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| The Frigid Sun; Lasairiona O'Beigleighinn | |
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| Riona O'Beigleighinn | Oct 22 2010, 02:57 AM Post #1 |
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[align=center] I'd like to sympathize with you but unfortunately I have better things to do. Though her titles call to mind steel-haired dowagers, Countess Lasairiona O' Beighleighinn, Loremistress of Antrim is in fact, a Wilder Sidhe just out of her teen years. With long fiery hair and eyes dark as a night with no moon, she hardly looks like anyone's idea of an up and coming force behind House Eiluned, but that is exactly what she is. A member of the Knights of the Silver Key, which she joined some ten years ago when she was but a Childling, "Lady Riona" has been a great influence on younger members of Court despite her infrequent involvement with Fae politics. Staunchly Seelie, she was sent to Aurora for fostering, and her mother's hope was that she would discovered the pixie Queen's secrets. What she found instead was the woman's library, which she finds to be her truest home. Over the years, she has made the library her exclusive domain where each tome and scroll is akin to a personal friend. A scandal arose in both Eiluned and Ailil houses when the young Sidhe flatly refused the Hue and Cry of the Lord Law of Adeg y Lleuad for all his "vassals" to return to Shadowfall. She, a distant cousin of Lord Rasphale, was expected to leave Aurora's freehold with a king's ransom of treasures and tomes. When she remained behind to serve the Queen, she gained a degree of notoriety amidst the divided Courts. Her fear comes in the form of a pact made upon a dark night in the infamous Shadowfall halls. Kedrick, wishing to seal a bargain with Lady Emigrey Beighleighinn~ a grand dame of House Eiluned~ offered his son to the Duchess in marriage to her newborn daughter as a means to seal the hereditary alliance between Houses and Bloodlines. The young Ailil child did not seem impressed with the squirming bundle in the Duchess's arms, but twelve year olds often do not see charm in those frail and insipid things called bairns. Not a year of her life has passed that Emigrey has failed to remind Riona of her duty to Court and House, and of that marriage-bargain. Just over twenty years have come and gone, and even with her great Treasure, she has not looked upon the face of her husband, the Shadow's Brood. Likewise, she would never admit openly that she fears the day he comes to lay his claim to her. How can an Unseelie Lord ever hold the tenderness of faded ink and whispered pledges, or the true nobility of tomes aching to be held? In her means to stave off that fear, she has engrossed herself in the study of subjects her lonely years allowed, that of Gremayre and Histories, the beauty and sorrow of ages past. She finds her heart divided, seeing clearly both sides of the Conflict between Courts. And while her Oath of Fealty to Aurora stands, a natural and dark part of her does believe that balance should be returned to the Lands, and the Old Ways reinstated. Of this, however, the Lady of Whispers keeps her own secret. ====================================== Seen in her mortal seeming, Lady Riona is a slender girl of unremarkable appearance. Strawberry blonde hair pulled tightly back into a severe matron's bob contrast with brown eyes creased at the corners from the near-perpetual squint of reading. Practical and sturdy, her gowns befit a maid better than a noble and titled lady, and often times her fingertips are stained with ink. Small round-framed silver spectacles can be found either upon the bridge of her nose or lost in the tangle of her hair. In speech and in manner, she is economical, preferring to utter what few words tumble from her lips in all quietness. Respectable. Sincere. Stoic. Easily overlooked as she moves about in her silent ways. Her faerie mien is far more imposing while still preserving the traces of a fragile beauty. Her hair is sunset hanging loose about her delicate face in wisps while the heavy mass of it spills down her slender spine. Lithe limbs never fuss or fidget, and her pale skin is made luminous by her adherence to her House colours. Her gowns speak of shimmering satins or heavy, ornate velvet brocades. Her voile is elegant, her jewels a modest affair save for her courtly diadem which is said to resemble that of Eiluned herself and which dips down to kiss her brow with stones of onyx set in silver and marked by the crescent moon. Yet most striking is that nightfall gaze, blazing with a shimmering darkness that lives and haunts the souls of those who bear the weight of her stare. There is a wistfulness that flutters about her not unlike the single tiny mote of light that dances ever about her head, a distant air as if she were revisiting in memory a time long gone. When recalled to the present, her usual expression is a smile of polite disinterest. And still the calm heart of her comes to life in her voice, no less arrogant than any noble Sidhe, but one that wraps itself about its audience like the lace of mystery, as if any moment she might impart to her listener the secrets of the very universe. It is a pity then, that she never does. As even the most glamour laden tomes cannot rise above their earthly cares and don armor or wield a blade, Lady Riona has selected no champion as of yet. ===================================== Court: Seelie Seelie Legacy: Hermit Unseelie Legacy: Iceheart House: Eiluned Seeming: Wilder Kith: Sidhe Concept: Archivist/Loremistress Court Title: Her Excellency, The Countess Wyvernwood, and Knight of the Silver Key Champion: None Attributes Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2 Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 2, Appearance (ethereal) 5 Mental: Perception (empathic) 4, Intelligence (discerning) 4, Wits 2 Abilities: Talents: Empathy 3, Instruction 2, Kenning 2, Persuasion 3, Subterfuge 2 Skills: Etiquette 3, Leadership 2 Knowledges Academics 2, Gremayre 3, Law (Seelie Court) 2, Lore (Prodigals) 3, Politics 2 Backgrounds: Treasure 5, Resources 3, Title (countess) 4 Arts: Soothsay 5, Sovereign 4, Naming: 5, Oneiromancy: 3 Realms: Scene 1, Fae 4, Prop 2, Scene: 3, Nature: 2, Actor: 3 Tempers: Glamour: 5 Willpower: 7 Banality: 3 ==================================================== Height: 5 feet, Nine Inches Weight: 128 lbs. Age: 20 Kithain Name: Lasairiona Bronagh O'Beighleighinn ni Eiluned Mortal Name: Reena Beigly Theme song: The Mystic's Dream ~L. McKennitt Unseelie Theme: The Queen and the Soldier ~Kate Rusby Love Theme: Gravity ~V. Teng [/align]
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