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Talk:Fasianyl Mina Jisiensire

2022-05-11T23:17:34Z

Aethervox: D-per timeline questions

When did Fasianyl get her D-per companion, and how long have they been surveying together?

In the Biography of this page it states “Following Sellelvi's death, took up cataloging star systems on a survey vessel (alone, except for a D-per, who is ex-Special Forces).”

In the timeline, it says “After Sellelvi died in 281 BA, she did not return to Escutcheon, but used her stipend to purchase a ship and take up a job as a freelance star cartographer.”

Given the information from "In Good Company", in 414 BA, D-pers were banned from serving on ships. In Good Company takes place sometime after 470 BA, and the ban was still in place.

Was Maia (manumitted in 461, hired by Liolesa around 471) the first D-per allowed to accompany a pilot on a ship?

Kirthander Nanech Imthereli

2021-09-08T03:11:11Z

Aethervox: Added former name.

[[Juzie]]'s betrothed boy. Poor guy. Asaniefa got disbanded when he was a tween. -_-

Was Kirthander Osin Asaniefa.

==Physical Characteristics==
Has Asaniefa's green eyes and widow's peak.

==Biography==
Milk name is Ran. <ref name="ct-ps">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "Page of Swords"</ref>

Mother's name is [[Carisil Osin Asaniefa | Carisil]]. <ref>''[[Family (Fiction) |Family]]''</ref>

Betrothed to [[Jusinel Catha Galare]] as a boy as part of an attempt to make political connections between Asaniefa and Galare, a marriage that became unnecessary after Surela's treason caused Asaniefa's dissolution. After the announcement, stayed with the Catha Galares until he was sent, with Lisinthir, to visit the court of the Chatcaava. While at the dragon court, Lisinthir drafted him into serving as his page, with the promise of possible adoption into Imthereli as a cadet branch of the House, if they decided that they "suited". <ref name="ct-ps">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "Page of Swords"</ref>

Was inducted into Imthereli two weeks prior to their departure for Escutcheon for the birth of Lisinthir's heirs, at which time he accepted two swords from Lisinthir to establish his new bloodline. He chose his new family name, Nanech, which is [[Chatcaavan Language |Chatcaavan]] for action (which is also the word for defiance). <ref name="df">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) | Dragons' Fealty]]''</ref> Formal documents attesting to his adoption were filed during the visit that saw the birth of Lisinthir's heirs.<ref name="df-05">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) | Dragons' Fealty]],'' Chapter 5</ref>

Now the companion of [[Madoc]], the Guardkin.

==Quotes==
* “We’ve been growing up fast since we were born,” Ran said. “It’s just that now, we’re not protected from the reasons we had to.” <ref name="df-07">Dragon's Fealty, Chapter 7</ref>

==Trivia==
* Likes the old stories/sagas of Eldritch heroes
* Is a bit of an artist/draftsman

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Family (Fiction) Characters]] [[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]] [[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category: Farmer's Crown Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]] [[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Asaniefa Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Osin Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Asaniefa Characters]]
[[Category:Osin Characters]]
[[Category:Fallowtide Characters]]
[[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]
[[Category:Scions' Flight Characters]]

Madoc

2021-05-07T19:42:04Z

Aethervox: Added page for Madoc

Guardkin! Bonded to [[Kirthander Osin Asaniefa|Kirthander]]<ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) |Dragons' Fealty]]</ref>

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==

==Quotes==

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Guardkin Characters]] [[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]

Attendant

2021-05-07T18:32:37Z

Aethervox: /* Trivia */ added info about purchasing a horse

[[File:Illo-AttendantEldritch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The Attendant in Eldritch Form]]

A Chatcaavan character. The [[Twelveworld Lord]]'s lover.

==Physical Description==
A winged castrate, nearly hornless, with slate gray skin and bright blue eyes.
===Shapes Known===
* Faulfenza (from [[Qora]]) slate colored coat, with ventrals a smoke-gray, with streaks of rosy-orange on muzzle, tips of ears, hands, and fringing some of the fur.<ref name="fc-16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 16</ref>
* Eldritch (from [[Lili]]) flower petal blue eyes, a frail and beautiful face, long waves of long white hair.<ref name="fc-16" /> His castration carried over into this shape, and he was able to pass as female Eldritch. Given name of Iva. Prefers this shape over original Chatcaavan. <ref name="fc-17">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 17</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Illo-12LordandAttendant.jpg|150px|thumb|right|The Attendant and Twelveworld Lord]]
Originally a slave in the service of the Lord of the Coreward Slide, where he was often used as a living statue. The [[Twelveworld Lord]] rescued him from the Lord of the Coreward Slide seven years prior to the events of the [[Insurrection]]. <ref name="mp-bec">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Because"</ref>

When he was on Escutcheon for Sediryl's wedding and investiture, the Attendant asked to learn the Change as a gift to the Twelveworld Lord, but the Queen Ransomed denied him, because she felt it was asked for the wrong reasons. <ref>''Healer's Wedding''</ref> However, Lisinthir thought of him later, when Sediryl needed a spy on Bethsaida, and thus the Attendant learned first Qora's shape, then Lili's. <ref>''Farmer's Crown''</ref>

When Tolden and friends visited the Throneworld, Lisinthir asked the Twelveworld Lord to be their liaison to the court, with the Attendant as interpreter. At this point, the Attendant was fluent in Universal and nearly fluent in Eldren. <ref name="cd-l">''In the Court of Dragons'', "The Leader"</ref>

==Quotes==
* "You said I wasn’t afraid—that was why. There was little left in me to be afraid. Only sad, that I had been given a life, and then nothing to do with it… nothing but wither in the service of a cruel and hollow male. Yes. Hollow is the right word. There was nothing in him, and so he kept filling himself with things he stole from others." <ref name="mp-bec" />

* "I have known so much comfort in my life, for which I have paid nothing. Even the service to which I was relegated as a lesser and menial has given me nothing but contentment.... and you, for which there is no payment great enough. Our Queen asks me to make a sacrifice--to reject that request would be to show my ingratitude for all I have. Indeed, it is... it is a small sacrifice, in comparison to what I have received. I blush to accept because it is the least of what I should do." <ref name="fc-16" />

==Trivia==
* keeps a diary given to him by the Twelveworld Lord
* uses 'sir' with the Twelveworld Lord at the latter's request, but also uses 'my-better' when he feels it more appropriate
* rode a horse for the first time on Escutcheon, when the Queen Ransomed learned to ride<ref name="fc-16" />
* after Tolden and his [[Groups#Tolden's friends|friends]] attempted to tame the herd beasts on the Throneworld, the Twelveworld Lord promised to get him a horse. <ref name="cd-l">''In the Court of Dragons'', "The Leader"</ref>
*returned to Escutcheon with the Twelveworld Lord and went shopping for a horse with [[Tolden]]. met [[Baeren Aul Delen]] in the stables and decided he wanted a native Eldrich horse.<ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) |Dragons' Fealty]]</ref>

===Languages===
* by the time he returned to the Throneworld after the wedding and investiture, he was fluent in Universal and nearly fluent in Eldren. <ref name="cd-l" />

== References==

<references />

[[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:From Ruins Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]] [[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]] [[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]

Attendant

2021-05-06T23:24:46Z

Aethervox: fixed reference formatting

[[File:Illo-AttendantEldritch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The Attendant in Eldritch Form]]

A Chatcaavan character. The [[Twelveworld Lord]]'s lover.

==Physical Description==
A winged castrate, nearly hornless, with slate gray skin and bright blue eyes.
===Shapes Known===
* Faulfenza (from [[Qora]]) slate colored coat, with ventrals a smoke-gray, with streaks of rosy-orange on muzzle, tips of ears, hands, and fringing some of the fur.<ref name="fc-16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 16</ref>
* Eldritch (from [[Lili]]) flower petal blue eyes, a frail and beautiful face, long waves of long white hair.<ref name="fc-16" /> His castration carried over into this shape, and he was able to pass as female Eldritch. Given name of Iva. Prefers this shape over original Chatcaavan. <ref name="fc-17">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 17</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Illo-12LordandAttendant.jpg|150px|thumb|right|The Attendant and Twelveworld Lord]]
Originally a slave in the service of the Lord of the Coreward Slide, where he was often used as a living statue. The [[Twelveworld Lord]] rescued him from the Lord of the Coreward Slide seven years prior to the events of the [[Insurrection]]. <ref name="mp-bec">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Because"</ref>

When he was on Escutcheon for Sediryl's wedding and investiture, the Attendant asked to learn the Change as a gift to the Twelveworld Lord, but the Queen Ransomed denied him, because she felt it was asked for the wrong reasons. <ref>''Healer's Wedding''</ref> However, Lisinthir thought of him later, when Sediryl needed a spy on Bethsaida, and thus the Attendant learned first Qora's shape, then Lili's. <ref>''Farmer's Crown''</ref>

When Tolden and friends visited the Throneworld, Lisinthir asked the Twelveworld Lord to be their liaison to the court, with the Attendant as interpreter. At this point, the Attendant was fluent in Universal and nearly fluent in Eldren. <ref name="cd-l">''In the Court of Dragons'', "The Leader"</ref>

==Quotes==
* "You said I wasn’t afraid—that was why. There was little left in me to be afraid. Only sad, that I had been given a life, and then nothing to do with it… nothing but wither in the service of a cruel and hollow male. Yes. Hollow is the right word. There was nothing in him, and so he kept filling himself with things he stole from others." <ref name="mp-bec" />

* "I have known so much comfort in my life, for which I have paid nothing. Even the service to which I was relegated as a lesser and menial has given me nothing but contentment.... and you, for which there is no payment great enough. Our Queen asks me to make a sacrifice--to reject that request would be to show my ingratitude for all I have. Indeed, it is... it is a small sacrifice, in comparison to what I have received. I blush to accept because it is the least of what I should do." <ref name="fc-16" />

==Trivia==
* keeps a diary given to him by the Twelveworld Lord
* uses 'sir' with the Twelveworld Lord at the latter's request, but also uses 'my-better' when he feels it more appropriate
* rode a horse for the first time on Escutcheon, when the Queen Ransomed learned to ride<ref name="fc-16" />
* after Tolden and his [[Groups#Tolden's friends|friends]] attempted to tame the herd beasts on the Throneworld, the Twelveworld Lord promised to get him a horse. <ref name="cd-l">''In the Court of Dragons'', "The Leader"</ref>

===Languages===
* by the time he returned to the Throneworld after the wedding and investiture, he was fluent in Universal and nearly fluent in Eldren. <ref name="cd-l" />

== References==

<references />

[[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:From Ruins Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]] [[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]] [[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]

Attendant

2021-05-06T23:23:16Z

Aethervox: /* Trivia */ added info about wanting a horse

[[File:Illo-AttendantEldritch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The Attendant in Eldritch Form]]

A Chatcaavan character. The [[Twelveworld Lord]]'s lover.

==Physical Description==
A winged castrate, nearly hornless, with slate gray skin and bright blue eyes.
===Shapes Known===
* Faulfenza (from [[Qora]]) slate colored coat, with ventrals a smoke-gray, with streaks of rosy-orange on muzzle, tips of ears, hands, and fringing some of the fur.<ref name="fc-16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 16</ref>
* Eldritch (from [[Lili]]) flower petal blue eyes, a frail and beautiful face, long waves of long white hair.<ref name="fc-16" /> His castration carried over into this shape, and he was able to pass as female Eldritch. Given name of Iva. Prefers this shape over original Chatcaavan. <ref name="fc-17">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 17</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Illo-12LordandAttendant.jpg|150px|thumb|right|The Attendant and Twelveworld Lord]]
Originally a slave in the service of the Lord of the Coreward Slide, where he was often used as a living statue. The [[Twelveworld Lord]] rescued him from the Lord of the Coreward Slide seven years prior to the events of the [[Insurrection]]. <ref name="mp-bec">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Because"</ref>

When he was on Escutcheon for Sediryl's wedding and investiture, the Attendant asked to learn the Change as a gift to the Twelveworld Lord, but the Queen Ransomed denied him, because she felt it was asked for the wrong reasons. <ref>''Healer's Wedding''</ref> However, Lisinthir thought of him later, when Sediryl needed a spy on Bethsaida, and thus the Attendant learned first Qora's shape, then Lili's. <ref>''Farmer's Crown''</ref>

When Tolden and friends visited the Throneworld, Lisinthir asked the Twelveworld Lord to be their liaison to the court, with the Attendant as interpreter. At this point, the Attendant was fluent in Universal and nearly fluent in Eldren. <ref name="cd-l">''In the Court of Dragons'', "The Leader"</ref>

==Quotes==
* "You said I wasn’t afraid—that was why. There was little left in me to be afraid. Only sad, that I had been given a life, and then nothing to do with it… nothing but wither in the service of a cruel and hollow male. Yes. Hollow is the right word. There was nothing in him, and so he kept filling himself with things he stole from others." <ref name="mp-bec" />

* "I have known so much comfort in my life, for which I have paid nothing. Even the service to which I was relegated as a lesser and menial has given me nothing but contentment.... and you, for which there is no payment great enough. Our Queen asks me to make a sacrifice--to reject that request would be to show my ingratitude for all I have. Indeed, it is... it is a small sacrifice, in comparison to what I have received. I blush to accept because it is the least of what I should do." <ref name="fc-16" />

==Trivia==
* keeps a diary given to him by the Twelveworld Lord
* uses 'sir' with the Twelveworld Lord at the latter's request, but also uses 'my-better' when he feels it more appropriate
* rode a horse for the first time on Escutcheon, when the Queen Ransomed learned to ride<ref name="fc-16" />
* after Tolden and his [[Groups#Tolden's friends|friends]] attempted to tame the herd beasts on the Throneworld, the Twelveworld Lord promised to get him a horse. <ref name="icd-lead">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Leader"</ref>

===Languages===
* by the time he returned to the Throneworld after the wedding and investiture, he was fluent in Universal and nearly fluent in Eldren. <ref name="cd-l" />

== References==

<references />

[[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:From Ruins Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]] [[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]] [[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]

Talk:Elanoriel Sora Mathanith

2021-03-29T15:39:56Z

Aethervox: Aethervox moved page Talk:Elanoriel Sora Mathanith to Talk:Elenoriel Sora Mathanith: Correcting mispelling of name

"Disengage" spells her name Elenoriel (no 'a'). I forget how to fix that in the wiki.

Click on More-then on Move, per Help site.

Elanoriel Sora Mathanith

2021-03-29T15:39:56Z

Aethervox: Aethervox moved page Elanoriel Sora Mathanith to Elenoriel Sora Mathanith: Correcting mispelling of name

Head of [[Mathanith (House) | Mathanith]] (mentioned in "Disengage").

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Steadfastly loyal to the Galare dynasty, but a woman ruled by her impulses. And little else. <ref name="mp-dis" />

Two weeks after Lisinthir dueled [[Gaviin Telde Sovanil]] -- to which she didn't object, because Gaviin had been succeeding inappropriately in attaching her daughter and heir -- Elenoriel went to Liolesa to complain about the duels, because his latest target had been her sister's son Noran Mathanith, whom she favored even over her own child. Her complaint was that Lisinthir was "cutting his way through his peers", that is, dueling without regard to political allegiances.

I NEED HERE TO REMEMBER to look up Disengage and get the details of her going to Liolesa and why (because of Lisinthir) and dump that as part of 'history' in her biography, because I need that data for Fealty. It's in MP somewhere I think. Likewise the info about this being the reason Lisinthir gets sent should be in his bio. And the guy he embarrassed, it should become a historical point in his bio. Reminder to self here, update all this so you can edit Fealty later.

===Family===
Husband: unknown (but he is a moderating influence on her)

Daughter: unknown (but she is her heir)

Her sister's son is Noran Mathanith.

==Quotes==
* "Don’t be vulgar, my lady. The past hardly matters. What does is that this… this creature is bound and determined to fell anyone who looks at him askance. It has ceased to be in poor taste and become a matter for royal intervention.”<ref name="mp-dis">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Disengage"</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Mathanith Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Sora Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Mathanith Characters]]
[[Category:Sora Characters]]
[[Category:Major Pieces Characters]]

Talk:Elanoriel Sora Mathanith

2021-03-29T15:38:35Z

Aethervox: Added info on how to rename a page

"Disengage" spells her name Elenoriel (no 'a'). I forget how to fix that in the wiki.

Click on More-then on Move, per Help site.

The Cottage

2021-03-22T23:24:34Z

Aethervox:

[[Restaurants |Restaurant]] on [[Starbase Omicron]] that [[Jahir Seni Galare|Jahir]] and [[Vasiht'h]] go to on their first night on [[Starbase Omicron]] while waiting for the military contractors they are transporting to [[Escutcheon]].

[[Jahir]] picked it because it was the best restaurant in town and had the "most... illuminating... reviews."<ref name="hs-11">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 11</ref>

It is on top of a skyscraper and has a silently revolving deck that showcases a view of the entire city-sphere as well as the spindle bedecked with lights. It looks like "one of those places that serves microscopic amounts of food for exorbitant prices."<ref name="hs-11">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 11</ref> But the food is good, simple and delicious.

The waitstaff dress in formal clothes, but act like they are serving food at a diner "where people knew your names and your favorites and wanted to know how your family was doing."<ref name="hs-11">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 11</ref>

After several failed restaurants at the location, the current chef bought it with money she'd gotten from an inheritance she hadn't expected. She had wanted to open a restaurant, concentrating on domestic foods made with love from the freshest ingredients, in a park or in a rural-looking area. When the opportunity arose to buy the restaurant, she did, because she thought it was "criminal to have this restaurant running so badly for so long."<ref name="hs-11">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 11</ref>

[[Vasiht'h]] buys a cheesecake for the Glaseah on board the ship.

