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Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-26T23:44:12Z

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[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==

*Warning the referenced story pages contain Spoilers

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Jackal Chest (Fiction)]]

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

[[In the Kitchen at Brooke's (Fiction)]]

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

[[Patience (Fiction)]]

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

[[Deserving (Fiction)]]

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Hope's Navy (Fiction)]]

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')

[[Second Son (Fiction)]]

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Jahir Seni Galare

2022-02-26T22:24:22Z

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[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]]

An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].

==Appearance and Personality==

Jahir is tall by most standards at 6'6". He has the classic pure white skin and hair of an [[Eldritch]]; his hair falls to his ribcage. His eyes are a honey shade of yellow-gold, and he has a square jaw. Jahir's speaking and singing voice is a tenor, and he smells like vetiver and bergamot.

Prior to his ascension, he preferred to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; post-ascension he generally dresses in Galare blue. He is very fastidious and neat in his appearance.

Jahir has a Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of his face, and faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough.<ref name="ar-06>''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 6</ref> He also has a burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking, and a nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel.<ref name="ar-11">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 11</ref>.<ref name="ar-01">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 1</ref> Both his wrists are hypermobile, but the left is worse than the right.<ref name="hs-10">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

His Eldritch 'zodiac' sign suggests he is 'purportedly emotional and intuitive and enigmatic.'<ref name="dh-07">''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) |Dreamhearth]],'' Chapter 7</ref>

==Biography==
Jahir Seni Galare, an Eldritch lord, is the eldest son of Jeasa and Kolvin Seni Galare; he is about six or seven years older than his brother Sernataila (Amber). Kolvin was killed in a riding accident when Jahir was about ten years old and Amber about three. He was a loving brother who made every effort to ensure that Amber had as good or better possessions than himself. He was presented at court at the usual time, at about age eighteen, and attended both summer and winter courts for several years. By his own admission, he “did not seem to be accomplishing much,” and stopped attending. He was educated as was typical for a noble heir in the management of a great estate as well as the courtesies and skills. Among those was music, which became his great passion and at which he was skilled well beyond the norm.

Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed to the Alliance’s u-banks to study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he found he had accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decided, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)

===Mindtouch===

When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, having lived more than 150 of his likely 1500-year lifespan, ("...a bit older than out usual freshman") and with nerves jangled by the close proximity of other people whose touch forces him to experience their thoughts and emotions, he learns that his request for single accommodations is denied because of space limitations. While waiting for the problem to be addressed, he takes a walk on the hospital grounds and encounters a Glaseah entangled in the jumprope being wielded by six little girls who have slipped away from their nurse. He offers to help, and eventually joins in the play. He and the Glaseah, Vasiht’h, agree to visit the children again. Vasitht’h offers to share his apartment with Jahir and smooths out the administrative details. Jahir moves in, and immediately Vasiht’h, a year ahead of him, begins his informal education in the ways of the Alliance, from mundane activities like working a shower and cooking to university practices, from working with his advisor, a Seersa named Khallis Mekora, and navigating the campus. Back in their apartment, Jahir faints, and Vasiht’h calls the emergency channel for help. Their touch exacerbates his discombobulation, but once he rouses, they recommend he go to the clinic because the greater gravity on Seersana is causing Jahir problems. Jahir follows through and is attended by Healer [[Lafayette KindlesFlame]], a Tam-illee, who prescribes a drug regimen to compensate for the gravity, judicious rest and increased food. Because of the Veil, Jahir is unwilling to commit to coming to the clinic, so KindlesFlame suggests they meet weekly for lunch to check Jahir’s health and talk medicine.

As the year progresses, Jahir becomes more integrated into university life. His classes interest him, and he enjoys regular get-togethers with their quadmates, [[Brett]] (Seersa) and his flatmate [[Lucrezia]], (Luci, a Harat-shar), [[Merishiinal]] (Circaana) and his flatmate [[Leina]] (Seersa). Vasiht’h introduces him to new foods, and he is enthralled by ice cream. The two also begin regular visits to the six little girls they met jumping rope: Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee), Amaranth and Persy (human), Kuriel (a Seersa), and the fragile Nieve (also Seersa).

As the year passes, Vasiht’h begins to notice flashes of a connection between what Jahir is thinking in his own mind, beginning with music after an outdoor choral concert. Jahir, who has decided to stay in the Alliance after his schooling, is deciding between the medical and the clinical tracks, while Vasiht’h is floundering and starting down the research track, a poor fit. Jahir enrolls in Clinical Management, a medical track course, and Patient Assessment. Both courses challenge him, the former when an accidental collision involving several fellow students causes him to lose consciousness, and the latter when the professor humiliates him in front of the class for being unreadable. Interestingly, he has no trouble touching and even holding the little girls at the hospital. While he is still deciding, during a visit to the children, fragile Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms. He turns to Vasiht’h for comfort, and finally asks about the mental connection he’s experiencing. Vasiht’h explains mindtouch and how it has the potential to develop into a permanent mindline – a very rare and intimate connection. He and Vasiht’h are invited to attend Nieve’s funeral, a great honor, and there her grandmother gives Jahir wise counsel. Jahir decides to commit to the medical track. Vasiht’h is concerned because of the toll on Jahir’s stamina. He, too, has been struggling with his research, using his esper talent to reduce people’s stress level while they sleep. He struggles with not contaminating the study, because the subjects want to talk with him about their problems.

Jahir, in order to finish the medical track coursework within two years, embraces a grueling course load starting the summer after his first year. Before that, he gives Vasiht’h two weeks of vacation fun, and the mindtouches grow in frequency. The summer workload is intense, and Jahir is successful, leading KindlesFlame to suggest he apply for the coveted residency at Mercy Hospital on Selnor. At summer’s end, Vasiht’h begins to withdraw from Jahir, protecting himself because he knows Jahir will leave for his residency. Both continue their weekly visits to the children, which Jahir will not give up, even with his demanding schedule. Jahir begins to dream of a garden whose flowers rot before they can bloom. He weeps in his sleep, and Vasiht’h comforts him using the esper technique underlying his research. The dreams continue, and Jahir wakes to find Vasiht’h asleep in his room on more than one occasion. Over the winter holidays, their quadmate Lucrezia, who has previously confided her romantic troubles to them, tells them that she has broken the relationship off. They offer to have her stay overnight, and when she falls asleep on the sofa, together Vasiht’h and Jahir calm her dreams. While doing so, a nascent mindline forms, and for the first time, they can hear each other mentally. Both are unnerved, and Vasiht’h fears he has offended Jahir. In his last semester, Jahir, doing shadow practicums with real patients, comes home drained and begins to rely on Vasiht’h to buoy him back up. Vasiht’h realizes that the mindline is growing stronger, and since they will necessarily be separated, decides he has to be replaceable to Jahir. Jahir wins both the residency at Mercy Hospital in Heliocentrus on Selnor and the one on Seersana at General. Vasiht’h tells Jahir he should go to Selnor, believing it important that Jahir find out if he can handle the demands of a medical psychology career. On the last night, Jahir asks Vasiht’h if he can hug him. Jahir leaves, and Vasiht’h is heartbroken. He dreams Jahir’s dream of the gardens with dying flowers, and, realizing that Jahir needs him, determines to follow Jahir to Selnor.

===Mindline===

Almost immediately upon his arrival at Selnor, Jahir realizes that the gravity of the planet, much heavier than Seersana, is going to pose a problem. His first stop is Mercy Hospital’s walk-in clinic, where he learns from Healer Gillespie, a Hinichi, that the acclimatization regimen he underwent on Seersana means there is risk if he opts for additional courses of the treatment. His other choice is a medically supervised diet and exercise regimen to mitigate his Mediger’s Syndrome, not the way he had anticipated launching his Mercy residency. He reports the next morning and meets a human named [[Griffin Jiron]], the Nurse who will supervise Jahir’s residency. Also present is a second resident, Miss Valani, an Asani who is assigned to Healer Parkenfields in physiological support of psychological health. (Note: Medical personnel who trained on Terra are Doctor and Nurse; those who trained in the Alliance are Healer and Healer-Assist or Hea.) Jiron immediately realizes that Jahir’s case of Mediger’s Syndrome is severe and may be an issue, though Jahir assures him that he will cope. Jahir is assigned to Dr. Grace Levine in crisis care because of his chemistry specialty. Dr. Levine appears stunned by his appearance but quickly gathers her composure. When Keren, a Seersa, accidentally plows into Jahir, sending Jahir into a touch-induced faint, Levine is even more concerned, but Jahir makes light of the situation.

Jahir attends his first physical therapy session at the gymnasium pool the next morning, where he meets Shellie Aralyn, an Asanii, and Paga, a Naysha, who comprise his therapy team. Though Jahir has never swum, he is entranced by the relief the water provides. Arriving at the hospital, Jahir meets Radimir, train Yulij, a Harat-Shariin senior healer-assist, and Hea Paige Nettlesdown, a Karaka’An. Also on shift are volunteers Baird Ghardhoff, a Hinichi priest, Shelvi, a pantheistic sect Harat-Shariin, and Jared Weldt, a human social worker. Radimir explains that Jahir will rotate between the emergency room (triage) and crisis care extended stay. His first shift passes swiftly, and Jahir manages his work well, though he is physically taxed. He is also puzzled by an unresponsive patient whose aura appears dense and flat. On his way out, Jahir pushes the elevator button for the roof on impulse and discovers a place where he can look across the city and into the night sky and feel connected. (It is, perhaps, Jahir’s earliest sense of the Pattern.) The next day, the unresponsive patient is still in the crisis care unit. Jahir works with Hea Maya FirstOnSite, a Tam-illee who becomes distressed when they receive a pregnant Tam-illee whose waters have broken early, because her own sister has lost two babies. Jahir is understanding of her distress, and she is encouraging of his work. Still, Jahir finds himself asleep against a wall at one point, a sign of the toll the gravity and the work are taking on him.

Jahir’s third day finds the unresponsive patient still there; he touches the human man and notices that beneath the stillness is a sludge. Healer Jonsen asks Jahir to let him know if he senses anything, but the patient dies soon after. At the end of his shift, an exhausted Jahir is waylaid by Dr. Levine, who offers her help if Jahir has any issues about the death. Jahir notices that she is offering her help specifically, but is reassured when she claims that she does this with all the new residents. At the end of his first week, Jiron and Radimir call Jahir in for a how-goes-it; both appear to be tense and chagrined by Levine’s offer to help Jahir following the patient death. When Jahir asks, Radimir brushes it off as Levine being driven.

Jahir’s swim therapy progresses, and his relationship with Paga expands as they communicate via computer and Paga says that he senses Jahir may love the water in a similar way as himself. Jahir is still experiencing problems, however, and losing weight. Healer Gillespie programs his medical bracelet to alert him to eat something from his calorie-dense diet. Reporting for his shift, Jahir learns they’ve received another unresponsive patient. He leaves his shift both mentally and physically exhausted. Back at his apartment, he is surprised by the door chime and opens the door to find Vasiht’h, who blurts out that he was wrong to let Jahir go alone and won’t ever leave him again unless Jahir tells him to go. Jahir tells him he would never tell him nor want him to go; the mindline fuses, and they fall into an embrace. Vasiht’h is appalled by how thin Jahir is and immediately sets about taking care of his friend. He suggests that Jahir give himself two months to see if he can adjust to the gravity and the workload. The apartment is tiny, yet Vasiht’h is surprised to find that Jahir would prefer that they share the bedroom, and that Jahir cares for him as much as Vasiht’h cares about Jahir. Vasiht’h settles in to decorate, cook and generally care for Jahir while simultaneously continuing his coursework remotely.

Jahir tells him about his work experiences and, through the mindline, shares some of the impressions he’s gotten from a dying unresponsive, in particular the scene of a street corner and something passed in an envelope. Vasiht’h, more streetwise, realizes that what it means is that the patient has taken a street drug. When Jahir shares their discovery with the medical team, they tell hm that drugs can only be verified through autopsy, which by law requires prior written consent by the patient. Dr. Levine is skeptical but tasks Jahir focus exclusively on the unresponsive patients to see if he can learn more. She pressures him to work overtime at another hospital with unresponsives; Jahir is unwilling, and his supervisors agree.

Meanwhile, Vasiht’h visits with Kayla and Meekie from the children’s hospital on Seersana. They are on Selnor in Heliocentrus to undergo specialized treatment and are responding extraordinarily well. He fills them in about Jahir, and they have a wonderful visit. When he gets home, Jahir tells him that the hospital was able to autopsy a human male unresponsive, whose brain had literally turned to sludge. The pressure on Jahir increases, and he becomes so stressed that Aralyn and Paga suspend his physical therapy in favor of rest in the water.

The senior medical team decide to try surgery on one of the unresponsives, done by Healer-surgeon Septima. Radimir tells Jahir that he and Griffin know Jahir is going above and beyond, and that they are looking out for him. Late in the shift, Jahir senses a response when he touches an unresponsive Hinichi. He tries to connect, and everything shatters. Vasiht’h, having coffee not far away, hears a shout in the mindline to come before it’s too late. He races to the hospital and barges through to where Jahir is crumpled on the floor at the foot of the bed where the now dead patient lies, his spark of consciousness disappearing into chaos. Vasiht’h pulls Jahir back at great personal risk and fiercely keeps everyone away from Jahir, holding him protectively. Jahir reveals where the drug injection site is. Vasiht’h gets Jahir home and in the morning expresses his anger and concern, insisting Jahir take the day off. They go on a sailing cruise, and after, Vasiht’h surprises Jahir with a visit with Meekie and Kayla. He returns to work to find that all unresponsives in Heliocentrus have been sent to Mercy. Three have died in surgery, and Septima speaks with Jahir about her frustration that she cannot fix the problem. Jahir then feels the sense of disintegration in the patient they are near and tries to fight the chaos by imposing order. Jiron calls Vasiht’h, and when Jahir regains consciousness, tells him that the patient didn’t die. Grief-stricken at the thought of losing Jahir, Vasiht’h informs him that he’d had a near-fatal arrythmia. Dr. Levine and Healer-surgeon Septima try to pressure Jahir into trying to save more unresponsives, and he stipulates that Vasiht’h be allowed to help. A Hinichi investigator, Celvef, questions Jahir to try to get more information. Jahir leaves with Vasiht’h, and they go to the pool, where Vasiht’h meets Paga. After Jahir rests in the private pool, he finds the two horsing around in the water.

During the next shift, Jahir again tries to connect with a dying unresponsive; it’s so violent that Vasiht’h tackles him to break the connection. But Jahir has gleaned the name of the drug: wet. The investigators, Celvef and a Fleet investigator, Commander Parker, come to Jahir’s and Vasiht’h’s apartment to tell them about wet and how it kills in one to two doses – and to ask for Jahir to let them know if he learns anything more. Next shift, as Levine and Septima are pressuring Jahir to extend himself even further at the risk of his life, nine wet patients arrive. Jahir leaps into the mind of one who is dying and manages to keep him alive. Because of the sheer number, it becomes a break in the case. Jahir convinces Vasiht’h that it is the right thig to do to keep as many as possible alive, even though it’s only a temporary reprieve, because it allows families to come say farewell. With Vasiht’h’s help, Jahir brings seven victims back out of twenty-three. Near dawn, as an exhausted Jahir is getting coffee, Dr. Levine, equally exhausted and believing him to be receptive, kisses him. Jahir is repelled, and realizing this, Dr. Levine is humiliated. Jahir tries to pass it off as a misunderstanding. Later, he tells Vasiht’h, “She mistook her own interest in me for mine.” Days later, when the crisis was resolved and the wet criminals contained, Dr. Levine comes to the apartment. Jahir is asleep, and Vasiht’h is told that Mercy has ended Jahir’s residency. He and Jahir return to Seersana.

TO BE CONTINUED

[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maiden at the summer court had been seeking relief from her over-managing mother and aunt. We found an alcove to sit in and talk. That was all. But we were seen and aspersions were cast on her, so I called those who maligned her to account. We dueled. He put his tip through my shoulder, but I fought on until I sliced him. So honor was satisfied. My wound, though more serious, healed. His developed infection, and he died." Further: "I did not even care for the woman--she was the daughter of one of the Queen's enemies! I was fighting Galare's enemies when I threw down the challenge." <ref name="ar-11" />

Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]
* Of the time between Jahir leaving Selnor and the events of Healing Waters: "He’d intended to return far sooner, but the years had slipped past, and then after he’d renewed his resolve following the disaster at Tsera Nova, still it had needed nearly a year before he felt able to pry himself from the routine that structured his life."<ref name=hw">"[[Healing Waters (Fiction) |Healing Waters]]", ''[[Family (Fiction) |Family]]'' backmatter</ref>

* Ages: "Jahir, looking between his mare’s pricked ears, said, “At very least you did not say it in Lord Hirianthial’s hearing, who has another six hundred years on me or so.”"<ref name="hw-18">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 18</ref>

==Family==
* Mother: [[Jeasa Seni Galare]]
* Father: [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]
* Spouse: [[Sediryl Nuera Galare]]
* Children: twins [[Adaise Galare |Adaise]] and [[Raenor Galare |Raenor]] (coming soon!); honorary parent of [[Aevanauv]] (Evan), [[Efaeanoc]] (Anoc), and [[Ithauvni]] (Thauvi)
* Siblings: [[Amber |Sernataila (Amber) Seni Galare]], [[Vasiht'h |Vasiht'h Seni Galare]] (adopted)

Jahir is the son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]], and the brother of [[Amber Seni Galare |Sernatailia Seni Galare]], known as Amber. He is also the mindbonded partner of [[Vasiht'h]], the lover of [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]], and the husband of [[Sediryl Nuera Galare]].

He was married to Sediryl at the Seni manse, outside, by Liolesa and Val as officiating priestess and priest, in a traditional Eldritch ceremony (though the bride wore white, like a tenant, rather than her House colors). The troth cloth was blue fading to white at the center; on one side, an embroidered cluster of grape vines and rose blossoms for Sediryl, who had come from the most fertile of the Eldritch’s lands, and on the other, stars and a caduceus, for Jahir, who had gone offworld to learn to heal. In the pale center, a fireburst for them both, flowered mind-mages. <ref name="hw-20">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) | Healer's Wedding]],'' Chapter 20</ref>

His wife is supportive of all of his relationships, but Jahir is a private person who prefers to keep his physical relations strictly intimate, so Sediryl will have to make do with occasionally seeing him kiss Lisinthir. (The war trained him out of any lingering reluctance to display affection publicly, <ref name="fr-23">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', chapter 23</ref> although Eldritch social mores still constrain them on that front.)

