#princess adalaide

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What would happen if the normal burpers like Rick “IckyRicky”, Ashley Fox, Princess Addison Bloomington, Sierra Watson, Conner Eve, Carmen Lopez, Zoe Papadopoulos, King Ian, King Rupert, King Hunter, and The Faren twins, and the hyper belchers like Robin O’Connery, Arrach, Thalia Orog, Nareg Orog, Darion Orog, Princess Adalaide, and Abigail Longfoot switched how powerful their belches would be with one another?

ooh this is an interesting question!! however, for everyone's sake, i'm only gonna talk about some of these characters. but if i skipped someone and you REALLY would like to know what my answer is, feel free to send in another ask!!

first the hyperbelchers:

robin: that would mean she was never cursed, so she would live a normal life (well, still not PERFECTLY normal, but more normal). and i don't think she would ever truly love burping like she does now. in fact, she'd be pretty polite about them, always muffling them so that no one can hear them. she wouldn't judge others for burping around her, since she knows that's something our bodies have to do sometimes, but she wouldn't let loose like that herself. so yeah her personality would be fairly different

thalia: similar to robin, her personality would be different, but unlike robin, her personality would be COMPLETELY different. i mean, think about it: thalia burps are not only powerful, but CONSTANT. she can't go five seconds without burping at least once. so she had to isolate herself for everyone's safety. but if she was never a danger she would've been SO different because she'd be allowed to socialize and such. she'd be captain of just about every sport her schools had to offer, and she'd be the kind of athlete that everyone aspires to be. like you can't convince me she wouldn't be well on her way to the olympics if it weren't for her condition. not only that, but her attitude towards her burps would be so different. like a stereotypical tomboy-ish athlete, she'd be proud of her burps, constantly getting into contests with the other girls (and even boys) on her team. even if she wasn't the best, she'd just be having a good time letting loose. man, in an alternate universe, thalia is a TOTALLY different person. who knew burps could change someone so much?

princess adalaide: super small things would change here and there (like the fact that she can't really use her burps to shut misogynistic men up), but other than that, she would be exactly the same. after all, hyperbelch or not, she only burps when she wants to.

abigail: well she would've saved herself a LOT of embarrassment at that frat party, i'll tell you that much. but other than that... i'm not sure yet. i'm still trying to figure out how her burps work. maybe i'll come back to thjs ask when i have a better idea!!

now the normal belchers:

princess addison: that castle would never know peace. her parents would do everything in her power to make her stop, but she'd just be having too much fun causing chaos. those poor servants...

ashley: poor ashley :(((. if her family hates her now, imagine how much they'd hate her if she could burp powerfully enough to cause earthquakes and shatter glass EVERY TIME. in fact, they'd probably kick her out before she turned 18. and if that were the case, being homeless before graduating high school, would she even meet lily? and fff? man i don't even wanna think about it. let's just say that her self hatred would run so much deeper than it does now.

sierra: now, as much as sierra loves burping, she's not a COMPLETE menace. if her burps could cause actual destruction, she'd make sure not to do so in public. however, her ultimate life goal is to make chris' life hell, so all bets would be off as soon as she gets home. and if she had hyperbelches, chris' torture would know no end. sierra would use her powers to break chris' favorite things, keep him up all night, make him spill whatever he's eating/drinking all over himself by shaking the ground underneath him, etc. sierra would find new and creative ways to make chris' life hell, and no matter what he or her mom would try to do to make her stop, they'd ultimately be powerless, because how can they fight against something like that?

conner: MY POOR BABY CONNER. for starters, he would simply have to kiss his opera dreams goodbye, because one slip up onstage could be catastrophic. but also, he would never be able to go out in public without feeling a massive amount of anxiety. after all, one burp from sierra, and he could knock over an entire shelf of food at the grocery store or cause a car crash as he's walking down the street. he'd avoid being outside as much as possible just to make sure he keeps everyone safe. he's so caring <3

carmen: she'd simply die. she'd never leave her room. unless it was one of her insanely loud burps, you'd never hear from her again.

zoe: well she can only burp when carmen's feeling burpy, but she personally would LOVE being able to hyperbelch. she'd never tell carmen that though.

[heavyarethecrowns]

[therealroyalsof]

A Soirée to Remember: Royal Baby Shower Pt. I

Welcome one, welcome all on this very fine day to the Baby Shower of HM Queen Consort Francesca! Let us start off by welcoming all in attendance to this celebration of the future little royal to be! We will be keeping you posted on all the happenings throughout the day, so please stay tuned! And look, here comes the guests now!

First we have the arrival of HRH Crown Prince George Burglen and HRH Princess Isabella Burglen, and my, don’t they look stunning together! We hope that they enjoy their time together amongst their fellow peers.

