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Name: Quenton Vanes Marinus

Nickname: Quincy or Quincey (from those who would annoy him), Blondie (from Faust), Qman (from Colin), Hot Barista (from Isaiah)

Age: 18 23!

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 160 lbs

Gender: fluid / uninterested

Birthday: June 3rd

Sign: Gemini

Gemstone: Pearl, Agate, Chrysoprase, Citrine, Moonstone and White Sapphire. (Planetary Stone - Tiger Eyes ; Talismanic Stone - Emerald)

Blood Type: A+

Fav. Food: Waldorf Salad

Hated Food: anything with garlic

School: Destiny City University Graduate School

Hobbies:
Travel – if the student services is offering a CheapTrip deal with a weekend bus trip to NYC, he's signed up. New museum opening for post modernist architecture in Boston? He'll be there. Study abroad, day trips, even couch-surfing, Quenton is fascinated by the challenges of travel, the stories gathered, and the inspiration one can come back with. Often enough the journey is as important as the destination.

Sculpting – stone, metal, glass, or wood, the medium doesn’t particularly matter but his personal favorite is marble. Figural representations, particularly people and animals, or combinations thereof are his preferred subject. Quenton adores visiting museums to look at the classical mastery of this type of art. It’s hard to find models and enough prime material, but he does his best. There’s a distinct lack of clientele anymore, too, so this tends to be for personal satisfaction only. It used to be THE form of public art, now usurped by simpler, less expensive in time and money media. He is bitter at this. He is pursuing a 3D arts degree, with a specialization in sculpture at University, so he spends a lot of his time at the labs.

Lapidary – jewelry making, gem-cutting, bead making, glass blowing, and to some degree metalsmithing all hold Quenton’s interest. He loves the intricacy, the long hours, and especially the look of his finished products on the necks and limbs of lovely clients. He’s been making pieces for years, has an Etsy account, his own personal website, and a few independent jewelers that buy his wares (thanks to connections Stroud had). While he adores the money and thrill of a sale, he is so much into the art of it that he’s been known to make gifts of expensive pieces to people he felt needed to own them. Each piece has a personality of its own, and some people were meant to own them and them to grace that person. There’s really nothing more unfortunate than a piece of jewelry that is at odds with its wearer.

Virtues:
Polymath – Quenton loves learning for its own sake. It doesn’t really matter the field or subject on a basic level. He has a voracious mind, and is well practiced at how he studies and retains best to maximize the time that he can allot every week to becoming a renaissance man…his own self-styled Da Vinci. He speaks two languages right now – English and German, he keeps a poetry journal on him at all times, he plays the Shawm passably and the medieval recorder for a minor in performance arts. This all has left him little time for sleep, but he wouldn’t trade it for the world. The jack of all trades is generally a master of none, but he tells himself he doesn't have to be the best at everything - he just has to be his personal best.
If he sees something or someone doing something interesting, he’s very likely to want a closer look. He’s always looking to learn more. Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Confident – He knows what he’s worth to society, having as much learning and love of learning as he does, and he’s not about to worry about it. He’s watched plenty of classmates fail because of their aimlessness, their lack of self-confidence, or a dearth of general motivation. They’re paralyzed by their Sturm und Drang, while he’s out doing and seeing. He has no time to waste on moping or concerning himself with what others are judging about him.
If he finds someone being judgmental of himself or others, and he sees it as unjust, Quenton immediately assesses the situation. Are they being a bigot, or do they seem to have reason and discourse? If it’s the latter, he's always eager for a lively debate. But sadly bigotry cannot be learned from or reasoned with, so best to declare them so and move on.

Integrity – In olden fairytale days, Quenton would have been a shoo-in for a knight. He always keeps his word, does things by the book, follows law and stands for order. He won’t willingly stab someone in the back, regardless of wrongs done him or advantage it would bring him. Those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel, those who would see prosperity and order must uphold it in the face of adversity.