==Quotes==

* "We move from strength to weakness and come around again to strength, and that movement is a sign of life. Were we always strong, were we always weak, did we never trade roles, we would be souls impervious to the world around us. And then how would we change? How would we grow?" <ref name="stt-12">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 12 </ref>
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* "Because I am the one who will willingly go to your cruel hand and kiss it for gratitude, and you will deny me nothing." <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 14 </ref>
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" />
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* "I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 2</ref>
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* "Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref name="ar-09">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 9</ref>
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* "A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 13</ref>
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* "I think you measure your worth in your utility, Nase's Heir... and we know that we are disposable when we are no longer of use. But we don't need to be useful to be worthy."<ref name="ar-11 />
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* “We all feel pain, but we create our reasons for suffering, or for transcending it.” <ref name="ar-08">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'' Chapter 8</ref>
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* /We come, cousin. Your lover says to leave some of the enemy for him… and his Queen says that today the wingless will retake the sky./ <ref name="fr-20">''[[ From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 20</ref>
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref>
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* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction)| Mindline]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
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* (I love humor/ironic quotes (Sean)) "He was not especially talented for an Eldrich" [[Mindtouch (Fiction)|Mindtouch]] 1%, first chapter. (also maybe implied if he could advance so could most on his planet, given similar circumstances)

* "A veil of lies and silence" (Much later we will learn that those lies were fostered by a Eldrich publishing house publishing lurid romances) (Sean)[[Mindtouch (Fiction)|Mindtouch]] Chapter 2

==Trivia==
* likes mornings
* likes walls
* prefers swimming as exercise
* loves ice cream
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand

===Names===
====Himself====
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)
* Voice in the Silence
* My Delight (Lisinthir)

====Other People====
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)
* calls Val 'Teacher'

===Body Language===
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.

===Musical Instruments===
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, including lute, guitar, violin, cello, harp, and lyre. He also plays both woodwinds and brass; his weakest point is percussion. His favorite instrument is the piano, at which he is a virtuoso.

===Notable Property===
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

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Jahir Seni Galare

2022-02-26T22:22:30Z

63.155.120.24: /* Mindtouch */

[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]]

An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].

==Appearance and Personality==

Jahir is tall by most standards at 6'6". He has the classic pure white skin and hair of an [[Eldritch]]; his hair falls to his ribcage. His eyes are a honey shade of yellow-gold, and he has a square jaw. Jahir's speaking and singing voice is a tenor, and he smells like vetiver and bergamot.

Prior to his ascension, he preferred to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; post-ascension he generally dresses in Galare blue. He is very fastidious and neat in his appearance.

Jahir has a Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of his face, and faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough.<ref name="ar-06>''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 6</ref> He also has a burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking, and a nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel.<ref name="ar-11">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 11</ref>.<ref name="ar-01">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 1</ref> Both his wrists are hypermobile, but the left is worse than the right.<ref name="hs-10">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

His Eldritch 'zodiac' sign suggests he is 'purportedly emotional and intuitive and enigmatic.'<ref name="dh-07">''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) |Dreamhearth]],'' Chapter 7</ref>

==Biography==
Jahir Seni Galare, an Eldritch lord, is the eldest son of Jeasa and Kolvin Seni Galare; he is about six or seven years older than his brother Sernataila (Amber). Kolvin was killed in a riding accident when Jahir was about ten years old and Amber about three. He was a loving brother who made every effort to ensure that Amber had as good or better possessions than himself. He was presented at court at the usual time, at about age eighteen, and attended both summer and winter courts for several years. By his own admission, he “did not seem to be accomplishing much,” and stopped attending. He was educated as was typical for a noble heir in the management of a great estate as well as the courtesies and skills. Among those was music, which became his great passion and at which he was skilled well beyond the norm.

Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed to the Alliance’s u-banks to study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he found he had accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decided, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)

===Mindtouch===

When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, having lived more than 150 of his likely 1500-year lifespan, ("...a bit older than out usual freshman") and with nerves jangled by the close proximity of other people whose touch forces him to experience their thoughts and emotions, he learns that his request for single accommodations is denied because of space limitations. While waiting for the problem to be addressed, he takes a walk on the hospital grounds and encounters a Glaseah entangled in the jumprope being wielded by six little girls who have slipped away from their nurse. He offers to help, and eventually joins in the play. He and the Glaseah, Vasiht’h, agree to visit the children again. Vasitht’h offers to share his apartment with Jahir and smooths out the administrative details. Jahir moves in, and immediately Vasiht’h, a year ahead of him, begins his informal education in the ways of the Alliance, from mundane activities like working a shower and cooking to university practices, from working with his advisor, a Seersa named Khallis Mekora, and navigating the campus. Back in their apartment, Jahir faints, and Vasiht’h calls the emergency channel for help. Their touch exacerbates his discombobulation, but once he rouses, they recommend he go to the clinic because the greater gravity on Seersana is causing Jahir problems. Jahir follows through and is attended by Healer [[Lafayette KindlesFlame]], a Tam-illee, who prescribes a drug regimen to compensate for the gravity, judicious rest and increased food. Because of the Veil, Jahir is unwilling to commit to coming to the clinic, so KindlesFlame suggests they meet weekly for lunch to check Jahir’s health and talk medicine.

As the year progresses, Jahir becomes more integrated into university life. His classes interest him, and he enjoys regular get-togethers with their quadmates, [[Brett]] (Seersa) and his flatmate [[Lucrezia]], (Luci, a Harat-shar), [[Merishiinal]] (Circaana) and his flatmate [[Leina]] (Seersa). Vasiht’h introduces him to new foods, and he is enthralled by ice cream. The two also begin regular visits to the six little girls they met jumping rope: Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee), Amaranth and Persy (human), Kuriel (a Seersa), and the fragile Nieve (also Seersa).

As the year passes, Vasiht’h begins to notice flashes of a connection between what Jahir is thinking in his own mind, beginning with music after an outdoor choral concert. Jahir, who has decided to stay in the Alliance after his schooling, is deciding between the medical and the clinical tracks, while Vasiht’h is floundering and starting down the research track, a poor fit. Jahir enrolls in Clinical Management, a medical track course, and Patient Assessment. Both courses challenge him, the former when an accidental collision involving several fellow students causes him to lose consciousness, and the latter when the professor humiliates him in front of the class for being unreadable. Interestingly, he has no trouble touching and even holding the little girls at the hospital. While he is still deciding, during a visit to the children, fragile Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms. He turns to Vasiht’h for comfort, and finally asks about the mental connection he’s experiencing. Vasiht’h explains mindtouch and how it has the potential to develop into a permanent mindline – a very rare and intimate connection. He and Vasiht’h are invited to attend Nieve’s funeral, a great honor, and there her grandmother gives Jahir wise counsel. Jahir decides to commit to the medical track. Vasiht’h is concerned because of the toll on Jahir’s stamina. He, too, has been struggling with his research, using his esper talent to reduce people’s stress level while they sleep. He struggles with not contaminating the study, because the subjects want to talk with him about their problems.

Jahir, in order to finish the medical track coursework within two years, embraces a grueling course load starting the summer after his first year. Before that, he gives Vasiht’h two weeks of vacation fun, and the mindtouches grow in frequency. The summer workload is intense, and Jahir is successful, leading KindlesFlame to suggest he apply for the coveted residency at Mercy Hospital on Selnor. At summer’s end, Vasiht’h begins to withdraw from Jahir, protecting himself because he knows Jahir will leave for his residency. Both continue their weekly visits to the children, which Jahir will not give up, even with his demanding schedule. Jahir begins to dream of a garden whose flowers rot before they can bloom. He weeps in his sleep, and Vasiht’h comforts him using the esper technique underlying his research. The dreams continue, and Jahir wakes to find Vasiht’h asleep in his room on more than one occasion. Over the winter holidays, their quadmate Lucrezia, who has previously confided her romantic troubles to them, tells them that she has broken the relationship off. They offer to have her stay overnight, and when she falls asleep on the sofa, together Vasiht’h and Jahir calm her dreams. While doing so, a nascent mindline forms, and for the first time, they can hear each other mentally. Both are unnerved, and Vasiht’h fears he has offended Jahir. In his last semester, Jahir, doing shadow practicums with real patients, comes home drained and begins to rely on Vasiht’h to buoy him back up. Vasiht’h realizes that the mindline is growing stronger, and since they will necessarily be separated, decides he has to be replaceable to Jahir. Jahir wins both the residency at Mercy Hospital in Heliocentrus on Selnor and the one on Seersana at General. Vasiht’h tells Jahir he should go to Selnor, believing it important that Jahir find out if he can handle the demands of a medical psychology career. On the last night, Jahir asks Vasiht’h if he can hug him. Jahir leaves, and Vasiht’h is heartbroken. He dreams Jahir’s dream of the gardens with dying flowers, and, realizing that Jahir needs him, determines to follow Jahir to Selnor.

===Mindline===

Almost immediately upon his arrival at Selnor, Jahir realizes that the gravity of the planet, much heavier than Seersana, is going to pose a problem. His first stop is Mercy Hospital’s walk-in clinic, where he learns from Healer [[Gillespie]], a Hinichi, that the acclimatization regimen he underwent on Seersana means there is risk if he opts for additional courses of the treatment. His other choice is a medically supervised diet and exercise regimen to mitigate his Mediger’s Syndrome, not the way he had anticipated launching his Mercy residency. He reports the next morning and meets a human named [[Griffin Jiron]], the Nurse who will supervise Jahir’s residency. Also present is a second resident, Miss Valani, an Asani who is assigned to Healer Parkenfields in physiological support of psychological health. (Note: Medical personnel who trained on Terra are Doctor and Nurse; those who trained in the Alliance are Healer and Healer-Assist or Hea.) Jiron immediately realizes that Jahir’s case of Mediger’s Syndrome is severe and may be an issue, though Jahir assures him that he will cope. Jahir is assigned to Dr. Grace Levine in crisis care because of his chemistry specialty. Dr. Levine appears stunned by his appearance but quickly gathers her composure. When Keren, a Seersa, accidentally plows into Jahir, sending Jahir into a touch-induced faint, Levine is even more concerned, but Jahir makes light of the situation.

Jahir attends his first physical therapy session at the gymnasium pool the next morning, where he meets Shellie Aralyn, an Asanii, and Paga, a Naysha, who comprise his therapy team. Though Jahir has never swum, he is entranced by the relief the water provides. Arriving at the hospital, Jahir meets Radimir, train Yulij, a Harat-Shariin senior healer-assist, and Hea Paige Nettlesdown, a Karaka’An. Also on shift are volunteers Baird Ghardhoff, a Hinichi priest, Shelvi, a pantheistic sect Harat-Shariin, and Jared Weldt, a human social worker. Radimir explains that Jahir will rotate between the emergency room (triage) and crisis care extended stay. His first shift passes swiftly, and Jahir manages his work well, though he is physically taxed. He is also puzzled by an unresponsive patient whose aura appears dense and flat. On his way out, Jahir pushes the elevator button for the roof on impulse and discovers a place where he can look across the city and into the night sky and feel connected. (It is, perhaps, Jahir’s earliest sense of the Pattern.) The next day, the unresponsive patient is still in the crisis care unit. Jahir works with Hea Maya FirstOnSite, a Tam-illee who becomes distressed when they receive a pregnant Tam-illee whose waters have broken early, because her own sister has lost two babies. Jahir is understanding of her distress, and she is encouraging of his work. Still, Jahir finds himself asleep against a wall at one point, a sign of the toll the gravity and the work are taking on him.

Jahir’s third day finds the unresponsive patient still there; he touches the human man and notices that beneath the stillness is a sludge. Healer Jonsen asks Jahir to let him know if he senses anything, but the patient dies soon after. At the end of his shift, an exhausted Jahir is waylaid by Dr. Levine, who offers her help if Jahir has any issues about the death. Jahir notices that she is offering her help specifically, but is reassured when she claims that she does this with all the new residents. At the end of his first week, Jiron and Radimir call Jahir in for a how-goes-it; both appear to be tense and chagrined by Levine’s offer to help Jahir following the patient death. When Jahir asks, Radimir brushes it off as Levine being driven.

Jahir’s swim therapy progresses, and his relationship with Paga expands as they communicate via computer and Paga says that he senses Jahir may love the water in a similar way as himself. Jahir is still experiencing problems, however, and losing weight. Healer Gillespie programs his medical bracelet to alert him to eat something from his calorie-dense diet. Reporting for his shift, Jahir learns they’ve received another unresponsive patient. He leaves his shift both mentally and physically exhausted. Back at his apartment, he is surprised by the door chime and opens the door to find Vasiht’h, who blurts out that he was wrong to let Jahir go alone and won’t ever leave him again unless Jahir tells him to go. Jahir tells him he would never tell him nor want him to go; the mindline fuses, and they fall into an embrace. Vasiht’h is appalled by how thin Jahir is and immediately sets about taking care of his friend. He suggests that Jahir give himself two months to see if he can adjust to the gravity and the workload. The apartment is tiny, yet Vasiht’h is surprised to find that Jahir would prefer that they share the bedroom, and that Jahir cares for him as much as Vasiht’h cares about Jahir. Vasiht’h settles in to decorate, cook and generally care for Jahir while simultaneously continuing his coursework remotely.

Jahir tells him about his work experiences and, through the mindline, shares some of the impressions he’s gotten from a dying unresponsive, in particular the scene of a street corner and something passed in an envelope. Vasiht’h, more streetwise, realizes that what it means is that the patient has taken a street drug. When Jahir shares their discovery with the medical team, they tell hm that drugs can only be verified through autopsy, which by law requires prior written consent by the patient. Dr. Levine is skeptical but tasks Jahir focus exclusively on the unresponsive patients to see if he can learn more. She pressures him to work overtime at another hospital with unresponsives; Jahir is unwilling, and his supervisors agree.

Meanwhile, Vasiht’h visits with Kayla and Meekie from the children’s hospital on Seersana. They are on Selnor in Heliocentrus to undergo specialized treatment and are responding extraordinarily well. He fills them in about Jahir, and they have a wonderful visit. When he gets home, Jahir tells him that the hospital was able to autopsy a human male unresponsive, whose brain had literally turned to sludge. The pressure on Jahir increases, and he becomes so stressed that Aralyn and Paga suspend his physical therapy in favor of rest in the water.

The senior medical team decide to try surgery on one of the unresponsives, done by Healer-surgeon Septima. Radimir tells Jahir that he and Griffin know Jahir is going above and beyond, and that they are looking out for him. Late in the shift, Jahir senses a response when he touches an unresponsive Hinichi. He tries to connect, and everything shatters. Vasiht’h, having coffee not far away, hears a shout in the mindline to come before it’s too late. He races to the hospital and barges through to where Jahir is crumpled on the floor at the foot of the bed where the now dead patient lies, his spark of consciousness disappearing into chaos. Vasiht’h pulls Jahir back at great personal risk and fiercely keeps everyone away from Jahir, holding him protectively. Jahir reveals where the drug injection site is. Vasiht’h gets Jahir home and in the morning expresses his anger and concern, insisting Jahir take the day off. They go on a sailing cruise, and after, Vasiht’h surprises Jahir with a visit with Meekie and Kayla. He returns to work to find that all unresponsives in Heliocentrus have been sent to Mercy. Three have died in surgery, and Septima speaks with Jahir about her frustration that she cannot fix the problem. Jahir then feels the sense of disintegration in the patient they are near and tries to fight the chaos by imposing order. Jiron calls Vasiht’h, and when Jahir regains consciousness, tells him that the patient didn’t die. Grief-stricken at the thought of losing Jahir, Vasiht’h informs him that he’d had a near-fatal arrythmia. Dr. Levine and Healer-surgeon Septima try to pressure Jahir into trying to save more unresponsives, and he stipulates that Vasiht’h be allowed to help. A Hinichi investigator, Celvef, questions Jahir to try to get more information. Jahir leaves with Vasiht’h, and they go to the pool, where Vasiht’h meets Paga. After Jahir rests in the private pool, he finds the two horsing around in the water.

During the next shift, Jahir again tries to connect with a dying unresponsive; it’s so violent that Vasiht’h tackles him to break the connection. But Jahir has gleaned the name of the drug: wet. The investigators, Celvef and a Fleet investigator, Commander Parker, come to Jahir’s and Vasiht’h’s apartment to tell them about wet and how it kills in one to two doses – and to ask for Jahir to let them know if he learns anything more. Next shift, as Levine and Septima are pressuring Jahir to extend himself even further at the risk of his life, nine wet patients arrive. Jahir leaps into the mind of one who is dying and manages to keep him alive. Because of the sheer number, it becomes a break in the case. Jahir convinces Vasiht’h that it is the right thig to do to keep as many as possible alive, even though it’s only a temporary reprieve, because it allows families to come say farewell. With Vasiht’h’s help, Jahir brings seven victims back out of twenty-three. Near dawn, as an exhausted Jahir is getting coffee, Dr. Levine, equally exhausted and believing him to be receptive, kisses him. Jahir is repelled, and realizing this, Dr. Levine is humiliated. Jahir tries to pass it off as a misunderstanding. Later, he tells Vasiht’h, “She mistook her own interest in me for mine.” Days later, when the crisis was resolved and the wet criminals contained, Dr. Levine comes to the apartment. Jahir is asleep, and Vasiht’h is told that Mercy has ended Jahir’s residency. He and Jahir return to Seersana.

TO BE CONTINUED

[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maiden at the summer court had been seeking relief from her over-managing mother and aunt. We found an alcove to sit in and talk. That was all. But we were seen and aspersions were cast on her, so I called those who maligned her to account. We dueled. He put his tip through my shoulder, but I fought on until I sliced him. So honor was satisfied. My wound, though more serious, healed. His developed infection, and he died." Further: "I did not even care for the woman--she was the daughter of one of the Queen's enemies! I was fighting Galare's enemies when I threw down the challenge." <ref name="ar-11" />

Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]
* Of the time between Jahir leaving Selnor and the events of Healing Waters: "He’d intended to return far sooner, but the years had slipped past, and then after he’d renewed his resolve following the disaster at Tsera Nova, still it had needed nearly a year before he felt able to pry himself from the routine that structured his life."<ref name=hw">"[[Healing Waters (Fiction) |Healing Waters]]", ''[[Family (Fiction) |Family]]'' backmatter</ref>

* Ages: "Jahir, looking between his mare’s pricked ears, said, “At very least you did not say it in Lord Hirianthial’s hearing, who has another six hundred years on me or so.”"<ref name="hw-18">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 18</ref>

==Family==
* Mother: [[Jeasa Seni Galare]]
* Father: [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]
* Spouse: [[Sediryl Nuera Galare]]
* Children: twins [[Adaise Galare |Adaise]] and [[Raenor Galare |Raenor]] (coming soon!); honorary parent of [[Aevanauv]] (Evan), [[Efaeanoc]] (Anoc), and [[Ithauvni]] (Thauvi)
* Siblings: [[Amber |Sernataila (Amber) Seni Galare]], [[Vasiht'h |Vasiht'h Seni Galare]] (adopted)

Jahir is the son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]], and the brother of [[Amber Seni Galare |Sernatailia Seni Galare]], known as Amber. He is also the mindbonded partner of [[Vasiht'h]], the lover of [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]], and the husband of [[Sediryl Nuera Galare]].

