#mynath

[mythoslain]

Killed each other platonically once.

[crowndaughter]

FULL NAME: Her Royal Highness, Cecily Anne Elizabeth Maeryn, Crown Princess of Mynathe USUAL NAME: Princess Cecily of Mynathe NICKNAMES: Ceci AGE: 20 in her main canon ORIENTATION: Bisexual/biromantic HAIR: Brown EYES: Brown PARENTS: King John and Queen Margaret of Mynathe SIBLINGS: None PARTNERS: (verse-dependent) Prince Ilyas of Sartou (former fiance), Sir Gwilym Dragonsbane (husband) CHILDREN: (verse-dependent) Prince Trystram, Prince Gryffudd, Princess Gwendydd

[ofmynathe]

PRINCESS CECILY OF MYNATHE

[crowndaughter-a]

Cecily wears various colors in private, of course, but when she appears in public, she always dresses in blue and white, the colors of the Mynathean flag

[444names]

ayleid names from tes

Anne Anned Annes Annessa Annihi Annihil Antion Antis Anumaran Anumaron Anur Anuraame Anure Anuren Anurgor Anurgorn Anurre Anyil Anyilmord Ayle Aylen Aylention Ayles Bladel Blan Bland Blantis Blanwer Blaterger Blatheles Briar Briaransi Brielessa Bril Brilenen Brind Bring Calanya Calater Caleid Calinge Calolene Calowe Calyon Cele Celeid Celenene Celenessa Celenyil Celes Celessa Celeth Celia Celing Celinge Celivion Celle Cene Cenessa Cenlor Centis Cenya Ceyrand Ceyrrer Cland Clannent Clansi Clant Clanwer Clanya Clashaper Clath Coppere Coppern Curanaron Cure Curil Curilessa Daraames Daransi Darant Darilye Duulowkey Duuls Duural Duuril Duurrefix Dynalord Dynater Dynathe Dynd Dyndes Eath Eation Eatis Eladower Elan Elane Elano Elath Elathe Elatis Endelles Enden Endessa Endia Endil Endrant Erraames Erre Erredes Errene Errer Eter Eteranwe Etere Etergorn Etern Eterned Faranned Farantis Faril Farilmor Farodil Faromire Femar Femaran Femarano Femaril Femarodia Femarrand Fene Fenes Fenestar Fent Filmorcer Firefix Firenlord Firer Firul Flole Flon Flor Flordha Florefix Floril Flowe Flowkey Fyrano Fyranya Glia Gliarane Glinfea Gling Glingern Glivion Gliviond Gorcer Gord Gordhaper Goria Goril Gorn Hadel Haden Hadowe Haduur Hael Haelen Haelestis Haelethe Haelin Haranes Haranya Haria Harilmore Harilye Harodiil Harrer Herefix Herer Hern Hernes Houls Houter Houtere Houteren Houterger Kindral Kinger Kingerned Lalandes Laldil Lalemar Lales Lalkynd Lalorilye Lanale Lanalor Lanater Land Landhal Landiarre Landiile Landrale Lane Laned Lanent Lansi Lant Lantion Lanwe Lanyil Lanyilmor Lire Lorcer Lorcere Lorcered Lordha Lordhuure Loren Lorenya Loril Lorin Loring Lorn Maladowe Maldiil Maldiling Malemaril Malemarre Malen Males Malinger Malivion Malkynal Malon Menessa Menloles Mentis Menya Morcered Mord More Moria Moril Morilyon Mynalenes Mynalenya Mynales Mynath Mynd Myndaran Myndil Name Namessa Naral Naran Naranalye Narandil Naranwere Nariel Narielen Naril Naron Narranwe Narreden Narrer Nere Nerefix Nernal Nilon Oblichi Oblichil Oblin Oblinge Oblinger Odia Odiaril Odiil Odiiles Odiilia Odil Odilind Odilinger Orcer Orcere Oril Ostarilon Ostarodil Ostarre Ostarren Ostion Ostis Palan Palanya Palasha Paldil Pale Palene Pales Palkyndes Palowe Palye Palyon Pren Ravage Ravageran Ravagere Ravagern Ruladhan Rulan Rulansi Rulolelin Ruls Sanal Sandil Sano Sansi Sant Sanwe Sanya Sarales Saran Sarandil Saranes Saranne Sarannihi Saransi Sarielen Saril Saromirul Scoul Scoulan Scouls Scour Scourger Scourilon Scoutere Scoutern Shadeleid Shaduuls Shalanath Shalinfea Shan Shano Shapere Shapered Shaur Shaure Sinfergor Sing Sord Sordhades Sordhant Sorenlord Soring Soringere Sorne Soul Soulan Souranya Soure Souter Soutere Tale Tales Taliaril Talind Talkyndha Talord Talyon Teater Teaterger Teath Teathe Teation Thel Ther Thernaron Titlel Titlelia Titlelles Titlen Tjur Tjuran Tjurgor Tjurgord Tjurhalel Tjuriel Uluscan Uluscand Uluscano Uluscanya Umaleles Umalole Umaraame Umaradha Umaran Umariarre Umarodil Umaromir Unfeath Unfeation Unfer Unferaame Unfere Unfern Unfernes Uren Uuraame Uure Uurger Uurgore Uurha Uurhand Uurhanwe Uurrer Valanwere Valath Valatis Valdia Valdiil Vale Vales Valkynal Valkynd Valon Valor Valorcer Valore Valorne Valye Varaames Varansi Varodia Varon Varran Wynale Wynarond Wynd Wynden Wyndraame