Next up is HRH Princess Miranda Petrova of the Kingdom of Caldonya, and can we just take a moment to say just how stunning she is in that little blue number? Why, she might even rival our very own Princess Desari when it comes to fashion, but don’t tell her that we said that. Welcome Princess and we hope that you enjoy your stay!

Ah yes, we made mention about a new royal spotting here in Del Sol, and course we’d expect them to be at one of the biggest events of the season. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is our pleasure to introduce to you HRH King Edmund Fredrick and his mother, the Dowager Queen Adalaide Fredrick of Algonia. Now we would like to note that he is one of the season’s most eligible bachelors and it certainly doesn’t hurt that he is one of the youngest ruling monarchs, so maybe one of the many ladies here will be fortunate enough to catch the young King’s eye.

And now here we have the very beautiful Brielle Meora, Duchess of Valoria of the Kingdom of Elthonia. The theme amongst the ladies must be blue, because we do have to say, it is very much her color. Welcome, Duchess!

Oh, if it isn’t the Kingdom’s favorite couple, HRH Prince Lucian Daratrazanoff  and Lady Jaxon Montgomery, the Duke and Duchess of Kensington. They have both been staying out of public’s eye since having their twins, so this is the first that they have made public appearance in a while! But of course, who would be surprised that His Majesty’s twin brother would come out in full support of a new edition to the family? And maybe one day soon we’ll get official photos of their children. Enjoy yourselves, Duke and Duchess!

What a surprise! We have HRH Princess Tamara Daratrazanoff being escorted by HRH Crown Prince Alaric Daratrazanoff. Now we’re hearing that Princess Tamara is only momentarily to celebrate with the family, but after the event ends she will heading back to the Kingdom of Oasis Springs to continue with her studies. And just a little cute tidbit here, but Prince Alaric made it a point to pick up his baby sister from the airport when she arrived, isn’t it wonderful just how much he adores his siblings?

And last but not least, everyone’s favorite yet controversial couple, Lord Vincent Lucas Choi, the son of Marquess and Marchioness Woo Sung and Katherine Lee Choi and HRH Princess Skylar Rose Daratrazanoff. You know it seems like yesterday when their “scandal” broke out and it sent everyone into a frenzy! Can you imagine that? A controversy over teenagers being teenagers? Very silly indeed! They’ve laid low since then, but here we are years later and here we have their first official public appearance together as an offical couple. We are so excited to see them after all this time so happy and still clearly in love!

Well there is all of your arrivals, folks! Stay tuned to see as we wait for the rest of the festivities to get underway! 

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Pedantic Rant Time! Degrees of Legitness

So, I had an audition backin February where I was asked for a legit song and being me, I asked "how legit do you want it."

Cause I have a few things in my book that are "legit" ranging from "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" (Which I consider almost more mixed) to "The Finer Things" (Basically an aria).

So, in my mind there are like 3-ish categories for songs that can then further be broken down.

A Note: A lot of these listed are women's roles, because I am a woman, but I'm trying to add a few men's roles too)

Belt--Normally a darker, chest heavy sound, though the pop belt tends to be brighter

Classic Broadway Belt (Roles include: Fanny in Funny Girl, Mama Rose in Gypsy, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, and Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress, Tulsa in Gypsy, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Pulitzer in Newsies, Adelaide and Nathan in Guys and Dolls--though Adalaide has a character affectation on top of it, Frenchy in Destry Rides Again, but she also goes in the Legit mix section )

Pop Belt (Roles include: Cady and the Plastics in Mean Girls, Elle in Legally Blonde, Vanessa and Nina in In the Heights, any of the Queens in Six, and any of the female roles in Hamilton, Emmet and Warner in Legally Blonde, pretty much any role in Bring it On the Musical)

Rock Belt (Lizzie and Emma in Lizzie, Veronica in Heathers, Janice in Mean Girls, and Chris in Carrie: the musical, JD in Heathers, Peter Parker in Spider-man: Turn off the Dark, Everyone in Rent, )

Contemporary Broadway Belt (Elphaba in Wicked, Judy in 9 to 5, or Katherine in Newsies, Elsa in Frozen, Jo in Little Women, Eponine in Les Mis)

Mix--A mixed sound, brighter and lighter than belt, but still not a classical sound

Contemporary Mix (Bonnie in Bonnie & Clyde, Jerusha in Daddy Long Legs, Sarah in A Little Princess, Jenna in Waitress, Beth in Little Women)

Legit Mix (Jane in Jane Eyre, Emma in Emma the Musical, Lara in Doctor Zhivago, Natasha in Great Comet, Fantine in Les Mis, Frenchy in Destry Rides Again, but she also goes in the Golden Age Belt section)

Disney Mix (Anya in Anastasia, Ariel in Little Mermaid, Anna in Frozen, Amelie in Amelie, Amy in Little Women)

Legit--very obvious classically trained sound

Golden Age Legit (Any R&H Hero or Heroine ever, Lilli in Kiss Me Kate, Hero and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Freddie and Eliza in My Fair Lady, Sky and Sarah in Guys and Dolls)

