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{{Infobox-character
 
| name = Ghalleon Helseth
 
| image = GhalLargeIcon.PNG
 
| imagewidth = 350
 
| gender = Male
 
| citizenship = Ishgardian
 
| race = Hyur
 
| clan = Midlander
 
| stat_1 = Age
 
| stat_1_value = 27
 
| stat_2 = Occupation
 
| stat_2_value = Priest of Nald'thal
 
| stat_3 = Height/Weight
 
| stat_3_value = 5'10"/~162 pz
 
| stat_4 = Relatives
 
| stat_4_value = <ul><li> Absalom Helseth (Father)</li> <li> Cornelia Helseth (''née'' Lavoie) (Mother)</li> <li> Phaedra Hautelle Helseth (Sister)</li></ul>
 
}}
 
  
{{Infobox-Linkshell
 
| name = Rendezvous of Stars
 
| image = hosting_stars.jpg
 
| server = Balmung
 
| rp_style = Family Friendly w/ some Mature Themes
 
| contacts = [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=3693 D'ranmaia Shenn]
 
| website = [http://hostingstars.shivtr.com/ Rendezvous of Stars]
 
| language = English
 
| timezone = Primarily CST but EU friendly
 
| rp_element = The Axis Star
 
| headquarters = Ward 8, the Goblet
 
}}
 
 
 
 
 
==<div style="padding:10px 15px; background:#6789a7;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><b>Character</b></div>==
 
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: ''Ghalleon Helseth'' was born in Ishgard to a small family (the second child, the first son) in the Hyuran vassal house Helseth, retainers to Great House Haillenarte.  His chrismation name is “''Gamaliel'',” but “''Ghalleon''” (a hypocorism) is his political and ordinary given name.  Since the best prospect for his family’s social, economic, and political promotion wasthrough the marriage of his older sister (i.e. the hope that she would find a higher-class husband), Ghalleon’s parents enrolled him in the ''seminarium'' of the Ishgardian Orthodox Church as a young boy, and set him on the path of ministry.  Seminary is an exceptionally common life choice for Ishgardian men with little prospects for social advancement and little prospects for valorous military service.
 
 
: Ghalleon, however, was genuinely pious, and enjoyed both his formation in the seminary and his periodic visits with his family.  At 11, he and a few other neophytes travelled to Ul’dah with a few priests as part of a two-year program of study, prayer, and spiritual formation with the Order of Nald’thal.  The year he and his delegation were meant to return, however, was the year in which Ishgard withdrew from the Eorzean Alliance and closed its borders to foreign nationals.  Ghalleon and the delegation ''could'' have returned to Ishgard and pled for asylum as citizens; yet the political situation of the realm—the abiding threat of imminent invasion from Garlemald, and the whispered possibility of punitive military action by the Eorzean Alliance against Ishgard—led the delegation to decide quietly together that their best option for the present was to remain with the Order of Nald’thal as naturalized citizens.
 
 
: Ghalleon’s sudden alienation from his homeland and his family—even his letters were no longer being answered—was a period of intense spiritual crisis.  However, through the advice of his mentors, prayer, and a particular spiritual experience, he accepted his current lot, and decided to enroll formally in the Order of Nald’thal as a postulant seeking ordination.  The next fifteen years of his life would be spent in the pursuit and the realization of that goal; and in growing to consider Ul’dah, and specifically the Order of Nald’thal, his second home.
 
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==<div style="padding:10px 15px; background:#6789a7;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><b>At-A-Glance</b></div>==
 
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<div style="padding:10px 35px;background: #cfe8e8;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><center>Likes</center></div></h3>
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> Good, serious, substantial conversation—even debate, so long as it is in a broader context of friendship or affinity.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> Rest after hard work.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> Orthodox faith—from both the simple and the learned.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> People with habits of patience, courtesy, and gracious indulgence.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> Rain, so long as he is inside with nowhere he needs to be, and space to feel comfortable to listen to it or watch it.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> Cool and cold weather.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> A clean and secure house.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> Delicious, sumptuous, indulgent foods of all varieties.
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> The physical act of writing on paper with a fountain pen.
 
 
 
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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#bed3d6;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><center>Dislikes</center></div></span></h3>
 
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Being mocked—either openly or in his perception—for his faith, for his mannerisms, for his habits.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Any perceived insinuations that his intelligence is lacking.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Any perception that he is being excluded or shut out by people he loves and cares about.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Hot weather, physical exertion in it, and sweating in his clothes.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Being in the middle of large crowds.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Being late.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Cleaning house.
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> Having people (other than very close friends and loved ones) walk in on him sleeping (he feels vulnerable; he feels they will perceive him as slothful).
 