[ofmynathe-archive]

𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐒 :  Queen Margaret of Mynathe, Cecily’s mother

[crowndaughter]

Princess Cecily of Mynathe is the granddaughter of a miller.  King John’s marriage to a commoner was disapproved of by many in the kingdom.  The royal couple had struggled for years to have an heir, only to have their only child born a girl, born early, and frail, and with eyes that would never work quite as they should.  Many people whispered that her gender and ill health were a clear sign that the king’s marriage was ill-favored.

Still, Cecily was adored by her parents, and raised as the beloved heiress to the crown.  When she was thirteen, she was betrothed to a younger prince of the neighboring kingdom, but he was cruel and mistreated her, and so the engagement was broken.  To help her heal from the trauma, she was sent to spend a while with her maternal grandfather, a hardworking and kindly man who still ran a mill despite being father-in-law to the king.  During this time, she met her grandfather’s apprentice, Gwilym Argenveil, and developed a close bond with him.  The two fell in love and wished to marry, but Cecily’s father, King John, knew that people would disapprove of two successive monarchs marrying commoners.  So he tasked Gwilym with a quest:  To win Cecily’s hand, he would have to slay a dragon, and once he had done that, he would be elevated to the nobility and thus worthy of marrying a princess.

Gwilym left on his quest when he and Cecily were both sixteen, and they had a brief physical affair before he left, considering themselves betrothed.  Cecily became pregnant, and she was once again sent to live with her grandfather to keep her out of the public eye.  Towards the end of her pregnancy, she received word that Gwilym had been killed, and so she named their son Trystram, meaning sorrowful.  In her grief, she took her child and began to wander, hoping to find some sort of meaning in a world without her love.  As she traveled, she found herself living in a cottage surrounded by pear trees.  Shortly after she and Trystram moved in, she found an injured swan outside their cottage.  Cecily nursed it back to health, and the swan informed her that he was her beloved Gwilym.  He had not, in fact, been killed, but had instead been placed under a curse that transformed him into a swan.  He told her that the only way to break the curse was for Cecily to make him a shirt out of nettles.

For a few years, the strange little family lived in the cottage by the pear trees, all the while, Cecily crushed and spun nettles into fibers she could weave into a shirt.  When the nettle shirt was almost finished, their little home was discovered by Prince Ilyas, the cruel prince Cecily had once been betrothed to.  Recognizing Cecily, he attempted to abduct her despite her protests.  Gwilym attacked Prince Ilyas in her defense, pecked the wicked man’s eyes out, and tore his throat with his beak  As Ilyas laid dying, Cecily calmly sewed the last seam of the precious nettle shirt and gently placed it on Gwilym’s back.

With Gwilym’s curse now broken, the trio returned to Mynathe, explaining to Cecily’s parents and the rest of the kingdom the curse and how it had been broken.  Trystram, now four, told the assembled crowds, that his father had slain a dragon to defend his mother.  And so Gwilym was knighted and given the title Sir Gwilym Dragonsbane.  He and Cecily were married, and they all lived happily ever after.

[crowndaughter-a]

SHE IS MYNATHE’S DAUGHTER, just as much as she is her mother’s daughter.  She, from the moment of her birth, has belonged to the queendom and to the people.  Her duty in life is to serve them, and care for them, as a daughter or sister or mother would.  However they choose to see her.  The citizens of Mynathe are just as much her family as her blood sisters.  She is bound, by tradition and blood-right, to do all she can to help those who live in her country.  Still, the appearance of a stranger, a foreigner, is enough to prompt an intense curiosity in the sheltered princess.

❝ My ladies have been whispering about you. ❞  Living her whole life within palace walls, with only family and servants for company, tact and subtlety have never exactly been skills she has honed.  ❝ They seem to think you��re some kind of witch.  Or a siren. Isn’t that silly ? ❞     

♚ ∵ * ∴ – —  @damnyd​  liked for a starter

[crowndaughter-a]

Basic map of Mynathe, featuring its nearest neighbor, Sartou

[crowndaughter-a]

Immensely fucked up over Queen Cecily of Mynathe having an absolutely feral stepdaughter who can and will curse you if she thinks you’ve hurt or insulted her mama

[crowndaughter-a]

Princess Cecily of Mynathe was born months too early. By the skill of the royal doctors and sheer luck, the fragile, weak baby lived, though her eyes were damaged by her premature birth. As heir to the throne, because she was her parents’ only child, Cecily was taught all that she would need to know to rule a country when the time came. However, because of her generally-fragile health and the impairment to her vision, she was mostly confined to the royal palace, under the watchful gaze of her parents and various servants.

