Delial Grimsong

K I N S L A Y E R

❝ And just what would you have me do...? ❞

NAME: Delial Grimsong

(also known as: Blackstone, Kinslayer)

SEX: Female

AGE: 36

RACE/CLAN: Hyur, Highlander

CITIZENSHIP: Ala Mhigo

AFFILIATION: Questionable

OCCUPATION: Myriad

MARITAL STATUS: NO.

SEXUALITY: Bisexual

NAMEDAY: 6th Sun, 4th AM, 1542

GUARDIAN: Rhalgr

RELATIVES: Garren (father, ☠)
Lyra (mother, ☠)
Westor (brother, ☠)
Harvard (brother)
Hrathi (???)

◉ L I K E S

● Trashy romance novels.

● Cheap, terrible wine.

● Flattery and praise.

● Costa del Sol.

● Pet names.

◉ D I S L I K E S

● Small, enclosed spaces.

● Clingy, over-sensitive people.

● Chains.

● Ul'dah.

● Guns.

◉ S T R E N G T H S

● CHARISMATIC. A beautiful, confident woman: what could be better?

● MANIPULATIVE. Skilled at turning people to her side, even if only temporarily.

● RUTHLESS. Nothing ever comes without a price and she is not afraid to pay it.

● PRAGMATIC. In action, simplicity is best, even if it may be brutal.

● ADEPT. There is magic in her blood and soon enough, it shall flourish.

◉ W E A K N E S S E S

● PROUD. Often, she cannot see her errors or missteps until it is far too late.

● UNFORGIVING. Grudges will be remembered for life; never forgive, never forget.

● EGOCENTRIC. Her own wants and goals are paramount, with few exceptions.

● VOLATILE. Little patience, less mercy.

● ADDICT. It is only a matter of time before a problem looks like a solution.

R E L A T I O N S

>> SAXON THORNE ( ✔ )

Surprisingly reliable, and consistently so. Never mind that he has been so very generous with his gil... The easiest job I have ever had, and I am walking away from it. Absurd.

>> ROEN DENEITH ( ○ )

Something has changed. Something has happened. Anger and grief. Something has happened.

>> GHAREN WOLFSONG ( ??? )

I ought know better than this.

>> OSRIC MELKIRE ( ✔ )

How he has managed to balance a personal life with the rest of this nonsense is a mystery. Do I envy him? ... no, no, of course not.

>> COATLEQUE CROFTE ( ○ )

Perhaps it was a mistake to assume her harmless. I do not doubt her bark remains worse than her bite, but... better to stay on her safe side regardless.

>> KAGE KIRYUU ( ✔ )

When was the last time anyone apologized to me...? And so sincerely, at that?

>> KIHT JAKKYA ( ○ )

The honored Huntress. Apparently better connected than I previously thought. More than she seems, surely: a woman of strength and tenacity from what I have seen thus far.

>> RAELISANNE BANUREIN ( ✖ )

It may have been foolish to imagine Taeros stood between she and I. Now that he is gone...

>> JAMESON TAEROS ( ○ )

Crofte may have the right of it: he may yet live. Twelve save him if he is in her hands...

>> SHAELEN STORMCHILD ( ✖ )

A damned good shot. Must return the favor someday.

>> BRYNNALIA CALLAE ( ○ )

To be watched. I doubt her loyalty remains with the Resistance, but her sympathies are another matter entirely.

>> ZAREK WINDSOUL ( ✔ )

I like a boy who does not ask too many questions. Would that more followed in his example.

>> MISTALV ARROWAY ( ○ )

A Fist, and a capable one at that. I wonder...?

>> EVANGELINE PRIMROSE ( ✔ )

Charming, for an Isghardian. Fair, for an elezen. She knows the north far better than I. If Gharen is to be found...

>> S'KIEAR GRIMSONG ( ✔ )

He says he does not believe, so I shall believe in his stead. There is some purpose awaiting him. The Traders have turned him away too many times for me to think otherwise.

R U M O R S

❝What's it ya heard about that woman? Go on, don't be shy: ain't no one listenin' but us birds, aye?❞ - Insufferable Gossip

❝There was to be a trial and a hanging. She only attended one. It was another who hung that day, I swear on my mother's grave. That woman should be dead.❞ - Ragged Refugee

❝She's got all sorts under her thumb, she does. Brass Blades, Immortal Flames, even Sultansworn if you'd believe it. If what they say is true then it's probably for her own good. Friends in high places, was it?❞ - Nosy Know-It-All

❝Dark times for me, for a lot of people who weren't quite in their right minds. But I swear, I've seen her before... We'd meet, you see, and pray together. I think I've seen her.❞ - Pale Penitent

❝No, I ain't dealin'. But I know someone who does. She gives him business now and again - maybe once a moon or so, sometimes twice, never buys too much. But repeats are repeats, you know what I'm sayin'?❞ - Knowledgeable Ne'er-Do-Well

❝The dose makes the poison. In the right quantities, we call 'em cures.❞ - Osric Melkire

❝She carries a scent of blood, and it shall linger on. Yes, she has a story to tell.❞ - Kahn'a Ohditra

❝The poison vine breeds the sweetest wine.❞ - Chokho Viqqoh

❝I entrusted her with my brother's well-being and now he has disappeared under her watch. I do not know if it is faith or foolishness that I leave it to her to find him.❞ - Roen Deneith

