Interlude- A Nobles Daughter
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- The Dark Abyss of My Soul
Current vote, (i was planning on having it be more separate while counting the talking votes a a whole, but it works easier counting them as chunks) next part will probably be up eventually.
-Ninja editting this into the post-
I agree I do think Subaru is fairly solid at the end, even the start he wasn't terrible just completely lost as to whats happening. By the end and even early middle, I feel like he'd gained some combat experience and started to know what was going on enough to be decent in how he handled everything. The only difference I want with Amelia is possibly less oversight, Amelia will get stronger as the story progresses but it will never be to the level where she's not atleast somewhat struggling.
I didn't mean to sound like this quest wouldn't have a heavy focus on other characters, yes this is Amelia's story. But she'll be gaining allies through the story, ones that she'll care about, that her and hopefully we will be pained to see them die. over and over and over again <3
I agree with planned voting, but for this vote I think it was ok not to. Conversation votes and similar ones are counted where, every vote not for the vote counts against it. Although for this vote since its pretty unanimous i'm just doing the blocks as if its plan format.
Here's Amelia's backstory
Amelia was born on the 23rd day of the 3rd month of fall, in the year 979'pt. To Lord Gaidel of House Seyrunn and Lady Elayne of Londerwin, a political marriage to formally ally the two houses which in the past had a good deal of issues.
Amelia spent her younger years brought up by nannies, that's not to say her mother was never around. Her mother tried to give Amelia as much time as she could, but the life of a Lady of a Great House is busy.
As Amelia got older her parents began taking her to the castle, as well as court so she could start learning how to be a lady. While she was at the castle Amelia would often sneak away from her maids and go watch the knights train. In particular she would always go in search of her older brother Ander, so she could watch him training. He was usually the one forced to bring her back to her maids after he'd find her wandering around. She always looked up to her older brother, and just being a child, she always imagined a future where she was a knight.
It was during one of those incursions that she met a young girl named Siuan watching the knights spar up in Amelia's favorite spot. Siuan had similar dreams, but she also had to crush Amelia's by telling her that girls can't be knights. Amelia didn't believe her and thought that was dumb, so she convinced Siuan that they could train just like the knights.
After that whenever Amelia was in the castle she'd run off to go play with Siuan, pretending to be knights or playing hero. Siuan turned out to be Siuan Paendrag, second daughter and fourth child to Uther Paendrag the King of Herindal. That didn't stop them from playing of course, there fathers always got along. They thought it was good that there daughters had a friend, although both were fairly baffled at their preference towards toy swords instead of dolls. Siuans older brother would often make fun of them and berate them for it. Constantly reminding them of how they couldn't become knights and that there weren't any women heroes that used swords. As the two of of them grew up they learned to not like the sword, Siuan enjoyed using the bow and would often go hunting with her siblings. While Amelia found it more reliable to use her hands and would often attempt to wrestle with the servant children, along with a not so enthusiastic Siuan.
When Amelia's brother was thirteen he left to go train at a temple dedicated to the aspect of Justice, which trained knights into paladins. It was thought highly of and was something that most if not all nobles did with there sons. Around that time her father started taking her with him to oversee his lands. She'd watch him talk to people about their problems, see some people be angry with him and watch him talk them down. He'd handle issues, while enforcing things that he thought were the best for his realm. It was a very sobering experience for her at a young age, the contrast between her life of luxury in her mansion and the city. To seeing how people actually lived, working for their income and earning the food on their table. That wasn't to say she didn't think her father worked for everything they had, she knew he did and knew he had little free time. But those visits really helped Amelia grow as a person, and prepared her for the future.
