Delial Grimsong

Delial Grimsong

the witch of gyr abania

blackstone's legacy

kinslayer

❝here are the women with ancient anger in their veins and the cruelty of a goddess in their hearts.

you will beg before her, you will scream; but hera never flinched from the words of a mortal,

so why should she?

do not stand in her way. she will burn down your kingdoms, herself with it, if it meant your ruin.❞

- d.s.

◉ GENERAL INFO ◉

This whole thing needs to be rewritten to reflect new developments and growth.

In the mean time, check out that magnificent resting bitch face.

HOT DANG.

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gender

race

clan

citizenship

age

nameday

guardian

affiliation

female

hyur

highlander

ala mhigo

36

6th sun, 4th am, 1542

rhalgr

blackthorn company

◉ APPEARANCE ◉

Delial is slight for a Highlander: her stature is short in comparison and her frame meager and less robust than many of her sisters, a fact which does irk her somewhat. Though she does usually dress modestly, she has no reservations about showing off what the Gods did see fit to give her. Her skin is a dark caramel and her hair is dark with violet undertones, especially in the sunlight. One of her eyes is a sharp yellow while the other is scarred to a milky white, clearly blinded by some injury which had left its mark across her brow and cheekbone. In a nod to Ala Mhigan tradition, she's had her upper and lower canines filed into points.

There was a time where she dropped the habit but recently she has found it fortuitous to mark her face with ritualistic lines once again. Those keen enough to notice would note that the marks are not permanent and seem to be reapplied very regularly just as if they were warpaint. Those with particularly keen senses might catch scents of blood among other plant-based scents.

Delial usually dresses quite modestly, favoring long flowing robes that better give her a more pleasing silhouette. Her most prized piece may very well be her well-work thighboots, expertly crafted from fine Gyr Abanian aldgoat leather. She changes hairstyles fairly often but seems to favor either a loose braid or a more airy feathered look about shoulder length with small beads and charms (bone perhaps?) woven into her locks.

When she speaks, her voice is fairly deep and has a touch of that breathy quality to it, a feature she tends to exaggerate when speaking with people she does not know very well. Despite being a Highlander, she does not speak with the expected Highlander dialect but with the sharper, clipped tones that speak to heavy exposure to Imperial influence. It can come off as forced, however, as she almost never slips into anything less than a formal vocabulary and rarely speaks with slang. She does not seem fond of vulgarity so it is a rare thing to ever hear her swear.

◉ COMBAT ◉

Direct combat is by no means Delial's preferred method of taking care of business. Hers is a war best waged with words and manipulation, guiding others to align their goals with hers. That said, she is still capable of handling herself should the need arise: she was raised around the arcane and her ancestors were gifted mages all, with curses on their tongues and fire in their blood.

:: ARCANISTRY ::

Miasmas and hexes come easily to her even if healing does not. She keeps a tome near by at all times but even without it she is capable of less refined magic, binding aether by alternate means. Debilitation is her preferred strategy and to that end she could be considered adept.

:: THAUMATURGY ::

It is a calling she has not spent too much time on but it still itches in her blood. Her control is not so great that she could be thought of as competent, largely thanks to not spending much time in study. That is something she wishes to change, however, for hers is a legacy of fire.

:: ARCHERY ::

Without a doubt the weakest of her strengths, Delial was once possessed of great aim but since she lost one of her eyes, she has lost faith in her talent. A partner suggested she give it a try and even offered to teach her a few things. Lo and behold, Delial found that she was not quite as useless as she imagined. It is highly unlikely that Delial would rely on what skill she might have with a bow (or a knife even) to save her life but desperate times can call for desperate measures.

NOTE: Delial's in-game class(es) do not reflect what she can do IC. Despite having Summoner/Scholar and Bard at 50, I tend to view her more as a potent Arcanist and that's really about it. If she has a faerie or egi out please consider her to be OOC.