==Staff==
*Cynthia, Head chef. Feeds the landlord when he shows up, and sends food to him when he doesn't.

==Trivia==
* Has a cookbook for sale, The Cottage: Recipes from a Peasant Kitchen.<ref name="hs-11">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 11</ref>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Food and Drink]] [[Category:Businesses]]

The Cottage

2021-03-22T23:16:41Z

Aethervox: Created page for the restaurant on Starbase Omicron

Starbase Omicron

2021-03-22T23:14:23Z

Aethervox: Added link to The Cottage page

The starbase that [[REN Corel the First |REN ''Corel the First'']] stopped at on return route from [[Anseahla]] to [[Escutcheon]]. and picked up the Intelligence Hold.

Omicron went with high-tech city theme, with massive skyscrapers.

==Locations==
* [[The Cottage]] (restaurant in high rent area, serving home style food)

[[Category:Starbases]]

Jusinel Catha Galare

2021-03-21T20:08:07Z

Aethervox: /* Characteristics */ Added info and examples about being unable to stop talking.

Impetuous young Galare girl, cradle-married to an Asaniefa boy. Juzie is her milk name; her full birth name is Jusinel Catha Galare, daughter of [[Filisin Catha Galare | Filisin Catha]] and Barrinor. <ref name="ct-ps">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "Page of Swords"</ref> Her governess is her mother's impoverished relation [[Solanth Catha Galare |Solanth Catha]].

==Characteristics==
As a child at her betrothal: "a snub nose and a friendly smile and eyes too large for the face she was still growing into." <ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) | Family]]''</ref>

Her [[Solanth Catha Galare |Aunt Solanth]] braids Juzie's hair in styles appropriate to an engaged maiden. <ref name="color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref>

She can never sit still, especially when thinking. Her favorite thing, according to Ran, is getting in trouble. <ref name="ct-ps" />

She can't stop talking when she's nervous.<ref name="color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref> Examples include: 

<ul>
<li>“You have the ears of a rabbit!” Jusinel blurted. And hastened to add, “That’s a compliment, everyone should have fine hearing, and also rabbits are lovely, and have incredibly soft fur, and are delicious as well as useful.” 

Solanth said mildly, “You should have stopped at ‘soft fur.’ Or perhaps not embarked on that digression at all.”<ref name="color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref></li> 

<li>“Does that mean you’re not going to admit to that dragoness being your bosom bow? Oh, I hope that you will, as I like her ever so much. And the two of you make such a handsome pair! Like matched carriage horses—oh, no, I’ve done it again.” 

“Yes,” Solanth said, suppressing her laugh. “You have.”<ref name="color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref></li></ul>

==Biography==
Relative of [[Sediryl]] and [[Jahir]]. Young enough to be excited over candy in the Seni village. Betrothed to [[Kirthander Osin Asaniefa]], a young boy from House Asaniefa (not stated until ''Farmer's Crown'' but it is mentioned that the family's colors are green and electrum, with a centicore emblem). The betrothal is what brought Sediryl, Jahir, and Vasiht'h to Escutcheon when Vasiht'h got adopted. <ref name="fam" />

Juzie and Ran used to race through the Catha grounds and climb trees and throw nuts at each other. <ref name="ct-ps" />

She and Kirthander volunteer to go the Chatcaavan Empire with [[Lisinthir]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]], along with [[Tolden]] and [[Qora]] <ref name="fc-13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 13</ref> (Though we don't see the actual leave-taking.)

On the Chatcaavan [[Throneworld]], Juzie has a room in Solanth's suite; Ran sneaks out nightly from his bed in the boys' dormitory to visit her there. They suspect that Solanth knows about this but does not wish to interfere. They spend their mornings learning languages and cultures "and suchlike" with the Emperor's children. In the afternoons, Juzie joins the other girls, promptly talking her way into [[Hope's Navy]], and teaching the dragon children how to have tea parties. (Judging by the number of insults done to her gowns, there is at least as much climbing of furniture and throwing of balls involved as there is eating and drinking.) <ref name="ct-ps" /> <ref name="color" />

==Quotes==
* "I'm a Galare. We ''all'' speak Universal."<ref name="fam" />
* "I think it's a fine adventure. Cousin Sediryl was just telling me that it's customary for people who are about to get married to do one wild thing before they settle down. It's called a bachelorette event."<ref name="fam" />
* "I want to have a job one day."<ref name="fam" />
* "But anyway I am looking forward to our babies, regardless of the cuteness of any babies, because I know we'll feel much differently about our own babies than we do about other people's. Because they'll be ours, and ours will naturally matter more than other children." <ref name="ct-ps" />
* "It's a little bit fun, getting angry about things that matter." <ref name="ct-ps" />
* "Yes, I know, properly reared young women are not supposed to talk about people keeping lovers on the side. But it's exactly the things we're not supposed to talk about that are the most important, Aunt, because they're usually the ones that trip us if we don't know about them! Of course I should know about mistresses. And the male equivalent, but no one has ever told me what we call them." <ref name="color" />
* "This... is when I say that lying is a sin, again, but I don't want to answer?" <ref name="color" />
* "I am a very bad young lady, but you must admit I might make a staggering politician!" <ref name="color" />
* "Of all the wretched arts I am supposed to enjoy, the only one I actually do is designing gowns. Well, that and archery. Can I have a set brought here, Aunt Solanth? The Chatcaavan boys are all so proud of flying that I think it would do well to give the girls some way to deflate their insufferable sense of consequence. I can't think of anything better than using them for target practice. [...] With play arrows, of course! Perhaps tipped with sponges! I hear sponge artillery is now all the crack!" <ref name="color" />

* '''"I expect you to conquer worlds for me, you know. No paltry minor grant on Escutcheon like mine, not with a patron like the head of House Imthereli. I would like an interstellar estate, and gobs of riches, and especially I'd like you in armor, commanding dozens of starships, while all the other girls repine because their husbands are spineless fops." '''<ref name="ct-ps" />

==Trivia==
* Likes pynade
* Thinks penmanship is pointless

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Family (Fiction) Characters]][[Category:Galare Characters]][[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]][[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Characters]]
[[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]

Groups

2021-03-16T01:23:53Z

Aethervox: /* Wedding Crashers */ Added info about Noran Mathanith from Major Pieces

For informal groups of people that aren't part of some organization but that I need to keep track of as a bunch. I might put other groups here if their groups are sufficiently unofficial, or hard to find.

==Groups Without Pages==
===Princes' Game===
====Manufactory-East's (rescued) Slaves====
* an Asanii felid with a silver Mau patterning that did not hide the ragged scars on her arms and shoulders
* the Tam-illee foxine was missing an ear
* Harat-Shar missing a tail
* Claudia, a nearly catatonic Tam-illee. "… she was some kind of pilot? For someone important. They all got taken in the raid, and she doesn’t know what happened to that person but it’s devastated her." <ref name="oto-14">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) | Only the Open]]'', Chapter 14</ref>

===Zafiil===
====Tristan's Family====
"We are nine in number."
* [[Patience]]
* Tristan's sister, Violet, and brother
* Tevit, the castrate
* Golden, the servant (female, not winged)
* Three servant children
** 1 girl (not winged)
** 1 boy (young)
** 1 boy (castrated)

===Dreamhealers===
====The Quadmates from Seersana U====
* [[Brett (Dreamhealers) | Brett]], the Seersa
* [[Merashiinal]], the Ciracaana
* [[Lucrezia]], the Harat-Shar
* [[Leina]], another Seersa

===Jubilee Summer===
====Tolden's friends====
* [[Tolden Tera Thavelfin]]
* [[Sorinir Tera Thavelfin]]
* [[Fergol Sili Deriline]]
* [[Velederien Solvi Mathanith]]
* [[Darineth Shoril Thavelfin]]

====Wedding Crashers====
''Their set really had come—theirs in particular, not their elders, a flock of expensively dressed women with their hopeful swains hovering just beyond their shoulders, hoping to be of service to them. Lisinthir recognized nearly all their faces, female and male, and identified at least four men he'd chased out of the dueling square when he'd been younger and angrier.''<ref name="fc3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction)|Farmer's Crown]]'' chapter 3 (page 41)</ref>
* [[Evelis Lona Mathanith]] (heir to Mathanith)
* [[Sirithiniel Fesa Sovanil]] (heir to Sovanil)
* [[Tavassi Atel Deriline]]
* [[Iralin Dova Ulurith]] (heir to Ulurith)
* [[Tolden Tera Thavelfin]]
Mentioned as people Lisinthir dueled, but not explicitly noted as present at wedding:
* [[Gaviin Telde Sovanil]]
* Evelis's cousin Noran (Nephew - sister's son - of [[Elanoriel Sora Mathanith]] head of [[Mathanith (House)|Mathanith]]<ref name="mp-dis">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Disengage"</ref>; family name not mentioned, but probably also Sora)

====The Chatcaavan Retinue, Investiture====
''The Queen Ransomed came first, dressed in a silver and white and orange robe that included embroidered panels draped from her arched wings. Beside her and a little behind was their cousin Lisinthir, once Nase Galare and now Lauvet Imthereli and whatever extra family name he’d acquired by becoming the consort of an emperor. Behind them, an entire entourage of Chatcaava; at least thirty, Sediryl thought, in varied dress. Some looked like courtiers, others guards, and at least one or two of them might have been priests.'' [... several pages later ...] ''The Queen Ransomed introduced her retinue: her personal vassal, the Twelveworld Lord and his Attendant; her new Knife, head of her security; a priest and priestess of the Living Air and several civil servants, some of whom were even female; and the rest guards, to lend her countenance.''<ref name="hw-09">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) | Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
* Queen Ransomed
* The Knife
* Twelveworld Lord and his retinue, including the Attendant and the courtier (Preserve Huntmaster's Heir<ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction)|Farmer's Crown]]'' chapter 18</ref>) who fell into a tree
* the guy who became Bodyguard
* Sojourner Stars
* a priest (Juurik<ref>''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction)|Healer's Wedding]]'' chapter 11</ref>) and priestess of the Living Air
* several civil servants, including some female ones
* some guards

====Returning with Lisinthir to the Empire====
* [[Qora Paunene Zela]]
* [[Tolden]] and friends
* [[Juzie]] and her betrothed, [[Kirthander Osin Asaniefa]]
* [[Solanth Catha Galare]], Juzie's governess, and [[Lyrien Net Lona]], one of the priests who started learning Chatcaavan.

====Tolden's Chatcaavan Friends====
It is implied that Tolden and company make friends with dragon courtiers during their stay on the Throneworld, but the only ones mentioned by title are the Twelveworld Lord, his Attendant, and the Huntmaster's Heir. The Twelveworld Lord calls Tolden "huntfriend" toward the end of the visit. <ref name="cd-l">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Leader"</ref>

==Her Instruments==

===TMS Earthrise Crew===

* [[Reese Eddings]]
* [[Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire]]
* [[Allacazam]]
* [[Bryer]]
* [[Irine]]
* [[Kis'eh't]]
* [[Sascha]]

==Groups With Pages==
===Dreamhealers===
* [[Nieve's Girls]]

===Jubilee Summer/Fallowtide===
* [[Hope's Navy]]
* [[Jahir's Retinue]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Organizations and Polities]]

Aevanauv

2021-01-28T00:37:48Z

Aethervox: Added reference subsection and link to Vasiht'h page

Glaseah, son of [[Vasiht'h]] and brother of [[Ithauvni]] and [[Efaeanoc]].
His name is in Eldren, and means 'Faith'.
His common name is Evan.

Temple born.
Breathparents are Aunt [[Drusti]] and [[Jeasa]] <ref name="hs-14">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 14</ref>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]] [[Category:Heartskein Characters]]

Vasiht'h

2021-01-28T00:30:46Z

Aethervox: /* Children */ deleted extra quotation mark.

[[File:Vasihth-dreamhearth.png|300px|thumb|right|Vasiht'h]]

Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].

==Physical Description==
* Brown eyes.
* Black bangs.
* White eyebrows.
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' Chapter 1</ref>
* Smells like vanilla? <ref name="fc-08">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

==Biography==
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare.

===Mindtouch===
Born on Ansealah to Marevhe, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he is in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he meets Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurs in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h is playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joins in, the children extract their promise to visit, and the friendship commences. Upon hearing that Jahir has not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggests Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agrees.

A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggles with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confides in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir find their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee); Amaranth and Persy (human) and Kuriel (Seersa), evening dinners with their quadmates – Merishiinal (Ciracaana) and Leina (Seersa); Brett (Seersa) and Lucrezia (Harat-Shar), Vasiht’h fears he is unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switches his focus to research and launches a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It is when he and Jahir are comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each feel the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it is when Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly enters Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explains mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year winds down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grows more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir is offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refuses to tell Jahir that he wants him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both feel their growing attachment, both fear the consequences. As the second year concludes, Vasiht’h realizes that he is better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also decides that Jahir needs to learn if he can manage the residency on his own, or if he shouldn’t be doing the medical program in the first place. With Vasiht’h’s encouragement, Jahir accepts the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he leaves, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain is not being left alone when those he must outlive die, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany leads Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor.<ref name="mt">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]]''</ref>

===Mindline===
Vasiht’h arrives on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fuses their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately takes charge of Jahir’s health, which is deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation is complicated by a cluster of emergency patients, the cause of whose deaths no one can determine. Jahir enters one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and is nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enables Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir does learn that the deaths are drug-related, Vasiht’h is angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learns from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life is also endangered. When Jahir interposes himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h is furious but relents when Jahir promises not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h works with Jahir through the mindline not only to help uncover the name of the illegal drug, but also to keep the patients alive long enough for their families to say goodbye. The experience solidifies Vasiht’h’s role as guardian of Jahir’s health, while Jahir recovers from the ravages wrought by the Mediger’s Syndrome exacerbated by his time on Selnor. Upon their return to Seersana, Jahir having passed his residency early by virtue of his work at Mercy, Vasiht’h takes up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decides to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s worth of courses, plus their practicum work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees.<ref name="ml">''[[Mindline (Fiction) |Mindline]]''</ref>

===Dreamhearth===
When Vasiht'h was traveling to join Jahir on Selnor, he had a layover on Starbase Veta and decided it was the ideal place for them to establish their practice. Unfortunately, they learn that, while Jahir would be granted residency immediately as a rare member of an allied species, Vasiht'h would have to wait to see if their work offered enough of a benefit for him to be allowed to stay as well. They settle in to begin offering their unique approach to xenotherapy and learn that their colleagues are withholding judgment and, in the case of human psychologist Allen Tiber, actively hostile. Yet they found an ally in Helga, an influential Hinichi therapist ready to retire. As their practice launched, Vasiht'h's discomfort with his and Jahir's disparate wealth began to build, especially since Jahir selected a temporary rental cottage for them in the expensive Garden District. At the same time, his sisters introduced him to the works of Rexina Regina, who writes romance novels featuring Eldritch, to "help" him with his relationship with Jahir. Continuing to confide in his younger sister Sevhi, Vasiht'h also struggles during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprises himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They build a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintains his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h is able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set aside his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approval approaches, Helga broaches the issue of their work on Selnor and questions their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimates that she plans to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust dies, Jahir and Vasiht'h find an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gift it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h receives the letter informing him that his residency application has been accepted, he celebrates by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retires and gives them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot.<ref name="dh">''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) |Dreamhearth]]''</ref>

===Dreamstorm===
About five years into their practice, Vasiht’h and Jahir attend the wedding of their former quadmate, Lucrezia, at the chapel complex at Seersana University. During a meal with their former quadmates, Vasiht’h notices how enthused and engrossed Jahir becomes when discussing medical matters with Brett and Leina. He has been sensing something similar through the mindline for a while, and during a visit to his former mentor, Professor Armin Palland, Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir has accumulated enough continuing education credits to take the test for a general Healer Assist. Upon their return, Vasiht’h broaches the topic with Jahir, who decides to take the three-day test, and in the location Vasiht’h proposes: the resort planet Tsera Nova. While Jahir tests on the orbital station, Vasiht’h enjoys the resort’s activities, during which he meets Kristyl, an extroverted and charismatic human, and Gladdie, her reserved Asanii companion and best friend. On the third day, he joins Krystal and the group of friends she has accumulated for a day-long cruise to see the cetaceans who perform for tourists. Kristyl, who has noticed that the seas are becoming rougher and the cloud formations unusual for a planet engineered for perfect weather at all times, insists on a “game” requiring everyone to wear their their life vests. On the return trip, a violent hurricane arises, and the boat is destroyed. Vasiht’h is thrown into the sea and struggles to keep swimming until Romeo, a seal in the show, brings two dolphins alongside for him to grab onto. They tow him to a life raft, where he’s hauled aboard, having suffered a broken wing. Eventually they reach the shore and take refuge in a control room on the resort’s Serenity Island. Kristyl and Vasiht’h volunteer to look for other survivors before the full strength of the storm arrives and find a Hinichii toddler. Meanwhile, Jahir, taking a break from the final portion of the test, sees the huge spiral cloud over the resort continent and learns about the disaster. Abandoning his last test, even though it means he will fail the entire thing, Jahir volunteers as a Healer Assist to pad down to the planet. While working, he finds Gladdie; together they work to calm the injured and their families. When the storm passes, Vasiht’h and the other survivors with him pad to the hospital, where he and Jahir are reunited. They return to Starbase Veta, but both are traumatized by their close call. Vasiht’h goes to see Alan Tiber, who helps him see that his discontent is based on his need for others’ validation of his life choices and that what he is doing in his therapy work has value. Jahir tells Vasiht’h that he failed the test because he came to save Vasiht’h. Both agreed that they love their current life and each other, but that does not prohibit Jahir from getting his Healer Assist degree as well. Jahir takes the test a second time, successfully. While he is gone, Kristyl and Gladdie, now a couple, visit Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm.<ref name="ds">''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) |Dreamstorm]]''</ref>