A little after Amelia's twelfth birthday her mother passed away attempting to give birth to there third child. Amelia had been beyond excited to have another sibling, and had spent months preparing herself to be an older sister. Her only sibling had been Ander at that point who'd been away training with her uncle for the past six years. He visited every so often, but never as long as Amelia wanted. The passing of Elayne Seyrunn reverberated throughout the kingdom. Her being the daughter of the head of House Londerwin, and the wife to the head of House Seyrunn. That was the first and only time in her life that she'd seen her father cry. The first time she thought of her father as just a man. Till that point he may as well have been a hero out of legend. She looked up to him, respected his ability to lead and thought of him as an untouchable wall. It was at that moment when that image cracked. When she held her father as he cried over the body of his wife and unborn child. It was then, when that image of heroes and great warriors, crumbled for her. She realized that behind all those great deeds, lay regular men, who felt loss and heartbreak like anyone else. Ander visited for the funeral but he wasn't able to stay very long, he spent the majority of his time there with Amelia though. Showing her cool magic and sword techniques that he'd learnt. He was obviously hurting under the surface but he really tried to hide it from Amelia.
Siuan started visiting more after that, sometimes her father the King would come along so he could visit with Amelia's father. Who also paid more attention to her, going as far as to actually teach her some of the things she'd remembered him showing Ander before he left. A few months after the death of her mother. Amelia's father asked if she'd like to go off and train at a monastery or temple, like most noble men did once they reached 13. She said no at first not wanting to leave her father alone. But changed her mind when he told her that the king was asking Siuan the same thing and that Ander would be returning as a full fledged Paladin before she left.
A year later, a bit after her thirteenth birthday Amelia left Herindal with Siuan to the continent of Sygewyn. After landing in Dragonshore, Amelia went to the Monastery of Wisdom on the coast of the kingdom of Valoria. While Siuan went to the Monastery of Sacrifice in the Howling Mountains, which lay in no kingdom at the edge of the Bloostained Wilds.
Life at the monastery was a good deal different from Amelia's life back at home. Once she arrived and her guards left, she was forced to strip down completely. Handing over all of her possessions, which they then burned to ash. She was then given cloth and thread, then was told that she must make her own robes. It was apparently what they did with all new initiates, shedding material possessions and all they had been beforehand. Being 'reborn' and brought into a world where possessions were more than just items. It was a lesson to remind you of all you'd taken for granted. Well, Amelia had definitely taken modesty for granted, that week was one of the worst in her life. She could only work on the robes in her free time. Which were three one hour intervals a day and she was so exhausted at the end of the day that working on the robe wasn't a concern. No one cared about her nudity, they were used to it and it was a mixed monastery. But she wasn't used to it, once she'd actually finished with a robe someone mentioned how they'd thought her face was just naturally pink.
She slowly became accustomed to living there, they awakened her to magic and taught her the basics. They pounded lessons on the goddess, lessons of temperance and of wisdom into her head. She was forced to go over every thing she knew through her headspace and organize all her thoughts. All the happy memories, all the embarrassing ones and all the depressing ones, it was an exercise on knowledge. Once done, with everything completely organised in her head she was able to find any and all that she knew, at least with a little searching. Afterwards it was just upkeep, she visualized memories as documents, shards of knowledge within her headspace. So once a week she'd sort through those papers, and organize them. Instructors would often quiz initiates to make sure there mental studies where in order. She actually saw someone get kicked out for not caring about organizing there headspace. He was called slothful and uncaring about the wisdom of the goddess and banished with nothing but enough rations to reach the nearest town.
At the Monastery the monks encouraged Amelia's fighting prowess, kicking her ass in combat and forcing her to go over techniques. It was some of the most fun she had there, she loved wrestling on the ground with recruits. She was fast, much faster than anyone else there, instructors included. Now that didn't make up for her lack of skill however, she was to forward to ambitious in attacks, even now she has issues with over extending or going for incredibly risky moves.
After close to seven years at the monastery, (about 6 and a half) she received a letter from her father. Telling her that he'd sent a group of guards to come and get her and bring her back to court. She didn't wait for the guards to fetch her, a few days after she received the letter she'd set out by herself to go back to Herindal. It was a three week journey to Dragonshore from the monastery, Amelia managed the best she could. The monks gave her gold before she left, so she didn't starve on her way, although she did indulge. In Dragonshore, even though she was essentially broke she somehow managed to convince a merchant's captain to give her passage. "It would be an honour, to give passage to a lady of a Great House." He'd said, it probably helped that he was heading to her uncle's port. With that Amelia set out to Herindal, heading east towards the continent and country that she used to call home.
