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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Family==<br />
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]].<br />
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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><br />
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He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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" /><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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* "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><br />
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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><br />
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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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> <br />
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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 /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction)|]]'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand<br />
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===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
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===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
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[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=12458Jahir Seni Galare2020-11-11T18:59:53Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Family==<br />
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]].<br />
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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><br />
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He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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" /><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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* "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><br />
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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><br />
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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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> <br />
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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 /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction)|]]'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand<br />
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===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
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===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Family==<br />
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]].<br />
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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><br />
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He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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" /><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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* "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><br />
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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><br />
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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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> <br />
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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 /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline (Fiction)|]]'' Chapter 9</ref]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand<br />
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===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
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===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Family==<br />
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]].<br />
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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><br />
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He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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" /><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
<br />
* "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><br />
::<br />
* "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><br />
::<br />
* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
::<br />
* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" /><br />
::<br />
* "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><br />
::<br />
* "Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref name="ar-09">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
::<br />
* "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> <br />
::<br />
* "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 /><br />
::<br />
* “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><br />
::<br />
* /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><br />
::<br />
* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
::<br />
* "Where there is no union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline]]''Chapter 9</ref]<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
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===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Family==<br />
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]].<br />
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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><br />
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He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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" /><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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* "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><br />
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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><br />
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* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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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> <br />
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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 /><br />
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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><br />
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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><br />
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* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
* "Where there is n union of unlike minds, there are no fresh ideas." <ref>''[[Mindline]]''Chapter 9</ref]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand<br />
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===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
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===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Smells like ambergris, rope and integrity<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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* "I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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* "I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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* "Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* Of the Queen Ransomed: <br />
** "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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* "Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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* "There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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* “I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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* "Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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* “Death always walks alongside us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it.” <ref name="stt-12">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 12</ref><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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* "A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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* "Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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* "If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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* "I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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* "All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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* "I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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* “I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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* "Because Love gives claws to Duty that Duty alone could never don."<ref name="fr-24">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 24</ref> (explaining why he chose the Chatcaavan word for "love" as his new family name)<br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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* "If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
* "You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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* "You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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* "One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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* "The middle ground. I wouldn't have thought of it. Of some other ambassador, to some kinder court, mayhap. Of the ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire? Compromise? No, never." <ref name="ar-02" /><br />
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[[Category:Nase Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Imthereli Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Lauvet Noble Characters]]<br />
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About the clothes and ornaments of the Eldritch. Because of the conservative nature of the Eldritch culture, fashion has changed very little since colonization of the world. Most of the differences involve materials, given the change in world and eventually the opening of limited trade with the Alliance. <br />
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==Costume==<br />
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All noble Eldritch are dressed by body-servants, despite the strictures against touch, and noble Eldritch clothing is difficult to don without assistance. Body-servants are highly trained and paid well; it is the best profession for a non-noble to enter, presuming that the necessary training isn't prohibitively expensive.<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
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==Male Noble==<br />
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* Many fussy buttons<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref><br />
* Embroidery<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Hook-and-eye closures<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Gemstones or pearls braided in hair<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Gloves (naturally) with pearl fasteners<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Lace on the cuffs, long enough to fall over the palm<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Blouses, with and without ruffles<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Boots, laced up the front or back<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Laces used as closures, on both shirts and trousers<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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==Female Noble==<br />
==Male Tenant==<br />
==Female Tenant==<br />
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==Special Fabrics==<br />
===Meander===<br />
[[File:Illo-MeanderWeaver.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Meander]]<br />
Meander was developed in the latter part of Jerisa's reign: a high nap fabric like velvet with channels left naked in it, in patterns specific to different designers. These channels are then stitched with a contrasting thread color, almost invariably metallic. It reached its heyday in the middle of Maraesa's reign and has since been in decline as meander-weavers have died. Since the creation of meander is a laborious process, it has run out of people to produce it, and those few who do take much longer to create it without the workshops of apprentices and craftspeople to take on the secondary phase of creation.<br />
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(Meander pattern styles are passed down along families, and are related to the original experience of the Eldritch settlers in their ships, when using the slides: they saw patterns that didn't exist during transit, and those inspired the abstract designs that would later become regularized by specific families.)<br />
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==Hair Styles==<br />
Because of the limited genetic pool, Eldritch hair is very similar in texture from individual to individual, and identical in color. It's all straight, relatively coarse, though some individuals are described as having more silky hair, and pale/white. There is the occasional individual with a slight wave, but they are surpassingly rare. It has not yet been fashionable to dye the hair any bright color, though there have been occasional "wash" fads where someone tinted their hair with a translucent shade of some light color, like pink or gold. <br />
===Male===<br />
Noblemen among the Eldritch are expected never to cut their hair once they've reached adulthood, and fashion has always dictated they wear it loose (subject to personal vagaries/variations: Jahir wears his hair only to his ribcage, and both Valthial and Hirianthial wear their hair shorter). The occasional ornament is allowed to keep it out of the face (ferronieres, dangles, narrow braids, circlets, etc). Modern noblemen often choose a length and keep their hair trimmed there, but it is invariably below the ribcage.<br />
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Commoners tend to ignore this rule and cut their hair above the ribcage, though it's rare to see it above the chin. Clubbed and/or braided is common.<br />
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====Braids====<br />
Hair jewels are typically worn before the ears by unmarried men and behind them when married. <ref name="rp-04">''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction) |A Rose Point Holiday]]'', Chapter 4</ref><br />
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===Female===<br />
Women among the Eldritch are expected to have their hair bound, either in braids or buns or a combination of the two. Hair can be covered for decorative purposes (by a caul or crespine), and is usually threaded through with ribbons, flowers, or jewelry. Length is variable but usually below the waist. <br />
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Female tenant/servants wear their hair shorter, often braided into a tail that falls down their backs.<br />
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==Jewelry==<br />
*Hair dangles here<br />
*Signet rings, also called House rings. Large rings ([[Jahir Seni Galare]]'s nearly spanned the space from his knuckle to his first finger-joint), with a stone in the House colors, carved with the sign of the House--a unicorn on blue for Jahir<ref name="mt-05">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]]'', Chapter 5</ref>, a striking drake on red for [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]]<ref name="ew-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingles]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
*House medallions<br />
*Amulets rampant<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Clothing, Costume, and Fashion]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Family==<br />
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]].<br />
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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><br />
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He will have twins, named [[Adaise Galare]] and [[Raenor Galare]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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" /><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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* "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><br />
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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><br />
::<br />
* "Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
::<br />
* "We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref name="ar-11" /><br />
::<br />
* "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><br />
::<br />
* "Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref name="ar-09">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]],'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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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> <br />
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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 /><br />
::<br />
* “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><br />
::<br />
* /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><br />
::<br />
* "No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
* wears House ring on second finger of right hand<br />
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===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
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===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=12139Jahir Seni Galare2020-10-21T00:48:24Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Mindtouch */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
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===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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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.<br />
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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 (???). 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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED<br />
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[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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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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><br />
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"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
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"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
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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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
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“We all feel pain, but we create our reasons for suffering, or for transcending it.” <ref>''Some Things Transcend'' Chapter 8</ref><br />
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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><br />
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"No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=12138Jahir Seni Galare2020-10-20T22:43:10Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
<br />
An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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)<br />
<br />
===Mindtouch===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 (???). 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).<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
<br />
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[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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
“We all feel pain, but we create our reasons for suffering, or for transcending it.” <ref>''Some Things Transcend'' Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
* /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><br />
<br />
"No one can break me... No one but myself."<ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction)|Heartskein]]'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=11865Jahir Seni Galare2020-10-08T03:18:13Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
<br />
An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
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 beyond the norm.<br />
<br />
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 finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)<br />
<br />
===Mindtouch===<br />
<br />
When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, 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.<br />
<br />
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 (???). 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).<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
“We all feel pain, but we create our reasons for suffering, or for transcending it.” <ref>''Some Things Transcend'' Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars (also sometimes Silence Among the Stars)<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.<br />
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.<br />
<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=11807Vasiht'h2020-10-02T20:14:16Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. <br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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)<br />
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===Dreamhearth===<br />
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)<br />
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===Dreamstorm===<br />
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)<br />
