Post by finnirialson on Jun 18, 2014 10:40:15 GMT -6
Name:
Finnvarra Irialson
Age: 25
Titles: The Dark and Winter King, The Bloodied Hands of Order, The Locus of the Wild
Parents: Irial of the Gancanagh and Misa na'Dorcha
Siblings: none
Race: Fae
Alliances: Ravenlock
Children: None
Religion: Based on Welsh/Celtic Pagan beliefs.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral. He is the vengeance of the fae people, but he is both king and a servant of the Unchanging Queen, so he upholds the laws of his capricious people.
True Lineage: Though who his parents are is easily said, what that means is a little more difficult to explain to those who ask. His father was once Gancanagh, a subrace of fae whose touch is addictive to mortals and who feed on the life of their lovers. As such, a mortal addicted to a Gancanagh will eventually fade away and die, making it very difficult for them to be with another as they subconsciously fear doing the same thing even to other fae. Because of their unique curse, they have over the years given extra layers to legends about other races that humans know of and fear, most notoriously with the vampires. While it is true that some of the higher orders of the parasites can enslave a mind, it is from the Gancanagh that the legend of a vampire's compulsion comes. Because of what he was, combined with an abnormal disregard for the lives of others, Irial was an outcast even among his own people until he ascended to the Dark Throne and became king. The added power of regency suppressed the innate addiction of his touch and for the first time he could take a lover without killing them, allowing him to build a harem until he met a singular woman.
Misa na'Dorcha was the only daughter of the single most feared fae in existence, moreso even than the Unchanging Queen and the original Discord, because no one is sure whether he is truly fae or if he came before them and is just taking on their form when it suits him. Even his name, Far Dorcha, translates that uncertainty when put into the tongue of man: Dark Father. Though their are many that are called his children, it is because they are fae gifted with his power and are seen as messengers and harbingers. Only Misa is truly of his blood and flesh, a product of a union between him and another that none have ever discovered the identity of, though rumors have abounded for centuries. Born of death, she has a disregard for the lives of others and will kill for no better reason than because she had the thought, yet when she met Irial she felt a fascination that she never had before. Their courtship was not long, and their union lasted only long enough to conceive Finn, yet when they parted it was without the acrimony that one would expect from two so willful and strong.
Finn was born in a far corner of Faerie and brought to the Dark Court by the Hounds, raised by them and taught to fight as though he was born of them until he was seventeen. He had always fed his skin hunger through the fighting, and occasionally through more intimate things once old enough to know them, but on his seventeenth birthday everything changed. He met a woman with eyes so endlessly deep that he felt he could fall into them and never rise up again, and she told him the truth of his birth and who the king he had served truly was to him. That day also gave rise to the first time he had ever been left unsatisfied by physical contact and instead gorged on the emotions of the court. He had never known he had that ability, and indeed it was possible that he hadn't until he came of age, yet it did not matter in the end as that action caught his father's attention.
Thereafter he was trained in another duty, a different kind of lawkeeper than the Hounds. He already knew how to fight, how to kill, and his new training taught him how to move unseen and unnoticed. For two years he played the part of assassin, earning the title Wandering Shadow, before he was summoned to another place. For the first time, he journeyed beyond the bounds of the realms he knew and into the mountain fortress created and controlled by Sorcha, the Unchanging Queen and one of the twins who were the first, who gave birth to an entire race. In her court, he met many whom he'd only heard about in legends: the spider who wandered the heavens and placed the stars in their constellations, the mortal whose art captured the eye of a queen many believed could not feel, the musician who could play any instrument and any melody, the woman who could speak to and understand any creature, and others. In the short time he spent with her within the walls she remade on her whims, he was given another taste of power, of his destiny, and he was given the title of the Bloodied Hands.
With a taste of her blood running through his veins, he learned to read the hearts of others in order to be more efficient in his duties, and he earned a reputation for being able to sense a falsehood when it was spoken, though the fae do not outright lie. At twenty years of age, his world and his heart were rocked in ways that almost broke him. The woman he had met three years before was taken into death by Far Dorcha, taking from him much of the softness that lack of experience had still left him with, and a war began that threatened to tear the fae apart. The sister to the Unchanging Queen made a bid for power, casting the other regents into a frenzy as they attempted to devise a way to stop her, arguably the most powerful true fae alive since her sister had begun to lose her grip. Finn went of his own accord to the Winter Court to create a stronger alliance between them and the Dark Court, going behind the back of the man his father had chosen to replace himself with and taking a piece of winter's harshness within himself, an action that made many wonder just what exactly he really was and what it would mean for their people. Never before had anyone ever had more than one court they were beholden to, and in that moment it became apparent to everyone that for the last year he had already been a part of two courts and had now added a third.
