@Genni I was actually going to tweak black sheep a bit to better cover a lot of that. I made the strengths & weaknesses before writing the more particular parts of the bio, so I think that needs to be done.
The bluntness was one I considered as well, but I wasn't 100% sold on it because I have a deep love for vague threats like the one in his character quote and I worry that a Blunt weakness would prohibit that. However, there may be something similar I could go with...
The OP is a little shorter than I would have liked, but I wanted to keep it ambiguous what everyone else was doing. Feel free to either go to the Great Hall, or already be there, as you prefer.
so are they all meeting in the great hall and then going to dinner or is dinner at the great hall. i think you may have said it somewhere but im currently getting over the flu and my mind is scattered.
so are they all meeting in the great hall and then going to dinner or is dinner at the great hall. i think you may have said it somewhere but im currently getting over the flu and my mind is scattered.
Dinner is at the Great Hall. Sorry if it was ambiguous.
Retooled a weakness and added the final one. Should be good for final grading.
Name: Sir Aldrich Martin
Age: 26
Rank: Noble, Legitimized Bastard (Sort of)
Title: Knight
Features: Aldrich Martin is a tall, well-built man with dark brown hair and olive skin. His facial features are sharp, reminiscent of a hawk’s almost, and his eyes are a deep green. He stands roughly 6’4” tall, and can usually be seen wearing some form of armor. Typically he wears a few pieces of light plate over chainmail or leather, but he also has a set of ceremonial arms bearing the royal crest that he dons for occasions of particular pomp and circumstance.
Strengths: -Martial Prowess: Aldrich is one of the finest swordsmen in the Crownlands and hones his skill regularly. Direct conflict with him or his charge is therefor incredibly risky.
-Military Experience: Aldrich served for several years in the Viexmeurian Military before his appointment, and during that time he gained an in-depth knowledge of military tactics as well as several friends in various positions he can call upon.
-Crown Confidant: Few, if any, are as familiar with Queen Gisela as Aldrich is. His presence in her youth, as well as their similar circumstances of birth, grant him an uncommonly close relation with the young monarch. Though he may not have bountiful lands, money, or soldiers, what Aldrich does have is the queen’s ear and confidence.
Weaknesses: -Black Sheep: Aldrich has essentially been disinherited and exiled from his family, prohibiting him from receiving their support in any form except in very specific circumstances, and even then it's unlikely. Furthermore, where Lady Torverra is involved he is all but certain to be forced into disadvantageous positions.
-A Fish out of Water: Aldrich has not set foot in a court of governance since his adolescence, and while he knows enough decorum to not make a fool of himself courtly proceedings make him visibly uncomfortable.
-(Name Pending): While Aldrich is able to easily brush off insults levied at himself, he does not take kindly to insults or sleights against Gisela or his late father, and such remarks will incite him easily.
Bio: Aldrich is the eldest son of the Torverra House of the Crownlands. A highborn family steeped in military tradition, the Torverras are widely regarded as prestigious fighters and leaders, with several of Viexmeur’s finest generals coming from their lineage. However, Aldrich is not the heir to such a legacy. He is a bastard; his father, the Torverra Patriarch, drank a little too much on the march home to his newly betrothed bride and bedded the daughter of the holdfast lord which had taken him as a guest. Several months later, she died in childbirth and Aldrich was brought to Torverra Keep as a babe. His father, a compassionate man who truly regretted the woman’s fate, vowed to raise the child as his own and acted at once. This did not sit well with his lady wife, who in truth was a conniving woman out to see her own bloodline flourish at any expense, and she began trying to conceive ways the little one might be done away with lest his existence inhibit her own offspring. However, the slaughtering of a child proved too vile a thought for even her to stomach, and she allowed his existence to continue for a few short years, at which point the birth of her own son Davin occupied her attention.
Davin and Aldrich grew together, albeit in starkly different standards and preferences, until the day Aldrich turned 13- the age a Torverra customarily began their time of military service. Not wanting to disappoint, he agreed to serve his time, and departed for the barracks. However, he enlisted under the name of Martin, the holdfast to which his mother had belonged, at Lady Torverra’s insistence. As he learned and grew in the military, Aldrich developed strong bonds with his fellow servicemen, perhaps made possible by his lack of apparent connection to the House, and swiftly grew to become one of the finest soldiers in his battalion.