He was married to Sediryl at the Seni manse, outside, by Liolesa and Val as officiating priestess and priest, in a traditional Eldritch ceremony (though the bride wore white, like a tenant, rather than her House colors). The troth cloth was blue fading to white at the center; on one side, an embroidered cluster of grape vines and rose blossoms for Sediryl, who had come from the most fertile of the Eldritch’s lands, and on the other, stars and a caduceus, for Jahir, who had gone offworld to learn to heal. In the pale center, a fireburst for them both, flowered mind-mages. <ref name="hw-20">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) | Healer's Wedding]],'' Chapter 20</ref>

His wife is supportive of all of his relationships, but Jahir is a private person who prefers to keep his physical relations strictly intimate, so Sediryl will have to make do with occasionally seeing him kiss Lisinthir. (The war trained him out of any lingering reluctance to display affection publicly, <ref name="fr-23">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', chapter 23</ref> although Eldritch social mores still constrain them on that front.)

==Quotes==

* "We move from strength to weakness and come around again to strength, and that movement is a sign of life. Were we always strong, were we always weak, did we never trade roles, we would be souls impervious to the world around us. And then how would we change? How would we grow?" <ref name="stt-12">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 12 </ref>
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* "Because I am the one who will willingly go to your cruel hand and kiss it for gratitude, and you will deny me nothing." <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 14 </ref>
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" />
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* "I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 2</ref>
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* "Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref name="ar-09">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 9</ref>
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* "A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 13</ref>
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* "I think you measure your worth in your utility, Nase's Heir... and we know that we are disposable when we are no longer of use. But we don't need to be useful to be worthy."<ref name="ar-11 />
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* “We all feel pain, but we create our reasons for suffering, or for transcending it.” <ref name="ar-08">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'' Chapter 8</ref>
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* /We come, cousin. Your lover says to leave some of the enemy for him… and his Queen says that today the wingless will retake the sky./ <ref name="fr-20">''[[ From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 20</ref>
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref>
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* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction)| Mindline]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
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* (I love humor/ironic quotes (Sean)) "He was not especially talented for an Eldrich" [[Mindtouch (Fiction)|Mindtouch]] 1%, first chapter. (also maybe implied if he could advance so could most on his planet, given similar circumstances)

* "A veil of lies and silence" (Much later we will learn that those lies were fostered by a Eldrich publishing house publishing lurid romances) (Sean)[[Mindtouch (Fiction)|Mindtouch]] Chapter 2

==Trivia==
* likes mornings
* likes walls
* prefers swimming as exercise
* loves ice cream
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand

===Names===
====Himself====
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)
* Voice in the Silence
* My Delight (Lisinthir)

====Other People====
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)
* calls Val 'Teacher'

===Body Language===
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.

===Musical Instruments===
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, including lute, guitar, violin, cello, harp, and lyre. He also plays both woodwinds and brass; his weakest point is percussion. His favorite instrument is the piano, at which he is a virtuoso.

===Notable Property===
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

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Jahir Seni Galare

2022-02-26T22:10:24Z

63.155.120.24: /* Mindline */

[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]]

An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].

==Appearance and Personality==

Jahir is tall by most standards at 6'6". He has the classic pure white skin and hair of an [[Eldritch]]; his hair falls to his ribcage. His eyes are a honey shade of yellow-gold, and he has a square jaw. Jahir's speaking and singing voice is a tenor, and he smells like vetiver and bergamot.

Prior to his ascension, he preferred to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; post-ascension he generally dresses in Galare blue. He is very fastidious and neat in his appearance.

Jahir has a Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of his face, and faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough.<ref name="ar-06>''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 6</ref> He also has a burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking, and a nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel.<ref name="ar-11">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 11</ref>.<ref name="ar-01">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 1</ref> Both his wrists are hypermobile, but the left is worse than the right.<ref name="hs-10">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

His Eldritch 'zodiac' sign suggests he is 'purportedly emotional and intuitive and enigmatic.'<ref name="dh-07">''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) |Dreamhearth]],'' Chapter 7</ref>

==Biography==
Jahir Seni Galare, an Eldritch lord, is the eldest son of Jeasa and Kolvin Seni Galare; he is about six or seven years older than his brother Sernataila (Amber). Kolvin was killed in a riding accident when Jahir was about ten years old and Amber about three. He was a loving brother who made every effort to ensure that Amber had as good or better possessions than himself. He was presented at court at the usual time, at about age eighteen, and attended both summer and winter courts for several years. By his own admission, he “did not seem to be accomplishing much,” and stopped attending. He was educated as was typical for a noble heir in the management of a great estate as well as the courtesies and skills. Among those was music, which became his great passion and at which he was skilled well beyond the norm.

Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed to the Alliance’s u-banks to study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he found he had accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decided, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)

===Mindtouch===

When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, having lived more than 150 of his likely 1500-year lifespan, ("...a bit older than out usual freshman") and with nerves jangled by the close proximity of other people whose touch forces him to experience their thoughts and emotions, he learns that his request for single accommodations is denied because of space limitations. While waiting for the problem to be addressed, he takes a walk on the hospital grounds and encounters a Glaseah entangled in the jumprope being wielded by six little girls who have slipped away from their nurse. He offers to help, and eventually joins in the play. He and the Glaseah, Vasiht’h, agree to visit the children again. Vasitht’h offers to share his apartment with Jahir and smooths out the administrative details. Jahir moves in, and immediately Vasiht’h, a year ahead of him, begins his informal education in the ways of the Alliance, from mundane activities like working a shower and cooking to university practices, from working with his advisor, a Seersa named Khallis Mekora, and navigating the campus. Back in their apartment, Jahir faints, and Vasiht’h calls the emergency channel for help. Their touch exacerbates his discombobulation, but once he rouses, they recommend he go to the clinic because the greater gravity on Seersana is causing Jahir problems. Jahir follows through and is attended by Healer Lafayette KindlesFlame, a Tam-illee, who prescribes a drug regimen to compensate for the gravity, judicious rest and increased food. Because of the Veil, Jahir is unwilling to commit to coming to the clinic, so KindlesFlame suggests they meet weekly for lunch to check Jahir’s health and talk medicine.

As the year progresses, Jahir becomes more integrated into university life. His classes interest him, and he enjoys regular get-togethers with their quadmates, Brett (Seersa) and his flatmate Lucrezia, (Luci, a Harat-shar), Merishiinal (Circaana) and his flatmate Leina (Seersa). Vasiht’h introduces him to new foods, and he is enthralled by ice cream. The two also begin regular visits to the six little girls they met jumping rope: Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee), Amaranth and Persy (human), Kuriel (a Seersa), and the fragile Nieve (also Seersa).

As the year passes, Vasiht’h begins to notice flashes of a connection between what Jahir is thinking in his own mind, beginning with music after an outdoor choral concert. Jahir, who has decided to stay in the Alliance after his schooling, is deciding between the medical and the clinical tracks, while Vasiht’h is floundering and starting down the research track, a poor fit. Jahir enrolls in Clinical Management, a medical track course, and Patient Assessment. Both courses challenge him, the former when an accidental collision involving several fellow students causes him to lose consciousness, and the latter when the professor humiliates him in front of the class for being unreadable. Interestingly, he has no trouble touching and even holding the little girls at the hospital. While he is still deciding, during a visit to the children, fragile Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms. He turns to Vasiht’h for comfort, and finally asks about the mental connection he’s experiencing. Vasiht’h explains mindtouch and how it has the potential to develop into a permanent mindline – a very rare and intimate connection. He and Vasiht’h are invited to attend Nieve’s funeral, a great honor, and there her grandmother gives Jahir wise counsel. Jahir decides to commit to the medical track. Vasiht’h is concerned because of the toll on Jahir’s stamina. He, too, has been struggling with his research, using his esper talent to reduce people’s stress level while they sleep. He struggles with not contaminating the study, because the subjects want to talk with him about their problems.

Jahir, in order to finish the medical track coursework within two years, embraces a grueling course load starting the summer after his first year. Before that, he gives Vasiht’h two weeks of vacation fun, and the mindtouches grow in frequency. The summer workload is intense, and Jahir is successful, leading KindlesFlame to suggest he apply for the coveted residency at Mercy Hospital on Selnor. At summer’s end, Vasiht’h begins to withdraw from Jahir, protecting himself because he knows Jahir will leave for his residency. Both continue their weekly visits to the children, which Jahir will not give up, even with his demanding schedule. Jahir begins to dream of a garden whose flowers rot before they can bloom. He weeps in his sleep, and Vasiht’h comforts him using the esper technique underlying his research. The dreams continue, and Jahir wakes to find Vasiht’h asleep in his room on more than one occasion. Over the winter holidays, their quadmate Lucrezia, who has previously confided her romantic troubles to them, tells them that she has broken the relationship off. They offer to have her stay overnight, and when she falls asleep on the sofa, together Vasiht’h and Jahir calm her dreams. While doing so, a nascent mindline forms, and for the first time, they can hear each other mentally. Both are unnerved, and Vasiht’h fears he has offended Jahir. In his last semester, Jahir, doing shadow practicums with real patients, comes home drained and begins to rely on Vasiht’h to buoy him back up. Vasiht’h realizes that the mindline is growing stronger, and since they will necessarily be separated, decides he has to be replaceable to Jahir. Jahir wins both the residency at Mercy Hospital in Heliocentrus on Selnor and the one on Seersana at General. Vasiht’h tells Jahir he should go to Selnor, believing it important that Jahir find out if he can handle the demands of a medical psychology career. On the last night, Jahir asks Vasiht’h if he can hug him. Jahir leaves, and Vasiht’h is heartbroken. He dreams Jahir’s dream of the gardens with dying flowers, and, realizing that Jahir needs him, determines to follow Jahir to Selnor.

===Mindline===

Almost immediately upon his arrival at Selnor, Jahir realizes that the gravity of the planet, much heavier than Seersana, is going to pose a problem. His first stop is Mercy Hospital’s walk-in clinic, where he learns from Healer [[Gillespie]], a Hinichi, that the acclimatization regimen he underwent on Seersana means there is risk if he opts for additional courses of the treatment. His other choice is a medically supervised diet and exercise regimen to mitigate his Mediger’s Syndrome, not the way he had anticipated launching his Mercy residency. He reports the next morning and meets a human named [[Griffin Jiron]], the Nurse who will supervise Jahir’s residency. Also present is a second resident, Miss Valani, an Asani who is assigned to Healer Parkenfields in physiological support of psychological health. (Note: Medical personnel who trained on Terra are Doctor and Nurse; those who trained in the Alliance are Healer and Healer-Assist or Hea.) Jiron immediately realizes that Jahir’s case of Mediger’s Syndrome is severe and may be an issue, though Jahir assures him that he will cope. Jahir is assigned to Dr. Grace Levine in crisis care because of his chemistry specialty. Dr. Levine appears stunned by his appearance but quickly gathers her composure. When Keren, a Seersa, accidentally plows into Jahir, sending Jahir into a touch-induced faint, Levine is even more concerned, but Jahir makes light of the situation.

Jahir attends his first physical therapy session at the gymnasium pool the next morning, where he meets Shellie Aralyn, an Asanii, and Paga, a Naysha, who comprise his therapy team. Though Jahir has never swum, he is entranced by the relief the water provides. Arriving at the hospital, Jahir meets Radimir, train Yulij, a Harat-Shariin senior healer-assist, and Hea Paige Nettlesdown, a Karaka’An. Also on shift are volunteers Baird Ghardhoff, a Hinichi priest, Shelvi, a pantheistic sect Harat-Shariin, and Jared Weldt, a human social worker. Radimir explains that Jahir will rotate between the emergency room (triage) and crisis care extended stay. His first shift passes swiftly, and Jahir manages his work well, though he is physically taxed. He is also puzzled by an unresponsive patient whose aura appears dense and flat. On his way out, Jahir pushes the elevator button for the roof on impulse and discovers a place where he can look across the city and into the night sky and feel connected. (It is, perhaps, Jahir’s earliest sense of the Pattern.) The next day, the unresponsive patient is still in the crisis care unit. Jahir works with Hea Maya FirstOnSite, a Tam-illee who becomes distressed when they receive a pregnant Tam-illee whose waters have broken early, because her own sister has lost two babies. Jahir is understanding of her distress, and she is encouraging of his work. Still, Jahir finds himself asleep against a wall at one point, a sign of the toll the gravity and the work are taking on him.

Jahir’s third day finds the unresponsive patient still there; he touches the human man and notices that beneath the stillness is a sludge. Healer Jonsen asks Jahir to let him know if he senses anything, but the patient dies soon after. At the end of his shift, an exhausted Jahir is waylaid by Dr. Levine, who offers her help if Jahir has any issues about the death. Jahir notices that she is offering her help specifically, but is reassured when she claims that she does this with all the new residents. At the end of his first week, Jiron and Radimir call Jahir in for a how-goes-it; both appear to be tense and chagrined by Levine’s offer to help Jahir following the patient death. When Jahir asks, Radimir brushes it off as Levine being driven.

Jahir’s swim therapy progresses, and his relationship with Paga expands as they communicate via computer and Paga says that he senses Jahir may love the water in a similar way as himself. Jahir is still experiencing problems, however, and losing weight. Healer Gillespie programs his medical bracelet to alert him to eat something from his calorie-dense diet. Reporting for his shift, Jahir learns they’ve received another unresponsive patient. He leaves his shift both mentally and physically exhausted. Back at his apartment, he is surprised by the door chime and opens the door to find Vasiht’h, who blurts out that he was wrong to let Jahir go alone and won’t ever leave him again unless Jahir tells him to go. Jahir tells him he would never tell him nor want him to go; the mindline fuses, and they fall into an embrace. Vasiht’h is appalled by how thin Jahir is and immediately sets about taking care of his friend. He suggests that Jahir give himself two months to see if he can adjust to the gravity and the workload. The apartment is tiny, yet Vasiht’h is surprised to find that Jahir would prefer that they share the bedroom, and that Jahir cares for him as much as Vasiht’h cares about Jahir. Vasiht’h settles in to decorate, cook and generally care for Jahir while simultaneously continuing his coursework remotely.

Jahir tells him about his work experiences and, through the mindline, shares some of the impressions he’s gotten from a dying unresponsive, in particular the scene of a street corner and something passed in an envelope. Vasiht’h, more streetwise, realizes that what it means is that the patient has taken a street drug. When Jahir shares their discovery with the medical team, they tell hm that drugs can only be verified through autopsy, which by law requires prior written consent by the patient. Dr. Levine is skeptical but tasks Jahir focus exclusively on the unresponsive patients to see if he can learn more. She pressures him to work overtime at another hospital with unresponsives; Jahir is unwilling, and his supervisors agree.

Meanwhile, Vasiht’h visits with Kayla and Meekie from the children’s hospital on Seersana. They are on Selnor in Heliocentrus to undergo specialized treatment and are responding extraordinarily well. He fills them in about Jahir, and they have a wonderful visit. When he gets home, Jahir tells him that the hospital was able to autopsy a human male unresponsive, whose brain had literally turned to sludge. The pressure on Jahir increases, and he becomes so stressed that Aralyn and Paga suspend his physical therapy in favor of rest in the water.

The senior medical team decide to try surgery on one of the unresponsives, done by Healer-surgeon Septima. Radimir tells Jahir that he and Griffin know Jahir is going above and beyond, and that they are looking out for him. Late in the shift, Jahir senses a response when he touches an unresponsive Hinichi. He tries to connect, and everything shatters. Vasiht’h, having coffee not far away, hears a shout in the mindline to come before it’s too late. He races to the hospital and barges through to where Jahir is crumpled on the floor at the foot of the bed where the now dead patient lies, his spark of consciousness disappearing into chaos. Vasiht’h pulls Jahir back at great personal risk and fiercely keeps everyone away from Jahir, holding him protectively. Jahir reveals where the drug injection site is. Vasiht’h gets Jahir home and in the morning expresses his anger and concern, insisting Jahir take the day off. They go on a sailing cruise, and after, Vasiht’h surprises Jahir with a visit with Meekie and Kayla. He returns to work to find that all unresponsives in Heliocentrus have been sent to Mercy. Three have died in surgery, and Septima speaks with Jahir about her frustration that she cannot fix the problem. Jahir then feels the sense of disintegration in the patient they are near and tries to fight the chaos by imposing order. Jiron calls Vasiht’h, and when Jahir regains consciousness, tells him that the patient didn’t die. Grief-stricken at the thought of losing Jahir, Vasiht’h informs him that he’d had a near-fatal arrythmia. Dr. Levine and Healer-surgeon Septima try to pressure Jahir into trying to save more unresponsives, and he stipulates that Vasiht’h be allowed to help. A Hinichi investigator, Celvef, questions Jahir to try to get more information. Jahir leaves with Vasiht’h, and they go to the pool, where Vasiht’h meets Paga. After Jahir rests in the private pool, he finds the two horsing around in the water.

During the next shift, Jahir again tries to connect with a dying unresponsive; it’s so violent that Vasiht’h tackles him to break the connection. But Jahir has gleaned the name of the drug: wet. The investigators, Celvef and a Fleet investigator, Commander Parker, come to Jahir’s and Vasiht’h’s apartment to tell them about wet and how it kills in one to two doses – and to ask for Jahir to let them know if he learns anything more. Next shift, as Levine and Septima are pressuring Jahir to extend himself even further at the risk of his life, nine wet patients arrive. Jahir leaps into the mind of one who is dying and manages to keep him alive. Because of the sheer number, it becomes a break in the case. Jahir convinces Vasiht’h that it is the right thig to do to keep as many as possible alive, even though it’s only a temporary reprieve, because it allows families to come say farewell. With Vasiht’h’s help, Jahir brings seven victims back out of twenty-three. Near dawn, as an exhausted Jahir is getting coffee, Dr. Levine, equally exhausted and believing him to be receptive, kisses him. Jahir is repelled, and realizing this, Dr. Levine is humiliated. Jahir tries to pass it off as a misunderstanding. Later, he tells Vasiht’h, “She mistook her own interest in me for mine.” Days later, when the crisis was resolved and the wet criminals contained, Dr. Levine comes to the apartment. Jahir is asleep, and Vasiht’h is told that Mercy has ended Jahir’s residency. He and Jahir return to Seersana.

