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"Hold your tongue. We're talking about ghosts of the past. While I may carry the memories of the man you knew as Cyrilaux Ardouin, we are not the same individual. Not anymore."
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spacing:0.2em;"><center>GENERAL INFORMATION</center></div></span></h3> | spacing:0.2em;"><center>GENERAL INFORMATION</center></div></span></h3> | ||
− | <div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">A | + | <div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#444146;font-family:Georgia;">A mid-ranking member of the Wood Wailers of Gridania. According to some of the older villagers, Cyrilaux appeared in the Twelveswood shortly after the Calamity of the Seventh Umbral Era with nary a gil or tale to his name. At first glance, he gives the impression of a man of little ambition, seemingly content with keeping out of the spotlight while serving as a mid-level member of the Lancer’s Guild. Despite clearly not being a Gridanian native, his uncanny skill with a spear has helped him earn the trust of the local populations as a reliable, if not unadorned, soldier. His somewhat stiff and noble mannerisms divulge his true background as <spoiler>a secret exile of Ishgard</spoiler> used to being in the company of lords.</div></div> |
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:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''La Noscea/Limsa Lominsa''': Moderate</div></div> | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''La Noscea/Limsa Lominsa''': Moderate</div></div> | ||
:<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Coerthas/Ishgard''': Low</div></div> | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Coerthas/Ishgard''': Low</div></div> | ||
− | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Mor Dhona''': | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Mor Dhona''': Low</div></div> |
− | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Dravania and surrounding areas''': | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Dravania and surrounding areas''': Low</div></div> |
− | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Gyr Abania and surrounding areas''': | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''Gyr Abania and surrounding areas''': Very Low </div></div> |
− | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''The Far East/Kugane''': | + | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ '''The Far East/Kugane''': Very low</div></div> |
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− | <center><big>Preferred jobs: Dragoon, Paladin, | + | <center><big>Preferred jobs: Dragoon, Paladin, Dark Knight, and White Mage</big></center> |
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| ''"Quote about player."'' | | ''"Quote about player."'' | ||
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− | | colspan="2" style="text-indent: 1em;" | | + | | colspan="2" style="text-indent: 1em;"| Cyrilaux met Seran by chance while on duty outside the Carline Canopy. Seran, an Ul'dahn, had made inquiries into exploration of the Palace of the Dead, during which Cyrilaux was assigned to assist and monitor his activities as a Gridanian escort. During the expedition, Seran found a spyglass in the depths below the Palace and then suddenly disappeared without a word. Thinking him to be a mere thief of Gridanian secrets, Cyrilaux tracked him down all the way to Vylbrand where Seran had petitioned the scholars of Nymlight reveal more on precise nature of the artifact. This was all a misunderstanding, as the spyglass in fact held an unexpected deep personal value to Seran. Intrigued by Nymlight's impressive group of adventurers and research resources, Cyrilaux and Seran both convinced them to let them join their organization. |
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| ''"Quote about player."'' | | ''"Quote about player."'' | ||
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| ''"Quote about player."'' | | ''"Quote about player."'' | ||
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<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #727472; color:#ded5cf;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Rare Rumors -</b> ''Very rarely overheard.''</div><br> | <div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #727472; color:#ded5cf;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Rare Rumors -</b> ''Very rarely overheard.''</div><br> | ||
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#727472;" size="2">■</font>"He never speaks of his family, if he ever had ‘em. Every once in a while, though, he’ll let slip a single word under his breath – ‘Valmont.” Maybe he thinks we can’t hear him, but not much gets past these Elezen ears. - '''Silvairre'''</div><br> | : <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#727472;" size="2">■</font>"He never speaks of his family, if he ever had ‘em. Every once in a while, though, he’ll let slip a single word under his breath – ‘Valmont.” Maybe he thinks we can’t hear him, but not much gets past these Elezen ears. - '''Silvairre'''</div><br> | ||
− | : <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color: #848482;" size="2">■</font> "Whenever rumors start coming in about the latest from Ishgard’s tussle with the dragons, | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color: #848482;" size="2">■</font> "Whenever rumors start coming in about the latest from Ishgard’s tussle with the dragons, Cyrilaux starts tensing up and looking pale. I bet he had a bad run-in with a Dravanian when he was a kid." - '''Gridanian courier'''</div><br> |