===Family===
Nearly ten years into their practice, Jahir receives a request from his mother to attend the wedding of his cousin Juzie into a family with whom she hopes to strengthen alliance in support of their progressive Queen. The marriage of the two, still-young children, will seed openness in the allied family. She also includes Vasiht’h in the invitation, unexpected since the Eldritch do not welcome aliens to their planet. Vasiht’h agrees and accompanies Jahir to the Eldritch homeworld. Upon their arrival, Vasiht’h is stunned by the opulence of Jahir’s estate; he knew his friend was wealthy, but he had no idea of the extent of that wealth. When one of a group of Jahir’s peers make it clear that they consider Vasiht’h either a pet or a lover, Vasiht’h realizes he has a tough time ahead of him. Jahir is apologetic for having not prepared Vasiht’h adequately, explaining that he wanted someone “sane” by his side for this event. Jahir’s mother is gracious and welcoming, and he meets Jahir’s cousin, Sediryl. When Sediryl comes into the room, Vasiht’h gets a flash of powerful red through the mindline, before it slams down completely. He realizes that the powerful rush of passion he briefly felt is Jahir’s; he later confronts Jahir about the unpleasant slamming and “knives” and learns that Jahir loves Sediryl, but cannot marry her because she is his close cousin – indeed, Jahir will not discuss the topic further. At the reception leading up to the wedding, Vasiht’h is grossly insulted by the groom’s mother and leaves the manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted by the wedding guests and the groom’s mother, who declares that not only is it bad that Sediryl, a woman of “questionable morals” is with her, but that Juzie has broken the bridal rules by being with a non-family member before the wedding. Sediryl proposes that there exists a process through which Vasiht’h can become a family member. Vasiht’h agrees to undergo the test, over Jahir’s objections and concerns. He is taken to the manor’s chapel, where he drinks a mixture that may be toxic to his system. He passes out. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds Sediryl has tied him into an uncomfortable rope harness. She forces him out of the chapel into the nearby forest, tying him to a tree. She reveals that her plan is to foment something that will either destroy the Eldritch or force them to change by staging Vasiht’h’s death at the hands of the groom’s family. Vasiht’h tries to reason with her to no avail; she slices his side with a knife bearing the groom’s family sigil and leaves him to be eaten by wild animals. Vasiht’h’s last conscious act is to try to bury the knife so no one will know who abducted him. He awakes in Jahir’s arms in the chapel and learns that everything that occurred was in his mind and part of the test, which he has passed. Jeasa presents him with a medallion bearing the family crest, a unicorn; Queen Liolessa arrives, and he introduces himself as Vasiht’h Seni Galare. The wedding goes on as planned, after which Jahir and Vasiht’h, their connection now formally recognized by Jahir’s family, return to Starbase Veta.<ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) |Family]]''</ref>

TO BE CONTINUED.

==Family==
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist

Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevance to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]

==Children==
When Vasiht'h first applied to the Temple for his children, he was 29th in line for a surrogate. <ref name="ar-ch29">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 29</ref> It's also revealed in the same chapter that he was younger than his parents had been when they made their initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war cause him to miss his turn. When he and Jahir settle on Escutcheon, he learns it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. Not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort (so maybe a month or so shy of the promised year and a half), the Temple notifies Vasiht'h that his children are ready for pick-up ("Oh, Goddess, that sounds ridiculous. Like they're some kind of take-out meal I ordered."). The two of them, along with Vasiht'h's Aunt Drusti, Cousin Josti and Cousin Viht'hi, travel to Anseahla to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 4</ref> The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins.

On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht'h chooses as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 9</ref> They decide on:

*[[Aevanauv]], a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.
*[[Efaeanoc]], a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.
*[[Ithauvni]], a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi.

Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 13</ref> At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 14</ref>

==Quotes==
"Take me to your larder." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 24</ref>

"Sometimes when things change you, fixing them right away isn't the answer. Sometimes it's an opportunity." <ref name="fc-08" />

"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 32</ref>

Sevhi: "Figured out how to achieve galactic peace yet?" Vasiht'h: "I'll let you know once a galactic war breaks out." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 28</ref>

"But we can't make the universe fair. That's too big a job for any one person. All we can do is receive the gifts we're given with gratitude and use them wisely. And help people, where we can, when we're able." <ref>''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm]]'', Chapter 7</ref>

"How could he be both an anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm]]'', Chapter 16 </ref>

"I guess people aren't always ready to hear something. You can tell them the exact same thing at different times, and if you tell them too early, they don't really hear you. They hear something on the inside of their heads." <ref name=mt-10>''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

"This is the part they don't mention about college. That all the real learning takes place out of the classroom." <ref name="mt-14">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 14</ref>

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions." <ref name="mt-20">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 20</ref>

"Not to say that love doesn't also create problems, because it does. Or that love solves problems, because it doesn't. But it makes things bearable. And you can do a lot when you feel like things are bearable."
<ref>''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) | Dreamhearth]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

"All I ever wanted was to make life a little easier for people. If that's all I'm ever known for, I'll be content." <ref>''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 21</ref>

(Thought) “While Vasiht’h would never stop preferring to bake cookies, now...now he knew those cookies had been bought at a price, and that other people were actively engaged in paying it, all the time. Now he knew that those cookies were a blessing because they were a symbol that people valued peace enough to make it possible, even if they themselves couldn’t have it. And he...he had been one of the people, for a brief time, who’d paid with blood so that other people could bake, and laugh, and be disturbed at the reminders that violence existed.” <ref>''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]],'' "Keepers"</ref>

(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 15</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
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Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire

2021-01-22T16:12:30Z

Aethervox: /* Family */ Added info on how he is related to Jerisa.

Liolesa's cousin, and Reese's husband.

==Physical Appearance==
Wine-dark red eyes. Long face, straight nose. <ref name="er-01" /> His hair is now shoulder-length. <ref name="rph-04" /> Tall but I don't know how tall.
Speaks in a mild baritone register. <ref name="mp-bea">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]],'' "Beacons"</ref>

===Personal Ornaments===
The hair dangle was made as a gift from the crew of the [[TMS Earthrise]], and included something from all of them - a bell from [[Kis'eh't]]'s prayer blanket, a temple token from [[Bryer]], [[Allacazam]] sat on it, and [[Reese]] included a bead she had worn in her hair from the eucalyptus tree she'd grown up with on Mars. [[Irine]] and [[Sascha]] put it together, and Irine included a lockpick (it turned out to be a very useful gift). Kis'eh't also synthesized small glass beads for it.

==Family==
*Mother: [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]]
*Father: [[Theval Jesa Galare]]
*Spouse: 1. [[Laiselin Sarel Jisiensire |Laiselin Moret Jisiensire]], 2. [[Reese Eddings |Theresa Eddings Laisrathera]]
*Children: none yet, but soon <ref name="cradle">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Waiting Cradle"</ref>
*Siblings: [[Baniel Sarel Jisiensire]]
He is [[Jerisa Galare | Jerisa's]] grandson. <ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref> His father, [[Theval Jesa Galare |Theval]], was [[Jerisa Galare | Jerisa's]] son.<ref name="fc14">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 14.</ref>

==Biography==

===Pre-Earthrise===
At the time of Liolesa's investiture he was wearing his 'new uniform' as one of the Swords, but was not yet its captain. <ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref>

His first wife was Laiselin Moret Jisiensire. She died in childbed. Felith says Laiselin's death was sixty or seventy years ago, and that they had "not even forty years together". <ref name="rp-03">''[[Rose Point (Fiction)|Rose Point]]'', Part Three</ref>

Timeline notes indicate he spent 12 years married to [[Laiselin]] before he was widowed. Then he moved to the out holdings, got into his fight with Baniel, and renounced the Seal (all over a period of 20 years). Then he left, spent twenty years at the university and then 30 years on his wanderjahr.

Hirianthial's parents made unlawful experiments with mind poisons, abetted by Baniel, and died of them. Hirianthial went on an angry and grief-stricken rampage, killing everyone involved except his brother. (It is never made clear how many people or who they were, except that it was more than one person.) He came to regret the mercy he showed his brother. <ref name="rp-03" />

===TMS Earthrise===
Hirianthial is over 600 years old at the start of Earthrise and is of an age with [[Liolesa Galare]]. <ref name="er-01">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) |Earthrise]]'', Part One</ref> At the start of Earthrise, Hirianthial has spent 40 years as an [[Alliance]] doctor. <ref name="er-01" /> He was a physician on [[Tam-ley]] and then spent "several months" drifting and acting as the Queen's spy. <ref name="er-01" /> He was captured by pirates two weeks before being rescued by [[Reese]] and the crew of the [[TMS Earthrise]]. <ref name="er-01" />

Possibly Hirianthial is not clear on his own history, as he either thinks or says he spent "50-odd years" wandering without a plan. <ref name="er-03">[[Earthrise (Fiction) |Earthrise]], Part Three</ref> He also says that it has been six decades since he regularly carried a sword. <ref name="rp-03" />

His adventures with the crew of the TMS Earthrise take about a year, and are summarized on [[Kerayle]] by Reese: "We did not spring Hirianthial from jail, flee all over the Alliance with pirates on our tail, save him from that crystal mind-sickness and then risk him arresting a drug lord just so he could die on a backwater colony world because the natives are having a fight about who gets to play with the horses and who has to work like normal people." <ref name="rp-01" /> It is on Kerayle that he discovers his mind-mage powers, and his need for counsel and teaching is what brings him home, accompanied by the crew, just in time for Surela's (well, mostly actually Baniel's) insurrection/coup.

===Lord of War===

It is on [[Starbase Omega]] that Liolesa first introduces Hirianthial as her [[Eldritch_Government#Administration |Lord of War]]. <ref name="lais-05">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction)| Laisrathera]]'', chapter 5</ref> The title is a surprise to him, but he does not object.

Having lost the Jisiensire swords to his brother's treachery somewhere in the snow outside Ontine, Hirianthial acquires an Alliance-made solidigraphic sword, first from [[Hold 17]]'s armory, then from one of the weapons stores on the ''[[UAV Moonsinger]]''. It is this sword that he bears in his world's defense henceforth, starting with retaking the Moonsinger from the pirates. Well, the sword, and his mind-mage ability: at crunch time, he figures out how to render the 87 remaining pirates unconscious without hitting his allies. <ref name="lais-17">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', chapter 17</ref>

His first official duty as Lord of War is the execution of [[Athanesin Fesa Sovanil |Athanesin]]. He then stands guard by Liolesa as she personally accepts the individual fealty of every member of Athanesin's army.

During the Solstice Vigil, Hirianthial received a steel clip to loop his hair dangle so it wouldn't be as exposed from [[Irine]], a book of illustrated marital aids for Harat-Shar from [[Sascha]] (this resulted in a wager that Hiranthial already knew everything in it, the stakes being Sascha learned to ride a horse if Hiranthial won and if Sascha won, he and Irine got to bathe Hirianthial)), a book of Glaseahan mind-mage stories from [[Kis'eh't]], a long scroll with a single piece of calligraphy indicating a safe place from [[Bryer]], a pommel for his solidographic sword with the Laisrathera and Galare arms on either side from [[Reese]], and a pedal harp string as a promissory for the instrument itself from [[Liolesa]]. <ref name="rph-04">''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction) |A Rose Point Holiday]],'' Chapter 4</ref>

Before the coup, Liolesa had asked Hirianthial to play for her when they "come out the other side of this".<ref name="rp-03" /> At Hirianthial's and Reese's wedding, Liolesa mentions something about him owing her a harp song. <ref name="lais-ep" /> This implies that the pedal harp she promised him at the Solstice Vigil had been delivered by the time of the wedding; presumably, Hirianthial delivered on his promise at some point during the wedding (though probably not before the end of Day Three).

Once the hospital is built, Hirianthial splits his time between his multiple roles as head of the hospital, security chief for Laisrathera, and Lord of War.

==Quotes==
*"You will need someone to watch over you as you fall into and out of all your scrapes, Lia. Who better than me, who has had the practice of it all our lives?" <ref name="mp-pv" />
* Sascha: "Running doesn't solve anything." Hirianthial: "That depends on which direction you run." <ref name="rp-01">''[[Rose Point (Fiction)| Rose Point]]'', Part One</ref>
* "Oh, Theresa. I love you also. And I find I am not sorry for that, so do you not apologize. Never apologize." <ref name="lais-19">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', chapter 19</ref>
* "As the bearer of Jisiensire's swords and the holder of the world's shield, I issue formal challenge to you for the wrongs you have perpetrated against my kin and those who dwelt beneath the banner of my protection." <ref name="lais-24">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', chapter 24</ref>

==Trivia==
* Reese describes his cologne as "something rich with a touch of spice, a woodsy scent that reminded her of trees." <ref name="er-03" />
* His [[Eldritch#Names |milk-name]] is Hiran. When they're in private, Liolesa almost exclusively calls him by it. <ref>''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', various places</ref>
* His full married name is Hirianthial Sarel Eddings Laisrathera. <ref name="lais-ep">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Epilogue</ref>
* Prior to their wedding, he calls Reese 'captain,' 'my lady,' and 'Theresa'. After the wedding, he calls Reese 'Theresa' (normal), 'my courage' (song name), 'Reese' (only behind closed doors).

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Jerisa Galare

2021-01-22T15:48:51Z

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First Queen of the Eldritch. Very briefly married, stayed unmarried thereafter.

[[Valthial |Val]] says she used her status as High Priestess as an excuse not to marry. <ref name="L-11">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', chapter 11</ref>

==Biography==
===Children===
(From [[Liolesa Galare]] page)

[[Rylaniel Jesa Galare | Rylaniel Jesa]] (f), married Toltheniv Delen. She is[[Liolesa Galare | Liolesa's]] mother.

[[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (m), married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]]. He is the father of [[Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel]].

[[Maraesa Galare]] (f). She is the mother of Besinir Jesa (m) and Anariel Jesa (f). Anariel is the paternal grandmother of [[Bethsaida]].
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Hautsuun (Knife)

2020-12-27T03:18:52Z

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[[File:Illo-WorldlordsSon.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Worldlord's Son]]

The Worldlord's second son, who was Reserve-East, the head of the Eastern Naval Reserve, and is now the Knife.

==Physical Characteristics==

He is older by about a decade than the previous Knife. <ref name="mp-air">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Air-Dancing"</ref>

His eyes are orange. <ref name="ie-22">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) | In Extremis]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

==Biography==
Started out in engineering, advanced in the Navy until he became the commander of the Eastern Naval Reserve. He still has the habit of methodical thought he learned to become an excellent engineer, and might have remained one had he not he sought the power that command brings: a true son of the Worldlord, practical as well as successful. <ref name="mp-air" /> While commanding the Eastern Naval Reserve he drilled them to standards unusual for reservists. <ref name="fr-10">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

He trusts but doesn't understand his father, and he knows his dam though she "may not remember" him; "she does not always remember things from day to day."<ref name="ie-22">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) | In Extremis]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

He was present for the battle at Apex-East, serving as the Admiral-Offense's flag captain. <ref name="fr-10" />

==Quotes==
* "I have been increasingly concerned, Exalted… what Logistics-East has done, and Command-East… it isn’t right. To turn on a huntbrother this way and savage his flank. The navy has always had its ritualized contests because it is what we are. But this was no contest. No fair test. It was… It was treachery. When my sire contacted me, I was already hoping for a solution to this problem. He said we should back you because you would create a more sane empire."<ref name="ie-22" />

* "My sire is… eccentric. We trust him, but do not always understand him."<ref name="ie-22" />

* "I watch because your safety is my duty. My place is among the crews who guard you. But afterwards, I watch the viseos, because it is Beauty." <ref name="mp-air" />

* "Knowledge is armament." <ref name="fc-05">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 5</ref>

==Trivia==
* is learning Universal, which he deems "not difficult", unlike the "one the Ambassador speaks to his own species." <ref name="fc-05" />
* learned to ride a horse during the first visit to Escutcheon <ref name="hw-16">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 16</ref>

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Gale

2020-12-27T03:09:50Z

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[[File:Illo-GaleEmperorsSon.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gale as a young teen]]

A young male [[Chatcaava]]. Son of the Emperor; bold in demeanor. Best friends with [[Whisper]], his half-brother. Was one of the founding members of [[Hope's Navy]].

==Physical Characteristics==
Described as a stripling hip-height on the Queen Ransomed, ferocious and without guile.

