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− | [[File:GH1.png|450x450px|right|frame|<div style="padding:10px 20px; font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;letter-spacing:0.1em;"><center><font style="color:#706b68;">'''❝'''</font> <font style="color:#333333">'' | + | [[File:GH1.png|450x450px|right|frame|<div style="padding:10px 20px; font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;letter-spacing:0.1em;"><center><font style="color:#706b68;">'''❝'''</font> <font style="color:#333333">''What words can convince an unbeliever? If one leaps from a precipice, for a few precious moments, it feels as if one is free, as if one is flying, even! Too bad that, in reality, one is falling, and the illusion of liberty only lasts those precious seconds it takes to smash into the ground. At the moment, Ishgard is falling, and thinking itself free. I hope someone will catch her, before disaster overtakes us.''</font> <font style="color:#706b68;">'''❞'''</font></center></div>]] |
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: ● '''Chocobo riding:''' Both for pleasurable rides in the country and for long-distance travel, Ghalleon has become a very skilled rider. He is comfortable enough in the saddle that he has began practicing the sport of jousting, and he would be a competent rider if mounted during battle. If he is coordinating or commanding, he prefers to be mounted for the better visibility and mobility; however, if he is confecting thaumaturgy, he prefers to be dismounted and concealed for the ability to strike the enemy unawares. | : ● '''Chocobo riding:''' Both for pleasurable rides in the country and for long-distance travel, Ghalleon has become a very skilled rider. He is comfortable enough in the saddle that he has began practicing the sport of jousting, and he would be a competent rider if mounted during battle. If he is coordinating or commanding, he prefers to be mounted for the better visibility and mobility; however, if he is confecting thaumaturgy, he prefers to be dismounted and concealed for the ability to strike the enemy unawares. | ||
: ● '''Cunning Negotiator:''' The markets of Ul'dah are a crucible of commerce. The city has taught him proficiency not only in bartering for daily prices, but in the negotiation of service contracts, and the much more dire drafting of speculative business ventures. He is always constrained by justice and conscience--but he is practiced at arranging affairs in his favor. | : ● '''Cunning Negotiator:''' The markets of Ul'dah are a crucible of commerce. The city has taught him proficiency not only in bartering for daily prices, but in the negotiation of service contracts, and the much more dire drafting of speculative business ventures. He is always constrained by justice and conscience--but he is practiced at arranging affairs in his favor. | ||
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− | : ● '''Thaumaturgy:''' The Arrzaneth Ossuary is the custodian of thaumaturgy--and Ghalleon has worked there for fifteen years. He certainly isn’t the most powerful sorcerer in the realm, and he hasn’t even attempted to train in multiple styles of magic. He’s also never | + | : ● '''Thaumaturgy:''' The Arrzaneth Ossuary is the custodian of thaumaturgy--and Ghalleon has worked there for fifteen years. He certainly isn’t the most powerful sorcerer in the realm, and he hasn’t even attempted to train in multiple styles of magic. He’s also never attempted to practice arts forbidden by the Order. But in terms of thaumaturgy's potential and power, Ghalleon stands at the pinnacle of the art. The Order of Nald'thal's favors the element of fire, sacred to Lord Nald'thal; and also ice and lightning. But Ghalleon has spent a considerable amount of time specializing in defensive manawards and aetherial manipulation [short teleportation]. |
: ● '''Battlefield tactics:''' Ghalleon is not a professional soldier or general; but he has read enough history and military manuals, and participated in enough small sorties, to give him a quite competent sense of strategy and tactics. He is good at estimating enemy numbers in a short count; at weighing the terrain of a battlefield; and at calculating artillery or aetherial strikes from cover (a skill extremely useful for a thaumaturge). This skill usually is only of help to him personally, though, as he's almost never in a position to give orders to soldiers. | : ● '''Battlefield tactics:''' Ghalleon is not a professional soldier or general; but he has read enough history and military manuals, and participated in enough small sorties, to give him a quite competent sense of strategy and tactics. He is good at estimating enemy numbers in a short count; at weighing the terrain of a battlefield; and at calculating artillery or aetherial strikes from cover (a skill extremely useful for a thaumaturge). This skill usually is only of help to him personally, though, as he's almost never in a position to give orders to soldiers. | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>[[Flora Valerian]],</b> <i>Wife</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#ae0016;" size="2">ღ</font> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Ascetic of Rhalgr</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"It's been so nice, these past months, to spend more time with her at home."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | [[File:Flora1sq2.jpg |200px|frameless|left]] <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Florihilda and Ghalleon married more than three years ago, an unlikely match of a wealthy Ul'dahn priest and a Little Ala Mhigan refugee. They met in a teahouse, and became united above all by their intense and sincere faith. The two have been together through many personal adventures, including Ghalleon's reunion with his Ishgardian family and Flora's hand in the Ala Mhigan war of independence. They treasure their time together, as they are used to periods of separation: Flora in the past worked as a scout and tea sourcer, although the aethernet has made it easier for them to spend time together. | ||