<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #36454F; color:#ded5cf;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Player Character Rumors -</b> ''Feel free to add rumors of your own!''</div><br> | <div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #36454F; color:#ded5cf;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black"><b>◢ Player Character Rumors -</b> ''Feel free to add rumors of your own!''</div><br> | ||
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Cyrilaux was born in the waning days of the Sixth Astral Era in Ishgard to House Ardouin, a family of minor nobility. A branch family and bannermen of House Durendaire, and symbolized by the lark, the Ardouins can often be read about in the archives of Ishgardian history as court officials and other public servants. The house has never been perceived as holding any real political power in the Holy See. However, they were perhaps best known for producing generations of Azure Dragoons, up to and immediately preceding Ser Alberic. One of Cyrilaux’s ancestors was even said to have served Thordan VI as a member of the Heaven’s Ward, though names and deeds have a way of being distorted through the ages. | Cyrilaux was born in the waning days of the Sixth Astral Era in Ishgard to House Ardouin, a family of minor nobility. A branch family and bannermen of House Durendaire, and symbolized by the lark, the Ardouins can often be read about in the archives of Ishgardian history as court officials and other public servants. The house has never been perceived as holding any real political power in the Holy See. However, they were perhaps best known for producing generations of Azure Dragoons, up to and immediately preceding Ser Alberic. One of Cyrilaux’s ancestors was even said to have served Thordan VI as a member of the Heaven’s Ward, though names and deeds have a way of being distorted through the ages. | ||
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Yet not one of the astrologians could have divined an incident from within the city walls. One cold autumn night, a young Cyrilaux had been woken up in his home to the screams of his sister being devoured by two Dravanian aevis, with both of their parents strangely missing without a trace. He and Valmont only barely survived before an order of Temple Knights burst in his home and killed the two dragons. Worse still, the investigation led by Holy See inquisitors had concluded that Cyrilaux’s parents themselves were the dragons, impersonating Ishgardian citizens in order to stage a surprise attack against the Archbishop and highborn persons of influence. How else could the church explain the presence of dragons in the inner sanctums of the city, well behind the magical paling which had protected Ishgard from the Dravanian Horde for centuries? Any other theory would have been a massive embarrassment for both the Holy See and the Archbishop’s divine rule. | Yet not one of the astrologians could have divined an incident from within the city walls. One cold autumn night, a young Cyrilaux had been woken up in his home to the screams of his sister being devoured by two Dravanian aevis, with both of their parents strangely missing without a trace. He and Valmont only barely survived before an order of Temple Knights burst in his home and killed the two dragons. Worse still, the investigation led by Holy See inquisitors had concluded that Cyrilaux’s parents themselves were the dragons, impersonating Ishgardian citizens in order to stage a surprise attack against the Archbishop and highborn persons of influence. How else could the church explain the presence of dragons in the inner sanctums of the city, well behind the magical paling which had protected Ishgard from the Dravanian Horde for centuries? Any other theory would have been a massive embarrassment for both the Holy See and the Archbishop’s divine rule. | ||
− | As accounts of the impersonation talents of Dravanians was well documented, such an accusation was as good as a death sentence, and in just one night, the reputation of House Ardouin was completely destroyed. Convinced that the entire family were nothing more than imposters, the Holy See put dozens of Cyrilaux’s relatives to the sword in a series of mock tribunals and public executions. | + | As accounts of the impersonation talents of Dravanians was well documented, such an accusation was as good as a death sentence, and in just one night, the reputation of House Ardouin was completely destroyed. Lord Durendaire, the liege lord of House Ardouin, refused to lift even a finger in assistance after the attempted plot on his wife. Convinced that the entire family were nothing more than imposters, the Holy See put dozens of Cyrilaux’s relatives to the sword in a series of mock tribunals and public executions. Others still were lynched in the streets. Even today, he cannot recall many of their names… |