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===Family===<br />
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)<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
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==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
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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]]<br />
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==Children==<br />
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. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
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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. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
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Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
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Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
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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><br />
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"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><br />
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"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> <br />
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"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><br />
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"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><br />
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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> <br />
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"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." <br />
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref><br />
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"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><br />
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(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><br />
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(Thought) “Sometimes you needed the crazy cousin in your life, and Goddess bless the chaos that ensued.” <ref>Some Things Transcend, Ch 15</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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“Death always walks alongside us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it.” <ref name=stt-12 /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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"I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
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==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. <br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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)<br />
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===Dreamhearth===<br />
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)<br />
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===Dreamstorm===<br />
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)<br />
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===Family===<br />
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)<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
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==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
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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]]<br />
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==Children==<br />
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. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
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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. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
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Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
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Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
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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><br />
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"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><br />
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"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> <br />
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"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><br />
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"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><br />
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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> <br />
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"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." <br />
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref><br />
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"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><br />
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(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><br />
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<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
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==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. <br />
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===Mindtouch===<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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===Mindline===<br />
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)<br />
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===Dreamhearth===<br />
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)<br />
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===Dreamstorm===<br />
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)<br />
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===Family===<br />
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)<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
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==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
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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]]<br />
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==Children==<br />
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. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits are born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
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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. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
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Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
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Vasiht'h considers Jahir also a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits are formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir perform the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
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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><br />
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"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><br />
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"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> <br />
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"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><br />
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"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><br />
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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> <br />
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"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." <br />
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref><br />
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"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><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
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<div>[[File:emperor.png|300px|thumb|right|The Emperor at the time of Even the Wingless]] <br />
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The current [[Chatcaava |Chatcaavan]] Emperor.<br />
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[[File:Illo-EmperorShapes.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Known Shapes by the middle of the Princes' Game series]] <br />
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==Physical Characteristics==<br />
The Emperor is tall for a Chatcaavan; he is described as being nearly as tall as [[Lisinthir]], who is 6'3". He is completely ebony black, as is his mane, and his skin is matte rather than glossy. He has an immense crown of horns that sweep back; it's possible that he has never had a horn broken. His eyes are a fluorescent yellow. Like all Chatcaava, his fingers are tipped with long talons. He moves with a predatory grace and is very fast.<ref name="etw-01" /><ref name="ew2" /><br />
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He now wears four black rings glued to his horn, which persist into different shapes (usually attached to the scalp).<br />
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===Known Alien Shapes===<br />
*[[Eldritch]] - similar in appearance to Lisinthir, with a fringe framing his face and eyes "a little too fluorescent a yellow [for an Eldritch], a little too large, and with pupils markedly slit." Obtained from [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]]. The Emperor felt like he was going to fall over in this tail-less and wingless form.<ref name="ew2">''[[Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
*[[Humans |Human]] - light beige skin, somewhat-larger-than-normal and slightly-too-vibrant eyes, scarred, very delicate frame; voice is higher pitched than as a Chatcaavan, "issuing from a narrower throat" <ref name="oto-01">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) |Only the Open]],'' Chapter 1</ref><br />
*[[Harat-Shar]] - black and silver ragged rosettes on a white and desaturated taupe background<ref name="fr-15">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
*[[Seersa]] - petite and snowflake white with pitch points<ref name="ie-17">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) |In Extremis]]'', Chapter 17</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
===Family===<br />
His sire was in the [[Chatcaavan Navy]], but died without earning a title.<ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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===Early History===<br />
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Prior to ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]''.<br />
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* While in the Navy, he was once based at [[Apex-East System |Apex-East]].<ref name="oto-01 /><br />
* When he became Emperor, [[Second-Who-Was]] was already at the palace, The Emperor specifically requested that he stay and perform assessments of risks against himself and against the Empire.<br />
* Rarely came to the Queen without agitation in his heart, and was generally not content with minor obeisances like making her a living statue.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Unlike prior Emperors, was largely uninterested in killing his possessions, and did not kill without cause.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Humiliated [[Pelted]] slaves by shaving their fur<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref><br />
* Was curious about aliens; tested them in many ways: sending them for medical experiments, shaving them, pulling out their claws, as well as the more standard-for-slaves raping and beating<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* [[Second-Who-Was]] was his poison taster, and was "the only male [he] ever trusted in all [his] life," who deserved to be answered on the dueling field, even though the Emperor was not obligated to do so.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
* "A male who wanted his place, an ambitious male he actually respected, he would kill. But I have watched him many revolutions, and rape is a thing he indulges only with those who hover between useful and respected. He does not humiliate them publicly, but instead in private. I am not certain if he has resorted to this because you have no horns to break... but I cannot suspect so. There are other ways to humiliate a male in public. [...] For if he cannot break you easily, then he will resort to other methods. No matter how much the Emperor enjoys your private tests, eventually you must rise to the level of a respect-worthy rival—and be killed—or you must fall to a level more fitting of public humiliation. And how courtiers love to bear witness to the twin tests of power and suffering!"<br />
* Treated the [[Alliance]] "like a female" prior to [[Lisinthir]]'s arrival: stealing when it suited him, occasionally slapping or using it, but ignoring it as beneath his interest most of the time.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
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===Recent History===<br />
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* Never used the [[Chatcaavan Shapechange |Touch and the Change]] until [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]] goaded him by suggesting that the Emperor was afraid to do it. The Emperor then used the Touch to take an [[Eldritch]] pattern from him.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Admitted to the Queen that Lisinthir had him "enthralled."<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Ultimately, [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]] came to trust the Emperor, because "You have always kept your word."<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Came to call Lisinthir "Perfection" and "Beauty," meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Called the Queen "pet" until he began to see her as a person instead of simply a posession; "pet" had connotations of being one step above "slave" and one step sideways from "female." When he did begin to recognize her personhood, he switched to "Treasure," again using the word for the ideal.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Had his wings torn by Second during their challenge duel, and then healed by the Surgeon without anaesthetic.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* Likes tonic water<br />
* Swears by Dying Air<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Had an "almost scientific interest in the workings of aliens"<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* As a male [[Outside]], the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] is one of the very few at the [[Throneworld Court]] who can speak to the Emperor without deference and even contradict him.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Unlike the Eldritch, who shunned physical touch to avoid feeling another's emotions, the Emperor found it exhilarating, voyeuristic, and a shameful pleasure; the shamefulness only gave it an exotic savor.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Stopped using the rack to immobilize Lisinthir when he realized that it would drive Lisinthir mad over time; he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Has several names:<br />
** The Emperor<br />
** Greatness (as in the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideal]])<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
** Kauvauc Ueneuvin<br />
** The Survivor<br />
** Dainty<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
* "I will say this, Ambassador . . . I do not share your views. We are strong, and the strong are entitled to the weak. The universe is not served by weakness. Such weakness is culled by nature... and we must all serve our natures." <ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* "You are under the impression that I am only aroused by lack of consent. [...] When in fact, I am aroused by exerting my dominance over others. Whether they accept it and are glad to accept it or whether they fight me to their dying is immaterial."<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* "I AM EMPEROR HERE!" the male cried. "DEFY ME AND DIE!"<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
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* "We make our own standards, Perfection. Out of your sense of honor and mine, we make them."<ref name="stt-15">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
* "One never rests, but one never grows bored." <ref name="stt-09" /><br />
* "Who would go backwards, who could go forth?" <ref name=ie-05" /><br />
* "I came from obscurity." <ref name=ie-05" /><br />
* "Perhaps it was my inability to surrender that required so much suffering as a teacher." <ref name=ie-20" /><br />
* "A cornered animal is dangerous, but it's still only an animal." <ref name=ie-17" /><br />
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==Story Appearances==<br />
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* ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]''<br />
* ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]''<br />
* ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]''<br />
* ''[[Only the Open (Fiction) |Only the Open]]''<br />
* ''[[In Extremis (Fiction) |In Extremis]]''<br />
* ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]''<br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
<br />
=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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"I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 13</ref><br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
<br />
=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
<br />
"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
<br />
"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
<br />
"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
<br />
"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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"I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13">' '[[From Ruins (Fiction) <br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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"I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13">"<br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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"I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13"><br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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Pronounced ''lihs-ihn-THEER nah-SEH gahl-AWR-eh''.<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolesa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing a Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
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===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There are some joys that touch suffering. [...] But they come to that place honestly. Not seeking the suffering, not gloating over it in others."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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"I am an arrogant and violent prince who suffers nothing he does not find just." <ref name=fr-13"><br />
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<div>[[File:emperor.png|300px|thumb|right|The Emperor at the time of Even the Wingless]] <br />
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The current [[Chatcaava |Chatcaavan]] Emperor.<br />
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[[File:Illo-EmperorShapes.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Known Shapes by the middle of the Princes' Game series]] <br />
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==Physical Characteristics==<br />
The Emperor is tall for a Chatcaavan; he is described as being nearly as tall as [[Lisinthir]], who is 6'3". He is completely ebony black, as is his mane, and his skin is matte rather than glossy. He has an immense crown of horns that sweep back; it's possible that he has never had a horn broken. His eyes are a fluorescent yellow. Like all Chatcaava, his fingers are tipped with long talons. He moves with a predatory grace and is very fast.<ref name="etw-01" /><ref name="ew2" /><br />
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He now wears four black rings glued to his horn, which persist into different shapes (usually attached to the scalp).<br />
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===Known Alien Shapes===<br />
*[[Eldritch]] - similar in appearance to Lisinthir, with a fringe framing his face and eyes "a little too fluorescent a yellow [for an Eldritch], a little too large, and with pupils markedly slit." Obtained from [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]]. The Emperor felt like he was going to fall over in this tail-less and wingless form.<ref name="ew2">''[[Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
*[[Humans |Human]] - light beige skin, somewhat-larger-than-normal and slightly-too-vibrant eyes, scarred, very delicate frame; voice is higher pitched than as a Chatcaavan, "issuing from a narrower throat" <ref name="oto-01">''[[Only the Open (Fiction) |Only the Open]],'' Chapter 1</ref><br />
*[[Harat-Shar]] - black and silver ragged rosettes on a white and desaturated taupe background<ref name="fr-15">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
*[[Seersa]] - petite and snowflake white with pitch points<ref name="ie-17">''[[In Extremis (Fiction) |In Extremis]]'', Chapter 17</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
===Family===<br />
His sire was in the [[Chatcaavan Navy]], but died without earning a title.<ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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===Early History===<br />
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Prior to ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]''.<br />
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* While in the Navy, he was once based at [[Apex-East System |Apex-East]].<ref name="oto-01 /><br />
* When he became Emperor, [[Second-Who-Was]] was already at the palace, The Emperor specifically requested that he stay and perform assessments of risks against himself and against the Empire.<br />
