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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is The Honourable Lady Iris Lilith Blanchimont, Vidame of the House Haillenarte and Baroness of Coldwind, Envoy of Nym, Minister of Parliament and Servant of the Republic&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. This proved a tense arrangement at times, and a short-lived one, but one that granted Fortemps some more diversified business holdings and granted Iris the role of Vidame.&lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was tolerated and even accepted as it enabled her versitility in service to the Faith. Moreover, Iris' faith was far from her most scandalous quality. Though even her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although, with the company's expansion Yumi Hikaru strongly suggested Iris' return to membership in the company, situations in Ishgard had taken a decisive turn and demanded ever greater attention. Plus, she did blow up their house. Part of it. As a compromise, Iris opened a branch office of her business Atelier Iris in space rented from the company and became a 'consulting researcher' for the company's affairs and endeavors, in an advisory and contractual role.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
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A combination of House Blanchimont being both a source of great merit in the early days of the Republic and the amount of scandal and political complication brought by it's matriarch caused the small house to be brought into realignment again, this time as a 'gift' to Fortemps' ally House Haillenarte. Given Blanchimont's business interest in both airships and the Sea of Clouds, it was a match made in one of the lesser heavens, as Haillenarte both operated the Skysteel Manufactury and desperately wanted someone else to deal with the Sea of Clouds. Count Haillenarte promptly reissued Iris' status as a Vidame and quickly added barony over the Isle of Coldwind as well, so it could no longer be his problem.&lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is the titular head of House Blanchimont and a Minister of Parliament, being one of the most progressive voices in the Reformist Party. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the design specifications for a 'Void Ark' and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Iris Blanchimont</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: /* The New Republic of Ishgard */&lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. This proved a tense arrangement at times, and a short-lived one, but one that granted Fortemps some more diversified business holdings and granted Iris the role of Vidame.&lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was tolerated and even accepted as it enabled her versitility in service to the Faith. Moreover, Iris' faith was far from her most scandalous quality. Though even her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although, with the company's expansion Yumi Hikaru strongly suggested Iris' return to membership in the company, situations in Ishgard had taken a decisive turn and demanded ever greater attention. Plus, she did blow up their house. Part of it. As a compromise, Iris opened a branch office of her business Atelier Iris in space rented from the company and became a 'consulting researcher' for the company's affairs and endeavors, in an advisory and contractual role.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
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A combination of House Blanchimont being both a source of great merit in the early days of the Republic and the amount of scandal and political complication brought by it's matriarch caused the small house to be brought into realignment again, this time as a 'gift' to Fortemps' ally House Haillenarte. Given Blanchimont's business interest in both airships and the Sea of Clouds, it was a match made in one of the lesser heavens, as Haillenarte both operated the Skysteel Manufactury and desperately wanted someone else to deal with the Sea of Clouds. Count Haillenarte promptly reissued Iris' status as a Vidame and quickly added barony over the Isle of Coldwind as well, so it could no longer be his problem.&lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is the titular head of House Blanchimont and a Minister of Parliament, being one of the most progressive voices in the Reformist Party. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the design specifications for a 'Void Ark' and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Iris Blanchimont</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: /* Arche Koeln */&lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. This proved a tense arrangement at times, and a short-lived one, but one that granted Fortemps some more diversified business holdings and granted Iris the role of Vidame.&lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was tolerated and even accepted as it enabled her versitility in service to the Faith. Moreover, Iris' faith was far from her most scandalous quality. Though even her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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Although, with the company's expansion Yumi Hikaru strongly suggested Iris' return to membership in the company, situations in Ishgard had taken a decisive turn and demanded ever greater attention. Plus, she did blow up their house. Part of it. As a compromise, Iris opened a branch office of her business Atelier Iris in space rented from the company and became a 'consulting researcher' for the company's affairs and endeavors, in an advisory and contractual role.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is the titular head of House Blanchimont and a Minister of Parliament, being one of the most progressive voices in the Reformist Party. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the design specifications for a 'Void Ark' and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. This proved a tense arrangement at times, and a short-lived one, but one that granted Fortemps some more diversified business holdings and granted Iris the role of Vidame.&lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was tolerated and even accepted as it enabled her versitility in service to the Faith. Moreover, Iris' faith was far from her most scandalous quality. Though even her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is the titular head of House Blanchimont and a Minister of Parliament, being one of the most progressive voices in the Reformist Party. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the design specifications for a 'Void Ark' and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Rixia</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Rixy Sylwest&lt;br /&gt;
| image = &lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Rixia&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Rihks-ee-ya&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Rixy&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Femaleish&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = Undefined&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Gridania&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Sylph&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Greenleaf&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Ramuh&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 6 fulms 1 ilm (glamoured)&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 127 ponze (glamoured)&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Lean (glamoured)&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Green with purple accents&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Bronze&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Mischief, anthropology(ish)&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Touched Ones, going home&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Fun!&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Chef&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Magically adept&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Remarkably fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Electricity&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Pastel maid uniform&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Cooking, illusions&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://notasylph.tumblr.com notasylph]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Andromeda Dulaque]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Fantasia Players&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Fantasia Players &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Saika &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Beastmen of Eorzea&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Rixy typically takes the form of a relatively short and apparently young female Elezen with short-cropped green and purple hair and a pale green flower painted or glamoured onto her right cheek. She has been known to glamour herself as other races and more rarely as males, but she typically retains the hair color and flower marking. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing'''  is less of a hobby and more an essential part of communication for Rixy. She also enjoys watching others dance, claiming it gives her insight into their intentions.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cooking''' has become almost an obsession of hers. She believes that the best way to understand a culture is through its food, because food is a life pleasure all walking ones share but place their own values into. In her efforts to emulate humans, cooking is an important skill. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Trickery''' of course is her hobby of choice. Illusions, malicious adherence to agreements, and many other stereotypical fae qualities are an important part of what helps Rixy unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights at the Elysium give a unique oppertunity to watch others dance and learn about their values and customs. &lt;br /&gt;
::* ''' '''&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Touched Ones''' are somewhat scary in her estimation. She dislikes those who would use her deity as a club to harm people in the name of Sylphkind. She also dislikes the Little Solace sylphs for their unwillingness to protect Ramuh from these interlopers. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Voidsent''' are just plain terrifying. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vegetarians''' might eat her mistaking her for a head of lettuce. While this is most likely a joke, she has said it on multiple occasions. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pale green&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Caelumtree fruit&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pineapple juice&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Petrichor&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' The Sylphlands&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' All Saint's Wake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Naivety''' - Rixy knows almost nothing about the world of Walking Ones and is highly prone to misunderstanding things based on that.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Obviousness''' - There are likely very few people ignorant of the fact that Rixia is a sylph. Still, she will deny it fervently.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Lack of Bodily Understanding''' - She's barely got walking down, she can't possibly work up the command of body required for physical combat. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Act''' - She almost never considers consequences of her actions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Panicked''' - It is remarkably easy for her to overreact to a situation, and take things to dramatic conclusions. Most often this means overworking herself in the kitchen to feed people who may not be hungry... or even at the estate at all.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ahriman''' - While some fear of voidsent might be rational, Rixy is specifically concerned Ahriman will eat her. This fear was given to her by a walking one ten years ago who warned her about not trusting creatures with big teeth. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Returning Home''' - Rixy's convinced any attempt to venture into the Sylphlands again will be met with hostility. Even Little Solace, she feels, would reject her. This fear of rejection has turned into a fear of going home. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Cooking''' - Rixy is actually a rather remarkable cook, for all her oddities. She's mastered a great many recipes from different cultures across the world and is constantly honing this art. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Illusion Magic''' - The strongest talent Rixy has is illusion magic, as it was for a long time essential for her to maintain her form. She's gotten better than the standard Sylph at this school of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rixia is proficient in no weapons. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sylvan Magic''' - Rixy is gifted in a combination of Lightning-aspected magic, basic healing arts and advanced illusion magics common among Sylphs. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Cooking''' - Rixy is, as said before, singularly dedicated to cooking and has become gifted at this particular pursuit. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is Rixy's company, and is her place of employment.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rixy lives at the '''Wanderer's Elysium'''. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Sylph Life ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Leaving the Twelveswood ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rixia is, quite obviously, a sylph in disguise. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* She is responsible for much of the menu at the Elysium.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Elezen]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Wildwood Elezen]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Sylph]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Gridanian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Rixia&amp;diff=247390</id>
		<title>Rixia</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Rixia&amp;diff=247390"/>
		<updated>2017-05-24T06:25:01Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{Infobox-TMI&lt;br /&gt;
| name = Rixy Sylwest&lt;br /&gt;
| image = &lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Rixia&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Rihks-ee-ya&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Rixy&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Femaleish&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = Undefined&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Unknown&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Gridania&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Sylph&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Greenleaf&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Ramuh&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 6 fulms 1 ilm (glamoured)&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 127 ponze (glamoured)&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Lean (glamoured)&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Green with purple accents&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Bronze&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Mischief, anthropology(ish)&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Touched Ones, going home&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Fun!&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Chef&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Magically adept&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Remarkably fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Electricity&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Pastel maid uniform&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Cooking, illusions&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://notasylph.tumblr.com notasylph]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Andromeda Dulaque]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Fantasia Players&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Fantasia Players &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Beastmen of Eorzea&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Rixy typically takes the form of a relatively short and apparently young female Elezen with short-cropped green and purple hair and a pale green flower painted or glamoured onto her right cheek. She has been known to glamour herself as other races and more rarely as males, but she typically retains the hair color and flower marking. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing'''  is less of a hobby and more an essential part of communication for Rixy. She also enjoys watching others dance, claiming it gives her insight into their intentions.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cooking''' has become almost an obsession of hers. She believes that the best way to understand a culture is through its food, because food is a life pleasure all walking ones share but place their own values into. In her efforts to emulate humans, cooking is an important skill. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Trickery''' of course is her hobby of choice. Illusions, malicious adherence to agreements, and many other stereotypical fae qualities are an important part of what helps Rixy unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights at the Elysium give a unique oppertunity to watch others dance and learn about their values and customs. &lt;br /&gt;
::* ''' '''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Touched Ones''' are somewhat scary in her estimation. She dislikes those who would use her deity as a club to harm people in the name of Sylphkind. She also dislikes the Little Solace sylphs for their unwillingness to protect Ramuh from these interlopers. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Voidsent''' are just plain terrifying. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vegetarians''' might eat her mistaking her for a head of lettuce. While this is most likely a joke, she has said it on multiple occasions. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pale green&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Caelumtree fruit&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pineapple juice&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Petrichor&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' The Sylphlands&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' All Saint's Wake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Naivety''' - Rixy knows almost nothing about the world of Walking Ones and is highly prone to misunderstanding things based on that.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Obviousness''' - There are likely very few people ignorant of the fact that Rixia is a sylph. Still, she will deny it fervently.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Lack of Bodily Understanding''' - She's barely got walking down, she can't possibly work up the command of body required for physical combat. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Act''' - She almost never considers consequences of her actions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Panicked''' - It is remarkably easy for her to overreact to a situation, and take things to dramatic conclusions. Most often this means overworking herself in the kitchen to feed people who may not be hungry... or even at the estate at all.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ahriman''' - While some fear of voidsent might be rational, Rixy is specifically concerned Ahriman will eat her. This fear was given to her by a walking one ten years ago who warned her about not trusting creatures with big teeth. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Returning Home''' - Rixy's convinced any attempt to venture into the Sylphlands again will be met with hostility. Even Little Solace, she feels, would reject her. This fear of rejection has turned into a fear of going home. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Cooking''' - Rixy is actually a rather remarkable cook, for all her oddities. She's mastered a great many recipes from different cultures across the world and is constantly honing this art. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Illusion Magic''' - The strongest talent Rixy has is illusion magic, as it was for a long time essential for her to maintain her form. She's gotten better than the standard Sylph at this school of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rixia is proficient in no weapons. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sylvan Magic''' - Rixy is gifted in a combination of Lightning-aspected magic, basic healing arts and advanced illusion magics common among Sylphs. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Cooking''' - Rixy is, as said before, singularly dedicated to cooking and has become gifted at this particular pursuit. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is Rixy's company, and is her place of employment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rixy lives at the '''Wanderer's Elysium'''. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Sylph Life ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Leaving the Twelveswood ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rixia is, quite obviously, a sylph in disguise. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* She is responsible for much of the menu at the Elysium.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Elezen]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Wildwood Elezen]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Sylph]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Gridanian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Andromeda_Dulaque&amp;diff=241694</id>
		<title>Andromeda Dulaque</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Andromeda_Dulaque&amp;diff=241694"/>
		<updated>2017-04-30T06:53:21Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;{{Infobox-TMI&lt;br /&gt;
| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = An old blunderbuss&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Star Velvet light chain&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Dark Red&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pineapples&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Emotionally-Driven''' Rommie's strength with emotional matters is also a grave flaw, as she tends to react with her heart long before her head catches up. This leaves her not just reckless, but open to misinterpreting people's meanings.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Madame Dulaque is a scoundrel by any other name... and the kind with a heart of gold what's rare to find. Could not ask for a better friend and confidante, and, well- if you get the chance, spend some time with her and you'll know what I mean. Bring a quarter million gil with you, though!&amp;quot; -- [[Wu'rexa Norh]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a knight required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04082017 024306.png|On business in Limsa Lominsa, in her casual attire.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is the titular head of House Blanchimont and a Minister of Parliament, being one of the most progressive voices in the Reformist Party. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the design specifications for a 'Void Ark' and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Iris Blanchimont</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the design specifications for a 'Void Ark' and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Iris Blanchimont</title>
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, [[Eliane Dufresne]], seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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Shortly before her twenty-eighth nameday, Iris destroyed her lab at Arche Koeln, and opted instead to set up in a remote and mostly-abandoned facility in the outskirts of the Black Shroud called the Safety Station, once intended to be a waystation for a train line from Ul'dah to Gridania that was abandoned due to a lack of political will. She officially left work with Arche Koeln at this time.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The New Republic of Ishgard ===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|the latter stretch of the 3.x series.}}&lt;br /&gt;
As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. It was also where she met [[Wu'rexa Norh]].&lt;br /&gt;
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She became a vocal feature of the Colloquies, pressing for racial integration and a turn toward peace and mercy rather than an attempt to find the next war. As the work of both the Colloquies and the other machinations of government rolled on, Iris became a part of the Reformist political faction, and an outspoken element of it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When the transition was made from a theocratic to a democratic system and a Parliament established, Iris took the duty of representing her family. She abandoned both her teaching position and a sizable portion of her research portfolio in so doing, and occasionally regrets the decision to seek public office, but has continued to advance policies that drive for social progress in the deeply regressive former-See. &lt;br /&gt;
