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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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He admires her sense of fashion, and attempts (within reason) to copy some of her styles himself.</div> | 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:11px;"><b>Recent Thoughts:</b> <i>"He's up and disappeared. Probably prudent not to ask why."</i></div> | | <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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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. | 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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