-Ninja editting this into the post-
I agree I do think Subaru is fairly solid at the end, even the start he wasn't terrible just completely lost as to whats happening. By the end and even early middle, I feel like he'd gained some combat experience and started to know what was going on enough to be decent in how he handled everything. The only difference I want with Amelia is possibly less oversight, Amelia will get stronger as the story progresses but it will never be to the level where she's not atleast somewhat struggling.
I didn't mean to sound like this quest wouldn't have a heavy focus on other characters, yes this is Amelia's story. But she'll be gaining allies through the story, ones that she'll care about, that her and hopefully we will be pained to see them die. over and over and over again <3
I agree with planned voting, but for this vote I think it was ok not to. Conversation votes and similar ones are counted where, every vote not for the vote counts against it. Although for this vote since its pretty unanimous i'm just doing the blocks as if its plan format.
Here's Amelia's backstory
Amelia was born on the 23rd day of the 3rd month of fall, in the year 979'pt. To Lord Gaidel of House Seyrunn and Lady Elayne of Londerwin, a political marriage to formally ally the two houses which in the past had a good deal of issues.
Amelia spent her younger years brought up by nannies, that's not to say her mother was never around. Her mother tried to give Amelia as much time as she could, but the life of a Lady of a Great House is busy.
As Amelia got older her parents began taking her to the castle, as well as court so she could start learning how to be a lady. While she was at the castle Amelia would often sneak away from her maids and go watch the knights train. In particular she would always go in search of her older brother Ander, so she could watch him training. He was usually the one forced to bring her back to her maids after he'd find her wandering around. She always looked up to her older brother, and just being a child, she always imagined a future where she was a knight.
It was during one of those incursions that she met a young girl named Siuan watching the knights spar up in Amelia's favorite spot. Siuan had similar dreams, but she also had to crush Amelia's by telling her that girls can't be knights. Amelia didn't believe her and thought that was dumb, so she convinced Siuan that they could train just like the knights.
After that whenever Amelia was in the castle she'd run off to go play with Siuan, pretending to be knights or playing hero. Siuan turned out to be Siuan Paendrag, second daughter and fourth child to Uther Paendrag the King of Herindal. That didn't stop them from playing of course, there fathers always got along. They thought it was good that there daughters had a friend, although both were fairly baffled at their preference towards toy swords instead of dolls. Siuans older brother would often make fun of them and berate them for it. Constantly reminding them of how they couldn't become knights and that there weren't any women heroes that used swords. As the two of of them grew up they learned to not like the sword, Siuan enjoyed using the bow and would often go hunting with her siblings. While Amelia found it more reliable to use her hands and would often attempt to wrestle with the servant children, along with a not so enthusiastic Siuan.
When Amelia's brother was thirteen he left to go train at a temple dedicated to the aspect of Justice, which trained knights into paladins. It was thought highly of and was something that most if not all nobles did with there sons. Around that time her father started taking her with him to oversee his lands. She'd watch him talk to people about their problems, see some people be angry with him and watch him talk them down. He'd handle issues, while enforcing things that he thought were the best for his realm. It was a very sobering experience for her at a young age, the contrast between her life of luxury in her mansion and the city. To seeing how people actually lived, working for their income and earning the food on their table. That wasn't to say she didn't think her father worked for everything they had, she knew he did and knew he had little free time. But those visits really helped Amelia grow as a person, and prepared her for the future.
A little after Amelia's twelfth birthday her mother passed away attempting to give birth to there third child. Amelia had been beyond excited to have another sibling, and had spent months preparing herself to be an older sister. Her only sibling had been Ander at that point who'd been away training with her uncle for the past six years. He visited every so often, but never as long as Amelia wanted. The passing of Elayne Seyrunn reverberated throughout the kingdom. Her being the daughter of the head of House Londerwin, and the wife to the head of House Seyrunn. That was the first and only time in her life that she'd seen her father cry. The first time she thought of her father as just a man. Till that point he may as well have been a hero out of legend. She looked up to him, respected his ability to lead and thought of him as an untouchable wall. It was at that moment when that image cracked. When she held her father as he cried over the body of his wife and unborn child. It was then, when that image of heroes and great warriors, crumbled for her. She realized that behind all those great deeds, lay regular men, who felt loss and heartbreak like anyone else. Ander visited for the funeral but he wasn't able to stay very long, he spent the majority of his time there with Amelia though. Showing her cool magic and sword techniques that he'd learnt. He was obviously hurting under the surface but he really tried to hide it from Amelia.
