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MAJOR NPCS
The NPCs listed below are considered major NPCs, meaning that any interaction with these NPCs should be run by the mods in advance of a thread. Players are welcome to generate rumors about major NPCs or namedrop them casually ("I heard Grand Master Niall doesn't like cucumbers") but should not include them in threads without running it by the mods first. For simple interactions, the mods will advise players of NPC behavior. For more complex interactions, the mods will drive the NPCs.

Simple: Tony Stark wants to talk to Prince Allairavar about minor alterations to the city's defenses. Tony can make all the alterations by himself and with one or two other people. Allairavar approves of anything that will strengthen the city, and gives Stark his blessing.

Complex: Tony Stark thinks Prince Allairavar's defense is too myopic and has multiple, exploitable vulnerabilities. He calls the Prince out. Allairavar invites Stark for a conversation at his office, which may go either very well for Stark or very, very poorly.

Fayura Nishell

CASTE QUEEN ◆ BIRTHRIGHT ??? ◆ JEWEL OF RANK ??? ◆ POSITION QUEEN OF HAYLL
ABOUT Quiet, eccentric, thoughtful, vicious. Territory Queen of Hayll. Believes that Blood and landen can live side by side if both parties just get over themselves. Does not suffer fools. Rumor has it she isn't entirely human. She appears to wear the Red, but it is unclear if the Jewel is her Birthright, her adult strength, or something else entirely. Many of the Blood find her unnerving and some think she's mad. Sometimes disappears for hours on end. Makes occasional references to Ebon Askavi being her true home, though it is common knowledge that she was born in Hayll.

Allairavar Ris

CASTE WARLORD PRINCE ◆ BIRTHRIGHT SAPPHIRE ◆ JEWEL OF RANK GRAY ◆ POSITION MASTER OF THE GUARD
ABOUT Methodical, stoic, kind, devoted. Fayura's Master of the Guard and absolutely devoted to her. Is not as sure that the landens and Blood can live in harmony as she is but is willing to pursue her goals. As temperamental as all his caste and inclined to snap bones or splatter someone on a wall when pressed. Incredibly competent with a sword. One of the few remaining Eyriens, and as such has massive, membranous black wings on his back.

Loren Sorey

CASTE WARLORD PRINCE ◆ BIRTHRIGHT PURPLE DUSK ◆ JEWEL OF RANK GREEN ◆ POSITION STEWARD
ABOUT Orderly, vengeful, melancholic, overworked. A generally well-ordered man with a wicked sense of humor and a vicious temper. Suffers fools even less than Fayura but with a temper a bit slower to burst than Allairavar's. While he supports Fayura's cause, he believes too strongly in the nobility of the Blood. Holds everyone to high standards, even himself. Often surprised when people don't meet those standards. Could use a vacation, probably.

Verim Bahl

CASTE WARLORD PRINCE ◆ BIRTHRIGHT RED ◆ JEWEL OF RANK GRAY ◆ POSITION CONSORT
ABOUT Seductive, passionate, predatory, generous. Often said to be the most dangerous male in Hayll but as with the Steward and Master of the Guard is devoted to Fayura. Doesn't give a damn about the difference between landen and Blood and just wants to be with his Lady. Unlike Loren, will not hold back his temper. Surprisingly generous with the downtrodden and forgotten of society. Making a pass at him (or Fayura) is a quick way to end up dead. Verim is also a Black Widow, having studied the tangled webs of dreams and visions.

Grejor Shamael

CASTE WARLORD ◆ BIRTHRIGHT TIGER EYE ◆ JEWEL OF RANK PURPLE DUSK ◆ POSITION COUNCILMAN, FIRST CHAIR
ABOUT Shrewd, petty, vindictive, power-hungry. First Chair of the Dark Council and a staunch traditionalist. Believes the landens need to be kept in their place at all costs and that only the Blood should rule. Despises Fayura and is always uncomfortable in her presence. Was once good friends with the Steward, Loren, but is now estranged from him. Hates Niall on a personal level as Niall murdered Grejor's younger (and innocent) brother.

Niall Berrenathy

GUILD HUNTER, TINKER, ELEKTRILINE GUILDS ◆ POSITION GRAND MASTER OF THE LANDEN GUILDS
ABOUT Inventive, conniving, charismatic, brilliant. Leader of the landen guilds. Absolutely brilliant and incredibly magnetic. Hates the Blood on principal, but has a personal vendetta against them because of the two young males who brutalized and killed his sister Hana for sport. Has a surprisingly congenial relationship with Fayura, but this is likely because he wants to use her. Educated by the Hunter Guild, but is competent in most mechanical and elektric pursuits.