[crowndaughter-a]

❝ Oh, I’m so glad to meet someone my own rank. ❞  She tucks her hand into the crook of the other princess’s elbow, subtly steering her away from the crowd of courtiers in the main hall with a secretive smile on her face  --  No one in Mynathe would ever expect their delicate little princess to be aware of their obvious attempts to spy.   ❝ It’s very hard to make friends when everyone around you is your sworn subject. ❞   

♚ ∵ * ∴ – —  @melnchly​ liked for a quote starter ( for Faline ) !

[crowndaughter-a]

Cecily’s first child was born two years after her marriage to Prince Ilyas.  Because of her terrible circumstances, she gave him the name Trystram, meaning sorrow.  When Ilyas demanded that they both be killed, she escaped with him into the forest.  They lived in a cottage, in hiding, until being discovered when Trystram was two.  Upon their return to Mynathe, Trystram was publicly declared as a prince of Mynthae, and also of Sartou, by courtesy.  He was the living embodiment of both the alliance between the countries and the tragedies that brought it and his life about.  Cecily loves her son dearly, but there is a small, traumatized part of her that fears he may one day inherit the cruelty of his father, and she strives to raise him with such love and joy that no unpleasantness can grow in him.

[crowndaughter-a]

During Cecily’s forced marriage to Prince Ilyas of Sartou, Cecily lived in Ilyas’s private residence, and no one other than Ilyas, his mother, and the servants knew she was there.  The marriage was not publicly announced, Ilyas being aware that he had technically kidnapped the heiress to another kingdom.  All the rest of the world believed that Cecily had suddenly and mysteriously died while staying with her grandfather, and Ilyas threatened his mother and servants to keep them quiet about the truth.  When Cecily escaped and was brought home to Mynathe, the king of Sartou was horrified by Ilyas’s behavior, disowning and imprisoning his youngest son and promising to always be an ally to Mynathe and to look out for his young grandson to make up for what happened.

[crowndaughter-a]

Princess Cecily of Mynathe is the granddaughter of a miller.  King John’s marriage to a commoner was disapproved of by many in the kingdom.  The royal couple had struggled for years to have an heir, only to have their only child born a girl, born early, and frail, and with eyes that would never work quite as they should.  Many people whispered that her gender and ill health were a clear sign that the king’s marriage was ill-favored.

Still, Cecily was adored by her parents, and raised as the beloved heiress to the crown.  When she was thirteen, she was betrothed to a younger prince of the neighboring kingdom, but he was cruel and mistreated her, and so the engagement was broken.  To help her heal from the trauma, she was sent to spend a while with her maternal grandfather, a hardworking and kindly man who still ran a mill despite being father-in-law to the king.  Shortly after Cecily turned sixteen, the prince who had been her fiancé happened to stumble upon the humble mill in his travels, and spied Cecily at work behind the house.  Still angry over the broken betrothal and the lost chance to be consort to a queen, the prince decided to take revenge in the cruelest way he could think of.  He approached the miller and promised him his heart’s desire, if only the miller gave him what stood behind his house.

Thinking that only an apple tree was behind his house, the miller agreed.  So the prince took Cecily, spiriting her away to his own lands and forcing her to marry him.  In his sadism, he forced her to do numerous cruel and demeaning tasks, like picking lentils out of a fireplace and crushing nettles to make fiber to weave with out of them. Two years after the marriage, she gave birth to a son.

  Her husband was away at the time of the birth, and when he was told that Cecily had given birth, he declared that he’d decided the child could not be his, that he believed his wife to have been unfaithful.  And he demanded that they both be killed, with Cecily’s heart sent to him as proof that the deed was done.

The prince’s mother, who was good and kind and nothing like her son, arranged for Cecily and her baby son to flee, having a huntsman kill a deer and send its heart to the prince as a trick.  Cecily hid in a cottage, while she attempted to contact her parents.  She was eventually discovered, not by the prince, but by the former stableboy turned knight who loved her, who took her home to her family, along with her child. Her parents had believed her dead after her disappearance, and they were of course outraged at the abuse she went through.

They publicly had the prince shamed, charged, and imprisoned. Their marriage was broken, and Cecily raised her son, eventually married her gallant knight, and lived in light and love.

[crowndaughter-a]

• FULL NAME/TITLES: Her Royal Highness, Cecily Anne Elizabeth Maeryn, Crown Princess to the Throne of Mynathe

• USUAL NAME:  Princess Cecily of Mynathe

• NICKNAMES/ALIASES:  Ceci

• AGE:  20 in her main canon

• EYES:  Blue

• HAIR: Black

• HEIGHT: 5’0"

• PARENTS:  King John and Queen Margaret of Mynathe

• SIBLINGS: None

• SPOUSE:  Prince Ilyas of Sartou, Sir Gwilym Dragonsbane

• CHILDREN:  Prince Trystram (by Prince Ilyas), Prince Gryffudd, and Princess Gwendydd (by Sir Gwilym)