Pop Legit (Francesca in Bridges of Madison County, Clara in Light in the Piazza, Fabrizio in Light in the Piazza, Most of the Roles from Amazing Grace, Oona in Chaplin, Grazia in Death Takes a Holiday, Beth in Sunset Boulevard)

Contemporary Legit (Meg in Little Women, Cosette in Les Mis, Rochester in Jane Eyre, Christine in Phantom--though she's moving more pop as of late, Margaret in Carrie the Musical, All the roles in Sweeney Todd--though one could argue Classical Legit for a few of the roles, Monty and Sibella in Gentleman's Guide)

Classical Legit (Carlotta in Phantom, Margaret in Light in the Piazza, Blanche Ingram in Jane Eyre, Cunegonde in Candide--thought that's more of an operetta, Every role in Passion, Phoebe in Gentleman's Guide). This is where you'll see most opera singers cross into.

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SpellJammer: Shadow of the Spider-Moon

Player’s Packet (ver 1.3)

for use with the First Edition Pathfinder Role-Playing Game

by Clinton J. Boomer

with special thanks to Andy Collins, Scott Schomburg, Chloe Michelle, Dennis Detwiller, David Gerrold, and George Loki Williams

additional campaign materials may be found here

The broad theme of the campaign is simple: “outsiders — criminals, rejects, freedom fighters, the lost, the abandoned, the desperate, and the mad — go balls-out, nothing to lose, against corrupt authority and nightmare monsters, surviving on the razor’s edge of the known & the unknown”.

It’s meant to have one foot in Serenity/Firefly, one foot in Pirates of the Caribbean, one foot in Guardians of the Galaxy, yet another foot in Princess Bride, plus little dashes of steampunk / dieselpunk pulp-action high-fantasy on top: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Aliens, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, The Mummy, The Fifth Element, The Rocketeer, and/or Big Trouble in Little China

RACES

Dwarf: a scattered people born of Moradin’s Forge*, 80% of whom now exist solely as slaves beneath the whip and bootheel of the illithid and their grotesque creations. Dwarves in captivity are stripped of their names, titles, and family lineage; for this reason, free dwarves often cover themselves in dense tattoos, transformed into living repositories of their clan history. Dwarves no longer have a homeland but make small communities on Fenris, the Crown-Moons of Garl, Gelth, and Callarduran, and across the Chain of Tears (especially the city of Discord).

For human occupants of Pyrespace, the illithid invasion – which the Church of Yondalla officially denies occurring, under pain of incarceration, transportation, and excommunication – happened ten years ago: half a generation past, when the very youngest of human spacehands were still in diapers.

For dwarves, it happened approximately last Tuesday.

Shepard Book, Zoe Washburne, and Drax the Destroyer are good examples of dwarves.

*NOTE: The Church of Yondalla, which does not recognize the divinity of Moradin, refers to the dwarven home-world instead simply as ‘the Adamant Forge’ in all official documentation.

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Elf: an elegant race in slow decline, born of Perianth, still recovering from the Unseelie War that split and decimated the species a millennium ago. For the elves, long-lived as they are, the wound is still very fresh: fewer than seven generations have passed since the end of the war, after all (for a human, this is perhaps comparable to a tragedy that occurred less than a century and a half ago).

Elves consume food, water, and air as Small-size creatures. Drow are a playable race, although they suffer a great deal of distrust from everyone … including other drow.

Inara, Simon Tam, River Tam, the Operative, Nebula, and Gamora are good examples of elves.

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Gnome: engineers and technologists born from the Circle of Gold, greatest moon of the Crown of Sapphire, now scraping-by on the Crown’s remaining moons and across the Chain of Tears: the devastated shards of their destroyed home-world, shattered two-and-a-quarter centuries ago.

Like the elves, of course, gnomes are fantastically long-lived: the very eldest gnomes can recall the true glory of their home world, seen with their own eyes; some of the most ancient were already well into their venerable years, over two and a half centuries old, at the time of the cataclysm. Even for the very youngest of gnomes, those who have never known a home-world other than the Chain of Tears, only about three generations have passed since the destruction of that moon (in terms that a human might understand, this is perhaps similar to an event that occurred 60-70 years ago).

Gnomes may choose to gain +2 Intelligence in place of their standard +2 Charisma; most have the Gear Gnome subtype. Nearly half of all gnomish pregnancies result in twins, and triplets are as common among gnomes as twins are among humans.

Kaylee Frye, Niska, Hoban ‘Wash’ Washburne, Rocket Racoon, Miracle Max (from Princess Bride), and Twigg (from Pirates of the Caribbean) are good examples of gnomes.