The truth of why he had been gifted with the power and authority of the High Court was made known to him by the Raven shortly after, the defection of her brother-son taking from Sorcha the enforcer that she had relied on for so long when he found himself a queen and created a Shadow Court to protect her. When he walled them away behind the Iron Gate, he sealed a barrier that even the strongest of them could not penetrate without his permission and hers. In a bid to gain the power that she believed would allow her to possibly overcome even that obstacle, the Raven set in motion a plan to destabilize the Dark Court, a throne she had always believed should have been hers. Her first strike took from Finn his father, though his death was long and drawn out from the poison she used and gave him an opportunity to find a way to survive past death, though none but him knew it.
For two years, he delved into the extra bloodlines he'd been granted and learned to control them, manipulate them, become more than just himself as his king spiraled into madness and the queen he chose stood strong in the face of the coming war. Donya, the Winter Queen, stood by him and taught him how to wield the cold and ice, and when the battles began one year after Irial's death, he earned the name Killing Frost on the battlefield. All of his training had turned him into a weapon that no court had ever had among their ranks before, more dangerous even than the Gabriel of the Hounds, long renowned and feared as the deadliest warrior of the fae. For a year he fought and killed in the name of order, but it was never enough, Bananach would not be satisfied.
Though his father had been dead for two years at this point, the current Dark King would speak of him as if he had just seen him, just spoken to him, and when the battle that would decide the fate of Faerie was joined, he fought as fiercely as any other, chatting away at a man who was long dead. Finn mourned his king, but still he focused on the court he chose, not the one he was born to. When the four armies clashed, the fields and streets ran red in a seemingly endless struggle. The banshees and bone maidens could be seen wandering the field, picking up the bodies and taking them away even as more fell. For months, they fought on and on, losing nearly half of their numbers by the end.
In a final, desperate attempt to end the fighting, an alliance between the regents was formed and a plan took shape. The Dark King would engage the Raven and distract her, the Summer Queen would defend his back, and the Winter Queen would cage her with herself and the king within to fight and kill her if they could. They took the risk that it could wipe out their people just killing her because she was one of the first two, gambling that she could die like any other without consequence. At first it went according to plan, but as is always the case when Discord is involved, things began to go wrong and the Summer Queen had to join the fray and leave Finn to defend the breach in the cage of ice on his own. Even then they seemed doomed to fail until a fifth army rushed the field and added their forces to the alliance. The King of the Sea himself stepped onto the ice and dragged a weakened but still living Bananach back to the water and under to drown her and keep her suffering for himself.
In the wake of her death, Far Dorcha spoke to the regents and told them that Discord is needed, and so she would not have been able to die had there not been one who had defied the laws of death itself to take her place. He resurrected Irial from his shade, a smile on his lips as he promised that if and when Irial died again, he would pay doubly for his impertinence. As he left, Finn saw his sister Ankou carrying a corpse that should not have been a corpse. Donya, the Winter Queen, was dead, or so it seemed until a fae that none had noticed stepped forward and begged the bone maiden to put her down and give him a chance. He poured his power into her, giving up his immortality to bring her back, to summon her shade back to herself and allow her to live again, a peace on his face as his long years finally settled on him and took from him his life even as she regained hers.
In the two years that followed the end of the war, the fae people began to rebuild and journey to the mortal realm once more. Finn stayed in Faerie, believing that that was where he belonged, and served his chosen court well. The Dark King would summon him from time to time, and his father finally came to embody that title after years of treating him like any other, but the Winter Court was where he felt he belonged. To Donya, he was more than just a subject, he was her whole reason for living. Though only a third of her age, he was everything she had once believed another to be, and she loved him for it, and he loved her as he always had. Her death was nothing but an unpleasant interruption to them, and one quickly rectified, and with the war over and what seemed to be the rest of eternity before them, they settled into a life rhythm that reflected their devotion. She even dared to hope that they could marry and have the family that both of them grew up without, but it was not to be.