Then the letters came. There were two; the first was from Lady Torverra, giving him news that Lord Torverra had passed away, and that under her orders he was to cease association with the House as anything more than a governing family over him, and that he would be imprisoned for slander should he ever take the name for himself. It was near banishment, as far as sentences go. The second, however, was a nearly burned paper that had all the writing of a will and testament- his father’s, saved from fire by a servant who had seen it delivered. In it, though scarcely legible, was a simple script from the bottom- officially legitimizing Aldrich as his son, and conferring upon him all titles he was owed. It was clear that it would hold no value in any court, but to Aldrich it was a dear sentiment, even if he would never see it come to light.
Years continued to pass as Aldrich made a home for himself in the military, until one day his Captain called him to the command tent for a special discharge of duty to give him a new assignment. It seemed the King himself was in need of a strong and noble knight to personally safeguard a young girl but it did not say why she merited it. Still, it had called for the best man he had, the Captain had told him, and that meant Aldrich was the only choice.
He has stayed by Gisela’s side ever since.
Quote: “I take such threats neither kindly nor lightly. If you continue with these actions, I will draw my sword. And I guarantee that you will find what comes after… quite unpleasant.”
I remember something about no one but Royal Guardsmen being allowed to have weapons in the presence of royalty. That way no lord or duke or knight could have a weapon that might be drawn in anger at a royal decree of some sort, or the like- that only unaffiliated soldiers with loyalty directly to the queen and no one else- which, admittedly, is not a knight or a lord, considering they belong to a House, which has its own interests- are allowed to have weapons in the presence of the royalty.
Again, don't know if that's how it's going to be in this rp, but I figger it to be a pretty realistic piece. Might even have Luxta call it out one way or the other- demand to know why some knight is fingering a sword in the queen's presence, regardless of whether or not they're swearing up and down that they're loyal.
I suppose most non-guards would probably be barred from carrying arms in the presence of the Queen, yes, though whether or not this applies to Councilors may be debatable and would presumably be the prerogative of the Captain of the Guard.
This might seem a bit extreme but uh, would it be out of place for Samael to rush in to punch Kamahl in the face right about now? The whole pagan magic in front of the Queen bit would irk him but I want to be sure I'm not ruining the RP lol
Uhh... on the whole I would advise against trying any kind of physical violence against anybody right now. There are guards everywhere, including 2 of the more combat-oriented characters in the RP standing right there, and it's intended to be a ceremonial occasion. An admonishing or the like could work, but trying to punch someone in the face would be extremely disruptive...
I was thinking some needlessly pompous stuff like 'His beatitude Samael' or 'The Virtuous Samael' just to really get on people's nerve.
Carmella: "How about 'Killer'? Or 'His Nuttiest of Fruitcakes'?"
-(Name Pending): While Aldrich is able to easily brush off insults levied at himself, he does not take kindly to insults or sleights against Gisela or his late father, and such remarks will incite him easily.
'Royalist'? 'Honour Guard'? 'Triggered'?
Pull a sword on him maybe? Just be aware he doesnt know your customs and unless told different will belive that is how you greet others.
Considering the conversation a moment ago, drawing a blade in the Queen's presence may cause an unwanted reaction from the Royal Guards. On the other hand, it would play perfectly into Samael's 'witchhunting' persona.
@Saltwater Thief@Major Sharpe@Wernher Physical attacks might not go over well, but even with my character being a foreigner, they'd be more suspicious of someone with a sword in their Queens' presence, I'd wager.
Even if they just arrived, I completely agree.
The reason why I support the no-weapons-in-the-presence-of-the-queen deal is because the Queen is supposed to be an elevated party. The councillors and the nobles all have their own agendas- they're trying to put down other members, gain the upper hand, further their own goals and hinder anothers'... so if the queen decrees something they don't agree with, making sure they don't have a weapon is quite major. Because the only weapons in the room shoulder be specifically the queen's weapons.
Also, yeah, if I were a Guardsmen and some pagan dudes started chanting foreign magic of unknown purpose, I'd force them to stop BEFORE they walk into the Great Hall.
And another thing for [@Everyone], the ceremony where you declare your allegiance to the High Queen has already PASSED. You all CAN'T just have arrived because the ceremony had already started and ended.
Right, I did mention that homage/fealty had been received from Councilors earlier in the day, in the second paragraph of my post. So, while you may have since decided to leave the Palace and wander Reolus for awhile, you've still already been introduced and everything. Maybe I could have made that clearer.
@Major Sharpe oh oops... well i can change mine up a little to reflect that but kamahl doesnt know hes only supposed to do that once he doesnt want to be rude after all and all of you are quite strange. Also he has to use magic to prove hes a priest, for them only priests use magic.