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Hin: Undisputed rulers of Quelya above the waves, thanks much to their ingenuity in social organization & their bountiful harvests even in the most barren of lands. The vast monotheistic religion of the Hin offers prayers to Yondalla and to her Saints, including Davian and Asmodeus; all Hin estates contain a shrine to Yondalla. The priests and nuns of the Church may not marry, though their laity is expected to produce many, many children. Status within the Church is of paramount importance for all Hin; donations to the church can buy writs of indulgence, favorable legal judgment, and even sainthood.

Lord Beckett, Governor Swann, Elizabeth Swan, Captain Barbossa, and Commodore Norrington (from Pirates of the Caribbean), Badger (from Firefly), Buttercup, Prince Humperdink, Count Rugen, Vizzini (from Princess Bride), and the Collector and Grandmaster (from Guardians of the Galaxy) are all good examples of Hin.

A BRIEF NOTE ON HIN NAMING-CONVENTIONS

Hin identify, for the most part, as members of the Church of Yondalla first, as part of a culture second, and as citizens of a nation third.

Thus, a Hin living in Arvoreen, Beshaba, or Brandobaris can be expected to have an Arvorean, Beshabite, or Brandobarin name. However, a Hin living far away from the shores of Green Fields -- in Cyrrollalee or in Urogolan, for example -- with always retain a “proper” Arvorean, Beshabite, or Brandobarin name.

Hin with Urogalandic names, simply put, do not exist.

“Invented” Hin names, which are relatively common everywhere except on Quelya, are the major exception to this general rule: occasionally, a young Hin living off-world will choose to reinvent himself -- and, thus, rename himself -- often, but not always, as a means to get out from under the thumb of a particularly oppressive (or shameful) family. 

Venturing forth into the unknown without the benefit of a longstanding lineage is, in fact, a tradition among Hin significantly older than modern Arvorean or Brandobarin society.

As such, a young Hin in Lagas going by the name of “Morgan Drake,” “John Smith,” “Alastair Chapman,” or “Sebastian West” -- for example -- might be looked down upon as a probable criminal or even as a pirate ... but on Ashen, Verdura, or out on the Chain of Tears, such an individual is likely to earn a mark of respect from all but the most conservative and close-minded of Hin.

Invented Hin Male Names: Thomas, Morgan, Smith, Hunter, John, Price, Bennet, Chapman, West, Tanner, Spencer, Walker, Jackson, Clarke, Parker, Mason, Drake, Corbyn, Everett, Garret, Simon, Alastair, Sebastian, Elliot, Fletcher, Graham, Ethan, Oliver, Felix, Callumn, Stanley, Richmond, Lennox, Ford, Jensen, Gabriel, March, Ellis, Wellington, Reginald, Chesterton, Alex, Solomon, Carter

Invented Hin Female Names: Beatrix, Cressida, Gemma, Joclyn, Scarlett, Elizabeth, Rhonwen, Maisie, Isla, Kaitlyn, Briony, Jane, Charlotte, Adalaide, Ivy, Gwendolyn, Kenzie, Finlay, Audren, Haley, Theodora, Abigail

Invented Hin Last Names: (any invented Hin male first name)

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Human: Humans come in many different colors, in many different sizes, and worship many, many gods – usually in the guise of Yondallan saints. Most humans pay at least some lip service to St. Davian, the great champion of Yondalla (who intercedes to deliver the prayers of humans to Yondalla), but humans very often also worship older, more-private familial gods. Humans may not, of course, marry into Hin families nor join in any Hin merchant house as a full partner; the best that a human can hope for, in many cases, is to be a servant remembered fondly by the children of the family he serves.

This, of course, leaves humans permanently at the bottom of the Quelyan (and thereby system-wide) economic food chain.

It is accepted fact, by those who study the pre-history of Pyrespace, that humans were once scattered across the system for unknown purposes and by unknown means, presumably at the whim of the mysterious Precursors. For this reason, the Church of Yondalla is active in seeking-out lost civilizations of humans who have spent unknown centuries far from the light of Yondalla’s mercy.

Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Captain Jack Sparrow, Westley the Farm-Boy, and Peter Quill are good examples of humans.

HUMAN OFFSHOOTS:

al’Zihad: Despite their bizarre appearances and hostile overtures, it is passionately believed that the curious ifrit, oread, sylph, suli, and undine populations native to Ashen were once human: servants of the Precursors adapted over the course of centuries to their alien environment. It is because of this belief that the Church of Yondalla has extended such a warm and generous offer of camaraderie to the “native” al’Zihad population, hoping to reintroduce them to their divinely ordained role as servants … this time, to the Hin.

Aasimar: Human families who commit themselves to the performance of good works in the name of Yondalla occasionally produce an angel-blooded or archon-blooded heir: born to serve the Church as beatific instruments of peace.

Dhampir: Some human children born beneath the Spider-Moon, along the Chain of Tears, or in the wilds of Fenris are infused with strange energies of death-magic. These children are claimed by the Church, for their own protection.