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+ | Recently, Flora has become a monk in the shadow sect of the Fist of Rhalgr: a development in perfect accord with her lifelong piety to Rhalgr and her penchant for ascetic devotion. Ghalleon deeply admires her spiritual development, beginning to see in her the qualities of a shepherd; and the two speak as equals on spiritual matters. Ghalleon's extreme wealth as a priest of Nald'thal and Flora's extreme poverty as an ascetic of Rhalgr seem to be complementary to their relationship rather than a source of conflict. | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Lady Phaedra Hautelle de Helseth,</b> <i>Sister</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#3da180;" size="2">⚯</font> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Whimsical Adventuress</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"She seems restless this year. Rather like myself."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | [[File:Phaedra1sq.jpg |200px|frameless|left]] <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Phaedra is a Wildwood Elezen and Ghalleon's sister. Though the two obviously do not share a mother, Phaedra and Ghalleon have never thought of each other as less than full family. The two have shared a close relationship from childhood, when they would spend non-lesson days playing and exploring the woods of their estate in North Clearwater; fishing in the lake when the weather turned warmer; and, in the summers, swimming. | ||
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+ | Phaedra is a few years older than Ghalleon, and sings in the cathedral choir of Saint Thordan's Basilica. A pious woman, she had thought to swear vows of consecrated virginity to the Church until the recent revolution in Ishgard and the Church's loss of standing. Now she is a bit unsure of her path forward, and has decided to spend her present energy traveling and increasing her family's fortunes. She has had amazing success in securing a modest textile trade between Ishgard and the Hingan port of Kugane. | ||
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+ | Phaedra is joyous, whimsical, and playful. She loves making new friends, and loves to feel involved in new and important things. She likes to gossip, but never in a malicious way. And though she tries not to remember social slights, she never volunteers any information on her and Ghalleon's separate parentage.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Lord Absalom de Helseth,</b> <i>Father</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#00CED1;" size="2">⚑</font> <font style="color:#3da180;" size="2">⚯</font> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Viscount of North Clearwater</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"He hasn't been writing me as much. I hope he's in good health."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Absalom is a Midlander Hyur and Ghalleon's father. He's a bit shorter and a bit heavier than Ghalleon; he keeps a well-trimmed full beard of ruddy chestnut that is only starting to show streaks of gray, and he wears spectacles like his son. Absalom has spent his career as a courtier of Lord Baurendouin de Haillenarte. The Helseths own a modest estate in the Coerthas eastern highlands, to the north of Lake Clearwater--the family would split their seasons between their estate there and a modest personal residence in the Pillars whenever Absalom's duties called him to the capital. | ||
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+ | Absalom encouraged his son to pursue ordination from a young age, believing Ghalleon's constitution to be unsuitable to knightly service but still wishing his son to achieve a prominent social standing. He was overjoyed to discover that Ghalleon had aetherial aptitude, and encouraged his study with the Order of Nald'thal to develop this gift. | ||
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+ | In recent days, after Ishgard's reform of government, Absalom was invested with a minor noble title for his years of faithful service to the Count de Haillenarte. Absalom is deeply gratified by this honor after his years of work, but simultaneously believes his family to be in a rather precarious place, potentially being the object of both envy and resentment. He often consults with Ghalleon on the affairs of their new House, and the ways by which to secure its fortunes.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Lady Cornelia de Helseth,</b> <i>Mother</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#00CED1;" size="2">⚑</font> <font style="color:#3da180;" size="2">⚯</font> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Viscountess of North Clearwater</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"She keeps writing me about when our first child is coming..."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Cornelia is a Midlander Hyur and Ghalleon's mother. Ghalleon takes most of his features from her--her slight build, her crisp blue eyes, and her very long golden blonde hair. Because Absalom's income as a retainer did not require her to work, she is the day-to-day master of the Helseth household, managing all domestic affairs whenever Absalom is away and, during their childhood, seeing personally to Ghalleon's and Phaedra's education. | ||