 
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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#aec4cc;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><center>Gazette</center></div></span></h3>
 
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Alignment: [http://easydamus.com/lawfulgood.html Lawful Good]
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Nameday (Birth): 4/26 (Nymeia)
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Nameday (Chrismation): Ides of the Second Astral Moon (Thaliak)
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Habitual Vices: acedia, envy
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Habitual Virtues: fidelity, magnanimity
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Food: steamed megalocrab-leg steaks or soups
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Drink: ice-cold lemonade
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Color: royal blue
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Myers-Briggs Personality Type: ISFP (Dominant: Fi, Auxiliary: Se, Tertiary: Ni, Inferior: Te)
 
: <font style="color:#87BC5E;" size="3">■</font> Talents: handwriting, choir
 
 
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==<div style="padding:10px 15px; background:#6789a7;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><b>Appearance, Personality, and Other Traits</b></div>==
 
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* Ghalleon usually wears a long black cassock as a sign of his Order and vocation; but even when he’s not, he wears long sleeves and long pants.  He dislikes exposing his skin, which is quite pale, other than his face and hands, and consequently he enjoys cold and windy weather, for which he is almost always well-dressed.
 
 
* He enjoys solitude, silence, prayer, and study; but he draws energy and strength equally from moments with close friends (not so much large gatherings or conversations with people who are strangers or merely acquaintances).  He needs both elements in roughly equal doses, or he will begin to feel the lack of one or the other.  Despite all this, his regency has greatly assisted his public speaking skills, and he has little trouble anymore speaking to groups, especially as a priest or teacher.
 
 
* He constantly thinks of qualifications or clarifications of even simple points he makes when he speaks, which frequently cause him to pause awkwardly mid-sentence in conversation in order to think.  He is self-conscious about this verbal tic.
 
 
* He rarely speaks about his family to anyone, but this is mostly an attempt at self-discipline to endure a situation he believes is outside his control for the present.  He loves his mother and father very much—he was a natural fit for the priesthood, and bears them no ill will at all for being sent to the seminary.  He loves his older sister especially, however, and he thinks of her often and wonders if she has married.  He keeps them all in his prayer rule.
 
 
* Ghalleon is completely orthodox in his theology, and his faith is mature and intellectual.  He enjoys speaking to the faith of the simple, and his pastoral manner in addressing himself to them gets better each day.  He also enjoys conversations with the heterodox, doubters, and apostate, so long as the discussion is in good faith.  He dislikes the scornful, the passive-aggressive, and the dismissive, and will quickly fire back at them in a similar tone.
 
 
* He believes not only in the importance of the true faith, but of tradition in general, and the pastoral ideals of stability, family and community bonds, marital fidelity, and the rearing of pious children.  He is especially hostile to sexual promiscuity.  Ghalleon—even as a priest—knows the pull of desire as much as anyone; but he believes that indulgence here attacks the very root of the family and the very root of the virtue of faith/fidelity itself.
 
 
* Ghalleon’s chief approach to any problem or confrontation is his intellect combined with his oratory.  Any need, problem, or potential conflict he has is an occasion in which he attempts to reason out a favorable conclusion.  It is not at all a self-conscious “bartering” or “persuasion”: his instinct that any problem can be talked through by rational people lies very deep in him, and he does not consciously realize that he always goes to this path.
 
 
* Ghalleon’s sister Phaedra is a Wildwood Elezen.  The two are not related by blood; she became an infant ward of Absalom before Ghalleon was born.  However, the two are very intimate and have always spoken and acted as if they were natural kin.
 
 
* He honors and serves the entire pantheon of the Twelve, but has a special devotion for four in particular:  Nald’thal, the ''patronus'' of his priestly Order and Ul’dah (his second home); Halone, the ''patrona'' of Ishgard (his first home and his people); Nymeia, the ''patrona'' of his birth; and Thaliak, the ''patronus'' of his chrismation in the Ishgardian Orthodox Church.
 
 
 
==<div style="padding:10px 15px; background:#6789a7;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;"><b>Relationships and Miscellany</b></div>==
 
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: <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style="color:#4e9362" size="3">♣</font> Family member&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♦</font> Friend  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Acquaintance&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♠</font> Enemy&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font size="4">☠</font> Deceased&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font style="color:#000000" size="3">○</font> NPC</center>
 
 
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: <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> '''[[Flora Valerian]] :''' "Flora is... very dear to me.  ...How did you say you know her, again?"
 