Flaws:
Rigid Justice - Letter of the law, not the spirit - empathy shows no play of mercy in his decisions. Even if a situation tears him up inside, Quenton will stand by the law. As a part of his adherence to integrity some would find him incorrigible. It isn’t that he does not empathize with those who are forced by circumstance to break law, he simply cannot condone or overlook the breaking. Whatever the reason, the law is the law. Similarly, he will not seek to avoid punishments himself. If he were a medieval lord and caught a child poaching because they were starving, he would still have their hand cut off for the offense. To the majority of people, this quality can be make things he does in the name of law monstrous, frightening, and cold. Like Stannis Baratheon, lawful stupid.

Absent-minded – Because he has so many interests and pursuits, and gets so little sleep, Quenton is permanently strung out. He forgets to write things down, then gets things mixed up, and the result is missed meetings, wrong names, wrong products or misheard and misinterpreted ones. Sometimes things are wholesale forgotten. Even confronted with how sleep and slowing down could improve his interaction with fewer stimuli, Quenton flat out refuses to slow down. This has cost him clients, occasional grades (don't sleep through your midterm) and a few friends who thought missing their birthday was right out. When he does miss things he has deep abiding guilt about it and will do all he can to set things right, but when you break some eggs you can’t exactly just put it together again.

Strict (Tiger ‘Mom’) – A relative to his adherence to the law, is his extreme adherence to contracts, assignments, and what people ‘should be doing’. He will not put anything aside that he perceives as his duty, nor does he make allowances for others in doing what he perceives are their duties. Once plans are made, he is loath to break them or adjust them for any reason, no matter the threat or wisdom of it. For those having to deal with Quenton, it is human nature to reject limits that aren't empathic- and he doesn’t let empathy adjust any reason anyone has to offer for not performing. Consequently, it’s hard for him to keep friends he makes once they discover just how obsessively strict his sensibilities are, or how controlling he can be. Any reasons given are excuses. There is no valid excuse, not for him, not for you. Illness, death, too much stress, hospitalization- shirking is shirking and Quenton will not hesitate to try to seize control of the situation, declare what is unacceptable and force the issue to getting back on track. Pointing out the fact that he misses things because of his absentmindedness won’t help either. Maybe they should spend more time getting their business done than trying to weasel out of it deflecting blame of instances that aren’t related.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Flame, thick-lashed
Hair: To the bottom of his rear, ashen bone-colored blonde
Face: Narrow, sharp featured with full lips and chiseled nose. Really arched eyebrows. A badly healed scar from upper left cheek ridge across through his lips to the bottom right of his chin.
Clothes: Faded dystopia or cat everything. Very rarely couture gifts of high fashion from his cousin.


FAMILY TREE
( primogeniture coded )

• He's lefthand dominant/borderline ambidextrous from use
  
• Quenton doesn't identify to gender internally or externally; he doesn't find it important except as a mechanical consideration. He does understand that it can be important to others, and tries to respect their personal wishes/boundaries.
  
• Quenton is "sapiosexual", doesn't consider gender or sex as relevant in determining whether he's attracted sexually to others. Sexual attraction for him is based on a high show of some form of intelligence (book learning, emotional, kinesthetic , etc.) That applies to sexuality only, not to relationships generally. I am aware of the controversy regarding this as an 'official' sexuality, and how it is considered offensive by some for being elitist and ableist. Quenton is a character, and has his flaws, and some people may consider this one of them. Feel free to! I'm happy to work with anyone who may want to use this as a conflict point/discussion between characters. Take him to task!
  
• He's never had many friends (ie: any?) growing up because of how strict he is and how married he's been to learning. He didn't fit any clique and was considered boring or mean by peers.
  
• His eyesight is fine. He wears the glasses because he likes how they look - ie: bookworm chic
  
• His clothes, whether in fashion or not, are always a little worn and old. He almost never shops and if he does its always second hand.
  
• What nice clothes he does have are VERY nice, and they're 'gifts' from Stroud, because she's often fed up with his looking like an attic reject.
  