TO BE CONTINUED

[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maiden at the summer court had been seeking relief from her over-managing mother and aunt. We found an alcove to sit in and talk. That was all. But we were seen and aspersions were cast on her, so I called those who maligned her to account. We dueled. He put his tip through my shoulder, but I fought on until I sliced him. So honor was satisfied. My wound, though more serious, healed. His developed infection, and he died." Further: "I did not even care for the woman--she was the daughter of one of the Queen's enemies! I was fighting Galare's enemies when I threw down the challenge." <ref name="ar-11" />

Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]
* Of the time between Jahir leaving Selnor and the events of Healing Waters: "He’d intended to return far sooner, but the years had slipped past, and then after he’d renewed his resolve following the disaster at Tsera Nova, still it had needed nearly a year before he felt able to pry himself from the routine that structured his life."<ref name=hw">"[[Healing Waters (Fiction) |Healing Waters]]", ''[[Family (Fiction) |Family]]'' backmatter</ref>

* Ages: "Jahir, looking between his mare’s pricked ears, said, “At very least you did not say it in Lord Hirianthial’s hearing, who has another six hundred years on me or so.”"<ref name="hw-18">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 18</ref>

==Family==
* Mother: [[Jeasa Seni Galare]]
* Father: [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]
* Spouse: [[Sediryl Nuera Galare]]
* Children: twins [[Adaise Galare |Adaise]] and [[Raenor Galare |Raenor]] (coming soon!); honorary parent of [[Aevanauv]] (Evan), [[Efaeanoc]] (Anoc), and [[Ithauvni]] (Thauvi)
* Siblings: [[Amber |Sernataila (Amber) Seni Galare]], [[Vasiht'h |Vasiht'h Seni Galare]] (adopted)

Jahir is the son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]], and the brother of [[Amber Seni Galare |Sernatailia Seni Galare]], known as Amber. He is also the mindbonded partner of [[Vasiht'h]], the lover of [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]], and the husband of [[Sediryl Nuera Galare]].

He was married to Sediryl at the Seni manse, outside, by Liolesa and Val as officiating priestess and priest, in a traditional Eldritch ceremony (though the bride wore white, like a tenant, rather than her House colors). The troth cloth was blue fading to white at the center; on one side, an embroidered cluster of grape vines and rose blossoms for Sediryl, who had come from the most fertile of the Eldritch’s lands, and on the other, stars and a caduceus, for Jahir, who had gone offworld to learn to heal. In the pale center, a fireburst for them both, flowered mind-mages. <ref name="hw-20">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) | Healer's Wedding]],'' Chapter 20</ref>

His wife is supportive of all of his relationships, but Jahir is a private person who prefers to keep his physical relations strictly intimate, so Sediryl will have to make do with occasionally seeing him kiss Lisinthir. (The war trained him out of any lingering reluctance to display affection publicly, <ref name="fr-23">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', chapter 23</ref> although Eldritch social mores still constrain them on that front.)

==Quotes==

* "We move from strength to weakness and come around again to strength, and that movement is a sign of life. Were we always strong, were we always weak, did we never trade roles, we would be souls impervious to the world around us. And then how would we change? How would we grow?" <ref name="stt-12">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 12 </ref>
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* "Because I am the one who will willingly go to your cruel hand and kiss it for gratitude, and you will deny me nothing." <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 14 </ref>
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" />
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* "I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 2</ref>
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* "Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref name="ar-09">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 9</ref>
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* "A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 13</ref>
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* "I think you measure your worth in your utility, Nase's Heir... and we know that we are disposable when we are no longer of use. But we don't need to be useful to be worthy."<ref name="ar-11 />
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* “We all feel pain, but we create our reasons for suffering, or for transcending it.” <ref name="ar-08">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'' Chapter 8</ref>
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* /We come, cousin. Your lover says to leave some of the enemy for him… and his Queen says that today the wingless will retake the sky./ <ref name="fr-20">''[[ From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 20</ref>
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref>
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* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction)| Mindline]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
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* (I love humor/ironic quotes (Sean)) "He was not especially talented for an Eldrich" [[Mindtouch (Fiction)|Mindtouch]] 1%, first chapter. (also maybe implied if he could advance so could most on his planet, given similar circumstances)

* "A veil of lies and silence" (Much later we will learn that those lies were fostered by a Eldrich publishing house publishing lurid romances) (Sean)[[Mindtouch (Fiction)|Mindtouch]] Chapter 2

==Trivia==
* likes mornings
* likes walls
* prefers swimming as exercise
* loves ice cream
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand

===Names===
====Himself====
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)
* Voice in the Silence
* My Delight (Lisinthir)

====Other People====
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)
* calls Val 'Teacher'

===Body Language===
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.

===Musical Instruments===
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, including lute, guitar, violin, cello, harp, and lyre. He also plays both woodwinds and brass; his weakest point is percussion. His favorite instrument is the piano, at which he is a virtuoso.

===Notable Property===
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

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Aura TotheQuick

2022-02-26T21:57:39Z

63.155.120.24: /* Story Mentions */

One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"When he went back, Hirianthal and Kindlesflame were already in the room with Aura, one of the few surgical healer-assist they'd procurred. Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Quotes==
"Surgical Healer-Assist, comes with the territory" (said at least twice)

==Story Mentions==
*Healer's wedding:

She is the Hea at the surgery

*Silver and Gold:
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Lord Lesandurel's own starship, where he meets his future wife.
She is a HEA on Escutcheon.
The celebration is in honor of the party that was the first meeting of an Eldridch and a Tam, which resulted in the Queen's Tams.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

2022-02-26T21:56:56Z

63.155.120.24: /* Story Mentions */

One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"When he went back, Hirianthal and Kindlesflame were already in the room with Aura, one of the few surgical healer-assist they'd procurred. Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Quotes==
"Surgical Healer-Assist, comes with the territory" (said at least twice)

==Story Mentions==

Silver and Gold:
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Lord Lesandurel's own starship, where he meets his future wife.
She is a HEA on Escutcheon.
The celebration is in honor of the party that was the first meeting of an Eldridch and a Tam, which resulted in the Queen's Tams.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

2022-02-26T21:38:13Z

63.155.120.24: /* Story Mentions */

One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"When he went back, Hirianthal and Kindlesflame were already in the room with Aura, one of the few surgical healer-assist they'd procurred. Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Quotes==
"Surgical Healer-Assist, comes with the territory" (said at least twice)

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Lord Lesandurel's own starship, where he meets his future wife.
She is a HEA on Escutcheon.
The celebration is in honor of the party that was the first meeting of an Eldridch and a Tam, which resulted in the Queen's Tams.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

2022-02-26T21:34:44Z

63.155.120.24: /* Biography */

One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"When he went back, Hirianthal and Kindlesflame were already in the room with Aura, one of the few surgical healer-assist they'd procurred. Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Quotes==
"Surgical Healer-Assist, comes with the territory" (said at least twice)

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Lord Lesandurel's own starship, where he meets his future wife.
She is a HEA on Escutcheon

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

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One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Quotes==
"Surgical Healer-Assist, comes with the territory" (said at least twice)

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Lord Lesandurel's own starship, where he meets his future wife.
She is a HEA on Escutcheon

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

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One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Escutcheon starbase where he meets his future wife.
She is a HEA on Escutcheon

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

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One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Esc. starbase where he meets his future wife.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

'Silver and Gold' story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

2022-02-26T21:18:22Z

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One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Esc. starbase where he meets his future wife.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

story to be published in Dec 22.

Aura TotheQuick

2022-02-26T21:17:35Z

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One of the first surgery healer-assists at [[Shield General]].

==Appearance and Personality==

==Biography==
"Inevitably a Tam-illee, given the original composition of Laisrathera." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 15</ref>

==Story Mentions==
She invites and arranges for Kindlesflame to go to the celebration on the Esc. starbase where he meets his future wife.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Meriaen Tams Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]]

Animals

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[[File:Illo-Animals.jpg|250px|thumb|right|There is a chicken on that horse]]

See also: [[Amity#Fauna |Fauna of Amity]], [[Escutcheon#Fauna |Fauna of Escutcheon]], [[Gledig#Fauna |Fauna of Gledig]], and [[Qufiil#Fauna |Fauna of Qufiil]]
See also surviving fauna/flora/sea critters of Earth/Terra, also whatever the Pelted found on colonizing their new worlds when new

* Birds of various kinds, including birds of prey<ref name="secch2">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 2</ref><ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 6</ref>
* Cephalopods, on both [[Terra]] and [[Tam-ley]]<ref name="esots-11">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 11</ref>
* Deer<ref name="secch3">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 3</ref>
* [[Dogs]]
* Goats on at least [[Escutcheon]]
* Fruit bears, largely harmless fruit and carrion eaters<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 8</ref>
* [[Horses]]
* Chickens
** [[Grand Galactic Chicken]]
* [[Peltsnakes]] (a Glaseahn animal). <ref>Mindtouch</ref>

*birschot: a herd animal, with "good springy hair" that is made into thread. from Hinichi page
* Terrell mentions a 'becklebird' in "Leadership Lessons" (and they are apparently loud).

==References==

<references />

[[Category:Non-Sentient Animals]]

Category:Non-Sentient Animals

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[[Category:Races and Species]]
But see Discussion for much that has been left off,
Also this is very disorganized as it contains Animal and has overlapping information. The category should be flattened from two into one.

Animals

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[[File:Illo-Animals.jpg|250px|thumb|right|There is a chicken on that horse]]

See also: [[Amity#Fauna |Fauna of Amity]], [[Escutcheon#Fauna |Fauna of Escutcheon]], [[Gledig#Fauna |Fauna of Gledig]], and [[Qufiil#Fauna |Fauna of Qufiil]]
See also surviving fauna/flora/sea critters of Earth/Terra, also whatever the Pelted found on colonizing their new worlds when new

* Birds of various kinds, including birds of prey<ref name="secch2">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 2</ref><ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 6</ref>
* Cephalopods, on both [[Terra]] and [[Tam-ley]]<ref name="esots-11">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 11</ref>
* Deer<ref name="secch3">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 3</ref>
* [[Dogs]]
* Goats on at least [[Escuchion]]
* Fruit bears, largely harmless fruit and carrion eaters<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 8</ref>
* [[Horses]]
* Chickens
** [[Grand Galactic Chicken]]
* [[Peltsnakes]] (a Glaseahn animal). <ref>Mindtouch</ref>

*birschot: a herd animal, with "good springy hair" that is made into thread. from Hinichi page
* Terrell mentions a 'becklebird' in "Leadership Lessons" (and they are apparently loud).

==References==

<references />

[[Category:Non-Sentient Animals]]

Eldritch

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Allies to the Pelted of the Alliance, the Eldritch are an estranged offshoot of humanity, espers and isolationists.

==Appearance==
Light-gravity-worlders, the Eldritch are tall, bipedal humanoids who are usually between six and seven feet in height, with thinner-than-human builds for both men and women. Bred from a very small gene pool (and tweaked by nanotech engineering), they are all pale with white hair; hair is straight or with a very slight wave, and is silky or satiny in texture. Eye colors tend toward pale shades of blue, green, grey or yellow, although darker shades are not unheard of (Lisinthir's eyes are a dark sapphire). They also have some "local" specific colors, with Eldritch names:
* heath eyes: hazel but purple-to-pink-to-yellow-to-brown
* heather eyes: a pale brown with lavender/purple tones
* moss eyes: green with gray-brown tones

See also: [[Eldritch Costume]]

===Physiology===
The Eldritch are humanoid enough to reproduce with humans, though such children are born Eldritch. (Note: Lisnthir Lauvet Imthereli and the Queen Ransomed (Chatcaava) have twins, made possible by her ability to manipulate changes within her own body and thus choose to be fertile with him.) The lighter gravity of their world has made them taller and more brittle; their metabolisms are a jumble of too-quick and too-slow, giving them a higher average body temperature and much more finicky guts. They process toxins quickly but are prone to genetic diseases, and have reproduction problems.

As people they are all born with some amount of esper talent, though their abilities have been hobbled by a culture that discourages tactile contact (and the enhancement of the ability that comes with it).

Eldritch age at roughly the same rate as humans up to adulthood, at which point the aging process slows dramatically. Early Eldritch could expect to live to 500 or 600, while the current generation of Eldritch average about 1,200-1,500 years; each generation appears to be living longer.

Eldritch have longer fingers than [[Chatcaava]].<ref name="etw-02" />

Also, Eldritch have no morning breath. <ref name="fc-09">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 9</ref>

==Government==

A Queen, or later Empress, and a largely feudal system beneath her. The unbroken line of fealty or duty from [[Eldritch Tenants |tenant]] to lady to queen is called ''draevilth''. <ref>''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction)| A Rose Point Holiday]]'', chapter 11</ref>

===Foreign Affairs===

====The Veil====

* Treaties with the [[Alliance]] include strictures pertaining to the Veil: only five members of the Alliance in total may learn [[Eldren]]<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, and Eldritch generally do not share stories, histories, or even most personal anecdotes about life on [[Escutcheon]] with aliens.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref> Medical tests performed by Alliance [[Medical Personnel |medical personnel]] will function well enough to provide a healer or doctor with information to treat the patient, but all records will be automatically deleted from the system.<ref name="mt-04">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

==History==
I'd like, eventually, to make this a more narrative thing that has the blockquoted text for support, but for now dumping it here will do.

* 2549 AD (78 BA) - Vetch Agreement (the treaty that establishes the Eldritch and the Alliance as allied nations)

We have two mentions here of Eldritch laws:
* 2574: Maraesa declares Decree Against Foreign Impositions, twenty-five years after the Eldritch allied with the Pelted in 2549 (in 78 BA)
* 2612: Maraesa declares Decree of Enigma (one year after the [[Rapprochement]], not incidentally)

There's a note in the timeline about the Eldritch beginning to 'vanish' around 2551, two years after the treaty is signed; the 'drain' of Eldritch leaving the world might be part of what prompted the first Decree, which was about closing the doors both ways.

A piece of (unpublished) backstory about Liolesa mentions that offworlders set foot on Escutcheon to sign the treaty, and did not come again (presumably until [[Sellelvi]]).

===Elsabet's Recording===
This (or a variation of it) can be heard on waking Elsabet's hologram at the [[Firilith_(House)#The_Firilith_Burial_Mound | Firilith burial ground]].

<blockquote>"For we came to this world all unknowing that we would be cruelly beset. How proud we were of our modest talents of the mind! Without knowing how they would open us to calamity! We settled here, and the chimera came, and the basilisks, and they killed and killed and that bitter harvest was so dire we were soon at the point of extermination. Something had to be done.

“It was then that Jerisa put to Corel the notion of heightening his abilities, by means she would not disclose, only that it would involve changes irrevocable and what could he say but yes? They were unfriends, but he could not watch more of our people die. So he submitted to her procedure and came out of it altered, and suffering. Never did he lash out at others in his pain—offense he saved for our enemies, the beasts that harrowed us—but those changes gnawed at his bones and ate at his vitals, and he was often afflicted.

“But he succored us, and came into great popularity thereby. All hailed him as the savior of our race and it was this Jerisa could not permit, for she was of a jealous temperament, and had set herself above everyone as queen, even though it was her lover who was responsible for the procedure that made us possible to claim our new race.

“Knowing she could not have him murdered without inciting revolt, she instead arranged for him to believe he had slain me in one of his fits… and this drove him to suicide. And I…” The holograph inhaled, shaky, “I did not know, and could not come in time to save him!

“Nor was this the end of Jerisa’s machinations, for she would suffer no more mind-mages to trouble her. This power she took for herself and her line, and make it so that she could control at will whether others of like power might successfully bear young.” Elsabet leaned toward them. “But she could not control me, and I fled and was hidden by those who wished Corel well. Our daughter I bore and allowed to pass into society as someone else’s, so that she might thrive.

“But oh the stories that Jerisa spread among the populace, with the aid of her false clergy, whom she also set to watching for signs of Corel’s ‘taint’! That the thousands who died to the attacks of beasts were slain by him instead! That he desired her crown, and that he was turned mad by his powers—thereby guaranteeing herself cause to persecute them—and that it had been better that he should die than that we should have known him!

“I tell you now, visitor… beware Jerisa’s line! For she will pass her ambition and her knowledge of how to lock down all those powers that might threaten her to her successors, and poison them against the truth and freedom itself.” <ref name="fc-13">Farmer's Crown, Chapter 13</ref></blockquote>

===Fassiana's Recitation of Recent History===
<blockquote>"Jerisa was a firebrand and an autocrat, not the easiest woman to serve. Some wonder if the war with Corel could have been prevented had she been less dictatorial. But there was no question that her iron hand was a necessity in the wake of that war, and she kept us from fragmenting when we might otherwise have gone over into hysteria and useless infighting. We had begun with a sizable population and had that population abruptly deleted. That we survived at all was Jerisa's doing. But her reign left scars, and Maraesa's was a softer hand. She had a backbone yet, but she did not love conflict, and believed that we needed time to settle down after the excitement of our early years.

Maraesa allowed us time to heal. Part of that was good sense. The other was that she was not in love with the outworld. She cultivated them with consummate skill, but only as much was necessary for our survival, and to maintain the treaty. She did not enjoy it. She considered our alliance with aliens a necessary evil, rather than an unqualified positive, and her reign created an insular court no longer accustomed to change or conflict. But she had the good sense to select Liolesa for her heir, and Liolesa, though she hid it through her heirship, was an ardent advocate for stronger ties with the outworld.

When Liolesa took the throne, she invited Sellelvi in to shake up the court and see how the pieces fell out. To test its strength and resilience... identify her true enemies, her true allies, and the parties who had not yet decided either way. She also wanted to make a statement of her own principles, and that she intended to be a very different ruler from Maraesa."<ref name="gof-27">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) | Girl on Fire]]'', Chapter 27</ref></blockquote>

===Timeline===
Pre-History
* Eldritch Departure from Earth (around 2098)
* Colonization of Escutcheon (around 2101)

The Reign of Queen Jerisa:
* Settlement (around 2101)
* The War with Corel

The Reign of Queen Maraesa (around 2247 to 2654):
* The events in "Precious Things"
* Eldritch ally with the Pelted (around 2549)
* Liolesa's trip off-world as heir

The Reign of Queen Liolesa (begins around 2654):
* Fasianyl and Sellelvi
* Lisinthir's cultivation after his arrival at Ontine
* Reese's cultivation
* Naming of World
* Aquiring a colony, and naming it.
* Redoing the terraform of Escutcheon

==Language==
===Spoken and Written Language===
See [[Eldren]]

===Names===
Eldritch have three names: a personal name, a family name, and a House name (or for tenants, the family name of their lord or lady).

Eldritch family names are typically two syllables (for example: Seni, Jesa, Tera), and House names are long (for example: Jisiensire, Laisrathera, Deriline). Personal names tend to be longer for nobles than for tenants, and usually have a contracted form (milk name) for intimates (as well as the old-fashioned poetical custom of song names). The final name indicates “where the buck stops” for that particular person, so noble names will stop at the House, while tenant names will stop at the family of the noble they owe allegiance to. (So Jahir Seni Galare owes his allegiance to the Galare house, while his tenant Tassi Feril Seni owes her allegiance to the Seni family.)

Eldritch move between names and titles depending on the kind of attention they want their listener to give them, much the way they do with color-shading their language to warn their listeners how their words should be interpreted. Calling someone by a cradle name is a way of saying ‘this is something I would say only to someone I have a long or deep trust with’ and by a song name (if they know/have one), ‘this is something higher than us and dearer’ and by their title as a way to remind them of their responsibilities, and by their full name, in the same way they might choose to shade a word neutral gray on purpose.

Shorter names were more common in earlier generations, and people who are carrying a name down generations might not have cradle names. Sometimes a parent might choose a cradle name as a birth name, however, like Jeasa who decided to name Jahir with a milk name, because "all the world loves him so well he needs no formal name."