==Biography==
The Emperor's oldest male child; he is 11 revolutions old at the time of the Insurrection. <ref name="mp-hope">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Hope's Navy"</ref> He defended the Mother from the Queen Ransomed when she appeared for the first time in the Nursery: "If you hurt her, I will hurt you! I am a male, and you only female! Even if I am young, I can have you punished!" <ref name="ar-2">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) | Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref> He was initially shocked by the sight of the Queen Changing, but afterwards he was wary and fascinated.<ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) | Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref> When the Queen assigns him the task of teaching everyone to read, female sisters and female slave nursemaids alike, he says, tentatively, that "it would be fun."<ref name="ar-10" />

==Quotes==
* "I know them [letters] better than anyone else. I read many things. I read sometimes to the babies, too."<ref name="ar-10" />

* "Having wings doesn't make you better than other people. Just like having more arms doesn't... doesn't make you better than the aliens who only have one set. It just means you're different."<ref name="mp-hope" />

* "What does it matter what we are now, Maazi, when we don't know what we'll be? All I do know is... we have to choose whether we want to be good... or bad." <ref name="mp-hope" />

==Trivia==

==References==
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Iralin Dova Ulurith

2020-12-27T02:10:01Z

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The Ulurith heir. <ref name="fc3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 3</ref> This is the proper spelling of her name. (I keep adding the 'e' because it makes English speakers want to pronounce it the way the Eldritch do, instead of how they're likely to without the training 'e'.)

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Lili characterizes her as cunning and close-mouthed, as opposited to Sovanil's heir, who is "too passionate to make deep plans."<ref name="fc16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 16</ref>

Came to the wedding feast. <ref name="fc3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

She was the one who went to the covert meeting with Beth in Nuera. <ref name="fc15">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 15</ref>

Was in court when Jahir and Vasiht'h asked permission from Liolesa to go get Vasiht'h's kits.<ref name="hs-3">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 3</ref>

==Quotes==

==Trivia==

==References==
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Iralin Dova Ulurith

2020-12-27T02:08:36Z

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The Ulurith heir. <ref name="fc3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 3</ref> This is the proper spelling of her name. (I keep adding the 'e' because it makes English speakers want to pronounce it the way the Eldritch do, instead of how they're likely to without the training 'e'.)

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Lili characterizes her as cunning and close-mouthed, as opposited to Sovanil's heir, who is "too passionate to make deep plans."<ref name="fc16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 16</ref>

Came to the wedding feast. <ref name="fc3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

She was the one who went to the covert meeting with Beth in Nuera. <ref name="fc15">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 15</ref>

Was in court when Jahir and Vasiht'h asked permission from Liolesa to go get Vasiht'h's kits.<ref name="hs-3">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 3</ref>

==Quotes==

==Trivia==

==References==
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Iralin Dova Ulurith

2020-12-27T02:00:45Z

Aethervox: added reference links for Farmer's Crown.

The Ulurith heir. <ref name="fc-ch3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 3</ref> This is the proper spelling of her name. (I keep adding the 'e' because it makes English speakers want to pronounce it the way the Eldritch do, instead of how they're likely to without the training 'e'.)

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Lili characterizes her as cunning and close-mouthed, as opposited to Sovanil's heir, who is "too passionate to make deep plans."<ref name="fc-ch16">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 16</ref>

Came to the wedding feast. <ref name="fc-ch3">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 3</ref>

She was the one who went to the covert meeting with Beth in Nuera. <ref name="fc-ch15">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 15</ref>

Was in court when Jahir and Vasiht'h asked permission from Liolesa to go get Vasiht'h's kits.<ref name="hs-3">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 3</ref>

==Quotes==

==Trivia==

==References==
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Iralin Dova Ulurith

2020-12-27T01:54:14Z

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The Ulurith heir. <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 3</ref> This is the proper spelling of her name. (I keep adding the 'e' because it makes English speakers want to pronounce it the way the Eldritch do, instead of how they're likely to without the training 'e'.)

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Lili characterizes her as cunning and close-mouthed, as opposited to Sovanil's heir, who is "too passionate to make deep plans."<ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 16</ref>

Came to the wedding.

She was the one who went to the covert meeting with Beth in Nuera. <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 15</ref>

Was in court when Jahir and Vasiht'h asked permission from Liolesa to go get Vasiht'h's kits.<ref name="hs-3">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 3</ref>

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Veris Telis Sara

2020-12-27T01:43:05Z

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One of the [[Eldritch_Armed_Forces#White_Swords|White Sword]]s attached to [[Jahir]] on the trip to Anseahla. Now part of his [[ Jahir's Retinue | permanent retinue]].

==Physical Characteristics==
From the lands around Mathanith. Unlike Thorlon, he lacks the Mathanith-like traits, and has a more pointed face with what Eldritch call 'heath' eyes, which are hazel but purple-to-pink-to-yellow-to-brown in tone. He is taller than Thorlon, but built more wiry, and moves more like a rapier-fighter or a daggerman than a swordsman. Has a tenor.

==Biography==
A White Sword chosen by Val for Hirianthial as one of a handful of temporary bodyguards. From Mathanith territory.

Accompanied Jahir when he went to visit Professor [[Chendra]] at [[Anseahla#History|Tabula Rasa]] on Anseahla. <ref name="hs-7">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 7</ref>

==Quotes==
* "You need not tell us that some dragons are good and some ill. We have learned a more bitter lesson on similar themes, and bear yet the guilt of the deaths we did not prevent in the coup."<ref name="hs-10">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) | Heartskein]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

==Trivia==
* Uncomfortable with heights.

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Montie Dawson

2020-12-27T01:40:29Z

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The human intelligence agent who likes muffins. [[Mina Brown]]'s partner.

==Physical Characteristics==
Light brown skin, closely cropped dark curls, eyes a bronzed brown. <ref name="jackal">"Jackal Chest," ''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]''</ref> ([[Laniis Baker]] thinks of his eyes as whiskey colored.<ref name="soldier>"Soldier," ''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]''</ref>)

==Biography==
Part of the Eldritch Code Talking support team.

He and his partner were hired as contractors by the Eldrich. <ref name="hs-11">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 11</ref>

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Montie Dawson

2020-12-27T01:39:03Z

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Aevanauv

2020-12-27T01:26:53Z

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Glaseah, son of Vasiht'h.
His name is in Eldren, and means 'Faith'.
His common name is Evan.

Temple born.
Breathparents are Aunt [[Drusti]] and [[Jeasa]] <ref name="hs-14">''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' Chapter 14</ref>

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Alon Levy

2020-12-27T01:02:13Z

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Fleet Admiral on the border with the [[Chatcaava | Chatcaavan empire]]. We meet him at the beginning of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) | Even the Wingless]]''; he makes a brief reappearance at the beginning of ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend]]''. Human.

==Physical Characteristics==
A stout man, not attractive but scrupulously clean, groomed and coiffed, so perfectly that he is visually arresting. Light blue eyes. <ref name="ew-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>

==Biography==
At the beginning of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Levy has been on post at the border for 12 years. <ref name="ew-01" />

==Quotes==
* "I should have figured. The Pelted are too cultured. They think all problems can be solved by talking. Some problems need a gun."<ref name="ew-01" />

* "The dragons don't 'send people away,' sir. That's not their style. They kill them. Or torture them." <ref name="stt-01">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
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Alon Levy

2020-12-27T00:58:52Z

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Fleet Admiral on the border with the [[Chatcaava | Chatcaavan empire]]. We meet him at the beginning of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) | Even the Wingless]]''; he makes a brief reappearance at the beginning of ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend]]''. Human.

==Physical Characteristics==
A stout man, not attractive but scrupulously clean, groomed and coiffed, so perfectly that he is visually arresting. Light blue eyes. <ref name="ew-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>

==Biography==
At the beginning of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Levy has been on post at the border for 12 years. <ref name="ew-ch1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

==Quotes==
* "I should have figured. The Pelted are too cultured. They think all problems can be solved by talking. Some problems need a gun."<ref name="ew-01" />

* "The dragons don't 'send people away,' sir. That's not their style. They kill them. Or torture them." <ref name="stt-01">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
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Vasiht'h

2020-11-20T23:29:10Z

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[[File:Vasihth-dreamhearth.png|300px|thumb|right|Vasiht'h]]

Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].

==Physical Description==
* Brown eyes.
* Black bangs.
* White eyebrows.
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref>
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

==Biography==
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare.

===Mindtouch===
Born on Ansealah to Marevhe, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he is in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he meets Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurs in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h is playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joins in, the children extract their promise to visit, and the friendship commences. Upon hearing that Jahir has not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggests Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agrees.

A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggles with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confides in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir find their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee); Amaranth and Persy (human) and Kuriel (Seersa), evening dinners with their quadmates – Merishiinal (Ciracaana) and Leina (Seersa); Brett (Seersa) and Lucrezia (Harat-Shar), Vasiht’h fears he is unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switches his focus to research and launches a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It is when he and Jahir are comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each feel the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it is when Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly enters Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explains mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year winds down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grows more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir is offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refuses to tell Jahir that he wants him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both feel their growing attachment, both fear the consequences. As the second year concludes, Vasiht’h realizes that he is better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also decides that Jahir needs to learn if he can manage the residency on his own, or if he shouldn’t be doing the medical program in the first place. With Vasiht’h’s encouragement, Jahir accepts the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he leaves, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain is not being left alone when those he must outlive die, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany leads Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)

===Mindline===
Vasiht’h arrives on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fuses their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately takes charge of Jahir’s health, which is deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation is complicated by a cluster of emergency patients, the cause of whose deaths no one can determine. Jahir enters one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and is nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enables Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir does learn that the deaths are drug-related, Vasiht’h is angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learns from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life is also endangered. When Jahir interposes himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h is furious but relents when Jahir promises not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h works with Jahir through the mindline not only to help uncover the name of the illegal drug, but also to keep the patients alive long enough for their families to say goodbye. The experience solidifies Vasiht’h’s role as guardian of Jahir’s health, while Jahir recovers from the ravages wrought by the Mediger’s Syndrome exacerbated by his time on Selnor. Upon their return to Seersana, Jahir having passed his residency early by virtue of his work at Mercy, Vasiht’h takes up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decides to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s worth of courses, plus their practicum work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline)

===Dreamhearth===
When Vasiht'h was traveling to join Jahir on Selnor, he had a layover on Starbase Veta and decided it was the ideal place for them to establish their practice. Unfortunately, they learn that, while Jahir would be granted residency immediately as a rare member of an allied species, Vasiht'h would have to wait to see if their work offered enough of a benefit for him to be allowed to stay as well. They settle in to begin offering their unique approach to xenotherapy and learn that their colleagues are withholding judgment and, in the case of human psychologist Allen Tiber, actively hostile. Yet they found an ally in Helga, an influential Hinichi therapist ready to retire. As their practice launched, Vasiht'h's discomfort with his and Jahir's disparate wealth began to build, especially since Jahir selected a temporary rental cottage for them in the expensive Garden District. At the same time, his sisters introduced him to the works of Rexina Regina, who writes romance novels featuring Eldritch, to "help" him with his relationship with Jahir. Continuing to confide in his younger sister Sevhi, Vasiht'h also struggles during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprises himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They build a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintains his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h is able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set aside his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approval approaches, Helga broaches the issue of their work on Selnor and questions their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimates that she plans to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust dies, Jahir and Vasiht'h find an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gift it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h receives the letter informing him that his residency application has been accepted, he celebrates by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retires and gives them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth)

===Dreamstorm===
About five years into their practice, Vasiht’h and Jahir attend the wedding of their former quadmate, Lucrezia, at the chapel complex at Seersana University. During a meal with their former quadmates, Vasiht’h notices how enthused and engrossed Jahir becomes when discussing medical matters with Brett and Leina. He has been sensing something similar through the mindline for a while, and during a visit to his former mentor, Professor Armin Palland, Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir has accumulated enough continuing education credits to take the test for a general Healer Assist. Upon their return, Vasiht’h broaches the topic with Jahir, who decides to take the three-day test, and in the location Vasiht’h proposes: the resort planet Tsera Nova. While Jahir tests on the orbital station, Vasiht’h enjoys the resort’s activities, during which he meets Kristyl, an extroverted and charismatic human, and Gladdie, her reserved Asanii companion and best friend. On the third day, he joins Krystal and the group of friends she has accumulated for a day-long cruise to see the cetaceans who perform for tourists. Kristyl, who has noticed that the seas are becoming rougher and the cloud formations unusual for a planet engineered for perfect weather at all times, insists on a “game” requiring everyone to wear their their life vests. On the return trip, a violent hurricane arises, and the boat is destroyed. Vasiht’h is thrown into the sea and struggles to keep swimming until Romeo, a seal in the show, brings two dolphins alongside for him to grab onto. They tow him to a life raft, where he’s hauled aboard, having suffered a broken wing. Eventually they reach the shore and take refuge in a control room on the resort’s Serenity Island. Kristyl and Vasiht’h volunteer to look for other survivors before the full strength of the storm arrives and find a Hinichii toddler. Meanwhile, Jahir, taking a break from the final portion of the test, sees the huge spiral cloud over the resort continent and learns about the disaster. Abandoning his last test, even though it means he will fail the entire thing, Jahir volunteers as a Healer Assist to pad down to the planet. While working, he finds Gladdie; together they work to calm the injured and their families. When the storm passes, Vasiht’h and the other survivors with him pad to the hospital, where he and Jahir are reunited. They return to Starbase Veta, but both are traumatized by their close call. Vasiht’h goes to see Alan Tiber, who helps him see that his discontent is based on his need for others’ validation of his life choices and that what he is doing in his therapy work has value. Jahir tells Vasiht’h that he failed the test because he came to save Vasiht’h. Both agreed that they love their current life and each other, but that does not prohibit Jahir from getting his Healer Assist degree as well. Jahir takes the test a second time, successfully. While he is gone, Kristyl and Gladdie, now a couple, visit Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)

===Family===
Nearly ten years into their practice, Jahir receives a request from his mother to attend the wedding of his cousin Juzie into a family with whom she hopes to strengthen alliance in support of their progressive Queen. The marriage of the two, still-young children, will seed openness in the allied family. She also includes Vasiht’h in the invitation, unexpected since the Eldritch do not welcome aliens to their planet. Vasiht’h agrees and accompanies Jahir to the Eldritch homeworld. Upon their arrival, Vasiht’h is stunned by the opulence of Jahir’s estate; he knew his friend was wealthy, but he had no idea of the extent of that wealth. When one of a group of Jahir’s peers make it clear that they consider Vasiht’h either a pet or a lover, Vasiht’h realizes he has a tough time ahead of him. Jahir is apologetic for having not prepared Vasiht’h adequately, explaining that he wanted someone “sane” by his side for this event. Jahir’s mother is gracious and welcoming, and he meets Jahir’s cousin, Sediryl. When Sediryl comes into the room, Vasiht’h gets a flash of powerful red through the mindline, before it slams down completely. He realizes that the powerful rush of passion he briefly felt is Jahir’s; he later confronts Jahir about the unpleasant slamming and “knives” and learns that Jahir loves Sediryl, but cannot marry her because she is his close cousin – indeed, Jahir will not discuss the topic further. At the reception leading up to the wedding, Vasiht’h is grossly insulted by the groom’s mother and leaves the manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted by the wedding guests and the groom’s mother, who declares that not only is it bad that Sediryl, a woman of “questionable morals” is with her, but that Juzie has broken the bridal rules by being with a non-family member before the wedding. Sediryl proposes that there exists a process through which Vasiht’h can become a family member. Vasiht’h agrees to undergo the test, over Jahir’s objections and concerns. He is taken to the manor’s chapel, where he drinks a mixture that may be toxic to his system. He passes out. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds Sediryl has tied him into an uncomfortable rope harness. She forces him out of the chapel into the nearby forest, tying him to a tree. She reveals that her plan is to foment something that will either destroy the Eldritch or force them to change by staging Vasiht’h’s death at the hands of the groom’s family. Vasiht’h tries to reason with her to no avail; she slices his side with a knife bearing the groom’s family sigil and leaves him to be eaten by wild animals. Vasiht’h’s last conscious act is to try to bury the knife so no one will know who abducted him. He awakes in Jahir’s arms in the chapel and learns that everything that occurred was in his mind and part of the test, which he has passed. Jeasa presents him with a medallion bearing the family crest, a unicorn; Queen Liolessa arrives, and he introduces himself as Vasiht’h Seni Galare. The wedding goes on as planned, after which Jahir and Vasiht’h, their connection now formally recognized by Jahir’s family, return to Starbase Veta. (Family)

TO BE CONTINUED.

==Family==
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist

Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevance to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]

==Children==
When Vasiht'h first applied to the Temple for his children, he was 29th in line for a surrogate. <ref name="ar-ch29">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' chapter 29</ref> It's also revealed in the same chapter that he was younger than his parents had been when they made their initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war cause him to miss his turn. When he and Jahir settle on Escutcheon, he learns it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. Not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort (so maybe a month or so shy of the promised year and a half), the Temple notifies Vasiht'h that his children are ready for pick-up (""Oh, Goddess, that sounds ridiculous. Like they're some kind of take-out meal I ordered."). The two of them, along with Vasiht'h's Aunt Drusti, Cousin Josti and Cousin Viht'hi, travel to Anseahla to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 4</ref> The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins.

On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht'h chooses as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 9</ref> They decide on:

*Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.
*Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.
*Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi.

Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 13</ref> At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 14</ref>

==Quotes==
"Sometimes when things change you, fixing them right away isn't the answer. Sometimes it's an opportunity." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 32</ref>

Sevhi: "Figured out how to achieve galactic peace yet?" Vasiht'h: "I'll let you know once a galactic war breaks out." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 28</ref>

"But we can't make the universe fair. That's too big a job for any one person. All we can do is receive the gifts we're given with gratitude and use them wisely. And help people, where we can, when we're able." <ref>''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm]]'', Chapter 7</ref>

"How could he be both an anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm]]'', Chapter 16 </ref>

"I guess people aren't always ready to hear something. You can tell them the exact same thing at different times, and if you tell them too early, they don't really hear you. They hear something on the inside of their heads." <ref>''Mindtouch (fiction) | Mindtouch'', Chapter 10</ref>

"This is the part they don't mention about college. That all the real learning takes place out of the classroom." <ref>''[[Mindtouch (fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 14</ref>

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions." <ref>''[[Mindtouch (fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 20</ref>

"Not to say that love doesn't also create problems, because it does. Or that love solves problems, because it doesn't. But it makes things bearable. And you can do a lot when you feel like things are bearable."
<ref>''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) | Dreamhearth]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

"All I ever wanted was to make life a little easier for people. If that's all I'm ever known for, I'll be content." <ref>''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 21</ref>

(Thought) “While Vasiht’h would never stop preferring to bake cookies, now...now he knew those cookies had been bought at a price, and that other people were actively engaged in paying it, all the time. Now he knew that those cookies were a blessing because they were a symbol that people valued peace enough to make it possible, even if they themselves couldn’t have it. And he...he had been one of the people, for a brief time, who’d paid with blood so that other people could bake, and laugh, and be disturbed at the reminders that violence existed.” <ref>''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]],'' "Keepers"</ref>

(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 15</ref>

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Jahir Seni Galare

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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]].

==Physical Appearance==

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>

==Family==
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]], and the lover of [[Lisinthir Nase 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>

He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].

==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>]

===Family===
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare.
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor

==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>

==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>

==References==
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Vasiht'h

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[[File:Vasihth-dreamhearth.png|300px|thumb|right|Vasiht'h]]

Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].

==Physical Description==
* Brown eyes.
* Black bangs.
* White eyebrows.
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref>
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

==Biography==
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare.

===Mindtouch===
Born on Ansealah to Marevhe, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he is in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he meets Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurs in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h is playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joins in, the children extract their promise to visit, and the friendship commences. Upon hearing that Jahir has not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggests Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agrees.

A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggles with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confides in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir find their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee); Amaranth and Persy (human) and Kuriel (Seersa), evening dinners with their quadmates – Merishiinal (Ciracaana) and Leina (Seersa); Brett (Seersa) and Lucrezia (Harat-Shar), Vasiht’h fears he is unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switches his focus to research and launches a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It is when he and Jahir are comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each feel the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it is when Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly enters Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explains mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year winds down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grows more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir is offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refuses to tell Jahir that he wants him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both feel their growing attachment, both fear the consequences. As the second year concludes, Vasiht’h realizes that he is better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also decides that Jahir needs to learn if he can manage the residency on his own, or if he shouldn’t be doing the medical program in the first place. With Vasiht’h’s encouragement, Jahir accepts the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he leaves, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain is not being left alone when those he must outlive die, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany leads Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)

===Mindline===
Vasiht’h arrives on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fuses their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately takes charge of Jahir’s health, which is deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation is complicated by a cluster of emergency patients, the cause of whose deaths no one can determine. Jahir enters one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and is nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enables Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir does learn that the deaths are drug-related, Vasiht’h is angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learns from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life is also endangered. When Jahir interposes himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h is furious but relents when Jahir promises not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h works with Jahir through the mindline not only to help uncover the name of the illegal drug, but also to keep the patients alive long enough for their families to say goodbye. The experience solidifies Vasiht’h’s role as guardian of Jahir’s health, while Jahir recovers from the ravages wrought by the Mediger’s Syndrome exacerbated by his time on Selnor. Upon their return to Seersana, Jahir having passed his residency early by virtue of his work at Mercy, Vasiht’h takes up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decides to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s worth of courses, plus their practicum work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline)

===Dreamhearth===
When Vasiht'h was traveling to join Jahir on Selnor, he had a layover on Starbase Veta and decided it was the ideal place for them to establish their practice. Unfortunately, they learn that, while Jahir would be granted residency immediately as a rare member of an allied species, Vasiht'h would have to wait to see if their work offered enough of a benefit for him to be allowed to stay as well. They settle in to begin offering their unique approach to xenotherapy and learn that their colleagues are withholding judgment and, in the case of human psychologist Allen Tiber, actively hostile. Yet they found an ally in Helga, an influential Hinichi therapist ready to retire. As their practice launched, Vasiht'h's discomfort with his and Jahir's disparate wealth began to build, especially since Jahir selected a temporary rental cottage for them in the expensive Garden District. At the same time, his sisters introduced him to the works of Rexina Regina, who writes romance novels featuring Eldritch, to "help" him with his relationship with Jahir. Continuing to confide in his younger sister Sevhi, Vasiht'h also struggles during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprises himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They build a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintains his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h is able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set aside his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approval approaches, Helga broaches the issue of their work on Selnor and questions their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimates that she plans to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust dies, Jahir and Vasiht'h find an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gift it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h receives the letter informing him that his residency application has been accepted, he celebrates by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retires and gives them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth)

===Dreamstorm===
About five years into their practice, Vasiht’h and Jahir attend the wedding of their former quadmate, Lucrezia, at the chapel complex at Seersana University. During a meal with their former quadmates, Vasiht’h notices how enthused and engrossed Jahir becomes when discussing medical matters with Brett and Leina. He has been sensing something similar through the mindline for a while, and during a visit to his former mentor, Professor Armin Palland, Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir has accumulated enough continuing education credits to take the test for a general Healer Assist. Upon their return, Vasiht’h broaches the topic with Jahir, who decides to take the three-day test, and in the location Vasiht’h proposes: the resort planet Tsera Nova. While Jahir tests on the orbital station, Vasiht’h enjoys the resort’s activities, during which he meets Kristyl, an extroverted and charismatic human, and Gladdie, her reserved Asanii companion and best friend. On the third day, he joins Krystal and the group of friends she has accumulated for a day-long cruise to see the cetaceans who perform for tourists. Kristyl, who has noticed that the seas are becoming rougher and the cloud formations unusual for a planet engineered for perfect weather at all times, insists on a “game” requiring everyone to wear their their life vests. On the return trip, a violent hurricane arises, and the boat is destroyed. Vasiht’h is thrown into the sea and struggles to keep swimming until Romeo, a seal in the show, brings two dolphins alongside for him to grab onto. They tow him to a life raft, where he’s hauled aboard, having suffered a broken wing. Eventually they reach the shore and take refuge in a control room on the resort’s Serenity Island. Kristyl and Vasiht’h volunteer to look for other survivors before the full strength of the storm arrives and find a Hinichii toddler. Meanwhile, Jahir, taking a break from the final portion of the test, sees the huge spiral cloud over the resort continent and learns about the disaster. Abandoning his last test, even though it means he will fail the entire thing, Jahir volunteers as a Healer Assist to pad down to the planet. While working, he finds Gladdie; together they work to calm the injured and their families. When the storm passes, Vasiht’h and the other survivors with him pad to the hospital, where he and Jahir are reunited. They return to Starbase Veta, but both are traumatized by their close call. Vasiht’h goes to see Alan Tiber, who helps him see that his discontent is based on his need for others’ validation of his life choices and that what he is doing in his therapy work has value. Jahir tells Vasiht’h that he failed the test because he came to save Vasiht’h. Both agreed that they love their current life and each other, but that does not prohibit Jahir from getting his Healer Assist degree as well. Jahir takes the test a second time, successfully. While he is gone, Kristyl and Gladdie, now a couple, visit Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)

===Family===
Nearly ten years into their practice, Jahir receives a request from his mother to attend the wedding of his cousin Juzie into a family with whom she hopes to strengthen alliance in support of their progressive Queen. The marriage of the two, still-young children, will seed openness in the allied family. She also includes Vasiht’h in the invitation, unexpected since the Eldritch do not welcome aliens to their planet. Vasiht’h agrees and accompanies Jahir to the Eldritch homeworld. Upon their arrival, Vasiht’h is stunned by the opulence of Jahir’s estate; he knew his friend was wealthy, but he had no idea of the extent of that wealth. When one of a group of Jahir’s peers make it clear that they consider Vasiht’h either a pet or a lover, Vasiht’h realizes he has a tough time ahead of him. Jahir is apologetic for having not prepared Vasiht’h adequately, explaining that he wanted someone “sane” by his side for this event. Jahir’s mother is gracious and welcoming, and he meets Jahir’s cousin, Sediryl. When Sediryl comes into the room, Vasiht’h gets a flash of powerful red through the mindline, before it slams down completely. He realizes that the powerful rush of passion he briefly felt is Jahir’s; he later confronts Jahir about the unpleasant slamming and “knives” and learns that Jahir loves Sediryl, but cannot marry her because she is his close cousin – indeed, Jahir will not discuss the topic further. At the reception leading up to the wedding, Vasiht’h is grossly insulted by the groom’s mother and leaves the manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted by the wedding guests and the groom’s mother, who declares that not only is it bad that Sediryl, a woman of “questionable morals” is with her, but that Juzie has broken the bridal rules by being with a non-family member before the wedding. Sediryl proposes that there exists a process through which Vasiht’h can become a family member. Vasiht’h agrees to undergo the test, over Jahir’s objections and concerns. He is taken to the manor’s chapel, where he drinks a mixture that may be toxic to his system. He passes out. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds Sediryl has tied him into an uncomfortable rope harness. She forces him out of the chapel into the nearby forest, tying him to a tree. She reveals that her plan is to foment something that will either destroy the Eldritch or force them to change by staging Vasiht’h’s death at the hands of the groom’s family. Vasiht’h tries to reason with her to no avail; she slices his side with a knife bearing the groom’s family sigil and leaves him to be eaten by wild animals. Vasiht’h’s last conscious act is to try to bury the knife so no one will know who abducted him. He awakes in Jahir’s arms in the chapel and learns that everything that occurred was in his mind and part of the test, which he has passed. Jeasa presents him with a medallion bearing the family crest, a unicorn; Queen Liolessa arrives, and he introduces himself as Vasiht’h Seni Galare. The wedding goes on as planned, after which Jahir and Vasiht’h, their connection now formally recognized by Jahir’s family, return to Starbase Veta. (Family)

TO BE CONTINUED.

==Family==
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist

Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevance to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]

==Children==
When Vasiht'h first applied to the Temple for his children, he was 29th in line for a surrogate. <ref name="ar-ch29">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' chapter 29</ref> It's also revealed in the same chapter that he was younger than his parents had been when they made their initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war cause him to miss his turn. When he and Jahir settle on Escutcheon, he learns it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. Not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort (so maybe a month or so shy of the promised year and a half), the Temple notifies Vasiht'h that his children are ready for pick-up (""Oh, Goddess, that sounds ridiculous. Like they're some kind of take-out meal I ordered."). The two of them, along with Vasiht'h's Aunt Drusti, Cousin Josti and Cousin Viht'hi, travel to Anseahla to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 4</ref> The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins.

On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht'h chooses as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 9</ref> They decide on:

*Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.
*Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.
*Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi.

Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 13</ref> At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 14</ref>

==Quotes==
"Sometimes when things change you, fixing them right away isn't the answer. Sometimes it's an opportunity." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 32</ref>

Sevhi: "Figured out how to achieve galactic peace yet?" Vasiht'h: "I'll let you know once a galactic war breaks out." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]]'', Chapter 28</ref>

"But we can't make the universe fair. That's too big a job for any one person. All we can do is receive the gifts we're given with gratitude and use them wisely. And help people, where we can, when we're able." <ref>''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm]]'', Chapter 7</ref>

"How could he be both an anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm]]'', Chapter 16 </ref>

"I guess people aren't always ready to hear something. You can tell them the exact same thing at different times, and if you tell them too early, they don't really hear you. They hear something on the inside of their heads." <ref>''Mindtouch (fiction) | Mindtouch'', Chapter 10</ref>

"This is the part they don't mention about college. That all the real learning takes place out of the classroom." <ref>''[[Mindtouch (fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 14</ref>

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions." <ref>''[[Mindtouch (fiction) | Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 20</ref>

"Not to say that love doesn't also create problems, because it does. Or that love solves problems, because it doesn't. But it makes things bearable. And you can do a lot when you feel like things are bearable."
<ref>''[[Dreamhearth (Fiction) | Dreamhearth]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

"All I ever wanted was to make life a little easier for people. If that's all I'm ever known for, I'll be content." <ref>''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 21</ref>

(Thought) “While Vasiht’h would never stop preferring to bake cookies, now...now he knew those cookies had been bought at a price, and that other people were actively engaged in paying it, all the time. Now he knew that those cookies were a blessing because they were a symbol that people valued peace enough to make it possible, even if they themselves couldn’t have it. And he...he had been one of the people, for a brief time, who’d paid with blood so that other people could bake, and laugh, and be disturbed at the reminders that violence existed.” <ref>''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]],'' "Keepers"</ref>

(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 15</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
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Vasiht'h

2020-11-20T23:04:08Z

Aethervox: /* Dreamstorm */ added missing name

[[File:Vasihth-dreamhearth.png|300px|thumb|right|Vasiht'h]]

Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].

==Physical Description==
* Brown eyes.
* Black bangs.
* White eyebrows.
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref>
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

==Biography==
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare.

===Mindtouch===
Born on Ansealah to Marevhe, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he is in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he meets Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurs in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h is playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joins in, the children extract their promise to visit, and the friendship commences. Upon hearing that Jahir has not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggests Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agrees.

A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggles with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confides in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir find their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee); Amaranth and Persy (human) and Kuriel (Seersa), evening dinners with their quadmates – Merishiinal (Ciracaana) and Leina (Seersa); Brett (Seersa) and Lucrezia (Harat-Shar), Vasiht’h fears he is unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switches his focus to research and launches a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It is when he and Jahir are comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each feel the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it is when Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly enters Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explains mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year winds down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grows more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir is offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refuses to tell Jahir that he wants him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both feel their growing attachment, both fear the consequences. As the second year concludes, Vasiht’h realizes that he is better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also decides that Jahir needs to learn if he can manage the residency on his own, or if he shouldn’t be doing the medical program in the first place. With Vasiht’h’s encouragement, Jahir accepts the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he leaves, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain is not being left alone when those he must outlive die, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany leads Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)

===Mindline===
Vasiht’h arrives on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fuses their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately takes charge of Jahir’s health, which is deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation is complicated by a cluster of emergency patients, the cause of whose deaths no one can determine. Jahir enters one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and is nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enables Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir does learn that the deaths are drug-related, Vasiht’h is angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learns from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life is also endangered. When Jahir interposes himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h is furious but relents when Jahir promises not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h works with Jahir through the mindline not only to help uncover the name of the illegal drug, but also to keep the patients alive long enough for their families to say goodbye. The experience solidifies Vasiht’h’s role as guardian of Jahir’s health, while Jahir recovers from the ravages wrought by the Mediger’s Syndrome exacerbated by his time on Selnor. Upon their return to Seersana, Jahir having passed his residency early by virtue of his work at Mercy, Vasiht’h takes up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decides to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s worth of courses, plus their practicum work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline)

===Dreamhearth===
When Vasiht'h was traveling to join Jahir on Selnor, he had a layover on Starbase Veta and decided it was the ideal place for them to establish their practice. Unfortunately, they learn that, while Jahir would be granted residency immediately as a rare member of an allied species, Vasiht'h would have to wait to see if their work offered enough of a benefit for him to be allowed to stay as well. They settle in to begin offering their unique approach to xenotherapy and learn that their colleagues are withholding judgment and, in the case of human psychologist Allen Tiber, actively hostile. Yet they found an ally in Helga, an influential Hinichi therapist ready to retire. As their practice launched, Vasiht'h's discomfort with his and Jahir's disparate wealth began to build, especially since Jahir selected a temporary rental cottage for them in the expensive Garden District. At the same time, his sisters introduced him to the works of Rexina Regina, who writes romance novels featuring Eldritch, to "help" him with his relationship with Jahir. Continuing to confide in his younger sister Sevhi, Vasiht'h also struggles during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprises himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They build a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintains his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h is able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set aside his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approval approaches, Helga broaches the issue of their work on Selnor and questions their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimates that she plans to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust dies, Jahir and Vasiht'h find an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gift it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h receives the letter informing him that his residency application has been accepted, he celebrates by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retires and gives them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth)

===Dreamstorm===
About five years into their practice, Vasiht’h and Jahir attend the wedding of their former quadmate, Lucrezia, at the chapel complex at Seersana University. During a meal with their former quadmates, Vasiht’h notices how enthused and engrossed Jahir becomes when discussing medical matters with Brett and Leina. He has been sensing something similar through the mindline for a while, and during a visit to his former mentor, Professor Armin Palland, Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir has accumulated enough continuing education credits to take the test for a general Healer Assist. Upon their return, Vasiht’h broaches the topic with Jahir, who decides to take the three-day test, and in the location Vasiht’h proposes: the resort planet Tsera Nova. While Jahir tests on the orbital station, Vasiht’h enjoys the resort’s activities, during which he meets Kristyl, an extroverted and charismatic human, and Gladdie, her reserved Asanii companion and best friend. On the third day, he joins Krystal and the group of friends she has accumulated for a day-long cruise to see the cetaceans who perform for tourists. Kristyl, who has noticed that the seas are becoming rougher and the cloud formations unusual for a planet engineered for perfect weather at all times, insists on a “game” requiring everyone to wear their their life vests. On the return trip, a violent hurricane arises, and the boat is destroyed. Vasiht’h is thrown into the sea and struggles to keep swimming until Romeo, a seal in the show, brings two dolphins alongside for him to grab onto. They tow him to a life raft, where he’s hauled aboard, having suffered a broken wing. Eventually they reach the shore and take refuge in a control room on the resort’s Serenity Island. Kristyl and Vasiht’h volunteer to look for other survivors before the full strength of the storm arrives and find a Hinichii toddler. Meanwhile, Jahir, taking a break from the final portion of the test, sees the huge spiral cloud over the resort continent and learns about the disaster. Abandoning his last test, even though it means he will fail the entire thing, Jahir volunteers as a Healer Assist to pad down to the planet. While working, he finds Gladdie; together they work to calm the injured and their families. When the storm passes, Vasiht’h and the other survivors with him pad to the hospital, where he and Jahir are reunited. They return to Starbase Veta, but both are traumatized by their close call. Vasiht’h goes to see Alan Tiber, who helps him see that his discontent is based on his need for others’ validation of his life choices and that what he is doing in his therapy work has value. Jahir tells Vasiht’h that he failed the test because he came to save Vasiht’h. Both agreed that they love their current life and each other, but that does not prohibit Jahir from getting his Healer Assist degree as well. Jahir takes the test a second time, successfully. While he is gone, Kristyl and Gladdie, now a couple, visit Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)

