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Fionnuala

2018-11-26T02:09:12Z

Niabh: /* The Raven */

{{Infobox character
| name = Fionnuala ni Niall
| title = Lady Niall; Queen of Cnoch-na-Niall; the Woman in Red
| image1 = Fionnfinal.png
| alt1 = 
| caption1 = 
| archetype = Fairy Queen
| hair_colour = Red
| eye_colour = Black
| height = 6'2"
| build = Statuesque
| features = Well-healed injury on left hand; missing ring and small finger
| birth_date = 137 AR
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| spouses = 
| children = 
| profession = 
| religion = 
}}

'''Fionnuala''' is one of several names assumed by a fae creature residing near [[Myrken Wood]]. It is not a name she uses publicly, and no one knows it. You don't either. You might know her as Niabh. Or Victoria. Or Rabbadon. Or Jack. Or the Woman in Red. Or she might ask you to give her loan of a name, as she has none. Just don't give her yours.

==Description==

<blockquote>''"Do not think the fairies are always little. Everything is capricious about them, even their size. They seem to take what size or shape pleases them, having no inherent form but changing according to their whim, or the eye that sees them."''</blockquote>

Appearances have little meaning to the Woman in Red, who changes her seeming as often as some women change their gowns. There is some evidence that her most common appearance is as close to her "real" one as one is likely to see: a very tall, well-built young woman who appears to be in her middle twenties, wide-hipped and broad-shouldered, with a dark bronze complexion and brilliant red hair. Her eyes are solid black, with no sclera or visible pupils; these she is more likely to glam into normal brown eyes, as she had learned that this detail above all others unnerves humans. Her ears are tapered, better than a hands-length long, and lightly furred with gold hairs. Most other details are wholly decided by whim, vanity, and the necessity of the moment.

<blockquote>''"Witness the nature of these creatures, their caprice, their way of being good to the good and evil to the evil, having every charm but conscience. Beings so quickly offended that you must not speak much about them at all, and never call them anything but ''daoine maithe,'' which in the common means "good neighbor," yet so easily pleased, they will do their best to keep misfortune away from you. Their evil [is] wholly without malice."''</blockquote>

The Woman in Red is a creature bound by the rules of her people. Playful, loving of games and sport, fiercely independent, quick to laugh; prideful, arrogant, mocking, cheerfully disdainful of human custom but at the same time fascinated by human company; incapable of guilt or regret, confused and revolted by the concept of weeping; lies with every other word, steals without compunction, but is faithful to a bargain. Those whom she favors may find themselves the victims of her generosity, whether they want it or not, and she does not take kindly to having her gifts rejected. Artlessness amuses her but rudeness she will not tolerate. She will retaliate swiftly to being touched without permission. Like most of her people, she adores children and will countenance (and in fact indulge) almost any mischief from them. Woe betide anyone who does a child ill in her presence.

===Glamourie===

<blockquote>''"...there was a man of H----, whom the tounfolk saye is biwicchen, who, when ask’d the sake of his enchountement, told that in the Midsumor, he was in the holt at P---, with his byndel upon his back, and that a grete Lady upon a White Palfrey came to him, and geve him to drink from a silver Cuppe, which she bade him take as a gift, and from that day he has been stone-blind, albest he newse yt nowt, for he swears he sees all sondry mervels, but in sooth, he stumbleth all about, tho yt be full licht. He produced the Cuppe, which he had hid benethe his bedde, til he likened what he should make of yt; but the cuppe was of common wood, much crack'd and worm-riddled, that could have held no more licor than a Sieve. When ask'd to give it up, that yt micht be examined close, this wight swore noone should ever lay hand on yt, for yt was all the tresour he had in this World, and would yet make him his Fortune. And in the toun were some who say, This lady was the Quene of Fayerye."''</blockquote>

Put simply, glamourie is a magical skill that alters perception...yet there is nothing simple about glamourie. It can be used to change the appearance of objects and people or to subtly heighten or twist emotion, turning reasonable caution to blind panic, simple affection to lust, or vice versa. The danger in glamourie lies in its persistence (a glamourie does not require the physical presence or even consciousness of its caster to endure, and it endures perhaps indefinitely) and its pervasiveness (any number of people viewing the glamourie will see precisely the same thing), indicating there may be extremely powerful mental manipulation at work.

The other danger of glamourie is that it appears to have an internal failsafe of ''convincing people not to question it.'' In short, no matter how unlikely or out-of-place the glam, one's first instinct is to believe that it is entirely plausible and to react accordingly. Long familiarity with glamourie or certain magical gifts of perception may allow the viewer to recognize the unreality of the situation: while they will still ''see'' the glamourie, they may understand that it is not real. Iron or steel cannot be glamoured and its touch dispels the illusion from any glamoured object.