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+ | Cornelia has always had an eye on Ghalleon's safety. She approved of his entrance into seminary to protect him from the Dragonsong War, but disliked his study at the Order of Nald'thal, so far away in the Sultanate. She views those years of Ghalleon's life with a quiet resentment and guilt, wishing that Ghalleon had not been cut off from his family for so long. | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Ser [[Abrielle Laisard|Abrielle de Laisard]],</b> <i>House Companion</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Kindred Spirit</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"She has many talents--there's more going on there than I thought at first. She threw herself into that duel a little excessively. And her smithing is certainly admirable, but... I hope she's not trying to distract herself from something more important."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | [[File:AbrielleSq.png |200px|frameless|left]] <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Ghalleon met Abrielle at a military ball, and was instantly taken with the woman. The two enjoyed a long evening of conversation on all manner of topics, including Ghalleon's favorite: theology. | ||
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+ | Abrielle, he learned, was a knight of the Inquisition. She is one of the few people he considers able to match him on more or less the same intellectual and moral level when it comes to the Church and its theology. He respects her reservations on her own past and the state of the Church more than most of his other Ishgardian peers, because he knows she 'gets it' and knows what's at stake. But, conversely, this also means that winning Abrielle's approval is a high prize for him: he will feel the weight of her disagreement, especially on theology, far more heavily than someone he considers ignorant. | ||
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+ | He is also entranced by her particular aetherial skill, cultivated and perfected in the Inquisition, called 'Rimefire.' She is also a fearsome swordswoman and a competent blacksmith. Ghalleon has had the chance to see her at work in her forge, and inwardly wishes he was a knight or swordsman himself so that he could ask Abrielle to make him something cool. | ||
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+ | Ghalleon thinks that Abrielle could potentially be one of his closest friends, one day, but he gets the feeling that she doesn't like to let people close to her, and he's reluctant to push at her too quickly. | ||
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+ | Though it started out as a joke, he now inwardly wonders, because of her Rimefire, whether kissing Abrielle would give one chilly lips.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Lord [[Denz_De'bayle|Denzel de Bayle]],</b> <i>Honorable Peer</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Powerful, Unpredictable</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"His visit for tea seemed to go well enough. Strange of him to make those remarks about my estate, though.... I wonder if he was attempting to mock me obliquely."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Though Ghalleon saw Denz here and there at the start of his business with the House, the men only took their first real notice of each other in a recent confrontation. | ||
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+ | During a feast day celebration for Menphina at which Ghalleon was invited to deliver a homily (his wife Flora was also in attendance), Ghalleon objected publicly to an interruption from Jancis that Ghalleon interpreted as insulting. Before the two could truly address the matter, Denz intervened, and demanded that Ghalleon either take the dispute to a private location, or else retire from the Dawn Vigil for the evening. This got Ghalleon's blood up: he felt that his noble station was being derided by a peer, and that Denz's ultimatum violated the terms of his ward agreement with House de Bayle in any event. But rather than press the issue there and risk permanently alienating the entire House, Ghalleon said that it was unjust to demand he settle a dispute in private when he had been insulted in public, and left the Vigil with his wife. | ||
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+ | With Hestia acting as mediator, the dispute was mended swiftly enough. Denz apologized for certain of his remarks, and the two men are, at least in Ghalleon's estimation, completely reconciled. However, first impressions are often difficult to dispel, and he wonders if Denz hasn't formed a similarly negative first impression of himself. | ||