===Family===
Nearly ten years into their practice, Jahir receives a request from his mother to attend the wedding of his cousin Juzie into a family with whom she hopes to strengthen alliance in support of their progressive Queen. The marriage of the two, still-young children, will seed openness in the allied family. She also includes Vasiht’h in the invitation, unexpected since the Eldritch do not welcome aliens to their planet. Vasiht’h agrees and accompanies Jahir to the Eldritch homeworld. Upon their arrival, Vasiht’h is stunned by the opulence of Jahir’s estate; he knew his friend was wealthy, but he had no idea of the extent of that wealth. When one of a group of Jahir’s peers make it clear that they consider Vasiht’h either a pet or a lover, Vasiht’h realizes he has a tough time ahead of him. Jahir is apologetic for having not prepared Vasiht’h adequately, explaining that he wanted someone “sane” by his side for this event. Jahir’s mother is gracious and welcoming, and he meets Jahir’s cousin, Sediryl. When Sediryl comes into the room, Vasiht’h gets a flash of powerful red through the mindline, before it slams down completely. He realizes that the powerful rush of passion he briefly felt is Jahir’s; he later confronts Jahir about the unpleasant slamming and “knives” and learns that Jahir loves Sediryl, but cannot marry her because she is his close cousin – indeed, Jahir will not discuss the topic further. At the reception leading up to the wedding, Vasiht’h is grossly insulted by the groom’s mother and leaves the manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted by the wedding guests and the groom’s mother, who declares that not only is it bad that Sediryl, a woman of “questionable morals” is with her, but that Juzie has broken the bridal rules by being with a non-family member before the wedding. Sediryl proposes that there exists a process through which Vasiht’h can become a family member. Vasiht’h agrees to undergo the test, over Jahir’s objections and concerns. He is taken to the manor’s chapel, where he drinks a mixture that may be toxic to his system. He passes out. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds Sediryl has tied him into an uncomfortable rope harness. She forces him out of the chapel into the nearby forest, tying him to a tree. She reveals that her plan is to foment something that will either destroy the Eldritch or force them to change by staging Vasiht’h’s death at the hands of the groom’s family. Vasiht’h tries to reason with her to no avail; she slices his side with a knife bearing the groom’s family sigil and leaves him to be eaten by wild animals. Vasiht’h’s last conscious act is to try to bury the knife so no one will know who abducted him. He awakes in Jahir’s arms in the chapel and learns that everything that occurred was in his mind and part of the test, which he has passed. Jeasa presents him with a medallion bearing the family crest, a unicorn; Queen Liolessa arrives, and he introduces himself as Vasiht’h Seni Galare. The wedding goes on as planned, after which Jahir and Vasiht’h, their connection now formally recognized by Jahir’s family, return to Starbase Veta. (Family)

TO BE CONTINUED.

==Family==
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist

Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevance to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]

==Children==
When Vasiht'h first applied to the Temple for his children, he was 29th in line for a surrogate. <ref name="ar-ch29">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' chapter 29</ref> It's also revealed in the same chapter that he was younger than his parents had been when they made their initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war cause him to miss his turn. When he and Jahir settle on Escutcheon, he learns it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. Not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort (so maybe a month or so shy of the promised year and a half), the Temple notifies Vasiht'h that his children are ready for pick-up (""Oh, Goddess, that sounds ridiculous. Like they're some kind of take-out meal I ordered."). The two of them, along with Vasiht'h's Aunt Drusti, Cousin Josti and Cousin Viht'hi, travel to Anseahla to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 4</ref> The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins.

On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht'h chooses as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 9</ref> They decide on:

*Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.
*Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.
*Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi.

Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 13</ref> At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 14</ref>

==Quotes==
"Sometimes when things change you, fixing them right away isn't the answer. Sometimes it's an opportunity." <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref>

"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref>

Sevhi: "Figured out how to achieve galactic peace yet?" Vasiht'h: "I'll let you know once a galactic war breaks out." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 28</ref>

"But we can't make the universe fair. That's too big a job for any one person. All we can do is receive the gifts we're given with gratitude and use them wisely. And help people, where we can, when we're able." <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 7</ref>

"How could he be both an anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 16 </ref>

"I guess people aren't always ready to hear something. You can tell them the exact same thing at different times, and if you tell them too early, they don't really hear you. They hear something on the inside of their heads." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 10</ref>

"This is the part they don't mention about college. That all the real learning takes place out of the classroom." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 14</ref>

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 20</ref>

"Not to say that love doesn't also create problems, because it does. Or that love solves problems, because it doesn't. But it makes things bearable. And you can do a lot when you feel like things are bearable."
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref>

"All I ever wanted was to make life a little easier for people. If that's all I'm ever known for, I'll be content." <ref>From Ruins, Chapter 21</ref>

(Thought) “While Vasiht’h would never stop preferring to bake cookies, now...now he knew those cookies had been bought at a price, and that other people were actively engaged in paying it, all the time. Now he knew that those cookies were a blessing because they were a symbol that people valued peace enough to make it possible, even if they themselves couldn’t have it. And he...he had been one of the people, for a brief time, who’d paid with blood so that other people could bake, and laugh, and be disturbed at the reminders that violence existed.” <ref>Major Pieces, Keepers</ref>

(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>Some Things Transcend, Ch 15</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
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Vasiht'h

2020-11-20T23:00:30Z

Aethervox: /* Physical Description */ coded reference to Farmer's Crown

[[File:Vasihth-dreamhearth.png|300px|thumb|right|Vasiht'h]]

Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].

==Physical Description==
* Brown eyes.
* Black bangs.
* White eyebrows.
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref>
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

==Biography==
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare.

===Mindtouch===
Born on Ansealah to Marevhe, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he is in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he meets Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurs in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h is playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joins in, the children extract their promise to visit, and the friendship commences. Upon hearing that Jahir has not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggests Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agrees.

A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggles with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confides in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir find their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee); Amaranth and Persy (human) and Kuriel (Seersa), evening dinners with their quadmates – Merishiinal (Ciracaana) and Leina (Seersa); Brett (Seersa) and Lucrezia (Harat-Shar), Vasiht’h fears he is unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switches his focus to research and launches a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It is when he and Jahir are comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each feel the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it is when Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly enters Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explains mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year winds down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grows more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir is offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refuses to tell Jahir that he wants him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both feel their growing attachment, both fear the consequences. As the second year concludes, Vasiht’h realizes that he is better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also decides that Jahir needs to learn if he can manage the residency on his own, or if he shouldn’t be doing the medical program in the first place. With Vasiht’h’s encouragement, Jahir accepts the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he leaves, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain is not being left alone when those he must outlive die, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany leads Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)

===Mindline===
Vasiht’h arrives on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fuses their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately takes charge of Jahir’s health, which is deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation is complicated by a cluster of emergency patients, the cause of whose deaths no one can determine. Jahir enters one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and is nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enables Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir does learn that the deaths are drug-related, Vasiht’h is angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learns from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life is also endangered. When Jahir interposes himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h is furious but relents when Jahir promises not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h works with Jahir through the mindline not only to help uncover the name of the illegal drug, but also to keep the patients alive long enough for their families to say goodbye. The experience solidifies Vasiht’h’s role as guardian of Jahir’s health, while Jahir recovers from the ravages wrought by the Mediger’s Syndrome exacerbated by his time on Selnor. Upon their return to Seersana, Jahir having passed his residency early by virtue of his work at Mercy, Vasiht’h takes up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decides to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s worth of courses, plus their practicum work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline)

===Dreamhearth===
When Vasiht'h was traveling to join Jahir on Selnor, he had a layover on Starbase Veta and decided it was the ideal place for them to establish their practice. Unfortunately, they learn that, while Jahir would be granted residency immediately as a rare member of an allied species, Vasiht'h would have to wait to see if their work offered enough of a benefit for him to be allowed to stay as well. They settle in to begin offering their unique approach to xenotherapy and learn that their colleagues are withholding judgment and, in the case of human psychologist Allen Tiber, actively hostile. Yet they found an ally in Helga, an influential Hinichi therapist ready to retire. As their practice launched, Vasiht'h's discomfort with his and Jahir's disparate wealth began to build, especially since Jahir selected a temporary rental cottage for them in the expensive Garden District. At the same time, his sisters introduced him to the works of Rexina Regina, who writes romance novels featuring Eldritch, to "help" him with his relationship with Jahir. Continuing to confide in his younger sister Sevhi, Vasiht'h also struggles during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprises himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They build a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintains his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h is able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set aside his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approval approaches, Helga broaches the issue of their work on Selnor and questions their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimates that she plans to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust dies, Jahir and Vasiht'h find an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gift it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h receives the letter informing him that his residency application has been accepted, he celebrates by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retires and gives them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth)

===Dreamstorm===
About five years into their practice, Vasiht’h and Jahir attend the wedding of their former quadmate, Lucrezia, at the chapel complex at Seersana University. During a meal with their former quadmates, Vasiht’h notices how enthused and engrossed Jahir becomes when discussing medical matters with Brett and XXXX. He has been sensing something similar through the mindline for a while, and during a visit to his former mentor, Professor Armin Palland, Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir has accumulated enough continuing education credits to take the test for a general Healer Assist. Upon their return, Vasiht’h broaches the topic with Jahir, who decides to take the three-day test, and in the location Vasiht’h proposes: the resort planet Tsera Nova. While Jahir tests on the orbital station, Vasiht’h enjoys the resort’s activities, during which he meets Kristyl, an extroverted and charismatic human, and Gladdie, her reserved Asanii companion and best friend. On the third day, he joins Krystal and the group of friends she has accumulated for a day-long cruise to see the cetaceans who perform for tourists. Kristyl, who has noticed that the seas are becoming rougher and the cloud formations unusual for a planet engineered for perfect weather at all times, insists on a “game” requiring everyone to wear their their life vests. On the return trip, a violent hurricane arises, and the boat is destroyed. Vasiht’h is thrown into the sea and struggles to keep swimming until Romeo, a seal in the show, brings two dolphins alongside for him to grab onto. They tow him to a life raft, where he’s hauled aboard, having suffered a broken wing. Eventually they reach the shore and take refuge in a control room on the resort’s Serenity Island. Kristyl and Vasiht’h volunteer to look for other survivors before the full strength of the storm arrives and find a Hinichii toddler. Meanwhile, Jahir, taking a break from the final portion of the test, sees the huge spiral cloud over the resort continent and learns about the disaster. Abandoning his last test, even though it means he will fail the entire thing, Jahir volunteers as a Healer Assist to pad down to the planet. While working, he finds Gladdie; together they work to calm the injured and their families. When the storm passes, Vasiht’h and the other survivors with him pad to the hospital, where he and Jahir are reunited. They return to Starbase Veta, but both are traumatized by their close call. Vasiht’h goes to see Alan Tiber, who helps him see that his discontent is based on his need for others’ validation of his life choices and that what he is doing in his therapy work has value. Jahir tells Vasiht’h that he failed the test because he came to save Vasiht’h. Both agreed that they love their current life and each other, but that does not prohibit Jahir from getting his Healer Assist degree as well. Jahir takes the test a second time, successfully. While he is gone, Kristyl and Gladdie, now a couple, visit Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)

===Family===
Nearly ten years into their practice, Jahir receives a request from his mother to attend the wedding of his cousin Juzie into a family with whom she hopes to strengthen alliance in support of their progressive Queen. The marriage of the two, still-young children, will seed openness in the allied family. She also includes Vasiht’h in the invitation, unexpected since the Eldritch do not welcome aliens to their planet. Vasiht’h agrees and accompanies Jahir to the Eldritch homeworld. Upon their arrival, Vasiht’h is stunned by the opulence of Jahir’s estate; he knew his friend was wealthy, but he had no idea of the extent of that wealth. When one of a group of Jahir’s peers make it clear that they consider Vasiht’h either a pet or a lover, Vasiht’h realizes he has a tough time ahead of him. Jahir is apologetic for having not prepared Vasiht’h adequately, explaining that he wanted someone “sane” by his side for this event. Jahir’s mother is gracious and welcoming, and he meets Jahir’s cousin, Sediryl. When Sediryl comes into the room, Vasiht’h gets a flash of powerful red through the mindline, before it slams down completely. He realizes that the powerful rush of passion he briefly felt is Jahir’s; he later confronts Jahir about the unpleasant slamming and “knives” and learns that Jahir loves Sediryl, but cannot marry her because she is his close cousin – indeed, Jahir will not discuss the topic further. At the reception leading up to the wedding, Vasiht’h is grossly insulted by the groom’s mother and leaves the manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted by the wedding guests and the groom’s mother, who declares that not only is it bad that Sediryl, a woman of “questionable morals” is with her, but that Juzie has broken the bridal rules by being with a non-family member before the wedding. Sediryl proposes that there exists a process through which Vasiht’h can become a family member. Vasiht’h agrees to undergo the test, over Jahir’s objections and concerns. He is taken to the manor’s chapel, where he drinks a mixture that may be toxic to his system. He passes out. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds Sediryl has tied him into an uncomfortable rope harness. She forces him out of the chapel into the nearby forest, tying him to a tree. She reveals that her plan is to foment something that will either destroy the Eldritch or force them to change by staging Vasiht’h’s death at the hands of the groom’s family. Vasiht’h tries to reason with her to no avail; she slices his side with a knife bearing the groom’s family sigil and leaves him to be eaten by wild animals. Vasiht’h’s last conscious act is to try to bury the knife so no one will know who abducted him. He awakes in Jahir’s arms in the chapel and learns that everything that occurred was in his mind and part of the test, which he has passed. Jeasa presents him with a medallion bearing the family crest, a unicorn; Queen Liolessa arrives, and he introduces himself as Vasiht’h Seni Galare. The wedding goes on as planned, after which Jahir and Vasiht’h, their connection now formally recognized by Jahir’s family, return to Starbase Veta. (Family)

TO BE CONTINUED.

==Family==
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist

Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevance to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]

==Children==
When Vasiht'h first applied to the Temple for his children, he was 29th in line for a surrogate. <ref name="ar-ch29">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' chapter 29</ref> It's also revealed in the same chapter that he was younger than his parents had been when they made their initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war cause him to miss his turn. When he and Jahir settle on Escutcheon, he learns it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. Not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort (so maybe a month or so shy of the promised year and a half), the Temple notifies Vasiht'h that his children are ready for pick-up (""Oh, Goddess, that sounds ridiculous. Like they're some kind of take-out meal I ordered."). The two of them, along with Vasiht'h's Aunt Drusti, Cousin Josti and Cousin Viht'hi, travel to Anseahla to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 4</ref> The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins.

On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht'h chooses as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 9</ref> They decide on:

*Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.
*Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.
*Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi.

Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 13</ref> At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 14</ref>

==Quotes==
"Sometimes when things change you, fixing them right away isn't the answer. Sometimes it's an opportunity." <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref>

"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref>

Sevhi: "Figured out how to achieve galactic peace yet?" Vasiht'h: "I'll let you know once a galactic war breaks out." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 28</ref>

"But we can't make the universe fair. That's too big a job for any one person. All we can do is receive the gifts we're given with gratitude and use them wisely. And help people, where we can, when we're able." <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 7</ref>

"How could he be both an anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 16 </ref>

"I guess people aren't always ready to hear something. You can tell them the exact same thing at different times, and if you tell them too early, they don't really hear you. They hear something on the inside of their heads." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 10</ref>

"This is the part they don't mention about college. That all the real learning takes place out of the classroom." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 14</ref>

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 20</ref>

"Not to say that love doesn't also create problems, because it does. Or that love solves problems, because it doesn't. But it makes things bearable. And you can do a lot when you feel like things are bearable."
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref>

"All I ever wanted was to make life a little easier for people. If that's all I'm ever known for, I'll be content." <ref>From Ruins, Chapter 21</ref>

(Thought) “While Vasiht’h would never stop preferring to bake cookies, now...now he knew those cookies had been bought at a price, and that other people were actively engaged in paying it, all the time. Now he knew that those cookies were a blessing because they were a symbol that people valued peace enough to make it possible, even if they themselves couldn’t have it. And he...he had been one of the people, for a brief time, who’d paid with blood so that other people could bake, and laugh, and be disturbed at the reminders that violence existed.” <ref>Major Pieces, Keepers</ref>

(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>Some Things Transcend, Ch 15</ref>

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Vasiht'h

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[[File:Vasihth-dreamhearth.png|300px|thumb|right|Vasiht'h]]

Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].

==Physical Description==
* Brown eyes.
* Black bangs.
* White eyebrows.
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref>
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref>

==Biography==
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare.