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During this transition, her connections with a lot of Ishgard's community began to cement, most especially her burgeoning relationship with the squire Rex, in service of House Durfesne. The house's de facto leader, Ellie, seemed to disapprove of this relationship and questioned Rex's loyalties, something Iris took as a personal offense. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her tenure as a Minister of Parliament was noted especially in light of her role in defending against the attempted coup in early 7AE4 at the hands of violent remnants of Nidhogg's horde. While the coup was easily put down, Iris seems to look back on the event with a cold distance, the reason for which is not publicly known. &lt;br /&gt;
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However, she was also the representative of Parliament to give the formal accounting of the events to the media, via the Crystal Chronicle newspaper. This openness with the press was met with some hostility from a regime used to operating in absolute secrecy, but Iris characterized it as important to democracy. &lt;br /&gt;
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When tensions began to rise with Garlemald, Iris supported, albeit hesitantly, the deployment of troops in the Shroud to support the borders of Gridania, and called on Ishgardians to consider support of the Empire an act of treason against the Republic, in something of an about-face from her earlier anti-war rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Iris Blanchimont</title>
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|Heavensward and Revenge of the Horde}}&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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After late work at the Scholasticate one evening, Iris' teleport was hijacked. She and a series of people, many of whom she knew, were trapped in a strange, aetherless construction. Iris was badly injured by a voidsent, but was able to ascertain the reason they were unable to teleport out with the aid of an operator's manual. But on her way to resolve the problem, she was slipped alcohol and tempted by a void relic which promised her the influence to make Ishgard a more egalitarian and progressive society. Eventually, by defeating a Marbol Queen voidsent posing as [[J'yhun Arun]]'s sister and reconnected the Void Ark aetheryte to Eorzea and evacuated the team to Costa del Sol.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 12222016 234100.png|Rex proposes to Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052017 014525.png|Iris dressed as Sophia the Goddess&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Royal Marine of Nym and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Sachie''' is her carbuncle, who maintains a persistent memory and accounting of the world through very advanced self-evolving geometries. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Ivy''' is Iris' fairy, a creature of Nymian geometries that she reverse-engineered to improve Sachie's magical framework. Ivy has a more developed identity and is capable of complex thought and speech, however, and is anchored by a Soulstone Iris possesses. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Ishgardian chocobos. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for most of her life, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|Heavensward and Revenge of the Horde}}&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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After late work at the Scholasticate one evening, Iris' teleport was hijacked. She and a series of people, many of whom she knew, were trapped in a strange, aetherless construction. Iris was badly injured by a voidsent, but was able to ascertain the reason they were unable to teleport out with the aid of an operator's manual. But on her way to resolve the problem, she was slipped alcohol and tempted by a void relic which promised her the influence to make Ishgard a more egalitarian and progressive society. Eventually, by defeating a Marbol Queen voidsent posing as [[J'yhun Arun]]'s sister and reconnected the Void Ark aetheryte to Eorzea and evacuated the team to Costa del Sol.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:ScolasticateIris.png|Saint Endalim's Scholasticate Lecturer Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is no longer an active member of the company, but is retained on contract as their aetheric scientist and researcher. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ishgardian House of Lords''': Iris is a Minister of Parliament by virtue of her station in society and her contributions to the formation of the Republic. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Equinox Genetic Engineering''': Similar to her arrangement with Arche Koeln, Iris is retained as an expert in the field of aetheric sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Ivy''' is a Peridot Carbuncle given a measure of self awareness using a particularly well-crafted mammet core as the ruby set in her forehead. Iris is unsure if Ivy is aware she is not a real Carbuncle and is studying her. Ivy is loyal and curious. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Tio''' is a Gaelikitten Iris rescued from Dravania. Tio spends most of his time fluttering around Mist looking for all the world like a stray and only bothers coming home when Iris offers food to him. Tio is named after the great dragon Tioman. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Maelstrom and Ishgardian chocobos, respectively. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for some time, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|Heavensward and Revenge of the Horde}}&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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After late work at the Scholasticate one evening, Iris' teleport was hijacked. She and a series of people, many of whom she knew, were trapped in a strange, aetherless construction. Iris was badly injured by a voidsent, but was able to ascertain the reason they were unable to teleport out with the aid of an operator's manual. But on her way to resolve the problem, she was slipped alcohol and tempted by a void relic which promised her the influence to make Ishgard a more egalitarian and progressive society. Eventually, by defeating a Marbol Queen voidsent posing as [[J'yhun Arun]]'s sister and reconnected the Void Ark aetheryte to Eorzea and evacuated the team to Costa del Sol.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:ScolasticateIris.png|Saint Endalim's Scholasticate Lecturer Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Iris Blanchimont</title>
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rosaire Ledigne]] was the moderator of the Colloquies of Ishgard and a former Inquisitor. At first, Iris expected him to be a voice of traditionalism, but he has proven to be a staunch ally and advocate of Reformist political causes. It was Rosie that left Iris a politician, something she both thanks him for and deeply regrets letting happen, depending on the day. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Aymeric Borel]] is the leader of the House of Lords and a man which Iris admires a great deal. They worked together on the attempted coup shortly into the Republic's existence, and she looks forward to more direct work with him. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Zinot Risus]] is an idiot. But he's gone from being a moody, irreverent, arrogant idiot to a mostly harmless idiot. Iris can deal with that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Eliane Dufresne]] is a fellow noblewoman Iris once saw as a friend, though has met her with increasing caution both due to percieved disapproval of her engagement and, more pointedly, unsubstantiated rumors of collaboration with the Garlean Empire.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anthony Vieri]] has needlessly positioned himself as a political adversary of Iris', a point which she remains puzzled by. He questioned her loyalty to Ishgard, which she decided was either his own racism, or more likely and cravenly, appealing to popular racism to fan disapproval of her political career. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is an Acolyte in the company charged with studying the Codex, the Gran Grimoire the company protects. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris has spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Saint Endalim's Scholasticate''': Iris is a guest lecturer on the subjects of Nymian healing sciences and arcanima strategy.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Redbills''': The sky pirate band flying ships she helped design ask her to occasionally study and decode treasures they obtain.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Ivy''' is a Peridot Carbuncle given a measure of self awareness using a particularly well-crafted mammet core as the ruby set in her forehead. Iris is unsure if Ivy is aware she is not a real Carbuncle and is studying her. Ivy is loyal and curious. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Tio''' is a Gaelikitten Iris rescued from Dravania. Tio spends most of his time fluttering around Mist looking for all the world like a stray and only bothers coming home when Iris offers food to him. Tio is named after the great dragon Tioman. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Maelstrom and Ishgardian chocobos, respectively. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for some time, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|Heavensward and Revenge of the Horde}}&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
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A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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After late work at the Scholasticate one evening, Iris' teleport was hijacked. She and a series of people, many of whom she knew, were trapped in a strange, aetherless construction. Iris was badly injured by a voidsent, but was able to ascertain the reason they were unable to teleport out with the aid of an operator's manual. But on her way to resolve the problem, she was slipped alcohol and tempted by a void relic which promised her the influence to make Ishgard a more egalitarian and progressive society. Eventually, by defeating a Marbol Queen voidsent posing as [[J'yhun Arun]]'s sister and reconnected the Void Ark aetheryte to Eorzea and evacuated the team to Costa del Sol.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:ScolasticateIris.png|Saint Endalim's Scholasticate Lecturer Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
| image = IBlanchimontPortrait.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Eye-riss Blahn-shh-mohn or Blahn-chuh-mohnt&lt;br /&gt;
| meaning = Flower of the White Mountain&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 10th Sun of the Second Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = Circa 6AE 1550&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Miqo'te&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Keeper of the Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Llymlaen and Halone&lt;br /&gt;
| alignment = True Neutral&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 1 ilm.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 112 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Wet noodle&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Ice blue, white and lilac&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Amethyst&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Aetheric research, ruins exploration, and dancing&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Understanding the world and learning new things&lt;br /&gt;
| accomplishment = Becoming a Royal Marine of Nym&lt;br /&gt;
| regret = Losing her first love in the Calamity&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Minister of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Scholar and Summoner&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Extraordinary intelligence, magic&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Weak, fragile&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Grimoire of the Royal Nymian Marines&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Amatsu armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Encyclopedic knowledge, very clever, pretty good chef&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Lamia, Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Izayoi Tokushi]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Arche Koeln (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Equinox (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Tantalus Theatre (Lamia) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard IC (Balmung) &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Ishgard OOC (Balmung)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Iris used a Fantasia to attain her current appearance. Her tail has a darker tip and she sometimes wears flower petals in her ice-blue hair, which is typically style in an over-the-shoulder side or back ponytail. Iris' eyes are purple and she sometimes wears glasses, though she doesn't actually need them. Iris often wears either elegant clothes befitting her station as an Ishgardian noble or a gold-trimmed suit of Doman samurai's light armor. Iris is almost five fulms tall but, due to some good luck, has rather short friends. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* Investigation of ancient ruins, especially Nymian.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Aetheric research.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Airship design and development&lt;br /&gt;
::* Dancing. Even the most hardened researcher needs to let some steam off.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alchemy''' was going to be Iris' career before the Calamity, and still is what she practices in her spare time to unwind. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Airships''' are a fascination of Iris', and she has dedicated some time to studying the airship designs in Arche Koeln. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Science''' is, to Iris, the study of how aether works. She is absolutely in love with that approach to understanding the rational, fundamental nature of magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Tonberries''' and really all things Nymian. She has an immense respect for the Tonberies, especially those who resist the Rancor.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Gridanian faith in 'the Elementals'''' is superstitious drivel she has no patience for. It is why she didn't want to become a White Mage, despite her aptitude for healing. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Flirtatious men''' are annoyances, partially because she has no interest in them but primarily because they tend to be more successful than Iris.  &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Alcohol''' usually ends badly for Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Teaching at the Scholasticate''' annoys Iris. While she enjoys educating people in a mentor/apprentice relationship or as peers, her preferred method is one-on-one education. She was pressured into taking the position as part of her noble responsibilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Purple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rolanberry Cheesecake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' All kinds of lassi&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Old books&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Nym&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight Celebration&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Socially Inept''' - Her emerging ability to reject really anything has left plain her total lack of social skills. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Misunderstanding''' - If the opportunity arises for Iris to take something in a way other than intended, she likely does. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Calculating''' - Iris plans things in such detail that it seems annoying to others, and it often causes problem as things rarely go to plan. She does not rush in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Easily Wounded''' - Iris is likely to take failure too seriously and insult too personally. She often blames herself, especially when the loss of other's lives is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loss of Control''' - Iris deeply fears not being in full control of her faculties, so rarely drinks and is deeply bothered by mind-affecting magic.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Marbols''' - Her disgust with Marbols had evolved into a fear of encountering them in the wild. She hates them and will either avoid them or melt their faces off in an attempt to be rid of them.   &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Loneliness''' - The most intangible fear Iris has is of being alone. She has a lot of experience feeling isolate and ears never finding someone to walk the path with. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Death''' - The abyss has claimed loved ones and friends in the past that the thought of death coming for her or others drives her into a panic, which is why her attention to the healing arts has intensified since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Alchemy''' - Iris was adopted by a family with a long history of alchemical talent, so she has worked with an alembic since she can remember. She is not the best in the world or anything, but is confident in her abilities. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Arcanima''' - Iris has a great aptitude for summoning creatures from the aether, be it carbuncles, egi or fairies. She has developed a deep bond with these aetheric entities and has used the knowledge she's gained from mastering them to become a master of disease as well, curing or inflicting plagues with the same science that summons her allies. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Research''' - Outside of her customs work, most of Iris' time consists of expeditions to ruins or reading books in libraries, and as such she is a blossoming expert in a variety of subjects. She has been working lately on researching the Gran Grimoire possessed by her company, Arche Koeln.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Wisdom''' - While Iris has passing familiarity with a number of weapons and combat styles, she prefers to outwit opponents and, if possible, avoid combat altogether. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Aetheric Manipulation''' - While the work of conjurers and thaumaturges seems too superstitious for her, the science of aetheric manipulation appeals to her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Alchemy''' - Iris' stock and trade is alchemy. It is the Blanchimont's family tradition as well as something she has studied in detail in Eorzea. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Cooking''' - &amp;quot;Cooking is a degenerate form of alchemy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Goldsmithing''' - It started as a way to make gifts for her first girlfriend Eliza Scarlet. Though she stopped practicing it after Eliza's disappearance in the Calamity, she has recently renewed her efforts and mastered the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Weaving''' - She has found sewing relaxing for some time and recently became one of the more skilled clothiers in Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rexa Sahashin du Blanchimont]] is not technically Wu'rexa Norh's name, but it's what Iris considers her wife's name to be. She met Rex at the Colloquies of Ishgard and they engaged in a courtly romance, fitting a Lady and a Knight. They were engaged at Starlight, and intend to wed by Rising. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Shou Han]] reminded Iris of Eliza, her lost love. This led to a very one-sided and ill-advised crush which culminated in Iris coming to terms with Eliza's death more reasonably. Though she still thinks well of Shou, she hasn't seen her in over a year. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Taji Tribal]] and Iris began working together to study the Codex Grimoire. Despite how often she has to correct Taji, Iris is convinced the other arcanimist is fairly smart. They also worked together on the V188 project, which Taji insisted on calling 'petunia'. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Itsu Neir]] is fascinating to Iris, both as an example of someone able to balance being an adventurer and a wife at the same time and in the odd connection she has with winds. Iris admitted to Itsu that she counts her among her closest friends. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Yumi Hikaru]] is Itsu's wife, and one of the most energetic people Iris knows. Another of her closest friends, Yumi is someone Iris believes to be of excellent moral character and beyond reproach. She also credits Yumi with the survival of Arche Koeln during the absence of the company's leadership. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] is Iris' perennial best friend, even if Taji gets the title fairly often as well. Iris kept her on retainer for years as a courtesan and has marveled at the way the woman has achieved more and more to her potential every moon. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] is Andromeda's girlfriend and a fan of Iris' work. She worked with Rheya on the Aetheric Cannon prototype and the situation with V188-02 and V188-03.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Mizu Voidmuffin|Mizu (V188-01)]] is an atypical voidsent and the one Iris has been able to study most directly. Iris took to calling her V or V188. Taji took to calling her 'Petunia'. Apparently, everyone else settled on Mizu. Iris has quite a like of the creature, regardless of name.  &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Menoly Fiore]] isn't someone Iris actually dislikes but someone she enjoys playing word games with and mocking. She actually, secretly, enjoys the verbal sparring with Menoly and looks forward to it. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[J'yhun Arun]] is a con artist who attempted to take advantage of the desire of Itsu and Yumi to procreate, and this made Iris dislike him. Then he dated her best friend. Now she wants to cook him from the inside out. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beatrix Blanchimont|Beatrix du Blanchimont]] is Iris' aunt and rival for control of House Blanchimont. Beatrix considers a non-blood relative and unbeliever being Matriarch to be inappropriate.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Paracelsus du Blanchimont''' is Iris' great-uncle, younger brother of her deceased grandfather Arstide. Paracelsus is an exceptionally gifted alchemist and siege engineer, and he hates Iris with a passion. He believes that unbelievers have no place in Ishgard, let alone in a Noble House, and has attempted to get the Inquisition to confront Iris to no avail. He now supports Beatrix as Matriarch, following his own failed bid at the position.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''House Blanhimont''': Iris is Matriarch of a house of lesser nobility in Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Arche Koeln''': Iris is an Acolyte in the company charged with studying the Codex, the Gran Grimoire the company protects. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Mealvaan's Gate''': Iris has spent years working as an Assessor.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Saint Endalim's Scholasticate''': Iris is a guest lecturer on the subjects of Nymian healing sciences and arcanima strategy.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Redbills''': The sky pirate band flying ships she helped design ask her to occasionally study and decode treasures they obtain.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Iris Blanchimont... is that the girl who keeps hittin' on the female employees?&amp;quot; - Gold Saucer Patron&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Do not, under any circumstances, let her drink alcohol.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Waitress&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Why does that name sound familiar? Did she cure the Choco Plague a few years back?&amp;quot; Tailfeather Hunter&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Some minor noble house won't shut up about Iris du Blanchimont, like she's some salacious scandal. If she was, I'm sure I'd have heard of it.&amp;quot; Forgotten Knight Rumormonger&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I hear tell that she's the gal went and got herself locked up in the Great Lib'ary for a spell a few moons back.&amp;quot; - Idyllshire Adventurer&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She's teaching arcanima at the Scholasticate in Ishgard, right? Not sure how I feel about that, but we're allies again, right?&amp;quot; - Mealvaan's Gate Assessor&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Lady Blanchimont? She is a curse, I tell you. A Voidsent swathed in shadows here to destroy our society. Lady Iceheart herself could not tear Ishgard apart as effectively as this monster.&amp;quot; - Lesser Noble of Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;I remember her when she was blue! Ahahahaha! Crazy cat took a Fantasia when her pallies in the Risin' Stones was chased out from Ul'dah. Liked her cute li'l tail better then but the paleness is kin'a cute too.&amp;quot; - Maelstrom Lieutenant&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Blanchimont? I remember she was a passable Alchemist before learning all those Radz-at-Han tricks. Now her approach to the craft is utter nonsense.&amp;quot; - Ul'dahn Alchemist&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;NE❄GIGIGI★❄... HeR WoRk Is BaReLy BeTtEr ThAn SpIt-ShInInG a BiG rOcK.&amp;quot; - Goldsmith Guild Mammet&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She got lost in a Castrum during Operation Archon and accidentally stole a Reaper. I've never seen someone be less help during an operation of greater magnitude.&amp;quot; - Scion of the Seventh Dawn&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Ah, the young mistress? She is an exceptional scholar and leader of our little family. She will be reading this, yes?&amp;quot; - House Blanchimont Attendant.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;An excellent example of a Scholar. Intelligent and willing to consider solutions beyond 'swing a sword at it until it goes away'. I can respect that.&amp;quot; -[[J'yhun Arun]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Oh, she's easily one of the smartest people I know! If you're writing a thesis, definitely get her to check your work. She'll keep you honest. ...Not much use as a wingman or a sidekick, though, she tends to strike out spectacularly in subjects not involving books...&amp;quot; -[[Taji Tribal]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;She holds a compassion for others that easily outshines mine. Her care for her Garuda is respectable. I hope we can become good friends.&amp;quot; - [[Itsu Neir]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;My mate, the love of my heart. The smartest woman I know, with a level head and a heart well in the right place. She'd never shirk the opportunity to help someone in need, and never backs down from doing the right thing- neither danger nor fear stops her. The brightest scholar of her age, the bravest and truest politician, and my best friend. She's the guiding star in my peaceful night and I'd dance with her forever, if I could. I have no idea how I managed to convince her that marrying me is a sensible idea- but I've never been more glad to have someone in my life. And if you ever need to get on her good side? Bring codpuffs.&amp;quot; - [[Wu'rexa Norh|Rex]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris Blanchimont, originally named Ahnci Strahl (though is unaware of this name). Iris is a scholar in everything she does and can often be found in the Gubal Library in the Sharlayan ruins, House Blanchimont in the Pillars of Ishgard or the Arche Koeln library in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her full title is Lady Iris, Matriarch of House Blanchimont and Dame in the Service of House Fortemps.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames and Aliases ====&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Lily of Limsa Lominsa&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Alchemist of Arche Koeln&amp;quot;, though those are titles. She briefly went by the pseudonym &amp;quot;Flameu Vhisnato&amp;quot; when concealing her true identity and though she does not know it, her birth name is &amp;quot;Ahnci Strahl&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