• Because everything he owns is second hand or older he has a tendency to live in a very grey-coloured world.
  
• Has acquired some plants and has started to take care of them like pets.
  
• Has a driver's license but no car or motocycle. He does own a pedal bike.
  
• Quenton started at University at 17 years old, and has Graduated with a complicated Bachelors - Double Major in Sculpture and Musical Performance, Double Minor in German Language and Art History.He's now Enrolled in Graduate School at Destiny City University for Archeology - Epigraphy.
  
• He always wears a jointed, very life-like, complete, preserved bone jewelry like a second hand over his own right hand. Always.
  
  

XXXXX - irrational loathing
XXXX●- detest
XXX●● - hate
XX●●●- dislike
X●●●● - unimpressed
●●●●● - neutral
●●●●❤ - acquaintance
●●●❤❤ - like
●●❤❤❤ - friends
●❤❤❤❤ - deep affection
❤❤❤❤❤ - will die for
¿? - confusion

Civilians:


• ●●●●● | Customers and Students : The come and go from the days and nights like shadows along the streets and beneath the trees.
  
• ●●●●● | Jada Chamberlyn : A strange woman; moneyed and acquaintance to my cousin. Seems too well-meaning and off the cuff to be like Stroud, but as easily could be a ruse. I don't think it is, though. Takes care of two children. She's tired.
  
• ●●●●● | Guilia : One of Ms. Chamberlyn's wards. Has the usual energy of a precocious, rich child who comes from an indulgent upbringing. Is allowed to host her own lavish parties? Curious what she's being groomed for, and if she's party and willing for it.
  
  
  

Cats:



• ❤❤❤❤❤ | Ash : She has been a constant force in helping us try to unify and improve, and listens to ideas I have for possible implementation, if not so much upkeep. She’s invaluable and irreplaceable. I’d feel lost without her around every once and a while...when she has the time. She doesn't feel the same about me, or my projects, which can be painful if dwelt on.
  
• ❤❤❤❤❤ | Faust : He thinks it's his pillow. A gruff personality, but fearless and driven. We compliment each other- he's not much on strategy, but he cuts to the meat of matters with less...rambling. My dearest companion.
  
  
  
  

White Moon Court:


• ●❤❤❤❤ | Super Aegir / Colin Hargrove : He smiles so that no one notices. Too busy trying to pour out everything for everyone else without thinking about sustainable agriculture of his own self and soul. Maybe my only friend in the usual sense- we see each other for sketching and dinners sometimes. He wiggles all the time when he's awake; I feel his heart tearing as he clings in his sleep.
  
• ●●●●❤ | Eurydike / Hitch : Marriage? …?
  
• ●●●●❤ | Super Phact / Delilah : RP in Progress
  
• X●●●● | Eternal Ida / Orah: She does not want it any relation between us. She has returned? I have not heard more from Athene, or Liryn about it. I don’t know what has happened. I wish I did.
  
  
  

Zodiac::


• ●●●●● | Unknown : Fallow hands the Opal Crystal, and the guardians of its secrets. Where are they all? Why do they remain apart? The only great power available to us all, and we are forsaken.
  
  
  

Chibi Senshi:


• ●●●●● | Unknown : These exist? Why?
  
  
  

Dark Mirror Court:


• ●●●●● | Unknown : We cannot sustain a two front war, all the more with no unity ourselves.
  
  
  

Parallel Court:


• ●●●●● | Cassandra : Grief, sudden and in the presence of a political envoy, makes many uglier than they should be. There is also a vast history unknown, and a level of uncertainties and protections that she must, or feels she must, enact against those here for the sake of their world. Whether right or wrong. It is hard to blame her wholly. I wonder if she still lives, though. Alois’ last claims were to the otherwise. I want to know more.
  
