Sirus Shadowstar
 Sirus Shadowstar
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 Life's no fun without a little laughter. | |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Elezen |
| Clan | Wildwood |
| Citizenship | Ishgardian |
| Full Name | Sirus Alexandre Stoussaint |
| Date of Birth | 25th Sun of the 4th Astral Moon (July 25th) |
| Chocobo | Rigolade - Male; Battle Trained |
| Sexuality | Asexual |
| Relationship Status | Single - Supposedly Not Looking |
| Occupation | Knight, Assigned to Camp Cloudtop |
Sirus is the younger of the twin children of House Shadowstar. His father, Lord Integris, and twin sister, Ceridwen, are what remains of his family, the minor house of Ishgard. He is a knight, in sworn service to House Haillenarte, assigned to Camp Cloudtop and the Rose Knights. He's also quite the mischief maker, but don't worry. He doesn't want anyone to actually get hurt!
Birth to 5 Years
Twenty five years prior to the Calamity, Lady Lilyenne Shadowstar gave birth to a pair of twins, naming them Ceridwen and Sirus. Their father, Lord Integris, was very proud and happily announced the healthy birth of his children. His nineteen year old son from his first marriage, Cheswick, appeared happy to all witnesses.
The first five years went as normally and happily, as any small family could ask for. The twins grew as expected, charming their family and neighbors, as toddlers usually do. A few moons after their fifth nameday, the family attended a fall celebration picnic in the Coerthas Western Highlands, out near Gorgagne Mills. There was quite a small crowd of people in attendance. A Dravanian and heretic cell, attacked and killed several people. Among the death toll, was Lilyenne Shadowstar, whose death at the jaws of a dragon, was witnessed by her husband and twin children. Cheswick was briefly missing in the chaos.
5 Years to 15 Years
The small family went into mourning, memorializing Lilyenne alongside the others that died in the attack. After a couple years, things smoothed out and life moved on. Cheswick started traveling for business, acting as a merchant importer, of exotic goods. His returns from travel were often accompanied by varied gifts, of unexplained origins. The family lived each day, unaware of what was coming.
Heresy Incident
Around the early spring, following the twins’ fifteenth nameday, Cheswick was caught with heretical artifacts among his wares. Questioning by the Inquisition, as well as investigation into his belongings, it is discovered that he was a hidden agent for a heretic cell, acting as their contact inside the city. He had been using his business dealings, to hide his efforts.
He was taken to Witchdrop, judged, and pushed off. He then revealed that with Dravanian magic, he was capable of becoming a dragon. Cheswick used his transformation to bid for escape, but was shot down by the attending knights and their archers. Integris was witness to all of this. Integris then submitted to arrest and subsequent questioning.
Integris was judged as safe to put under house arrest, with his children and household staff. The next three months, Integris remained in his home with the twins, while the Special Office questioned them, searched their home, and chased the remains of the heretical cell.
After three months, and the extermination of the cell’s major camp, it was determined that House Shadowstar was unaware of Cheswick’s duplicity, and they had not willingly harbored a heretic. Given the twins age, no official charges were brought against them. Integris was exonerated.
The following months became a time of keeping out of the gossip circles, and lime light, as House Shadowstar learned who would and would not continue to associate with them. Rumors of this whole affair can still be found, in the right gossip circles.
16 Years to Calamity
Ceridwen and Sirus focus on their studies, now learning through tutors provided by the church, rather than private ones. Shortly after their seventeenth nameday, Sirus was taken as a squire, by a knight of House Haillenarte. He is knighted and sworn to Haillenarte, by the age of twenty two.
At this point, Ceridwen, having done what personal study she can, starts asking to travel to Vylbrand, to join the arcanists guild. She refuses offers to apply to Saint Endalim’s Scholasticate, making it clear she did not wish to join the clergy. Integris refuses her pleas, insisting he cannot allow his daughter to travel so far on her own.
Three years after this point, Dalamud comes down, the Calamity strikes, and all of Coerthas and Ishgard is blanketed under unending winter.
Post Calamity to Present
The Shadowstars, like much of the rest of Ishgard, starts adapting and changing to handle the unceasing freeze. Given that their business is mostly that of the Aetheneum Astrologicum, there was little danger of that being taken from them. Though, they do have to make adjustments to the management of their library archive, of star charts, to preserve the documents within.