House Blanchimont in Ishgard, located below the airship dock in the Pillars. She also maintains an office, Atelier Iris, in the Arche Koeln estate in Mist.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Ivy''' is a Peridot Carbuncle given a measure of self awareness using a particularly well-crafted mammet core as the ruby set in her forehead. Iris is unsure if Ivy is aware she is not a real Carbuncle and is studying her. Ivy is loyal and curious. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Tio''' is a Gaelikitten Iris rescued from Dravania. Tio spends most of his time fluttering around Mist looking for all the world like a stray and only bothers coming home when Iris offers food to him. Tio is named after the great dragon Tioman. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Dour''' is Iris' faithful Pumpkin Butler, who she rescued from Voidsent during All Saint's Wake. Dour usually fetches Iris things she needs while working at her Atelier, and loves the smell of citrus. He is loyal and distrusts members of the Spoken Races other than Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Odelia''' was originally am Allagan datastore node from Azys Lla that Iris, with the help of Garlond Ironworks, repurposed into a lab assistant. Wedge insisted she give the node a name, and she decided Odelia was suitable. Odelia expresses a curiosity for more information, which makes sense given her function.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Elusmus''' and '''Palaxius''' are her Maelstrom and Ishgardian chocobos, respectively. Both are named for legendary alchemists of bygone eras. While she has had Elsumus for some time, Palaxius was her father's Black Chocobo she was given as a gift when she became Matriarch. As such, Elusmus is rather friendly while Palaxius has an aloof and disinterested personality.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris was born as Ahnci Strahl to parents in Garlean-occupied lands. She was being smuggled to Sharlayan when her ship was blown off-course and crashed into an island off the coast of Cedarwood. She was found among barrels adrift in the sea by the Elezen trader Felt Blanchimont, owner and captain of the Lominsian trade ship ''Yuveria''. Felt worked at length with Mealvaan's Gate assessors and the Baracudas to find the parents of the abandoned kitten, but no indication of the ship's name or manifest was ever found and its arrival at Limsa was not expected. &lt;br /&gt;
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After several moons with no word o the kitten's parents, Felt and his sister Visse elected to adopt the kitten, naming her Iris Blanchimont (dropping the Ishgardian 'du' particle as they had done in their own names) and electing to raise her as if she was their blood. Visse taught Iris the basics of alchemy and medicine as well as the importance of taking care of others. Felt, when he wasn't making trade runs, taught Iris about commerce and the great big world off the shores of La Noscea and inspiring in her a love of travel.  &lt;br /&gt;
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As she grew up, she heard little from the rest of her adoptive family. She came to realize that it was because Felt and Visse were estranged from their estate in Ishgard. Simultaneously, the young Iris was enamored and afraid of the Holy See after learning this, and she began to read about her family's homeland. When she learned the history of the Starlight Festival - a festival for Ishgardian orphans - it immediately became her favorite time of year. She would decorate the Blanchimont home in Limsa, or her father's ship, and run around in red giving gifts to other children, simple alchemical creations she made with her mother. &lt;br /&gt;
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She was a curious, but happy, child.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris thinks of 6AE 1564 as the year her childhood ended. When the Amalj'aa summoned Ifrit in the Mythril Pit, Visse was contacted by the Alchemist's Guild in Ul'dah. She took a teleport to the nearest aetheryte and began to treat wounded survivors of the incident. When she joined a team of Brass Blades to look for more survivors. They never returned from the Pit. Along with the Blades, Visse Blanchimont was declared missing, presumed dead. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris met many of the other Blanchimonts for the first time when they traveled to Ul'dah for funerary rites. Her 'grandfather', Lord Arstide du Blanchimont, was exceptionally kind (especially compared to most other Blanchimonts) and bonded with her over the loss of Visse. His wife, Lady Jeanne, was emotionally cold from losing her oldest daughter. &lt;br /&gt;
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It took some time for Iris to find a suitable way to honor her mother. Eventually, a correspondence from Jeanne du Blanchimont suggested Iris travel with Felt to Ul'dah to learn alchemy from the masters at Frondale's Phrontistery. She studied alchemy in the city and traveled on the ''Yuveria'' with Felt, reading books in her father's library. Studying went from a way to sate her curiosity to her all-consuming devotion for Iris. She learned more about alchemy, Ishgard, her family and everything else she could get a book on. &lt;br /&gt;
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In Thanalan, Iris met a young hyur named Nox Lemouri. Nox was a scrappy swordfighter and slightly skillful conjurer that was a year or so Iris' elder. The two wanted to grow up to be famous; The Alchemist of Eorzea and the Sand Rat. They bonded over everything from those grand dreams, to losing their mothers, to the what girls caught their eyes on any given day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Her practice with arcanima began in her teens as well, as it was the preferred approach to magic that Visse had used. While Visse did little more than summon a simple carbuncle, Iris still thought it was worth learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Before the Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
In the years leading up to the Seventh Umbral Era, Iris took up odd jobs with Azeyma's Shields and, eventually, the Maelstrom. This lead her to team up with members of a few different companies. Misfits, a group based out of the Black Shroud, were the team of her friend Nox and a few dedicated friends of hers. The other 'shell she had a pearl for was a band called Restoring Honour. Both groups helped her in different ways, expanding knowledge and allowing her to travel through the eerie ruins of Mor Dhona to her father's homeland, Coerthas. &lt;br /&gt;
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Iris was recruited as a promising alchemist by Restoring Honour by a man named Dracorian Silverblade. He was something of a mentor in the ways of combat, a field that she did not successfully study in her youth. He also introduced her to another member of the company, Eliza Scarlet. Iris and Eliza became fast friends, and soon something far greater. &lt;br /&gt;
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She also worked with Jeanne du Blanchimont, though mostly by correspondence, on Jeanne's attempt to combat the plague affecting Ishgard's chocobo stocks. While Iris was not exceptionally gifted, she was traubed by Visse well enough to provide some useful insights. And where Jeanne was either in Ishgard or Tailfeather, Iris ha the resources of Frondale's Phrontistery. Admittedly she was little more than a sounding board and research assistant, but it was still thrilling to work with her grandmother.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the conflict with the Garlean Empire heated up, the Maelstrom asked Iris and Felt to travel to Radz-at-Han in an attempt to preserve supply lines should all-out war become inevitable. Iris left Eliza and her companies to deal with what would become the Battle of Carteneau and went overseas with her father and the crew of the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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If the Calamity had never happened, Iris would likely have gotten Eternally Bonded with Eliza and moved to a small house in central Coerthas. But, alas, while she was overseas the godsdamned moon fell out of the sky.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Umbral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first full year after Carteneau, Iris was stuck in Radz-at-Han with the ''Yuveria''. She heard nothing from the friends she left behind in Eorzea, and instead turned her attention to the locals. While on the island, she studied the foreign alchemy practiced there as her father worked with the local shipping fleets. It was during this time that Iris developed a love for lassi. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some time, an order to return home finally came from Limsa Lominsa. When Iris arrived she was greeted with a litany of bad news. Eliza was missing. Iris always hoped that her love had been one of the Warriors of Light. Her homeland was blanketed in snow and her grandmother, Jeanne, died shortly after the chill swept the land. Worse still, the Gates of the Fury were closed so she could not return the kindness her grandfather had shown after Visse's death. Both her bands of friends and companions had disbanded, having lost leaders in the Battle of Carteneau. Even the Shirlds weren't an active force in Eorzea anymore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Nox, by the grace of the Navigator, had survived. She was helping build up a trade port at Vesper Bay so supplies for the reconstruction could easily travel. It was her suggestion that convinced Iris to take a position at Mealvaan's Gate as an Assessor. The two coordinated many shipments of raw supplies for the reconstruction of Eorzea, with the assistance of Felt and the ''Yuveria''. &lt;br /&gt;
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As 7UE 5 began, Nox extended another interesting proposal. The Path of the Twelve - a group Iris thought of as 'that cult Nox is in' - had rebranded itself as the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and were in need of someone with Iris' keen understanding of aetheric studies. Iris consulted with some of the Sharlayan experts in the organization and helped develop some of the more bold strategies they embarked upon. When Nox was crippled in her service as one of the adventurers in the orginzation, Iris offered to take her place in the field. &lt;br /&gt;
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And that's how Iris, who was not an experienced fighter, wound up invading Castrum Centri with the Scions during Operation Archon. Iris had not the first clue what in Llymlaen's name she was doing, which lead to her getting horribly lost and barely escaping the Castrum alive. She managed her escape by stealing a Magitek Reaper and literally rocketing to safety, leaving the team snt to stop the Ultima Wepon to whatever fate awaited them. Thankfully, they didn't really need her.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Seventh Astral Era ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris found herself drifting from Company to Company. A small but loyal band called Warpath lost their way and disbanded shortly after the success of Operation Archon, from there she tried to help manage a small Coerthas-based company called the White North to no avail, and eventually she sided with a group called the Knights of the Rose. She did not feel at home with them, but liked them and they did seem more stable than the other companies she had found since the end of the Umbral Era. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everything was going pretty well: she was helping train the new Crystal Braves, she was operation her own Atelier at her Company's estate and she was working with several High Houses in Ishgard. And then, once again, things came crashing down. She was cooking a meal for the Sultana when the Crystal Braves knocked down her door and she, like every other Scion, was forced to flee Ul'dah. &lt;br /&gt;
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At least she had somewhere to go. Days after her exile, her grandfather died. She and Felt traveled to Ishgard to attend the memorial for Arstide du Blanchimont, who died defending the city from an attack by &lt;br /&gt;
dragons. While in Ishgard, Iris had one of her old Scion contacts bring her a Fantasia. She also had her friends in the Dutiful Sisters of the Edelweiss furnish her with a false identity so she could return to Eorzea as Flameu Vhisnato. &lt;br /&gt;
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This false identity didn't last overly long, but her new appearance stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Matriarch of House Blanchimont===&lt;br /&gt;
{{Spoiler|Heavensward and Revenge of the Horde}}&lt;br /&gt;
With Arstide's death, House Blanchimont was thrown into chaos. A large faction of the family found Felt, with his disinterest in Ishgardian affairs, Miqo'te daughter and his apathy toward the Halonic faith, unfit to be the new Patriarch. Some supported Felt's youngest sister, Beatrix, while still others flocked around a deeply conservative and xenophobic uncle Paracelsus. House Blanchimont's patrons, Durendaire, seized on the opportunity presented them by a leaderless House Blanchimont to quietly shuffle them off their titles and holdings despite the heroic death of the last Patriarch and spare themselves the burden of the vassal house so plagued by scandal and uncertainty. &lt;br /&gt;
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This family crisis caused Iris to turn her attention to the Scions' voyage into Dravanian lands, in an effort to find a cause just and true enough to restore her family's honor. She helped Garlond Ironworks design the Manacutter class of airship (which made her fascinated with shipwrights) and joined the Templars in fortifying the city during the Siege of Ishgard. After Nidhogg's defeat, Iris was one of the only Scions on hand to help rescue Ser Aymeric from the Vault. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A small team of Scions, who were happy to see Iris had trained some since Operation Archon, breached the Vault along with some aide from House Foretmps. As the strike team gave chase to the Archbishop, one of the more prominent members of Fortemps was fatally wounded. Iris did her best to heal him with Nymian arts but she was unable to save him.&lt;br /&gt;
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House Fortemps, thankful for assistance Iris provided their favorite foreigner in helping develop the Manacutter and her efforts to save the lives of their bastard son, and mindful of the House's contributions to Ishgard in recent years, restored the titles and holdings of House Blanchimont as a vassal of House Fortemps. &lt;br /&gt;
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In recognition of the fact that their status was restored because of Iris, enough members of the family supported her as the new Matriarch that Paracelsus and his hard-line supporters accepted her ascension. Her public policy of agnosticism toward the Halonic faith was accepted given the situation the Church faced following the incident at the Vault and her race and progressive views were seen as less important than her nobility of action. Before leaving for southern Eorzea again, Iris appointed Felt's wife, Audrey, to be her proxy in family affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the Warrior of Light came to Ishgard on dragonback after the fall of the Archbishop, Iris was summoned by Ser Aymeric as the new leader of House Blanchimont. She, Aymeric and the de facto leader of the Scions, Alphinaud, met to discuss next steps for the Holy See. Iris was the newest noble and was the only person elevated after Archbishop Thordan fled Ishgard, so while the Scions got to go on an exciting mission to make peace with dragonkind, Iris was left in the city, charged with helping quell the tension between the people and the Church. She harbors resentment toward the Warrior of Light for, as she sees it, creating a situation of unrest that she now needs to clean up.&lt;br /&gt;
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As the Dragonsong war drew to a close, Iris took a more active role in negotiating Ishgard's future. She enlisted the assistance of [[Andromeda Dulaque]] in promoting Ishgardian reforms through popular opinion and set to attend the Second Colloquy of Ishgard where she spoke about the need for the Holy See to turn its attention to helping its people in the new era of peace. Her speech at the Colloquy was her most visible act as a noble and was extremely well-received from the moderate and progressive factions of Ishgardian society. &lt;br /&gt;
{{End-spoiler}}&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Arche Koeln ===&lt;br /&gt;
Iris joined the Company Arche Koeln after the Scions were granted amnesty. She moved her Atelier to their estate and met several members of the company. She had dinner with Shou Han and developed a really poorly executed crush on her and she shared some of her central interests with the Company's master Ariyon. She spent a lot of her time studying in the Arche Koeln library in her early moons with the Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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She took a sabbatical from her work with Mealvaan's Gate to help track down a missing member of the company. The sabbatical was significantly extended when the keeper of a sacred book in the company died and left the book behaving strangely. Iris vowed to work with [[Taji Tribal]] to research the book and try to restore it to functional order. She suspected the book left behind by Crysola Tsara was a neophyte Gran Grimoire which would develop one day into one of the most powerful books in Eorzean history.&lt;br /&gt;
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A break in the study of the Codex came when one of Iris' fellows from Radz-at-Han turned up in Dravania. An aetheric researcher named Ardashir came to seek insight from the Sharlayans regarding his Anima project, an attempt to create an artificial pseudo-soul. Iris offered to help him find a way to stabilize his faux-soul in the hopes that the finished result could be used to restore some semblance of proper function to the Codex and free Taji from being it's keeper.&lt;br /&gt;
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After late work at the Scholasticate one evening, Iris' teleport was hijacked. She and a series of people, many of whom she knew, were trapped in a strange, aetherless construction. Iris was badly injured by a voidsent, but was able to ascertain the reason they were unable to teleport out with the aid of an operator's manual. But on her way to resolve the problem, she was slipped alcohol and tempted by a void relic which promised her the influence to make Ishgard a more egalitarian and progressive society. Eventually, by defeating a Marbol Queen voidsent posing as [[J'yhun Arun]]'s sister and reconnected the Void Ark aetheryte to Eorzea and evacuated the team to Costa del Sol.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is an expert in aetheric science, particularly arcanima. She has authored several books on the subject and is constantly undertaking new research projects. She's often available at her atelier for consultation or just general geeking out about magic. &lt;br /&gt;
:* As Matriarch of House Blanchimont, Iris is one of Ishgard's most progressive nobles. She is willing to offer non-natives who prove themselves noble in action a place in her House. She also is known to dedicate her family's resources to causes she believes she can help with.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has a love of history and enjoys traveling to ruins around Eorzea. She sometimes contracts research assistants for more expansive (and dangerous) ruins. &lt;br /&gt;
:* When not spending time at The Pillars in Ishgard, a lot of Iris' time is spent in Limsa Lominsa or at her atelier in the West Shroud. She likes to drop by Mealvaan's Gate and the Wench on her trips into Limsa.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Though it's become something of a back-burner project for Iris, she has been studying the Rancor, part of the illness affecting the Tonberry population.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is working on a research project on Gran Grimoires and their interactions with humaniod hosts. The knowledge about such books being as esoteric and scattered as it is, Iris has spent a lot of time looking for any scraps of knowledge on the subject that she can find. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris has been a guest lecturer at Saint Endalim's Scholasticate teaching Nymian healing artes and advanced strategies as part of the House Blanchimont project to soothe tensions in Ishgard following the events of Heavensward. She has used the position of influence in her active opposition the the old regime of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Iris is studying the operations manual for a Void Ark and believes them to be a series of Mhachi airships designed to conduct clandestine void magic research. She is exceedingly interested in Void Arks for this reason.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:IrisPainting.jpg|A painting of Iris that hangs in the Blanchimont estate.&lt;br /&gt;
File:BlueIris.png|Iris as she appeared before her use of Fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Iris1point0.jpg|Iris and her lost lover Eliza Scarlet, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
File:AzysIris.png|Iris and her bodyguards investigating Azys Lla. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ScoldingTaji.png|Iris scolding [[Taji Tribal]].&lt;br /&gt;
File:ScolasticateIris.png|Saint Endalim's Scholasticate Lecturer Iris Blanchimont&lt;br /&gt;
File:CodexandTonberries.png|Arche Koeln rescues a group of Tonberries from would-be attackers. &lt;br /&gt;