====Milk names====
A diminutive used only by family, lovers and close friends. Implies long or intimate connection:
"We also have sweet names, or nursery names, or... milk names. I do not know how I would translate it. Shorter than our full names, usually, and employed only by intimates." <ref name="L27">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 27</ref> Also referred to as cradle names.

::[[Fasianyl Mina Jisiensire |Fasianyl]]: Fasi 
::[[Fergol Sili Deriline |Fergol]]: Reg 
::[[Haladir Delen Galare |Haladir]]: Lir 
::[[Hirianthial]]: Hiran 
::[[Jusinel Catha Galare |Jusinel]]: Juzie 
::[[Kirthander Osin Asaniefa |Kirthander]]: Ran 
::[[Laiselin]]: Laisa 
::[[Lesandurel]]: Andrel 
::[[Liliarana]]: Lili 
::[[Liolesa]]: Lia 
::[[Lisinthir]]: Lin 
::[[Sediryl]]: Sedi 
::[[Sernataila Seni Galare |Sernataila]]: Tai 
::[[Sorinir Tera Thavelfin |Sorinir]]: Orin 
::[[Tolden]]: Lend 
::[[Valthial]]: Val 
::[[Velederien Solvi Mathanith | Velederien]]: Vel 

====Song names====
"We have a tendency toward many names. [...] Song names [are] things chosen from symbol and myth. [...] Everyone who is loved by someone who wishes to bestow one [gets a song name]." <ref name="L27" />
::Hirianthial gave Laiselin the song name Butterfly, "because she was the unexpected beauty that graced my life." To Theresa, he says: "I will call you my Courage." Theresa gives Hirianthial the song name "my Heart". (Jahir also frequently calls Sediryl "my heart" -- see for example nearly every chapter of ''Farmer's Crown'' -- but it's unclear whether he means it as a song name or simply as an endearment.)

===Forms of Address===
See also [[Eldren#Relationship_Terms |Eldren Relationship Terms]].

The primary hierarchy in Eldritch society involves who owes a duty to whom. Because the nobles have given their allegiance to Liolesa, they address her as they would their liegelady, and use simply ‘my lady’ or ‘my liege.' People acting outside the direct vassal-to-lord relationship, or people who owe their fealty to a noble who owes their loyalty to the Queen, should or will properly address the queen as ‘my Queen.’ Nobles who are behaving with excessive formality, or who are abasing themselves, might also use ‘my Queen,' or 'Your Majesty.'

The [[Eldritch Tenants|tenants]] that owe allegiance to an Eldritch noble also call their noble ‘my lady’ or ‘my lord,’ because their fealty is owed to them directly. Nobles to whom they do not owe allegiance might be addressed as ‘Lord so-and-so’ or ‘Lady so-and-so’, but they’re almost never ‘my’ lady or lord. The possessives are important, indicating consent to the relationship. For tenants to address other nobles as ‘my’ lord or lady isn’t strictly incorrect, as they’re all considered social inferiors to the nobility. But it’s one of the ways they can show their consent to be governed.

None of this is strictly policed or codified, surprisingly, given the Eldritch obsession for rigid social stratification. Mostly because the interactions between the social classes are so infrequent that there isn’t much opportunity for anyone to transgress. The only thing even remotely like an Eldritch middle class exists in the capital, which is the only city large enough to host merchants and distributors, and Liolesa is, of course, tolerant of their ‘encroachment’ on the privileges of their betters. But the nobles like Sediryl who went out among their tenants frequently enough to be recognized were rare; most nobles preferred to employ servants and factors to act as go-betweens.

The servants and tenants are known by the family they serve: Nuera’s social secretary would be known as [First Name] [Surname] Nuera. They cannot claim the House name unless they are members of the noble family enrolled in that House; the final name of the three is always the ‘last stop’ in terms of where they owe their fealty. So John Smith Nuera, if he existed, would be a peasant who worked for the Nuera Galare family, while Sediryl Nuera Galare owes her fealty to the head of the Galare House.

The heads of the various Houses, while they are the Queen’s vassals, keep their House names as their final names, as a symbol of their proper allegiances. Maybe that’s why there continues to be so much strife. Someone should tell Liolesa to make them all append ‘Galare’ to the ends of their names so they’ll remember the chain of command.

==Social Overview==
The Eldritch began forming their society on the trip to their world, and had codified it by not long after Settlement, despite the fact that the effects of their genetic manipulation had become unpredictable. Each succeeding generation was longer-lived than the one before it, and the confusion and upheaval this created caused the Eldritch to cling to what conventions they'd created. This tendency toward parochialism was only magnified by the war that broke out not long after Settlement for reasons not clearly remembered or consistently recorded: some claim it was the result of mental talent deranged by the treatments they'd undertaken, others claimed it was a political struggle. Whatever the case, in the war's aftermath the Church was given the assignment of finding and disposing of talents with the potential to derange their carriers. This removed a large chunk of the population shortly before it was discovered that Eldritch fertility had become erratic. For unknown reasons, fertility is linked with powerful esper talents, so the people purged were the ones most likely to successfully reproduce.

The Eldritch have been growing longer-lived and shrinking in population since Settlement. The twenty noble Houses that were once a small segment of the population have become the majority of its peoples, hollowing out the working populace and destroying the economy. More and more the ruling elite have nothing to rule as the towns established at Settlement have "died," leaving the people in them to disperse in search of places where roofs don't leak and food can be bought.

Never large in number, the Eldritch are now in danger of extinction, partially from the wreckage of their economy and partially because of fertility issues. In the wake of this growing peril, the Eldritch as a whole have responded by becoming even more rigid in their customs and habits at a time when they desperately need to look elsewhere for help.

See also: [[Eldritch Government]]

See also: [[Eldritch Families]]

See also: [[Eldritch Heraldry]]

See also: [[Eldritch Rites, Observances, and Holidays]]
===Eldritch Noble Society===
The Eldritch had twenty noble Houses established just prior to Settlement, of which Jisiensire is now the smallest in number (though among the richest). Twelve of those noble Houses have vanished.

Eldritch nobles are considered to have come of age shortly after they cease shearing their hair (boys) or wearing it loose (girls), usually around age 14. Male and female children are permitted to play together until adolescence, when serious social strictures formalize their interaction. They are presented at court when they reach their early twenties, at which point they are considered eligible prospects. (Note: It was not unusual in the past for children to be married/betrothed at a young age, and while this still occurs, it is usually a political act; the children remain in their family's households until they are old enough for formal presentation.)

====Courting====
Eligible maidens' portraits are displayed on "courting boards," small, portable wooden boards with holds in them for painted portraits. These courting boards allow a family to see who might be a suitable marriage prospect. Males are expected to court likely prospects, although it is the female's prerogative to make the actual proposal.

'''Single-dagger men''': "But oh, Captain Eddings! Hirianthial Sarel is a single-dagger man! We don't touch when we dance, so women have fans in summer and wands in winter, and men have daggers. You're supposed to touch wands and daggers instead of hands. Most men will use a plain dagger for this purpose, to make it clear they are not courting entanglements. If such a man uses his family weapons, it is a statement of interest. But there are men who only ever use their family weapons, because they seek commitment and will have no truck with dalliances or casual alliances. Your lord was one such. He only ever danced with his wife." <ref name="rp-03">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]'', Part Three</ref>

====Court Seasons====
The Eldritch attend Summer and Winter Court at Ontine, each of which lasts several weeks; summer court may linger longer, depending on the weather. Summer Court is considered the courting season; Winter Court is the administrative gathering, where the heads of families arrive to give liege gifts to the Queen, their liegelady, and to inform her or petition her for changes in their administrative or financial situations.

Most noble families own a townhouse on Nobles' Row just outside Ontine to house their members during the season. When court is not is session, nobles reside on family estates on their respective lands.

====Marriage and Affairs====
A side note here about the apparent taboo against same-sex relationships: because the Eldritch have such trouble with reproduction and are in such desperate need of healthy children, this taboo is more about the perception that people who prefer their same-sex lovers will not feel as inclined to undertake the heartbreaking and tedious task of begetting a child that will survive to term and through its early infancy. Since in many cases, the pursuit of a healthy child can take decades, and several failures before success, the belief that it requires dedication is understandable. That the attempt brings considerable danger for the would-be mother makes it a requirement that the prospective fathers be attentive to their care and comfort, and not privilege other relationships for the duration. As a general rule, then, same-sex relationships are ignored unless they are appearing to prevent the parties in question from doing their duties by the succession. A married Eldritch lady with two children might have a ‘special friend’ without comment in a way an unwed debutante could not, implying as it would that she would turn her husband away in favor of her lover; likewise, males who consort with one another solely, and never father children, are condemned. A man who is either unmarried, or wed and without issue, would never flaunt a male lover until he had proven himself dutiful… and the man who was found to be maintaining a same-sex lover when his wife was either injured or died in childbed would suffer the severest social ostracism for his purported callousness, whether or not he appeared to cherish his wife.

High Eldritch society, in basic, is tolerant of bisexuality when it is accompanied by proof that the actors are willing to produce the next generation… and in fact, there are many marriages that quietly involve looking the other way when the childrearing is done. Other than its enthusiasm, Sediryl’s attitude toward Lisinthir and Jahir’s relationship isn’t actually that strange by Eldritch mores. Jahir’s embarrassment over her interest has more to do with his personal feelings about how he should conduct himself, and not with his desire to conform to social code. For once!

This also makes sense of Lisinthir’s ease with the Emperor’s and Queen Ransomed’s plan. When they speak of keeping one another as lovers but ensuring the succession for both males’ dynasties, they are speaking a language he has been reared since birth to accept. It might be more public about the arrangement than Eldritch are used to, but it crosses and dots all the required t’s and i’s.

====Tenants====
I talk here about their relationships to their tenants.

See also [[Eldritch Servant Classes]]

====Stuff I haven't Covered====
*clothing covering the entire body
*taboos on touching
*formal dance
*education of children music, dancing, Universal, estate management, fencing

====Noble Titles====
The head of a family (not a House) is known as Lord or Lady 'Familyname', while family members without authority are known by their first names. Thus, Reese is 'Lady Eddings', but Sediryl, when she was the heir to Nuera, was 'Lady Sediryl'. There are some exceptions; for example, Jeasa still styles herself 'Lady Jeasa', leaving the title of 'Lord Seni' to her heir. 
The title can be shortened: 'Seni', 'Lauvet'. Both men and women will use the shortened form to refer to a person, but using it as a form of address is almost entirely relegated to men, of other men. So anyone might refer to Lisinthir as 'Lauvet' when writing or speaking of him to someone else, but only men who know him well will call him 'Lauvet' to his face. 
This gender divide in title usage can be traced to the historical practice of men greeting each other by their family names within a House, or by House names when meeting strangers. The House-name-alone custom has mostly died out, because this construction is now associated with heads of family or Household, and men are almost never either. When Jahir and Lisinthir call each other 'Imthereli' and 'Galare', it is a romantic anachronism, akin to a modern-day human falling back on courtly medieval language. 
There is no definitive modern title for the head of a House. Eldritch not of that House will name the matriarch or patriarch as the head of the family, as when people refer to Lisinthir, now the head of Imthereli, as 'Lord Lauvet', but there is no differentiation between other heads of families within that House. <ref>''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', Appendices: Eldritch Noble Titles</ref>

===Eldritch Tenant Society===
Tenant villages generally have a headwoman or headman, who makes any major decisions and speaks for everyone on the rare occasions that the need for such arises.

Most tenants live in some degree of "benign neglect" from their liegeladies, with a single yearly visit, which can vary from largely symbolic to actually practical, depending on the lady.

Sediryl's investiture gift allows the tenantry to communicate and visit with each other, which starts a transformation of their lives that they take to calling the '''"season of the lily"'''.<ref>''[[Scions' Flight (Fiction) |Scions' Flight]]''</ref>

===Civil Defense===
See [[Eldritch Armed Forces]]

See [[Eldritch Knightly Orders]]

====Crime and Punishment====
The Eldritch are rigid conformists and have a habit of public punishment of those who dare to step outside the bounds of convention, with a tradition of things such as public humiliation in stocks.

More serious crimes by tenants were punished by public whipping or lashing, with 100 strokes being considered the full number. This was effectively a death sentence, due to the unavailability of medical care.

After the Attendant's and Sediryl's public lashing in Ontine, both Galare-partisan and isolationist nobles rushed to outlaw the practice as barbaric. In Delen's lake village, Fassiana decreed: "Then, as our faith enjoins, we shall make good works the penalty for wrongdoing, and reserve a cell for those who refuse."<ref>''[[Scions' Flight (Fiction) |Scions' Flight]]'', chapter 3</ref>

===Holidays and Rituals===
See also: [[Eldritch Rites, Observances, and Holidays]]

See also: [[Investiture]]

===Treasure and Economy===
See also: [[Eldritch Treasure]]

==Genealogies==
Note: the following is contradicted by both author notes (see [[Galare (House)#References]]) and published works (such as ''Farmer's Crown'', chapter 14, and ''Major Pieces'', "Prophet's Vigil"), which give Jerisa as the mother of Maraesa, Rylaniel, and Theval. The one aspect "voting for" the Saranyl theory is that it would mean that Jerisa also chose a niece as her heir, rather than a daughter, which accords better with the idea that the Eldritch have a long tradition of aunt-to-niece succession. (As Sediryl says in ''Healer's Wedding'', chapter 9: "Women leaders who choose someone other than their own child [as heir] is the norm .... If 'three women in a row' could be construed as one.")

[[Saranyl Jesa Galare]], Jerisa's sister, had three children:
* [[Maraesa Jesa Galare|Maraesa Jesa]] (who became Queen)
* [[Rylaniel Jesa Galare|Rylaniel Jesa]] (F)
** Rylaniel married a man who took her name and had:
*** Liolesa, who would become Queen after Maraesa.
* [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (M)
** Theval, a man, married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]] and took her name, and they had two children:
*** [[Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire|Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel Sarel Jisiensire|Baniel]].

==Notable Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Characters by Eldritch House or Territory</categorytree>

==All Characters==
[[List of Eldritch Characters]]

==References==

<references />

[[Category:Eldritch]]

Eldritch

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Allies to the Pelted of the Alliance, the Eldritch are an estranged offshoot of humanity, espers and isolationists.

==Appearance==
Light-gravity-worlders, the Eldritch are tall, bipedal humanoids who are usually between six and seven feet in height, with thinner-than-human builds for both men and women. Bred from a very small gene pool (and tweaked by nanotech engineering), they are all pale with white hair; hair is straight or with a very slight wave, and is silky or satiny in texture. Eye colors tend toward pale shades of blue, green, grey or yellow, although darker shades are not unheard of (Lisinthir's eyes are a dark sapphire). They also have some "local" specific colors, with Eldritch names:
* heath eyes: hazel but purple-to-pink-to-yellow-to-brown
* heather eyes: a pale brown with lavender/purple tones
* moss eyes: green with gray-brown tones

See also: [[Eldritch Costume]]

===Physiology===
The Eldritch are humanoid enough to reproduce with humans, though such children are born Eldritch. (Note: Lisnthir Lauvet Imthereli and the Queen Ransomed (Chatcaava) have twins, made possible by her ability to manipulate changes within her own body and thus choose to be fertile with him.) The lighter gravity of their world has made them taller and more brittle; their metabolisms are a jumble of too-quick and too-slow, giving them a higher average body temperature and much more finicky guts. They process toxins quickly but are prone to genetic diseases, and have reproduction problems.

As people they are all born with some amount of esper talent, though their abilities have been hobbled by a culture that discourages tactile contact (and the enhancement of the ability that comes with it).

Eldritch age at roughly the same rate as humans up to adulthood, at which point the aging process slows dramatically. Early Eldritch could expect to live to 500 or 600, while the current generation of Eldritch average about 1,200-1,500 years; each generation appears to be living longer.

Eldritch have longer fingers than [[Chatcaava]].<ref name="etw-02" />

Also, Eldritch have no morning breath. <ref name="fc-09">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 9</ref>

==Government==

A Queen, or later Empress, and a largely feudal system beneath her. The unbroken line of fealty or duty from [[Eldritch Tenants |tenant]] to lady to queen is called ''draevilth''. <ref>''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction)| A Rose Point Holiday]]'', chapter 11</ref>

===Foreign Affairs===

====The Veil====

* Treaties with the [[Alliance]] include strictures pertaining to the Veil: only five members of the Alliance in total may learn [[Eldren]]<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, and Eldritch generally do not share stories, histories, or even most personal anecdotes about life on [[Escutcheon]] with aliens.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref> Medical tests performed by Alliance [[Medical Personnel |medical personnel]] will function well enough to provide a healer or doctor with information to treat the patient, but all records will be automatically deleted from the system.<ref name="mt-04">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

==History==
I'd like, eventually, to make this a more narrative thing that has the blockquoted text for support, but for now dumping it here will do.

* 2549 AD (78 BA) - Vetch Agreement (the treaty that establishes the Eldritch and the Alliance as allied nations)

We have two mentions here of Eldritch laws:
* 2574: Maraesa declares Decree Against Foreign Impositions, twenty-five years after the Eldritch allied with the Pelted in 2549 (in 78 BA)
* 2612: Maraesa declares Decree of Enigma (one year after the [[Rapprochement]], not incidentally)

There's a note in the timeline about the Eldritch beginning to 'vanish' around 2551, two years after the treaty is signed; the 'drain' of Eldritch leaving the world might be part of what prompted the first Decree, which was about closing the doors both ways.

A piece of (unpublished) backstory about Liolesa mentions that offworlders set foot on Escutcheon to sign the treaty, and did not come again (presumably until [[Sellelvi]]).

===Elsabet's Recording===
This (or a variation of it) can be heard on waking Elsabet's hologram at the [[Firilith_(House)#The_Firilith_Burial_Mound | Firilith burial ground]].

<blockquote>"For we came to this world all unknowing that we would be cruelly beset. How proud we were of our modest talents of the mind! Without knowing how they would open us to calamity! We settled here, and the chimera came, and the basilisks, and they killed and killed and that bitter harvest was so dire we were soon at the point of extermination. Something had to be done.

“It was then that Jerisa put to Corel the notion of heightening his abilities, by means she would not disclose, only that it would involve changes irrevocable and what could he say but yes? They were unfriends, but he could not watch more of our people die. So he submitted to her procedure and came out of it altered, and suffering. Never did he lash out at others in his pain—offense he saved for our enemies, the beasts that harrowed us—but those changes gnawed at his bones and ate at his vitals, and he was often afflicted.

“But he succored us, and came into great popularity thereby. All hailed him as the savior of our race and it was this Jerisa could not permit, for she was of a jealous temperament, and had set herself above everyone as queen, even though it was her lover who was responsible for the procedure that made us possible to claim our new race.

“Knowing she could not have him murdered without inciting revolt, she instead arranged for him to believe he had slain me in one of his fits… and this drove him to suicide. And I…” The holograph inhaled, shaky, “I did not know, and could not come in time to save him!