===Mindtouch===
Born on Ansealah to Marevhe, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he is in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he meets Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurs in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h is playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joins in, the children extract their promise to visit, and the friendship commences. Upon hearing that Jahir has not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggests Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agrees.

A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggles with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confides in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir find their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee); Amaranth and Persy (human) and Kuriel (Seersa), evening dinners with their quadmates – Merishiinal (Ciracaana) and Leina (Seersa); Brett (Seersa) and Lucrezia (Harat-Shar), Vasiht’h fears he is unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switches his focus to research and launches a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It is when he and Jahir are comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each feel the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it is when Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly enters Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explains mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year winds down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grows more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir is offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refuses to tell Jahir that he wants him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both feel their growing attachment, both fear the consequences. As the second year concludes, Vasiht’h realizes that he is better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also decides that Jahir needs to learn if he can manage the residency on his own, or if he shouldn’t be doing the medical program in the first place. With Vasiht’h’s encouragement, Jahir accepts the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he leaves, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain is not being left alone when those he must outlive die, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany leads Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)

===Mindline===
Vasiht’h arrives on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fuses their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately takes charge of Jahir’s health, which is deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation is complicated by a cluster of emergency patients, the cause of whose deaths no one can determine. Jahir enters one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and is nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enables Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir does learn that the deaths are drug-related, Vasiht’h is angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learns from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life is also endangered. When Jahir interposes himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h is furious but relents when Jahir promises not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h works with Jahir through the mindline not only to help uncover the name of the illegal drug, but also to keep the patients alive long enough for their families to say goodbye. The experience solidifies Vasiht’h’s role as guardian of Jahir’s health, while Jahir recovers from the ravages wrought by the Mediger’s Syndrome exacerbated by his time on Selnor. Upon their return to Seersana, Jahir having passed his residency early by virtue of his work at Mercy, Vasiht’h takes up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decides to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s worth of courses, plus their practicum work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline)

===Dreamhearth===
When Vasiht'h was traveling to join Jahir on Selnor, he had a layover on Starbase Veta and decided it was the ideal place for them to establish their practice. Unfortunately, they learn that, while Jahir would be granted residency immediately as a rare member of an allied species, Vasiht'h would have to wait to see if their work offered enough of a benefit for him to be allowed to stay as well. They settle in to begin offering their unique approach to xenotherapy and learn that their colleagues are withholding judgment and, in the case of human psychologist Allen Tiber, actively hostile. Yet they found an ally in Helga, an influential Hinichi therapist ready to retire. As their practice launched, Vasiht'h's discomfort with his and Jahir's disparate wealth began to build, especially since Jahir selected a temporary rental cottage for them in the expensive Garden District. At the same time, his sisters introduced him to the works of Rexina Regina, who writes romance novels featuring Eldritch, to "help" him with his relationship with Jahir. Continuing to confide in his younger sister Sevhi, Vasiht'h also struggles during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprises himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They build a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintains his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h is able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set aside his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approval approaches, Helga broaches the issue of their work on Selnor and questions their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimates that she plans to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust dies, Jahir and Vasiht'h find an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gift it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h receives the letter informing him that his residency application has been accepted, he celebrates by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retires and gives them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth)

===Dreamstorm===
About five years into their practice, Vasiht’h and Jahir attend the wedding of their former quadmate, Lucrezia, at the chapel complex at Seersana University. During a meal with their former quadmates, Vasiht’h notices how enthused and engrossed Jahir becomes when discussing medical matters with Brett and XXXX. He has been sensing something similar through the mindline for a while, and during a visit to his former mentor, Professor Armin Palland, Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir has accumulated enough continuing education credits to take the test for a general Healer Assist. Upon their return, Vasiht’h broaches the topic with Jahir, who decides to take the three-day test, and in the location Vasiht’h proposes: the resort planet Tsera Nova. While Jahir tests on the orbital station, Vasiht’h enjoys the resort’s activities, during which he meets Kristyl, an extroverted and charismatic human, and Gladdie, her reserved Asanii companion and best friend. On the third day, he joins Krystal and the group of friends she has accumulated for a day-long cruise to see the cetaceans who perform for tourists. Kristyl, who has noticed that the seas are becoming rougher and the cloud formations unusual for a planet engineered for perfect weather at all times, insists on a “game” requiring everyone to wear their their life vests. On the return trip, a violent hurricane arises, and the boat is destroyed. Vasiht’h is thrown into the sea and struggles to keep swimming until Romeo, a seal in the show, brings two dolphins alongside for him to grab onto. They tow him to a life raft, where he’s hauled aboard, having suffered a broken wing. Eventually they reach the shore and take refuge in a control room on the resort’s Serenity Island. Kristyl and Vasiht’h volunteer to look for other survivors before the full strength of the storm arrives and find a Hinichii toddler. Meanwhile, Jahir, taking a break from the final portion of the test, sees the huge spiral cloud over the resort continent and learns about the disaster. Abandoning his last test, even though it means he will fail the entire thing, Jahir volunteers as a Healer Assist to pad down to the planet. While working, he finds Gladdie; together they work to calm the injured and their families. When the storm passes, Vasiht’h and the other survivors with him pad to the hospital, where he and Jahir are reunited. They return to Starbase Veta, but both are traumatized by their close call. Vasiht’h goes to see Alan Tiber, who helps him see that his discontent is based on his need for others’ validation of his life choices and that what he is doing in his therapy work has value. Jahir tells Vasiht’h that he failed the test because he came to save Vasiht’h. Both agreed that they love their current life and each other, but that does not prohibit Jahir from getting his Healer Assist degree as well. Jahir takes the test a second time, successfully. While he is gone, Kristyl and Gladdie, now a couple, visit Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)

===Family===
Nearly ten years into their practice, Jahir receives a request from his mother to attend the wedding of his cousin Juzie into a family with whom she hopes to strengthen alliance in support of their progressive Queen. The marriage of the two, still-young children, will seed openness in the allied family. She also includes Vasiht’h in the invitation, unexpected since the Eldritch do not welcome aliens to their planet. Vasiht’h agrees and accompanies Jahir to the Eldritch homeworld. Upon their arrival, Vasiht’h is stunned by the opulence of Jahir’s estate; he knew his friend was wealthy, but he had no idea of the extent of that wealth. When one of a group of Jahir’s peers make it clear that they consider Vasiht’h either a pet or a lover, Vasiht’h realizes he has a tough time ahead of him. Jahir is apologetic for having not prepared Vasiht’h adequately, explaining that he wanted someone “sane” by his side for this event. Jahir’s mother is gracious and welcoming, and he meets Jahir’s cousin, Sediryl. When Sediryl comes into the room, Vasiht’h gets a flash of powerful red through the mindline, before it slams down completely. He realizes that the powerful rush of passion he briefly felt is Jahir’s; he later confronts Jahir about the unpleasant slamming and “knives” and learns that Jahir loves Sediryl, but cannot marry her because she is his close cousin – indeed, Jahir will not discuss the topic further. At the reception leading up to the wedding, Vasiht’h is grossly insulted by the groom’s mother and leaves the manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted by the wedding guests and the groom’s mother, who declares that not only is it bad that Sediryl, a woman of “questionable morals” is with her, but that Juzie has broken the bridal rules by being with a non-family member before the wedding. Sediryl proposes that there exists a process through which Vasiht’h can become a family member. Vasiht’h agrees to undergo the test, over Jahir’s objections and concerns. He is taken to the manor’s chapel, where he drinks a mixture that may be toxic to his system. He passes out. Upon regaining consciousness, he finds Sediryl has tied him into an uncomfortable rope harness. She forces him out of the chapel into the nearby forest, tying him to a tree. She reveals that her plan is to foment something that will either destroy the Eldritch or force them to change by staging Vasiht’h’s death at the hands of the groom’s family. Vasiht’h tries to reason with her to no avail; she slices his side with a knife bearing the groom’s family sigil and leaves him to be eaten by wild animals. Vasiht’h’s last conscious act is to try to bury the knife so no one will know who abducted him. He awakes in Jahir’s arms in the chapel and learns that everything that occurred was in his mind and part of the test, which he has passed. Jeasa presents him with a medallion bearing the family crest, a unicorn; Queen Liolessa arrives, and he introduces himself as Vasiht’h Seni Galare. The wedding goes on as planned, after which Jahir and Vasiht’h, their connection now formally recognized by Jahir’s family, return to Starbase Veta. (Family)

TO BE CONTINUED.

==Family==
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist

Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevance to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]

==Children==
When Vasiht'h first applied to the Temple for his children, he was 29th in line for a surrogate. <ref name="ar-ch29">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' chapter 29</ref> It's also revealed in the same chapter that he was younger than his parents had been when they made their initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war cause him to miss his turn. When he and Jahir settle on Escutcheon, he learns it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. Not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort (so maybe a month or so shy of the promised year and a half), the Temple notifies Vasiht'h that his children are ready for pick-up (""Oh, Goddess, that sounds ridiculous. Like they're some kind of take-out meal I ordered."). The two of them, along with Vasiht'h's Aunt Drusti, Cousin Josti and Cousin Viht'hi, travel to Anseahla to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 4</ref> The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins.

On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht'h chooses as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 9</ref> They decide on:

*Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.
*Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.
*Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi.

Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 13</ref> At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess.<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) |Heartskein]],'' chapter 14</ref>

==Quotes==
"Sometimes when things change you, fixing them right away isn't the answer. Sometimes it's an opportunity." <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref>

"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref>

Sevhi: "Figured out how to achieve galactic peace yet?" Vasiht'h: "I'll let you know once a galactic war breaks out." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 28</ref>

"But we can't make the universe fair. That's too big a job for any one person. All we can do is receive the gifts we're given with gratitude and use them wisely. And help people, where we can, when we're able." <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 7</ref>

"How could he be both an anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 16 </ref>

"I guess people aren't always ready to hear something. You can tell them the exact same thing at different times, and if you tell them too early, they don't really hear you. They hear something on the inside of their heads." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 10</ref>

"This is the part they don't mention about college. That all the real learning takes place out of the classroom." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 14</ref>

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 20</ref>

"Not to say that love doesn't also create problems, because it does. Or that love solves problems, because it doesn't. But it makes things bearable. And you can do a lot when you feel like things are bearable."
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref>

"All I ever wanted was to make life a little easier for people. If that's all I'm ever known for, I'll be content." <ref>From Ruins, Chapter 21</ref>

(Thought) “While Vasiht’h would never stop preferring to bake cookies, now...now he knew those cookies had been bought at a price, and that other people were actively engaged in paying it, all the time. Now he knew that those cookies were a blessing because they were a symbol that people valued peace enough to make it possible, even if they themselves couldn’t have it. And he...he had been one of the people, for a brief time, who’d paid with blood so that other people could bake, and laugh, and be disturbed at the reminders that violence existed.” <ref>Major Pieces, Keepers</ref>

(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>Some Things Transcend, Ch 15</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
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Jahir Seni Galare

2020-11-20T22:41:32Z

Aethervox: /* Quotes */ edited reference for Mindline quote

[[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]].

==Physical Appearance==

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>

==Family==
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]], and the lover of [[Lisinthir Nase 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>

He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].

==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>]

===Family===
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare.
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor

==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>

==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

2020-11-20T22:31:17Z

Aethervox: /* Mindtouch */ Added name and species of Merishiinal's flatmate

[[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]].

==Physical Appearance==

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>

==Family==
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]], and the lover of [[Lisinthir Nase 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>

He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].

==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>]

===Family===
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare.
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor

==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)|]]'' Chapter 9</ref>

==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>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]] [[Category:Princes' Game Characters]][[Category:Mindtouch Characters]] [[Category:Mindline Characters]] [[Category:Dreamhearth Characters]] [[Category:Dreamstorm Characters]] [[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]] [[Category:Amulet Rampant Characters]] [[Category:Only the Open Characters]] [[Category:In Extremis Characters]] [[Category:From Ruins Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]] [[Category:Healer's Wedding Characters]] [[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]] [[Category:Heartskein Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Seni Characters]]

Esper Talents

2020-11-20T22:22:50Z

Aethervox: /* Development */

I can kill you with my mind.

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 be linked to the possession of wings. 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>

=== 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 One</ref>

==Glaseah==
Something here about how they teach each other, and the primers they use. (can get this from Heartskein)

===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) (did I spell that right)
# sa'tih (mind healer)

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

===Mindlines===

Put some stuff in here about what they are and how the work (Mindtouch and Mindline being the obvious key sources).

====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]]

Esper Talents

2020-11-20T22:22:11Z

Aethervox: /* Development */ fixed reference to Amulet Rampant

I can kill you with my mind.

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 be linked to the possession of wings. 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>

=== 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 One</ref>

==Glaseah==
Something here about how they teach each other, and the primers they use. (can get this from Heartskein)

===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) (did I spell that right)
# sa'tih (mind healer)

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

===Mindlines===

Put some stuff in here about what they are and how the work (Mindtouch and Mindline being the obvious key sources).

====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]]

Esper Talents

2020-11-16T16:36:32Z

Aethervox: /* Eldritch */ added information on Pattern Sensing and Kindling

I can kill you with my mind.

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 be linked to the possession of wings. 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>

=== 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 One</ref>

==Glaseah==
Something here about how they teach each other, and the primers they use. (can get this from Heartskein)

===Development===
Kits receive a 'mind-flowering' gift when they first show signs of developing talent. <ref>''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) (did I spell that right)
# sa'tih (mind healer)

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

===Mindlines===

Put some stuff in here about what they are and how the work (Mindtouch and Mindline being the obvious key sources).

====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]]

Sascha

2020-11-16T15:59:48Z

Aethervox: /* Biography */ cleaned up tag format for Laisrathera Characters, removed tag for human character.

A [[Harat-Shar]] tigraine, one of Reese Edding's employee on the [[TMS Earthrise]].

==Physical Appearance==

==Family==
Seventeen siblings other than his twin; their father had seven wives. <ref name="er-02">Earthrise, Part 2 Probably, Page 141-142</ref>
* [[Irine]] - twin sister
* [[Zhemala]] - one of Irine and Sascha's mothers (though not their birth-mother), and first wife to their father
* Mascher - Irine and Sascha's father

==Biography==

Most of the crew of the [[TMS Earthrise]] were hired 3 years before the start of the book Earthrise. Sascha was the first or second to be hired by [[Reese]], she hired the twins first. <ref>Earthrise Part One</ref>

During the Solstice Vigil, was given a heated blanket from [[Reese]], feathers from [[Bryer]], cinnamon oil from [[Kis'eh't]], a wooden box with a dagger sheathed in leather and ivory from [[Hirianthial]], [[Solysyrril Anderby |Soly]]'s hold to be detached to Escutcheon for at least a year for [[Narain]] to be with Sascha and Irine from [[Liolesa]]. <ref>"A Rose Point Holiday"</ref>

<references />

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Liolesa Galare

2020-11-15T00:08:49Z

Aethervox: /* Trivia */ add info about knowing where their colony ship is

[[File:liolesa.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Liolesa Sketch]]

Empress of the [[Eldritch]] Empire. Head of the [[Galare (House)|Galare]], the imperial House.

Pronounced ''lee-OH-less-AH.''<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref>

==Physical Description==
Has tawny/light brownish-amber eyes. She shares the shape of her face and chin with [[Hirianthial]] and his brother Baniel. The combination (face shape and eyes) are reminiscent enough of Jerisa that some of the older Eldritch approved of Maraesa's selection of her for heir based on the resemblance. <ref name="priv">Author's private notes</ref>

===Powers===
Touching anyone, even briefly, makes her see how they fit into the Pattern, which makes her uncomfortable; she doesn't touch because (as often as not), she prefers not to start deciding where to slot people so they will best serve the Pattern. <ref name="fc-04" />

==Biography==
===The Heir===
Liolesa was born before the Pelted were even engineered on Earth, and she was heir when see Maraesa made the treaty with them. She became the heir during a winter vigil/investiture, and her vigil gatekeepers were her confessor from childhood, [[Tasisaressa Delen Galare | Elder Tasisaressa]]; and Hirianthial, who joined the Swords when Liolesa was selected by Maraesa as her heir. <ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref> At the time, her chief concern was the growing class divide in the Eldritch population, between those who labored and those who ruled them... but during her vigil, she had a vision of a future that would ask far more of her than the oversight of the Eldritch's society. It was also during that vigil that her nascent talent for Pattern-sensing bloomed. <ref name="mp-pv" />

After she became heir, Maraesa sent her on several missions to the Alliance, acting as her ambassador. She also took multiple covert trips off-planet over a period of two centuries. Her cover for these trips was meditation retreats to the [[convents |Convent of Saint Wilthelmissa]]. Some of these trips involved helping others, as when she escorted Fassiana to the Alliance to find her help conceiving. (And also when she discovered she was infertile herself.<ref name="FC13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>) Some of those trips furthered her love affair with Pieter (a human geneticist). <ref name="RP3">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) | Rose Point]],'' Part Three</ref> Hirianthial, who was at the time the captain of her White Sword contingent, didn't know about these trips off-world.

===The New Queen===
The moment she saw Fasianyl enter her throneroom with Sellelvi at her side, she'd known that her people would one day include more than the Eldritch. <ref name="fc-04">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

It is not long after she's crowned that she ceases to use Hirianthial's milk name.

Somewhere near the end of this period she hires Maia also.