File:ReadingIris.png|Iris in her noble attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Yumiplot.png|Yumi, Itsu and Iris after Yumi's brother's escape.&lt;br /&gt;
File:NamedayIris.png|Celebrating Iris' twenty-eighth Nameday.&lt;br /&gt;
File:ColloquyIris.png|Iris speaking at the Second Colloquy of Ishgard.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Andromeda Dulaque</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = An old blunderbuss&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Star Velvet light chain&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Dark Red&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pineapples&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Emotionally-Driven''' Rommie's strength with emotional matters is also a grave flaw, as she tends to react with her heart long before her head catches up. This leaves her not just reckless, but open to misinterpreting people's meanings.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a knight required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = An old blunderbuss&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Star Velvet light chain&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Dark Red&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pineapples&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Emotionally-Driven''' Rommie's strength with emotional matters is also a grave flaw, as she tends to react with her heart long before her head catches up. This leaves her not just reckless, but open to misinterpreting people's meanings.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Dark Red&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Pineapples&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Emotionally-Driven''' Rommie's strength with emotional matters is also a grave flaw, as she tends to react with her heart long before her head catches up. This leaves her not just reckless, but open to misinterpreting people's meanings.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
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		<title>Andromeda Dulaque</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Starlight&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Emotionally-Driven''' Rommie's strength with emotional matters is also a grave flaw, as she tends to react with her heart long before her head catches up. This leaves her not just reckless, but open to misinterpreting people's meanings.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
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		<title>Andromeda Dulaque</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Emotionally-Driven''' Rommie's strength with emotional matters is also a grave flaw, as she tends to react with her heart long before her head catches up. This leaves her not just reckless, but open to misinterpreting people's meanings.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Rheya Tayuun]] met Rommie at a summer festival, being a huge fan of Rommie's perfomance work. They bonded more, although when Rheya confessed she loved Rommie, the courtesan at first responded with hesitance. Rheya said that Rommie had only ever seen a candle flame or a house fire, and that she was a bonfire. After Rheya helped Rommie through some of the darkest times she'd ever faced, Rommie realized how valuable and real the bonfire was. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Despite Rommie's utter failure to learn magic, Quenzy is an older-sister figure for her.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Anhe Doina]] was a chance encounter for Rommie that developed into a fast friendship over mutual circumstances of pain and anguish, and Rommie's perspective on the issues facing Anhe. Rommie's been something of a mentor-figure to Anhe on terms of emotion, romance and intimacy. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Y'mheena Pahsj]] was the former leader of the Pakshee that Rommie replaced. While Rommie saw a lot of potential for leadership in Mheena that she wanted to help foster, she also saw an unwillingness to grow and feels deeply disappointed by that. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's ex-girlfriend. Rommie remains proud of the career and potential she saw and helped Kotone cultivate, but in general would rather not think of her at all. If they did interact, Rommie would be guarded and distant, but she has managed to avoid such interactions. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie once admired, who she has over time turned into a bitter rival of. Feeling scorned and disrespected by the woman, Rommie went from seeking her approval to actively dismissing her and outright ignoring her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Someone told me that she told [[Ruri Valeth]] that she's got a thing for tails. That Andromeda does, not that Ruri does... but Ruri does.&amp;quot; - Au Ra woman&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She had some big, secret falling out with the... one whorehouse. Now she's running... another whorehouse. She's tried to hire me to work at both of them.&amp;quot; - Quicksand Prostitute&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
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		<title>Andromeda Dulaque</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Bandee Pakshee''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
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		<title>Andromeda Dulaque</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model, at present working with the company Pearl Appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the Proprietor and a courtesan at the Bandee Pakshee, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, actively supporting the Brume and reformist politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model for the artisans of the Anemos Circle.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii umi|Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the head courtesan at Keeper's Kiss, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, and she is somewhat interested in tracking them down again.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model for the artisans of the Anemos Circle.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place. She has a litany of criminal aliases, including 'Camille Elmdore', a roaming teacher of a minor noble house.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie lives in the eighth ward of Lavender Beds, at the Lily Hills apartments. She also maintains a suite in the Goblet at the Bandee Pakshee. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Calcy''' is her youngling Bomb that followed her home after an event hosted by Thaliak's Embrace. He lives in her fireplace and eats honey muffins, and she occasionally uses him to heat tea or make small meals as if he was a stovetop. He's careful when he plays around and likes to stare at fishtanks, contemplatively. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Camille Elmdore ===&lt;br /&gt;
As her personal life began to unravel in a complicated and hard-to-explain way, Rommie took moons off of her work and life both. Her relationship with her then-romantic partner was fracturing and her work no longer felt a place of refuge. She disappeared altogether, hiding in Aleport under the guise of a roaming schoolteacher named Lady Camille du Elmdore. &lt;br /&gt;
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Here she tended to a girl of no more than ten years named Andy, after a resemblance to Rommie herself, who had been rescued by her former girlfriend from servitude among a pirate crew. Andy was sickly and struck with poor vision, but Rommie learned to emboss Eorzean lettering for her to feel instead of see and helped her learn of adventure and life outside of Aleport's walls. &lt;br /&gt;
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Andy was the only person at Aleport who was aware of Rommie's actual identity, and helped her keep the secret. Multiple attempts by [[Wu'rexa Norh]] and [[Rheya Tayuun]] to find Rommie had failed until, near Starlight, she chose to be found after being called upon for a mission to save her girlfriend. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the next moon, Rommie tried to reconcile this life with her old one and reclaim both her work and relationship. But when her now ex-girlfriend helped Andy in a ceremonial suicide before her illness claimed her, Rommie viciously cast off her entire life as it existed both under the name Camille and at the Keeper's Kiss, choosing instead to strike a dangerous, reckless path for herself. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Manager of the Bandee Pakshee ===&lt;br /&gt;
It was the help of Rheya, now Rommie's significant other, that prompted a calming of a long storm of self-destruction and misdirected rage. Having well and truly burned the bridges she hat at the Kiss, Rommie set out to find a new place to practice her trade. As a result of her considerable experience both in social influence and some as a successful madame, the owner of the start-up Ul'dahn pillowhouse Bandee Pakshee, [[Z'zhumii Umi]], hired Rommie on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie quickly established herself as an asset to the company both with her connections and her attitude toward mentoring and nurturing courtesans. When Z'zhumii left on what was either sabbatical or retirement, a conflict between the company's new manager, [[Y'mheena Pahsj]], and it's madame [[A'sharah Rahz]] reached a critical point. Shortly after the company's Grand Opening, Z'zhumii found herself needing to replace Y'mheena, and again calling on Rommie's experience, she was chosen to manage the company. &lt;br /&gt;
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In the time since her appointment as proprietress, Rommie has attempted to integrate the company into the mainstream of Eorzean entertainment while keeping Z'zhumii's vision at the core of the company's identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the head courtesan at Keeper's Kiss, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, and she is somewhat interested in tracking them down again.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model for the artisans of the Anemos Circle.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has a personal suite at '''The Wanderer's Elysium''' in Mist, the company headquarters of the Keeper's Kiss.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
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She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Budding Celebrity ===&lt;br /&gt;
After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the head courtesan at Keeper's Kiss, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, and she is somewhat interested in tracking them down again.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model for the artisans of the Anemos Circle.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02262017 220832.png|Rommie promoting the Bandee Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 02122017 224633.png|Rommie and her girlfriend, [[Rheya Tayuun]], at the Pakshee.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Rommie.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has a personal suite at '''The Wanderer's Elysium''' in Mist, the company headquarters of the Keeper's Kiss.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
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Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
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After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
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The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
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Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
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In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
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So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
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That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
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Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Budding Celebrity ===&lt;br /&gt;
After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the head courtesan at Keeper's Kiss, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, and she is somewhat interested in tracking them down again.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model for the artisans of the Anemos Circle.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 03052016 222612.png|Rommie relaxing at Bronze Lake.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03032016 131038.png|Rommie in her work attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| name = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Dulaque.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Andromeda Dulaque&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = An-drah-meh-dah Do-lock&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Andy, Rommie&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 32nd Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1556&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Ishgard&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Midlander&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = Azeyma&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 5 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 119 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Grape&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Green&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Theft, singing, bartending&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = Becoming irrelevant&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Make an honest living&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Courtesan and Madame&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = None&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Dexterous, agile&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Vain, magically weak&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Mogknives&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Vicar's Daggers&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Ishgardian scout coat&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Flirtation, Courtesany&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://kisskissrommie.tumblr.com kisskissrommie]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Iris Blanchimont]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Illua Corcavo]] &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; [[Rixia]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = Bandee Pakshee&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = Bandee Pakshee &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Acronycal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Bard Rock Cafe&lt;br /&gt;
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}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
A lithe and light-on-her-feet Hyur, Andromeda &amp;quot;Rommie&amp;quot; Dulaque often colors her mid-back length grape hair a black-and-red combination. She has a little more height than average and has green eyes that sparkle with gentleness and kindness. She's both elegant and dashing; her outfits range from revealing shirts to formal suikan.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dancing''' is something she picked up on her 'dates' with the refined classes in Ishgard. She isn't great, but she enjoys practicing it. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Chocobo Riding''' is something she really enjoys. It feels liberating to have that connection with a beast and to feel the wind in her hair. The speed is also thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Songwriting''' is a new hobby for Rommie following her success with a serenade about [[Iris Blanchimont]] at a Keeper's Kiss cabaret. She's no bard, but she's got a decent flair with a quill.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Cabaret''' nights around Eorzea are one of her favorite bits of nightlife. Especially the cabaret nights her company hosts.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Sylphs''' are just so damn cute. Even if she mercilessly teases [[Rixia]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Ishgardian Orthodoxy''' is just a means for the powerful in Ishgard to consolidate power and oppress the commonfolk. The Dragonsong War the Orthodoxy prosecutes is merely a distraction from this systemic oppression.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Thaumaturgy''' creeps Rommie out. It's all spooky and dark and intimidating and those brothers at the Arrzaneth Ossuary are unnerving.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Ul'dahn Monetarists''' remind her too much of the worst of Ishgardian nobles, especially with their xenophobic attitudes toward refugees.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Silver&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Oranges&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Rum&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Lavender&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Bronze Lake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' Moonfire Faire&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Recklessness''' - She is impulsive and rushes into situations too quickly. She also is not the kind to want cooler heads to prevail, preferring to handle things herself. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Vanity''' - Although she tries to explain it away as being a career trait, she has an absolute need to remain beautiful, dapper, elegant or whatever word she decided to fixate on today. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Overconfidence''' - If you ask her, she could steal the Saltana's necklace off her throat. Rommie has very little understanding of her own limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Quick to Anger''' - Either at others or, more often, at herself. Rommie snaps to anger as a response to stressful situations too often. Her anger also flares into  a wrathful desire to see those perceived to be doing wrong punished.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Doman''' - Her grasp of the language has improved, but still isn't great.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Inquisition''' - Ishgardian Inquisitors took more than a few of her friends, and she's been left with a debilitating fear of them. She flees at the mere suspicion that they might come round. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Her Past''' - She's stolen so much from so many people in Ishgard, and caused her fair share of unrest. She fears deeply that one day those dodos will come home to roost. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Serious Injury''' - She's always made her living on being agile, dexterous and beautiful. She has nightmares about disability and disfigurement, knowing all too well how clse she's come in the past to losing her way of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Dragons''' - She may not want to acknowledge it, but she actually shares some traits with her countrymen. A fear of dragons is one of them.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Flirtation and Intimacy''' - The two daggers with which she stole gil and goods back in Ishgard were the ability to seduce and make satisfied men and women of many walks of life.&lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Musical Performance''' - Rommie's debut as a performer at cabaret was very well-received and she now considers it one of her foremost 'blossoming' talents. &lt;br /&gt;
::*'''Memory''' - A good memory served her well as a thief, helping her avoid hitting a mark more than she could afford to and evade capture when she overstayed her welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Daggers''' - Her weapon of choice is anything short, pointy and easily concealed. To that end, she usually carries a pair of daggers on her if she ventures out of the Lavender Beds. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - She also has been working on longer, pointy weapons based on a rather ludicrous notion that she might one day be a knight.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Astromancy''' - Although she is fairly weak magically, she is being taught the principles of Astromancy by her former colleague [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]].&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has no meaningful crafting abilities.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kotone Shimayasu]] is Andromeda's girlfriend. They met when Kotone was applying to be a hostess at Keeper's Kiss and fell into a relationship of mutual flirtation and flattery before Rommie eventually confessed that her interest was more serious than idle compliments. The two started dating recently. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]] is someone Rommie admires and wishes she was more like. Kas is a performer and co-owner of the Keeper's Kiss and helped interview Rommie for her position as a courtesan. Despite the fact that she feels like she annoys the Au Ra, Rommie continues to look up to her as a mentor figure.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Beile Kagon]] works the bar at the Kiss and has become a confidant and friend of Rommie's. She looks to Kagon like a brother, and is willing to taunt and torment him thusly. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Quenzal Tahnjuyn]] is a former coworker at Keeper's Kiss and is Rommie's tutor in the study of Astromancy. Quenzy is an older-sister figure for Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Paradyme Capellago]] is responsible for Rommie's modeling career, using her as the face of his company's apparel line and 'intimate jewelry'. She takes great pride in taunting him for his crush on her. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Xauko Momoui]] frequents the Respite and has a powerful shyness that Rommie is one of the few people able to reach past. She tries to use a very tender hand to help Xau with some of her issues with interpersonal relationships.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Iris Blanchimont]] is one of very few Ishgardian nobles that Rommie liked and didn't seduce and rob. She has a great deal of affection for the scandalous noble.  She even wrote her first original song about Iris.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ken'thal Tayuun]] is someone Rommie has very powerfully mixed feelings about. While she thinks that his relationship with Quenzal is unkind to Quenzy, he also was very kind to Rommie following her melon-crushing victory. Balancing the kind and thoughtful image of him and the image of him as a domineering partner is difficult.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Marcellain Chevallier]] is an annoying bard suffering disillusion of grandeur. That said, he also thumbs his nose at authoritarian regimes despite their brutality, which Rommie admires. She attempted to contribute to his legal fund when he was arrested for sedition, despite her thinking that he owes a lot of people apologies and a general disapproval of his reliance on 'fans' for his bail.&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Illua Corcavo]] is easily manipulated by Rommie, despite seeming quite resentful of the manipulation. Rommie respects her abilities with magitek and harbors no ill will against the former Frumentarii, but does think her a little too naive for life outside the Garlean military.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Faucertaux Carpentier]] isn't someone Andromeda necessarily hates, but he has so far only made bad impressions. She thinks of him as easily the worst among the Keeper's Kiss Moonguard and someone she'd rather avoid. &lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Ignera Arbell]] is the absolute worst of Isgard's self-entitled aristocracy. She's racist, zealous, egocentric and mean in the most casual of ways. Rommie fights the urge to rob her on a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Keeper's Kiss''' is where Andromeda works and spends most of her free time.&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Bard Rock Cafe''' is the group that hosts the Night at the Cliffs concert series, which Rommie has taken part in.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Rommie was involved with '''House Blanchimont''' as a 'special consultant' and courtesan in the past, and has been dragged into to [[Iris Blanchimont]]'s political machinations again.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I think I saw her around the time I lost my coinpurse in Ishgard a couple summers ago.&amp;quot; - Elezen trader&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;The woman has the Greenwrath upon her for sure after throwing so her dagger into that tree so many times.&amp;quot; - Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Her grasp of Doman is... unique. I wonder if her instructor in the language isn't something of a charlatan?&amp;quot; - Doman Refugee&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She cut a rather dashing figure in that shiny red suit.&amp;quot; - Spring Masquerade guest.&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She has the strongest thighs in all the realm! I think they've been declared weapons by the Adventurer's Guild.&amp;quot; - Melon Crushing Contest attendee.&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;I've heard her skulking around my kitchen. T'would be a day if I find a fine garment in my soup.&amp;quot; -- [[Gaidedee Foileux]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She pick pocketed me once, which I thought was pretty stylish of her. I hope she bought something less revealing cloth with that coin... you know how I worry!&amp;quot; -- [[Ignera Arbell]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie... she's hot. Definitely a respectable figure of the Wanderer's Elysium. Her performances are amazing too.&amp;quot; -- [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Oh, she's lovely. I dunno her too well, bu' I can happily say I'd trust her with anythin'. If I'm in trouble, I know I can go to Rommie. She's m'madame, after all.&amp;quot; -- [[Etani'a Sedi]]&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Rommie? Lovely lady. Charming, funny, gorgeous, and drop-dead sexy. And she's even MORE wonderful once you see beneath the Madame Andromeda mask she wears so much...&amp;quot; -- [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