 
: <font style="color:#000000" size="3">○</font><font style="color:#4e9362" size="3">♣</font> '''Absalom Helseth''' : "Father... He was always so excessively generous with us.  Phaedra and I were fighting, once, and she tore my grimoire out of spite.  I was furious... and he went out, that day, and bought me a new one, brand new.  I... it wasn't even a big tear, it was nothing. 'Now you can have that one for using, and this one for keeping nice,' he said.  I'll never forget it..."
 
 
: <font style="color:#000000" size="3">○</font><font style="color:#4e9362" size="3">♣</font> '''Cornelia Helseth''' : "Mother would take us to the cathedral choir and orchestra sometimes.  She always sent me care packages while I was in seminary too...  She bought me a fountain pen with sterling appointments before I left for Ul'dah: I still have it."
 
 
: <font style="color:#000000" size="3">○</font><font style="color:#4e9362" size="3">♣</font> '''Phaedra Helseth''' : "Oh, Phaedra.  Bless her.  ... I know she's doing well, wherever she is.  I sometimes try to imagine the woman she's become, and whether we would recognize each other, were we suddenly to meet in a crowd.  ...Halone bless and defend her."
 
 
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♦</font> '''[[Evangeline Kavanagh]] :''' "Eva and I are neighbors, you know.  She introduced me to the couple that owned my house when they were ready to move out.  She's very sweet.  ..And, moody.  Be... careful, you know?  But she's wonderful.  She's... well, there's... well, she's certainly very unique."
 
 
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♦</font> '''[[D'ranmaia Shenn]] :''' "Miss Maia... she is a wonderful woman.  She is utterly guileless.  She.. the beauty of her virtue--her kindness and sweetness, and her inner strength.  Meeting her, becoming friends with her, has been a blessing for me."
 
 
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♦</font> '''[[Lucky Mewrilah]] :''' "I've known him for a bit of time, now.  A fine, fine man.  He has virtue.  I actually noticed, he has quite a gift with children, too."
 
 
: <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♦</font> '''[[Momone Mone]] :''' "Momone is a lovely woman!  She cooks wonderfully, you know?  She, well, we've gotten to know each other better over the last moons.  She is so virtuous, and loyal, I'm so glad to know her."
 
 
 
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#9ebfb9;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;">TVtropes</div>===
 
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* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WarriorMonk Warrior Monk] crossed with [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonActionGuy Non-Action Guy]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodShepherd Good Shepherd]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IntrinsicVow Intrinsic Vow]
 
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bishonen Bishōnen] (downplayed...)
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SimpleYetOpulent Simple Yet Opulent]
 
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStrategist The Strategist] (half of the time) and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePhilosopher The Philosopher] (half of the time)
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooCleverByHalf Too Clever By Half]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParalysisByAnalysis Paralysis By Analysis]
 
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cincinnatus Cincinnatus]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomeSweetHome Home Sweet Home]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HolyIsNotSafe Holy Is Not Safe]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VerbalJudo Verbal Judo]
 
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BewareTheNiceOnes Beware The Nice Ones]
 
 
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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #9ebfb9;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;">''Rumors''</div></span></h3>
 
''Some of these rumors are untrue or greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC!
 
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<div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #E999AA">◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard)</div></b>
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> “Fr. Helseth?  Yes, may I ask about the nature of your inquiry?”  ''—Receptionist, Arrzaneth Ossuary''
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> “In strictest confidence, Brother Ghalleon’s homilies could stand to be trimmed a bit.”  ''—Lalafellan lady parishioner, Ul’dah''
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font> “Ghally tips big, but he takes up a table for two bells, all by himself, reading.  Don’t you think that’s a bit weird?  Doesn’t he have any friends?  Well, I know they don’t like him much in the kitchen.  He always orders something that ain’t already made.”  ''—Miqo’te waitress, the Quicksand, Ul’dah''
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font>  “Fr. Helseth is a good man, absolutely.  He’s a bit raw at it—young—but he knows it, and I think tries not to be too insufferable to us for it.  He’s a good one.”  ''—Older Hyur man after liturgy, Arrzaneth Ossuary''
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font>  “I don’t need religion to tell me how to live my life.  He’s an idiot, the whole thing is lies, man.  Liberate yourself from their control, liberate society from their control.  It’s people like him who keep perpetuating this cycle of patriarchal oppression and bourgeois sexual conventions.  Hey, are you doing anything later?  Are you hungry, maybe?”  ''—Midlander young man, Ul’dah''
 