  
  

Negaverse:


• XXXXX❤❤❤❤❤ | General Bischofite / Alois : What is It to the corpse if the maggots n**? So rest, but without even that small life to aid decay. Haunt my dreams, at least then I can hear your voice. Bury my mouth against your hair.
  
• ????? | Alkaid : Zirconia had no answers on this one, and I've found no further clues as to what, exactly, this creature is. She seems of some ilk to the Corrupted.
  
• X●●●● | General (Aurostibite) : RP Unfinished
  
• XX●●● | General Labyrinthite : A butcher, and a General now, long come from Wolframite’s Offensive against the Dark Mirror. He did not recognize me, and I barely him. I must review my sketch journals. A murderer, unrepentant and irrational. Execute him.
  
• X●●●● | Captain (Quartz) : Worried about youthful combatants? What matters the age of the soul destroyed, when destroying souls, spear-wielder? What a strange being....what was that?
  
• X●●●● | "Chrysocolla" (Faustite) : A partially youmafied agent, found at the Romano's campus. Terribly young, as like to the students of there or the other secondary educational institutes. What words we passed weren't encouraging. The self-focus of that stage of life, with his condition, may create a perfect storm where he cannot be reasoned with. If I find him with another starseed...
  
  
  

Knights:


• ●●●●❤ | Hvergelmir / Laney : An odd person, choosing a hard path. I don't agree with it, but we will see proof of what is efficacious and best in the playing out of the lives we touch. Sorrow there is not simpler way. I wish we could manage to reach each other in words and mind...and be friends. At least we seem able to work together towards some sort of goal of keeping everyone alive, since not for unity.
  
• ●●●●❤ | Celsus / Fritz : A wreckage of nerves. I’m not sure how he holds the notion in a rational mind of being friends and yet being incapable and unwilling to talk about himself, his life, the universe, anything at depth. Unfortunate mad creature, you need professional care before you’ll successfully manage friends.
  
• X●●●● | HyBrasil : She brought Isaiah to me, and succumbed to fits, tantrums and panic. A knight in name, mostly. Not inured to this, or any other, war. But that might mean she's better off, really. As a person. Just not on a battlefield.
  
• ●●●●❤ | Scholomance / Isaiah Zähne : Curious to learn and survive, but I find myself suspect of his morals and motivations- what relations is he building with the Corrupted, like Amphitrite, and yet to not care so much if she is ruined? I cannot tell yet if it is act, pragmatism, or if he is like so many of the Negaverse. - So it seems you are Isaiah... the morals and motivations become cloudier yet. Mangled, tortured and brought to my door. Worse that you did not have the fortitude to stay the full time and stay in hiding for a while. I wish you had. By the same, I cannot risk the sanctuary for those unwilling to abide the laws of it.
  I hope it will turn out well. I hope he heals, in mind and soul as much as body. Other addictions have been overcome, or....subverted. The constant come ons are as worrisome as flattering. Yet not. It doesn't matter who I am, or my name, is what it seems to come down to. Just another piece of a**. How unactualized. Pity.
  
  
  

Old/Outdated:


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X●●●● | Blackwell : I don't get the impression that he follows Stoicism. I don't know if he seems the sort to follow any philosophy, or to think about such things. Plays his cards close and enacts a lot of deliberate secrecy around what he he does and who he is. Does listen and take notes on things that have interested him. He's interested in Alois' hand, recognized it for real bone. Unusual. I do not trust him, but he holds more interest for his non-personage than most do with their heart on their sleeve.

●●●●● | ( Kyndall ) : A pregnant woman I met at the library. Not much else to report. I haven't seen her since.

●●●●● | Matthias : A fine arts student at DCU I met and ate with. He's a relation of Delilah's, which I learned at the broken Convention. I haven't seen him since, and do not know if he remains at DCU.

●●●●● | Jessie : Clerk at a strange, indy bookstore that I visited some time ago. I have not been back, nor seen her around.

●●●●● | Cora : Matthias girlfriend, met (if it could be called that since she didn't speak) at the broken convention. I haven't had any further interaction with her.