A night came when Finn wandered far from home and wandered in a forest he had never seen, playing music that he heard from within on a violin that he cherished. In that time and in that place, that was all that mattered to him, and it brought him a strange companion: Akara Ravenlock. Their meeting was brief, for it was not long before an urgency called him home to find a spectacle that finally took from him the last of his youthful innocence and beneficent mercy. He found the king he had served grudgingly, mutilated and dead, and he found the queen he had loved bleeding her life onto the floor, her dying body hanging from the hands of the Raven. In her final moments, she gave him her throne, her power, and her final gift to the man she loved, catalyzing within him the change that allowed his rightful power to take its place as well. His new power in hand, he welcomed the woman who had followed him from an other realm and together they punished the Raven for all that she had done.
Faerie: The realm of Faerie is ever changing according to the whims of those who rule it. Sorcha still nominally controls the entirety of the realm herself, but in truth it is Finn who has the greatest power there. Faerie itself is Wild Magic, meaning that it is both the source of it and controlled by it. The seasons there are controlled by the Summer and Winter regents, with spring coming as Winter allows Summer to thaw the world and autumn coming as Summer allows Winter to gently put the world to sleep again.
Weapons: In point of fact, there is only one weapon that Finn wields other than his magic. He is bonded to a soul that he created from Wild Magic alone for one purpose: in battle he wanted to never have to worry about defense, which necessitated that he have armor that would always protect him. For that reason, he created Aegis and together the two of them grew and connected until Aegis was so much a part of him that it could cover him completely, though it its quest to fulfill its purpose, Aegis devoured a piece of a dragon's bone and learned how to recompose itself into the same substance. Now the armor is pale and covered in magic sigils, the most powerful of which is the Seal of the Seventh Gate, a rune that when released makes Finn so much a part of Faerie that he can see and control the Wild Magic. Even outside of his realm it will increase his capabilities, though when abroad he relies more on Aegis and the power of his courts than on the Wild, because outside of Faerie, the Wild is not as strong.
Finnvarra Irialson
Age: 25
Titles: The Dark and Winter King, The Bloodied Hands of Order, The Locus of the Wild
Parents: Irial of the Gancanagh and Misa na'Dorcha
Siblings: none
Race: Fae
Alliances: Ravenlock
Children: None
Religion: Based on Welsh/Celtic Pagan beliefs.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral. He is the vengeance of the fae people, but he is both king and a servant of the Unchanging Queen, so he upholds the laws of his capricious people.
True Lineage: Though who his parents are is easily said, what that means is a little more difficult to explain to those who ask. His father was once Gancanagh, a subrace of fae whose touch is addictive to mortals and who feed on the life of their lovers. As such, a mortal addicted to a Gancanagh will eventually fade away and die, making it very difficult for them to be with another as they subconsciously fear doing the same thing even to other fae. Because of their unique curse, they have over the years given extra layers to legends about other races that humans know of and fear, most notoriously with the vampires. While it is true that some of the higher orders of the parasites can enslave a mind, it is from the Gancanagh that the legend of a vampire's compulsion comes. Because of what he was, combined with an abnormal disregard for the lives of others, Irial was an outcast even among his own people until he ascended to the Dark Throne and became king. The added power of regency suppressed the innate addiction of his touch and for the first time he could take a lover without killing them, allowing him to build a harem until he met a singular woman.
Misa na'Dorcha was the only daughter of the single most feared fae in existence, moreso even than the Unchanging Queen and the original Discord, because no one is sure whether he is truly fae or if he came before them and is just taking on their form when it suits him. Even his name, Far Dorcha, translates that uncertainty when put into the tongue of man: Dark Father. Though their are many that are called his children, it is because they are fae gifted with his power and are seen as messengers and harbingers. Only Misa is truly of his blood and flesh, a product of a union between him and another that none have ever discovered the identity of, though rumors have abounded for centuries. Born of death, she has a disregard for the lives of others and will kill for no better reason than because she had the thought, yet when she met Irial she felt a fascination that she never had before. Their courtship was not long, and their union lasted only long enough to conceive Finn, yet when they parted it was without the acrimony that one would expect from two so willful and strong.