Raya Aguine

GUILD HUNTER GUILD ◆ POSITION GUILD MASTER
ABOUT Vengeful, wary, suspicious, conniving. Raya Aguine is the blade at the throat of all the Blood. They fear her, and she revels in their fear. In her life, she has assassinated more than fifty of the Blood, from light Jeweled witches to dark Jeweled Queens, and she desires nothing more than to rip out Fayura's still-beating heart. She is perhaps a touch unstable, and so Niall guides her with a delicate hand.

MINOR NPCS
Players can include minor NPCs in their threads with impunity, though the mods expect that these characters will behave according to their traits. Prince Zaym should not be saccharine, and Councilwoman Rheea should not tell a PC all her secrets. If you want to use a minor NPC in a thread or as an impetus for action but are unsure how they would behave, always feel free to ask.

Fayura's First Circle and Court

As with all First Circles, Fayura's is filled by Blood males. They all serve Fayura without question or hesitation and are fiercely loyal to her. All of them have mixed feelings about a world where the landens and the Blood can live as equals but all of them are willing to work for it.

ZAYM
Prince ▪ Purple Dusk ▪ Opal
Sarcastic ▪ Independent ▪ Proud

GEHT
Warlord ▪ Summer-sky ▪ Green
Artistic ▪ Judgemental ▪ Helpful

DURNEM
Warlord ▪ Rose ▪ Purple Dusk
Easy-going ▪ Quiet ▪ Charming

LACHLAN
Prince ▪ Summer-sky ▪ Opal
Anxious ▪ Cynical ▪ Secretive

NOLAN
Warlord Prince ▪ Rose ▪ Opal
Talkative ▪ Gossipy ▪ Sly

YARL
Warlord ▪ Tiger Eye ▪ Purple Dusk
Bashful ▪ Honest ▪ Solemn

AUGUST
Warlord ▪ Opal ▪ Red
Brusque ▪ Athletic ▪ Creative

JARED
Warlord ▪ Purple Dusk ▪ Sapphire
Energetic ▪ Naive ▪ Optimistic

BARRET
Prince ▪ Yellow ▪ Tiger Eye
Scholarly ▪ Studious ▪ Thoughtful

JESIREE
Healer ▪ n/a ▪ Yellow
Sarcastic ▪ Determined ▪ Sassy

The Ebon Council

Each member of the Ebon Council believes in the superiority of the Blood or just hates landens for the devastation they wrought on the Blood in the Great War. Some are simply traditionalists, but some are vindictive and cruel.

ABIGAIL
Healer/Black Widow ▪ Opal ▪ Green
Irritable ▪ Charitable ▪ Jealous

DANEEL
Warlord Prince ▪ Yellow ▪ Rose
Respectful ▪ Reserved ▪ Elegant

VERA (deceased)
Witch ▪ Rose ▪ Purple Dusk
Loud ▪ Intense ▪ Angry

Sharr
Warlord ▪ Opal ▪ Sapphire
Teasing ▪ Warm ▪ Pessimistic

Rheea
Black Widow ▪ Rose ▪ Opal
Gloomy ▪ Petty ▪ Withdrawn

Perik
Prince ▪ Summer-sky ▪ Opal
Smart ▪ Awkward ▪ Quiet

The Landen Guild Masters

Of the Landen Guilds, only the Hunter's Guild has any great influence. The rest of the Guild Masters, though highly skilled, have little social pull within Draega. The Masters and those who work and study under them have mixed feelings about the Blood, but rather uniformly dislike the Ebon Council.

Doriah
Master Elektric, female
Bitter ▪ Intense ▪ Cunning

Sorrel
Master Transporter, male
Cheerful ▪ Thrill-seeker ▪ Impulsive

Mari
Master Tinker, female
Clever ▪ Bombastic ▪ Willful

Kasik
Master Crafter, male
Twitchy ▪ Energetic ▪ Cruel

Lam
Master Medico, male
Severe ▪ Sarcastic ▪ Tired

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Character Name Rhus Bashe
Request type It depends? It's looking like a complex one though, given the request.
Request Rhus has been given Jesiree's name by the Queen as the one to approach for learning healing Craft. He was a healer himself in his world, but arrived with his dark knight's broadsword rather than his white mage's cane, so his Eorzean magic is limited to the dark arts. He'd like to learn how healing works in Draega for future trouble, and maybe find some cure for the Queen's strange problem-- he'd willingly tell Jesiree all of this if asked for his reasoning, except for the Queen's blood-coughing problem.
Influence No influence to use, sadly. I havent gotten around to poking at the influence page after the tdm stuff.
Thread None, sorry. But willing to make one if it's needed.

Let's start with simple and then move to something more complex if we need to. Don't worry, Rhus is about to get homework.