* Rarely came to the Queen without agitation in his heart, and was generally not content with minor obeisances like making her a living statue.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Unlike prior Emperors, was largely uninterested in killing his possessions, and did not kill without cause.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Humiliated [[Pelted]] slaves by shaving their fur<ref name="etw-01">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref><br />
* Was curious about aliens; tested them in many ways: sending them for medical experiments, shaving them, pulling out their claws, as well as the more standard-for-slaves raping and beating<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* [[Second-Who-Was]] was his poison taster, and was "the only male [he] ever trusted in all [his] life," who deserved to be answered on the dueling field, even though the Emperor was not obligated to do so.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
* "A male who wanted his place, an ambitious male he actually respected, he would kill. But I have watched him many revolutions, and rape is a thing he indulges only with those who hover between useful and respected. He does not humiliate them publicly, but instead in private. I am not certain if he has resorted to this because you have no horns to break... but I cannot suspect so. There are other ways to humiliate a male in public. [...] For if he cannot break you easily, then he will resort to other methods. No matter how much the Emperor enjoys your private tests, eventually you must rise to the level of a respect-worthy rival—and be killed—or you must fall to a level more fitting of public humiliation. And how courtiers love to bear witness to the twin tests of power and suffering!"<br />
* Treated the [[Alliance]] "like a female" prior to [[Lisinthir]]'s arrival: stealing when it suited him, occasionally slapping or using it, but ignoring it as beneath his interest most of the time.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
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===Recent History===<br />
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==== Even the Wingless ====<br />
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* Never used the [[Chatcaavan Shapechange |Touch and the Change]] until [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]] goaded him by suggesting that the Emperor was afraid to do it. The Emperor then used the Touch to take an [[Eldritch]] pattern from him.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Admitted to the Queen that Lisinthir had him "enthralled."<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Ultimately, [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]] came to trust the Emperor, because "You have always kept your word."<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Came to call Lisinthir "Perfection" and "Beauty," meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Called the Queen "pet" until he began to see her as a person instead of simply a posession; "pet" had connotations of being one step above "slave" and one step sideways from "female." When he did begin to recognize her personhood, he switched to "Treasure," again using the word for the ideal.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Had his wings torn by Second during their challenge duel, and then healed by the Surgeon without anaesthetic.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* Likes tonic water<br />
* Swears by Dying Air<ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* Had an "almost scientific interest in the workings of aliens"<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* As a male [[Outside]], the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] is one of the very few at the [[Throneworld Court]] who can speak to the Emperor without deference and even contradict him.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Unlike the Eldritch, who shunned physical touch to avoid feeling another's emotions, the Emperor found it exhilarating, voyeuristic, and a shameful pleasure; the shamefulness only gave it an exotic savor.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Stopped using the rack to immobilize Lisinthir when he realized that it would drive Lisinthir mad over time; he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* Has several names:<br />
** The Emperor<br />
** Greatness (as in the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideal]])<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
** Kauvauc Ueneuvin<br />
** The Survivor<br />
** Dainty<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
* "I will say this, Ambassador . . . I do not share your views. We are strong, and the strong are entitled to the weak. The universe is not served by weakness. Such weakness is culled by nature... and we must all serve our natures." <ref name="etw-01" /><br />
* "You are under the impression that I am only aroused by lack of consent. [...] When in fact, I am aroused by exerting my dominance over others. Whether they accept it and are glad to accept it or whether they fight me to their dying is immaterial."<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
* "I AM EMPEROR HERE!" the male cried. "DEFY ME AND DIE!"<ref name="etw-02" /><br />
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* "We make our own standards, Perfection. Out of your sense of honor and mine, we make them."<ref name="stt-15">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
* "One never rests, but one never grows bored." <ref name="stt-09" /><br />
* "Who would go backwards, who could go forth?" <ref name=ie-05" /><br />
* "I came from obscurity." <ref name=ie-05" /><br />
* "Perhaps it was my inability to surrender that required so much suffering as a teacher." <ref name=ie-20" /><br />
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==Story Appearances==<br />
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* ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]''<br />
* ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]''<br />
* ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]''<br />
* ''[[Only the Open (Fiction) |Only the Open]]''<br />
* ''[[In Extremis (Fiction) |In Extremis]]''<br />
* ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]''<br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>[[File:liolesa.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Liolesa Sketch]]<br />
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Empress of the [[Eldritch]] Empire. Head of the [[Galare (House)|Galare]], the imperial House.<br />
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Pronounced ''lee-OH-less-AH.''<ref name="etw-pg">"Pronunciation Guide," ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' backmatter</ref><br />
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==Physical Description==<br />
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><br />
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===Powers===<br />
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" /><br />
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==Biography==<br />
===The Heir===<br />
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" /><br />
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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. <br />
<br />
===The New Queen===<br />
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><br />
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It is not long after she's crowned that she ceases to use Hirianthial's milk name.<br />
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Somewhere near the end of this period she hires Maia also.<br />
<br />
===The Empress===<br />
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" />Source: 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" /><br />
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===Family===<br />
* Liolesa’s parents: Rylaniel Jesa, Jerisa’s daughter, and Toltheniv Delen.<br />
* Maraesa was Rylaniel’s sister. Rylaniel’s brother, Theval Jesa, married Niriel Sarel Jisiensire, and these were Hirianthial and Baniel’s parents.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
* "If we wait to act until we're certain, we will never act." <ref name="FC13"/><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* 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><br />
* likes almond liqueur <br />
* 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" /><br />
* has a health scan "every century or so" <ref name="FC13"/><br />
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===Body Language===<br />
*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"/><br />
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==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Her Instruments Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]] [[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Jesa Characters]] [[Category:Jesa Noble Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=11612Jahir Seni Galare2020-09-14T21:20:49Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
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 attended. 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 beyond the norm.<br />
<br />
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 enrolment. When he finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)<br />
<br />
Mindtouch<br />
<br />
When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, 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 and encounters on the hospital grounds 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.<br />
<br />
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 (???). 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).<br />
<br />
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 experience. 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. His problem is contaminating the study because the subjects want to talk with him about their problems.<br />
<br />
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 the both 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. <br />
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[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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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><br />
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"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=11611Jahir Seni Galare2020-09-14T21:20:10Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
<br />
An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
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 attended. 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 beyond the norm.<br />
<br />
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 enrolment. When he finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)<br />
<br />
Mindtouch<br />
When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, 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 and encounters on the hospital grounds 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.<br />
<br />
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 (???). 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).<br />
<br />
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 experience. 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. His problem is contaminating the study because the subjects want to talk with him about their problems.<br />
<br />
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 the both 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. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=11610Jahir Seni Galare2020-09-14T20:04:06Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
<br />
An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
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 insure 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 attended. 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 beyond the norm.<br />
<br />
Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. At this point, he is something over 150 years of age. (Background from multiple books)<br />
<br />
Mindtouch<br />
<br />
When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, 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 and encounters on the hospital grounds 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. Vastht’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.<br />
<br />
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 Hrat-shar), Merishiinal (Circaana) and his flatmate Leina (Seersa). Vsiht’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).<br />
<br />
<br />
[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Marevhe&diff=11601Marevhe2020-09-12T02:29:04Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>[[File:placeholder.png|300px|thumb|right|A portrait of the character]]<br />
Vasiht'h's mom.<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Dark gray fur and white. Likes bright colors, like red sashes wrapped over teal vests.<ref name="mt-10">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch ]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
A professor, and very busy between her work and all her children.<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
Married to Petaq, mother of long list of people.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
* "Don't you think I know what it's like growing up in our family? I raised you all, you know. And I'm aware that not quite knowing what you wanted out of life when all around you your brothers and sisters were striking out like arrows to a target must have been difficult. i was hoping in fact that getting away from us might help you clear your head a bit. Maybe hear that voice inside yourself more distinctly." <ref name="mt-10" /><br />
<br />
* “Frustrating isn’t it? When you finally realize that most of life isn’t about people trying to be awful, but rather about people intersecting in bad ways.” Major Pieces, “Moving Out,” Ch 6<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* does the chin in palm thing that Sehvi does<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'lovey' and 'my love'<br />
* refused to buy festival breads, as against the spirit of the Creator Goddess; made them instead, and they were ugly and lumpy but delicious <ref name="mt-11">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch ]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Marevhe&diff=11600Marevhe2020-09-12T02:27:51Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>[[File:placeholder.png|300px|thumb|right|A portrait of the character]]<br />
Vasiht'h's mom.<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Dark gray fur and white. Likes bright colors, like red sashes wrapped over teal vests.<ref name="mt-10">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch ]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
A professor, and very busy between her work and all her children.<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
Married to Petaq, mother of long list of people.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
* "Don't you think I know what it's like growing up in our family? I raised you all, you know. And I'm aware that not quite knowing what you wanted out of life when all around you your brothers and sisters were striking out like arrows to a target must have been difficult. i was hoping in fact that getting away from us might help you clear your head a bit. Maybe hear that voice inside yourself more distinctly." <ref name="mt-10" /><br />
<br />
* “Frustrating isn’t it? When you finally realize that most of life isn’t about people trying to be awful, but rather about people intersecting in bad ways.” <ref Major Pieces, “Moving Out,” Ch 6<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* does the chin in palm thing that Sehvi does<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'lovey' and 'my love'<br />
* refused to buy festival breads, as against the spirit of the Creator Goddess; made them instead, and they were ugly and lumpy but delicious <ref name="mt-11">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch ]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Marevhe&diff=11599Marevhe2020-09-12T02:25:56Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Quotes */</p>
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<div>[[File:placeholder.png|300px|thumb|right|A portrait of the character]]<br />
Vasiht'h's mom.<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Dark gray fur and white. Likes bright colors, like red sashes wrapped over teal vests.<ref name="mt-10">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch ]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
A professor, and very busy between her work and all her children.<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
Married to Petaq, mother of long list of people.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
* "Don't you think I know what it's like growing up in our family? I raised you all, you know. And I'm aware that not quite knowing what you wanted out of life when all around you your brothers and sisters were striking out like arrows to a target must have been difficult. i was hoping in fact that getting away from us might help you clear your head a bit. Maybe hear that voice inside yourself more distinctly." <ref name="mt-10" /><br />
<br />
* “Frustrating isn’t it? When you finally realize that most of life isn’t about people trying to be awful, but rather about people intersecting in bad ways.” Major Pieces, “Moving Out,” Ch 6<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* does the chin in palm thing that Sehvi does<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'lovey' and 'my love'<br />
* refused to buy festival breads, as against the spirit of the Creator Goddess; made them instead, and they were ugly and lumpy but delicious <ref name="mt-11">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) | Mindtouch ]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=11591Jahir Seni Galare2020-09-11T20:53:02Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
<br />
An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
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 insure 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 attended. 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 beyond the norm.<br />
<br />
Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. At this point, he is something over 150 years of age. (Background from multiple books)<br />
<br />
Mindtouch<br />
<br />
When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, 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 and encounters on the hospital grounds 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. Vastht’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.<br />
<br />
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 Hrat-shar), Merishiinal (Circaana) and his flatmate (???). Vsiht’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).<br />
<br />
<br />
[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jahir_Seni_Galare&diff=11590Jahir Seni Galare2020-09-11T20:52:29Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
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===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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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 insure 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 attended. 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 beyond the norm.<br />
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Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. At this point, he is something over 150 years of age. (Background from multiple books)<br />
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Mindtouch<br />
When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, 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 and encounters on the hospital grounds 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. Vastht’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.<br />
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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 Hrat-shar), Merishiinal (Circaana) and his flatmate (???). Vsiht’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).<br />
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[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref>]<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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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><br />
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"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
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"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
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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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
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===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
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===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
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[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Lisinthir_Nase_Galare&diff=11424Lisinthir Nase Galare2020-09-07T16:02:31Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Farmer's Crown */</p>
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His height puts him somewhat taller than the [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin |Emperor]], and two heads taller than the [[Queen Ransomed]].<ref name="Wingless1" /> His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire.<ref name="Wingless1" /> He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone;<ref name="Wingless1" /> he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber.<ref name="Wingless2" /> He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /> His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris.<br />
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===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of [[Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin]] and the [[Queen Ransomed]]. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
