In this case, the tropes below describe Meallaire/Glioca either in part, or as a whole. Her background, personality, appearance, etc, most of them can be described in the tropes below.
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CREDITS
Layout Information
- The following is not entirely comprehensive, but contains general credits. Please leave the link-backs if you use this template!
- ■ Original template by Bancroft Gairn.
- ■ Adapted by Xheja Rajhera.
- ■ Tabs by Unnamed Mercenary.
- ■ Expanded bits by Lucaell Tareth'eian.
- ■ Header image inspired by D'lyhhia Lhuil.
- ■ Music bits from J'karu Rhome.
- ■ Relationships & OOC notes by Glioca Sargonnai.