Lady Jesiree has a workroom in the basement of the Queen's Residence, tucked in a cool corner. A short flight of stairs leads to a small, private garden out back where she grows useful herbs, and half-windows let in light. Every morning, either Fayura, Allairavar, or Verim comes through the room to kindle tongues of witchlight for her, so the room contains threads of psychic energy darker than Jesiree's own Yellow Jewel.

When Rhus comes to see her the first time, she's standing over a table laden with jars of powdered ingredients and several mortars with pestles nearby. A book floats just to her left, and she holds a glass bottle over a tongue of witchflame that burns from the fingers of her opposite hand. She frowns fiercely at the book. "You interrupting me means the difference between this healing brew clearing someone's lungs and blowing them up," she says tartly, not looking up. "Give me just a moment."

Five minutes later, the brew is done and her attention turns to Rhus. Unlike how some of the Blood will certainly react, she isn't at all skeptical of a male's interest in learning how to heal. She only gained her Jewel a few years ago. She grew up around the landen Medicos, and she values their work as well as Craft.

She seems surprised that he's concerned about the Queen, but explains: The backlash of power that ripped through Fayura damaged her organs. Whatever he saw isn't a chronic issue but an acute one that will fade as the Queen continues to heal. "What happened that made you—no, it's fine, I can guess. See, this is what happens when you don't tell your Healer you're about to do something phenomenally stupid because you don't want to get yelled at in advance of doing the stupid thing. If she'd told me, we would have built a better healing web to begin with, she'd probably be healthy by now, and no one would be snarling about anything." She crosses her arms. "It's stupid to think a Black Widow or a Queen can build a better healing web than a damn Healer."

Then she goes to a bookcase nearby, pulls out a thick tome, and hands it to Rhus. "The foundation of healing is both healing brews and using Craft to put someone back together instead of blowing them up, a huge distinction that most Blood males seem to have a great deal of trouble with. Since you're not attached to a caste that sucks your brains out of your head and drops them into your balls, I'm hoping you'll be a quicker study than any of them will ever be."

She tells him that if he's serious, he should join her after breakfast three days a week to help her make brews. She plans to start him out with simple things and graduate him into more difficult mixtures over the course of a month. Healing brews, she explains, help with sleep or limiting pain. (Were she from the real world, she might explain that they function very similarly to antibiotics or medications one takes for things like pain, nausea, high blood pressure or other physical maladies.) Once he proves to her that he can make brews that won't kill someone, she promises to teach him how to thread Craft through a human body. "Since you already know healing principals from your own world, we'll figure out what's similar and what isn't, and hopefully we don't need to unlearn bad practices." She pauses. "Another Stranger, Lady Zita, she's interested in learning healing Craft, too. Bring her along."

If he has nothing else to do, she'll immediately put him to work grinding up ingredients. Jesiree believes that people must prove they understand the basics before they can move on to more complex tasks.

Rhus would assure Lady Jesiree that he also dabbled in alchemy back in Eorzea, which involves mixing potions and liquid mixtures for medicines, temporary strength-enhancing potions, enchanted glass for housing items and spectacles (Eorzean magic is wild), and enchanted inks for books and music rolls (Eorzean magic is WILD) with mortars and alembics. Though the different ingredients and magicks in Draega means he cant exactly prove what he's saying is true. But he's willing to learn all over again anyway.

He's... kind of used to getting his hands dirty and exploded on but insist on wearing a facemask to stifle the smell a bit. Luckily he manages to keep his spectacles on him when he came to Draega so Jesiree wont have to find him leaning too close to any fires or brews.

On the other hand the healing he uses, conjury and white magic, is a lot more straightforward but also more esoteric, if that makes sense. Rhus would explain that his first lessons involved meditating to open himself up to the world and become more sensitive to the energies around him so he can draw them into his body to channel spells-- and at the same time sense what's wrong with his patient's body so he can pour the magic into them to either heal wounds or cure illnesses. He's used to gauging how strong he should make the spell as well, and even learning when to leave a simple regenerating effect on the patient's body so they can heal over time rather than have their injuries wiped away instantly. Which isn't possible in Draega, of course. The rest of white magic involves using the elements already surrounding him to fight, namely stone, water, wind and holy-element spells, but they aren't important here. So there's likely some unlearning to be done.

And luckily for her, he's already met Zita! Should be easy. Right?? Should I give Zita's player a poke and see if we can do a threeway log for the first healing Craft lesson? (i had to make that joke, you understand)

Going to Zita is an excellent idea. If you'd like to include Jesiree in the log, you're welcome to puppet her according to the information you've received. If you get stuck at any point with ingredient grinding and brew mixing or how Jesiree might react to something, feel free to tap us.

And before we forgot: For going to talk to Jesiree about both helping the Queen and learning healing Craft from her, Rhus gains +1 influence with Fayura's Court.

Edited 2019-02-08 14:32 (UTC)

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