Lord Integris was never one to suffer winter with any relative health. And so, with the deepening of the permanent winter, Integris, like so many other Ishgardians, grows frequently sick. His lungs weaken, due to being unable to heal between frequent colds and flus.
Sirus is eventually assigned to work at the city gates, inspecting imports. This puts him in an unfortunate position of working with a severely racist superior officer. They come to blows, over a matter of closed minds and a poor merchant’s invitation from the church. Sirus is thereafter transferred to Camp Cloudtop, where it’s mistakenly expected he will stay out of trouble.
About six years after the Calamity, Ceridwen finally gains her father’s permission to study abroad. She sets out for Limsa Lominsa, scant months before the Grand Company Alliance operation on the Garlean Castrum’s in Eorzea. Once there, she joins the Arcanists Guild, and soon summons her first carbuncle, whom she dubs Lily. She takes up a ‘part-time’ post in the library there, to cover her expenses, during her studies.
During the next year or so, she also travels to Gridania for a moon, and Ul’dah, for another moon, briefly studying conjury and thaumaturgy, respectively. While she has a grasp of the basics, she has spent little to no time gaining any mastery over these skills.
After nearly a year in Limsa, Ceridwen is trained in the arts of the Nymian Scholars, summoning her faery, Fea. Upon her first successful summons, Dwen is transferred to Camp Bronze Lake, to study under the healers at Warmwine Sanitorium, as well as with the scholars near the Wandering Palace. During the six moons she’s there, she goes out with teams of marauders, to learn tactical skills, as well as healing.
Nearly a year and a half after leaving Ishgard, Ceridwen is finally deemed capable of continuing her studies without a teacher, and is granted leave to return home. She returns to Ishgard in the wake of Nidhogg’s attack on the Steps of Faith, where he is reputedly killed.
Family
- Lord Integris Shadowstar - father
- Lady Lilyenne Shadowstar - mother (deceased)
- Lady Brisette Shadowstar - Cheswick's mother (deceased, prior to twins' birth)
- Cheswick Shadowstar - half brother (disowned and deceased)
- Ceridwen Shadowstar - twin sister
- Rhydia Selionne - house seneschal ("adopted" family)
Friends & Acquaintances
- Rosaire Ledigne - Family Friend
- Ysia Lemieux - Acquaintance/Friend
- Bryce Starshield - Friend, Fellow nobility
- Chastity Starshield - Friend, Fellow nobility, Unofficially adopted little sister
- Cassandre Voleaux - Acquaintance/Friend, Fellow nobility
- Gwenneth Gilrouis - Friend
- Perrine Pepin - Acquaintance, Fellow nobility
- Wu'rexa Norh - Acquaintance
- Anette Deschamps - Friend, Fellow nobility, Mentor, Neighbor
- Openings Available
Associates and Coworkers
- Hyacinthe Aubeheraut - fellow at Camp Cloudtop
- Unnamed Teachers from time as a squire
- Various comrades in arms
- Openings Available
Enemies and Rivals
- Cheswick Shadowstar (deceased)
- Associates of Cheswick's circle of heretics
- Rival knights
- Openings Available
Miscellaneous
- I don't even know. Openings Available?
| Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|
| *Blue, Pink, Purple | *Black, and any Red |
| *Pranks, Jokes, Laughter | *Dragons, Boredom |
| *The Outdoors! | *"Church" |
Pranking Policies
- Rule #1: "Do No Harm" - Aka Don't injure anyone. Don't humiliate them. Don't bully them.
- Rule #2: "Clean Up Your Mess" - Don't leave the prank for someone else to be inconvenienced by, beyond the scope of the joke.
- Rule #3: "Take Responsibility" - Should #1 or #2 ever become broken by accident, do what you can to correct the issue.
- Rule #4: "Make Someone Laugh" - The whole point is to be funny. So long as none of the above rules are broken, then focus on creating laughter.
Pets
Sirus loves animals. If circumstances had been different, he might've become a naturalist or a conservationist. As it is, he simply keeps a few domestically bred pets, to soothe his wish to be around wildlife more. Most pets are still being researched for rp knowledge, and may change in the future.