Certain animals react differently to glamourie. Wild beasts tend to perceive it but understand that it is not real (a wolf who sees a false fire will quickly realize they can walk through it). Domesticated ones usually, though not always, react to glamourie as humans do (a horse will shy away from false fire--and be burned by it).

Cats completely ignore it, but cats ignore everything.

==Background==

===The Broken Dagger===

In the summer of 215, the Woman in Red presented herself at the [[Broken Dagger (Inn) | Broken Dagger]] in the guise of a young serving girl named Niabh who was seeking work to support herself in Myrken. She quickly became employed as a maid to Lady Patience. Just as quickly, she acquired an unladylike reputation for brazen flirtation, sneaking out at all hours and reappearing exhausted at dawn, and befriending some of Myrken's more unsavory elements, including the madman [[Catch]]. At roughly the same time, the Woman in Red began putting in sporadic appearances, usually lured by the prospect of parties, music, and dancing.

When Lady Patience left the Dagger for town in the following year, Niabh parted ways with her and likewise quit the Dagger for parts unknown, after which the Woman in Red began to show herself more frequently. "Niabh" still visits the Dagger, claiming now to be in the employ of another noblewoman. This noblewoman is likely to be the Woman in Red herself.

==The Present==

The Woman in Red tends to appear at the Dagger only after dusk, taking no more than a cup of tea as an excuse to chat, flirt, and (if warranted) bedevil both newcomers and regulars. Only a very few intimates are aware of her true nature, and even they have no way of keeping track of her multiple identities. A few of her personae work odd jobs at various places in Myrken Town. Others can never show their faces there again. Travelers at the banks of [[Silver Lake]] roughly a league southwest from the Dagger are advised to be wary of traps, cantrips, misdirection, and the occasional well-placed arrow.

The Woman in Red has what we will delicately refer to as "an understanding" with [[Hokwing Silvergild]], based on their mutual love and respect for the Woods, their aggravation with their inconvenient mating seasons, and a habit of killing things together. She has also been engaged with in a growing war of attrition (by post) with former governor [[Glenn Burnie]]. Her central relationship in Myrken, however, remains with Catch, whom she reveres, protects, and on occasion enables.

===The Raven===
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Messenger to the Woman in Red. Answers to the name Benedict. Loyal. Surly. Swears a lot. Can be distinguished from ordinary ravens by his greater size (half again as large as a common raven) and by the band of red-and-gold feathers on the undersides of his wings. Has only three clear supernatural abilities: the power of speech, the power to find anyone he is directed to seek out, and the power to deliver his message in spite of all obstacles, up to and including impregnable walls. Cannot be bought with rum cakes, but can certainly be rented for them.

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Niabh: Threw up a loose stab at a character page for Auri.

{{Infobox character
| name = Silvio Aurielano
| title = Doctor
| image1 = Auri-placeholder.png
| alt1 = 
| caption1 = 
| archetype = Man of Science
| hair_colour = Dark blond
| eye_colour = Pale blue
| height = 5'8"
| build = Average
| features = Pale, bearded
| birth_date = 33 AR
| birth_place = 
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| spouses = Beatrice Aurielano (d)
| children = Cecilia (d), Giulietta (d), Marcello (d)
| profession = Physician
| religion = 
}}

'''Doctor Silvio Aurielano''' considers himself a doctor first. Being a vampire is purely incidental.

==Description==

Doctor Aurielano can usually be found in a badly lit corner, either reading or scratching notes in the margins of one of a rotating stable of books. Unless engaged by another, he will likely remain there; he is not unfriendly, nor is he exactly sociable, but he tends to have a detached, courtly charm that some find attractive and others terrifically dull. Well-read, with a wide range of experience, he can chat quite fluently on a number of topics and is an attentive listener, but rarely discusses himself beyond whatever project immediately occupies him.

Like many a scholar, he is pale with slightly stooped shoulders. His hair is dark blond, neatly parted, and he wears a small, pointed, well-groomed beard. He appears to be in his early to mid-forties, but he wears that age very well, though not in a way that would draw much attention. In fact, many aspects of his appearance seem to be carefully calculated ''not'' to draw attention, from his manner to his dull, careworn, inexpensive clothing to his genial, watchful quietness. Maybe a little too calculated. Maybe a little too watchful.

==Background==
===Origins===

In his mortal life, Silvio was a prosperous doctor, a husband, and a father, whose skill with medicine was not enough to spare either his family or the region surrounding them when it was ravaged by plague. In his grief, he became a virtual hermit, emerging nearly two years later with a renewed determination: no one should have to suffer the same sort of loss. He threw himself into his studies, looking for answers, coming up with only a single, obsessive conclusion: ''death is the only true virus.''

Before he could even begin to cope with the philosophical implications of curing it, he developed cancer.

