Adelpha Sarantas - Revision history

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Adelpha: /* Early Life */

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‎Early Life

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Adelpha: /* Post-Calamity */

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‎Post-Calamity

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 ====Post-Calamity====
-Adelpha eventually resurfaced in Limsa Lominsa four years after the Calamity. For unknown reasons, she has re-adopted her birth name; when asked, she can only say that she no longer has any use for her false one. She does not seem overly concerned with concealing her ethnicity, though she greatly dislikes discussing it.
+Adelpha continues to serve the Maelstrom as a strategist.
 ===Skills===
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 ===Other Notes===
-This is the same IC character as Aldrisi Shirantas from 1.0, but her appearance has been updated to be more accurate, and since she's started using her birth name (which has been in her backstory from the beginning), I've updated her name in-game at the start of ARR to reflect that.
+This character has been retired. Aside from special exceptions, no further IC development is planned for her.

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 | stat_4_value = Llymlaen, the Navigator
 | stat_5 = Occupation
-| stat_5_value = Storm Lieutenant of the Maelstrom
+| stat_5_value = Strategist, Maelstrom Command (Storm Lieutenant)
 | stat_6 = Prior aliases
 | stat_6_value = Aldrisi Shirantas
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 A half-Midlander, half-Highlander Hyur hailing from Limsa Lominsa. At 5 fulms 9 ilms, she stands taller than most Midlanders and carries a similar body shape to a Highlander, but with less muscle mass. She possesses the tanned complexion and fighting spirit of an Ala Mhigan, and the strong work ethic, quick tongue, and love of ale characteristic of a Lominsan. She speaks with a slight accent that's hard for many to place, which is in reality an unusual combination of Ala Mhigan and Lominsan speech patterns.
-Adelpha is fiercely dedicated to protecting her homelands and her loved ones. To that end, she joined the Maelstrom's ranks in 1572 and spent most of the following four years to its service.
+Though she possesses mixed Ala Mhigan and Garlean ethnicity, Adelpha is presently a "Garlean" in neither nationality nor allegiance, and she holds no respect whatsoever for the Empire. Her present allegiances, such as they are, lie primarily with her present home-state of Limsa Lominsa. She holds some amount of ancestral pride for Ala Mhigo, and hopes to see it liberated someday.
 ===History===
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 ====Pre-Calamity====
-As Garlemald resumed open hostilities in 1571, at the age of 22, Adelpha left Limsa Lominsa to study formalized martial training -- particularly with the lance, inspired by Limsa Lominsa's patron deity, Llymlaen -- at the Academy of Expertly Trained Hydaelyn Explorers and Researchers (A.E.T.H.E.R.). After completing her studies, she wandered Eorzea for a time in search of some way to apply her skills toward the defense of Eorzea. Uninterested in profit-motivated mercenary work, she eventually fell in with the Eorzean Guard, which, while technically a mercenary organization, possessed a rigid command hierarchy and a righteous code of ethics that separated it from typical mercenary groups, in her mind. She continued to serve with the Eorzean Guard's Third Division until the Grand Companies resurfaced the following year, and for a short time afterward. Throughout this period, Eorzea's tensions with the Garlean Empire soared to new highs, and Adelpha struggled to keep her partial Garlean parentage a secret, deathly afraid of being imprisoned or executed as a suspected spy if her true past were to be discovered. Around this time, Adelpha began to explore the practice of conjury and, finding that she had some level of aptitude for it, traveled to the Stillglade Fane to study the lost art of white magic. Over the following months and years, she began to pour more and more of her training time into developing her protective magic skills, not only through the Fane but also by studying the teachings of the scholars of ancient Nym.
+As Garlemald resumed open hostilities in 1571, at the age of 22, Adelpha left Limsa Lominsa to study formalized martial training -- particularly with the lance, inspired by Limsa Lominsa's patron deity, Llymlaen -- at the Academy of Expertly Trained Hydaelyn Explorers and Researchers (A.E.T.H.E.R.). After completing her studies, she wandered Eorzea for a time in search of some way to apply her skills toward the defense of Eorzea. Uninterested in profit-motivated mercenary work, she eventually fell in with the Eorzean Guard, which, while technically a mercenary organization, possessed a rigid command hierarchy and a righteous code of ethics that separated it from typical mercenary groups, in her mind. She continued to serve with the Eorzean Guard's Third Division until the Grand Companies resurfaced the following year, and for a short time afterward. Throughout this period, Eorzea's tensions with the Garlean Empire soared to new highs, and Adelpha struggled to keep her partial Garlean parentage a secret, deathly afraid of being imprisoned or executed as a suspected spy if her true past were to be discovered.
-Shortly before the Grand Companies opened public recruitment in the wake of full-out Garlean invasion, Adelpha applied for a position with the Maelstrom, and was accepted. After serving for several months on a series of short assignments as a Storm Private, Adelpha received a promotion to Sergeant and was selected for a prolonged overseas assignment. She was not heard from for four years.
+After serving for several months on a series of short assignments as a Storm Private, Adelpha received a promotion to Sergeant and was selected for a prolonged series of assignments. She was not seen in Eorzea for four years. During this time, however, she served the Maelstrom diligently, and began to study strategy and arcanima under the teachings of the Maelstrom's scholars. After completing her training, she was transferred to Maelstrom Command to serve as a lesser strategist and received a promotion to the rank of Storm Lieutenant.
 ====Post-Calamity====
-Adelpha eventually resurfaced in Limsa Lominsa five years after the Calamity, now bearing the rank of Storm Lieutenant. For unknown reasons, she has re-adopted her birth name; when asked, she can only say that she no longer has any use for her false one. She does not seem overly concerned with concealing her parentage, though she greatly dislikes discussing it. Instead, she outright renounces her Garlean citizenship -- if any such thing still remains -- and uses that connection to fuel an even stronger conviction to halt the Empire's conquest and to return peace to Hydaelyn.
+Adelpha eventually resurfaced in Limsa Lominsa four years after the Calamity. For unknown reasons, she has re-adopted her birth name; when asked, she can only say that she no longer has any use for her false one. She does not seem overly concerned with concealing her ethnicity, though she greatly dislikes discussing it.
 ===Skills===
-Adelpha is competent with protective magic, and dabbles a little bit in the other aetherial disciplines (enough to use cantrips). As far as martial skills go, Adelpha is also competent with a lance, but has not used one in combat for a few years. She's quite street-smart and has the ability to talk her way out of many difficult situations.
+Adelpha is competent with protective magic, and dabbles a little bit in the other aetheric disciplines (enough to use cantrips). As far as martial skills go, Adelpha is also competent with a lance, but has not used one in combat for a number of years. She's quite street-smart and has the ability to talk her way out of many difficult situations. Lately, she has developed an aptitude for strategy and tactics due to her studies under the scholars from Mealvaan's Gate, and in the process has further bolstered her knowledge of protective magic with the teachings of arcanima.
 ===Personality===
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 [[Diyne Ikapine]]: Mysterious, but knew how to have a good time. Independent to a fault, and known to play with hearts. I still liked him a little bit despite all that.
-[[Endemerrin Rosethorne]]: Didn't know much about him, but Xene seemed to like him a lot. Seems forthright and honest. He seems like a sort of person I can respect.
+[[Endemerrin Rosethorne]]: Didn't know much about him, but Xene seemed to like him a lot. Seems forthright and honest. He seems like a sort of person I can respect. He's recently started up an adventuring company. Sounds like it might be a good way to make a few gil when I need it.
 [[Illias Naystar]]: Despite his hilariously overwrought flirtations, he had a good heart. I saw him get hurt pretty badly once, and I found myself wanting to be there to comfort him, as much as he annoyed me. I wonder where he is now; I hope he's OK.