Fetchling: A strange subspecies of human – thought to originally hail from the lost forest-moon of Baervan (circling the Crown of Sapphire), infused with energies from the forbidden Library of the Eremite – these creatures are kept secret by the Church of Yondalla.

Ganzi: The children of humans exposed over-long to the energies of the Crown of Sapphire have been known to exhibit bizarre mutations; such creatures are taken-in by the Church of Yondalla to be kept safe.

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Half-Elf: Increasingly common throughout the system, originally the products of union between a male elf and female human: while elven females will often take human lovers, both male and female, pregnancies resulting from such unions are unknown: elven women must maintain a strict, meditative state of concentration to actually achieve pregnancy. As such, accidental fertilization is impossible, and even the act of impregnation is discomforting enough that no elven female would perform the act without sound – usually political – reason.

Elven men, therefore, are often shocked to discover that a brief rendezvous with a human woman has produced a bastard child.

Half-elves now breed true and have formed small communities in larger cities like Discord, Zionil, Dallah, and Lagas. Half-elves have no place within Elven society and possess little group unity.

Will Turner (from Pirates of the Caribbean) and Inigo Montoya are good examples of Half-Elves.

Half-Orc: True orcs (and their off-shoot species, including ogres, goblins, and hobgoblins) are not born and possess no gender: they are fungal creatures that emerge fully-grown from vast, reeking pits. Humans exposed to this fungus occasionally produce half-orc offspring; half-orcs are most-commonly born from humans captured by the illithid and taken to Moradin’s Forge (where airborne spores of goblin-fungus are dangerously common).

Half-orcs are prized by the illithid as a more perfect slave-stock than dwarves, orcs, or other monstrous humanoids, and have escaped their bondage to breed true: the product of any mating involving half-orcs (human/half-orc or half-elf/half-orc) is nearly always half-orc: their bizarre, altered fungus-genome is nearly viral in this regard.

Populations of “native” half-orcs intermingle with “native” humans across the wastes of Fenris, representing – to the Church – peoples long separated from the light of Yondalla.

Jayne Cobb and Niska’s leg-breaker Crow (from Firefly), Fezzick (from Princess Bride), Yondu (from Guardians of the Galaxy), and Bo’sun (from Pirates of the Caribbean) are good examples of Half-Orcs.

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Kuru: A bizarre subspecies of island-dwelling human driven all-but-extinct by the combined might of the Arvorean navy and the Church of Yondalla; kuru who bend the knee to the Church and denounce the worship of Dagon are given the same rights as other human offshoots (which is to say, not very much and certainly not as much as main-bloodline humans).

Skintwister: A vanishingly small percentage of humans – when directly exposed to alien fauna and extreme environment – rapidly adapt at a cellular level, taking on the most useful traits of a local native animal species within a generation. Human families on Quelya occasionally produce shark-blooded skintwister, while humans on Verdura can produce bat-blooded, bird-of-prey blooded, boar-blooded, crocodile-blooded, or tiger-blooded offspring, and humans on Fenris can produce bear-blooded, bird-of-prey blooded, boar-blooded, rat-blooded, tiger-blooded, and wolf-blooded young. These ‘near-humans’ are much prized by the Church as useful resources.

Tiefling: Human families who commit wicked deeds, marking themselves for eternal punishment in the bowels of Hell, occasionally produce a devil-blooded heir: born to serve the Church as weapons of war. In addition to the devil-spawn tieflings recognized by the Church of Yondalla, demon-spawn tieflings occasionally appear among the hinen (human servants) of Perianth; kyton-spawn appear among those humans on the Chain of Tears who venture too close to the forest-moon of Baervan, and rakshasa-spawn appear with alarming frequency among those humans assigned to toil the plantation-fields of Verdura.

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Warforged: Creations of the gnomes, the original warforged were long ago the original deciding factor in the wars against the ysoki. Redesigned in later centuries to act as adaptable, dependable assistants for gnomes, including the best possible defense against Hive (and later, illithid) incursions into gnome-space, the warforged were manufactured in the tens of millions.

All warforged, under the dictates of the Church of Yondalla, are property: they do not, and cannot, possess souls.

Each warforged is “born” from a generation creche; not a single such creche is known to have survived the destruction of the Circle of Gold (the gnomish home-world), and the technology to repair or re-fire a damaged creche – if one could even be found! – is utterly lost. For this reason, warforged are no longer treated as the expendable resource they were in the days of the Rat-Slaughter or the Hive Marches.

Data (Star Trek), C3-PO (Star Wars), the T-800 (Terminator), K2-SO (Rogue One), Baymax (Big Hero 6), David (Prometheus), Cameron (Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles), Bishop (Aliens), GLaDOS (Portal), Wall-E, and the Iron Giant are all good examples of possible warforged archetypes, but many other interpretations are possible.

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Others:

In addition to the major races and civilizations of the system, two dozen or more other sapient species make their homes across Pyrespace.