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As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants, usually thicket boar and ice deer.<ref name="mp-om" /> He spent several years alone at a time.<ref name="Wingless1" /> Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances; he'd been "willing to fight not out of some sense of drama, but to prove that when he said he would answer with a sword, he could, and he would, and he did. At Ontine, this had made him more of a man than almost every courtier there." He wore his father's house ring, a striking drake on a red jewel, even though his mother's was more valuable, because "to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /> Queen Liolessa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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He is over 300 years old at the beginning of Even the Wingless. ("So he'd left his home of over three hundred years to present himself to the youth and arrogance of the Alliance...")<br />
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===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the [[Chatcaava#Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire |Alliance Ambassador ad'Chatcaavan Empire]], with an initial tenure of two years. Went under the Galare name at the Queen's suggestion, as it would offer him more protection than Imthereli.<ref name="Wingless1" /><ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves<ref name="Wingless1" />, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] into a corner: when the Chatcaavan Empire did damage to Alliance colony worlds, he threatened to withhold debt forgiveness for debts incurred due to natural disaster relief. In return, he negotiated for changes to import taxes: taxes on luxuries would be cut in half, and reduced them to a quarter for essential aid items. He later freed a second group of slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court, displacing [[Second-Who-Was |Second]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Seduces the Emperor, who admits himself "enthralled."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Successfully rescues two groups of slaves. The groups included [[Bethsaida Emil Galare]], [[Laniis Baker]], and eighteen other unnamed slaves.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Displaces [[Second-Who-Was |Second]] on the second pillow at the evening meal, and takes over his role as poison-taster for the Emperor.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Regularly raped and tortured by the Emperor while being tested in the way of males, including use of whips, clamps, and the rack. Continued to bear it because the Emperor first threatened to kill a member of the Imperial Harem and later the Slave Queen if he did not. Suffered this one last time at the (disapproving) hands of the [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]], while allowing the Emperor to feel his pain, to encourage his empathy.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Survives an attempted poisoning attempt by one of Second's people.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Develops an addiction to [[Hekkret |hekkret]], used to develop a resistance to the substance when used to poison him, and an alcohol addiction as well due to heavy drinking while with the Emperor, both of which cause health problems. The [[Sehkvit (The Surgeon) |Surgeon]] had no interest in weaning him off the drug, but did prescribe the amount of their use to maintain immunity "and not a roll more." Lisinthir sometimes ignored this.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Takes breakfast with the Queen every morning while teaching her [[Universal]] and telling her tales from the Eldritch<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Forces Second to acknowledge the depredations by Chatcaava along the Alliance border. He uses the threat of withholding loan forgiveness for debts incurred due to disasters on Chatcaavan colonies to negotiate fifty percent lower taxes on luxury items and twenty percent lower on essential items. Also insists on receiving a list of people and places from which the Chatcaava bought their slaves. In addition, he manages at some point to get the border moved<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Was enraged by Third's treatment of the slaves. Their state was what tipped him over the edge, and he decided then to kill Third.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Begins to convince the Emperor that the Alliance is a threat, and realizes nearly too late that this is dangerous, as the Emperor crushes anyone or anything he sees as a threat.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
* His original House ring, or signet ring, is made of silvery-pale metal with a central red stone. Words in Eldritch are wound along the inside of the band. On either side of the central stone are engraved two swords on one side, and a wreath and a wheeled vehicle on the other. The red stone is carved with an inlaid wingless dragon: the striking drake. He was entitled to wear the Galare signet due to his mother's lineage, but chose not to.<ref name="Wingless2" /> It is later replaced with a winged striking drake with the same color.<br />
* finds that hekkret makes him feel fluid and watery, filing off his constant sense of entrapment and making things seem more bearable, resulting in both a physical and a psychological addiction.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Responds very poorly to being restrained; the Emperor eventually stops and turns to other tortures because he was concerned that it would eventually drive him to madness, and he preferred Lisinthir sane.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Trusted the Emperor even while he was still being abused by him because he always kept his word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
* Came to be called "Perfection" and "Beauty" by the Emperor, meaning the [[Chatcaavan Language#Overview |ideals]], not the more mundane sense of the word.<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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=== Even the Wingless ===<br />
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"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"...to be a prince among many princes is not as fine as to be a solitary king."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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Of the Queen Ransomed: "You, who have been my grace and my anchor. For you to die for my pride is more than sin. It would be evil."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"Why yes [...] I freed twenty slaves personally from the Emperor's harem, found you a list of pirates selling people to the Empire, lowered the import taxes and even managed to get the border moved. I've also slept with the Emperor, killed one of his officials and become a drug addict."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"I love life, Exalted. I serve life."<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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=== Some Things Transcend ===<br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to [[Jahir]]<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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=== Amulet Rampant ===<br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref name="ar-08">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 8</ref><br />
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=== From Ruins ===<br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],'' Chapter 21</ref><br />
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=== Farmer's Crown ===<br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is no context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref name="stt-07">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
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"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
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===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Liolesa Galare]]<ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"You have made my life different [...] And that was strange enough. Then you made Laniis's different. And then Second's, and the Emperor's ... and the Surgeon's, and now the Mother's. You are everywhere. You make people behave in ways they do not behave. [...] Tell me a story to explain this. There must be an explanation in some language, somewhere."<br />
:::::&mdash;[[Queen Ransomed]]<ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." <br />
:::::&mdash;[[Jahir Seni Galare]]<ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
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==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire. He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone; he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber. He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing. His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris. <br />
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==Family==<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin and the Queen Ransomed. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
<br />
"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
<br />
"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to Jahir<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
<br />
"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
<br />
“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],’’ Chapter 21</ref><br />
<br />
"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is n context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref>Some Things Transcend, Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
<br />
===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." - Jahir to Lisinthir - <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
<br />
==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
<br />
As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants. (usually thicket boar and ice deer) Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances. Queen Liolessa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the Alliance Ambassador ad Chatcaavan Empire<br />
* Becomes most successful Alliance Ambassador ever, with his understanding of the Chatcaava<br />
** freed two sets of slaves from the Throneworld<br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court<br />
* Seduces the Emperor<br />
* Upends the Chatcaavan court<br />
===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
<br />
Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire. He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone; he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber. He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing. His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris. <br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin and the Queen Ransomed. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
<br />
"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
<br />
"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to Jahir<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
<br />
"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
<br />
“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],’’ Chapter 21</ref><br />
<br />
"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." - Jahir to Lisinthir - <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
<br />
==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
<br />
As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants. (usually thicket boar and ice deer) Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances. Queen Liolessa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the Alliance Ambassador ad Chatcaavan Empire<br />
* Becomes most successful Alliance Ambassador ever, with his understanding of the Chatcaava<br />
** freed two sets of slaves from the Throneworld<br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court<br />
* Seduces the Emperor<br />
* Upends the Chatcaavan court<br />
===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]] [[Category:Even the Wingless 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:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
<br />
Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the [[Chatcaavan Empire]]. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part One</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire. He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone; he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber. He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing. His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris. <br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
* Son of [[Korval Keldi Imthereli]] and [[Malavi Nase Galare]]. <br />
* Consort of Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin and the Queen Ransomed. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
<br />
"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref><br />
<br />
"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name="ar-03">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to Jahir<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref name="ar-13">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
<br />
"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
<br />
“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref name="fr-21">''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]],’’ Chapter 21</ref><br />
<br />
"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." - Jahir to Lisinthir - <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
<br />
"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin." <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
"Love must have a context. It is society's work to give it one. Where there is n context, there is violence, because love will force its way in where there is no place to receive it." <ref>Some Things Transcend, Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
"I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
"Death always walks along side us, no matter how we might blind ourselves to him. It is only when he is obviously stalking us that we can no longer deny it." Some Things Transcend, Chapter 12</ref><br />
<br />
==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by [[Shoriven Fol Nase]], a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, [[Jahir Seni Galare]], that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
<br />
As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler [[Pellen]]. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants. (usually thicket boar and ice deer) Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position.<ref name="mp-om">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) |Major Pieces]]'', "Opening Maneuvers"</ref> Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances. Queen Liolessa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the Alliance Ambassador ad Chatcaavan Empire<br />
* Becomes most successful Alliance Ambassador ever, with his understanding of the Chatcaava<br />
** freed two sets of slaves from the Throneworld<br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court<br />
* Seduces the Emperor<br />
* Upends the Chatcaavan court<br />
===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]] [[Category:Even the Wingless 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:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Nase Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Imthereli Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Lauvet Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Imthereli Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Nase Characters]]<br />
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<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, 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.<br />
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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-ilee); 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)<br />
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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 promised 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) <br />
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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 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 settled 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set 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 approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth) <br />
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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, enough continuing education credits Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir had accumulated 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 about, 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 arrived 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 and 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, visited Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)<br />
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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 get as 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 manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted 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 with 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, and upon regaining consciousness, 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)<br />
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TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
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==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
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Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
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==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
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On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
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Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
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Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
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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><br />
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"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><br />
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"How could he be both and anxious mess and everyone's rock at the same time? Was that even possible?" <ref>Dreamstorm, Chapter 16 </ref> <br />
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"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><br />
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"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><br />
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Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicates in actions." <ref>Mindtouch, Chapter 20</ref> <br />
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"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." <br />
<ref>Dreamhearth, Chapter 22</ref><br />
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[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=11094Vasiht'h2020-08-22T15:33:56Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Physical Description */</p>
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<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
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==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes with ivory claws.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, 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.<br />
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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-ilee); 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)<br />
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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 promised 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) <br />
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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 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 settled 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set 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 approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth) <br />
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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, enough continuing education credits Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir had accumulated 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 about, 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 arrived 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 and 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, visited Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)<br />
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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 get as 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 manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted 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 with 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, and upon regaining consciousness, 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)<br />
<br />
TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
<br />
Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
<br />
==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
<br />
On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
<br />
Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
<br />
Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
<br />
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><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=11093Vasiht'h2020-08-22T15:24:04Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
<hr />
<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, 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.<br />
<br />
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-ilee); 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)<br />
<br />
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 promised 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) <br />
<br />
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 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 settled 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set 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 approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth) <br />
<br />