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+ | Ghalleon has noticed Denz's penchant for wearing full plate, and has noted the man's significant strength. He has noted the lingering presence of aether on the man and his equipment, and has made a note to investigate its source, as he doesn't appear to be skilled in the typical magical arts. | ||
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+ | Denz and Hestia have discussed House matters, or general political and strategic matters, on a few occasions in front of Ghalleon. In his estimation, Denz's opinions run impulsive and overconfident; Ghalleon thinks his own opinions are highly tactical but run defensive and risk idleness; he thinks Hestia's instincts lie somewhere in the golden mean. Interestingly in this respect, it is through Denz's open conversation that Ghalleon learned of the special aetherial significance of the House de Bayle sigil inscribed on its scions' skin. Hestia, of course, was (and remains) far more circumspect. | ||
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+ | Ghalleon doesn't know the entire picture and is therefore careful not to rush to judgment; but his opinion of Denz is filtered through the lens of Jancis; inwardly, Ghalleon wonders if Denz is something of a rake.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Lady Fiona Delaine,</b> <i>House Companion</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Sweet Sorcerer</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"I finally was able to invite her over for tea, about a year late! Though Denz was there, so I'm not sure it counts."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | [[File:FionaDelaine.png |200px|frameless|left]] <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Ghalleon first met Hestia on the field of battle, working together in a team of skirmishers in Gyr Abania, around Goodblade. What he observed there would be a microcosm of his thoughts on Fiona for the next year. | ||
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+ | The first thing he recognized was her incredible power with magic. Fiona healed Ghalleon's wife of a grievous injury as if it were nothing: this, combined with Fiona's general sweetness and courtesy, made Ghalleon instantly like the woman. But he also instantly recognized that her magical skill was utterly foreign to him. He saw strange sigils on her skin which seemed to warp and bend; he saw her regularly use her own blood to fuel her sorcery (Ghalleon knows only a single spell of blood magic from the Order of Nald'thal, which is used for healing); he saw her speak words of power in foreign and forbidden tongues. | ||
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+ | The contradiction is that Fiona appears to be one of the sweetest and kindest souls that Ghalleon knows, and he counts her a firm ally; and at the same time perhaps the most dangerous and heretical. He knows with certainty she has deep kin or connection to dragons, but he does not know how deep the well runs. He is also fearful of the sources of her sorcery, recognizing at least some of it to be Mhachi arts forbidden by his Order. | ||
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+ | Magic is not Fiona's only skill (or only battle skill), but it is the one that interests Ghalleon most. If he has the chance to see her casting, he always takes the time to study her carefully, and inwardly compares himself against her (though his magic has never been on full display in front of House de Bayle yet). | ||
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+ | He enjoyed a winter farmer's market with Fiona not long ago, and is on the lookout for gourmet teas to share with her to get her opinion on them.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Dame [[Hestia de Bayle]],</b> <i>Honorable Peer</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#b72a78;" size="2">♦</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">⚖</font> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Stalwart Ally</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"I've seen less of her since that business with the Alliance. And every time like she's needed more sleep than she's gotten."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | [[File:HESTIAWIKIBOX400.png |200px|frameless|left]] <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Ghalleon first met Hestia on the field of battle, working together in a team of skirmishers in Gyr Abania, around Goodblade. Impressed by her competence in battle and her serious demeanor, Ghalleon quickly wrote to her to arrange a meeting. | ||
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+ | Since House de Bayle was a newly-noble House like his own, Ghalleon was pleased to find that Hestia was willing to work together with him for the benefit of both families, even more so in recent days now that Hestia has taken the title of Viscountess to oversee the House's entire affairs. Ghalleon has accepted a position as ward of House de Bayle and is operating as an envoy between them and Great House Haillenarte. | ||
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+ | Ghalleon knows a number of people whom he would describe as frivolous, dissolute, or facetious: Ghalleon admires Hestia as almost the photo-negative of this. The two do not see perfectly eye-to-eye on Halonic Orthodoxy, but he believes the two to be on the same side of things, and thinks that they can work together for reform within tradition without any insincerity. He arranged for his sister Phaedra to become a ward of House de Bayle also, hopeful that his sister would make new friends. | ||