: <font style="color:#E999AA;" size="3">■</font>  “I respond that: the asinine qualities of Fr. Helseth may be demonstrated in five ways.  The first and more manifest is the argument from irrelevance.  It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world there is aether.  Now, every science is named after its object, the perfection of which is also its final cause.  Manifestly therefore the object of the science of thaumaturgy is the artful manipulation of aether.  And manifestly, therefore, the object of a school of thaumaturgy is to study thaumaturgical technique.  But Fr. Helseth instead teaches his pupils theology, which thwarts its stated end.  Therefore, Fr. Helseth is asinine.  The second is the argument from incompetence.  Whatever is highest in a genus…”  ''—A student thaumaturge, holding court with a small group of laughing friends, refectory of the Arrzaneth Ossuary''
 
 
<b><div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #C46277;">◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear)</div></b>
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> “I served with Helseth, briefly, during the crisis.  He led our artillery section at the time.  Gods, it’s been ages since he’s stopped by… we’re both not very good at keeping in touch.  He… wasn’t much built for military service, I think; and he’d tell you as much himself.  He did a good job of it, still.  Dropped it in his lap, and he made the best of it.  Didn’t look away.”  ''—Midlander companyman, rank of captain, Hall of Flames officers’ lounge''
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> “That’s his name, is it?  That Midlander strolled in here wearing cloth-of-gold like he owned the place.  Like he owned us.  He was with her, you saw, right?  If I find out he’s laid a finger on her, or any of our women, I’ll rip his manhood off, and shove it down his throat.”  ''—Ala Mhigan young man, Little Ala Mhigo''
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> “Oh, Ghalleon, did he say if he were coming home today?  I keep the pantry stocked and a hot meal on the table when I can, but you know, more and more days I’m coming by to find it just where I left it the night before, bless him.”  ''—Elezen matron, neighborhood estate caretaker, Gridanian suburbs''
 
: <font style="color:#C46277;" size="3">■</font> “I swear to you, I found him working as a waiter.  Dressed up nice, and everything, very professional-like, but he wasn’t wearing a clerical collar or anything at all!  I mean… he wasn’t doing anything wrong, exactly, but it was damned uncanny, like a double life.  Do you think he’s really that bad off on money?  His clothes don’t look it.”  ''—Priestess of Nald’thal, Arrzaneth Ossuary''
 
 
<b><div style="padding:10px 25px; background: #984C8A;">◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard)</div></b>
 
: <font style="color:#984C8A;" size="3">■</font> “I noticed an astrolabe among his items in the vestry.  I suppose I understand keeping it as a sentimental attachment to his homeland.  How disgraceful if he uses it, though.  As if the stars rule our destiny, and not the Twelve.”  ''—One prelate of Nald’thal to another, Arrzaneth Ossuary''
 
: <font style="color:#984C8A;" size="3">■</font> “To speak directly: he has a concubine—I am very nearly certain of it.  Do not misunderstand: the company of the perfect is vanishingly small, and I am not among them; I note only that it should now become a great deal clearer why he opposes the liturgical reforms.  In future, should he remain obdurate, it may become necessary to make a point of it.”  ''—One prelate of Nald’thal to another, Milvaneth Sacrarium''
 
: <font style="color:#984C8A;" size="3">■</font> “Brother Ghalleon could genuinely go either way, I think.  He’s one of the very few who could take the vow of chastity and mean it—and live it.  But it’s very clear how deep the desire for a family is seated in him.  And he would make a very good husband and father.  It will be interesting to see what Nymeia has chosen for him.”  ''—A hierarch of Nald’thal to a chaplain, Arrzaneth Ossuary''
 
 
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #9ebfb9;font-size:14px;color:#1e1400;">Colophon</div>===
 
 
: '''OOC Inspirations''':
 
* This page would be incomplete without mentioning [http://lunar.wikia.com/wiki/Ghaleon Ghaleon] of ''Lunar: The Silver Star''.  I did not fashion Ghalleon as a direct or indirect copy of Ghaleon, other than the oblique reference to his name.  It is, however, interesting to note Ghaleon's theological commitments, since the comparison has been made.
 
 
: '''Theme Music''':
 
* I have a playlist for Ghalleon [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5U9UCHxxYLPF3kCKy3Qnqd5Y53tqukvJ here!]
 
 
: '''Page Credits''':
 
* I am warmly grateful to [[Deirdre Ta'ea]] for the original page template; to [[Flora Valerian]] for the base page design; and to [[Little Ria]] for the complementary accents.
 

Latest revision as of 23:32, 30 April 2015