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, enough continuing education credits Vasiht’h voices his concerns. He learns that Jahir had accumulated 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 about, 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 arrived 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 and 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, visited Vasiht’h, bringing their adopted child, the Hinichii toddler whose parent died in the storm. (Dreamstorm)<br />
<br />
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 get as 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 manor to cool down. He meets Sediryl, walking with Juzie, a child on a pony. When they return, they are confronted 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 with 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, and upon regaining consciousness, 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)<br />
<br />
TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
<br />
Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
<br />
==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
<br />
On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
<br />
Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
<br />
Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
<br />
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><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=11092Vasiht'h2020-08-22T13:50:05Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
<hr />
<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he was in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he met Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurred in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h was playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joined in, the children extracted their promise to visit, and the friendship commenced. Upon hearing that Jahir had not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggested Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agreed.<br />
<br />
A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggled with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confided in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir found their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-ilee); 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 feared he was unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switched his focus to research and launched a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It was when he and Jahir were comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each felt the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it was when Nieve died in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly entered Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explained mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year wound down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grew more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir was offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refused to tell Jahir that he wanted him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both felt their growing attachment, both feared the consequences. As the second year concluded, Vasiht’h realized that he was better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also realized that Jahir might need to learn if he could 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 accepted the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he left, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain was not being left alone when those he must outlive died, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany led Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)<br />
<br />
Vasiht’h arrived on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fused their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately took charge of Jahir’s health, which was deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation was complicated by a cluster of emergency patients the cause of whose deaths no one could determine. Jahir entered one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and was nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enabled Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir did learn that the deaths were drug-related, Vasiht’h was angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learned from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life was also endangered. When Jahir interposed himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h was furious but relented when Jahir promised not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h worked 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.<br />
The experience solidified 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 took up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decided 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) <br />
<br />
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 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 settled 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set 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 approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth) TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
<br />
Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
<br />
==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
<br />
On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
<br />
Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
<br />
Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
<br />
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><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=11091Vasiht'h2020-08-22T13:32:44Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he was in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he met Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurred in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h was playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joined in, the children extracted their promise to visit, and the friendship commenced. Upon hearing that Jahir had not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggested Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agreed.<br />
<br />
A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggled with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confided in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir found their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-ilee); 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 feared he was unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switched his focus to research and launched a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It was when he and Jahir were comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each felt the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it was when Nieve died in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly entered Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explained mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year wound down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grew more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir was offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refused to tell Jahir that he wanted him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both felt their growing attachment, both feared the consequences. As the second year concluded, Vasiht’h realized that he was better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also realized that Jahir might need to learn if he could 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 accepted the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he left, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain was not being left alone when those he must outlive died, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany led Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)<br />
<br />
Vasiht’h arrived on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fused their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately took charge of Jahir’s health, which was deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation was complicated by a cluster of emergency patients the cause of whose deaths no one could determine. Jahir entered one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and was nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enabled Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir did learn that the deaths were drug-related, Vasiht’h was angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learned from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life was also endangered. When Jahir interposed himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h was furious but relented when Jahir promised not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h worked 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.<br />
The experience solidified 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 took up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decided 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) <br />
<br />
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 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 find 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 introduce 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approaval approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth) TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
<br />
Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
<br />
==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
<br />
On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
<br />
Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
<br />
Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
<br />
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><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eldritch&diff=10702Eldritch2020-07-31T17:30:25Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Physiology */</p>
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<div>Allies to the Pelted of the Alliance, the Eldritch are an estranged offshoot of humanity, espers and isolationists.<br />
<br />
==Appearance==<br />
Light-gravity-worlders, the Eldritch are tall, bipedal humanoids who are usually between six and seven feet in height, with thinner-than-human builds for both men and women. Bred from a very small gene pool (and tweaked by nanotech engineering), they are all pale with white hair; hair is straight or with a very slight wave, and is silky or satiny in texture. Eye colors tend toward pale shades of blue, green, grey or yellow, although darker shades are not unheard of (Lisinthir's eyes are a dark sapphire).<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Costume]]<br />
<br />
===Physiology===<br />
The Eldritch are humanoid enough to reproduce with humans, though such children are born Eldritch. (Note: Lisnthir Lauvet Imthereli and the Queen Ransomed (Chatcaava) have twins, made possible by her ability to manipulate changes within her own body and thus choose to be fertile with him.) The lighter gravity of their world has made them taller and more brittle; their metabolisms are a jumble of too-quick and too-slow, giving them a higher average body temperature and much more finicky guts. They process toxins quickly but are prone to genetic diseases, and have reproduction problems.<br />
<br />
As people they are all born with some amount of esper talent, though their abilities have been hobbled by a culture that discourages tactile contact (and the enhancement of the ability that comes with it).<br />
<br />
Eldritch age at roughly the same rate as humans up to adulthood, at which point the aging process slows dramatically. Early Eldritch could expect to live to 500 or 600, while the current generation of Eldritch average about 1,200-1,500 years; each generation appears to be living longer.<br />
<br />
Also, Eldritch have no morning breath. <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
==History==<br />
Fassiana's recitation: "Jerisa was a firebrand and an autocrat, not the easiest woman to serve. Some wonder if the war with Corel could have been prevented had she been less dictatorial. But there was no question that her iron hand was a necessity in the wake of that war, and she kept us from fragmenting when we might otherwise have gone over into hysteria and useless infighting. We had begun with a sizable population and had that population abruptly deleted. That we survived at all was Jerisa's doing. But her reign left scars, and Maraesa's was a softer hand. She had a backbone yet, but she did not love conflict, and believed that we needed time to settle down after the excitement of our early years.<br />
<br />
Maraesa allowed us time to heal. Part of that was good sense. The other was that she was not in love with the outworld. She cultivated them with consummate skill, but only as much was necessary for our survival, and to maintain the treaty. She did not enjoy it. She considered our alliance with aliens a necessary evil, rather than an unqualified positive, and her reign created an insular court no longer accustomed to change or conflict. But she had the good sense to select Liolesa for her heir, and Liolesa, though she hid it through her heirship, was an ardent advocate for stronger ties with the outworld.<br />
<br />
When Liolesa took the throne, she invited Sellelvi in to shake up the court and see how the pieces fell out. To test its strength and resilience... identify her true enemies, her true allies, and the parties who had not yet decided either way. She also wanted to make a statement of her own principles, and that she intended to be a very different ruler from Maraesa."<ref name="gof-27">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) | Girl on Fire]]'', Chapter 27</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline===<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Jerisa: <br />
* Settlement <br />
* The War with Corel<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Maraesa: <br />
* The events in "Precious Things"<br />
* Liolesa's trip off-world as heir<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Liolesa: <br />
* Fasianyl and Sellelvi<br />
* Lisinthir's cultivation after his arrival at Ontine<br />
* Reese's cultivation<br />
<br />
==Language==<br />
===Spoken and Written Language===<br />
See [[Eldren]]<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
Eldritch can have three names:<br />
* Birth Name<br />
* Cradle/Milk/Love Name; a diminutive used only by family, lovers and close friends. Implies long or intimate connection.<br />
* Song Name (optional)<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
* Laiselin, Hirianthial's first wife: Laiselin, Laisa (Milk) and Butterfly (Song).<br />
* Liolesa, Lia (Milk)<br />
* Hirianthial, Hiran (Milk)<br />
* Fasianyl, Fasi (Milk)<br />
<br />
They move between names and titles depending on the kind of attention they want their listener to give them, much the way they do with color-shading their language to warn their listeners how their words should be interpreted. Calling someone by a cradle name is a way of saying ‘this is something I would say only to someone I have a long or deep trust with’ and by a song name (if they know/have one), ‘this is something higher than us and dearer’ and by their title a way to remind them of their responsibilities, and by their full name, in the same way they might choose to shade a word neutral gray on purpose.<br />
<br />
====Exceptions====<br />
Shorter names were more common in earlier generations, and people who are carrying a name down generations might not have cradle names. Sometimes a parent might choose a cradle name as a birth name, however, like Jeasa who decided to name Jahir with a milk name, because "all the world loves him so well he needs no formal name."<br />
<br />
===Forms of Address===<br />
The primary hierarchy in Eldritch society involves who owes a duty to whom. Because the nobles have given their allegiance to Liolesa, they address her as they would their liegelady, and use simply ‘my lady’ or ‘my liege.' People acting outside the direct vassal-to-lord relationship, or people who owe their fealty to a noble who owes their loyalty to the Queen, should or will properly address the queen as ‘my Queen.’ Nobles who are behaving with excessive formality, or who are abasing themselves, might also use ‘my Queen,' or 'Your Majesty.'<br />
<br />
The tenants that owe allegiance to an Eldritch noble also call their noble ‘my lady’ or ‘my lord,’ because their fealty is owed to them directly. Nobles to whom they do not owe allegiance might be addressed as ‘Lord so-and-so’ or ‘Lady so-and-so’, but they’re almost never ‘my’ lady or lord. The possessives are important, indicating consent to the relationship. For tenants to address other nobles as ‘my’ lord or lady isn’t strictly incorrect, as they’re all considered social inferiors to the nobility. But it’s one of the ways they can show their consent to be governed.<br />
<br />
None of this is strictly policed or codified, surprisingly, given the Eldritch obsession for rigid social stratification. Mostly because the interactions between the social classes are so infrequent that there isn’t much opportunity for anyone to transgress. The only thing even remotely like an Eldritch middle class exists in the capital, which is the only city large enough to host merchants and distributors, and Liolesa is, of course, tolerant of their ‘encroachment’ on the privileges of their betters. But the nobles like Sediryl who went out among their tenants frequently enough to be recognized were rare; most nobles preferred to employ servants and factors to act as go-betweens.<br />
<br />
The servants and tenants are known by the family they serve: Nuera’s social secretary would be known as [First Name] [Surname] Nuera. They cannot claim the House name unless they are members of the noble family enrolled in that House; the final name of the three is always the ‘last stop’ in terms of where they owe their fealty. So John Smith Nuera, if he existed, would be a peasant who worked for the Nuera Galare family, while Sediryl Nuera Galare owes her fealty to the head of the Galare House.<br />
<br />
The heads of the various Houses, while they are the Queen’s vassals, keep their House names as their final names, as a symbol of their proper allegiances. Maybe that’s why there continues to be so much strife. Someone should tell Liolesa to make them all append ‘Galare’ to the ends of their names so they’ll remember the chain of command.<br />
<br />
==Social Overview==<br />
The Eldritch began forming their society on the trip to their world, and had codified it by not long after Settlement, despite the fact that the effects of their genetic manipulation had become unpredictable. Each succeeding generation was longer-lived than the one before it, and the confusion and upheaval this created caused the Eldritch to cling to what conventions they'd created. This tendency toward parochialism was only magnified by the war that broke out not long after Settlement for reasons not clearly remembered or consistently recorded: some claim it was the result of mental talent deranged by the treatments they'd undertaken, others claimed it was a political struggle. Whatever the case, in the war's aftermath the Church was given the assignment of finding and disposing of talents with the potential to derange their carriers. This removed a large chunk of the population shortly before it was discovered that Eldritch fertility had become erratic. For unknown reasons, fertility is linked with powerful esper talents, so the people purged were the ones most likely to successfully reproduce.<br />
<br />
The Eldritch have been growing longer-lived and shrinking in population since Settlement. The twenty noble Houses that were once a small segment of the population have become the majority of its peoples, hollowing out the working populace and destroying the economy. More and more the ruling elite have nothing to rule as the towns established at Settlement have "died," leaving the people in them to disperse in search of places where roofs don't leak and food can be bought.<br />
<br />
Never large in number, the Eldritch are now in danger of extinction, partially from the wreckage of their economy and partially because of fertility issues. In the wake of this growing peril, the Eldritch as a whole have responded by becoming even more rigid in their customs and habits at a time when they desperately need to look elsewhere for help.<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Government]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Families]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Heraldry]]<br />
<br />
===Eldritch Noble Society===<br />
The Eldritch had twenty noble Houses established just prior to Settlement, of which Jisiensire is now the smallest in number (though among the richest). Twelve of those noble Houses have vanished. <br />
<br />
Eldritch nobles are considered to have come of age shortly after they cease shearing their hair (boys) or wearing it loose (girls), usually around age 14. Male and female children are permitted to play together until adolescence, when serious social strictures formalize their interaction. They are presented at court when they reach their early twenties, at which point they are considered eligible prospects. (Note: It was not unusual in the past for children to be married/betrothed at a young age, and while this still occurs, it is usually a political act; the children remain in their family's households until they are old enough for formal presentation.) Eligible maidens' portraits are displayed on "courting boards," small, portable wooden boards with holds in them for painted portraits. These courting boards allow a family to see who might be a suitable marriage prospect. Males are expected to court likely prospects, although it is the female's prerogative to make the actual proposal.<br />
<br />
====Court Seasons====<br />
The Eldritch attend Summer and Winter Court at Ontine, each of which lasts several weeks; summer court may linger longer, depending on the weather. Summer Court is considered the courting season; Winter Court is the administrative gathering, where the heads of families arrive to give liege gifts to the Queen, their liegelady, and to inform her or petition her for changes in their administrative or financial situations.<br />
<br />
Most noble families own a townhouse on Nobles' Row just outside Ontine to house their members during the season. When court is not is session, nobles reside on family estates on their respective lands.<br />