Dulaque is a corruption of &amp;quot;du Lac&amp;quot;, Ishgardian for &amp;quot;of the Lake&amp;quot;, specifically referring to Clearwater Lake in the Coerthas Eastern Lowlands.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie was named &amp;quot;Melonsbane&amp;quot; by her colleagues at the Kiss after the spring Melon Crushing competition where she took first place.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie has a personal suite at '''The Wanderer's Elysium''' in Mist, the company headquarters of the Keeper's Kiss.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
'''Lorne''' is her Onion Prince, whom she won at Kindred's Wine Festival in a cake-decorating contest. He's kind of arrogant, but Rommie scolds him when he looks down on other vegetables. &lt;br /&gt;
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'''Valkyria''' is her chocobo, which she stole shortly before leaving Coerthas. The chocobo warmed up to her quickly, and based on it's reactions to loud noises she was concerned that her previous owners abused her. Valkyria is capable of channeling healing magic, making the chocobo officially a better mage than Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
Andromeda Gloria Dulaque was born in Eastern Coerthas in the lowland settlement of Owl's Nest to her mother, Constance Dulaque, and an unknown father. Though she never knew her father, he was a guard at Camp Glory who, quite purposfully, got himself reassigned to the Dravanian front when Constance got pregnant. Constance took Rommie back to Ishgard shortly after she was born to raise her in a safer environment. Constance worked at the Forgotten Knight for a few years serving drinks, but the pay wasn't enough to keep them afloat and they wound up living in the Brume. &lt;br /&gt;
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It was just after her fifth nameday when Rommie's mother 'disappeared'. Some people thought she just abandoned Rommie, others thought the died under mysterious circumstances. Unable to really fend for herself, she fell in with a young Brume hooker named Pacifica Roux, but Rommie called her Pax. Pax shared gil and food with the young Andromeda. She even gave her the nickname Rommie, which she still uses today. Pax taught Rommie how to use knives to defend herself, how to run when the Inquisition or the Temple Knights came round, and - albeit unintentionally - how to seduce. Pax was an older sister to Rommie and gave a damn when no one else did, and until recently was probably the only real family Rommie ever had.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Pax and Rommie fell in with a few more Brume rats after a few years together. Together with brothers Hector and Gabriel and a woman named Doyle. The five of them became something of a band of lovable misfits. It was Doyle who taught Rommie to steal what she needed from the nobles, and it was Gabriel who taught her to question why the faith of Halone justified the oppression of commoners. Hector, on the other hand, taught her to fight. Though he liked to use his fists, Rommie liked knives, the weapons she learned from Pax.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
She was indelicately young when she started using intimacy to get gil. Although Pax hadn't been much older when she started, she had wanted a better life for her little sister and took a very negative view toward Rommie's appeasing certain immoral appetites. Unlike Pax, who charged upfront for such activities, Rommie offered herself freely, and took what she liked after. She thought of it as penance, at first for what the partners had done to a girl Andromeda's age and later for more abstract sins - the oppression of the poor, the unkindness toward others. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She became exceptionally talented at drawing out a 'mark' and then punishing them for whatever perceived sin they carried. She didn't care for the sins against orthodoxy or Halonic nonsense; she punished people for sins against what she considered human decency. For laughing at starving orphans, for kicking the helpless, and in some particularly bitter cases for the crime of just being a noble. Listening to Gabriel's 'sermons', Hector's rage and Doyle's acclaim of theft as a means of life made Rommie's moral compass a bit off-balanced, but focused on bringing some measure of pain to those who relished in the unjust system of Ishgard. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After a particularly bad run at a mark, Rommie was tailed back to their Drifter's Den by a member of the Heavens Ward. The five scattered and managed to lose the knight in what confusion they could rouse, but the victory was short-lived. An investigation allegedly found a Draconian rosary in their hovel. Soon, Inquisitors marched down on them. Rommie, being the thief that started the whole mess, was about to be taken away by the Inquisitors when Pax claimed ownership of the Rosary. She claimed that she was part of a growing movement, one that soon would make the Dragonsong War end. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie believed absolutely none of it - not the rosary, not the heretics, and not the fate that Pax was willing to take for her. After that night, she rarely saw Hector, Gabriel and Doyle again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
Just prior to the fall of Dalamud, Rommie was on her own again. She traveled to Camp Glory to see the lake her last name referenced with what little gil she could scrape together and a pair of iron daggers she had bought with a bit of honest gil made giving decent folk massages. She had no idea about the battle of Carteneau or the plans for Dalamud's destruction, but she's always been glad she got to see the lake a final time as it was, before the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After the moon fell, weather got harsher in Ishgard and chances to leave the city were even fewer. This raised the ante on desperation, and, therefore, on thefts. Rommie got to know a reliable fence who was a disgraced member of House Valentione, which allowed her to steal objects instead of gil. She became fond of art and jewelry, but in her more daring days stole a chocobo from an owner thought to abuse her. She kept Valkyria stabled far from the city and tended to her when time permitted, but knew her days were numbered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The climate had changed in more ways than one. Suddenly, the enforcers of the regieme started coming down like hammers on an anvil - striking randomly and tossing sparks. It was hard to tell without much in the way of friends anymore, but it seemed like they were zeroing in on her. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rommie handled this by taking her only real job before leaving the Holy See, as a courtesan and advisor to the embattled lesser noble house Blanchimont and their new matriarch [[Iris Blanchimont]], with whom she is still close friends and who did not seem to mind all that much Rommie continually seducing and robbing other nobility. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In fact, it was Iris who encouraged Rommie to flee southward.So she pulled together gil to get herself a nice suit of armor and a helmet to hide her identity, and rode Valkyria south some five years after the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Keeper's Kiss ===&lt;br /&gt;
Her goal when she got to Ul'dah was to become a knight for a High House. That, surely, would give her clemency for old, forgotten crimes and would afford her a place to draw benefit from the system for once. This plan, she knew, ill suited her because the idea of becoming a night required far too much moral adherence and the idea of what she wanted to use knighthood for violated her own moral compass. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So, while she responded to a guard posting at Menphira's Respite, she instead opted to interview to become a courtesan. She wanted to be honest, more than anything else, and that seemed like the right way to do it. She was good at sex and good at charming people, and the Kiss promised her better pay with less of a chance of being executed in the morning. Being a knight was running from who she was, but being a Courtesan was embracing it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When [[Marcellain Chevallier]] went and got himself kidnapped by Brass Baldes following an anti-government demonstration, Rommie was left with some pretty horrifying flashbacks to losing Pax to the Inquisition. She tried to tail the Brass Blades who abducted Marcy, but was called back to the estate by Quenzal, prompting a powerful argument over just who Andromeda even was anymore and what kind of 'better life' was it if she still abandoned people who needed her. Although she's settled back into life at the Kiss, that argument still simmers inside her.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
That argument was awoken several moons later when she was exposed to the Dark Knight soulstone of her friend, Kiss' barkeeper Beile Kagon. She found her anger issues and impulsiveness harder to control and her feelings of her current life and her past were magnified after her brief exposure to this unseemly artifact.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Following this exposure, Rommie spent two weeks in Ishgard and Dravania with Iris, in an effort to learn what had happened to her and how to control it. This included almost a week camping on Sohm Al with [[Rixy Sylwest]], who taught her the finer points of resisting the darker temptations life presents. After this excursion, Rommie had Rixy hired on as sous chef for Kiss' new restaurant.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Budding Celebrity ===&lt;br /&gt;
After becoming a model for the fashion designs of [[Paradyme Capellago]], Rommie grew a bit more ambitious with her career aspirations. She began publicly singing and playing the lute at Keeper's Kiss cabarets where she found a small following of fans and ample adulation from her closer companions. As she fell into a dry spell with her courtesan work, she decided to devote more time and energy to music. This culminated at another Nanawa Mines concert with Marcellain and Savo where Rommie was one of the performers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After Keeper's Kiss moved to the Mists, Rommie also was promoted to Madame, in charge of the company's courtesans as a refocus on more broad entertainment services required the owners to no longer directly oversee courtesan operations. This has been seen as a glamorous promotion by many and has given her an extra air of importance and elegance around prospective 'fans'.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Andromeda used to use her skills in flirtation to gain access to people's belongings and liberate them. She has concerns this past will catch up with her. She also has several friends from her early life who haven't been in contact since the Calamity.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie works as the head courtesan at Keeper's Kiss, selling her time and affections for the right price.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Since becoming a courtesan, Rommie has become something of a general entertainer as well, performing song and dance numbers at cabarets and concerts. &lt;br /&gt;
:* Her old friends from the Brume are still out there, and she is somewhat interested in tracking them down again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie is a model for the artisans of the Anemos Circle.&lt;br /&gt;
:* Rommie was exposed to a Dark Knight soulstone. Although her exposure was brief, it has had some impact on her psychological state; her temper has become harder to control as a result.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03052016 222612.png|Rommie relaxing at Bronze Lake.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03032016 131038.png|Rommie in her work attire.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 03192016 233239.png|Dusting off her daggers to chase after a captured friend.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 04032016 012925.png|Rommie and friends after Club Crescent. &lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05112016 201236.png|A &amp;quot;Night at the Cliffs&amp;quot; concert featuring Rommie.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Midlander Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Ishgardian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Illua_Corcavo&amp;diff=241402</id>
		<title>Illua Corcavo</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Illua_Corcavo&amp;diff=241402"/>
		<updated>2017-04-29T02:53:56Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{Infobox-TMI&lt;br /&gt;
| name = Illua Corcavo&lt;br /&gt;
| image = illua.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Illumina Corcavo&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Ill-loo-ah Core-kha-voh&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Illua the Nightshade&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 15th Sun of the 2nd Astral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1558&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Garlemald&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Garlean&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = None&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 8 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 127 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Blue&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Blue&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Magitek engineering&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = World domination&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Atonement for her crimes&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Hystmill Militia&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Machinist&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Quick, excellent marksmanship&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Magically inert&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Garlean Pistol&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Magitek Bow&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Guardian Armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Magitek&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://xiv-nightshade.tumblr.com xiv-nightshade]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Andromeda Dulaque]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = EquinoX&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Illua is a pureblood Garlean with the telltale third eye on her forehead. However, due to experiments she was subjected to as a child her hair pigment changed from its natural blond to a shockingly bright blue. A minor side effect is a more youthful complexion - nothing drastic, she just appears to be several years younger than she is. Illua favors outfits with some form of magitek accouterments and usually wears a circlet to hide her Garlean eye.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Magitek Engineering''' is something Illua did in her spare time as a soldier of the Empire. She has retained her interest in the craf and secured a steady supply of cereuleum to continue her work.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Magitek''' can basically accomplish anything, and she absolutely loves that. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Emperor''' and, by extension, the empire. Anyone who wishes to rule the world shouldn't be able to, simple as that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Dark Blue&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Eft&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Mango seltzer&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Roses&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Hystmill&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' All Saints' Wake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Traumatized''' - While she has her issues with the Legion mostly under control, she occasionally still gets powerful, vivid and agonizing flashbacks to her time as a Frumentarii. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Adverse Reactions to Aether''' - When exposed to high amounts of aether - like that required to summon Eikons - she gets a powerful burning sensation throughout her body, essentially rendering her helpless. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* ''' ''' - &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*''' ''' - &lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Guns''' - Since leaving the Legion, she has preferred the use of firearms to blades, seeing swords as the symbol of her old life. To an extent, the same marksmanship applies to the use of her magitek bow.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Swords''' - Illua is exceptionally skilled with swords, but refuses to use them. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''None''' - Despite attempts to kickstart her aetheric abilities, Illua remains magically impotent. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Magitek''' - She studied the basic principles of magitek while in the Legion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]]: Illua attended a few events hosted by the Keeper's Kiss. Kasumi helped counsel her through adapting to life as a defector.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] annoys her from time to time but actually seems like a decent person. As much as Illua feels like Rommie pulls her into things she'd rather avoid, she also is envious of the other woman's social skills and ability to become 'besties' with relative strangers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
::*&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Garlean Special Operations (Frumentarius)'', under the command of 'Gardener', a Primus Frumentarius. She served on various black ops across the Known World. Her job lead her to a lot of travel and to pick up a lot of cultural information about Imperial-occupied lands. She has &amp;quot;deserted&amp;quot;, however. &lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Hystmill Militia''' has been the place her talents have been employed for several moons. Protecting the hamlet from Ixal attack has been a way to train herself in using a bow as opposed to the more 'civilized' pistol she used to use.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Bioscience firm '''EquinoX''' recruited Illua as an intelligence agent. She joined the organization in the hopes of continuing the experiments she underwent as a child.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;They say that she always wears a circlet to hide a godsdamned Garlean eye. Can't be, though, can it? I mean, she does have a funny bow and wear weird clothes...&amp;quot; - Hystmill Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She shouted a Garlean battle cry while getting drunk at Crescent. I'm kind of surprised no one seemed to notice.&amp;quot; - Club Crescent regular&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Weird girl. Kept telling a big dude not to kill a smelly cat because they had the night off.&amp;quot; - Druthers drinker&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:*&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Her special operations codename is &amp;quot;Nightshade&amp;quot;, which is how most frumentarii and primus frumentarii identify her. She varies her title and family name per assignment - lately it's &amp;quot;Illua tol Corcavo&amp;quot;, but it has also been &amp;quot;Illua pyr Celsus&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Illua goe Jovian&amp;quot;, among others. Fantastically few people know her 'actual' name, Crispina eir Lucianus, is known by almost no one.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Illua has been laying low at Hystmill since desertion. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
''' '''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Early Frumentarius Career ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== The Razing of Doma ===&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Illua is a deserter of the IXth Legion, which she served in as a special operations liaison. &lt;br /&gt;
:* She participated in an experiment as a child that attempted to enhance Garlean aetheric abilities. Despite the experiment being classified as a failure, Illua has exhibited slight physiological changes as a result. This might be worth studying.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05012016 134804.png|Illua sporting an EquinoX lapel patch.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05032016 003555.png|The White Devil armor Illua stole when deserting. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Garlean]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Andromeda</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Illua_Corcavo&amp;diff=239911</id>
		<title>Illua Corcavo</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Illua_Corcavo&amp;diff=239911"/>
		<updated>2017-04-20T03:29:04Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: Major revision&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;{{Infobox-TMI&lt;br /&gt;
| name = Illua Corcavo&lt;br /&gt;
| image = illua.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| birthname = Illumina Corcavo&lt;br /&gt;
| pronounced = Ill-loo-ah Core-kha-voh&lt;br /&gt;
| nicknames = Illua the Nightshade&lt;br /&gt;
| gender = Female&lt;br /&gt;
| nameday = 15th Sun of the 2nd Astral Moon&lt;br /&gt;
| born = 6AE 1558&lt;br /&gt;
| citizenship = Garlemald&lt;br /&gt;
| race = Hyur&lt;br /&gt;
| clan = Garlean&lt;br /&gt;
| guardian = None&lt;br /&gt;
| height = 5 fulms 8 ilms.&lt;br /&gt;
| weight = 127 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
| physique = Athletic&lt;br /&gt;
| hair = Blue&lt;br /&gt;
| eyes = Blue&lt;br /&gt;
| skin = Pale&lt;br /&gt;
| hobbies = Magitek engineering&lt;br /&gt;
| fears = World domination&lt;br /&gt;
| motivation = Atonement for her crimes&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Hystmill Militia&lt;br /&gt;
| soulstone = Machinist&lt;br /&gt;
| advantages = Quick, excellent marksmanship&lt;br /&gt;
| limitations = Magically inert&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon1 = Garlean Pistol&lt;br /&gt;
| weapon2 = Magitek Bow&lt;br /&gt;
| armor = Guardian Armor&lt;br /&gt;
| noncombat = Magitek&lt;br /&gt;
| username = Andromeda&lt;br /&gt;
| timezone = Eastern&lt;br /&gt;
| tumblr = [http://xiv-nightshade.tumblr.com xiv-nightshade]&lt;br /&gt;
| server = Balmung&lt;br /&gt;
| characters = [[Andromeda Dulaque]]&lt;br /&gt;
| freecompanies = EquinoX&lt;br /&gt;
| linkshells = &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Appearance ==&lt;br /&gt;
Illua is a pureblood Garlean with the telltale third eye on her forehead. However, due to experiments she was subjected to as a child her hair pigment changed from its natural blond to a shockingly bright blue. A minor side effect is a more youthful complexion - nothing drastic, she just appears to be several years younger than she is. Illua favors outfits with some form of magitek accouterments and usually wears a circlet to hide her Garlean eye.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Tastes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Hobbies ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Magitek Engineering''' is something Illua did in her spare time as a soldier of the Empire. She has retained her interest in the craf and secured a steady supply of cereuleum to continue her work.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Likes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Magitek''' can basically accomplish anything, and she absolutely loves that. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Dislikes ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''The Emperor''' and, by extension, the empire. Anyone who wishes to rule the world shouldn't be able to, simple as that.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Favorites ===&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Color:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Dark Blue&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Food:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Eft&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Drinks:&amp;amp;nbsp;''' Mango seltzer&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Scent:''' Roses&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Place:''' Hystmill&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:medium;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:small;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Festival:''' All Saints' Wake&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Personality ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Flaws ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Traumatized''' - While she has her issues with the Legion mostly under control, she occasionally still gets powerful, vivid and agonizing flashbacks to her time as a Frumentarii. &lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Adverse Reactions to Aether''' - When exposed to high amounts of aether - like that required to summon Eikons - she gets a powerful burning sensation throughout her body, essentially rendering her helpless. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Fears ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* ''' ''' - &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Talents ===&lt;br /&gt;