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 ===History===
 ====Early Life====
-Adelpha was born in 1549 in Ala Mhigo, the product of an Ala Mhigan teacher (her mother) and a Garlean military officer (her father) prior to the eventual conflict between the two nations. Shortly after Adelpha's birth, the three left Ala Mhigo for the capital of Garlemald. Though Adelpha rarely saw her father due to his near-constant field assignments, their life continued in peace, for a time. Due to her mother's past occupation as a teacher, Adelpha learned a great deal during her childhood. Aside from reading and writing, Adelpha had a great interest in books about far-away places and cultures.
+Adelpha was born in 1549 in Ala Mhigo, the product of an Ala Mhigan teacher (her mother) and a low-level Garlean military officer (her father) prior to Ala Mhigo's eventual occupation. Shortly after Adelpha's birth, the three left Ala Mhigo for the capital of Garlemald. Though Adelpha rarely saw her father due to his near-constant field assignments, their life continued in peace, for a time. Due to her mother's past occupation as a teacher, Adelpha learned a great deal during her childhood. Aside from reading and writing, Adelpha had a great interest in books about far-away places and cultures.
 In 1557, at the age of eight, Garlemald annexed the city-state of Ala Mhigo in the wake of the recent unrest in Ala Mhigo caused by Theodorac. Though it seemed at first that the Empire's intentions were to liberate the city-state from its state of tyrannical oppression, it soon became clear to Adelpha's mother (through a chain of correspondence with her parents still in Ala Mhigo) that the Empire's real goals were far less altruistic. Struck by heavy worry and grief due to her close relationship with both sides of the conflict, Adelpha's mother began to think of a contingency plan that would ensure her daughter's safety in the event of the worst.
-The following year in 1558, as political posturing and military saber-rattling continued to intensify in Garlemald, Adelpha's mother made a risky, but calculated, decision. Adelpha's mother arranged to have her daughter carried in secret on a merchant ship bound for the southern trade routes. She would be delivered to an orphanage in Limsa Lominsa, where she would be cared for and could live her life without fear of encroaching military conflict. Far on an island off the distant western coast of Eorzea -- a whole world away, it seemed -- she believed her daughter would be safe from the conflict that was beginning to envelop her homeland. She also gave her daughter a new name, to avoid being traced back to her original family and thereby to avoid deportation. The new name, while similar enough to Adelpha's birth name for the young child to easily remember, was a good enough permutation to conceal her birth name's Garlean origins. The name: Aldrisi Shirantas.
+The following year in 1558, as political posturing and military saber-rattling continued to intensify in Garlemald, Adelpha's mother made a risky, but calculated, decision. Adelpha's mother arranged to have her daughter carried in secret on a merchant ship bound for the southern trade routes. She would be delivered to an orphanage in Limsa Lominsa, where she would be cared for and could live her life without fear of encroaching military conflict. Far on an island off the distant western coast of Eorzea -- a whole world away, it seemed -- she believed her daughter would be safe from the unrest that was beginning to envelop her homeland. She also gave her daughter a new name, to avoid being traced back to her original family and thereby to avoid deportation. The new name, while similar enough to Adelpha's birth name for the young child to easily remember, was a good enough permutation to conceal her birth name's Garlean origins. The name: Aldrisi Shirantas.
 Adelpha's life continued peacefully until adulthood, full of days playing with her fellow children in the streets and alleys of Limsa Lominsa and getting in lots of harmless trouble. As she got older, she began to take on various odd jobs, working as a dockhand here and a barmaid there. As a barmaid, the visiting sailors would often regail the attractive young girl with stories of their exploits and adventures on faraway voyages, and she was always happy to accept their tips and stories both.