Inhabitants of Ashen:

Kasatha: Swift and dangerous hunters adapted for the open desert, a rare few kasatha have left the holdings of their clans to seek bounty beyond their world.

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Inhabitants of Verdura:

A huge number of native species make the wilds of Verdura their home, many of them armed with Precursor technology and decidedly hostile to strangers. Among them are the Catfolk (lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, cheetah, puma), Giff, Ghoran, Gnoll, Grippli, Kobold, Lizardfolk, Nagaji, Orang-Pendak, Reptoid, Tengu, Vanara, Vishkanya, and Wyvaran.

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Inhabitants of Quelya:

Gargoyle: A strange species of living stone that laired near – and among – the Urogalandic people for unknown millennia, gargoyles struck a deal with the Church of Yondalla during the Siege of Mordheim to assure their own survival; now, more than four centuries later, these hulking devils serve the Hin as bodyguards, elite scouts, heavy infantry, and unstoppable delivery-mechanisms.

Locathah: The curious and grotesque locathah – who are said to intermingle freely with the humans of many remote island communities – are treated with grave suspicion by the Church of Yondalla, as they often act as spies, seducers, and saboteurs for the cults of Dagon. The few locathah able to earn the trust of the Church are still watched closely for any sign of heresy.

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Inhabitants of Perianth:

Gathlain: In the deepest woodlands of Perianth, far from the oversight of Elven noble houses, the bizarre gathlain wander the twilight; these odd entities claim to originate from an “adjacent” reality, one to which the doors have been shuttered.

The gathlain whisper that older, hungrier, and infinitely more powerful spirits of “the Forest Behind the Word” also lurk in the long shadows, slowly rebuilding their strength after a humiliating defeat -- and centuries of enslavement -- at the hands of a nameless elven witch-queen.

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Inhabitants of the Chain of Tears:

Ratfolk: Nearly exterminated a dozen times over by the warforged armies of the gnomes, with whom they once shared a home world, the ysoki are a cunning species of survivors who have adapted to life across the Chain of Tears with endless tenacity.

Goblin-Spore (SQ): Some percentage of ysoki are carriers for a curious strain of the goblin fungus (which births goblins, hobgoblins, orcs, and ogres) to which they alone are immune. 

These special ysoki gain low-light vision, are immune to disease and poison, and are treated as Plant creatures -- in addition to being treated as humanoids with the ratfolk subtype --  for the purposes of a ranger’s favored enemy, for bane weapons, for feats, and for purposes of spells such as antiplant shell and horrid wilting, and for all similar effects, although these ysoki do not gain any other normal immunities, benefits, or traits of a true Plant creature.

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Inhabitants of Fenris:

A fair number of native species make the wilds of Verdura their home, many of them armed with Precursor technology and decidedly hostile to strangers. Among them are the Catfolk (tigers and snow leopards), Kitsune, Syrinx, and Tengu.

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Inhabitants of the Adamant Forge

Duergar: engineered slaves of the illithid, built via a foul twisting of the dwarven genetic code, duergar are not a common sight anywhere in Pyrespace except, perhaps, in the company of their horrid masters. That said, some duergar -- such as those dwelling on the Forge-Moon of Duerra -- have shattered the chains of their bondage and now walk free.

Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Orc: various subspecies born of the same strange fungal blooms (all of which possess the Goblin Spore Special Quality, above), sapient members of these races are rare in the extreme. That said, it is not completely unknown for an individual goblin, hobgoblin, or orc to “wake up”: becoming something significantly more complex than a mere weapon of genocide and extermination.

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UNIQUE RACES: Verdura, Fenris, the Chain of Tears, several moons, and even the wilds of Quelya are doubtlessly home to additional sapient species, still as yet undiscovered.

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SETTING

The setting is a single solar-system, Pyrespace, with several major & minor worlds.

WORLDS & NATIONS The Pyre: an incalculably vast stellar engine of incandescent plasma; small dark shapes — rumored to be ancient artifacts of the long-vanished Precursors — orbit the star tightly, flickering low across the endless ocean of flame (burning at an average of 6,000 degree Kelvin), diving through 13,000-mile-tall solar flares that routinely reach 10-20 million Kelvin (up to 100 million); these eerie & barely-visible shapes, whatever they may be, are utterly inaccessible to any modern space-vessel.

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Ashen: A storm-wracked world of dust & salt drifting upon an ocean of vacuum, covered in an inhospitable white desert slashed-through with low, jagged, slate-grey mountain ranges; this world hides strange ruins & wondrous treasures of the Precursors beneath its oceans of dust; it is considered strategically valuable both for its rare natural resources; dotted with Hin refineries, forts, border towns, resupply depots, and mining operations; home to strange native populations of kasatha, alongside clans of ifrit, oread, sylph, suli and undine (collectively known as the al’Zihad), who claim to have come to Ashen while bound in the service of the Precursors: inscrutable masters who once dwelt in a mysterious city trapped deep within the Celestial Pearl.