●●●●● | Dr. Xander Jacobs : A relation of Eternal Maia's, which she shared with me when I'd found myself in possession of some starseeds. He was helpful then. I have not encountered him since. I don't know if he is likewise a Power in this war.

●●●●● | Krishna Dhawan : Owner and Proprietor of a florist in a questionable section of the city. He knows his business. Efficient and not prying. I have not seen him since arranging for a bouquet to be sent on breaking up with Alex. It's been some time.

●●●●❤ | Alexandre Evans : Briefly dated him. A well-to-do, pixie-built youth who places more limits on himself than circumstances would. Last I knew, he was pursuing a fine arts degree as well as opening a Tea business. We used to meet over lunches, but that petered off when Alois, a lover and live-in of his, apparently decamped to my apartment. We've never talked about it- I don't know if he was angry, hurt, or if Alois cut off all connections or not? I did not ask exclusivity of Alois, so it's possible they remained lovers still. The silence gives the impression that it didn't, or that invitations of three instead of separations were refused. He has not been in any of my classes as a student either.

●●●●● | Lazarus Klein : He seemed so sweet, and in a way saved my life. There’s something terrifying you, and it relates to Stroud. I need to pursue this.

●●●●● | Abhain : Rp unfinished



●●●❤❤ | Zirconia : I don't know what solution, if any, was found. Alois implied she killed Cassandra. What does that mean?

●●●●● | Cora : She upgraded my starseed in a strange fashion at the White Phoenix Strike. I have seen her own starseed pulled once. I don't know if she survives. Concerning. It has been a long time.

●●●❤❤ | ********* : She gave me my pen to begin with. She is often with Iris. They do not seem as they should be compatible in any way. It has been a long time.

●●●❤❤ | Horatio : A small, energetic cat I have seen running around only once at a sponsored training activity. It was long ago.

●●●❤❤ | Lyssa : A somewhat stinky, fairly dirty corrupted Mauvian that I met while trying to learn about the Moon Pearls. I cannot tell if she was truly mad or acting it. Nice enough. It was long ago.

●●●●● | Tyrus : A corrupted Mauvian that was at at least one meeting for the White Phoenix Strike. I don't recall him doing much of anything at all. It was long ago.

●●●❤❤ | Snowball : I met him in arranging for the Black Watch, and he was at the founding meeting by way of the knight Niflhel. He goes limp when you pick him up, like a regular Ragdoll cat. It's rather marvelous. I don't know much about him, otherwise.

●●●●● | Diana : Rp unfinished



●●●❤❤ | Acrucis / Hannah : I visit her in the hospital to play music for her, bring her books, or audio books. She has been there a long time. I worry about her sympathies with the enemy. It may end in her corruption someday.

X●●●● | Eternal Athene : At least we can be civil and work for the greater good. We managed to survive camping and researching what we could on his homeworld together. I wish he would sit and think of reasons, and then be able to discuss them for his outlooks on everything.

●●●❤❤ | Irene : A big brother? I think I can live with that...I never had a little sister. I would like to protect our fellow senshi and knights in much that way. I would like to work with them as though they are siblings. Thank you, Irene.

●●●❤❤ | Eridanus / Odysseus : What a fair star from afar. I worry to get too close, lest the hope of friendship turn to ashes as it did with Athene. I wish I knew how to be a better friend.

XXX●● | Princess Iris : Obtuse in manner, unpredictable and erratic in where her ideals or even ideas lie. Better to avoid contact if at all possible. Unfathomable that anyone stands by her, when she is as like to slit their throats as an enemy's. Morals and ethics seem lost on this mad dog.

●●●❤❤ | Penthesilea / Jeanne : I don't see her much, and when I do it is finding her in bloodied straits. I wish she would think more. Still, she's out there working hard and doing what she can. I would not see her harmed if I could prevent it.

X●●●● | Eternal Ganymede : Seat of the Jovian team for the Black Watch, but not communicative so far. I wonder. Certainly useless the other times I've seen this one around.