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== Abilities and Skills ==&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Weapons ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Guns''' - Since leaving the Legion, she has preferred the use of firearms to blades, seeing swords as the symbol of her old life. To an extent, the same marksmanship applies to the use of her magitek bow.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Swords''' - Illua is exceptionally skilled with swords, but refuses to use them. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Magic ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''None''' - Despite attempts to kickstart her aetheric abilities, Illua remains magically impotent. &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Crafting ===&lt;br /&gt;
'''Magitek''' - She studied the basic principles of magitek while in the Legion.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Family and Relationships ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Positive ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Kasumi Gakunin]]: Illua attended a few events hosted by the Keeper's Kiss. Kasumi helped counsel her through adapting to life as a defector.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Neutral ===&lt;br /&gt;
::* [[Andromeda Dulaque]] annoys her from time to time but actually seems like a decent person. As much as Illua feels like Rommie pulls her into things she'd rather avoid, she also is envious of the other woman's social skills and ability to become 'besties' with relative strangers.&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Negative ===&lt;br /&gt;
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== Affiliations ==&lt;br /&gt;
::* '''Garlean Special Operations (Frumentarius)'', under the command of 'Gardener', a Primus Frumentarius. She served on various black ops across the Known World. Her job lead her to a lot of travel and to pick up a lot of cultural information about Imperial-occupied lands. She has &amp;quot;deserted&amp;quot;, however. &lt;br /&gt;
::* The '''Hystmill Militia''' has been the place her talents have been employed for several moons. Protecting the hamlet from Ixal attack has been a way to train herself in using a bow as opposed to the more 'civilized' pistol she used to use.&lt;br /&gt;
::* Bioscience firm '''EquinoX''' recruited Illua as an intelligence agent. She joined the organization in the hopes of continuing the experiments she underwent as a child.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumors ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-size:smaller;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Note: This section is editable by anyone. Just keep in mind that the rumors here may be both true or false.&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===General Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;They say that she always wears a circlet to hide a godsdamned Garlean eye. Can't be, though, can it? I mean, she does have a funny bow and wear weird clothes...&amp;quot; - Hystmill Wood Wailer&lt;br /&gt;
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===First-Hand Accounts===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;She shouted a Garlean battle cry while getting drunk at Crescent. I'm kind of surprised no one seemed to notice.&amp;quot; - Club Crescent regular&lt;br /&gt;
:* &amp;quot;Weird girl. Kept telling a big dude not to kill a smelly cat because they had the night off.&amp;quot; - Druthers drinker&lt;br /&gt;
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===PC Rumors===&lt;br /&gt;
:*&lt;br /&gt;
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== History ==&lt;br /&gt;
=== Name and Lifestyle ===&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Nicknames, Aliases and Titles ====&lt;br /&gt;
Her special operations codename is &amp;quot;Nightshade&amp;quot;, which is how most frumentarii and primus frumentarii identify her. She varies her title and family name per assignment - lately it's &amp;quot;Illua tol Corcavo&amp;quot;, but it has also been &amp;quot;Illua pyr Celsus&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Illua goe Jovian&amp;quot;, among others.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== Current Residence ====&lt;br /&gt;
Illua has been laying low at Hystmill since desertion. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== Pets ====&lt;br /&gt;
''' '''&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Birth and Childhood ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Teen Years ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Early Frumentarius Career ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Calamity ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== The Razing of Doma ===&lt;br /&gt;
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== Plot Hooks ==&lt;br /&gt;
===General Hooks===&lt;br /&gt;
:* Illua is a deserter of the IXth Legion, which she served in as a special operations liaison. &lt;br /&gt;
:* She participated in an experiment as a child that attempted to enhance Garlean aetheric abilities. Despite the experiment being classified as a failure, Illua has exhibited slight physiological changes as a result. This might be worth studying.&lt;br /&gt;
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===Current Projects===&lt;br /&gt;
:* &lt;br /&gt;
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==Gallery==&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Ffxiv 05012016 134804.png|Illua sporting an EquinoX lapel patch.&lt;br /&gt;
File:Ffxiv 05032016 003555.png|The White Devil armor Illua stole when deserting. &lt;br /&gt;
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==OOC Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
I am game for pretty much anything in terms of RP. I don't use Skype too often, but I am willing to upon request. I write paragraph responses, though due to the nature of in-game RP these often lean on the short side in the interest of time. Feel free to ask me for pick-up scenes or the like any time.&lt;br /&gt;
The template used here is of my own design, borrowing elements from several other formats and adding a few of my own.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Hyur]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Garlean]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Character]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Kotone Shimayasu</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: Rumor updated&lt;/p&gt;
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[[File:Kotone_Banner.png|right|250px|Kotone Shimayasu]]&lt;br /&gt;
'''Shimayasu no Kotone''' is a Raen of the Au Ra race who primarily resided on an island well off the shores of Othard’s mainland. A member of a deeply spiritual and reclusive group of Raen who have been long known for their skills and abilities in the healing and aetherical arts, those who once lived on the island have been forced to leave their home as the landmass began to sink below the waves. Scattered to the winds, most of their numbers have integrated easily into societies on the grace of their arts, and Kotone has wandered Eorzea in search of her place as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Shimayasu Raen are a peaceful sort whose main source of income is built through their healing abilities, which they believe are gifts bestowed on them by their deities. In addition to this service, which they give regardless of race or creed, they peddle their wares; fish, rare herbs, pearls and gems, and even jewelry fashioned from bones, shells and corals. Primarily healers in nature, their physical fighters are few and far between, instead preferring to rely on their aetherical magics.&lt;br /&gt;
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A polytheistic group, each Raen tends to choose a patron deity of their own, with whom they form a devotional bond while still maintaining the ceremonies and tributes for the others. Kotone’s patron deity represents the elements of water and air, and through her, Kotone believes her healing capabilities are increased. Her reverence for this deity, though it is unnamed, is one of her anchors and she never misses a moment of communion, often traveling several malms to find the perfect spot along the sea where she can perform her ceremonies.&lt;br /&gt;
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* '''Clan:''' Raen&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Gender:''' Female&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Age:''' 26&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Orientation:''' Ambiguous&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Marital Status:''' Threelationship - Open&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Height:''' 58 ilms&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Weight:''' 92 ponze&lt;br /&gt;
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* '''Family:''' Unlisted&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Residence:''' Wanderer's Elysium&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Free Company:''' Keeper's Kiss &amp;lt;KISS&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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* '''Occupation:''' Healer and Entertainer&lt;br /&gt;
* '''Disciplines:''' Spiritual/Physical Healer&lt;br /&gt;
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As a child, Kotone began her life on the Shimayasu Isle just after her third nameday. Taken in by a fisherman's family even through the care of the island healers, Kotone spent several years fighting against traditions and expectations that were settled on her shoulders as the daughter of a prior healer. At eight summers, she drowned off the shore of her island home in an attempt to reach the one she was born on, despite having no memory of the island or either of her birth parents. &lt;br /&gt;
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It is during this event that Kotone first came into contact with the spirit that she would later take as her own. Her death was authentic, and it was through both the spirit's efforts as well as those who rescued her that she was revived. Even so, she suffered damage that not only resulted in a massive personality change, but opened her up to the ability to sense spirits and their energy. &lt;br /&gt;
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At ten summers, she began the training that would eventually lead her to becoming one of the island's healers. At sixteen summers, she underwent the ceremonies for coming of age, and formally took the spirit of the sea as her own – an act that caused her death once more. Reborn by the power of said spirit, Kotone assumed her place not only as a healer, but a young woman whose capabilities outstripped all but a few of those who called the island home.&lt;br /&gt;
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At twenty-two summers, Kotone was forced from her home as the island finished the sinking that had started sometime in her twentieth summer, leaving her the apparent last of the Shimayasu Isle. Over the next seven years, she made her way through several lands, paying her way with her healing abilities and performances until she made landfall in Eorzea.&lt;br /&gt;
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Reserved and rather quiet, Kotone is easy to miss simply because she chooses to remain out of the spotlight. Her motions and movements speak far more than she herself does, each flowing effortlessly into the next, though none without purpose. This habit of not speaking has given her speech a somewhat slow and soothing rhythm when she does speak, though often it is confused with a language difficulty.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kotone regards the world with a degree of patience one might find only with a mother of several wayward children. She dislikes treating anyone differently based off of hearsay, and shows little in the way of carrying gripes or grudges. She is an easy shoulder to lean on, and never seems to think twice about offering advice to those who might need it – provided they ask. &lt;br /&gt;
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She can easily be seen as someone who is lonely, though she’ll never utter a word that might confirm such. While she was once difficult to bring to a full smile and her laughter was rare, the quiet woman has bloomed beneath the tending of her coworkers and friends, and she melds with the crowds and shows no fear in laughing or showing her emotions on her sleeve. &lt;br /&gt;
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Kotone’s active early life has given her a body that is fit and feminine, her height slightly smaller than her race’s average. She bears the pale scales of the Raen sub-species, though these deviate from the norm by being an odd mix of firm and leather-y, depending on location. Her pale skin is relatively unmarked save for a few long-healed signs of an active childhood on her feet and knees, but she’s otherwise quite well-kept. &lt;br /&gt;
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She lacks the rings in her eyes that most of her kind often features, and while she lines her eyes in dark colors, she shows an aversion to any more color than that. Where some of her compatriots may spend bells with make-up, Kotone’s highlight is the lengthy hair she bears, and the intricate braids that she chooses to keep the loose locks in. She often decorates the silver-white strands with shells or beads, choosing colorful and pretty items that catch her eye rather than those of any value.&lt;br /&gt;
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While neatly kept, Kotone favors light clothing that still covers her modestly. If the weather is particularly warm, she may dress down in light colored fabrics – usually in blues and greens. It’s rare to see her in decorative, heavy or gaudy clothing outside of ceremony or if it’s been gifted from a client. Rare as well are any dark colors – she seems to have an aversion to them, even in her favored hue.&lt;br /&gt;
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In contrast, she goes to considerable lengths of preparation for her ceremonies, tributes, and rare performances. Her scales are painted with an iridescent dust that makes them shimmer, and it is usually the only time that she is seen dressed in so little. While she maintains a fresh-faced appearance, a little color on her pale skin is more evident on the lids of her eyes and her lips.&lt;br /&gt;
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All bets are off when it comes to her performances and hosting with other companies. Kotone throws herself into themes with a wild abandon that amuses most and inspires others. She has already begun to amass quite the collection of costumes and wigs, and delights in modeling them for friends if they wish.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kotone is a skilled healer raised on the foundations of spiritual, physical, and sexual healing. At her disposal are several types of holistic remedies that range from herbs and teas, to full-contact therapies. Additionally, her conjury is strong enough to lend aid to those who might not hold with her own beliefs.&lt;br /&gt;
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As part of her culture and faith, she also holds the ability to manipulate – but not create – the elements of water and air. This she does rarely, because of how taxing it is on her without proper preparation. Often, she collects crystals that bear the elements themselves, which helps ease the load on her. These are commonly woven into her regalia in some manner when she knows she will be performing.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kotone is a skilled musician and dancer, and while she can sing quite well, rarely does so. She has easily picked up the skills to be a capable hostess and entertainer, and enjoys working outside events to learn more of the people inhabiting the land she has come to call home.&lt;br /&gt;
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While Kotone prefers to avoid violence whenever possible, she is capable of holding her own with fairly basic offensive conjury with a preference towards wind and water aetherics. Generally, she will attempt to bind or slow attackers so that she might flee, rather than face them head on.&lt;br /&gt;
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While unknown to the broad populace, Kotone's skills with weaving aether into dangerous patterns has come to a head in a recent altercation with pirates off the shores of La Noscea. Very nearly a full-blown storm witch in her own right, Kotone has shown herself capable of manipulating air and water as elements themselves and not simply the aether corresponding to each. Additionally, she bears absolutely no restraint in creating, manipulating, and even controlling lightning.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her skill with twisting the elements to her control makes her an incredibly lethal adversary whose moral code in regards to bloodshed becomes skewed when her emotions are compromised. While she will ultimately attempt to give those who have wronged her a chance to repent, when the woman feels as though this chance is being wasted or refused, her retribution borders on near-torture instead of a quick release.&lt;br /&gt;
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When a client worried for the wandering healer’s safety, his kind directives took her to the doorstep of the entertainment company. As the months have gone on, Kotone has found a comfortable place among the other members of the Elysium, working both as a hostess for events and a performer for shows.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Caught unaware during a sandstorm in Thanalan, Kotone was found and brought to the safety of the company’s Goblet estate, where she repaid the kindness shown by keeping the grounds clean, and sometimes entertaining the house children so the nanny might rest.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A talented songstress and fisherwoman of the Shimayasu Isles, Misa was a latecomer to the healing ways and never showed much aptitude in the way of the healing magics that lay dormant in most of those native-born to the island. She was, however, lauded as a beautiful woman with a kind heart who knew well the value of companionship, and her songs and dances were just as much about the healing process as they were the entertainment. While initially disinterested in Kentarou, his gentle persistence and kindness toward others won her over. Misa returned to Kentarou's island, returning only once with him to give over Kotone, and then leaving forever. She gave Kentarou a son, and was pregnant with their third child when she died in a Garlean attack.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Tamotsu Shimayasu'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#4d6fb5;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;💗&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✞&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Best Friend; Guardian'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A few years older than herself, Tamotsu and Kotone forged a fast friendship that served as her support when she was handed over to the care of the Shimayasu healers. When Kotone pressed forward into becoming effectively a miko, he did all that he could to not only become a warrior, but her personal bodyguard. He did harbor deep feelings of love for the woman, and perhaps far too late – she would realize the same. He was the last on the sinking Shimayasu Isle, assisting Kotone in the ceremony for the fallen. As far as she knows, he did not make it off the island alive. He may very well have.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Mother Ocean'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#c00000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;💕&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#4d6fb5;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;💗&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Spirit of the Seas; Patron Deity'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Little is known about the individual spirits that inhabited the Shimayasu Isle, and many were known to be non-native. At a coming of age, each member of the Shimayasu culture would take a spirit in as their patron – generally one that reflected their work in some manner. Their names were uttered only to those they bonded with, and they would remain a massive part of the lives of those who worshipped them. They were akin to family members, more than masters. As a spirit with the command of three elements, Kotone's reverence for, and her acceptance by, the sea spirit played a crucial part in raising the woman's status in her society. Even with the Isle gone, Kotone's worship of the spirit is an immense part of her life, and comes with several benefits – most of which have yet to be revealed. While the spirit manifests in various ways depending on when and where she is called, she is primarily seen as a dragon-form of mist.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''[[Andromeda Dulaque]]'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#c00000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;💕&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Madame Courtesan, Entertainer'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Likely Kotone's closest friend within the Elysium, the two have formed a romantic bond that is new to each of them and terrifying for that reason. While the pair have already experienced friction in their relationship, the lessons that each have learned have helped to form a stronger bond. Kotone's devotion to the woman exists not only romantically, but platonically – one of the performer's staunchest supporters as the woman climbs the ladder of fame.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''[[Rheya Tayuun]]'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#4d6fb5;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;💗&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Moonguard'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A fast friend and admirer who was once employed outside the company, Rheya now assists in overseeing the protection of members of the Elysium like Kotone herself. The two share a friendly bond that is made more tight by the mutual affection and respect they share.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Alecxel Odescorn'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#480048;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;❣&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Patron; Kind Heart, Battered Soul'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
