About Ciel:
-She is left handed.
-She is an only child.
-She speaks French and has a tendency to spout out French sayings, a habit she picked up from her mémé (grandma) and pépé (grandpa).
-She also speaks Greek (modern and she is learning ancient classical Greek), and like her French she tends to pepper her speech with Greek sayings.
-Her mother Jeanne Beaulieu comes from old money, she is a very successful novelist and introduced Ellie to her love of fantasy and in particular knight stories
-Her father Jason Karpusi is new money, he owns a large corporation, he is strict but very loving and protective towards Ciel.
-Her parents got Ciel a
Czechoslovakian Vlcak puppy when she was five that she named Arthur, She loves Arthur dearly and considers him her best friend.
About Hyperborea:
-A large classical Greek polis: that is a large
city.
-The city is on top of a massive shifting labyrinth, the entrance of which is in the Acropolis (where the knights of Hyperborea lived) and can only be accessed with magic.
-The city was famed for its strict practice of
Hospitium.
-The city was also known for its olive trees which lined the streets, its grape vineyard just outside the city, and for it large scale architecture. Though all the trees and plants are dead now and many of the building are dusty and in disrepair. The acropolis is in the best shape though even it is not in good shape.
-At the acropolis grew
rainbow colored cherry blossom trees. They have currently stopped blooming.
-A large bridge and a gate with statues of reindeer (like
the lion gate of Mycenae) once welcomed travelers into the city proper. The bridge is currently destroyed and while the gate itself is still intact the walls surrounding the city are in disrepair.
-The polis is in the center of a triple star system, in a figure-8 formation, that causes it to always be daytime on Hyperborea.
-The three stars of Hyperborea have a purplish color.
-The people of Hyperborea were significantly taller than average humans, the shortest among them were still over 10 feet tall.
-The people of Hyperborea have stone-like skin and their eyes are pearly and opalescent orbs of vibrant color. (examples:
1 2 3 )
-The people of Hyperborea practiced ancestral worship with a focus on venerating the knights of Hyperborea, because of that any visiting knights were treated with special reverence. The people considered the 1st knight of Hyperborea, Apollon, as a combination god and founding hero. Statues of former knights lined the streets and temples, in the main temple (and residence of the current knight) on the acropolis stood a large statue of Apollon in front of the entrance to the labyrinth.
-The people of Hyperborea worked as either philosophers, statesmen, poets and bards, gardeners, priests, teachers, or (a few) worked in the vineyard just outside the city.
-The knights of Hyperborea were charged with welcoming visiting dignitaries and keeping the peace. Although in practice keeping the peace generally meant playing arbitrator in philosophical debates between the citizens.
-All knights of Hyperborea had ranged weapons. All knights had the same sort of starlight flashbang magic Ciel has (although it wasn't always manifested as an arrow of star light) and it is called the Light of Hyperborea. Although it was more often, and incorrectly, called either the Light of Apollon or the Arrow of Apollon because of the Hyperborean's deification of the knight.
-All knights of Hyperborea thus far were men.
About the last Knight of Hyperborea:
-Ancestor’s name: Theseus
-Height: 13’5’’
-Skin: Olive colored
-Hair: Jet black, and worn in a braided ponytail
-Eye color: Bright purple
-Theseus came from a long line of knights of Hyperborea, when he came of age he went to the Knight Academy. He loved jokes and was generally pretty laid back, though he did take his role as knight seriously when he had to. He once made the trip to Cosmos Castle and several other wonders and planets, however after that he never really left Hyperborea.
-Theseus had a discus that became a nonbladed chakram at knight stage (I'm not sure what his squire stage weapon was at this point).
-Theseus' uniform was a
chlamys made of the same material of as ciel's toga, a white kilt with
greek geometric paterns of gold thread, gold wrist cuffs and an arm cuff on his right arm with the cosmos symbol on it, a gold necklace of the three dotted infinity symbol and a
corinthian helmet with a purple plume.
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