Lisinthir Nase Galare

Ambassador Lisinthir Nase Galare

Dancer, dueler, and last son of the House of the striking drake. Now Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli. Currently Third in the Chatcaavan Empire.

Physical Appearance

Stands 6'3", 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.

Family

• Son of Korval Keldi Imthereli and Malavi Nase Galare.
• Consort of Emperor Kauvauc Ueneuvin and the Queen Ransomed.
• Children: firstborn twins, Kolvin and Niriel. Thirdborn Alari, a girl. Fourth, Sarkhan, named after the Emperor's father.

History/Bio

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.

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.

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. He spent several years alone at a time. 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.

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...")

Events of Even the Wingless

• Sent as the Alliance Ambassador ad Chatcaavan Empire, with an initial tenure of two years
• Lisinthir was the first effective ambassador; after his successful freeing of a group of slaves, the diplomatic corps "expected miracles of him. Immediately." He succeeded in backing 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.
• Ascends to the second pillow in the Chatcaavan Court
• Seduces the Emperor
• Upends the Chatcaavan court

Events of Some Things Transcend

• Sent away from the Chatcaavan court, and is pursued by another faction of Chatcaava
• 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
• Supplies the idea of ambushing at Chatcaavan ship while the one he's on is drifting

Trivia

• drinks tonic water, as a substitute for alcohol
• approximately two heads taller than the Queen Ransomed.

Quotes

Even the Wingless

"I do not plead or cajole or hope, Second. I require, demand, and occasionally compromise. You will deal with me accordingly."

"I am not Chatcaavan, lady. Your endings cannot hold me. I belong to a different story."

"Anger whittles at your soul. It becomes you. It moves you to acts you would otherwise abhor."

"One man is nothing beside the welfare of millions."

"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."

Some Things Transcend

"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."

“I am never annoying. I skip directly from distracting to infuriating. Saves time.”

"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

Amulet Rampant

"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."

"Doing something as honest as hitting someone we're disappointed in would be gauche, when we could and should destroy them with words instead."

"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."

"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."

"All the best things in life are high maintenance, cousin."

From Ruins

“I am just...a friend with extravagant benefits.”

Farmer's Crown

"If you think waiting is inaction, you have never seen a hunting cat at work."

"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."

"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>

Quotes and Observations by Others

"You are a dancer, a dueler and the last son of the House of the striking drake. You will acquit yourself magnificently."

—Liolesa Galare

"One does not admonish the wolf when it hungers to be slaying monsters."

—Jahir Seni Galare