<br />
====Marriage and Affairs====<br />
A side note here about the apparent taboo against same-sex relationships: because the Eldritch have such trouble with reproduction and are in such desperate need of healthy children, this taboo is more about the perception that people who prefer their same-sex lovers will not feel as inclined to undertake the heartbreaking and tedious task of begetting a child that will survive to term and through its early infancy. Since in many cases, the pursuit of a healthy child can take decades, and several failures before success, the belief that it requires dedication is understandable. That the attempt brings considerable danger for the would-be mother makes it a requirement that the prospective fathers be attentive to their care and comfort, and not privilege other relationships for the duration. As a general rule, then, same-sex relationships are ignored unless they are appearing to prevent the parties in question from doing their duties by the succession. A married Eldritch lady with two children might have a ‘special friend’ without comment in a way an unwed debutante could not, implying as it would that she would turn her husband away in favor of her lover; likewise, males who consort with one another solely, and never father children, are condemned. A man who is either unmarried, or wed and without issue, would never flaunt a male lover until he had proven himself dutiful… and the man who was found to be maintaining a same-sex lover when his wife was either injured or died in childbed would suffer the severest social ostracism for his purported callousness, whether or not he appeared to cherish his wife.<br />
<br />
High Eldritch society, in basic, is tolerant of bisexuality when it is accompanied by proof that the actors are willing to produce the next generation… and in fact, there are many marriages that quietly involve looking the other way when the childrearing is done. Other than its enthusiasm, Sediryl’s attitude toward Lisinthir and Jahir’s relationship isn’t actually that strange by Eldritch mores. Jahir’s embarrassment over her interest has more to do with his personal feelings about how he should conduct himself, and not with his desire to conform to social code. For once!<br />
<br />
This also makes sense of Lisinthir’s ease with the Emperor’s and Queen Ransomed’s plan. When they speak of keeping one another as lovers but ensuring the succession for both males’ dynasties, they are speaking a language he has been reared since birth to accept. It might be more public about the arrangement than Eldritch are used to, but it crosses and dots all the required t’s and i’s.<br />
<br />
====Tenants====<br />
I talk here about their relationships to their tenants.<br />
<br />
See also [[Eldritch Servant Classes]]<br />
<br />
====Stuff I haven't Covered====<br />
*clothing covering the entire body<br />
*taboos on touching<br />
*formal dance<br />
*education of children music, dancing, Universal, estate management, fencing<br />
<br />
===Civil Defense===<br />
See [[Eldritch Armed Forces]]<br />
<br />
See [[Eldritch Knightly Orders]]<br />
<br />
====Crime and Punishment====<br />
The Eldritch are rigid conformists and have a habit of public punishment of those who dare to step outside the bounds of convention, with a tradition of things such as whipping and public humiliation in stocks.<br />
<br />
===Holidays and Rituals===<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Holidays]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Investiture]]<br />
<br />
===Treasure and Economy===<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Treasure]]<br />
<br />
==Genealogies==<br />
[[Saranyl Jesa Galare]], Jerisa's sister, had three children: <br />
* [[Maraesa Jesa Galare|Maraesa Jesa]] (who became Queen) <br />
* [[Rylaniel Jesa Galare|Rylaniel Jesa]] (F) <br />
** Rylaniel married a man who took her name and had: <br />
*** Liolesa, who would become Queen after Maraesa.<br />
* [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (M) <br />
** Theval, a man, married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]] and took her name, and they had two children: <br />
*** [[Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire|Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel Sarel Jisiensire|Baniel]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Notable Characters==<br />
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Characters by Eldritch House or Territory</categorytree><br />
<br />
==All Characters==<br />
[[List of Eldritch Characters]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eldritch]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=10492Vasiht'h2020-07-21T00:10:15Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
<hr />
<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he was in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he met Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurred in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h was playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joined in, the children extracted their promise to visit, and the friendship commenced. Upon hearing that Jahir had not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggested Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agreed.<br />
<br />
A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggled with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confided in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir found their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-ilee); 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 feared he was unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switched his focus to research and launched a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It was when he and Jahir were comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each felt the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it was when Nieve died in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly entered Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explained mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year wound down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grew more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir was offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refused to tell Jahir that he wanted him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both felt their growing attachment, both feared the consequences. As the second year concluded, Vasiht’h realized that he was better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also realized that Jahir might need to learn if he could 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 accepted the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he left, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain was not being left alone when those he must outlive died, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany led Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)<br />
<br />
Vasiht’h arrived on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fused their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately took charge of Jahir’s health, which was deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation was complicated by a cluster of emergency patients the cause of whose deaths no one could determine. Jahir entered one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and was nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enabled Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir did learn that the deaths were drug-related, Vasiht’h was angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learned from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life was also endangered. When Jahir interposed himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h was furious but relented when Jahir promised not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h worked 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.<br />
The experience solidified 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 took up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decided to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s residency work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline) <br />
<br />
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 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 find 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 introduce 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approaval approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. (Dreamhearth) TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
<br />
Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
<br />
==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
<br />
On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
<br />
Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
<br />
Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
<br />
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><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Characters]]</div>SheltieMumhttps://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vasiht%27h&diff=10491Vasiht'h2020-07-21T00:09:41Z<p>SheltieMum: /* Biography */</p>
<hr />
<div>Vasiht'h is a male [[Glaseah]], most known for his partnership with Jahir Seni Galare, an [[Eldritch]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Description==<br />
* Brown eyes.<br />
* Black bangs.<br />
* White eyebrows.<br />
* White stripes, chest, and toes.<br />
* Speaks in a warm tenor, with a furry timbre. <ref name="mt-ch01">''[[Mindtouch (Fiction) |Mindtouch]],'' chapter 1</ref><br />
* Smells like vanilla? <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 8</ref><br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Vasiht’h (now Vasiht'h Seni Galare), a Glaseah and thus an esper, is the mindbonded partner and beloved of Jahir Seni Galare. Born on Ansealah to Mareveh, a professor, and Petaq, a chemist, he was in his second year of Seersana University’s xenopsychology program when he met Jahir at the beginning of the latter’s first year in the same program. Their meeting occurred in a hospital parking lot where Vasiht’h was playing with six little girls who had slipped their caretakers at All Children’s Hospital. After Jahir joined in, the children extracted their promise to visit, and the friendship commenced. Upon hearing that Jahir had not yet secured suitable rooms, Vasiht’h, whose roommate Cadia had graduated, suggested Jahir share the two-bedroom apartment with him, to which Jahir agreed.<br />
<br />
A mix of Glaseahn pragmatism and personal anxiety, coupled with a sincere devotion to the Goddess Aksivaht’h, Vasiht’h struggled with deciding which track of xenopsychology to focus on, wavering between clinical and research. He often confided in his closest sibling, his younger sister Sevhi. As he and Jahir found their friendship deepening through shared studies, volunteering with the little girls – Nieve, Kayla and Meekie (Tam-ilee); 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 feared he was unsuitable to be a clinician because he isn’t sure he can maintain emotional distance from his clients. He switched his focus to research and launched a project researching the effect of sleep-soothing on hospital staff. It was when he and Jahir were comforting Lucrezia, their Harat-Shar quadmate having romantic troubles, that they each felt the glimmer of mindtouch between them. But it was when Nieve died in Jahir’s arms that Vasiht’h first truly entered Jahir’s mind to stabilize him. After, Vasiht’h explained mindtouch (ahv’shev) to Jahir, and that, if nurtured, it can become a “permanent, rare and precious mindline” (et’ahv). As their second year wound down, with Jahir committed to the medical track, the mindline grew more consistent, and at one point offered a hint of the mage power Jahir will one day possess (Mindtouch, p. 374). When Jahir was offered two residencies, one at the university’s hospital, the other at the Alliance capital, Heliocentrus on Selnor, Vasiht’h refused to tell Jahir that he wanted him to stay on Seersana, that he loves him. Though both felt their growing attachment, both feared the consequences. As the second year concluded, Vasiht’h realized that he was better suited for clinical practice than research and an eventual professorship. He also realized that Jahir might need to learn if he could 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 accepted the coveted Heliocentrus residency at Mercy. The day he left, Vasiht’h realized his error: that Jahir’s pain was not being left alone when those he must outlive died, but was being held apart by those who would protect him. This epiphany led Vasiht’h to virtually drop everything and follow Jahir to Selnor. (Mindtouch)<br />
<br />
Vasiht’h arrived on Selnor unannounced; upon his and Jahir’s first sight of one another, their unspoken avowal permanently fused their mindline. Vasiht’h immediately took charge of Jahir’s health, which was deteriorating under a combination of Selnor’s heavy gravity and the demanding residency schedule. The situation was complicated by a cluster of emergency patients the cause of whose deaths no one could determine. Jahir entered one’s mind at the moment of catastrophic failure and was nearly lost; his ability to call through the mindline enabled Vasiht’h to race to Mercy Hospital and pull Jahir from the patient’s dying brain. While Jahir did learn that the deaths were drug-related, Vasiht’h was angry with the hospital staff and upset with Jahir for endangering his own life and their life together. He also learned from Sehvi that in the early stages of development, it’s much harder for mindbonded to disengage, so Vasiht’h’s life was also endangered. When Jahir interposed himself again between a drug patient and death, suffering a near-fatal cardiac arrythmia, Vasiht’h was furious but relented when Jahir promised not to attempt to delay the drug patients’ deaths without Vasiht’h’s help. Vasiht’h worked 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.<br />
The experience solidified 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 took up the coursework needed for a clinical xenotherapy degree. Jahir decided to set aside the medical track and also had a year’s residency work to complete a clinical degree. They begin to work on their combined esper-based therapy on unconscious subjects and complete their degrees. (Mindline) <br />
<br />
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 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 find 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 introduce 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 struggled during this time with his feelings of inadequacy and surprised himself by deciding to seek therapy with Allen Tiber. They built a solid therapeutic relationship, though Tiber maintained his skepticism about Vasiht'h's and Jahir's methodology. With the support of the therapy, Vasiht'h was able to address his discomfort with Jahir's wealth with his partner and, while still not completely comfortable, able to set his unease with the imbalance and focus on the more important issue of being "enough for himself." As the decision point for their residency approaval approached, Helga broached the issue of their work on Selnor and questioned their refusal to use their heroic work to influence the housing authority. Upon hearing their rationale, she intimated that she planned to recommend them as her replacement upon her retirement, aiding their residency application. When Allen Tiber's dog Trust died, Jahir and Vasiht'h found an abandoned puppy through the Port authorities and gifted it to Tiber. When Vasiht'h received the letter informing him that his residency application had been accepted, he celebrated by buying season tickets to the cultural center's musical season, a present for Jahir purchased with "their" money. Helga retired and gave them her practice, including her property, The Healer's Knot. TO BE CONTINUED.<br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
11 siblings, plus parents [[Marevhe]], professor and [[Petaq]], chemist<br />
<br />
Lots and lots of extended family, moved to their own page because it has relevant to more than one major character: [[Vasiht'h's Family]]<br />
<br />
==Children==<br />
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 when he made the initial request. The events of the Chatcaavan war caused him to miss his turn, and when he and Jahir settled on Escutcheon, he learned it would be about a year and a half before he could expect the Temple to have children for him. However, not long after Jahir's investiture as Prince Consort, the Temple notified Vasiht'h that his children were 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, traveled to Ansealah to get their three kits, the number selected by the Temple. (Heartskein, Ch. 4.) The kits were born before either Jahir's and Sediryl's twins or Lisinthir's and the Queen Ransomed's twins. <br />
<br />
On the return trip, and with Jahir's help, Vasiht chose as names words that reflect Eldritch virtues and could also be shortened to sound like Glaseahn names. (Heartskein, Ch. 9) They decide on:<br />
<br />
Aevanauv, a son whose name means "Faith." He is called Evan.<br />
Efeanoc, a son whose name means "Strength." He is called Anoc.<br />
Ithauvni, a daughter whose name means "Fearlessness." She is called Thauvi. <br />
<br />
Vasiht'h considered Jahir also to be a parent to the kits; as part of the Galare House, the kits were formally presented to Queen Liolesa (Heartskein, Ch. 13). At the Glaseahn presentation ceremony, together Vasiht'h and Jahir performed the traditional rhythmic pattern dance to welcome the kits and honor the Goddess. (Heartskein, Ch. 14).<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"There are not enough cookies in the world today." <ref>Mindline, Chapter 32</ref><br />
<br />
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><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Glaseahn Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Dreamhealers Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Some Things Transcend Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
<br />
An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Over 150 years old, at the beginning of ''Mindtouch''. <ref>''Mindtouch'' Chapter 1</ref> <br />
<br />
Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref><br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
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"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 14 </ref><br />
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"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
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"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
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"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 13</ref> <br />
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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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
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====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
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===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
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Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', part 1</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire. He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone; he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber. He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing. His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris. <br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
* Son of Korval Keldi Imthereli and Malavi Nase Galare. <br />
* Consort of Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin and the Queen Ransomed. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
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"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', part 2</ref><br />
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"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
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"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref>'' Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 3</ref><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to Jahir<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
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"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
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"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
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"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
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“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref>’’From Ruins’’ Chapter 21</ref><br />
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"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." - Jahir to Lisinthir - <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
<br />
==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by Shorivan Fol, a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, Jahir Seni Galare, that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
<br />
As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
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An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler Pellen. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants. (usually thicket boar and ice deer) Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position. Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances. Queen Liolessa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the Alliance Ambassador ad Chatcaavan Empire<br />
* Becomes most successful Alliance Ambassador ever, with his understanding of the Chatcaava<br />
** freed two sets of slaves from the Throneworld<br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court<br />
* Seduces the Emperor<br />
* Upends the Chatcaavan court<br />
===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
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==References==<br />
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<div>[[File:lisinthir.png|300px|thumb|right|Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare]] <br />
<br />
Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently [[Third (Title) | Third]] in the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
Stands 6'3"<ref name="Wingless1">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', part 1</ref>, with a typically slender, elongated Eldritch build and white hair that falls to his thighs. His face is angular with a pointed chin and sharp nose; he has a scar bisecting his right eyebrow. Lisinthir's eyes are an unusually dark shade of sapphire. He bears grey scars on his chest, back, flanks and arms from the Chatcaavan Emperor's testing, as well as multiple duels and one memorable fight aboard a Chatcaavan starship. His voice is baritone; he plays several instruments and can sing, but not at a professional caliber. He dresses elegantly for every occasion, whether it be traditional Eldritch clothing for court, Chatcaavan robes and trousers or hot outfits for clubbing. His personal scent is reminiscent of ambergris. <br />
<br />
==Family==<br />
* Son of Korval Keldi Imthereli and Malavi Nase Galare. <br />
* Consort of Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin and the Queen Ransomed. <br />
* Children: firstborn twins, [[Kolvin Lauvet Imthereli | Kolvin]] and [[Niriel Lauvet Imthereli | Niriel]]. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly." <ref name="Wingless1" /><br />
<br />
"I am not Chatcaavan, [[Queen Ransomed|lady]]. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story." <ref name="Wingless2">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction)|Even the Wingless]]'', part 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"You want to know what good it is? I will tell you, then. Because to bear the misery of others takes ten times the strength of bearing your own." <ref name="Wingless2" /><br />
<br />
"There is a moment, when you are in motion, and it is the move that will grant you victory over a foe against whom you might have lost. A moment where their life is yours. Where their death is yours. That moment, that power... that is what draws me. I fight to defend the innocent. But I love it for that moment." <ref name="stt-09">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 9</ref><br />
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"A weapon is blameless. It can be a tool of oppression in the hand of a tyrant and a liberating force in the hand of a paladin." <ref name=Amulet Rampant3" /><br />
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“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.” <ref name="stt-11">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
"Do you see? This beautiful state you come to by trusting another with your safety... I reach by opening throats and feeling the blood surge over my hands, hotter than fire." -- to Jahir<ref name="stt-14" /><br />
<br />
"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead." <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 10</ref><br />
<br />
"If we do not resist society when it is stupid, we allow it to march to its destruction. Societies evolve, just as people do. They mature; they see the follies of their childhood years and amend their behavior. When a people's traditions and customs do not serve its survival, they must change." <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 13</ref><br />
<br />
"I fled the homeworld's safety for the Empire, if you'll recall. I am hardly one to judge you for leaning into the knife."<ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 15</ref><br />
<br />
“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.” <ref>’’From Ruins’’ Chapter 21</ref><br />
<br />
"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work." <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 7</ref><br />
<br />
===Quotes and Observations by Others===<br />
"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters." - Jahir to Lisinthir - <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', Chapter 14</ref><br />
<br />
==History/Bio==<br />
Lisinthir Nase Galare is the only son of Malavi Nase Galare and Korval Keldi Imthereli. A superb swordsman, he was probably trained by Shorivan Fol, a legendary swordsman in the north. As a child, Lisinthir was raised in a hostile and loveless environment, often used by his parents as a weapon against one another. In later years, he reveals to his cousin and lover, Jahir Seni Galare, that his parents never gave him a milk-name or love-name, the shortened version of a child's formal name used by intimates and bestowed as a mark of love; Jahir gifts him with the name Lin. <br />
<br />
As a youth Lisinthir had three minor affairs, having been chased by the women in question. Two wanted money, and their interactions were minor and not consummated fully; one wanted a baby, and her husband had not been capable, and that one wasn't a fertile union but they dallied. <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
An excellent huntsman, Lisinthir chose upon entering adulthood to reside alone in a hunting lodge his mother bequeathed to him, attended by his butler Pellen. He spent his time afield on his ugly but reliable horse, Dart, hunting for meat and pelts to feed his mother's household and pay the servants. (usually thicket boar and ice deer) Forced under threat by his father to attend court -- introduced too late in age to be considered an important player -- Lisinthir was charged to secure a wife who would be able to bear a child to re-establish House Imthereli and restore his father's pride of position. Instead, he arrived with a massive chip on his shoulder and spent his time dueling nobles whom he thought had insulted him or his House, never losing and establishing a reputation for ruthless aggression unbounded by House alliances. Queen Liolessa recognized his restive nature and his desperation to be used to his potential; in response to the Alliance's request, sent him as Ambassador to the Chatcaavan Empire. <br />
<br />
===Events of Even the Wingless===<br />
* Sent as the Alliance Ambassador ad Chatcaavan Empire<br />
* Becomes most successful Alliance Ambassador ever, with his understanding of the Chatcaava<br />
** freed two sets of slaves from the Throneworld<br />
* Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court<br />
* Seduces the Emperor<br />
* Upends the Chatcaavan court<br />
===Events of Some Things Transcend===<br />
* Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava<br />
* Eventually comes to the idea that he would still be needed in order to create a place for himself in the Chatcaavan Empire on the Alliance side<br />
* Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting<br />
===Remainder of Princes' Game===<br />
===Current History during Jubilee Summer books===<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol<br />
<br />
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==References==<br />
<references /><br />
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<div>[[File:Illo-Jahir.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort]] <br />
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An [[Eldritch]], mind-bonded partner to [[Vasiht'h]], married to [[Sediryl Nuera Galare | Sediryl Galare]] and cousin/lover to [[Lisinthir Nase Galare]].<br />
<br />
==Physical Appearance==<br />
*6'6"<br />
*white hair falling to ribcage<br />
*square jaw<br />
*yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"<br />
* tenor speaking/singing voice<br />
* smells like vetiver and bergamot<br />
* prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue<br />
* very fastidious/neat<br />
<br />
===Scars===<br />
* burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 1</ref><br />
* faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough <ref>''Amulet Rampant'', Chapter 6</ref><br />
* hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse <ref>Heartskein</ref><br />
* nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
* Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
Over 150 years old, at the beginning of ''Mindtouch''. <ref>''Mindtouch'' Chapter 1</ref> <br />
<br />
Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maden 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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
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Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. <ref>"Longest Night", short fiction</ref><br />
<br />
===Family===<br />
* Son of [[Jeasa Seni Galare]] and [[Kolvin Seni Galare]]. Brother to Sernataila ([[Amber]]) Seni Galare. <br />
* Father of twins Adaise and Raenor<br />
<br />
==Quotes==<br />
"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><br />
<br />
"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." <ref name="stt-14">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction)|Some Things Transcend]]'', chapter 14 </ref><br />
<br />
"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 11</ref><br />
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"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 2</ref><br />
<br />
"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." <ref>''Amulet Rampant,'' Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
"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>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11</ref><br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* likes mornings<br />
* likes walls<br />
* prefers swimming as exercise<br />
* loves ice cream<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
====Himself====<br />
* Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)<br />
* Silence Between Stars<br />
* Voice in the Silence<br />
* My Delight (Lisinthir)<br />
<br />
====Other People====<br />
* calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'<br />
* calls Sediryl 'my heart'<br />
* calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)<br />
* calls Val 'Teacher'<br />
<br />
===Body Language===<br />
===Musical Instruments===<br />
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, to include 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.<br />
<br />
===Notable Property===<br />
* A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15</ref><br />
* An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue <ref>Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3</ref><br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[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]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Seni Noble Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Galare Characters]]<br />
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<div>Allies to the Pelted of the Alliance, the Eldritch are an estranged offshoot of humanity, espers and isolationists.<br />
<br />
==Appearance==<br />
Light-gravity-worlders, the Eldritch are tall, bipedal humanoids who are usually between six and seven feet in height, with thinner-than-human builds for both men and women. Bred from a very small gene pool (and tweaked by nanotech engineering), they are all pale with white hair; hair is straight or with a very slight wave, and is silky or satiny in texture. Eye colors tend toward pale shades of blue, green, grey or yellow, although darker shades are not unheard of (Lisinthir's eyes are a dark sapphire).<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Costume]]<br />
<br />
===Physiology===<br />
The Eldritch are humanoid enough to reproduce with humans, though such children are born Eldritch. The lighter gravity of their world has made them taller and more brittle; their metabolisms are a jumble of too-quick and too-slow, giving them a higher average body temperature and much more finicky guts. They process toxins quickly but are prone to genetic diseases, and have reproduction problems.<br />
<br />
As people they are all born with some amount of esper talent, though their abilities have been hobbled by a culture that discourages tactile contact (and the enhancement of the ability that comes with it).<br />
<br />
Eldritch age at roughly the same rate as humans up to adulthood, at which point the aging process slows dramatically. Early Eldritch could expect to live to 500 or 600, while the current generation of Eldritch average about 1,200-1,500 years; each generation appears to be living longer.<br />
<br />
Also, Eldritch have no morning breath. <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
==History==<br />
Fassiana's recitation: "Jerisa was a firebrand and an autocrat, not the easiest woman to serve. Some wonder if the war with Corel could have been prevented had she been less dictatorial. But there was no question that her iron hand was a necessity in the wake of that war, and she kept us from fragmenting when we might otherwise have gone over into hysteria and useless infighting. We had begun with a sizable population and had that population abruptly deleted. That we survived at all was Jerisa's doing. But her reign left scars, and Maraesa's was a softer hand. She had a backbone yet, but she did not love conflict, and believed that we needed time to settle down after the excitement of our early years.<br />
<br />
Maraesa allowed us time to heal. Part of that was good sense. The other was that she was not in love with the outworld. She cultivated them with consummate skill, but only as much was necessary for our survival, and to maintain the treaty. She did not enjoy it. She considered our alliance with aliens a necessary evil, rather than an unqualified positive, and her reign created an insular court no longer accustomed to change or conflict. But she had the good sense to select Liolesa for her heir, and Liolesa, though she hid it through her heirship, was an ardent advocate for stronger ties with the outworld.<br />
<br />
When Liolesa took the throne, she invited Sellelvi in to shake up the court and see how the pieces fell out. To test its strength and resilience... identify her true enemies, her true allies, and the parties who had not yet decided either way. She also wanted to make a statement of her own principles, and that she intended to be a very different ruler from Maraesa."<ref name="gof-27">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) | Girl on Fire]]'', Chapter 27</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline===<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Jerisa: <br />
* Settlement <br />
* The War with Corel<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Maraesa: <br />
* The events in "Precious Things"<br />
* Liolesa's trip off-world as heir<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Liolesa: <br />
* Fasianyl and Sellelvi<br />
* Lisinthir's cultivation after his arrival at Ontine<br />
* Reese's cultivation<br />
<br />
==Language==<br />
===Spoken and Written Language===<br />
See [[Eldren]]<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
Eldritch can have three names:<br />
* Birth Name<br />
* Cradle/Milk/Love Name; a diminutive used only by family, lovers and close friends. Implies long or intimate connection.<br />
* Song Name (optional)<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
* Laiselin, Hirianthial's first wife: Laiselin, Laisa (Milk) and Butterfly (Song).<br />
* Liolesa, Lia (Milk)<br />
* Hirianthial, Hiran (Milk)<br />
* Fasianyl, Fasi (Milk)<br />
<br />
They move between names and titles depending on the kind of attention they want their listener to give them, much the way they do with color-shading their language to warn their listeners how their words should be interpreted. Calling someone by a cradle name is a way of saying ‘this is something I would say only to someone I have a long or deep trust with’ and by a song name (if they know/have one), ‘this is something higher than us and dearer’ and by their title a way to remind them of their responsibilities, and by their full name, in the same way they might choose to shade a word neutral gray on purpose.<br />
<br />
====Exceptions====<br />
Shorter names were more common in earlier generations, and people who are carrying a name down generations might not have cradle names. Sometimes a parent might choose a cradle name as a birth name, however, like Jeasa who decided to name Jahir with a milk name, because "all the world loves him so well he needs no formal name."<br />
<br />
===Forms of Address===<br />
The primary hierarchy in Eldritch society involves who owes a duty to whom. Because the nobles have given their allegiance to Liolesa, they address her as they would their liegelady, and use simply ‘my lady’ or ‘my liege.' People acting outside the direct vassal-to-lord relationship, or people who owe their fealty to a noble who owes their loyalty to the Queen, should or will properly address the queen as ‘my Queen.’ Nobles who are behaving with excessive formality, or who are abasing themselves, might also use ‘my Queen,' or 'Your Majesty.'<br />
<br />
The tenants that owe allegiance to an Eldritch noble also call their noble ‘my lady’ or ‘my lord,’ because their fealty is owed to them directly. Nobles to whom they do not owe allegiance might be addressed as ‘Lord so-and-so’ or ‘Lady so-and-so’, but they’re almost never ‘my’ lady or lord. The possessives are important, indicating consent to the relationship. For tenants to address other nobles as ‘my’ lord or lady isn’t strictly incorrect, as they’re all considered social inferiors to the nobility. But it’s one of the ways they can show their consent to be governed.<br />
<br />
None of this is strictly policed or codified, surprisingly, given the Eldritch obsession for rigid social stratification. Mostly because the interactions between the social classes are so infrequent that there isn’t much opportunity for anyone to transgress. The only thing even remotely like an Eldritch middle class exists in the capital, which is the only city large enough to host merchants and distributors, and Liolesa is, of course, tolerant of their ‘encroachment’ on the privileges of their betters. But the nobles like Sediryl who went out among their tenants frequently enough to be recognized were rare; most nobles preferred to employ servants and factors to act as go-betweens.<br />
<br />
The servants and tenants are known by the family they serve: Nuera’s social secretary would be known as [First Name] [Surname] Nuera. They cannot claim the House name unless they are members of the noble family enrolled in that House; the final name of the three is always the ‘last stop’ in terms of where they owe their fealty. So John Smith Nuera, if he existed, would be a peasant who worked for the Nuera Galare family, while Sediryl Nuera Galare owes her fealty to the head of the Galare House.<br />
<br />
The heads of the various Houses, while they are the Queen’s vassals, keep their House names as their final names, as a symbol of their proper allegiances. Maybe that’s why there continues to be so much strife. Someone should tell Liolesa to make them all append ‘Galare’ to the ends of their names so they’ll remember the chain of command.<br />
<br />
==Social Overview==<br />
The Eldritch began forming their society on the trip to their world, and had codified it by not long after Settlement, despite the fact that the effects of their genetic manipulation had become unpredictable. Each succeeding generation was longer-lived than the one before it, and the confusion and upheaval this created caused the Eldritch to cling to what conventions they'd created. This tendency toward parochialism was only magnified by the war that broke out not long after Settlement for reasons not clearly remembered or consistently recorded: some claim it was the result of mental talent deranged by the treatments they'd undertaken, others claimed it was a political struggle. Whatever the case, in the war's aftermath the Church was given the assignment of finding and disposing of talents with the potential to derange their carriers. This removed a large chunk of the population shortly before it was discovered that Eldritch fertility had become erratic. For unknown reasons, fertility is linked with powerful esper talents, so the people purged were the ones most likely to successfully reproduce.<br />
<br />
The Eldritch have been growing longer-lived and shrinking in population since Settlement. The twenty noble Houses that were once a small segment of the population have become the majority of its peoples, hollowing out the working populace and destroying the economy. More and more the ruling elite have nothing to rule as the towns established at Settlement have "died," leaving the people in them to disperse in search of places where roofs don't leak and food can be bought.<br />
<br />
Never large in number, the Eldritch are now in danger of extinction, partially from the wreckage of their economy and partially because of fertility issues. In the wake of this growing peril, the Eldritch as a whole have responded by becoming even more rigid in their customs and habits at a time when they desperately need to look elsewhere for help.<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Government]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Families]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Heraldry]]<br />
<br />
===Eldritch Noble Society===<br />
The Eldritch had twenty noble Houses established just prior to Settlement, of which Jisiensire is now the smallest in number (though among the richest). Twelve of those noble Houses have vanished. <br />
<br />
Eldritch nobles are considered to have come of age shortly after they cease shearing their hair (boys) or wearing it loose (girls), usually around age 14. Male and female children are permitted to play together until adolescence, when serious social strictures formalize their interaction. They are presented at court when they reach their early twenties, at which point they are considered eligible prospects. (Note: It was not unusual in the past for children to be married/betrothed at a young age, and while this still occurs, it is usually a political act; the children remain in their family's households until they are old enough for formal presentation.) Eligible maidens' portraits are displayed on "courting boards," small, portable wooden boards with holds in them for painted portraits. These courting boards allow a family to see who might be a suitable marriage prospect. Males are expected to court likely prospects, although it is the female's prerogative to make the actual proposal.<br />
<br />
====Court Seasons====<br />