Siuan started visiting more after that, sometimes her father the King would come along so he could visit with Amelia's father. Who also paid more attention to her, going as far as to actually teach her some of the things she'd remembered him showing Ander before he left. A few months after the death of her mother. Amelia's father asked if she'd like to go off and train at a monastery or temple, like most noble men did once they reached 13. She said no at first not wanting to leave her father alone. But changed her mind when he told her that the king was asking Siuan the same thing and that Ander would be returning as a full fledged Paladin before she left.
A year later, a bit after her thirteenth birthday Amelia left Herindal with Siuan to the continent of Sygewyn. After landing in Dragonshore, Amelia went to the Monastery of Wisdom on the coast of the kingdom of Valoria. While Siuan went to the Monastery of Sacrifice in the Howling Mountains, which lay in no kingdom at the edge of the Bloostained Wilds.
Life at the monastery was a good deal different from Amelia's life back at home. Once she arrived and her guards left, she was forced to strip down completely. Handing over all of her possessions, which they then burned to ash. She was then given cloth and thread, then was told that she must make her own robes. It was apparently what they did with all new initiates, shedding material possessions and all they had been beforehand. Being 'reborn' and brought into a world where possessions were more than just items. It was a lesson to remind you of all you'd taken for granted. Well, Amelia had definitely taken modesty for granted, that week was one of the worst in her life. She could only work on the robes in her free time. Which were three one hour intervals a day and she was so exhausted at the end of the day that working on the robe wasn't a concern. No one cared about her nudity, they were used to it and it was a mixed monastery. But she wasn't used to it, once she'd actually finished with a robe someone mentioned how they'd thought her face was just naturally pink.
She slowly became accustomed to living there, they awakened her to magic and taught her the basics. They pounded lessons on the goddess, lessons of temperance and of wisdom into her head. She was forced to go over every thing she knew through her headspace and organize all her thoughts. All the happy memories, all the embarrassing ones and all the depressing ones, it was an exercise on knowledge. Once done, with everything completely organised in her head she was able to find any and all that she knew, at least with a little searching. Afterwards it was just upkeep, she visualized memories as documents, shards of knowledge within her headspace. So once a week she'd sort through those papers, and organize them. Instructors would often quiz initiates to make sure there mental studies where in order. She actually saw someone get kicked out for not caring about organizing there headspace. He was called slothful and uncaring about the wisdom of the goddess and banished with nothing but enough rations to reach the nearest town.
At the Monastery the monks encouraged Amelia's fighting prowess, kicking her ass in combat and forcing her to go over techniques. It was some of the most fun she had there, she loved wrestling on the ground with recruits. She was fast, much faster than anyone else there, instructors included. Now that didn't make up for her lack of skill however, she was to forward to ambitious in attacks, even now she has issues with over extending or going for incredibly risky moves.
After close to seven years at the monastery, (about 6 and a half) she received a letter from her father. Telling her that he'd sent a group of guards to come and get her and bring her back to court. She didn't wait for the guards to fetch her, a few days after she received the letter she'd set out by herself to go back to Herindal. It was a three week journey to Dragonshore from the monastery, Amelia managed the best she could. The monks gave her gold before she left, so she didn't starve on her way, although she did indulge. In Dragonshore, even though she was essentially broke she somehow managed to convince a merchant's captain to give her passage. "It would be an honour, to give passage to a lady of a Great House." He'd said, it probably helped that he was heading to her uncle's port. With that Amelia set out to Herindal, heading east towards the continent and country that she used to call home.
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