Sellelvi

Sellelvi helps Fasianyl dress.

The famous pard who became friends with Fasianyl Mina Jisiensire. Homeworld-bred, her train was Roshka.

Appearance and Personality

A member of the leopard intrarace.

Biography

At the time of Reese Eddings's first visit to Escutcheon, Sellelvi's arrival to the summer court was the last time an alien showed up at Ontine for "some two centuries."

The Folio

One of Fasianyl's suitors is responsible for painting a series of portraits of her and Sellelvi. (He was a portrait painter, which suggested he was somewhat lower in station than her--perhaps a bootless son or cousin from an impoverished house).

A soft leather folio, dark blue, longer than a forearm but narrower than expected. Smells of paint and ink and paper. The paint is "vibrant" with "jewel-rich" hues, and smells of oils.

Twenty-two images, intimate but pastoral, not sexual, of Sellelvi and Fasianyl engaged in normal activities, like Sellelvi listening to Fasianyl reading aloud from a book while they sit together on a day bed.

The folio of paintings ended up in the care of Natalie Felger's family "over a hundred years" prior to Reese Eddings seeing them on Harat-Sharii.