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 ===Basic Info===
-A half-Midlander, half-Highlander Hyur hailing from Limsa Lominsa. At 5 fulms 9 ilms, she stands taller than most Midlanders and carries a similar body shape to a Highlander, but with little muscle mass. She possesses the tanned complexion and fighting spirit of an Ala Mhigan, and the strong work ethic, quick tongue, and love of ale characteristic of a Lominsan. She speaks with a slight accent that's hard for many to place, which is in reality an unusual combination of Ala Mhigan and Lominsan speech patterns.
+A half-Midlander, half-Highlander Hyur hailing from Limsa Lominsa. At 5 fulms 9 ilms, she stands taller than most Midlanders and carries a similar body shape to a Highlander, but with less muscle mass. She possesses the tanned complexion and fighting spirit of an Ala Mhigan, and the strong work ethic, quick tongue, and love of ale characteristic of a Lominsan. She speaks with a slight accent that's hard for many to place, which is in reality an unusual combination of Ala Mhigan and Lominsan speech patterns.
 Adelpha is fiercely dedicated to protecting her homelands and her loved ones. To that end, she joined the Maelstrom's ranks in 1572 and spent most of the following four years to its service.

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 {{Infobox-character
-| name = Adelpha Sarantas <br><small>(formerly Aldrisi Shirantas)</small>
+| name = Adelpha Sarantas
 | image = AdelphaSarantas.jpg
 | imagewidth =
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 ===Basic Info===
-A half-Midlander, half-Highlander Hyur hailing from Limsa Lominsa. At first glance, Adelpha is both a little bit too tall and muscular to be a Midlander, and a little bit too slight to be a Highlander. She stands taller than most Midlanders and carries a similar body shape to a Highlander, but with little muscle mass. She possesses the darkened complexion and fighting spirit of an Ala Mhigan, and the strong work ethic, quick tongue, and love of ale characteristic of a Lominsan. She speaks with a slight accent that's hard for many to place, which is in reality an unusual combination of Ala Mhigan and Lominsan speech patterns.
+A half-Midlander, half-Highlander Hyur hailing from Limsa Lominsa. At first glance, Adelpha is both a little bit too tall and muscular to be a Midlander, and a little bit too slight to be a Highlander. She stands taller than most Midlanders and carries a similar body shape to a Highlander, but with little muscle mass. She possesses the tanned complexion and fighting spirit of an Ala Mhigan, and the strong work ethic, quick tongue, and love of ale characteristic of a Lominsan. She speaks with a slight accent that's hard for many to place, which is in reality an unusual combination of Ala Mhigan and Lominsan speech patterns.
 Adelpha is fiercely dedicated to protecting her homelands and her loved ones. To that end, she joined the Maelstrom's ranks in 1572 and spent most of the following four years to its service.