◉ RELATIONSHIPS ◉

♥ Romantic Attraction | ♥ Platonic Love | ✔ Positive | ✖ Negative | ○ Neutral

:: Saxon Thorne ( ✔ )

The two met under tense and uncertain terms a year ago in Gridania, where both found themselves in pursuit of the same target. Unbeknownst to Delial, the man has since been cleaning up after her by secretly dispatching those who were still after her for the item she walked away with that day. Their relationship has been rocky (as is the course for anyone associated with this woman) but she has since warmed up to him despite his socially awkward nature. She currently works for him as an administrator of the Blackthorn Company, screening jobs and clients for his approval.

:: Roen Deneith ( ✔ )

To say Roen and Delial have had their ups and downs would be severely understating the nature of their relationship. Delial has done a great many wrongs against the girl and her family and, to some extent, her friends... Yet fate would have it that they would return to one another for aid or advice time and time again. Perhaps it is guilt that makes her so intent on protecting Roen? Her current involvement remains with trying to dissuade Roen and her friends from involvement with Nero Lazarov. That, however, has proven fruitless as the Delial has learned that she has been taken captive by Taeros' own pet Crofte. It cannot be said if Delial is sympathetic.

:: Gharen Wolfsong ( ✔ ??? )

As with Roen, Delial's history with Gharen has been full of blood and pain. Yet by some miracle she herself cannot fully understand, Gharen Wolfsong seems to have forgiven her. The two share an amicable partnership of sorts (as 'friendship' seems to be a wholly inappropriate word to use), with Delial often relaying messages and information from one source or another to Wolfsong and vice versa. The two were recently seen at the Starlight Ball together with many apparently assuming that they were there as a couple, a notion which Delial did not go to much length to deny as she seemed to take great amusement in Gharen's distress. On their latest "outing," they both failed to snare either Shaelen Stormchild or the information she held if only because Gharen seemed to be more interested in Delial's well-being. Her own prodding about their personal standing had left her bewildered enough, acts of compassion withstanding. Delial was not satisfied with watching him let his chance walk, however, and intends to secure that information knowing well enough that he will not do what needs to be done to get it.

:: Osric Melkire ( ✔ )

Delial would more than likely refer to the Sergeant as an acquaintance more than a friend. They share words now and again when either curiosity or business brings him to mind. When they first met, Melkire made clear his intentions of having her removed from the city of Ul'dah and then often exchanged barbed words whenever caught in each other's company. She has come to respect the man a great deal, however, and maintains a passive interest in his goings-ons.

:: Kahn'a Od'hilkas ( ✔ )

She knows him as Lieutenant of the Red Wings and an ally of Melkire and Mergrey's. Their encounters have been few and far between, perhaps in part to him having shot an arrow in her leg during one of those encounters, but she maintains a grudging respect for the man. His eloquence and what appears to be genuine concern for his peers marks him as a decent and trustworthy man.

:: Coatleque Crofte ( ○ )

Crofte has fast become a troubling figure in all these dealings with Lazarov and Taeros. Once, she felt sympathy for the woman for she was, in her mind, the least incompetent of the Sultansworn and the most unfortunate. She was present when Natalie McBeef unleashed Mergrey and his bombs on a Maelstrom warehouse and apparently took the fall for it. She has found herself entangled with Jameson Taeros - in more ways than one, according to the gossip. Wolfsong has suggested that it was Ser Crofte responsible for Roen Deneith's capture. Despite their last effort at cooperation ending somewhat coldly, Ser Crofte has recently agreed to help acquire and hold Hroch Greyarm so that they might get information regarding Lazarov from Shaelen Stormchild.

:: Brynnalia Callae ( ○ )

A dangerous and crafty woman who has gone from being an ally of the Resistance to a hound of Jameson Taeros. Her former(?) ties with the Resistance are not entirely unknown, nor is her reputation for her cold cunning. Delial remains wary but business is business, and recent business has demanded that she reach out to the woman. Brynnalia and surprisingly Ser Coatleque Crofte have agreed to help track down Hroch Greyarm in order to try and "inspire" Shaelen Stormchild's cooperation.