●●●●● | Vespa : He is purified, and I tried to help in that escape peripherally. It was long ago. What of since?

●●●●● | Tsui : I saw this eternal in passing, long ago, and have learned nothing more.

●●●●● | Cybele : Long ago we spoke about her struggles with the realities of war and killing. Not really since.

●●●●● | Auriga : Met at the meeting to found the Blackwatch. She seemed young, idealist. No more since.

●●●●● | Eris : Met at the meeting to found the Blackwatch. She seemed quiet. No more since.

●●●●● | Kepler : Met at the meeting to found the Blackwatch. I didn’t have enough to form an impression. No more since.

●●●●● | Vulcan : rp unfinished

●●●●● | Kallichore : She originated the Primer, and I had the honor of meeting her. She seemed eager for some greater organization in Order. No more since.

●●●●● | Maia : She was helpful, years ago. It has been as long since.

●●●●● | Pomona : Met long ago. No more since.

●●●●● | Polaris : Met long ago. No more since.

●●●●● | Bellatrix : Rp Unfinished

●●●●● | Corvus : Rp Unfinished

●●●●● | Medea : She was sweet, frightened, in danger of her bleeding heart, years ago. It has been as long since.

●●●●● | Europa : Met at the White Phoenix Offensive. I didn’t have enough to form an impression. No more since.

●●●●● | (Acubens) : Met at the White Phoenix Offensive. I didn’t have enough to form an impression, other than we were on opposite sides. No more since.

●●●●● | Methone : Willing enough to help. Seemed attached to Scholomance in some fashion of physicality. Probably better not to know. She bears the markings others do.



X●●●● | (Celemorrow) : Met long ago. No more since.

X●●●● | (Remarque) : Met at the White Phoenix Offensive. He’s skilled at punching...maybe even in a trained sense. No more since.

X●●●● | (Leto) : Met at the White Phoenix Offensive. I didn’t have enough to form an impression. No more since.



XXXX● | General Buddingtonite : Lazy, willful, craven and conniving...he will try any manipulation to destroy morale or plant doubt. He is frequently in the field, commanding missions. He needs to be neutralized in high priority.

XXXX● | Captain Zircon: Who eat souls lose slowly their own. I need to end your misery before you make so many more suffer for your indifference.

X●●●● | (Teallite) : A impertinent murderer. Time passes without further encounter.

X●●●● | (Bismuthite) : Connected closely with Wolframite, but not close enough to show to the White Phoenix offensive. Time passes without further encounter.

X●●●● | (Adonis) : Reasonable enough in politics of war to make a trade. Time passes without further encounter.

X●●●● | (Cinnabar) : A well trained murderer. Time passes without further encounter.

X●●●● | (Lellouch) : Insolent, recalcitrant, and thoughtless. Time passes without further encounter.

X●●●● | (Natron) : Tangled with Alois, a matter of personal differences combined with Bischofite protecting his connection to me. Time passes without further encounter.

X●●●● | (Galena) : Time passes without further encounter.

XXX●● | Xenotime : A trained fighter, and a murderer with seemingly no concept of wrong or remorse. She’s connected to Alois somehow, and may have learned of Thraen from him sometime long ago. This was a bad encounter highlighting every reason no one should patrol alone. I survived by tactics only, certainly not by being the better combatant...and it cost me my arm for months to come. She’ll heal much faster with that starseed she kept. A loss on both accounts, taking neither her life, nor winning it from her.

X●●●● | Umber : Climbed the ranks quickly, and seems to serve as a contact of Clean Up Crew for the Negaverse. He has taken two kills from me. Not much of a conversationalist, so far as I can tell.

●●●●● | Ochre / Sheikh : I don't know what has happened with this one. He'd wanted to purify.

XXXX● | Ashanite : What a waste of blood and flesh- here is like to Buddingtonite. A wastrel, full of lies and fear and self-serving.