- Dannifen - northern wood frog (reference Rana Sylvatica for similar species info)
- Mocianne - rat
- Valeroyant - turtle
- Coinach - budgerigar
Coming Soon
Common
- "Watch yourself around that one. He's a prankster." -Fellow Knight
- "He's got a oddly strong sense of duty, for someone so laid back." -Cloudtop Shipwright
- "I heard confession with him is always a wild ride. The priest always ends up leaving with a pale face." -Church Petitioner
- "I saw a woman drop ale on him at The Forgotten Knight once. He wasn't even insulted!" -Local Drunk
Uncommon
- "He talks nice and pretty. But he doesn't really follow up, if you take my meaning." -Jilted Woman
- "I heard he got passed over, for being transferred out of Cloudtop. Something about feathers in a fellow knight's room." -Knight in Ishgard
- "He's always coming in with scrapes, bruises, and cuts. He could be a little more cautious in battle." -Cloudtop Chirurgeon
Rare
- "I heard he shouted at one of the Inquisitors, when his House was under investigation." -Court Gossip
- "He apparently has refused to join the Knights Dragoon on one occasion." -Another Knight
PC Rumors
No rumors from other players yet? Sad.
Outdated and in need of formatting. But here it is for now.
Ishgardian Nobility
As a minor noble, his house doesn’t merit attention very often. And that’s how they prefer it right now. Most houses view them with an air of distrust, due to a brush with accusations of heresy around twelve years ago. There are a few houses that treat them neutrally or kindly, after all this time. But not many. Other nobles close to his age may have been friends with he and his sister, prior to the heresy incident. Most would have turned away when it happened though. There also would’ve been tutors of varying kinds. Also, while Dwen is the older twin, Sirus is the heir to the House.
Heresy Incident
Sirus would’ve been introduced to a number of priests, inquisitors, and knights, during the three months that her House was under investigation. There also would’ve been plenty of people present at the Tribunal in which his family was exonerated. As well as business associates that turned away from their house, during this time.
Cheswick Shadowstar
His disowned half-brother who became a heretic and all that mess. He was 19 when Sirus and Dwen were born. He was a avid businessman. And he despised the twin’s mother, his stepmother, though no one in their family knew until the heresy incident. He was 34 when he was witchdropped. He had heretic associations, as well as Isghardian business partners who didn’t know about his heresy. These people may or may not be familiar with Dwen and Sirus.
Marriage Prospects
Integris is actively seeking a noble lady to be Sirus’s bride. Sirus’s status as heir means he needs to marry and produce an heir of his own, soon. He is not particularly pleased with his current prospects. He has a problem with speaking before he thinks. And his pranking tends to paint him with a bad reputation.
Rose Knights
Sirus was pledged in service to House Haillenarte, as a way to smooth his entrance and training into the knights. He’ll have mentors, comrades, and competition through that.
Xenophobia Incident
Sirus was assigned to Camp Cloudtop, instead of a more promising place, because of an incident where he assaulted an officer. The officer was harassing an outsider, (unbeliever, not heretic) and Sirus took exception. When the officer wouldn’t be swayed by words, Sirus lost his temper and punched him. So there’s an officer out there who got punched. And there’s an outsider who’d know him as a result of this. Plus whatever other knights were present as witnesses. There’s several details of this incident not yet set in stone.
Camp Cloudtop
This post is probably one of the worst places for someone with as much energy as Sirus, to be assigned. He’ll have his comrades, superior officers, and rivals there. As well as the non-knight acquaintances who live there.
Pranks, Comedy, and Misbehavior
Sirus loves jokes. And non-harmful pranks. He’s likely made a reputation for himself as the knight who might show you the frog he’s hiding in his pocket. And for possibly hiding that frog in his fellow knights’ bunks. He’s often on disciplinary duty for his disruptive behavior. His skill as a decent lancer and knight is his one saving grace among the temple knights.
OOC & Notes
Hi! I'm a mid 30s stay at home sort. I'm in the Pacific Time Zone (west coast US). As a result, I'm three hours behind the usual east coast times listed for events and such. I'm often on during the day, before my family gets home from school and work. And then I'm on in late evenings (10 pm to midnight ish). If you want to hang out, rp, chat, or whatever, feel free to whisper me in game, or contact me on Tumblr!
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