===The Empress===
Liolesa is over 600 years old and is of an age with [[Hirianthial]].<ref name="er-01">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]]'', Part One</ref> Not long after he married, she began hoping that he and Laiselin would produce a daughter she could tap as heir, having begun to see errors in Bethsaida that would render her unsuitable.<ref name="priv">Author's private notes</ref> But Laiselin died in childbirth, and Hirianthial left the planet not long after. She gave him the work of discovering the whereabouts of the missing Eldritch (most of whom were taken by the slave trade). Six years prior to the misadventures that necessitated his rescue, Liolesa began cultivating merchants, including the human trader [[Reese Eddings]], sending her an encrypted message and enough money to rescue her from debt. <ref name="er-01" />

===Family===
* Liolesa’s parents: Rylaniel Jesa, Jerisa’s daughter, and Toltheniv Delen.
* Maraesa was Rylaniel’s sister. Rylaniel’s brother, [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]], married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]], and these were Hirianthial and Baniel’s parents.
* Liolesa’s other cousins, Maraesa’s two children, were Besinir Jesa (m) and Anariel Jesa (f)—the latter is the one who produced Bethsaida’s father.

==Quotes==
* "If we wait to act until we're certain, we will never act." <ref name="FC13"/>

==Trivia==
* During the Solstice Vigil, Liolesa received toys from [[Bryer]], [[Irine]], [[Sascha]], and [[Kis'eh't]] - a ball of goo that always bounced back to shape, no matter how hard it was thrown, smashed, or torn; a sliding metal puzzle; a bead that projected a starfield; a pocket sized board that could be used to play four different games; and a palm sized palomino horse plush. From [[Hirianthial]], she received a Book of Hours from the [[Convents |Convent of Saint Wilthelmissa]] and from [[Reese]], a pouch hammock of pastel cords with a matching blanket of pale yellow and pillows of white and cloud blue. <ref name="rph-04">''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction) |A Rose Point Holiday]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* likes almond liqueur
* does not admit people to her private morning time until she likes them, and doesn't stand on formality during that period <ref name="fc-04" />
* has a health scan "every century or so" <ref name="FC13"/>
* had conversations with [[Hirianthial]], before she was chosen as Heir, about whether "there was any use plundering what was left of the ship for parts to make their lives more tenable, and if there was anything left worth scavenging"<ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref>

===Body Language===
*is capable of ridiculous feats of bodily self-control (to the point of her pupils not changing size). Lets her guard down around people she knows and likes, though. <ref name="FC13"/>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]
[[Category:Her Instruments Characters]]
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]] [[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Jesa Characters]] [[Category:Jesa Noble Characters]]

Maraesa Galare

2020-11-14T23:56:06Z

Aethervox: /* Biography */ added section for children

Liolesa's aunt, and the Queen prior to her. (Was married.)

==Physical Characteristics==

==Biography==
Liolesa's aunt.

===Children===
From [[Liolesa Galare]] page

*Besinir (m.)

*Anariel (f.)
**Anariel is the mother of [[Bethsaida Emil Galare | Bethsaida's ]] father.

==Quotes==
"Time is our most precious resource, and there is never enough of it. Cry to the Goddess, scream into your pillow, or write your gravest secrets and passions on the page… and immediately burn it. Otherwise, find surcease in duty. Duty will never fail you." <ref>"Disengage," Major Pieces.</ref>

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]] [[Category:Historical Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]] [[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]

Jerisa Galare

2020-11-14T23:51:39Z

Aethervox: Added Biography section as well as Children section

First Queen of the Eldritch. Very briefly married, stayed unmarried thereafter.

==Biography==
===Children===
(From [[Liolesa Galare]] page)

[[Rylaniel Jesa Galare | Rylanial Jesa]] (f), married Totheniv Delen. She is[[Liolesa Galare | Liolesa's]] mother.

[[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (m), married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]]. He is the father of [[Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel]].

[[Maraesa Galare]] (f). She is the mother of Besinir Jesa (m) and Anariel Jesa (f). Anariel is the paternal grandmother of [[Bethsaida]].

[[Category:Historical Characters]] [[Category:Galare Characters]]
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Liolesa Galare

2020-11-14T22:32:19Z

Aethervox: /* The Empress */ corrected reference formatting

[[File:liolesa.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Liolesa Sketch]]

Empress of the [[Eldritch]] Empire. Head of the [[Galare (House)|Galare]], the imperial House.

Pronounced ''lee-OH-less-AH.''<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref>

==Physical Description==
Has tawny/light brownish-amber eyes. She shares the shape of her face and chin with [[Hirianthial]] and his brother Baniel. The combination (face shape and eyes) are reminiscent enough of Jerisa that some of the older Eldritch approved of Maraesa's selection of her for heir based on the resemblance. <ref name="priv">Author's private notes</ref>

===Powers===
Touching anyone, even briefly, makes her see how they fit into the Pattern, which makes her uncomfortable; she doesn't touch because (as often as not), she prefers not to start deciding where to slot people so they will best serve the Pattern. <ref name="fc-04" />

==Biography==
===The Heir===
Liolesa was born before the Pelted were even engineered on Earth, and she was heir when see Maraesa made the treaty with them. She became the heir during a winter vigil/investiture, and her vigil gatekeepers were her confessor from childhood, [[Tasisaressa Delen Galare | Elder Tasisaressa]]; and Hirianthial, who joined the Swords when Liolesa was selected by Maraesa as her heir. <ref name="mp-pv">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Prophet's Vigil"</ref> At the time, her chief concern was the growing class divide in the Eldritch population, between those who labored and those who ruled them... but during her vigil, she had a vision of a future that would ask far more of her than the oversight of the Eldritch's society. It was also during that vigil that her nascent talent for Pattern-sensing bloomed. <ref name="mp-pv" />

After she became heir, Maraesa sent her on several missions to the Alliance, acting as her ambassador. She also took multiple covert trips off-planet over a period of two centuries. Her cover for these trips was meditation retreats to the [[convents |Convent of Saint Wilthelmissa]]. Some of these trips involved helping others, as when she escorted Fassiana to the Alliance to find her help conceiving. (And also when she discovered she was infertile herself.<ref name="FC13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>) Some of those trips furthered her love affair with Pieter (a human geneticist). <ref name="RP3">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) | Rose Point]],'' Part Three</ref> Hirianthial, who was at the time the captain of her White Sword contingent, didn't know about these trips off-world.

===The New Queen===
The moment she saw Fasianyl enter her throneroom with Sellelvi at her side, she'd known that her people would one day include more than the Eldritch. <ref name="fc-04">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

It is not long after she's crowned that she ceases to use Hirianthial's milk name.

Somewhere near the end of this period she hires Maia also.

===The Empress===
Liolesa is over 600 years old and is of an age with [[Hirianthial]].<ref name="er-01">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]]'', Part One</ref> Not long after he married, she began hoping that he and Laiselin would produce a daughter she could tap as heir, having begun to see errors in Bethsaida that would render her unsuitable.<ref name="priv">Author's private notes</ref> But Laiselin died in childbirth, and Hirianthial left the planet not long after. She gave him the work of discovering the whereabouts of the missing Eldritch (most of whom were taken by the slave trade). Six years prior to the misadventures that necessitated his rescue, Liolesa began cultivating merchants, including the human trader [[Reese Eddings]], sending her an encrypted message and enough money to rescue her from debt. <ref name="er-01" />

===Family===
* Liolesa’s parents: Rylaniel Jesa, Jerisa’s daughter, and Toltheniv Delen.
* Maraesa was Rylaniel’s sister. Rylaniel’s brother, [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]], married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]], and these were Hirianthial and Baniel’s parents.
* Liolesa’s other cousins, Maraesa’s two children, were Besinir Jesa (m) and Anariel Jesa (f)—the latter is the one who produced Bethsaida’s father.

==Quotes==
* "If we wait to act until we're certain, we will never act." <ref name="FC13"/>

==Trivia==
* During the Solstice Vigil, Liolesa received toys from [[Bryer]], [[Irine]], [[Sascha]], and [[Kis'eh't]] - a ball of goo that always bounced back to shape, no matter how hard it was thrown, smashed, or torn; a sliding metal puzzle; a bead that projected a starfield; a pocket sized board that could be used to play four different games; and a palm sized palomino horse plush. From [[Hirianthial]], she received a Book of Hours from the [[Convents |Convent of Saint Wilthelmissa]] and from [[Reese]], a pouch hammock of pastel cords with a matching blanket of pale yellow and pillows of white and cloud blue. <ref name="rph-04">''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction) |A Rose Point Holiday]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* likes almond liqueur
* does not admit people to her private morning time until she likes them, and doesn't stand on formality during that period <ref name="fc-04" />
* has a health scan "every century or so" <ref name="FC13"/>

===Body Language===
*is capable of ridiculous feats of bodily self-control (to the point of her pupils not changing size). Lets her guard down around people she knows and likes, though. <ref name="FC13"/>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]
[[Category:Her Instruments Characters]]
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]
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Hautsuun (Knife)

2020-11-09T01:07:31Z

Aethervox: /* Physical Characteristics */ removed extra "

[[File:Illo-WorldlordsSon.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Worldlord's Son]]

The Worldlord's second son, who was Reserve-East, the head of the Eastern Naval Reserve, and is now the Knife.

==Physical Characteristics==

He is older by about a decade than the previous Knife. <ref name="mp-air">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Air-Dancing"</ref>

His eyes are orange. <ref name="ie-22">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) | In Extremis]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

==Biography==
Started out in engineering, advanced in the Navy until he became the commander of the Eastern Naval Reserve. He still has the habit of methodical thought he learned to become an excellent engineer, and might have remained one had he not he sought the power that command brings: a true son of the Worldlord, practical as well as successful. <ref name="mp-air" /> While commanding the Eastern Naval Reserve he drilled them to standards unusual for reservists. <ref name="fr-10">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

He trusts but doesn't understand his father, and he knows his dam though she "may not remember" him; "she does not always remember things from day to day."<ref name="ie-22">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) | In Extremis]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

He was present for the battle at Apex-East, serving as the Admiral-Offense's flag captain. <ref name="fr-10" />

==Quotes==
* "I have been increasingly concerned, Exalted… what Logistics-East has done, and Command-East… it isn’t right. To turn on a huntbrother this way and savage his flank. The navy has always had its ritualized contests because it is what we are. But this was no contest. No fair test. It was… It was treachery. When my sire contacted me, I was already hoping for a solution to this problem. He said we should back you because you would create a more sane empire."<ref name="ie-22" />

* "My sire is… eccentric. We trust him, but do not always understand him."<ref name="ie-22" />

* "I watch because your safety is my duty. My place is among the crews who guard you. But afterwards, I watch the viseos, because it is Beauty." <ref name="mp-air" />

* "Knowledge is armament." <ref name="fc-05">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 5</ref>

==Trivia==
* is learning Universal, which he deems "not difficult", unlike the "one the Ambassador speaks to his own species." <ref name="fc-05" />
* learned to ride a horse during the first visit to Escutcheon <ref name="fc-16">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 16</ref>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]] [[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]]
[[Category:From Ruins Characters]]

Hautsuun (Knife)

2020-11-09T01:07:01Z

Aethervox: /* Physical Characteristics */ added eye color

[[File:Illo-WorldlordsSon.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Worldlord's Son]]

The Worldlord's second son, who was Reserve-East, the head of the Eastern Naval Reserve, and is now the Knife.

==Physical Characteristics==

He is older by about a decade than the previous Knife. <ref name="mp-air">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Air-Dancing"</ref>

His eyes are orange. "<ref name="ie-22">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) | In Extremis]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

==Biography==
Started out in engineering, advanced in the Navy until he became the commander of the Eastern Naval Reserve. He still has the habit of methodical thought he learned to become an excellent engineer, and might have remained one had he not he sought the power that command brings: a true son of the Worldlord, practical as well as successful. <ref name="mp-air" /> While commanding the Eastern Naval Reserve he drilled them to standards unusual for reservists. <ref name="fr-10">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) | From Ruins]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

He trusts but doesn't understand his father, and he knows his dam though she "may not remember" him; "she does not always remember things from day to day."<ref name="ie-22">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) | In Extremis]]'', Chapter 22</ref>

He was present for the battle at Apex-East, serving as the Admiral-Offense's flag captain. <ref name="fr-10" />

==Quotes==
* "I have been increasingly concerned, Exalted… what Logistics-East has done, and Command-East… it isn’t right. To turn on a huntbrother this way and savage his flank. The navy has always had its ritualized contests because it is what we are. But this was no contest. No fair test. It was… It was treachery. When my sire contacted me, I was already hoping for a solution to this problem. He said we should back you because you would create a more sane empire."<ref name="ie-22" />

* "My sire is… eccentric. We trust him, but do not always understand him."<ref name="ie-22" />

* "I watch because your safety is my duty. My place is among the crews who guard you. But afterwards, I watch the viseos, because it is Beauty." <ref name="mp-air" />

* "Knowledge is armament." <ref name="fc-05">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 5</ref>

==Trivia==
* is learning Universal, which he deems "not difficult", unlike the "one the Ambassador speaks to his own species." <ref name="fc-05" />
* learned to ride a horse during the first visit to Escutcheon <ref name="fc-16">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 16</ref>

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:Jubilee Summer Characters]] [[Category:Farmer's Crown Characters]]
[[Category:From Ruins Characters]]

Shanelle Wright

2020-11-08T01:52:53Z

Aethervox: /* References */ changed category to human.

[[File:Illo-Shanelle.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Shanelle]]

One of the operatives from [[Hold 22|FIA Hold 22]].

==Physical Characteristics==
Human, wild pink hair.

==History==
===Family===

==Recent History==

==Quotes==

==Trivia==

===Body Language===

==Story Appearances==
*[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction)|Amulet Rampant]]
*[[Only the Open (Fiction)|Only the Open]]
*[[In Extremis (Fiction)|In Extremis]]
*[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]
*[[Major Pieces (Fiction)|Major Pieces]]

==References==

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Kamaney Foster

2020-11-07T06:55:06Z

Aethervox: /* Physical Characteristics */ added eye color.

[[File:Illo-kamaney.jpg|300px|thumb|right|you mean you didn't want a picture of the psychopath??]]

Former Fleet officer turned psychopath pirate queen.

==Physical Characteristics==

Kamaney is a [[Karaka'A |Karaka'An]] with white fur, white hair, and "pale cream" claws.<ref name="sota-07">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 7</ref><ref name="sota-16">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 16</ref> She is "pale as a bloodless wound."<ref name="sota-15">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 15</ref> She has "cold eyes despite their golden hue."<ref name="ie-02">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) |In Extremis]]'', chapter 2</ref>

==History==
===Family===

==Recent History==

===''Sword of the Alliance''===

Kamaney began as a [[Fleet]] officer. She and [[Pwyll Mansey]] were lovers, though she never felt anything more than fondness and pleasure in him.<ref name="sota-01">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 1</ref> Though Kamaney was definitively a sociopath, she was not wrong that their fraternization was an excuse to frame them.<ref name="sota-03">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 3</ref> Their captain [[Baerut Flait]] used that fact in part to frame them for greater crimes to cover up the bribes he himself was taking from [[Gledig]]'s Governor [[Kerenkev]] to ignore the planet. At the same time, [[Brad Courtland]] located them and encouraged them to perform pirate raids on Gledig.<ref name="sota-16">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 16</ref>

As such, Kamaney and Pwyll, and their pirate ship the ''[[Scythe (Ship) |Scythe]]'', were able to work without restraints on Gledig; Kamaney also attempted to increase their profits by purchasing slaves for the slave trade, to Pwyll's despair.<ref name="sota-01" /> Pwyll also observed that the crew treated her as superior officer rather than him.<ref name="sota-12">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 12</ref>

When the ''Scythe'' entered orbit, Kamaney headed the raiding party to the surface in an armed shuttle, leaving Pwyll in orbit.<ref name="sota-12" /> The shuttle landed and dropped off a small contingent of pirates, who then witnessed the ''Scythe'''s destruction due to Pwyll's deliberate suicide from the ground; Kamaney, though herself unhappy at being stranded on-planet without a space-capable vehicle to her name. responded by telling the small contingent of pirates who had landed that they were now free to take slaves, or rape and torment the inhabitants.<ref name="sota-15">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 15</ref> When her pirate contingent was killed by [[Dylan Brushnie]] and her shuttle destroyed by the ''Stardancer'', leaving her no ready escape route, she hid in a ditch, deliberately injured herself, and used some of the blood to imply that she had been both injured and raped.<ref name="sota-16">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 16</ref>

Kamaney's ruse succeeded. She was treated as a patient in the Daleth clinic and was not recognized as one of the attacking pirates, and was eventually able to leave the planet.<ref name="sota-18">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 18</ref>

===''In Extremis'' (Princes' Game Book 5)===

==Trivia==

* Unsurprisingly, swears a ''lot''. Seems to prefer 'rhack.'<ref name="sota-01" />
* As of ''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', she had already had a cloak designed to her specifications.<ref name="sota-03">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 3</ref>
* Kamaney enjoys deliberately baiting her crew, specifically by using Fleet titles, because "better to know where you stand with them than to wonder."<ref name="sota-11">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', chapter 11</ref>

===Body Language===

==Quotes==

* "There’s no bright sunny future where we end up officers on a cruise ship. We can’t man so much as a garbage ship after what they said about us. The only ‘merchant operation’ we’ve got left if we want to stay in space is this merchant operation. So it’s illegal… it’s all they left us.” When he didn’t answer, she curled her hands into fists. “Pwyll! They wronged us! You don’t owe them anything! Make them pay!"<ref name="sota-01" />

* "The universe was unfair. Now that she knew just how rigged the game was, she planned to be one of the winners. And every game with a winner needed losers."<ref name="sota-03" />

===Quotes and Observations by Others===

==Story Appearances==

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==References==

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