:: Shaelen Stormchild ( ✖ )

Anyone who has had dealings with the right kind of Resistance knows the reputation of Shaelen Stormchild if not her name. Delial had only been peripherally aware of the smuggler: she had remained on the sidelines, working in the shadows, and did not present that much of a threat on her own despite her involvement. That, however, has changed and Delial's grudge against the woman has become a very real thing. Shaelen took the initiative and shot Grimsong clear through the belly before fleeing the Brass Blades who had come to ensnare her. The blood of hundreds of 'brave' Resistance fighters had already stained Delial's hands before Aylard's, and now she intends to bathe them in Stormchild's. That she seems to be a key to finding if not stopping Lazarov is simply convenient.

:: Jameson Taeros ( ○ )

Delial has to respect Taeros for the power he commands and, in some way, his methodology. She can appreciate his appreciation of ruthlessness when necessary and his approach to disabling his enemies... yet because of his ties to Raelisanne Banurein, she must remain vigilant lest she find herself marked as his enemy. Her activities regarding Lazarov seemed to have gone quite still over the past moons, but it would also seem that she has very recently and very abruptly found that interest rekindled.

:: Raelisanne Banurein ( ✖ )

The fact that Banurein remains at large somewhere is a matter of great concern to Delial. It was under Banurein's direction that she manipulated Roen to get to the Resistance and Gharen Wolfsong. It was at her side that they mutilated and scarred Wolfsong. Her connections make her uneasy, and the fact that Banurein knows so much about Delial - her history, her family, and her fears - makes her extremely dangerous.

◉ RUMORS ◉

❝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

❝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 Od'hilkas

❝Please feel free to toss up rumors here!❞ - cuideag

◉ RP HOOKS ◉

NOTE: I welcome the opportunity to meet and make new RP relations, but I ask that you remember that not all the information provided here might actually be available to your character(s). Please feel free to contact me in-game or via PM on the RPC Forums if you would like to discuss potential scenes.

● 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.

● LAMBS OF DALAMUD
Characters with connection to the Lambs might have heard of her or her mother in particular, or recognize her as having been a part of a sect well into her young adulthood. Though she might not have any solid connection with them at present, there have been things of interest that might draw her back into seeking the Lambs out at least: namely a relic belonging to the leader of her sect, and a treasure she intends to claim for herself.

● THE UL'DAHN UNDERGROUND
A few figures in the Ul'dahn criminal scene might have heard her name in connection to a few individuals who tread those circles. It is said she has connection with shady figures in the Monetarist camp in particular, and has little qualms with treachery and murder. By the same coin, she also seems to have connections with several notable members of the Sultansworn and Immortal Flames as well.

● 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.

● THAUMATURGE'S GUILD
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.

● BLACKTHORN COMPANY
There is a free company recently sprung up under the Maelstrom's banner which seems to have her name on the roster. She along with a man known as Saxon Thorne are listed as follows: "adventurers for hire. jobs done with the utmost discretion."

◉ KNOWN AND/OR SUSPECTED CRIMES ◉

● Remi Marcineux, 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, Marcineaux, and the relic have not been seen in Gridania since. 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.

● 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.

● 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 and maimed. Details pending.

◉ MISCELLANY ◉

● OUTSIDE LINKS

KINSLAYER: A character inspiration/IC blog. Some NSFW content.

Grimsong's Mix-Tape: A collection of songs for when I need to be a problematic woman.

● PLOTS AND STORIES

Legacy of Blood: A Resistance cell and the women who hunt them.

Nothing Without Cost: The sum of everything is you.

● CREDIT
Layout clobbered together by cuideag. The poem used way up top there is by maynads.