Now on living on borrowed time, an old acquaintance made an offer: all the time he could ever want to continue to learn, to research, to save lives. The only cost: a trade-off. For the research to continue, someone would always have to die.

Silvio made the choice to live on as a vampire. For every one life he has taken, he has saved perhaps scores.

He considers this a perfectly reasonable exchange.

===The Broken Dagger===

Silvio arrived in the autumn of 216 and made the mistake of inquiring in Myrkentown for a cheap inn, preferably outside the main swell of town life. Someone recommended the Dagger as a joke. Silvio, having precious little in the way of a sense of humor, took them seriously and moved in upstairs. His baggage consisted of two boxes of books and a small, portable glass distillery, which he took care not to tell the management lest they considered him competition for the house brew. The books and the glassware themselves are probably priceless, but are so specialized that you'd be hard-pressed to pawn them, even in Myrken. Upon arrival, he promptly vanished for nearly five months, only returning in the late winter of 217.

One would think Myrken far too provincial for a man of his intellectual interests, but his choice of this town was not entirely coincidental. Rumors of Myrken's local fauna have spread far beyond its borders, and there is more than enough of scientific significance to keep him occupied between outbreaks.

==The Present==

The good doctor has no permanent practice, but tends to travel throughout the region to assist fellow physicians who may be overwhelmed by an unexpected run of illness, or to consult and diagnose on any particularly interesting, unusual cases. He may vanish on these consultations for as little as a few weeks to half a year. For a time he tended to move in loose circuits of Amasynia, usually with a centralized homebase to which he would infrequently return--more as a storage locker than a permanent residence. Now, it appears, he has moved southward, with Myrken and the Broken Dagger as his new base of operations (note: he does not actually perform operations in the Broken Dagger, although some nights, he could probably make a living on the barfights alone).

[[Category:Characters]] [[Category:Active Characters]]

File:Auri-placeholder.png

2017-04-18T23:33:30Z

Niabh:

Freya Valentine

2017-04-14T18:09:15Z

Niabh:

{{Infobox character
| name = Freya Valentine
| title = Slave
| image1 =
| alt1 =
| caption1 =
| archetype = Servant
| hair_colour = Brown
| eye_colour = Brown
| height = 4'11
| build = Thick
| features = Under-bite & Bovine Features
| birth_date = 200 AR
| birth_place = Unknown
| death_date = N/A
| death_place = N/A
| spouses = N/A
| children = N/A
| profession = Servant
| religion = N/A
}}

==Description==
Short, curly brown hair- the color gets much lighter to the scalp, like a gradient. Milky pale skin with splotches of skin with darker coloring. Small, ivory bovine horns sprouting from her head along with cow ears, the left ear with a small bell that jingles with every step she takes. A matching tail that swishes behind her, Freya is extremely well groomed and taken care of. She has an under-bite, her canines sticking up between her thick lips. She often prides herself on having cute clothes to wear, typically a sleeveless pale orange hand-knit sweater with a dark orange silk ribbon on the collar. She also wears a small, yellow woolen cape with white scalloped lace. Orange shorts, white stockings with the same lace used on the small cape, all pulled together with soft rawhide leather boots.

==Background==
===Origins===
Freya doesn't remember much besides her birth name and some details on what her birth parents looked like. Born during a harsh winter in 200 AR, her father a human- mother a minotaur. Freya was born named Colette, however her birth parents abandoned her at an orphanage when she was six, at least, that's what the owners of the orphanage had told her. When she was twelve, she ran away- for a year she survived on her own until an accident left her heavily injured, left in the hands of the slave trade. Going for an extremely low price at an auction due to her injuries, a man named Pierce took interest in her due to her bovine oddities. He purchased her, and they have been traveling together ever since.

===The Broken Dagger===
How the character found their way to the [[Myrken Wood]] and the [[Broken Dagger (Inn)|Broken Dagger tavern]]. Significant events experienced since their arrival.

==The Present==
The character's current circumstances. Where they can be found, what they do for a living, influential people in their life.

==Plots==
Major [[:Category:Plots|plot events]] in which the character has been involved.

[[Category:Characters]]

2016-12-07T04:46:53Z

Niabh: Niabh uploaded a new version of "File:Fionnfinal.png"

File:Fionnfinal.png

2016-12-07T04:42:14Z

Niabh:

Fionnuala

2016-12-07T04:35:16Z

Niabh: Niabh moved page Niabh to Fionnuala

{{Infobox character
| name = Niabh ni Dowd
| title = None known
| image1 = [[File:Niabh.jpg]]
| alt1 = 
| caption1 = 
| archetype = 
| hair_colour = Dark brown
| eye_colour = Black
| height = 5"
| build = Slender, waifish
| features = Well-healed injury on left hand; missing ring and small finger
| age = 19
| birth_place = Unknown; presumably East Weald
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| spouses = None
| children = None
| profession = Lady's maid
| religion = 
}}

==Description==
Niabh is very slight and small; most of her weight seems to be in her long, thick, messy dark curls, which hang in a mane down her back. Her complexion is a natural medium brown, and her eyes are large, black, and slightly tilted. She is less conventionally pretty than striking, with strong, angular bones in her cheeks and jaw. In general, she is very cheerful, brisk, forthright, and confident, though her new surroundings often leave her anxious or confused. She is polite and courteous to strangers, to the point of sometimes being almost overly formal, though she quickly warms to people and becomes more playful and girlish.

