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 within the Harat-Shar.

Biography

Born either in an orbital habitat or a ship, and a follower of a very minor splinter sect of the Harat-Shariin religion.

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."

Sellelvi was made a part of Jisiensire via a rite that was created specifically for her situation, involving an overnight vigil in a chapel, with a hallucinogen meant to allow the witnessing Eldritch to touch her mind and evaluate it for suitability (five are required). This rite was created by Liolesa with the help of the Church.

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.