“Nor was this the end of Jerisa’s machinations, for she would suffer no more mind-mages to trouble her. This power she took for herself and her line, and make it so that she could control at will whether others of like power might successfully bear young.” Elsabet leaned toward them. “But she could not control me, and I fled and was hidden by those who wished Corel well. Our daughter I bore and allowed to pass into society as someone else’s, so that she might thrive.

“But oh the stories that Jerisa spread among the populace, with the aid of her false clergy, whom she also set to watching for signs of Corel’s ‘taint’! That the thousands who died to the attacks of beasts were slain by him instead! That he desired her crown, and that he was turned mad by his powers—thereby guaranteeing herself cause to persecute them—and that it had been better that he should die than that we should have known him!

“I tell you now, visitor… beware Jerisa’s line! For she will pass her ambition and her knowledge of how to lock down all those powers that might threaten her to her successors, and poison them against the truth and freedom itself.” <ref name="fc-13">Farmer's Crown, Chapter 13</ref></blockquote>

===Fassiana's Recitation of Recent History===
<blockquote>"Jerisa was a firebrand and an autocrat, not the easiest woman to serve. Some wonder if the war with Corel could have been prevented had she been less dictatorial. But there was no question that her iron hand was a necessity in the wake of that war, and she kept us from fragmenting when we might otherwise have gone over into hysteria and useless infighting. We had begun with a sizable population and had that population abruptly deleted. That we survived at all was Jerisa's doing. But her reign left scars, and Maraesa's was a softer hand. She had a backbone yet, but she did not love conflict, and believed that we needed time to settle down after the excitement of our early years.

Maraesa allowed us time to heal. Part of that was good sense. The other was that she was not in love with the outworld. She cultivated them with consummate skill, but only as much was necessary for our survival, and to maintain the treaty. She did not enjoy it. She considered our alliance with aliens a necessary evil, rather than an unqualified positive, and her reign created an insular court no longer accustomed to change or conflict. But she had the good sense to select Liolesa for her heir, and Liolesa, though she hid it through her heirship, was an ardent advocate for stronger ties with the outworld.

When Liolesa took the throne, she invited Sellelvi in to shake up the court and see how the pieces fell out. To test its strength and resilience... identify her true enemies, her true allies, and the parties who had not yet decided either way. She also wanted to make a statement of her own principles, and that she intended to be a very different ruler from Maraesa."<ref name="gof-27">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) | Girl on Fire]]'', Chapter 27</ref></blockquote>

===Timeline===
Pre-History
* Eldritch Departure from Earth (around 2098)
* Colonization of Escutcheon (around 2101)

The Reign of Queen Jerisa:
* Settlement (around 2101)
* The War with Corel

The Reign of Queen Maraesa (around 2247 to 2654):
* The events in "Precious Things"
* Eldritch ally with the Pelted (around 2549)
* Liolesa's trip off-world as heir

The Reign of Queen Liolesa (begins around 2654):
* Fasianyl and Sellelvi
* Lisinthir's cultivation after his arrival at Ontine
* Reese's cultivation
* Naming of World
* Aquiring a colony, and naming it.

==Language==
===Spoken and Written Language===
See [[Eldren]]

===Names===
Eldritch have three names: a personal name, a family name, and a House name (or for tenants, the family name of their lord or lady).

Eldritch family names are typically two syllables (for example: Seni, Jesa, Tera), and House names are long (for example: Jisiensire, Laisrathera, Deriline). Personal names tend to be longer for nobles than for tenants, and usually have a contracted form (milk name) for intimates (as well as the old-fashioned poetical custom of song names). The final name indicates “where the buck stops” for that particular person, so noble names will stop at the House, while tenant names will stop at the family of the noble they owe allegiance to. (So Jahir Seni Galare owes his allegiance to the Galare house, while his tenant Tassi Feril Seni owes her allegiance to the Seni family.)

Eldritch move between names and titles depending on the kind of attention they want their listener to give them, much the way they do with color-shading their language to warn their listeners how their words should be interpreted. Calling someone by a cradle name is a way of saying ‘this is something I would say only to someone I have a long or deep trust with’ and by a song name (if they know/have one), ‘this is something higher than us and dearer’ and by their title as a way to remind them of their responsibilities, and by their full name, in the same way they might choose to shade a word neutral gray on purpose.

Shorter names were more common in earlier generations, and people who are carrying a name down generations might not have cradle names. Sometimes a parent might choose a cradle name as a birth name, however, like Jeasa who decided to name Jahir with a milk name, because "all the world loves him so well he needs no formal name."

====Milk names====
A diminutive used only by family, lovers and close friends. Implies long or intimate connection:
"We also have sweet names, or nursery names, or... milk names. I do not know how I would translate it. Shorter than our full names, usually, and employed only by intimates." <ref name="L27">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 27</ref> Also referred to as cradle names.

::[[Fasianyl Mina Jisiensire |Fasianyl]]: Fasi 
::[[Fergol Sili Deriline |Fergol]]: Reg 
::[[Haladir Delen Galare |Haladir]]: Lir 
::[[Hirianthial]]: Hiran 
::[[Jusinel Catha Galare |Jusinel]]: Juzie 
::[[Kirthander Osin Asaniefa |Kirthander]]: Ran 
::[[Laiselin]]: Laisa 
::[[Lesandurel]]: Andrel 
::[[Liliarana]]: Lili 
::[[Liolesa]]: Lia 
::[[Lisinthir]]: Lin 
::[[Sediryl]]: Sedi 
::[[Sernataila Seni Galare |Sernataila]]: Tai 
::[[Sorinir Tera Thavelfin |Sorinir]]: Orin 
::[[Tolden]]: Lend 
::[[Valthial]]: Val 
::[[Velederien Solvi Mathanith | Velederien]]: Vel 

====Song names====
"We have a tendency toward many names. [...] Song names [are] things chosen from symbol and myth. [...] Everyone who is loved by someone who wishes to bestow one [gets a song name]." <ref name="L27" />
::Hirianthial gave Laiselin the song name Butterfly, "because she was the unexpected beauty that graced my life." To Theresa, he says: "I will call you my Courage." Theresa gives Hirianthial the song name "my Heart". (Jahir also frequently calls Sediryl "my heart" -- see for example nearly every chapter of ''Farmer's Crown'' -- but it's unclear whether he means it as a song name or simply as an endearment.)

===Forms of Address===
See also [[Eldren#Relationship_Terms |Eldren Relationship Terms]].

The primary hierarchy in Eldritch society involves who owes a duty to whom. Because the nobles have given their allegiance to Liolesa, they address her as they would their liegelady, and use simply ‘my lady’ or ‘my liege.' People acting outside the direct vassal-to-lord relationship, or people who owe their fealty to a noble who owes their loyalty to the Queen, should or will properly address the queen as ‘my Queen.’ Nobles who are behaving with excessive formality, or who are abasing themselves, might also use ‘my Queen,' or 'Your Majesty.'

The [[Eldritch Tenants|tenants]] that owe allegiance to an Eldritch noble also call their noble ‘my lady’ or ‘my lord,’ because their fealty is owed to them directly. Nobles to whom they do not owe allegiance might be addressed as ‘Lord so-and-so’ or ‘Lady so-and-so’, but they’re almost never ‘my’ lady or lord. The possessives are important, indicating consent to the relationship. For tenants to address other nobles as ‘my’ lord or lady isn’t strictly incorrect, as they’re all considered social inferiors to the nobility. But it’s one of the ways they can show their consent to be governed.

None of this is strictly policed or codified, surprisingly, given the Eldritch obsession for rigid social stratification. Mostly because the interactions between the social classes are so infrequent that there isn’t much opportunity for anyone to transgress. The only thing even remotely like an Eldritch middle class exists in the capital, which is the only city large enough to host merchants and distributors, and Liolesa is, of course, tolerant of their ‘encroachment’ on the privileges of their betters. But the nobles like Sediryl who went out among their tenants frequently enough to be recognized were rare; most nobles preferred to employ servants and factors to act as go-betweens.

The servants and tenants are known by the family they serve: Nuera’s social secretary would be known as [First Name] [Surname] Nuera. They cannot claim the House name unless they are members of the noble family enrolled in that House; the final name of the three is always the ‘last stop’ in terms of where they owe their fealty. So John Smith Nuera, if he existed, would be a peasant who worked for the Nuera Galare family, while Sediryl Nuera Galare owes her fealty to the head of the Galare House.

The heads of the various Houses, while they are the Queen’s vassals, keep their House names as their final names, as a symbol of their proper allegiances. Maybe that’s why there continues to be so much strife. Someone should tell Liolesa to make them all append ‘Galare’ to the ends of their names so they’ll remember the chain of command.

==Social Overview==
The Eldritch began forming their society on the trip to their world, and had codified it by not long after Settlement, despite the fact that the effects of their genetic manipulation had become unpredictable. Each succeeding generation was longer-lived than the one before it, and the confusion and upheaval this created caused the Eldritch to cling to what conventions they'd created. This tendency toward parochialism was only magnified by the war that broke out not long after Settlement for reasons not clearly remembered or consistently recorded: some claim it was the result of mental talent deranged by the treatments they'd undertaken, others claimed it was a political struggle. Whatever the case, in the war's aftermath the Church was given the assignment of finding and disposing of talents with the potential to derange their carriers. This removed a large chunk of the population shortly before it was discovered that Eldritch fertility had become erratic. For unknown reasons, fertility is linked with powerful esper talents, so the people purged were the ones most likely to successfully reproduce.

The Eldritch have been growing longer-lived and shrinking in population since Settlement. The twenty noble Houses that were once a small segment of the population have become the majority of its peoples, hollowing out the working populace and destroying the economy. More and more the ruling elite have nothing to rule as the towns established at Settlement have "died," leaving the people in them to disperse in search of places where roofs don't leak and food can be bought.

Never large in number, the Eldritch are now in danger of extinction, partially from the wreckage of their economy and partially because of fertility issues. In the wake of this growing peril, the Eldritch as a whole have responded by becoming even more rigid in their customs and habits at a time when they desperately need to look elsewhere for help.

See also: [[Eldritch Government]]

See also: [[Eldritch Families]]

See also: [[Eldritch Heraldry]]

See also: [[Eldritch Rites, Observances, and Holidays]]
===Eldritch Noble Society===
The Eldritch had twenty noble Houses established just prior to Settlement, of which Jisiensire is now the smallest in number (though among the richest). Twelve of those noble Houses have vanished.

Eldritch nobles are considered to have come of age shortly after they cease shearing their hair (boys) or wearing it loose (girls), usually around age 14. Male and female children are permitted to play together until adolescence, when serious social strictures formalize their interaction. They are presented at court when they reach their early twenties, at which point they are considered eligible prospects. (Note: It was not unusual in the past for children to be married/betrothed at a young age, and while this still occurs, it is usually a political act; the children remain in their family's households until they are old enough for formal presentation.)

====Courting====
Eligible maidens' portraits are displayed on "courting boards," small, portable wooden boards with holds in them for painted portraits. These courting boards allow a family to see who might be a suitable marriage prospect. Males are expected to court likely prospects, although it is the female's prerogative to make the actual proposal.

'''Single-dagger men''': "But oh, Captain Eddings! Hirianthial Sarel is a single-dagger man! We don't touch when we dance, so women have fans in summer and wands in winter, and men have daggers. You're supposed to touch wands and daggers instead of hands. Most men will use a plain dagger for this purpose, to make it clear they are not courting entanglements. If such a man uses his family weapons, it is a statement of interest. But there are men who only ever use their family weapons, because they seek commitment and will have no truck with dalliances or casual alliances. Your lord was one such. He only ever danced with his wife." <ref name="rp-03">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]'', Part Three</ref>

====Court Seasons====
The Eldritch attend Summer and Winter Court at Ontine, each of which lasts several weeks; summer court may linger longer, depending on the weather. Summer Court is considered the courting season; Winter Court is the administrative gathering, where the heads of families arrive to give liege gifts to the Queen, their liegelady, and to inform her or petition her for changes in their administrative or financial situations.

Most noble families own a townhouse on Nobles' Row just outside Ontine to house their members during the season. When court is not is session, nobles reside on family estates on their respective lands.

====Marriage and Affairs====
A side note here about the apparent taboo against same-sex relationships: because the Eldritch have such trouble with reproduction and are in such desperate need of healthy children, this taboo is more about the perception that people who prefer their same-sex lovers will not feel as inclined to undertake the heartbreaking and tedious task of begetting a child that will survive to term and through its early infancy. Since in many cases, the pursuit of a healthy child can take decades, and several failures before success, the belief that it requires dedication is understandable. That the attempt brings considerable danger for the would-be mother makes it a requirement that the prospective fathers be attentive to their care and comfort, and not privilege other relationships for the duration. As a general rule, then, same-sex relationships are ignored unless they are appearing to prevent the parties in question from doing their duties by the succession. A married Eldritch lady with two children might have a ‘special friend’ without comment in a way an unwed debutante could not, implying as it would that she would turn her husband away in favor of her lover; likewise, males who consort with one another solely, and never father children, are condemned. A man who is either unmarried, or wed and without issue, would never flaunt a male lover until he had proven himself dutiful… and the man who was found to be maintaining a same-sex lover when his wife was either injured or died in childbed would suffer the severest social ostracism for his purported callousness, whether or not he appeared to cherish his wife.

High Eldritch society, in basic, is tolerant of bisexuality when it is accompanied by proof that the actors are willing to produce the next generation… and in fact, there are many marriages that quietly involve looking the other way when the childrearing is done. Other than its enthusiasm, Sediryl’s attitude toward Lisinthir and Jahir’s relationship isn’t actually that strange by Eldritch mores. Jahir’s embarrassment over her interest has more to do with his personal feelings about how he should conduct himself, and not with his desire to conform to social code. For once!

This also makes sense of Lisinthir’s ease with the Emperor’s and Queen Ransomed’s plan. When they speak of keeping one another as lovers but ensuring the succession for both males’ dynasties, they are speaking a language he has been reared since birth to accept. It might be more public about the arrangement than Eldritch are used to, but it crosses and dots all the required t’s and i’s.

====Tenants====
I talk here about their relationships to their tenants.

See also [[Eldritch Servant Classes]]

====Stuff I haven't Covered====
*clothing covering the entire body
*taboos on touching
*formal dance
*education of children music, dancing, Universal, estate management, fencing

====Noble Titles====
The head of a family (not a House) is known as Lord or Lady 'Familyname', while family members without authority are known by their first names. Thus, Reese is 'Lady Eddings', but Sediryl, when she was the heir to Nuera, was 'Lady Sediryl'. There are some exceptions; for example, Jeasa still styles herself 'Lady Jeasa', leaving the title of 'Lord Seni' to her heir. 
The title can be shortened: 'Seni', 'Lauvet'. Both men and women will use the shortened form to refer to a person, but using it as a form of address is almost entirely relegated to men, of other men. So anyone might refer to Lisinthir as 'Lauvet' when writing or speaking of him to someone else, but only men who know him well will call him 'Lauvet' to his face. 
This gender divide in title usage can be traced to the historical practice of men greeting each other by their family names within a House, or by House names when meeting strangers. The House-name-alone custom has mostly died out, because this construction is now associated with heads of family or Household, and men are almost never either. When Jahir and Lisinthir call each other 'Imthereli' and 'Galare', it is a romantic anachronism, akin to a modern-day human falling back on courtly medieval language. 
There is no definitive modern title for the head of a House. Eldritch not of that House will name the matriarch or patriarch as the head of the family, as when people refer to Lisinthir, now the head of Imthereli, as 'Lord Lauvet', but there is no differentiation between other heads of families within that House. <ref>''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', Appendices: Eldritch Noble Titles</ref>

===Eldritch Tenant Society===
Tenant villages generally have a headwoman or headman, who makes any major decisions and speaks for everyone on the rare occasions that the need for such arises.

Most tenants live in some degree of "benign neglect" from their liegeladies, with a single yearly visit, which can vary from largely symbolic to actually practical, depending on the lady.

Sediryl's investiture gift allows the tenantry to communicate and visit with each other, which starts a transformation of their lives that they take to calling the '''"season of the lily"'''.<ref>''[[Scions' Flight (Fiction) |Scions' Flight]]''</ref>

===Civil Defense===
See [[Eldritch Armed Forces]]

See [[Eldritch Knightly Orders]]

====Crime and Punishment====
The Eldritch are rigid conformists and have a habit of public punishment of those who dare to step outside the bounds of convention, with a tradition of things such as public humiliation in stocks.

More serious crimes by tenants were punished by public whipping or lashing, with 100 strokes being considered the full number. This was effectively a death sentence, due to the unavailability of medical care.

After the Attendant's and Sediryl's public lashing in Ontine, both Galare-partisan and isolationist nobles rushed to outlaw the practice as barbaric. In Delen's lake village, Fassiana decreed: "Then, as our faith enjoins, we shall make good works the penalty for wrongdoing, and reserve a cell for those who refuse."<ref>''[[Scions' Flight (Fiction) |Scions' Flight]]'', chapter 3</ref>

===Holidays and Rituals===
See also: [[Eldritch Rites, Observances, and Holidays]]

See also: [[Investiture]]

===Treasure and Economy===
See also: [[Eldritch Treasure]]

==Genealogies==
Note: the following is contradicted by both author notes (see [[Galare (House)#References]]) and published works (such as ''Farmer's Crown'', chapter 14, and ''Major Pieces'', "Prophet's Vigil"), which give Jerisa as the mother of Maraesa, Rylaniel, and Theval. The one aspect "voting for" the Saranyl theory is that it would mean that Jerisa also chose a niece as her heir, rather than a daughter, which accords better with the idea that the Eldritch have a long tradition of aunt-to-niece succession. (As Sediryl says in ''Healer's Wedding'', chapter 9: "Women leaders who choose someone other than their own child [as heir] is the norm .... If 'three women in a row' could be construed as one.")

[[Saranyl Jesa Galare]], Jerisa's sister, had three children:
* [[Maraesa Jesa Galare|Maraesa Jesa]] (who became Queen)
* [[Rylaniel Jesa Galare|Rylaniel Jesa]] (F)
** Rylaniel married a man who took her name and had:
*** Liolesa, who would become Queen after Maraesa.
* [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (M)
** Theval, a man, married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]] and took her name, and they had two children:
*** [[Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire|Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel Sarel Jisiensire|Baniel]].

==Notable Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Characters by Eldritch House or Territory</categorytree>

==All Characters==
[[List of Eldritch Characters]]

==References==

<references />

[[Category:Eldritch]]

Animals

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[[File:Illo-Animals.jpg|250px|thumb|right|There is a chicken on that horse]]

See also: [[Amity#Fauna |Fauna of Amity]], [[Escutcheon#Fauna |Fauna of Escutcheon]], [[Gledig#Fauna |Fauna of Gledig]], and [[Qufiil#Fauna |Fauna of Qufiil]]
See also surviving fauna/flora/sea critters of Earth/Terra, also whatever the Pelted found on colonizing their new worlds when new

* Birds of various kinds, including birds of prey<ref name="secch2">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 2</ref><ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 6</ref>
* Cephalopods, on both [[Terra]] and [[Tam-ley]]<ref name="esots-11">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 11</ref>
* Deer<ref name="secch3">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 3</ref>
* [[Dogs]]
* Goats on at least [[Escuchion]]
* Fruit bears, largely harmless fruit and carrion eaters<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', chapter 8</ref>
* [[Horses]]
* Chickens
** [[Grand Galactic Chicken]]
* [[Peltsnakes]] (a Glaseahn animal). <ref>Mindtouch</ref>

* Terrell mentions a 'becklebird' in "Leadership Lessons" (and they are apparently loud).

