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==Physical Description==
==Physical Description==
An Eldritch of average height, with gray eyes (no tinge of blue) and long hair, worn loose and eschewing the jewels and fillets that are customary for men of wealth. He's tall enough to get his chin on Sediryl's head, but Sediryl's not very tall. He's had a limp since before Sediryl was born.
An Eldritch of average height, with gray eyes (no tinge of blue) and long hair, worn loose. He's tall enough to get his chin on Sediryl's head, but Sediryl's not very tall. He's had a limp since before Sediryl was born.


*Baritone
His vocal register is a baritone, though not quite as deep as Hirianthial's, and has a clear timbre.
*Likes to wash with pine needle waters
 
He prefers to wash with pine or fir waters, and eschews the jewels and fillets that are customary for men of wealth.


==History==
==History==
Best friends with Kolvin, Jahir's father; they met at court. Kolvin was Thesali's sister, and he asked Haladir to marry her to protect her from her mother, Avarise, who was an even worse harpy than Thesali.
A Delen Galare, who was fascinated by the outworld, and read a great deal about it via the royal Wellfeed when he was young and living at the Delen Galare estates. Haladir was best friends with Kolvin, Jahir's father; they met at court. Kolvin was Thesali's sister, and he asked Haladir to marry her to protect her from her mother, Avarise, who was an even worse harpy than Thesali. This match was encouraged by the House, because keeping Nuera in dependable (Galare) hands was of paramount importance. Unfortunately, Thesali did not escape the pattern of her abusive upbringing and Haladir's marriage to her was an unhappy one from the start. He remained good friends with Kolvin until Kolvin's death, and busied himself as much as possible on the Nuera property with a breeding project, which encompassed twelve pastures, two barns, a stable, and a training ground. (This is a 'minor enterprise' compared to Houses dedicated to horse breeding, the way Jisiensire formerly was.)


A gentle father, and very loving, but resigned to sorrow. He taught Sediryl Universal as "their private language" in order to get around her mother's strictures against discussion of aliens.
His wife has intimated that he hasn't been sexually faithful to her.


His breeding project at Nuera encompassed twelve pastures, two barns, a stable, and a training ground. (This is a 'minor enterprise' compared to Houses dedicated to horse breeding, the way Jisiensire formerly was.)
A gentle father, and very loving, but resigned to sorrow. He taught Sediryl Universal as "their private language" in order to get around her mother's strictures against discussion of aliens. They spent a great deal of time together before she left the nursery, and he read and shared with her stories; both mythical and believable, though Sediryl mostly remembers the latter: "stories, where heroism involved a single man facing down a maddened boar, or a woman swimming into a lake to rescue her drowning daughter." <ref name="hw-15">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) | Healer's Wedding]], Chapter 15</ref> Her father "taught her that heroism was common, and often hidden, in the everyday, and he had acted like the heroes of his stories." <ref name="hw-15" />


His wife has intimated that he hasn't been sexually faithful to her.
Two years before Sediryl's return, he fell off a horse that rolled on him and crushed his pelvis. This injury nearly killed him. <ref>Healer's Wedding, some chapter</ref>


Two years before Sediryl's return, he fell off a horse that rolled on him and crushed his pelvis. This injury nearly killed him. <ref>Healer's Wedding, some chapter</ref>
===Events After Sediryl's Return===
This is where I put the Healer's Wedding/Fathers' Honor events.


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
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==Quotes==
==Quotes==
"Always check your premises."
* "Always check your premises."
 
Throwing these here so I can remember to put them in the descriptions later.
"Her only happy memories of winter were of her early childhood, when she’d been young enough to sit on her father’s lap and listen to him read stories. They’d been similar to the ones she’d found so frustrating at court, but unlike those tales, his had lacked melodrama. He’d told her believable stories, where heroism involved a single man facing down a maddened boar, or a woman swimming into a lake to rescue her drowning daughter. By the time she’d heard the stories of knights facing down dragons—dragons!—and ladies dying for their broken hearts, she’d been prepared to dismiss them all as hyperbolic.
And then she’d fallen into a story more dramatic than any tale out of court, and survived it, and been forced to admit that sometimes things really were a matter of life or death. She still didn’t like the dramatic stories. Much. The ones with the romances were a little bit more palatable now.
But her father had taught her that heroism was common, and often hidden, in the everyday, and he had acted like the heroes of his stories." <ref>Healer's Wedding, Chapter 15</ref>
 


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 16:22, 8 July 2020

Haladir Delen

Haladir Delen Galare is the father of Sediryl, the Eldritch Crown Princess. He married into Nuera and was Haladir Nuera Galare until his divorce.

Physical Description

An Eldritch of average height, with gray eyes (no tinge of blue) and long hair, worn loose. He's tall enough to get his chin on Sediryl's head, but Sediryl's not very tall. He's had a limp since before Sediryl was born.

His vocal register is a baritone, though not quite as deep as Hirianthial's, and has a clear timbre.

He prefers to wash with pine or fir waters, and eschews the jewels and fillets that are customary for men of wealth.

History

A Delen Galare, who was fascinated by the outworld, and read a great deal about it via the royal Wellfeed when he was young and living at the Delen Galare estates. Haladir was best friends with Kolvin, Jahir's father; they met at court. Kolvin was Thesali's sister, and he asked Haladir to marry her to protect her from her mother, Avarise, who was an even worse harpy than Thesali. This match was encouraged by the House, because keeping Nuera in dependable (Galare) hands was of paramount importance. Unfortunately, Thesali did not escape the pattern of her abusive upbringing and Haladir's marriage to her was an unhappy one from the start. He remained good friends with Kolvin until Kolvin's death, and busied himself as much as possible on the Nuera property with a breeding project, which encompassed twelve pastures, two barns, a stable, and a training ground. (This is a 'minor enterprise' compared to Houses dedicated to horse breeding, the way Jisiensire formerly was.)

His wife has intimated that he hasn't been sexually faithful to her.

A gentle father, and very loving, but resigned to sorrow. He taught Sediryl Universal as "their private language" in order to get around her mother's strictures against discussion of aliens. They spent a great deal of time together before she left the nursery, and he read and shared with her stories; both mythical and believable, though Sediryl mostly remembers the latter: "stories, where heroism involved a single man facing down a maddened boar, or a woman swimming into a lake to rescue her drowning daughter." [1] Her father "taught her that heroism was common, and often hidden, in the everyday, and he had acted like the heroes of his stories." [1]

Two years before Sediryl's return, he fell off a horse that rolled on him and crushed his pelvis. This injury nearly killed him. [2]

Events After Sediryl's Return

This is where I put the Healer's Wedding/Fathers' Honor events.

Trivia

  • gentles and rides ugly horses other people would use only for plows
  • sings lullabies, tells stories
  • calls Sediryl 'my dear', 'my girl,' 'my sweet,' and 'Sedi' and 'Daughter'.
  • can weave stars out of grass

Quotes

  • "Always check your premises."

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Healer's Wedding, Chapter 15
  2. Healer's Wedding, some chapter