XXXX● | Benitoite : Faced with reason, this one returns putrefaction spewed out of the hole that should be a mouth. Stupidity or Madness could provide cause, but they don't excuse.

X●●●● | (Bazzite) : This creature was near the small blue general, the one called Benitoite.

X●●●● | Amphitrite : I did not know her well, but she was captured by the Negaverse at New Years of 2015. She turned up among those captured in a laxly organized and run counter offense capture mission at New Years of 2016. She is corrupted. She knows Scholomance. Apparently chaos turns people into loosely wired sex-addicts? Best to mercy kill this one. I'm sorry Ash.


●●●●● | Kairatos: Knows Iris and Zirconia, and he's apparently still in the game of trying to help Alois. Still, I don't think we get along. There's an air of tension in conversing with him at all.

●●●●● | Niflhel : Met at the meeting to found the Blackwatch. He seemed quiet. Attached to Snowball. No more since.

●●●●● | Valhalla : Met long ago. Again at the Blackwatch, though he seemed mostly to sleepwalk. No more since.

●●●●● | Babylon : Met long ago. Seemed interesting, intelligent. Hard to get more of an idea of, and no more since.

●●●●● | (Andronicus) : Met at the White Phoenix Offensive. I didn’t have enough to form an impression, other than we were on opposite sides. No more since.

●●●●● | Ashur : Met at the Blackwatch, and he seemed helpful. No more since.

●●●●● | Sessrumnir : Met long ago. No more since.

●●●●● | Falias : Met long ago. No more since.

●●●●● | Nysa : Met long ago. No more since.

●●●●● | Aventine : Met long ago. No more since.

XX●●● | "Wolframite" : He purified? It seems impossible, yet true. Mentioned connections to Valhalla. I do not know the symbol he wears or the name he bears.



●●●●❤ | 'Guard' Aquarius : I think she has gone mad, and tries to lick her wounds in private. She does not realize it all festers so. Take the hands of those friends you have, they will help you realize again you are strong.

●●●●● | Princess Chronos : Quiet. She seemed nice enough, but so distance on the Surrounding. Does she stay there always? She seemed willing to help on being asked, but she doesn’t….seem to pursue anything of her own volitions. What is it then, that determines what royalty is to this Magic in all of us? Those with the strongest powers, with crystals, hide, remain idle, or ...something. Anything. Please, princess, use your Opal Crystal. Help us. Act.

ABSTRACT -
A small world, Thraen was home to a population that rarely exceeded five thousand. The Senshi of Thraen never visited the Moon, and never recognized the sovereignty of the Moon Court in any business. Being small and self sufficient as it was, Thraen's independence (or existence at all) didn't impact the White Moon Court, anyway. The total area of the surface of Thraen is a bit under 1000 square miles, mostly comprised of wild nature and many large, highly manicured gardens of different biome sorts. Theirs was a culture very based on recycling and renewal, where pollution and waste were minimal. The governing was handled by a noble elect that tended towards hereditary, based in a system of 30 shires ruled over by the central House of Root and Stone (that of the Senshi in the capital). Law arbitration, international affairs, records, and higher education were handled at the capital. Thraeneans were a quiet, creative people with slow tempers and a great love of nature and thought.




Landmarks:

• The Grand Conservatory - Description
  
  
• Loar's Wander - Description
  
  
• Medve Tumulus - Description
  
  
• Fellsigh Fountain - Description
  

The People:


The natives were an ambisexual race, usually presenting as colourful asexuals with metallic flecks in skin pigmentation at the cheeks, shoulders across the clavicals, and hips. Their ears were pointed, and their legs were longer than Terran proportion. Gender was reflexively assumed when a mate was desired, or found, but as a involuntary act (that reflected on the projected wants and pheromones of the potential mates available) without a great deal of training and practice. Thraeneans found strict gender binaries both fascinating and worrisome- such societies limit their genetic recombination. A Thraenean that mates with an offworlder still produces a Thraenean in most cases. The average lifespan of a Thraenean was roughly 200 years.