==References==

<references />

[[Category:Non-Sentient Animals]]

Story Requests

2022-02-25T13:20:16Z

63.155.120.24: /* Faulfenza */

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Hirianthial has horses on Earth. Interbreed? Trade tp horse planet?
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function {See Rose Point Holiday?}
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace {see Legacy from Major Pieces, it almost fits (Sean)}
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)(later, a later story shows she is just not into interpersonal relations much, true?)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Faulfenza==
*Earth should offer, from whatever of its bounty survived,to replenish Faulfenza ecology. The current list of surviving Faulfenza critters is far too short.That [[Galactic Chicken]] should be one such offering. I go not expect that anyone would need to lecture the Faulfenza on the problems of introducing species.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean) or just mention the place where it was fulfilled? I will put same in {squiggle brackets}
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.

==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa race. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.
* A Seersa xeno-anthropology team on one of the Dead Worlds in the Sargasso. Frankly Seersa would be almost hijacking ships to get there to make their fame as the first to decipher dead civilizations, presuming that there were surviving artifacts (once the dead worlds were known)(likely to be perilous). Far better than to add a forgotten word into a billion word vocab (1 word per Seersa, billions of Seersa)(Sean)

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
[[Category:Meta]]

* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

Story Requests

2022-02-25T13:16:06Z

63.155.120.24: Added Faulfenza

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Hirianthial has horses on Earth. Interbreed? Trade tp horse planet?
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function {See Rose Point Holiday?}
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace {see Legacy from Major Pieces, it almost fits (Sean)}
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)(later, a later story shows she is just not into interpersonal relations much, true?)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Faulfenza==
*Earth should offer, from whatever of its bounty survived,to replenish Faulfenza ecology. The current list of surviving Faulfenza critters is far too short.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean) or just mention the place where it was fulfilled? I will put same in {squiggle brackets}
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.

==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa race. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.
* A Seersa xeno-anthropology team on one of the Dead Worlds in the Sargasso. Frankly Seersa would be almost hijacking ships to get there to make their fame as the first to decipher dead civilizations, presuming that there were surviving artifacts (once the dead worlds were known)(likely to be perilous). Far better than to add a forgotten word into a billion word vocab (1 word per Seersa, billions of Seersa)(Sean)

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
[[Category:Meta]]

* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

Talk:Templates

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You use some system for collecting names of people who are joined by an activity or setting.
I sometimes need/want to edit/update that.
I have not a clue how to do so.

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How old was she when she died?

Major Pieces (Fiction)

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[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

[[Deserving (Fiction)]]

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Jill Berquist

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The [[Medical Personnel |healer-assist]] who took care of Nieve and the girls at the hospital on Seersana. Human.

==Physical Characteristics==
Blonde hair. Smells like lavender. (And antiseptic, and coffee.)

==Biography==
A healer-assist (so trained among the Pelted), but worked on Earth for some period of time. <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 5</ref>

After working as a healer-assist (find out exactly what, it's in Mindtouch), was promoted to manager of the long-term resident pediatric nursing team at the children's hospital. <ref>Healer's Wedding, Chapter 10</ref>

Married sometime after the events of Mindtouch/Mindline, has an eight-year-old daughter by the time of Healer's Wedding. <ref>Healer's Wedding, Chapter 10</ref>

==Quotes==
"But that's what we'll always be to you. A risk and a short road, and this waiting for you at the end. And anyone who loves you has to be okay with that. With what we'll do to you when it's over. And I can't. I couldn't do that to anyone." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 22</ref>

==Trivia==
* really likes coffee

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Human Characters]] [[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]] [[Category:Mindtouch Characters]] [[Category:Medical Professional Characters]][[Category:Mindline Characters]]

Esper Talents

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I can kill/heal/other you with my mind.
See [[Mind-mage]]

==General==
Moderately rare talent among the general population, though certain species / races have it very common:
* [[Eldritch]]: The vast majority of their population are at least touch telepathic (leading to their aversion to touching, as they have lost the training for shielding). There are a few who have very strong talents.
* [[Glaseah]]: The majority of the population has some esper talent, primarily telepathy. They treat it as commonplace, and have shielding techniques. The percentage of population that either has no telepathy at all ([[Kis'eh't]]) or have very strong talent has not been defined.
* [[Flitzbe]] have some sort of talent
* [[Faulfenza]] commonly have fire-starting, we do not know if any other talents are commonplace among them.
* [[Chatcaava]] shape-shifting, seems to have a psychic component. Though it seems to have fallen out of common usage, it is experiencing a resurgence. Winged females are rare, but have the ability to absorb and pass on traits.

==Eldritch==
Found in jaguar notes:
"Val's book"

*Kindling (fire-starting)
*Astral Projection
*Pattern Sensing
*Controlling Bodies/Biology (yours or others)
*Animal Speech
*Telepathy
** Touch-telepathy: hearing another's thoughts during skin-to-skin contact. This can range from a general sense of what they're thinking to actual conversations, and is largely involuntary for Eldritch.
*Empathy
** Touch-empathy: feeling another's feeling during skin-to-skin contact, or, for some with stronger talents, during close proximity without touch. This is largely involuntary for most Eldritch. The more direct the contact, and the longer it lasts, the stronger the effect.<ref name="etw-01" /> It is difficult or impossible to lie to an Eldritch when they are touching you.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>
*Mental Coercion
*Projection of Emotions (gotten from the native animals)/Hypnosis
*Weather affecting/sensing
*Earthsense
*Sensing history of objects by touching them. (psychometry)
*Breeding for best outcome (touch both to sense DNA combinations?). This is something the Chatcaava must have.

=== Touch Sensitivity ===

An unexpected touch, a touch with a strong feeling behind it, or being touched repeatedly can result in symptoms from the mild to the life-threatening for Eldritch. The only cure is significant time and space without touch.<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref><ref name="etw-02" /> Glaseah appear to suffer this infrequently if ever, and some Eldritch are more resistant to it than others.

Symptoms may include:
* Symptoms similar to extreme exhaustion or depression (being unable to stand upright without support, slumped posture, shaking or shivering)<ref name="etw-01" />
* Fainting or passing out upon being touched<ref name="etw-01" />
* Slow or irregular pulse, and cold extremities<ref name="etw-01" />
* Short and irregular breath<ref name="etw-01" />
* Coma-like unconsciousness, from which some are rumored to never wake<ref name="etw-01" />
* Extreme sensitivity to physical stimuli, such that even mild sensations are perceived as intense.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>

=== Pattern Sensing ===
Extremely rare. [[Valthial]] tells [[Jahir]] that most people who tried to see the future went insane.<ref name="hs-03">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) | Heartskein]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

[[Valthial]] also tells [[Jahir]] that he suspects the reason [[Liolesa]] did not go insane was that it was gifted to her.<ref name="hs-03"></ref>

==== Cusp Events ====
Moments when the Sight indicates that all potentials are frozen and lead to a single point, at which point a choice (or choices) are made that lead to an irrevocable shift in the future. These moments are rare.

<blockquote>“Because there is room in every story for choice,” Liolesa said. “But sometimes, the divine writers say, 'this event must occur, or the story will be nonsensical, and not have the ending that We desire.' When those events draw near, it is not a sign that our choices are less important. It is a sign that our choices are among the most important we can make. That the event in question exists so that we can manifest our natures, and show whether we are in accord with the mores of the story... or demonstrate that we are at war with them.”<ref name="df-02">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) | Dragons' Fealty]]'', Chapter 2</ref></blockquote>

Two known instances:
* During the events that unfolded during the novel ''Rose Point'', when Reese Eddings made her first visit to the Eldritch homeworld. Witnessed by Liolesa, who had Hirianthial in her company. Liolesa speaks of it, the day before Reese's court presentation: "What I feel is that if I don't catalyze something now, we might not survive."<ref>''[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]'', Part Three: Snow</ref>
* During the events that unfolded during the duology Lisinthir's Heirs, when Lisinthir returned to solidify his claim on Imthereli. Witnessed by Jahir and Liolesa.<ref name="df-02" />

=== Kindling (Fire-Starting) ===
*Only three Eldrich have manifested this talent. Two of them died in firestorms they conjured in 'fits of strong emotion.' [[Sediryl Nuera Galare |Sediryl Galare]] would have been the third to die if it hadn't been for her friends. [[Qora]] offers to train her gift.<ref name="hw-01">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 1</ref>
*Presumably the [[Faulfenza]] would have more stories of fire mages within their species, since it seems that all of them have fire talents at some level as a God given ability.

==Glaseah==
The Glaseah include basic mind training alongside literacy and mathematics in early childhood education. <ref name="hs-08">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) | Heartskein]]'', chapter 8</ref> The primer alternates between practical exercises in focus and concentration, and cheerful explanations of the ethical and mannerly use of the mind talents. The latter are typically framed as roleplaying exercises. <ref name="hs-10">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) | Heartskein]]'', chapter 10</ref>

===Development===
Kits receive a 'mind-flowering' gift when they first show signs of developing talent. <ref>''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) | Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

===Mind-levels===
# etpesk
# sizht
# g'ht'j
# q'znth (mind apprentice)
# nva'shec'k (mind master): to be able to hold a conversation, mind-to-mind, with a known person over range; to be able to maintain that contact under duress; to be able to identify concrete facts in the environment of a person at range; and to be able to resist influence from a master-level power.
# [[dva'htiht]] (mind mage)
# sa'tih (mind healer)

Extra special doubleplus ungood level: o'ht'aj, mind slave.

===Mindlines===
"A mindline is a permanent psychic channel between two or more people. It's rare. It has to form between two compatible minds, and to be sustained it has to be nurtured." <ref name="mt-21">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', chapter 21</ref> For Jahir and Vasiht'h, it started as mindtouches: brief impressions of the other's emotions and thoughts, often framed as a flavor, texture, sound, or other sensory experience. At first, such touches were involuntary; later, they could initiate them on purpose. <ref name="mt-34">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', chapter 34</ref> The mindline is like a longer-lasting mindtouch, and it formed unpredictably at first. When Jahir and Vasiht'h committed to each other on Selnor, their mindline was "made permanent by vow and intent". <ref name="ml-06">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', chapter 6</ref>

* ahv'shev: mindtouch
* et'ahv: mindline <ref name="mt-21" />

====Mindline Criteria====
* consented to by both parties
* functional without effort, conscious or otherwise
* unbreakable by external agency
* capable of enabling its participants to be greater together than they might be if isolated
* blessed by the Goddess

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Espers and Esper Talents]]

Faulfenza

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[[File:Virtues-faulfenza.jpg|350px|thumb|right]]
<div style='text-align: center;'>''The children of fire.''</div>

The true aliens, technologically advanced and deeply religious. See also [[Faulfenzair Religion]], [[Faulfenzair Language]].

==Vital Statistics (At a Glance)==
Pronounced 'fall-FEHN-zah'. Singular is Faulfenzair. Possessive is Faulfenzair. Plural is Faulfenza.
* '''Species Type:''' true alien
* '''Origin:''' Evolved
* '''Frame Type:''' Bipedal, digitigrade, heavy-gravity-worlder
* '''Average Height:'''
* '''Average Lifespan:''' 800 years, Alliance-standard
* '''Gravity Preference:''' heavy
* '''Homeworld:''' [[Qufiil]] (formerly, [[Quzen]])
* '''Native Language:''' Faulfenzair

==Appearance and Physiology==
===Physiology===
[[File:Illo-FaulfenzairEars.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Faulfenzair Ears]]
The Faulfenza are heavy-gravity worlders, bipedal with powerful, dense bodies, digitigrade legs, a long tail, partially prehensile and 3-4 feet in length. The tail is separated into two "bodies", a long fringe near the spine and a hairless/short-haired segment, followed by a second, long tuft. They have six digits (toes and fingers) and these toes and fingers have no nails or claws, nor toe beans. The bottoms of their feet, and the palms of their hands, are hairless.

Their faces have long, narrow muzzles with vaguely deer-like nose pads. Eyes are forward-facing with round pupils. The ears are hemispherical fans with two points that sweep back and have significant range of motion: not forward, but sideways. (Like a rolltop desk.)

===Appearance===
The Faulfenza are furred in a tricolor pattern: one dark body color, and two accent colors, a pale (usually white or light gray or cream) and a reddish hue.

Pelt colors from most usual to rarest:
*black
*dark brown
*medium brown
*dark gray
*light brown
*medium gray
*slate gray-blue
*light gray
*silver
*white
*red, or russet (only two have been this color; they were known as the Fireborn. It is believed children born this color were forged in Faulza's cauldron and are messengers from Him.)

Black with white and red (as opposed to grayish or orange) is called the classic coloring.

* Normal eye colors: blue, red, violet, orange, amber, green
* Rare: brown, gray, cream

===Esper Powers===
They are born with the ability to direct heat through their skin (commonly through the hands, though any body part will do, with practice), something they call the Mindfire. This is classified by the Alliance as an esper power, though the Faulfenza consider it a divine gift.

==History==
They were born to the world [[Quzen]], which they eventually destroyed and were forced to abandon; they later settled on the double world [[Qufiil]] and became wiser custodians of their environment.

* See also: [[Faulfenzair Religion]]
* See also: [[Faulfenzair Scrolls]]
* See also: [[Faulfenzair Language]]

===Common Family Structures===
===Native or Common Dress===
===Naming Conventions===
Historically, Faulfenza names were typically "First name – name of birthplace", and if the Faulfenzair fostered on another world, and felt that site became a second home, they would ask permission to append a third name, the name of foster city/village/place. After Zafiil, fosterage/second-homes became a way to honor the Fireborn messiahs, and it is now rarer to meet someone who hadn't fostered and taken a third name than otherwise. Almost all the Faulfenza who leave Qufiil for the Alliance, or who spend significant time off-planet in other endeavors, will have third names.

==Technology==
They call wellspace 'The Silence.' <ref name="ie-04">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) |In Extremis]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

* The Hearth (orbiting space station)
* [[Faulfenzair Ships]]

==Notable Characters==
===Legendary===
*[[Qudii]] (the First-Mother)
*[[Qufal]] (the first Fireborn)
*[[Faullaizaf]] (the second Fireborn, from the Time of Ashes)
*[[Zafiil Paidiiza Qodii]]

===Modern===
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Faulfenzair Characters</categorytree>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Faulfenza]]
[[Category:True Aliens]]

Simone Foster

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The rescued slave known as "Gentle" by the Worldlord. Famous ballet dancer, from the prestigious [[L'Atelier Enchante]]. A calico [[Karaka'A |Karaka'An]].
[[File:Illo-Simone.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Simone after rehearsal]]

==Physical Characteristics==
Calico female. Ballet dancer's physique. One orange eye, one brown. <ref name="oto-10">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) | Only the Open]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

==Biography==
Has [[Diseases#Beritt's_Disease | Beritt's disease]], which she manages through the usual drug routines.

===In the Empire===
[[Andrea Tran|Andrea ]]reports that Simone arrived to the Worldlord's slave annex frail and already sick, but that she wasn't getting worse as fast as she would have expected had the Worldlord been brutalizing her when he required her presence, and though the Worldlord raped both Andrea and Dominika there were never signs that he had done the same to Simone. <ref name="oto-09">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) | Only the Open]]'', Chapter 9</ref> Andrea, after examining her more closely, guessed that she had run out of her medication a few months prior to her arrival in the Worldlord's slave annex, and that the decline would have been swift after that point.<ref name="oto-11">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) | Only the Open]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

Simone slept in the kennel originally, but was later installed in the Worldlord's private quarters. <ref name="oto-09" />

It was during the Sword's visit that Simone's condition worsened precipitously, when her case of Berritt's moved to her organs. The Worldlord himself summoned Andrea from his slave annex to see to her when he noticed that she was looking sicker. When Andrea confirmed that she was dying, the Worldlord asked the Sword to take her away, so that she could be treated by the Alliance, an admission he made in front of Deputy-East (who was not surprised: "And you have called the Sword here to take her away to the aliens to be saved."). When the Sword promised to do so, the Worldlord said that he was in the Sword's debt. <ref name="oto-14">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) | Only the Open]]'', Chapter 14</ref>

The farewell between Simone and the Worldlord was private (but not witnessed by Simone herself, who was not well enough to be conscious).<ref name="oto-14" />

After Simone was transferred to the ''[[UAV Silhouette | Silhouette]]'' with the other liberated slaves, she was placed in stasis by Healer [[Dellen Crosby]] until she could be remanded to a starbase where they could halt the progression of the disease and begin its reversal. This saved her life.<ref name="oto-14" /> Simone was in a Selnor medplex still after the events of the Battle of Selnor, and "doing well" (according to Vasiht'h). <ref name="fr-22">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

==Quotes==
* "You wouldn’t know. Diseases… in our design… Almost over, now. Miss… the sun at home...." <ref name="oto-10" />

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Karaka'An Characters]]

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-20T03:06:17Z

63.155.120.24: /* Deserving */

[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

[[Deserving (Fiction)]]

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-20T02:52:16Z

63.155.120.24:

[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Story Requests

2022-02-20T02:24:12Z

63.155.120.24: /* Earthrise */

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Hirianthial has horses on Earth. Interbreed? Trade tp horse planet?
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function {See Rose Point Holiday?}
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace {see Legacy from Major Pieces, it almost fits (Sean)}
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)(later, a later story shows she is just not into interpersonal relations much, true?)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean) or just mention the place where it was fulfilled? I will put same in {squiggle brackets}
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.

==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa race. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.
* A Seersa xeno-anthropology team on one of the Dead Worlds in the Sargasso. Frankly Seersa would be almost hijacking ships to get there to make their fame as the first to decipher dead civilizations, presuming that there were surviving artifacts (once the dead worlds were known)(likely to be perilous). Far better than to add a forgotten word into a billion word vocab (1 word per Seersa, billions of Seersa)(Sean)

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
[[Category:Meta]]

* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

Story Requests

2022-02-20T02:00:57Z

63.155.120.24: /* Generic */

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)(later, a later story shows she is just not into interpersonal relations much, true?)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean) or just mention the place where it was fulfilled? I will put same in {squiggle brackets}
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.