❝I got the looks and the brains. Sis? She got me! Clearly she is the lucky one. But joking aside,some bonds are thicker than blood. I swore once I'd be willing to die for her, and that hasn't changed. You fuck with my sis, you fuck with me and my boomstick. Less you are literally fucking her. In that case, she on her own. But seriously. She wants you dead, I'll kill you for her. For free.❞ - S'Kiear Grimsong

❝Miss Grimsong? I am thankful that she has accepted my apologies and that she is allowing me to help her. I'd like to believe that it means she has a better opinion of me than before... Honestly? I...do value her opinion, foolish it might be to expose my back to her.❞ - Kage Kiryuu

● REMI MARCINEAUX. Missing, suspected dead. A Conjurer of the Stillglade Fane, he was assigned to assist "Curator" Delial Grimsong of a small Ul'dahn house of antiquities in the research of a particular ominous relic. Following an incident in the guild archives, Grimsong fled to the Shroud. She has been spotted in Gridania and the surrounding areas of the Shroud recently, albeit without Marxineaux or the relic in question. May have had an accomplice, suspected to have been a male hyur.

● AYLARD GREYARM. Kidnapped and murdered. A drifter later discovered to have been the leader of a cell of Ala Mhigan refugees was found dismembered and mostly eaten by wildlife. A merchant travelling to Vesper Bay noticed several carrion birds gathered in the waters of the Silent King making short work of hyur remains. The victim had been dead for at least a sun. His internal organs were not found.

● A FISHERMAN (name withheld). Murdered. Similar to the case of Aylard Greyarm, a fisherman living in Crescent Cove, Thanalan, was found dismembered and stuffed into the drawers of an armoire of a house suspected to be one of many Garlean safehouses in the area. Other local residents were reluctant to comment in any meaningful manner.

● GHAREN WOLFSONG. Kidnapped. The victim disappeared not long after Aylard Greyarm and was not seen again until some time after, during which Wolfsong suffered great physical and mental distress. Explicit details of this incident are scarce as the victim, though he was recovered, seems to generally avoid the city states and their respective Grand Company officers and law enforcement.

● ASKIER MERGREY. Assaulted with intent to kill. A violent physical confrontation was witnessed by several adventurers travelling through Camp Drybone and was brought to a halt by several of Mergrey's allies. She was held briefly but ultimately released within a few suns without further punishment.

● ITARLIHT SYHRKOENSYN. Murdered The mercenary was found to have kidnapped two individuals and was brought to Crescent Cove to negotiate their release. It is said that Grimsong, who was to leave with Syhrkoensyn in self-imposed exile, killed him instead. His body was not recovered.

● HROCH GREYARM. Kidnapped, maimed. A young man known to be the son of Resistance member Aylard Greyarm was reportedly held as ransom for an undetermined third party. The circumstances surrounding the incident remain unknown. Greyarm was released into the custody of said third party alive but sans two fingers off his left hand.

H O O K S

◉ ALA MHIGAN RESISTANCE
When the civil war hit, Delial took to the Garlean side of the conflict as a staunch supporter of Gaius van Baelsar and actively hunted groups or single members of the Resistance movement. Ultimately a botched mission would end in her capture and subsequent removal from Ala Mhigo to an undetermined camp in the wilds of Coerthas, where she was to be interrogated and executed. Someone from that particular group might have learned that Delial Grimsong (or Delial Kinslayer as she was also known) still lives. Supporters of the Resistance or around Ul'dah could also become aware of her presence, and of her hand in crippling another cell in Thanalan.

◉ THE LAMBS OF DALAMUD
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◉ STILLGLADE FANE
A member of the Conjurer's Guild has been missing for many, many moons and there was a woman matching Delial's description who remains suspect in his disappearance. A woman supposedly representing the scholarly pursuits of an old Ul'dahn house of relics and antiquities had been in his company and requested to procure a certain item out of the Conjurer's archives for research - an item of somewhat dubious nature which has also since gone missing. The nature of the item remains undisclosed.

◉ ARRZANETH OSSUARY
The Highlander is a recurrent figure in the Ul'dahn scene and lately she seems to have taken an interest in the Guild. If asked, the registrar there might vaguely suggest she had been a student of a student before but that her studies had soon been abandoned and the woman had practically vanished from their halls. She might also suggest contemptuously that the same woman has been sniffing about the place again, asking after books of disquieting nature. The gall of that hyur!

G A L L E R Y

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  By Kelzack

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  By Cessna

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  By Dwen (NSFW)

M I S C

◉ OUTSIDE LINKS

● K I N S L A Y E R - An IC/Inspiration tumblr. Has some NSFW content (sexual imagery/blood and gore).

● GRIMSONG FANMIX - A Youtube playlist.

◉ PLOTS AND WRITTEN WORKS

● LEGACY OF BLOOD - A Resistance cell and the women who hunt them. (Collaborative effort with a ton of cool cats.)

● NOTHING WITHOUT COST - The sum of everything is you.

● BALMUNG BULLETIN BOARD - Gotta find the entries! (1), (2), (3), (etc)

◉ MISC

● FACECLAIM - A toss-up between Brenda Costa (NSFW!) and Emanuela De Paula (still kinda NSFW!).

● VOICECLAIM - The lovely Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.

● CREDIT - Layout clobbered together by cuideag. Artwork courtesy of dieciaem - thank you so much!