Finn was born in a far corner of Faerie and brought to the Dark Court by the Hounds, raised by them and taught to fight as though he was born of them until he was seventeen. He had always fed his skin hunger through the fighting, and occasionally through more intimate things once old enough to know them, but on his seventeenth birthday everything changed. He met a woman with eyes so endlessly deep that he felt he could fall into them and never rise up again, and she told him the truth of his birth and who the king he had served truly was to him. That day also gave rise to the first time he had ever been left unsatisfied by physical contact and instead gorged on the emotions of the court. He had never known he had that ability, and indeed it was possible that he hadn't until he came of age, yet it did not matter in the end as that action caught his father's attention.
Thereafter he was trained in another duty, a different kind of lawkeeper than the Hounds. He already knew how to fight, how to kill, and his new training taught him how to move unseen and unnoticed. For two years he played the part of assassin, earning the title Wandering Shadow, before he was summoned to another place. For the first time, he journeyed beyond the bounds of the realms he knew and into the mountain fortress created and controlled by Sorcha, the Unchanging Queen and one of the twins who were the first, who gave birth to an entire race. In her court, he met many whom he'd only heard about in legends: the spider who wandered the heavens and placed the stars in their constellations, the mortal whose art captured the eye of a queen many believed could not feel, the musician who could play any instrument and any melody, the woman who could speak to and understand any creature, and others. In the short time he spent with her within the walls she remade on her whims, he was given another taste of power, of his destiny, and he was given the title of the Bloodied Hands.
With a taste of her blood running through his veins, he learned to read the hearts of others in order to be more efficient in his duties, and he earned a reputation for being able to sense a falsehood when it was spoken, though the fae do not outright lie. At twenty years of age, his world and his heart were rocked in ways that almost broke him. The woman he had met three years before was taken into death by Far Dorcha, taking from him much of the softness that lack of experience had still left him with, and a war began that threatened to tear the fae apart. The sister to the Unchanging Queen made a bid for power, casting the other regents into a frenzy as they attempted to devise a way to stop her, arguably the most powerful true fae alive since her sister had begun to lose her grip. Finn went of his own accord to the Winter Court to create a stronger alliance between them and the Dark Court, going behind the back of the man his father had chosen to replace himself with and taking a piece of winter's harshness within himself, an action that made many wonder just what exactly he really was and what it would mean for their people. Never before had anyone ever had more than one court they were beholden to, and in that moment it became apparent to everyone that for the last year he had already been a part of two courts and had now added a third.
The truth of why he had been gifted with the power and authority of the High Court was made known to him by the Raven shortly after, the defection of her brother-son taking from Sorcha the enforcer that she had relied on for so long when he found himself a queen and created a Shadow Court to protect her. When he walled them away behind the Iron Gate, he sealed a barrier that even the strongest of them could not penetrate without his permission and hers. In a bid to gain the power that she believed would allow her to possibly overcome even that obstacle, the Raven set in motion a plan to destabilize the Dark Court, a throne she had always believed should have been hers. Her first strike took from Finn his father, though his death was long and drawn out from the poison she used and gave him an opportunity to find a way to survive past death, though none but him knew it.
For two years, he delved into the extra bloodlines he'd been granted and learned to control them, manipulate them, become more than just himself as his king spiraled into madness and the queen he chose stood strong in the face of the coming war. Donya, the Winter Queen, stood by him and taught him how to wield the cold and ice, and when the battles began one year after Irial's death, he earned the name Killing Frost on the battlefield. All of his training had turned him into a weapon that no court had ever had among their ranks before, more dangerous even than the Gabriel of the Hounds, long renowned and feared as the deadliest warrior of the fae. For a year he fought and killed in the name of order, but it was never enough, Bananach would not be satisfied.
Though his father had been dead for two years at this point, the current Dark King would speak of him as if he had just seen him, just spoken to him, and when the battle that would decide the fate of Faerie was joined, he fought as fiercely as any other, chatting away at a man who was long dead. Finn mourned his king, but still he focused on the court he chose, not the one he was born to. When the four armies clashed, the fields and streets ran red in a seemingly endless struggle. The banshees and bone maidens could be seen wandering the field, picking up the bodies and taking them away even as more fell. For months, they fought on and on, losing nearly half of their numbers by the end.
