lowetohigh: (not yet a lady)
All the Info:

Mun: Qi
Contact: PM to [personal profile] hamelinic
Character(s) at Invoria: Cynric, Ayleth

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Character Name (and journal, if one is already made): Ayleth Löwenherz { [personal profile] lowetohigh
Age: 16
PB: Kristina Romanova
Stranger/Native: Native
Class: Summoner (training)
Occupation: Heiress, theoretical Lady, aspiring dragon trainer

History: Ayleth was born to one of the scattered nobles of Invoria-- Alvar Löwenherz the Deliberate, Lord of Allontanare. Her mother was Lady Rahela, an enchantress known best as the Diamond Sorceress. As a very young child, both parents encouraged her to chase her passions and thoroughly enjoy the world around her, raising their very bright little girl to be completely hungry with curiosity. Unfortunately, when she was eight, her father was called to serve and, although he fought valiantly, was killed in battle. Losing the great love of her life broke Rahela's heart, causing her to withdraw to the mountainous realm of her birth in the desire to forsake the company of men.

This left little Ayleth in nominal leadership of Allontanare. The administration of her lands is left largely to her uncles Maksim and Tobiah, while her personal tutelage is left to her protective guardian Lanzo. Her mother does still come to visit, giving Ayleth a firm sense of still being quite beloved, but her uncles have been far more insistent that she get her head out of the clouds and her attention to learning more properly how to be the Lady who will see to Allontanare until she marries.

Much though she's being hustled through growing up, and heavy though the weight on her young shoulders is, Ayleth refuses to completely give in to what the world expects of her. She doesn't want to be a Lady--she wants to be some sort of sorceress like her mother, has already been showing an aptitude with arcane spell-casting. Her father was a warrior and her mother a mage: she absolutely will not be stopped from becoming friends with dragons, no matter how hard Lanzo tries to stop her slipping away to run free in the world.

Since Play Started: - Has acquired Julien ([personal profile] swordsandsnarls) as a bodyguard
- Has fallen head-over-heels in love with Johnny ([personal profile] fiddlerjohnny)
- Has gone on a quest to obtain a dragon pup (Aodhan ; art cred j miller)
- Has broken off an engagement to someone rather eligible
- Has left home to wander with her gentlemen and growing dragon

Personality: Ayleth is entirely precocious. She's clever and picks things up quickly, and typically considers herself to be at least as apt at things as the adults she's with. For the most part, she's able to admit that her practical experience is limited, and can be incredibly respectful and attentive to those willing to teach her the sorts of skills she can't learn at home in a book. Like her father, Ayleth is a bit headstrong and impulsive, not always quite able to reign in her smiles or scowls despite her training toward being a proper Lady. More than anything, however, she's marked for her curiosity--about everything.

Your Goals for Your Character: Although she'll never admit it, she's a bit of a lost soul, caught between her responsibilities and her natural impulses. I'd like her to find a way to be herself without completely running away from her family, to come out of her shell as a young adult without feeling like she has to choose between herself and expectations.
lowetohigh: (out of element)
They had been so close.

So, so close to a profound sort of happiness. So nearly there with the odds against them falling away. It didn't matter he had been a Stranger and she had been a Lady of the realm. They had been making it work. He had come back from war. She had taken him into her protection. They were working diligently on getting him smiling again, getting him feeling safe, getting him out in the world, getting him to the point of being able to sing and play. They were raising a dragon together, molding themselves into what absolutely felt like a family. She was going to give him land, a title. He was going to be the 'suitor' who finally took her hand.

They were going to throw away what the rest of the world said, and just be happy together. She believed it deeply in the pit of her soul when she fell asleep in his arms, clothed but never closer to another human being in her life.

There were two types of 'gone,' as she understands it. There was the usual type, when a person got up in the middle of the night and left the bed, wandered out into the world; might reasonably be expected to come back. And then there was 'gone.' There was 'barely any trace left.' It came with the raw, empty sensation she knew to be what it felt like when a Stranger had been called home again.

Ayleth tried to be happy. Really, she did. Whatever it had been that was missing, broken, wrong in his life--maybe she had helped mend it. Maybe he would be happier to be home with his new knowledge of himself. Maybe she would be able to pick up the pieces and move on without every breath feeling like her heart had shattered.

Except then she found the violin.

That sealed it. There was no turning back from it. She kissed Lanzo on the cheek, pulled her arms tight in a hug around Julien; apologized that they would have to explain to her uncles how she had been allowed to leave. Finding Cynric to act as a guide and guardian was easy enough. Having Aodhan trail behind them, appear when she summoned, was entirely natural.

The quest wasn't an easy one. Strangers often wanted to go back, but Invorians? None of them ever cared. Finding a wizard who even wanted to begin to make the attempt to bridge the gap was a near impossible feat. Finding what he needed took time, took effort, took the better part of a year.

She was into her eighteenth year of age when she finally closed her eyes, took a deep breath, clutched the fiddle to her chest and dug fingers into Aodhan's neck, cast a weary smile back at Cynric and stepped into what they hoped would bring her out of their world... into Johnny's.

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