The Eldritch attend Summer and Winter Court at Ontine, each of which lasts several weeks; summer court may linger longer, depending on the weather. Summer Court is considered the courting season; Winter Court is the administrative gathering, where the heads of families arrive to give liege gifts to the Queen, their liegelady, and to inform her or petition her for changes in their administrative or financial situations.<br />
<br />
Most noble families own a townhouse on Nobles' Row just outside Ontine to house their members during the season. When court is not is session, nobles reside on family estates on their respective lands.<br />
<br />
====Marriage and Affairs====<br />
A side note here about the apparent taboo against same-sex relationships: because the Eldritch have such trouble with reproduction and are in such desperate need of healthy children, this taboo is more about the perception that people who prefer their same-sex lovers will not feel as inclined to undertake the heartbreaking and tedious task of begetting a child that will survive to term and through its early infancy. Since in many cases, the pursuit of a healthy child can take decades, and several failures before success, the belief that it requires dedication is understandable. That the attempt brings considerable danger for the would-be mother makes it a requirement that the prospective fathers be attentive to their care and comfort, and not privilege other relationships for the duration. As a general rule, then, same-sex relationships are ignored unless they are appearing to prevent the parties in question from doing their duties by the succession. A married Eldritch lady with two children might have a ‘special friend’ without comment in a way an unwed debutante could not, implying as it would that she would turn her husband away in favor of her lover; likewise, males who consort with one another solely, and never father children, are condemned. A man who is either unmarried, or wed and without issue, would never flaunt a male lover until he had proven himself dutiful… and the man who was found to be maintaining a same-sex lover when his wife was either injured or died in childbed would suffer the severest social ostracism for his purported callousness, whether or not he appeared to cherish his wife.<br />
<br />
High Eldritch society, in basic, is tolerant of bisexuality when it is accompanied by proof that the actors are willing to produce the next generation… and in fact, there are many marriages that quietly involve looking the other way when the childrearing is done. Other than its enthusiasm, Sediryl’s attitude toward Lisinthir and Jahir’s relationship isn’t actually that strange by Eldritch mores. Jahir’s embarrassment over her interest has more to do with his personal feelings about how he should conduct himself, and not with his desire to conform to social code. For once!<br />
<br />
This also makes sense of Lisinthir’s ease with the Emperor’s and Queen Ransomed’s plan. When they speak of keeping one another as lovers but ensuring the succession for both males’ dynasties, they are speaking a language he has been reared since birth to accept. It might be more public about the arrangement than Eldritch are used to, but it crosses and dots all the required t’s and i’s.<br />
<br />
====Tenants====<br />
I talk here about their relationships to their tenants.<br />
<br />
See also [[Eldritch Servant Classes]]<br />
<br />
====Stuff I haven't Covered====<br />
*clothing covering the entire body<br />
*taboos on touching<br />
*formal dance<br />
*education of children music, dancing, Universal, estate management, fencing<br />
<br />
===Civil Defense===<br />
See [[Eldritch Armed Forces]]<br />
<br />
See [[Eldritch Knightly Orders]]<br />
<br />
====Crime and Punishment====<br />
The Eldritch are rigid conformists and have a habit of public punishment of those who dare to step outside the bounds of convention, with a tradition of things such as whipping and public humiliation in stocks.<br />
<br />
===Holidays and Rituals===<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Holidays]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Investiture]]<br />
<br />
===Treasure and Economy===<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Treasure]]<br />
<br />
==Genealogies==<br />
[[Saranyl Jesa Galare]], Jerisa's sister, had three children: <br />
* [[Maraesa Jesa Galare|Maraesa Jesa]] (who became Queen) <br />
* [[Rylaniel Jesa Galare|Rylaniel Jesa]] (F) <br />
** Rylaniel married a man who took her name and had: <br />
*** Liolesa, who would become Queen after Maraesa.<br />
* [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (M) <br />
** Theval, a man, married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]] and took her name, and they had two children: <br />
*** [[Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire|Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel Sarel Jisiensire|Baniel]].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Notable Characters==<br />
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Characters by Eldritch House or Territory</categorytree><br />
<br />
==All Characters==<br />
[[List of Eldritch Characters]]<br />
<br />
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<div>Allies to the Pelted of the Alliance, the Eldritch are an estranged offshoot of humanity, espers and isolationists.<br />
<br />
==Appearance==<br />
Light-gravity-worlders, the Eldritch are tall, bipedal humanoids who are usually between six and seven feet in height, with thinner-than-human builds for both men and women. Bred from a very small gene pool (and tweaked by nanotech engineering), they are all pale with white hair; hair is straight or with a very slight wave, and is silky or satiny in texture. Eye colors tend toward pale shades of blue, green, grey or yellow, although darker shades are not unheard of (Lisinthir's eyes are a dark sapphire).<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Costume]]<br />
<br />
===Physiology===<br />
The Eldritch are humanoid enough to reproduce with humans, though such children are born Eldritch. The lighter gravity of their world has made them taller and more brittle; their metabolisms are a jumble of too-quick and too-slow, giving them a higher average body temperature and much more finicky guts. They process toxins quickly but are prone to genetic diseases, and have reproduction problems.<br />
<br />
As people they are all born with some amount of esper talent, though their abilities have been hobbled by a culture that discourages tactile contact (and the enhancement of the ability that comes with it).<br />
<br />
Eldritch age at roughly the same rate as humans up to adulthood, at which point the aging process slows dramatically. Early Eldritch could expect to live to 500 or 600, while the current generation of Eldritch average about 1,200-1,500 years; each generation appears to be living longer.<br />
<br />
Also, Eldritch have no morning breath. <ref>Farmer's Crown, Chapter 9</ref><br />
<br />
==History==<br />
Fassiana's recitation: "Jerisa was a firebrand and an autocrat, not the easiest woman to serve. Some wonder if the war with Corel could have been prevented had she been less dictatorial. But there was no question that her iron hand was a necessity in the wake of that war, and she kept us from fragmenting when we might otherwise have gone over into hysteria and useless infighting. We had begun with a sizable population and had that population abruptly deleted. That we survived at all was Jerisa's doing. But her reign left scars, and Maraesa's was a softer hand. She had a backbone yet, but she did not love conflict, and believed that we needed time to settle down after the excitement of our early years.<br />
<br />
Maraesa allowed us time to heal. Part of that was good sense. The other was that she was not in love with the outworld. She cultivated them with consummate skill, but only as much was necessary for our survival, and to maintain the treaty. She did not enjoy it. She considered our alliance with aliens a necessary evil, rather than an unqualified positive, and her reign created an insular court no longer accustomed to change or conflict. But she had the good sense to select Liolesa for her heir, and Liolesa, though she hid it through her heirship, was an ardent advocate for stronger ties with the outworld.<br />
<br />
When Liolesa took the throne, she invited Sellelvi in to shake up the court and see how the pieces fell out. To test its strength and resilience... identify her true enemies, her true allies, and the parties who had not yet decided either way. She also wanted to make a statement of her own principles, and that she intended to be a very different ruler from Maraesa."<ref name="gof-27">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) | Girl on Fire]]'', Chapter 27</ref><br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline===<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Jerisa: <br />
* Settlement <br />
* The War with Corel<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Maraesa: <br />
* The events in "Precious Things"<br />
* Liolesa's trip off-world as heir<br />
<br />
The Reign of Queen Liolesa: <br />
* Fasianyl and Sellelvi<br />
* Lisinthir's cultivation after his arrival at Ontine<br />
* Reese's cultivation<br />
<br />
==Language==<br />
===Spoken and Written Language===<br />
See [[Eldren]]<br />
<br />
===Names===<br />
Eldritch can have three names:<br />
* Birth Name<br />
* Cradle/Milk/Love Name; a diminutive used only by family, lovers and close friends. Implies long or intimate connection.<br />
* Song Name (optional)<br />
<br />
Examples:<br />
* Laiselin, Hirianthial's first wife: Laiselin, Laisa (Milk) and Butterfly (Song).<br />
* Liolesa, Lia (Milk)<br />
* Hirianthial, Hiran (Milk)<br />
* Fasianyl, Fasi (Milk)<br />
<br />
They move between names and titles depending on the kind of attention they want their listener to give them, much the way they do with color-shading their language to warn their listeners how their words should be interpreted. Calling someone by a cradle name is a way of saying ‘this is something I would say only to someone I have a long trust with’ and by a song name (if they know/have one), ‘this is something higher than us and dearer’ and by their title a way to remind them of their responsibilities, and by their full name, in the same way they might choose to shade a word neutral gray on purpose.<br />
<br />
====Exceptions====<br />
Shorter names were more common in earlier generations, and people who are carrying a name down generations might not have cradle names. Sometimes a parent might choose a cradle name as a birth name, however, like Jeasa who decided to name Jahir with a milk name, because "all the world loves him so well he needs no formal name."<br />
<br />
===Forms of Address===<br />
The primary hierarchy in Eldritch society involves who owes a duty to whom. Because the nobles have given their allegiance to Liolesa, they address her as they would their liegelady, and use simply ‘my lady’ or ‘my liege.' People acting outside the direct vassal-to-lord relationship, or people who owe their fealty to a noble who owes their loyalty to the Queen, should or will properly address the queen as ‘my Queen.’ Nobles who are behaving with excessive formality, or who are abasing themselves, might also use ‘my Queen,' or 'Your Majesty.'<br />
<br />
The tenants that owe allegiance to an Eldritch noble also call their noble ‘my lady’ or ‘my lord,’ because their fealty is owed to them directly. Nobles to whom they do not owe allegiance might be addressed as ‘Lord so-and-so’ or ‘Lady so-and-so’, but they’re almost never ‘my’ lady or lord. The possessives are important, indicating consent to the relationship. For tenants to address other nobles as ‘my’ lord or lady isn’t strictly incorrect, as they’re all considered social inferiors to the nobility. But it’s one of the ways they can show their consent to be governed.<br />
<br />
None of this is strictly policed or codified, surprisingly, given the Eldritch obsession for rigid social stratification. Mostly because the interactions between the social classes are so infrequent that there isn’t much opportunity for anyone to transgress. The only thing even remotely like an Eldritch middle class exists in the capital, which is the only city large enough to host merchants and distributors, and Liolesa is, of course, tolerant of their ‘encroachment’ on the privileges of their betters. But the nobles like Sediryl who went out among their tenants frequently enough to be recognized were rare; most nobles preferred to employ servants and factors to act as go-betweens.<br />
<br />
The servants and tenants are known by the family they serve: Nuera’s social secretary would be known as [First Name] [Surname] Nuera. They cannot claim the House name unless they are members of the noble family enrolled in that House; the final name of the three is always the ‘last stop’ in terms of where they owe their fealty. So John Smith Nuera, if he existed, would be a peasant who worked for the Nuera Galare family, while Sediryl Nuera Galare owes her fealty to the head of the Galare House.<br />
<br />
The heads of the various Houses, while they are the Queen’s vassals, keep their House names as their final names, as a symbol of their proper allegiances. Maybe that’s why there continues to be so much strife. Someone should tell Liolesa to make them all append ‘Galare’ to the ends of their names so they’ll remember the chain of command.<br />
<br />
==Social Overview==<br />
The Eldritch began forming their society on the trip to their world, and had codified it by not long after Settlement, despite the fact that the effects of their genetic manipulation had become unpredictable. Each succeeding generation was longer-lived than the one before it, and the confusion and upheaval this created caused the Eldritch to cling to what conventions they'd created. This tendency toward parochialism was only magnified by the war that broke out not long after Settlement for reasons not clearly remembered or consistently recorded: some claim it was the result of mental talent deranged by the treatments they'd undertaken, others claimed it was a political struggle. Whatever the case, in the war's aftermath the Church was given the assignment of finding and disposing of talents with the potential to derange their carriers. This removed a large chunk of the population shortly before it was discovered that Eldritch fertility had become erratic. For unknown reasons, fertility is linked with powerful esper talents, so the people purged were the ones most likely to successfully reproduce.<br />
<br />
The Eldritch have been growing longer-lived and shrinking in population since Settlement. The twenty noble Houses that were once a small segment of the population have become the majority of its peoples, hollowing out the working populace and destroying the economy. More and more the ruling elite have nothing to rule as the towns established at Settlement have "died," leaving the people in them to disperse in search of places where roofs don't leak and food can be bought.<br />
<br />
Never large in number, the Eldritch are now in danger of extinction, partially from the wreckage of their economy and partially because of fertility issues. In the wake of this growing peril, the Eldritch as a whole have responded by becoming even more rigid in their customs and habits at a time when they desperately need to look elsewhere for help.<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Government]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Families]]<br />
<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Heraldry]]<br />
<br />
===Eldritch Noble Society===<br />
The Eldritch had twenty noble Houses established just prior to Settlement, of which Jisiensire is now the smallest in number (though among the richest). Twelve of those noble Houses have vanished. <br />
<br />
Eldritch nobles are considered to have come of age shortly after they cease shearing their hair (boys) or wearing it loose (girls), usually around age 14. Male and female children are permitted to play together until adolescence, when serious social strictures formalize their interaction. They are presented at court when they reach their early twenties, at which point they are considered eligible prospects. (Note: It was not unusual in the past for children to be married/betrothed at a young age, and while this still occurs, it is usually a political act; the children remain in their family's households until they are old enough for formal presentation.) Eligible maidens' portraits are displayed on "courting boards," small, portable wooden boards with holds in them for painted portraits. These courting boards allow a family to see who might be a suitable marriage prospect. Males are expected to court likely prospects, although it is the female's prerogative to make the actual proposal.<br />
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====Court Seasons====<br />
The Eldritch attend Summer and Winter Court at Ontine, each of which lasts several weeks; summer court may linger longer, depending on the weather. Summer Court is considered the courting season; Winter Court is the administrative gathering, where the heads of families arrive to give liege gifts to the Queen, their liegelady, and to inform her or petition her for changes in their administrative or financial situations.<br />
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Most noble families own a townhouse on Nobles' Row just outside Ontine to house their members during the season. When court is not is session, nobles reside on family estates on their respective lands.<br />
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====Marriage and Affairs====<br />
A side note here about the apparent taboo against same-sex relationships: because the Eldritch have such trouble with reproduction and are in such desperate need of healthy children, this taboo is more about the perception that people who prefer their same-sex lovers will not feel as inclined to undertake the heartbreaking and tedious task of begetting a child that will survive to term and through its early infancy. Since in many cases, the pursuit of a healthy child can take decades, and several failures before success, the belief that it requires dedication is understandable. That the attempt brings considerable danger for the would-be mother makes it a requirement that the prospective fathers be attentive to their care and comfort, and not privilege other relationships for the duration. As a general rule, then, same-sex relationships are ignored unless they are appearing to prevent the parties in question from doing their duties by the succession. A married Eldritch lady with two children might have a ‘special friend’ without comment in a way an unwed debutante could not, implying as it would that she would turn her husband away in favor of her lover; likewise, males who consort with one another solely, and never father children, are condemned. A man who is either unmarried, or wed and without issue, would never flaunt a male lover until he had proven himself dutiful… and the man who was found to be maintaining a same-sex lover when his wife was either injured or died in childbed would suffer the severest social ostracism for his purported callousness, whether or not he appeared to cherish his wife.<br />
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High Eldritch society, in basic, is tolerant of bisexuality when it is accompanied by proof that the actors are willing to produce the next generation… and in fact, there are many marriages that quietly involve looking the other way when the childrearing is done. Other than its enthusiasm, Sediryl’s attitude toward Lisinthir and Jahir’s relationship isn’t actually that strange by Eldritch mores. Jahir’s embarrassment over her interest has more to do with his personal feelings about how he should conduct himself, and not with his desire to conform to social code. For once!<br />
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This also makes sense of Lisinthir’s ease with the Emperor’s and Queen Ransomed’s plan. When they speak of keeping one another as lovers but ensuring the succession for both males’ dynasties, they are speaking a language he has been reared since birth to accept. It might be more public about the arrangement than Eldritch are used to, but it crosses and dots all the required t’s and i’s.<br />
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====Tenants====<br />
I talk here about their relationships to their tenants.<br />
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See also [[Eldritch Servant Classes]]<br />
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====Stuff I haven't Covered====<br />
*clothing covering the entire body<br />
*taboos on touching<br />
*formal dance<br />
*education of children music, dancing, Universal, estate management, fencing<br />
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===Civil Defense===<br />
See [[Eldritch Armed Forces]]<br />
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See [[Eldritch Knightly Orders]]<br />
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====Crime and Punishment====<br />
The Eldritch are rigid conformists and have a habit of public punishment of those who dare to step outside the bounds of convention, with a tradition of things such as whipping and public humiliation in stocks.<br />
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===Holidays and Rituals===<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Holidays]]<br />
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See also: [[Investiture]]<br />
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===Treasure and Economy===<br />
See also: [[Eldritch Treasure]]<br />
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==Genealogies==<br />
[[Saranyl Jesa Galare]], Jerisa's sister, had three children: <br />
* [[Maraesa Jesa Galare|Maraesa Jesa]] (who became Queen) <br />
* [[Rylaniel Jesa Galare|Rylaniel Jesa]] (F) <br />
** Rylaniel married a man who took her name and had: <br />
*** Liolesa, who would become Queen after Maraesa.<br />
* [[Theval Jesa Galare|Theval Jesa]] (M) <br />
** Theval, a man, married [[Sylfani Sarel Jisiensire]] and took her name, and they had two children: <br />
*** [[Hirianthial Sarel Jisiensire|Hirianthial]] and [[Baniel Sarel Jisiensire|Baniel]].<br />
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==Notable Characters==<br />
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==All Characters==<br />
[[List of Eldritch Characters]]<br />
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