In a final, desperate attempt to end the fighting, an alliance between the regents was formed and a plan took shape. The Dark King would engage the Raven and distract her, the Summer Queen would defend his back, and the Winter Queen would cage her with herself and the king within to fight and kill her if they could. They took the risk that it could wipe out their people just killing her because she was one of the first two, gambling that she could die like any other without consequence. At first it went according to plan, but as is always the case when Discord is involved, things began to go wrong and the Summer Queen had to join the fray and leave Finn to defend the breach in the cage of ice on his own. Even then they seemed doomed to fail until a fifth army rushed the field and added their forces to the alliance. The King of the Sea himself stepped onto the ice and dragged a weakened but still living Bananach back to the water and under to drown her and keep her suffering for himself.
In the wake of her death, Far Dorcha spoke to the regents and told them that Discord is needed, and so she would not have been able to die had there not been one who had defied the laws of death itself to take her place. He resurrected Irial from his shade, a smile on his lips as he promised that if and when Irial died again, he would pay doubly for his impertinence. As he left, Finn saw his sister Ankou carrying a corpse that should not have been a corpse. Donya, the Winter Queen, was dead, or so it seemed until a fae that none had noticed stepped forward and begged the bone maiden to put her down and give him a chance. He poured his power into her, giving up his immortality to bring her back, to summon her shade back to herself and allow her to live again, a peace on his face as his long years finally settled on him and took from him his life even as she regained hers.
In the two years that followed the end of the war, the fae people began to rebuild and journey to the mortal realm once more. Finn stayed in Faerie, believing that that was where he belonged, and served his chosen court well. The Dark King would summon him from time to time, and his father finally came to embody that title after years of treating him like any other, but the Winter Court was where he felt he belonged. To Donya, he was more than just a subject, he was her whole reason for living. Though only a third of her age, he was everything she had once believed another to be, and she loved him for it, and he loved her as he always had. Her death was nothing but an unpleasant interruption to them, and one quickly rectified, and with the war over and what seemed to be the rest of eternity before them, they settled into a life rhythm that reflected their devotion. She even dared to hope that they could marry and have the family that both of them grew up without, but it was not to be.
A night came when Finn wandered far from home and wandered in a forest he had never seen, playing music that he heard from within on a violin that he cherished. In that time and in that place, that was all that mattered to him, and it brought him a strange companion: Akara Ravenlock. Their meeting was brief, for it was not long before an urgency called him home to find a spectacle that finally took from him the last of his youthful innocence and beneficent mercy. He found the king he had served grudgingly, mutilated and dead, and he found the queen he had loved bleeding her life onto the floor, her dying body hanging from the hands of the Raven. In her final moments, she gave him her throne, her power, and her final gift to the man she loved, catalyzing within him the change that allowed his rightful power to take its place as well. His new power in hand, he welcomed the woman who had followed him from an other realm and together they punished the Raven for all that she had done.
Faerie: The realm of Faerie is ever changing according to the whims of those who rule it. Sorcha still nominally controls the entirety of the realm herself, but in truth it is Finn who has the greatest power there. Faerie itself is Wild Magic, meaning that it is both the source of it and controlled by it. The seasons there are controlled by the Summer and Winter regents, with spring coming as Winter allows Summer to thaw the world and autumn coming as Summer allows Winter to gently put the world to sleep again.
Weapons: In point of fact, there is only one weapon that Finn wields other than his magic. He is bonded to a soul that he created from Wild Magic alone for one purpose: in battle he wanted to never have to worry about defense, which necessitated that he have armor that would always protect him. For that reason, he created Aegis and together the two of them grew and connected until Aegis was so much a part of him that it could cover him completely, though it its quest to fulfill its purpose, Aegis devoured a piece of a dragon's bone and learned how to recompose itself into the same substance. Now the armor is pale and covered in magic sigils, the most powerful of which is the Seal of the Seventh Gate, a rune that when released makes Finn so much a part of Faerie that he can see and control the Wild Magic. Even outside of his realm it will increase his capabilities, though when abroad he relies more on Aegis and the power of his courts than on the Wild, because outside of Faerie, the Wild is not as strong.