Visitors were always welcome, especially visitors willing to 'share their pollen.' Expats and naturalizations were welcomed only if the individuals could prove a dedication away from destructive habits of other societies (like war, racism, religious fanaticism, etc). As a culture, they were highly focused on study, meditation, debate and aesthetics. Nothing made was done so hastily. While technology had its place, they were not fascinated by it, preferring to use what was helpful and necessary without becoming slave to impositions on perception. (Think of life before watches and clocks- people would meet at 'noon' which could be anywhere in a space of a few hours)


Social Hierarchy:

• Senshi - The Senshi and the family House of the senshi are the pinnacle nobles, not elect but truly hereditary. Their house handles much of the international and high level law for the society. Additionally, the senshi themselves was directly responsible for the well being of the world- the collar chain worn by every senshi was a direct symbol and tie to the inner sanctums of the world, They were at once its master and sacrifice, who's living in the deeps and relationship with the world would provide the flow of water, weather, the production of minerals through the soils and rocks, and the general renewal of the world necessary to sustain life. As such, it was very rare for the Senshi of Thraen to leave the world for more than a year unless the need was great.
  The line of the Senshi was always known and indicated by the presence of expressive, flame-coloured eyes among the children of the house. This eye colour was only found in the House of Root and Stone, and only in the Senshi and possibly a chibi senshi to inherit the post.
  
  
• Nobles - Elected to each of the shires for life terms, though able to be voted from confidence, the nobles directed the choices of design, research, and production of needs in the gardens and biomes within their keeping. They were also responsible for reporting to the House of Root & Stone.
  
  
• Tradesmen - Trades, rather than industry, were the method of production of finished goods. Training tended to be on an apprentice system, and goods created of artisan quality- Thraeneans were culturally very patient.
  
  

The Economy:

Garden Parties: To have a soiree at the conservatories of Thraen was a selective, sublime and expensive honor managed by few, but sought after and remembered by many. The decoration and settings, the custom garden walks and designs as well as the absolutely fresh and handcrafted delicacies of fruit, vegetable and fungal gourmet surpassed the most fanciful stories of fiction.

Exports:

• Plants - Scientific engineering and genetic modifications were frowned on, but traditional selective breeding still used in Thraenean horticulture. Plants, the celebration and study of their many forms and functions, were a major part of society. As such, the variety available was a commodity that could be shared with the rest of the cosmos.
  
  
• Garden Architects / Designers - The arranging of many parts to one whole, or many wholes, the vision of design of plant, stone, water and space, were all highly practiced and integral to Thraenean society. They could make a breathing, 'garden' space of any biome and any materials, worth enjoying.
  
  
• Produce - With so many plants and so much recycling, vegetables and fruits were in abundant supply. Famine, unless the ruling senshi was ailing, missing, or dead, was virtually unknown.
  
  
• Linen - Created from flax, this cloth was a major component of Thraenean culture.
  
  
• Silk - Not from the Terran worms and mulberries (though they did import some from Terra), but from trees like weeping willows whose petals were like streamers of colourful silken stuff that could be woven into a lustrous cloth.
  
  

Imports:

• Metals and Minerals - With such a small world, and one where renewal and balance were important, strip mining or heavy mining in general were unknown. Raw materials like metal and minerals for the Conservatory, or for the little machinery available were not often available in quantity from domestic market.
  
  
• Sand - For glass or for desert gardens. Again, without large scale quarrying, there was no great production of sand or gravel domestically.
  
  
• Precious stones - For jewelry, for architectural embellishment, for paint pigments- they were valued for their aesthetics but not lusted for. Thraeneans would offer fair prices for beautification and design.
  
  
• Interesting fauna - Some gardens and designs are meant to have specific wild life (such as peacocks in a fountain walk, or Koi in a pond). Varieties of these that were new and beneficial, or appropriate for a new type of garden, were welcomed and imported from other worlds.