==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa race. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.
* A Seersa xeno-anthropology team on one of the Dead Worlds in the Sargasso. Frankly Seersa would be almost hijacking ships to get there to make their fame as the first to decipher dead civilizations, presuming that there were surviving artifacts (once the dead worlds were known)(likely to be perilous). Far better than to add a forgotten word into a billion word vocab (1 word per Seersa, billions of Seersa)(Sean)

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
[[Category:Meta]]

* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-19T23:23:01Z

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[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

==People, in mention order==

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-19T23:22:50Z

63.155.120.24: /* Deserving */

[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

==People, in mention order==

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-19T23:22:36Z

63.155.120.24: /* People, in mention order */

[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")
==People, in mention order==

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-02-19T23:21:42Z

63.155.120.24: /* Perspective */

[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==
*Spoilers follow in the notes for each story.
*It would be best to put each of these in a story page, I am not ready to do so right now, you can if you want.
*Warning the referenced story pages contain spoilers too

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

Jackal Chest (Fiction)

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

(I have trouble with titles that have apostrophes, they do not turn into pages at my skill level)

The finest restaurant in the Alliance hopes not to choke on whatever the two Eldritch need.
And sets their best 'remembering and describing' person on them as wait-staff. The staff are proud of serving the unknown aliens, even if they have as much human legacy as the Pelted.
(next they need to encounter more aliens to bring their total experience up. They should get some sun lamps in their storage. (Sean))

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

(Another section I have trouble turning into a page, this time because there are other pages titled Patience, and so I can not access the 'automatically create a page' function)

Liolesa goes informally to make the acquaintance of the Chatcaavan Emperor and his Queen, because the pattern demands it. And to offer alliance. Everyone is impressed with everyone. All goes well.

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")
==People, in mention order==

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

Has 6 chapters

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')
==People, in mention order==

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
==People, in mention order==

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]

Story Requests

2022-02-19T18:54:42Z

63.155.120.24: /* Alysha */

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)(later, a later story shows she is just not into interpersonal relations much, true?)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean)|
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.
==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa race. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.
* A Seersa xeno-anthropology team on one of the Dead Worlds in the Sargasso. Frankly Seersa would be almost hijacking ships to get there to make their fame as the first to decipher dead civilizations, presuming that there were surviving artifacts (once the dead worlds were known)(likely to be perilous). Far better than to add a forgotten word into a billion word vocab (1 word per Seersa, billions of Seersa)(Sean)

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
[[Category:Meta]]

* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

Story Requests

2022-02-19T18:46:41Z

63.155.120.24: /* Pelted not found above */

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean)|
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.
==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa race. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.
* A Seersa xeno-anthropology team on one of the Dead Worlds in the Sargasso. Frankly Seersa would be almost hijacking ships to get there to make their fame as the first to decipher dead civilizations, presuming that there were surviving artifacts (once the dead worlds were known)(likely to be perilous). Far better than to add a forgotten word into a billion word vocab (1 word per Seersa, billions of Seersa)(Sean)

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
[[Category:Meta]]

* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

Story Requests

2022-02-19T18:39:11Z

63.155.120.24: /* Chatcaava */

Anything readers want to see at any point in the future. I’ll use this data to add things to novels, or plan bonus scenes/materials, or even decide on doing future collections like Major Pieces.

This used to be on Google Docs but I'm more likely to find it here.

Note that inclusion on this list does not mean these ideas will get used!

==Eldritch==
*1) A Tam is on a distant world when the disaster strikes. see picnicfield discord for full.
*2) A Pelted on a ship, skinned, makes it to a holo-arch in time, must later argue with Pelted equivalent of DMV because her skin did not come in the same when regrown. Eternally having to tell people that she is her, worse if skinning pirates is top secret or even just discouraged/disparaged info. (Sean)
*3) What did the queen do with foreknowledge (presumed) of Tam home world disaster. Tell/console tams? Tell allies? (Sean)
*4) Jahir's and Sediryl's moms being court nice (not very) at each other.
*5) More of Tolden
*6) Tolden's adventures in Chatcaavan Throneworld + Juvie and the Asaniefa (!) boy - seconded
*7) Briana - Sediryl’s pilot from Girl on Fire!
*8) Sediryl’s dad (Haladir) and Jahir’s mom (Jeasa) together.
*9) Courting. Definitely courting - yes! Seconded!
**9,1) Thirding!
**9.2) Haladir and Jeasa need to go see the Alliance. Perhaps a visit to Dondi's restaurant? On their honeymoon??
*10) Eldritch grandparents and elderly Eldritch
*11) Sediryl and her father
*12) What the other D-Pers do for fun - seconded
*13) The hasty creation by mortal programmers and DPers of a DPer to counsel people through grief caused by pirates destroying worlds and billions of lives. A DPer Grief Counselor for deeper grief. Billions of semi-trained grief counselors themselves grieving, giving advice to people. Stadiums full of people getting mass grief counseling. MMORPG grief games to try to help. Would the anniversary of the event be in universal or that World's time and date? Prayers for their souls.(Sean)
*14) Reese being REESE. Possibly riding to rescue. Definately - Reese needs another adventure!
*15) Reese's perspective of the shopping trip with Sediryl? (Major pieces of the major pieces, LOL!)
*16) ...Eldritch manuscript illuminator idk. >_>
*17) Crispin arriving on the Eldritch homeworld and why he's there
**17.1) More Crispin, generally
*** Agreed.
*18) Eldritch commoner enters the Eldritch Naval Academy
*19) Second planet of Eldritch Empire finds something Interesting and communicates to home base about it
*20) Sediryl and Araelis, Araelis and the Harat-Shar, Araelis and Lesandurel
**21) Since we have confirmation that Fasianyl is still alive and exploring, something with her (and her D-per) visiting Chalice (or Escutcheon) to see a Harat-Shar / Eldritch culture
*22) ELDRITCH EXPLORING THEIR OWN GOSH DANGED PLANET
** Yes please!
*23) I know it's inevitable but Beth starting more fires
**23.1)Also perhaps one or two fires being so utterly inconsequential that it’s rendered to background noise/indirect mention
*24) Beth post-break off with Amber
*25) Sehvi-assisted ELDRITCH BABY BOOM
*26) Revitalization of Imthereli
**27) Eldritch moving into Imthereli for [insert reasons here]?
**27.1) & discovering Eldritch already there (only they’re Chatcaava!)
*28) Vashit’h and Valthial meeting the first time
*29) More of Vashit’h’s own mental prowess outside of Jahir and his partnership - YES
*30) Smol Dragonchilde and her bows and enthusiasm. - seconded
*31) Fun with Flitzbes!
*32) More about Laisrathera’s nobility? Is Reese elevating them? Are they basically Reese’s crew made noble?
*33) Sediryl using Maia’s gift
*34) Heir!Liolesa unexpectedly finds a lover...
*35) Lisinthir brings his heirs for presentation (and has some un-cousinly moments with Jahir!)
*36) Lunet + Imthereli heirs + QR and Emperor’s child + Sediryl and Jahir’s kids upending the Eldritch court
**36.1) How would Eldritch noble society deal with twins, anyway?
**36.2) Very curious about this, and I’m all for upending in the Eldritch court.
*37) Stories of Settlement to the Pelted Newcomers from the Elder Eldritch
*38) I'd like to see more Guardkin/Eldritch interactions, and not just the Queen with her boys, but maybe one/some of Reese's people and having a small adventure with the guardkin? (not Sean) Also the country Eldritch were planning on breeding dogs, got some other than Guardkin, maybe and breeding Guardkin? Could be awkward as Guardkin have their own minds. (Sean)
*39) Joreht gave Jahir a “relaxing tonic” from an elderly Eldritch in the Seni village who knows herblore. Jahir and Hirianthial were very interested. I’d like to see how that develops.
**39.1) What career does Joreht decide to go into?
*40) Surela's initial foray off planet - I loved watching Sediryl discover stuff and I'd love to see how Surela's very different backstory makes it different…
*41) Bryer gets a family - how does that work? Who shows up to be his mate? What are small Phoenixae like? How do they get trained away from the home world?
*42) Hirianthial and Val discussing Kishet’h gift of the book about the early first glasean mind mages.
*43) the old man with herbalist knowledge that Sehvi’s son had found at the tenant village. I want to know more about him! Maybe that meeting?
** I’m curious too!
*44) Maybe a scene where the Eldritch tailors get the challenge of dressing a Glasehan?
*45) Insinuated on the Discord but: This scandal and rumor-filled broadsheet: how, exactly, did it come about and how open was Liolesa in acquiring the materials?
*46) Val and Belinor -- what's up with that?
*47)The singers sent to Chalice in "12 Days" get a treat: a vacation/exploration in a starbase. As they like adventure and education and shelter and food and new things and new songs. Send a Tam as translater/guide? Culture shock and exploration and sharing once they find other musicians. Musical cross fertilization. Once 12 days is finalized and published.
*48)Every time a repository of records has burned down, just about anyone who needs a new start finds it convenient to say they were born there. Rebels have sometimes burned one down to give themselves a documentary refuge. I believe this has happened in Ireland, at minimum. You will have to decide if the destruction and disruption on Tam-illee created such an opportunity in the Pelted modern world. Your rogues and displaced will thank you if so. Anyone who later claims to have been born there will be looked at, even though 8 billion(??) did live there. “funny, you don’t look tam-ish” (Sean)
*49)The Queen R takes the Eldritch shape to get consent from those who do not speak and then takes the shapes of a Guardkin and an Flitzbe. Insight? Fun? Hilarity? Especially since one of those shape is true alien. (Sean)
*50)Eldritch need something like the Glaseah's genetic repository so that a revolution or space stone strike will not eliminate a large and precious part of their genome.(Sean)Maybe others since it has been shown how large a part of any gernome can be deleted by a space rock.
*51)Guardkin asking to emigrate to the Glaseah world. It is only logical and the two peoples are made for each other. Might cause immigration of Irish or German proportions, limited only by the population size of Guardkin. Reciprocity:The Guardkin, using the same financial and legal arrangements that got them to the Eldritch home world, want to import a "breeding pair" or a group up to colony size of Glaseah into the Hinichi/Guardkin world. Likely without any more 'by your leave' as the Hinichi gave them. It is an alternative to the Guardkin emigrating. Note: Guardkin world is meduim grav, Glaseah is heavy-ish grav.(Sean)(Im going to move all this and more to the Guardkin discussion page)
*52)Here's a thought: What kind of relationship, if any, do the Queen Ransomed and a growing Lunet have?
*53)A story about a pirate who did skin people, but now wants redemption/relief/his 'humanity' or soul back (Sean)
==places where the above have been at least partially answered==

==Earthrise==
* How Reese met her Flitzbe! Eseme envisions this as a nice start to a collection, sort of like how the Eldritch Queen and Mia are a good early story in Major Pieces.
** More Flitzbe!
* Include the existing story about why K’set left academia! (Eseme)
* There are a bunch of good Reese ideas in the Eldritch section… (Eseme)
* How did things work out on the Horse Planet? Does Reese find out on a horse-buying trip? (Eseme)
* Bryer hanging his banners, looking for a mate (Eseme)
* Who followed Reese to Escutcheon? Why?
** Does it have to do with the founder’s stone Irene and Sascha (and Hirianthial) got for her?
* Reese has children, finally
** Would Reese’s family come to see her children? Would she visit them, even after they kicked her out?
* Day in the life of poor!Reese vs rich!Reese
* Reese learns Eldritch (from Irene, maybe?)
* Fluffy story starring Sascha and Irene and cute Fleet boy + cute Fleet boy's sister - YES
* Reese at an Eldritch function
** Bonus points for Eldritch nobility coming to a function Reese throws
** Bonus points for a hostile faction function
*** "...She is a power. We must assess her."
*** "She has horses and ''I want one''”
* How did that cafe in Laisrathera get started? (Badger)
* A servant’s view of the final fight at the palace
* A day in the life of an Eldritch servant in service of the new eccentric human lady
* Post A Rose Point Holiday (as a sort of follow up to that story with the conflict between the village members and its head woman)
* More from the POV of the servants at Ontine, or at Rose Point
* More about Reese’s village
* Meander! Laisrathera meander! While we’re thinking about the Firithel villagers.
* Eseme would love to see how Lunet ends up living with Reese. Who names her Lunet?
* More [[Jorah NotAgain]], please. (He could be a lovely bridge to Alysha and the Stardancer!)(and how did he get that name? Oh, no, NotAgain? Anyway he needs his own page and a citation for where he is referenced.

==Alysha==
* More of Alastar
* More Felsha and Darya show! (Eseme seconds this)
** Steffis takes Felsha and Darya to the ballet (The Universe is Small: they are taken to one of Simone’s performances) - seconded, thirded, fourthed
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain's perspective of the Battle of Selnor
* Alysha (assuming she survived/was there to begin with) in the aftermath of the Battle of Selnor, possibly meeting up with new Chatcaavan allies
* Alysha/random Pelted Captain visit border world
* Fleet visits Chatcaavan Throneworld from Fleet's perspective, post-BoS
* Eseme ships Taylithia and Mike - more of them please. (Lemur) Mike does have that certain prejudice that HE NEEDS TO GET PAST… :-)
* Pre-Gledig Kameney
** I still think Kameney before her descent into madness and evil would be interesting
* Alysha has to work with the Harat-Shar militia
* More of the really nice friendship and community like in the most recent one.
* More romance!
* Alysha et. al. meet major characters from the other storylines And (sean) does she survive the war? does the Stardancer?
* The Stardancer rotates into Escutcheon space!
* Dark Lighthouse is a very good first story, it sets up the situation, but does not resolve. While its is true that some situations IRL do not get resolved, there are often consequences to a lack of resolution. (Sean)
*Why is Alysha militarily competent? Ditto the Stardancer? Especially when the Pelted military is just learning baby steps of combat?

==Chatcaava==
* Emperor Ueneuvin solidifying support among Southern and Western wings of Empire against Northern and Eastern wings
** Goes to personally release slaves from particularly obstinate holder?
* Queen Ransomed in her power
* Emperor Uneuvin's kids visit/explore Escutcheon - seconded, also the fosterings generally
* Worldlord!Second visits (or doesn’t visit) Simone
* Queen Ransomed’s favorite foods in various forms
* The Emperor’s favorite foods in various forms
* Life among the Castrates and the servants
* Life after for women no longer in harems. ...man, four armed females would be awesome surgical assistants, huh? - seconded
* Here’s another idea: Chatcaava enroll in Seersana U Or (Sean) in the human marines. For that matter, a water based species enrolling in the marines.
* Starbucks championship in the Empire: Chatcaavan baristas compete for the title of Barista - yes!!!
* The continuing saga of Hope’s Navy. Also Hope’s Navy meet’s J&S’s twins.
* What does it mean to “come of age” in the new Chatcaavan society?
* More of the super funny surgeon (I still want him to get to the Seersana clinic eventually) - YES, seconded!
* Someone should visit the clinic at J&V’s university. For SCIENCE!
* (Lemur) Knife-that-was (now Liaison) and Laniis and the rest of their FIA Crew in SPY ADVENTURES! Also, some possible romantic tensions between them and Na’er? He strikes me as the jealous type and he’s not fond of dragons…
* (Lemur) More Uuvek & Maia!
* (Lemur) You guessed it - More Attendant! He’s not just a total cinnamon bun, but he’s a character that’s more comfortable as another species, which is something worth exploring, surely!
* (Sean) The Emperor takes a Faulfenzqa shape, Does it come with fire ability? Or is that dependent on the worship of the F gods?

==HOLIDAY STORIES COLLECTION (includes all series!)==
* The Case of the Snow Maiden - already written, add it
* Season’s Meaning - already written, add it
* Precious Things - already written, set at the Holidays, add it
* V’s first Holiday Season with the Eldritch. He and his whole family would get to celebrate a new holiday!
* The Holidays at Rose Point, 1-5 years after Rose Point Holiday. What has changed? What traditions were added? Did the Eldritch Teen’s mother ever change her mind about Reese?
* How do Alysha and crew celebrate on a Starship?
* Do Chatcaava have a holiday for their New Year, or one around the winter solstice? How about the F
* A Hinchi Christmas (sean->)with [[Guardkin]] (see guardkin discussion first)
* Do [[Naysha]] (spelling corrected (Sean)) have holidays?
* Do we need a holiday story for other Pelted races? other aliens? [[Faulfenza]]?
* Someone else wrote this in another section : Elaborate alien customs! Particularly holidays
* Pelted Thanksgiving/harvest/feast type festivals not necessarily Christimas-esque.

==Generic==
* Combine all of those loose Peltedverse shorts into some collections
*many of the above suggestions have been done. Should we have a section for that similar to the bottom section of Bounties? (Sean)|
*And some will be difficult, example "More Beth" since she is dead.
==Pelted not found above ==
*The Seersa who failed: Seersa are the communication specialists. They would travel to win fame by linking people. But the Hinichi and their Guardian Brothers were not communicating before they found telepaths. What went wrong? And did the Seersa(n) responsible get therapy in time? I suspect that this, if known, would embarrass the entire Seersa. (Sean)
* A Glaseth joins the Terran Marines, both adapt, (He) found doing pushups. (Sean)
* There should be a speech, likely from a Terran military to a bunch of Fleet cadets after the First War. It should remind them that their genes include hunters, and predators. Fox, wolf, cat, sea hunter, and human, which is still an apex predator. That the hunt is in their bones, their blood. (Sean) (inspired slightly by rousing speach in Isle of Dogs)
* A Christian Church presented with Hinichi saint candidate. (Sean)
* A 'never let a human call you an animal, I've seen what they do to animals'.

==Art Reqests==
* Alysha had adopted the team’s mode of dress and had even pulled her hair back in a loose braid, a style that accentuated the stark angles of her face and the length of her neck. She looked composed in the heat;
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

* I really enjoyed your discussion of the current 2D&P cover. I note that it only covers the first part of the book, and a second could have been made for the second half. But your time is precious to you and to us (get writing, please, but thanks for the art), so maybe not.
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* Taylitha bound her sweat-tangled mane up behind her ears and began her walk around the perimeters of the dig site and the tents.
Hogarth, M.C.A.. Either Side of the Strand (Alysha Forrest Book 4) . Studio MCAH. Kindle Edition.

In Good Company (Fiction)

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[[File:Cover-GoodCompany1.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|In Good Company, First Edition Cover]]
Alysha 6.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Stardancer/Alysha Forrest
*Book: 6
*Publication Date:
*Editions: ebook, paperback
*Revisions: 1

== Blurb ==
'''Trust Your Peers....'''

...unless, of course, one of them is a rogue flouting Fleet's already lax regulations. But stowaways are the least of the ''Stardancer's'' issues when they are assigned to investigate a mysterious area of space at the behest of an alien allied power. What will the ''Stardancer'' find in the depths of the Sargasso? And will it give them reason to dedicate themselves to Fleet's military mission, as their captain hopes, or to decide that defending the Alliance is someone else's responsibility?

''In Good Company,'' the sixth Alysha Forrest novel, returns to deep space and the adventure of finding new worlds and new discoveries. And if there might be an AI or two... what's the Alliance without its many peoples?

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags:
*Rating: PG

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/ingoodcompany

==Teaser Images/Marketing==

== Names of dead worlds given by crew ==
* Delphi
* Orpheus

==The one that lived==
*Birdsong

== Characters ==
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