One of Kotone's closest friends, Alecxel has continuously made himself to be one of her staunchest supporters in her travels and in her work. Their meeting during an Elysium date auction spurred an interest in teaching her the basics of Eorzean language and a deep affection on both parts. Though she cannot often return to his home due to her work taking her to various places, she has no doubts whatsoever that she is always welcome and safe in his company.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Arelian Atiyeh'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#c00000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;💕&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Patron; Old Wolf, Sharp Fangs'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A chance meeting at the Elysium introduced the two, and their relationship was primarily that of masseuse and client for some time before feelings became mutual and they both accepted the deeper bond that had wound itself around them. Their relationship is remarkably easy-going, with little needed to be said for either of them to understand one another. In Kotone, Arelian has gained a steadfast companion whose affections are selfless and her passion unrestrained.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''[[Paradyme Capellago]]'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#480048;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;❣&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Patron; Sweet Heart, Shattered Spirit'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Hired to tend to his physical pain, Kotone and Paradyme became fast friends who spend a great deal of time together. He is supportive of her work as an entertainer of Elysium, and often turns the gifts of the sea she brings him into one-of-a-kind jewelry for her to wear, knowing how fond she is of shiny items. She cares immensely for him, often checking in to make certain he has eaten or slept. He usually hasn't.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''[[Ryanti Veanysus]]'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#480048;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;❣&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Patron; Rapier Wit, Intelligent Soul'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After having met at a Crescent function, Kotone did not quite expect to see the well-mannered man again. Much to her surprise, he remains a close friend whose attractions to her are returned in a mutual manner. Even so, the bulk of their business is purely that – business. As personal healer to the businessman, she is typically seen around him more to leave gifts and baskets of treats to surprise him.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; text-align: justify&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Ganbatar Qerel'''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#669900;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#480048;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;❣&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'''Friend; The Tiger's Heart'''&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Someone very dear to Kotone herself, his absence strikes her hard and it is not often that she ceases her worry of where he might be. It is for him alone that she travels to Thanalan, often waiting for any sign of caravans with whom she can trade information for in regards to him.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#460629;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;She can swim like a fish. I see her jump the docks an’ gather seaweed without effort.&amp;quot; - ''Limsan Fisherman''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#460629;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Her fingers work bloody miracles, I tell ye.&amp;quot; - ''Limsan Farmer''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#7e1517;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Her massages come with ‘appy endin’s, if’n ye know what I mean.&amp;quot; - ''Ul’dahn Barfly''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#7e1517;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I’m not sure she really understands gil. Always overpays, throwing fistfuls like the stuff is tainted.&amp;quot; - Innkeep''''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#600d20;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  &amp;quot;I watched her kill a man. She warned him. Honest, she did.&amp;quot; - ''Docks Child''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#600d20;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Whore.&amp;quot; - ''Spurned Man''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#600d20;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;All she was at tha' moment was mist an' revenge. I won' ever forget tha' screams... tha' way tha' air smelled o' blood. It may no' be her there, but I won' ever forget those eyes.&amp;quot; - ''Green-Eyed Teen''&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#460629;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Kotone is my greatest love. Her strength of character, her actual magical strength and the serene beauty of the woman are peerless. I am a the treasure in my sea dragon's horde, and though I am the thief, she has stolen my heart completely.&amp;quot; - [[Andromeda Dulaque]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#460629;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Kotone is... unique. She has suffered in ways that I can deeply empathize with, but she hasn't let those losses harden her or make her bitter in any way I can tell. She is truly a child of the waters, flowing through life like a leaf on a river. But while there's not a more gentle soul that I know I certainly wouldn't want to face the storm if something truly rouses her to war.&amp;quot; - [[Rheya Tayuun]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#460629;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Such a talented woman. Her performances always leave me in awe. There's something about her which makes her so mysterious and graceful.&amp;quot; - [[Teirra Lihzeh]]&lt;br /&gt;
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'''&amp;lt;font color=#460629&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; IC Frequency:''' Kotone is primarily a role-play character with little intention on progressing her through PvE content at a quick pace. If you see her, she is IC – if you’re uncertain, just whisper!&lt;br /&gt;
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'''&amp;lt;font color=#460629&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; Character Injury:''' I’m pretty good at tormenting my own character, but in the event of an altercation, know that I give permission up to, but not including, death of the character – harsher themes should still be discussed with me OOC!&lt;br /&gt;
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'''&amp;lt;font color=#460629&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; Erotic Themes:''' Kotone’s character lends easily to intimacy and one-off’s. This is fine, and I’ve no personal issue with it. That said, I prefer such to still happen within the development of the character.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''&amp;lt;font color=#460629&amp;gt;✨&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; Potential Issues:''' Kotone is an alternate character, and while I do enjoy playing her, at the moment my other characters are far more involved. As a result, Kotone may be harder to catch outside of company events – but I will happily trade information should a player be interested in catching her.&lt;br /&gt;
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	<entry>
		<id>https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Leanne_Delphium&amp;diff=198441</id>
		<title>Leanne Delphium</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Leanne_Delphium&amp;diff=198441"/>
		<updated>2016-09-25T22:14:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Andromeda: &lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.2em;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Owner of a Fancy Hat&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;[[File:Leanne_SKY.jpg]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;table style=&amp;quot;position:center;&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;60%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 20px; font-size:15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;letter-spacing:0.1em;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''&amp;quot;Forever walking forward, towards the ever distant horizon.&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #CC0000;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;letter-spacing:0.15em;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Profile'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#CC0000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-size:12px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Nationality:'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Gridanian&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#CC0000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-size:12px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Nameday:'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;25th Sun of the 3rd Umbral Moon&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #CC0000;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;letter-spacing:0.15em;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Other Details'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#CC0000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-size:12px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Occupation:'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Adventurer&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#CC0000;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-size:12px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Favorite Colors:'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;padding:0px 5px;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Green, White, Red&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Leanne Delphium, born 25th Sun of the 3rd Umbral Moon, is a seeker raised deeply within the roots of Gridania. Adventurous and free spirited, she was one to go against the current of her home's idyllic, sheltered culture, for her soul burned with bright passion for freedom and adventure, tales from passing adventurers and epic stories written in books helping little to quench her thirst for the world and its apparent wonders. Although initially against such drive, her parents eventually gave in to their daughter's unbridled wishes, and by the age of seventeen, Leanne left the relative safety of her home, eagerly taking on the life of adventuring and traveling she so much desired. Throughout the road, she made a lot of friends and a couple of enemies, witnessed vistas and events few could dream, went from a mere archer from the forest to a somewhat famous Bard, and learned a lot of things. Now nineteen, and made wiser by the two strict years of adventuring, Leanne continues her journey through the realm, step by step, still dreaming about the wonders of the world, and still seeking her ultimate wish: To explore the entirety of Hydaelyn.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px;background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''She Likes!'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Music, Poetry, Tales'''. Ever a fan of stories and tales written and also spoken, her affinity for them deepened and widened at the same time when she became a Bard.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Celebrations'''. Leanne being a big party girl is an understatement. Almost any reason for party can be a good one, and she revels in the opportunity of having fun.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #330099;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''But Dislikes...'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Corruption'''. Although anyone would say that, Leanne's dislike for corruption, be in any forms, has grown deeper after being witness to the several machinations of Ul'dah monetarists.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Morbols'''. A trauma she developed after a fateful bout against a marlboro ended with her and her wolf pup drenched in morbol bile. Never again.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Intolerance'''. Witness and victim to it within a couple of locations, her home being known by its intolerance and racism, Leanne frowns heavily upon any sights of such behavior.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Politics'''. EW. SO MANY EW. Never ask Leanne about politics. After Ul'dah, all she will ever say to you is probably a &amp;quot;I hate it.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Blind Zealotry'''. Her pet peeve against Ishgard. An open mind is important, and zealotry to her just blinds you to other potentially respectable points of view.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px;background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Her Strengths!'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Caring'''. She's protective, sweet and gentle. The friends she has are worthy of all the care she can muster.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Determined'''. Very much akin to a coeurl, she fights with tooth and nail when she deems necessary.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Empathetic'''. Although not always accurate, Leanne tends to have a grasp about others' state of mind.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Accepting'''. She is always open to new venues of thought, for different views on different subjects, and for different cultures of different settlements. One of the reasons she travels, after all.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Idealistic'''. Leanne has a very bright outlook on life and the world she lives in, and likes to inspire others to share of the same positive views.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #330099;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''And Weaknesses...'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Prudish'''. Sexual connotations might leave her uncomfortable.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Romance'''. She has never struck right with romance, giving the girl a sour outlook on it.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Emotional'''. Being in touch with her emotions and from others means being easy to feel sadness, or a burning, impulsive anger.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Naivety'''. While capable of being sharp she is quite naive.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#330099;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Idealistic'''. When idealism and realism clashes, it is rarely realism who backs off. As such, Leanne struggles, marrying her idealistic views with the grim reality she is sometimes witness to.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Also Quirks!'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Sweet Lover'''. Leanne's capacity to devour confections often raised a brow from nearby witnesses.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Trivia Machine'''. Her propensity to read about several subjects plus desire to know more of the world left her with a broad knowledge of several subjects.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Acrobatic'''. A life of an energetic girl among the trees can end in a lot of climbing and swinging and jumping. Which is exactly what happened.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''You Said What?''' Sometimes invents or uses of words and slangs she heard somewhere to express herself. Totes.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FF9933;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; '''Hats'''. Where there is a Leanne, there is certainly a hat, most of times.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 0px; background: #CC0000;font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Personality'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Very cheerful with a tendency to be sweet, Leanne is very quick to trust and even quicker to befriend, willingly partaking in several, different culture and customs while being at the same time happy to share knowledge of her own. Her adventures throughout Eorzea and beyond gave her knowledge and memories she fondly carries to this day, granting broad knowledge of several subjects while also making her wise beyond her years. Occasionally she passes off as a naive girl, despite the fact that she can be very sharp. Least but no less important, the girl can be very mischievous, not being over pulling pranks and jokes, although not liking it when on the receiving end of one.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 0px; background:#CC0000;font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Appearance'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;A strikingly beautiful young woman, Leanne's owner of bright golden eyes, cheerful and sweet features, and least but no less important a curvaceous figure, attributes she at times accentuate or not by innocent gestures or use of her different outfits. Being of slightly short height, she usually does not bother with such detail, until it becomes frustratingly apparent to her when besides one too many elezen or roegadyn, or pointed out to her. Her style of clothes once consisted of the easy and practical, but as time went by, she began to gravitate towards more elaborate and unique garbs, overall attaining a rather diverse wardrobe. The most remarkable trait of her appearance though is the constant presence of a hat adorning her head. Such is one of the major attributes of Leanne, made obvious by her title and by the fact that most of her friends cannot help but raise a brow if they see the seeker without a headwear.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=Abilities=&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 0%; background: #CC0000;font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Combat'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;As children, Leanne's constant sneaking into Quivers and Wailers' camps, and her mom former status as a respectable Quiver landed her into the status of &amp;quot;mascot&amp;quot; between some of the forest protectors, giving her access to a variety of weapons and a bit of combat experience from an early age. With her occasional sojourns into the woods, and eventual adventures throughout Eorzea, Leanne grew into a competent, highly adaptive combatant, whose objective isn't to kill(although she will do it if necessary), but to incapacitate. A lesson she learned as an archer, taken to heart by her mischievous side is to be highly opportunistic. Every advantage counts in bringing a clash to a swift end, cheap as they may be.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;table style=&amp;quot;position:center;&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;90%&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px;background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Ranged'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Leanne's true call is with a ranged weapon. Not only a bow, but any ranged weaponry. Guns, cannons, throwing knives or a measly pebble. Leanne is a highly skilled sharpshooter, skill exacerbated by her vibrant golden eyes. The vision they have borders on uncanny, and consequently, so does her marksmanship.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px;background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Melee'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Although not as developed as her sharpshooting, Leanne is still to be feared within close quarters, having adapted to use of her bow to those in close proximity, while also gaining insightful knowledge of pugilism and use of daggers. Leanne has a lot of leg strength, enough to break a training dummy in half(which she did during a brief burst of anger) and mimicking a few moves witnessed, her skill on pugilism borders between intermediate and advanced. Least but no less important, marrying her knife throwing skills with her proficiency with daggers leaves her a force to be wary of.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Magical'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Her weakness as well as her strength. Not giving the time necessary to learn, Leanne has only a basic understanding of the schools of magic, bordering between useful and passable. Things like using thaumaturgy to light a little fire, or conjury to soothe body pains and little wounds. Her knowledge is growing, but very sporadically. This glaring fact thought is a disservice to the specialized magic Leanne employs. Deemed worthy of being turned into a Bard, hers is the power to influence others, imbuing her songs and words with power and aether, not unlike a siren, although with more benevolent purposes.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 0%; background: #CC0000;font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Miscellaneous Skills'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Life in the road does not only mean combat. One must be able to be independent, feed themselves, keep their equipment in check, able to make money, alongside several other challenges. To survive this long, Leanne had to learn and to adapt, and as such, she developed several skills to help her with her journey, and consequently, day-to-day life.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px;background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Repairing'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Although not able to weave clothes, produce a remarkable piece of leather or craft a bow, she learned to repair all of her equipment to the best of her skills. Leanne is not a master, but she manages to keep her equipment running at good condition, and is humble enough to know she will be always better off by letting someone more skilled have a look at her stuff.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Cooking'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Her cooking skills are unremarkable at best. Once more survival being placed as priority, her food is not delicious, but is not bad either. It is just edible and nutritious, which is all Leanne asks while on the road.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Music'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Owner of a beautiful voice and several instruments, Leanne strives to cheer, enchant and conquer the hearts of all who hear her melodies. Although overly humble about her skills, considering herself a fledgling in comparison to her peers, Leanne is showered with compliments and flattery whenever she puts her skills to use, bringing the girl a big feeling of joy and accomplishment.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #FF9933;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Fishing'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=justify&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:5px 15px;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;A skill taken to its ultimate, most comedic limit. Once a humble fisher of small wavekin, everything changed when (the Fire Nation attacked) a friend of hers regaled the seeker with tales of fishing sharks, and selling them for money. Feeling strangely inadequate, and taking his tales as a challenge, Leanne began a rigorous, arduous training in fishing. By the end of it all, Leanne had won the capacity to fish creatures that could be confounded with a man's most feverish nightmares.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=Interactions=&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 0%; background: #CC0000;font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Interactions'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;td style=&amp;quot;vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;mw-headline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #CC0000;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Rumors'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 25px; background: #CC0000; color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;◢ Common Rumors - &amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;''Easily overheard. Use these freely!''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;She used to mingle a lot in the Quicksand, either chatting or just overhearing people's conversations.&amp;quot; -- ''Quicksand Patron''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;She's a fine Sky Pirate. Not a bad one, mind you. A respectable sort of Sky Pirate. Trust her, hear me?&amp;quot; -- ''Good Sky Pirate''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;She loves adventure. Perhaps a bit too much. Start talking about traveling and she will never stop.&amp;quot; -- ''Sleepy Wood Wailer''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;She was the first one to win the Grindstone with a bow! And won three times while at it! Impressive, huh?&amp;quot; -- ''Excitable Uldahn''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I really never seen her take off her hat. Weird...&amp;quot; -- ''Revenant's Toll Adventurer''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Did you see her Bronco Grease poster? Did you give a good eye at her boobs?! What I'd do to be Mr.'Twelveswood'!&amp;quot; -- ''Someone Soon to Be Walloped''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 25px; background: #CC0000; color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;◢ Uncommon Rumors -&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; ''A little more difficult to hear. Use sparingly or ask first!''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;So she says she is taught by a moogle how to sing and play instruments. That sounds strange, but also really cute!&amp;quot; -- ''Impressionable Child''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;How many times she takes aetheric travels? Does she ever get tired?&amp;quot; -- ''Fellow Adventurer''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;There's people who saw her working alongside a dubious duskwight to launch a shark into the sky. Insanity.&amp;quot; -- ''Questionable Uldahn''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I was part of her little crew she took whenever she went fishing. The things Leanne pulls out of the water are stuff of nightmares.&amp;quot; -- ''Wide-Eyed Fisher''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Leanne? Oh yeah, she hunts every now and then here in the Forelands. Its a rare combination she has, beauty and a hellish eyesight.&amp;quot; -- ''Respectable Hunter''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 25px; background: #CC0000; color:#FFFFFF;font-familyTrebuchet MS;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;◢ Rare Rumors -&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; ''Very rarely overheard. Please ask before using!''