Ashen has two moons:

Anachtyr the Shining: A blinding-bright tempest-world of endless, boiling amythest-hued ocean studded with towering fumarole-vents dozens of miles in height; mighty coils of eye-searing azure lightning leap eternally between titanic these waterspouts, and the steam of this roaring planetoid can be seen drifting into the void: a haze that glitters like diamonds.

Lessinor the Masked: A world of heavy fog, dripping rust, creaking black tourmaline, and unending gloom, mantled in long shadows which writhe with ancient echoes and whispers, it is said that visibility on this planetoid has a maximum of 100 feet. Vast keeps, palaces, and even lightless cities of cyclopean gold-draped skeleons have been reported dotting the curious surface, but not one has ever been found a second time.

Approximately 10% of Ashen is actively subject to mining, exploitation, extraction and terraforming operations.

Major Cities of Ashen:

Acheron: a dug-in black-site military base / fortress-city / arcane research facility controlled by the Hin nation of Brandobaris

Core: a city-sized, semi-mobile mining and oil-rig facility controlled by the Hin nation of Arvoreen; a joint project with gnome & warforged diaspora from the Chain

Salt Lake: a religious-outreach community controlled by the Church of Yondalla, which seeks to convert the native al’Zihad to the worship of the goddess; this is by far the largest city on Ashen, and the central hub for all rail-travel on the planet.

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Verdura: a world of shallow oceans, towering mountain peaks, massive waterfalls, sprawling cave-systems, boiling mud-flats, impossible plateaus, icy ravines, echoing jungles, smoldering volcanos, bewildering river-systems, ancient lost ruins, and — above all — rainforest seemingly without end; home to an uncountable number of near-human species all-but-universally hostile to outsiders, many of whom are armed with ancient Precursor tech.

Hin rubber plantations, lumber mills, exotic “safari” hunting lodges, and industrial logging-facilities are therefore sprawling, heavily-militarized affairs

Although it boasts no truly massive cities, Verdura is host to the Hin colony of New Arvoreen, the center of Covington Farms – soon to be the breadbasket of the Pyrespace system – and a mountain-set Brandobarin research-station known as Thaumir. In addition, a small community of gnome diaspora have established the technological-marvel nation of Markovia, named for its Founder, Monarch and Supreme Leader, Dr. Adlai Markovitch (and his three nieces).

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The Three Moons of Verdura:

Tiamat: A darkly-glittering, iridescent jungle of venom and razor-sharp glass, a shimmering wilderness of fog-shrouded valleys, viridian mire, and steam-wreathed peaks laid beneath a sky of eternally wheeling stars. Home to many of the deadliest insects and reptiles in the system, this endless deep-emerald hell is yet rumored to contain that most fantastic of treasures: the legendary la fonte della giovinezza: a mystic source of endless youth and vitality, guarded by an ancient knight – Sir Azharul of the Thorns – devoted utterly to the service of Yondalla … and to the execution of all unworthy seekers.

Bahamut: A golden moon of shifting desert sand and sky-rending thunderstorms, of dark clouds howling over rain-spattered platinum dunes, this world is sacred to many of the reptilian monstrosities that lurk in the jungles of Verdura. Priests among these creatures claim that once, long ago, doorways opened from their sacrifice-sites to a huge city of bone, a fantastic place fed by the twin rivers Luar and Kath, ruled-over by a red-skinned, leviathan humanoid: a grotesque thing, serpent-like, with four eyes and four ears, that shot flames from its mouth when it spoke. No true evidence of this fabled city, said to lie “behind the east wind,” has yet been discovered.

Chronepsis: A small, silver-grey ice-moon, this airless and barren world is riddled with vast doorways, leading down into bone-white palaces of titanic, cyclopean design. What treasure might lie within these pleasure-halls is unknown, as few who have ventured beneath the surface have ever returned. It is sung, by the heretical faith of Dagon, that two great serpents lair here – named Null and Faluzure – and that these creatures know, between them, the fate of the dragons … and time of their return.

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Quelya: a world of archipelagos, reefs, marbled sand, dark cerulean waves, and tropical island chains boasting only a handful of sizable land masses, dominated by the Hin (halflings) and their servitor-race, humanity; the hungry, expansionist, colonial-minded nations of the Hin are united only by the rule of a massive corrupt Church and a single vast, hyper-complex monetary system; the planet boasts but a single continent — the Green Fields of Yondalla –  which are ruled-over by an ever-shifting array of Hin merchant-houses; in the furthest reaches of the world, shark skintwisters and locathah are rumored to bend the knee in loyalty to the strange and beautiful malenti, and to make horrid sacrifices to the coiling serpent Dagon.