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+ | In his heart, Hestia represents much of what Ghalleon aspires to become for his own House. He admires her faith most, and silently marks her style of command to improve his own. It is his hope, as he works, to become quietly indispensable to her; he knows his own value as a friend and ally, and he never forgets his friends, especially those who help him or his family in moments of vulnerability. | ||
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+ | He admires her sense of fashion, and attempts (within reason) to copy some of her styles himself.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Ser Keyla Cailidh-LeFort,</b> <i>House Companion</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Becoming Baker</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"The oysters were really good. I wonder what she's up to. She has this bemused look about her, but never seems to say what she's thinking about..."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Keyla is a baker in House de Bayle's kitchens; but Ghalleon has seen her prepare all sorts of dishes. After his introduction, he's learned that the woman is currently retired from the Order of Knights Dragoon. | ||
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+ | He's seen enough glimpses of her prowess to know there's a story there: her training in the yard, or her movement in field gear in short excursions, by themselves tell Ghalleon that she retains her skill in battle. He wonders to himself why she's decided to spend her present days mostly in the kitchen: perhaps she's suffered a hidden wound? Perhaps her appetities have tired of battle? Ghalleon is intrigued, but has not yet had the opportunity to ask. | ||
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+ | He has noticed that she seems to know much of the business of the house, but is more reticent to share her opinion on things (at least in the occasions that Ghalleon has been present). This has endowed her with an aura of mystery to Ghalleon, and he now wonders what secrets she's keeping. | ||
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+ | She skyrocketed in Ghalleon's esteem when she recently prepared him a plate of shelled oysters with sun lemon.</div> | ||
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+ | ! <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:12px; font-variant:small-caps;"><b>Lord [[Killian de Bayle]],</b> <i>Honorable Peer</i>. <b>(</b> <font style="color:#669900;" size="2">✔</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> <b>)</b> - <b>Curious Ally</b></div> | ||
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+ | | <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"He's up and disappeared. Probably prudent not to ask why."</i></div> | ||
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+ | | [[File:Killian.png |200px|frameless|left]] <div style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:11px;">Ghalleon met Killian when he first introduced himself to House de Bayle. To Ghalleon's embarassment, it took several meetings before he noticed that the man was blind: he seemed to get around just fine. | ||
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+ | Killian seems strange to Ghalleon: a man who seems smart but asks questions with obvious answers. Ghalleon can't tell sometimes if Killian is affecting simplicity or truly doesn't understand something; if Killian is asking a question with an ironic edge or in sincerity. The more Ghalleon has come to know him, the more his default reading of Killian is straightforward sincerity, but he's never quite certain. | ||
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+ | Moreover, Ghalleon can usually get a feeling of a person's religious convictions in a pretty short order of time, but he's still not sure of Killian's. He doesn't seem exactly impious, and certainly not blasphemous; but Ghalleon gets the unspoken feeling that Killian doesn't care much for religion. Regarding Halonic Orthodoxy in particular, the last time the two spoke was an ''ad hoc'' debate on it, with Ghalleon defending the faith and Killian attacking it. Killian walked out on the discussion, and the experience has left Ghalleon with a sense that Killian's worldview is probably incommensurable with a faithful Ishgardian's. | ||
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+ | Nevertheless, he respects the man and has no desire to be unfriendly with him. Ghalleon sensed instantly Killian's massive power with aether, and has seen his conjury on display several times now. Ghalleon has inwardly been comparing Killian's own skill with aether against his own; but this is a purely internal estimation, as Ghalleon (so far) has avoided any grand display of his own skill at thaumaturgy in front of House de Bayle. | ||
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+ | Ghalleon is secretly a bit jealous of Killian's good shape, and has started trying to do a few push ups in secret each night alone in his bedroom. He wonders if [[Abrielle Laisard|Abrielle]] might be willing to make him some cool armor too.</div> | ||
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