Name: Richard Elliot Lee Saverell
Age: Thirty-one
Race: Human
Height: 6’1
Hair: Light brown, nearly blond
Eyes: Frost Grey
Richard is a good looking, giant of a man in his early thirties, with piercing frost grey eyes and light brown hair. He is usually found in a dress shirt and slacks, a tie around his muscular neck and his short hair combed neatly in place. He is a traveling scholar, a member of the ‘Sentient Beings Order’, which studies the different races inhabiting Gaia. He could also be called a zoologist, and he is somewhat of a botanist as well. He is well mannered and relatively easy going, never one to argue. Well educated and charming, Richard is hard to dislike, and even harder to make an enemy of.
Past: Born to a high-ranking lord and his wife, a duchess, Richard was the couple’s only son. He was the younger of the two children born, his sister Rachel having been born four years earlier. At the age of fifteen, his father and mother both died in a turbulent sea, on a voyage Richard himself had nearly been on, but an illness had delayed him. The two siblings were told at the same time, Rachel weeping as a still-recovering Richard held her, already a foot taller than she was. Richard said nothing, merely comforting his sister before straightening his shoulders and gazing at the rival lord levelly. “It seems,” he is reported to have said, “That I must take care of things now.” His sister inherited her mother’s title, and Richard was given his father’s. Brother and sister found themselves alone in the dangerous world of politics, thrust in the midst of cunning adversaries who would covet their titles. Still distraught over the loss of her parents, Rachel took to their estate, wanting only to be near her brother, afraid something would befall him as well. Richard was an intelligent boy, and he handled their affairs well over the next three years, caring for his grieving sister while arranging defenses and smoothly talking his way out of trouble with neighboring lords and dukes. He made allies with the king, who gave the young man title after title. Richard had finally gotten his house safely above all others, with the exception of the king’s. Rachel eventually came out of her depression, and began to take a more active role in the affairs of her house. Richard happily split the power, and the Saverell children ruled their estates side by side, forming a strong bond that no one could hope to destroy. Together, they were safe from the plots of other lords. As time went by, Richard relinquished more control to his sister, fading from the public little by little as he studied the books left to him by their father, becoming a professor at the Academy. He might have become headmaster, but Richard did not care to take on such a thing; he liked his students and his research. A few days after Richard turned twenty-five, the king passed away without a heir, and the siblings safety was once again in jeopardy. Working quickly, troops were sent to their allies, as the country erupted into civil war. Even the smart and intelligent Richard might have been at a loss, but now he had his sister to help him. They developed intricate and clever strategies, eventually winning the war with the help of their allies. Then the great question of who would be king arose. All knew it would have to be Richard, even his sister thought it so. Richard however, oblivious to it all, simply returned to his chambers at the academy, resuming his duties there. His sister went to him to present him with the crown and sword of their country, only to be met with a severe frown and adamant protestations. He no more wanted to be king then he had wanted to be a lord. To go against the people’s wishes was political suicide for any person in power, but Richard, who had always disliked politics, did not care. He placed the crown on her head, and the whole country knew by morning; that the son of Lord Saverell had passed the crown to his sister instead of taking it himself. Richard left his country in disgrace, though he himself was glad for it. At the age of twenty-seven, the man who had worked so hard to raise his house from ashes was finally free of it. For the first time, Richard was free to do as he wished.
Today: Richard keeps contact with his sister through letters, though the two siblings are separated by the gulf of their different lifestyles. Richard has two nieces and a brother in law now, though his sister keeps her rightful power. Even though he never mentions it, his nieces are a source of great pride to him, as they will carry on the Saverell line. He has met them only a few times, adorable little girls with long, curly brown hair and bright blue eyes like their mother, energetic and cheerful. He often sends delicate and beautiful gifts to the three of them, things he has come across on all corners of the planet. His brother in law does not like Richard, and Richard does not like him. His sister’s husband dislikes the influence Richard has, and feels that he, the king, should have more of a say in his wife’s decisions. Richard thinks the king is nothing more than a conniving fool, and cannot imagine what Rachel sees in him. Were it not for the girls, the whole thing would repel him. Fortunately, the two have never had to interact without his sister around.
Richard found the muffin quite by accident, after the town inhabitant’s chased him and told him to go to “The inn of crazies!’ if he wanted somewhere to rest. He found the assortment of beings there intriguing, and ‘Master Caradoc’ and ‘Sir Tomo’ even deigned to answer some of his curious questions. Richard also chanced to meet Lady Crystal, a woman who still carried her title, and whom Richard found himself intrigued with. She is interested in his work, and Richard, at first, kept it at that. But now he feels drawn to her, and regards it as dangerous. She represents much of what he left behind in his own lands, and he knows he could no more survive in that kind of world any more than he could survive in space. He is happy in his research and studies, and once, had been perfectly happy with being alone in them. Richard has always been wary of women, especially in his younger days when his titles had been all that had mattered. But now he has met someone he is fond of, a woman who is as smart and curious as he is. She belongs in her world though, and Richard, a disgraced lord and brother to a Queen, would never wish to jeopardize her place in it. Although he was happy to give up that life, he cannot expect her to. So Richard has attempted to keep distance, but each time he sees her it gets harder and harder to do so.