==Background==
===Origins===
According to Niabh, she was until late a servant in a large household, where she attended the daughter of a noblewoman. Due to some unspecified disaster, the house fell under attack, the noblewoman was killed, and the remaining members of the household fled. Niabh's sister, herself the house doctor, chose to remain to help the injured, while ordering Niabh far away for safety and promising to summon her as soon as the situation was stable again.

Niabh frequently and fondly talks of her family. She was raised by her elder sister and grew up with her sister's two children (Niabh invariably refers to this sister as her mother and to her children as her siblings). She has also mentioned a stepfather and a grandmother. She also left behind a sweetheart called Deirdre, whom she evidently still holds hope of seeing again, even though she has admitted that she doesn't know if Deirdre survived.

She has variously explained the injury to her hand as an accident with a fishing line or a door carelessly closed on her fingers as a child. Either way, the injury is clearly very old and doesn't seem to physically impact her.

===The Broken Dagger===
Niabh claims to have traveled largely on foot from her old home in the East Weald to [[Myrken Wood]] at the behest of her mother. Why her mother would have specified this place in particular--or if Niabh simply chose it--is currently unknown, but Niabh seems confident that her mother knows where she is now and will send word for her at the Dagger when it's safe to return home.

==The Present==
Niabh quickly found employment as a servant to Lady Patience and resides with her at the Broken Dagger, where she has gained a small but largely harmless reputation for hanging out with some of the shadier elements of the Dagger's patronage.

[[Category:Characters]]

Niabh

2016-12-07T04:35:16Z

Niabh: Niabh moved page Niabh to Fionnuala

#REDIRECT [[Fionnuala]]

Fionnuala

2015-11-02T04:54:10Z

Niabh:

Fionnuala

2015-08-04T19:02:35Z

Niabh:

{{Infobox character
| name = Niabh ni Dowd
| title = None known
| image1 = [[File:Niabh.jpg]]
| alt1 = 
| caption1 = 
| archetype = 
| hair_colour = Dark brown
| eye_colour = Black
| height = 5'2"
| build = Slender, waifish
| features = Well-healed injury on left hand; missing ring and small finger
| age = 19
| birth_place = Unknown; presumably East Weald
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| spouses = None
| children = None
| profession = Lady's maid
| religion = 
}}

==Description==
Niabh is very slight and small; most of her weight seems to be in her long, thick, messy dark curls, which hang in a mane down her back. Her complexion is a natural medium brown, and her eyes are large, black, and slightly tilted. She is less conventionally pretty than striking, with strong, angular bones in her cheeks and jaw. In general, she is very cheerful, brisk, forthright, and confident, though her new surroundings often leave her anxious or confused. She is polite and courteous to strangers, to the point of sometimes being almost overly formal, though she quickly warms to people and becomes more playful and girlish.

==Background==
===Origins===
According to Niabh, she was until late a servant in a large household, where she attended the daughter of a noblewoman. Due to some unspecified disaster, the house fell under attack, the noblewoman was killed, and the remaining members of the household fled. Niabh's sister, herself the house doctor, chose to remain to help the injured, while ordering Niabh far away for safety and promising to summon her as soon as the situation was stable again.

Niabh frequently and fondly talks of her family. She was raised by her elder sister and grew up with her sister's two children (Niabh invariably refers to this sister as her mother and to her children as her siblings). She has also mentioned a stepfather and a grandmother. She also left behind a sweetheart called Deirdre, whom she evidently still holds hope of seeing again, even though she has admitted that she doesn't know if Deirdre survived.

She has variously explained the injury to her hand as an accident with a fishing line or a door carelessly closed on her fingers as a child. Either way, the injury is clearly very old and doesn't seem to physically impact her.

===The Broken Dagger===
Niabh claims to have traveled largely on foot from her old home in the East Weald to [[Myrken Wood]] at the behest of her mother. Why her mother would have specified this place in particular--or if Niabh simply chose it--is currently unknown, but Niabh seems confident that her mother knows where she is now and will send word for her at the Dagger when it's safe to return home.

==The Present==
Niabh quickly found employment as a servant to Lady Patience and resides with her at the Broken Dagger. When not needed by Patience, she is frequently found in the company of Justin Scorch--even though everyone keeps warning her against it.

[[Category:Characters]]