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Apparently, she has a story with the former Crystal Braves and the Brass Blades. What she did to get so much heat?&amp;quot; -- ''Curious Mercenary''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;This girl ventured into the Crystal Tower alongside the Warrior of Light and more than 20 other adventurers. Have to wonder what she has experienced inside it.&amp;quot; -- ''NOAH Archaeologist''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Seems like she pursued psychological help at some point because of emotional problems. Poor thing...&amp;quot; -- ''Empathetic Waitress''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Once I saw the girl sneaking into the Carteneau Flats. I bet she wanted to know the place. Too bad she got heavily injured.&amp;quot; -- ''Adders Soldier''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;It has been fairly known that there is a dragon occasionally roaming Dravania and Abalathia, for no apparent reason. What no one knows is that this girl is also roaming this region, and can often be found alongside him.&amp;quot; -- ''Sharp-Eyed Adventurer''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I heard about adventurers and sky pirates following the Warrior of Light into a ghost ship. They called it what, the Void Ark? Anyway, this girl you're asking of, I think I heard a description matching hers.&amp;quot; -- ''Camp Cloudtop Knight''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;This girl seems cheerful right? Well, be watchful. She's shrouded in secrecy. There are things hiding under those bright, seemingly innocent eyes that one person can only wonder. I know the look.&amp;quot; -- ''Idyllshire Settler''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 25px; background: #CC0000; color:#eddfe2;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;◢ Player Character Rumors -&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; ''Feel free to add rumors of your own!''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; ''Feel free to add your own rumors here!''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Nice, friendly, accepting. These are the words I'd use to describe the best hat-wearer I know.&amp;quot; -- [[Franz Renatus]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Leanne?  She's a friend of mine!  And so much fuuuun!  She's also got the best hat in all Eorzea!&amp;quot; -- [[Aya Foxheart]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;That female is kind but is uncomfortable with the idea of cutting off limbs to give as tokens of affection. She is curious.&amp;quot; -- [[Atrium Crow]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Adventurous, but perhaps too impulsive.  I pray she stops to think before getting herself into more trouble.&amp;quot; -- [[Coatleque Crofte]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Lady Leanne listens to her heart and it is quite beautiful. Is a rare gift to have.&amp;quot; -- [[Jancis Milburga]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Leanne's a bit headstrong, but it's a good thing she's got so many people around her to help take care of her, myself included.&amp;quot; -- [[Ha'uruh Nunh]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Leanne's beautiful enough, but she needs to decide what she wants from people. I just can't figure that woman out.&amp;quot; -- [[Evangeline Primrose]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Leanne is friend enough with the moogles that she convinced them to appear and perform at Thaliak's pilgrimage. It was truly a sight and sound to behold!&amp;quot; -- [[Ojune Wajune]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I am grateful it were by Leanne's hand that my reign ended. To harm a young lass so full of life would've hurt even my iron heart.&amp;quot; -- [[Sounsyy Mirke]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Ah! Ms. Hat! She's... like a sister ta me, y'know? I know I ''gots'' one already, but she's like... 'nuther one. Anyroad, I'm glad she's all happy again 'n hope she stays that way forever 'n ever!&amp;quot; -- [[Chachanji Gegenji]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Miss Leanne..now there's someone who has absolutely no shortage of life in her. Though I guess I met her when she bought me, a real...no she'd kill me if I said what I was about to say, she seemed determined to keep that side of her a secret. Almost sure of it, my lips are sealed.&amp;quot; -- [[Kurt Steel]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Girl's got hat style! She seems really cute and interesting too! Hmm...&amp;quot; -- [[Solis Claritas]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Friendly lass, can be quite a joy to chat with as well. Also seems to have a bit of a mischievous side.&amp;quot; -- [[Barnabaix Haurtfelle]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Leanne is strange, though I'm not one to talk... As she is fond of reminding me. Wish I could give in to wanderlust as easily as she does. I owe her.&amp;quot; -- [[Jana Ridah]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I believe I owe her my life – perhaps more than once. There is little I would not do for her, should she ask.&amp;quot; -- [[Edda Eglantine]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Cute. Strong. Kind. She's my type, but it's not her that I'm looking out for. I'm interested in that little bard soulstone; what it can do, and what her limitations with it are. One of my top &amp;quot;On The Lookout&amp;quot; individuals.&amp;quot; -- [[Oscare Iono]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I had the pleasure to listen to her singing. I soon felt the rain down my cheeks and was left speechless for a few moments afterwards, struck with awe.&amp;quot; -- [[Elise Wolfe]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;She's seen me at my best and worst, been there for both. I owe a lot to her.&amp;quot; -- [[Leih'a Relanah]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Interesting woman with an interesting hat. She certainly has a head on her shoulders and common sense that have become all too rare among adventurers.&amp;quot; -- [[Orenji Kharn]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Lady Leanne is a fantastic bard. Never have I read her songs in books or heard another sing them. She did sing when we went on pilgrimage last Turn at six stones, the first and last to. Each a unique song, even some where moogles would show themselves and sing along. Each one makes me want to skip and dance!&amp;quot; -- [[Jancis Milburga]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I've had t'pleasure of competin' against her in various stage occurrences, but ne'er really got a word in edgewise beyond &amp;quot;Congratulations&amp;quot;. She seems t'busy sort, but well-liked.&amp;quot; -- [[Odette Saoirse]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I am rarely one to indulge, but with her? Few women are as fun to tease. Fewer still are as capable and competent.&amp;quot; -- [[Tengri Geneq]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I saw her hit a flies with an arrow. Three at least! In a rainstorm. Thaliak only knows how.&amp;quot; -- [[Jancis Milburga]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#CC0000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;■&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Ever seen her blush? Of course you have. Isn't it just the greatest thing? Lights up my day, I tell you.&amp;quot; -- [[Andromeda Dulaque]]&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #CC0000;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Relations'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#b72a78;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Romantic Love:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne has strong, reciprocal feelings to this character.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#FA70BC;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Sexual Tension:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne can be &amp;quot;bothered&amp;quot; when interacting to this character.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#ffaedb&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Crush:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne feels an attraction to this character.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Platonic Love/Family:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne holds this character quite dear, as if they are part of her family.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♦&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Friend:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne considers this character a good friend.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#bae19c;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♦&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Friendly Acquaintance:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne has a good opinion of this character but hasn't developed friendship yet.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#c6c6c6;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Neutral:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne is yet to form an opinion on this character.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#8a8a8a;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;●&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Bad Standing:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne does not have a good opinion of this character.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#8a8a8a;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♠&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Dislike:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; Leanne has a profound distaste with this character.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;?&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Missing:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; This character is missing.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;✖&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt; &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Deceased:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; This character is dead, or believed to be dead.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #CC0000;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Relations (NPC)'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''C'Kahn Delphium'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Dad!&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Former tia of the Coeurl Tribe, nowadays carpenter and leatherworker in Gridania. A kind soul thought by everyone to be weak and frail, belying his sense of duty and unbreakable determination. Kahn leaves Leanne's mentoring mostly to C'thara, but is not shy from helping his daughter whenever the need arises. The more doting parent, he was the one who gave to Leanne her chocobo and her journal.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''C'Thara Delphium'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Mom!&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Once a huntress from the Coeurl Tribe, now a sweet mother who tends for her children. Being similar to her daughter in more ways than just appearance, Thara’s her major source of counseling, helping Leanne with anything, be from physical wounds to internal struggles. Initially against having Leanne traveling, she fills herself with proud at each achievement she hears from her seeker.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''Elliot Delphium'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Brat! I Mean, Brother!&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Leanne's younger brother, a very mischievous and carefree kid, who sees Leanne as an icon to follow and idolize. Currently practicing spear fighting, he aims to reach Leanne and someday surpass her.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''Kyrin'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;The Lil' Bandit!&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Leanne's loyal dog, also known as the Little Bandit. Fearless and always happy, he is a constant source of happiness and trouble for Leanne, his love for bones surpassing the common knowledge that you do not try stealing them from crypts and reanimated skeletons. Despite such, he is the de-facto &amp;quot;leader&amp;quot; from the &amp;quot;posse&amp;quot; of pets that Leanne have.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 35px; background: #CC0000;font-size:14px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;'''Relations (PC)'''&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Markus Krosse]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Still My Right Hand Man.&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Dragoon from the Ishgard and one of her best friends, Markus and Leanne were quite close to each other, supporting each other’s back at any given moment. As time went by, their lives took separate roads and although the connection is there, they do not talk as frequently as before.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Ralena Tharin]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;?&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Forever My Friend.&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Former best friend of Leanne, Ralena was one of the first connections Leanne made in Ul’dah. Leanne deeply misses her.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Chachanji Gegenji]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;My Step Sibling.&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;A Free Paladin lalafell she considers a second sibling to nurture and protect. Once Leanne saw in him a younger version of herself when she started adventuring. Now his own person by her eyes, she is there to support him in any way she can, but maintains her distance, holding her big sister instincts from thwarting his growth as an individual.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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{|  class=&amp;quot;mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;100%&amp;quot; border=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Spahro Llorn]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♥&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Hate but Like, Like but Hate..&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Journalist from the Tonberry Lantern, and one of the most bizarre friendships. Leanne is very resistant to Spahro’s antics, somehow seeing in her a better person, despite the several glaring flaws often Leanne herself points out. Despite their strong opposite personalities, Leanne likes Spahro, considering her as one of the truest friends she has.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Ha'uruh Nuhn]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♦&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Prank Target!&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; A seeker that acts like a big brother towards Leanne, bringing some ease into her heart. She respects him a lot, but such fact does not stop her from pulling pranks nor joking at his expense, never forgetting to say sorry afterwards.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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{|  class=&amp;quot;mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;100%&amp;quot; border=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Leanne met Klyn during a sun midst the Grindstone, a conversation marked mostly by the roegadyn making fun of Leanne's short stature. She's the cautious to Leanne's daring, although too much for the seeker's taste as it shows some glaring flaws, the most obvious being the paranoia.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;  Friend of hers and Markus, Leanne developed a knack for threatening him in one way or another, consequence of his usual mishaps. Such jest though is just an act of care, and Leanne care for her friend a lot.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Bartender of the Quicksand, Leanne and Aya have a nice friendship, both holders of a cheerful, slightly mischievous personalities. &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Elise Wolfe]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♦&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;?&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;The Shadow with a Heart of Light.&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;They started a conversation at rocky terms as Elise had stolen an object that became target of Leanne's interest, their bartering clearly showing signs of hostility. Past that, a friendship managed to bloom between both, one that Leanne misses, for Elise has vanished once more.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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! &amp;lt;div align=&amp;quot;left&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-family:Trebuchet MS;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#000000;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;'''[[Oscare Iono]]'''&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  '''('''  &amp;lt;font style=&amp;quot;color:#94d066;&amp;quot; size=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;♦&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;  ''')'''  -  '''&amp;quot;Funny, but Grumpy! Smile, Grumpybutt!&amp;quot;'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Grumpy highlander and friend of Leanne's, she loves to nag at him to be more sociable. In return, she's easy target to his jests, although having her comeuppance every now and then. Whenever he's around, she makes an extra effort to get a smile out of him.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Once a Sultansworn, once known as Shas Tarry. A friend, and once a minor mentor figure, Leanne does not know what path Sharla treads right now, but she does not like it.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Another Sultansworn, the interactions between Leanne and Crofte hangs from formal to very casual. Once she was afraid of approaching the woman, whose atmosphere exudes of authority, but not anymore. After her affair with Jameson Taeros, Leanne never quite could shake off of her assumption that Crofte's morality became distorted.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Fancy elezen, wearer of lavender, and a man Leanne is fascinated with, from the eloquent words that brings her admiration and envy of his distinct approach and interpretation of the Wanderer's teachings. Every single meeting with him has Leanne doing her best to mimic the expert word smiting of his.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Dragoon from Coerthas, they met by coincidence in the Churning Mists, at the time a place seldom visited by any of the Five Races. Sensing his thoughtfulness about the whole Dragonsong War, she felt inclined to pushing into 'opening' his mind. She has yet to discern the entirety of his personality, yet it didn't stop her from considering the knight a friend to count on.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Matron of the Shroudwolf clan and a woman with quite a different attitude from Leanne. Through their conversations, it was shown a lingering envy from both parties for certain attributes held by one, but not by another. Having differing views, their talk is still considerate and respectful. Opinions are only opinions, after all.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Girlfriend of her best friend, Markus, and a friend of Leanne, also. Her overly logical approach always prompts Leanne to take a jab at her, through mischief or finding holes and exceptions to the rule.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Engineer of the Red Wings, their chat tends to be extremely casual, although interesting subjects always arises from time to time, be Leanne's &amp;quot;incident&amp;quot; at Clio's bachelorette party, or the fact that the highlander grew a drake and named him Habanero. The normalcy is welcome to Leanne's somewhat crazy life, although it can't be denied, the seeker is very curious of the Clio's secrecy about her job.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; A garlean Leanne met, it took a while for her to discover his homeland, yet such discovery didn't deter Leanne of continuing her friendship, instead giving her a lot of curiosity, not only about the man itself, but about Garlemald too. She likes to consider herself a close friend of his.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Source of laughs and also agony, the dubious salesman strikes her as an honest, yet eccentric man. Valiant certain times, more often than not cowardly, somewhat serious, yet irreverently goofy, Leanne is fond of his presence, even if said presence causes frustration to no end.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Another friend of hers, the several times Leanne saved Edda from the dangers she got herself into thrust Leanne into being extra-protective of her well-being. Owner of a mask used to distance others, Leanne desperately tries to destroy it, never being successful in doing so.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; A woman Leanne trusts implicitly, for her kind nature and sweet words are just glimpses of an even warmer soul.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; Past lover of Leanne, owner of questionable logic, habits, reasoning, and a lot of determination and courage. Their break-up hurt Leanne badly, but even then, she deeply misses the hyur.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; A former candidate to Sultansworn Leanne chats with sometimes. She respects his determination, his idealism and chivalry, yet sees a glaring flaw in his temper and headstrong behavior.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; An undead she met during an incident. Last Leanne heard of Atrium, she was trying to fit in society. Leanne hopes she did.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; One of her few friendships within the Ul'dah armed forces, Leanne considers Jana as particularly quirky. Every so often she disagrees with her, be Jana shying away from crowds, being too eager to kill or to attain as per Leanne's mind the random revenge of the week, or simply using Leanne as a shield to hide herself from other people. Doesn't stop Leanne from liking her though.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; An elezen Leanne considers weird, their relationship is rocky at best as Leanne tries to respect Eva’s opinions but completely disagrees with her methods and actions, resulting in attrition.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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| &amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;font-size:11px; font-family:Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;&amp;gt; The only man person that Leanne truly thought of killing for nothing else other than anger. Once thought to be dead, she has knowledge of the man's return from the grave, and although hesitant, she made herself a grim promise: To slay Taeros at the first sign of trouble she sees.&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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=Miscellaneous=&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;div align=center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&amp;quot;padding:10px 0%; background: #CC0000;font-size:16px;color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Trebuchet MS;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black&amp;quot;&amp;gt;'''Character Music'''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
: '''Theme Song''': [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW62ZGNUg7w Rita - Dorchadas].&lt;br /&gt;
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: '''TV Tropes''': [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator Determinator], [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpiritedYoungLady Spirited Young Lady], [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkingTheEarth Walking The Earth], [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceHat Nice Hat].&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Leanne_by_Ilweran.gif|Leanne by Ilweran!&lt;br /&gt;
File:Leanne by Rhea.png|Leanne by Rhea!&lt;br /&gt;
File:Leanne by Lillieath.png|Leanne by Lillieath!&lt;br /&gt;
File:Leanne by Antain.png|Leanne by Antain!&lt;br /&gt;
File:Leanne&amp;amp;JancisBacchusShotsDoodle.jpg|Leanne and Jancis at a particularly spicy Bacchus Shot contest (By Antain!).&lt;br /&gt;
File:Leanne by Crofte.jpeg|Leanne by Crofte!&lt;br /&gt;
File:Leanne_FadedDreams.jpg|Leanne by Fadeddreamss! ([http://fadeddreamss.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Leanne-singing-618012059 Deviant Art Page!]).&lt;br /&gt;
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File:Leanne fancyhat.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
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Thank you very much [[Deirdre Ta'ea]], [[Bancroft Gairn]], [[Xheja Rajhera]], [[Unnamed Mercenary]], [[Lucaell Tareth'eian]], [[D'lyhhia Lhuil]] and most important, [[Edda Eglantine]] for letting me steal your template so blatantly!&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: Player Character]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Gridanian]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category: Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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