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By all accounts, Cyrilaux and his brother should have been doomed to the rest of their days as street urchins in some forgotten corner of the Brume, or executed in one way or another like the rest of his kinsmen. Yet it was by the divine grace and enormous political influence of Lord Edmont de Fortemps that the two managed to survive. The nobleman and head of House Fortemps somehow miraculously convinced the other high lords and Archbishop himself not only to spare the boys from certain death, but put them under his official protection. Lord Fortemps argued that two children so young could not possibly have been involved in the Dravanian plot, and that showing mercy on them would prove a popular gesture among the plebian masses. As the bodies of House Ardouin burned or hanged in the streets of Foundation, Archbishop Thordan VII surprisingly acquiesced to the request – though rumors that this was done to cast doubt over the reputation of the otherwise pristine House Fortemps certainly circulated. | By all accounts, Cyrilaux and his brother should have been doomed to the rest of their days as street urchins in some forgotten corner of the Brume, or executed in one way or another like the rest of his kinsmen. Yet it was by the divine grace and enormous political influence of Lord Edmont de Fortemps that the two managed to survive. The nobleman and head of House Fortemps somehow miraculously convinced the other high lords and Archbishop himself not only to spare the boys from certain death, but put them under his official protection. Lord Fortemps argued that two children so young could not possibly have been involved in the Dravanian plot, and that showing mercy on them would prove a popular gesture among the plebian masses. As the bodies of House Ardouin burned or hanged in the streets of Foundation, Archbishop Thordan VII surprisingly acquiesced to the request – though rumors that this was done to cast doubt over the reputation of the otherwise pristine House Fortemps certainly circulated. | ||
− | And so both Cyrilaux and Valmont were adopted as wards of House Fortemps, with the caveat that any further Dravanian attacks within the city would fall directly to Lord Edmont himself to claim responsibility. Cyrilaux was assigned as the personal retainer of | + | And so both Cyrilaux and Valmont were adopted as wards of House Fortemps, with the caveat that any further Dravanian attacks within the city would fall directly to Lord Edmont himself to claim responsibility. Cyrilaux was assigned as the personal retainer of Artoirel, Edmont’s middle son and heir. The two boys were very close in age and became fast friends. Even though Cyrilaux had become a mere servant, over the years the bonds between him and the young Fortemps children grew to become as a second family to him – the older brothers he never had, and siblings to fill the gap left by Rinelle’s untimely death. He especially looked up to Haurchefont Greystone, Edmont’s bastard oldest son, as the two were in multiple ways outcasts from proper Ishgardian society that they lived in and served. Cyrilaux especially wanted to become a knight in his footsteps, and convinced Haurchefant to teach him all he knew in the ways of sword and spear. |
Over the next decade, the Fortemps’ influence molded Cyrilaux into a well-rounded and hardworking young man, even if his own ties to and trust of the aristocracy had been forever severed by the attack on his family in his childhood. Unfortunately, Ishgardian clergymen had not forgotten Cyrilaux’s early history – Holy See inquisitors would never let a suspected Dravanian traitor be accepted into knighthood. Still, Cyrilaux had developed the heart of a public servant, and arranged to leave the service of House Fortemps and enlist as a supply runner for the Temple Knights. At this time, the military had been ramping up for an imminent attack from the dragons – the lesser moon of Dalamud had grown so large in the sky during the past months that it was causing widespread aetherial disturbances all over Eorzea. Correspondence with the other three city-states had made it clear that this phenomenon was the result of inconceivable machinations of the Garlean Empire. Though the newly formed Eorzean alliance was preparing for a massive counterattack against the Garleans on the plains of Carteneau, the official policy of Ishgard was to not spare a single soldier away from the efforts of the Dragonsong War. | Over the next decade, the Fortemps’ influence molded Cyrilaux into a well-rounded and hardworking young man, even if his own ties to and trust of the aristocracy had been forever severed by the attack on his family in his childhood. Unfortunately, Ishgardian clergymen had not forgotten Cyrilaux’s early history – Holy See inquisitors would never let a suspected Dravanian traitor be accepted into knighthood. Still, Cyrilaux had developed the heart of a public servant, and arranged to leave the service of House Fortemps and enlist as a supply runner for the Temple Knights. At this time, the military had been ramping up for an imminent attack from the dragons – the lesser moon of Dalamud had grown so large in the sky during the past months that it was causing widespread aetherial disturbances all over Eorzea. Correspondence with the other three city-states had made it clear that this phenomenon was the result of inconceivable machinations of the Garlean Empire. Though the newly formed Eorzean alliance was preparing for a massive counterattack against the Garleans on the plains of Carteneau, the official policy of Ishgard was to not spare a single soldier away from the efforts of the Dragonsong War. | ||
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Final Fantasy as a series usually treats lore in two different ways. The first is the in-universe lore which is usually has specific history, rules, cultures, and customs unique to that numbered game. In XIV's case this would be things like the history of Hydaelyn (the planet), the cycles of astral and umbral eras, the unique culture of each city state, how each class/job came to exist within Hydaelyn, plot events in the MSQ, etc. The second way is how FF as a whole recycles many of the same lore elements as "building blocks" in each game. For example, every game uses many of the same monster designs, jobs like Paladin/White Mage/Dragoon, summons, ability names, mini-games like Triple Triad, locations like Gold Saucer, and musical leitmotifs. Both types of lore are important for a proper FF game, and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable in both - I've been playing XIV since before 2.0, and the FF series for most of my life. I will try to stay true to lore most of the time while IC and lean on the fourth wall where appropriate, such as by making veiled references to other elements of FF.''</div></div> | <div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">''Final Fantasy as a series usually treats lore in two different ways. The first is the in-universe lore which is usually has specific history, rules, cultures, and customs unique to that numbered game. In XIV's case this would be things like the history of Hydaelyn (the planet), the cycles of astral and umbral eras, the unique culture of each city state, how each class/job came to exist within Hydaelyn, plot events in the MSQ, etc. The second way is how FF as a whole recycles many of the same lore elements as "building blocks" in each game. For example, every game uses many of the same monster designs, jobs like Paladin/White Mage/Dragoon, summons, ability names, mini-games like Triple Triad, locations like Gold Saucer, and musical leitmotifs. Both types of lore are important for a proper FF game, and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable in both - I've been playing XIV since before 2.0, and the FF series for most of my life. I will try to stay true to lore most of the time while IC and lean on the fourth wall where appropriate, such as by making veiled references to other elements of FF.''</div></div> | ||
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+ | :<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;color:#444146;">■ Base page template adapted from '''[[User:Abelia Kir Armiger]]''', free for use! Additional inspiration for this page courtesy of '''[[Roen Deneith]]'''. Thank you all very much. </div></div> | ||
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A mid-ranking member of the Wood Wailers of Gridania. According to some of the older villagers, Cyrilaux appeared in the Twelveswood shortly after the Calamity of the Seventh Umbral Era with nary a gil or tale to his name. At first glance, he gives the impression of a man of little ambition, seemingly content with keeping out of the spotlight while serving as a mid-level member of the Lancer’s Guild. Despite clearly not being a Gridanian native, his uncanny skill with a spear has helped him earn the trust of the local populations as a reliable, if not unadorned, soldier. His somewhat stiff and noble mannerisms divulge his true background as Show text
used to being in the company of lords.
Cyril has been known to carry a spear since taking his first steps in Gridania about five years ago. When on duty as a member of the Lancer’s Guild, Cyril wears the standard Wood Wailer uniform complete with mask. Otherwise, he typically sticks to unassuming clothing so as not to stand out, seemingly by deliberate choice. While he has been a part of the Gridanian military for at least a few years now, he has never been said to have been seriously injured. Thus, it is unknown what caused the prominent scar on the left side of his face.
Aspects That Stand Out:
When on duty, he will often be found in areas of the Black Shroud, or in Gridania, keeping the peace. He will leave the Twelveswood on official assignments and missions.
Almost as if by deliberate choice, Cyrilaux is content with his role as a steadfast, reliable, yet unambitious member of the Wood Wailers, and very rarely speaks of his own hopes and dreams beyond his standard duties. As a traveling companion, he is happy to let others take the reins, merely providing the support – both in battle prowess and as a motivator – to see others reach their goals. Despite this, he is no stranger to taking command, and would never allow the lack of clear direction or leadership steer a group towards failure, at least in responsibilities to friend and realm. Yet these same qualities would serve to betray his own deep desires and disparage his hidden potential. Something is keeping him shackled – fears, doubts or something more sinister? Without a push in the right direction, he seems intent to live and die without experiencing all that Eorzea has to offer.
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■ Aliases: Cyril, Cyr ■ Citizenship: Gridania ■ Allegiance: Order of the Twin Adder ■ Nationality: Show text
■ Hair color: Dark Brown ■ Eye color: Light blue ■ Alignment: Neutral good ■ Favorite Food: Bouillabaisse ■ Favorite Drink: Doman Tea |