HIN NATIONS / CITIES / HOLDINGS

Acheron: a Brandobarin military base / fortress-city / research base on Ashen

Arvoreen: an aggressive, militaristic nation noted for its perpetual war-footing, it maintains the finest navy in the system; the Arvorean Academy of War is famously egalitarian, admitting humans, half-elves, near-humans, and even warforged into its officer-training corps; national colors of red & gold.

Arvorean Male First Names: Alejandro, Fernando, Santiago, Antonio, Maceo, Francisco, Joaquin, Marco, Cristian, Javier, Rafael, Carlos

Arvorean Female First Names: Yamilet, Carmen, Valentina, Paloma, Lucia, Esmeralda, Alicia, Maria, Sofia, Luna, Catalina, Vida

Arvorean Last Names: García, Fernández, González, Rodríguez, López, Martínez, Sánchez, Pérez, Martín, Gómez, Ruiz, Hernández, Jiménez

Beshaba: The Hin holy city on the banks of the Rio Provendor (and its surrounding hills), most sacred site of Yondalla’s worship, currently self-ruled; the place where Gol-Kaa (the Last Human King of Beshaba) was slain by Saint Davian in single combat; national colors of white & sky blue.

Beshabite Male First Names: Dvir, Asaf, Asher, Elazar, Uriah, Reef, Aryah, Ofek, Yaheli, Arbel, Yinon, Idan

Beshabite Female First Names: Maayan, Danya, Liv, Shoshanna, Alean, Annael, Carmel, Eden, Avitel, Avia, Naama, Ofri

Beshabite Last Names: Ngaere, Zerbibi, Mishayev, Qablan, Magadla, Berdugo, Yayin, Sasi, Sharabani, Akiyva, Hagge, Siyvan, Tzviy

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Brandobaris: an elegant, cultured nation noted for its arts and refinement, it maintains the finest academies of learning – in alchemy, wizardry, engineering, medicine, mathematics, law, history, and space-flight – in the system; national colors bright yellow & light grey; home to the three bitterly warring institutes of higher learning:

Archives Timmestre-Falco: home of both the finest telescope array and most complete orrery in the system.

Sincomakti School of Sciences: known for the deep pockets of its alumni – for use in funding elaborate expeditions – and a particularly notorious library.

Universidad de Lepidottero: specialists in medicine, mathematics, and forensic investigation, on the cutting edge of xenobiology.

Brandobarin Male First Names: Luca, Filippo, Marco, Pietro, Giovanni, Nicolo, Davide, Diego, Giuseppe, Edoardo, Tommaso, Andreas , Cosimo, Lorenzo, Ottaviano

Brandobarin Female First Names: Chiara, Nicole, Ludovica, Gaia, Matilde, Vittoria, Francesca, Alessia, Camilla, Bianca, Arianna, Elena

Brandobarin Last Names: Rossi, Berlusconi, Ferrari, Brambilla, Ricci, Greco, Esposito, Marino, Bianchi, Morelli, D’Angelo, Piazza, Caputo

Chaldira: a massive mining-city on Fenris; although it is ostensibly self-ruled under the auspices of a gnomish coalition from the Chain of Tears, in practice the city bows to the “supervision” of a Brandobarin wizarding-circle. Core: a city-sized, semi-mobile mining and oil-rig facility on Ashen, controlled by the Arvorean armada; a joint project with gnome & warforged diaspora from the Chain. Cyrrollalee: former home of the last human king; an enormous, incredibly-fertile nation noted for its high population of humans (mostly farmers); rumors persist among the superstitious peasantry of “fairy circles” in the woods that lead to other realms; national colors of green & dark blue

Cyrrolaelan Male First Names: Odhran (Orin), Rory, Tadhg (Tag), Senan, Cathal (Kat-hal), Rodnan, Aodham (Aiden), Callum, Eion (Ow-en), Rian (Ree-an), Fionn (Finn), Cillian (Killian), Declan

Cyrrolaelan Female First Names: Aoife (ee-fa), Caoimhe (kwee-va or kee-va), Saoirse (seer-sha), Ciara (kay-ra), Niamh (neev), Roisin (ro-sheen), Cara (ca-ra), Clodagh (clo-da), Aine (on-yah), Aislinn (ash-lin), Alys, Avalon

Cyrrolaelan Last Names: Murchadha (Murphy), Ó Ceallaigh (Kelly), Ó Súilleabháin (O’Sullivan), Breathnach (Walsh), Ó Broin (Byrne), Ó Conchobhair (O’Conner), Ó Raghallaigh (O’Reilly), Ó Dubhghaill (O’Doyle), Mac Carthaigh (McCarthy), Ó Gallchobhair (Gallagher), Ó Cinnéide (Kennedy), Ó Muireadhaigh (Murray), Ó Cuinn (Quinn), Ó Mordha (Moore), Mac Lochlainn (McLoughlin)

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Dallah: a sin-soaked island city of gambling & revelry, part of the Tymoran island-chain; currently under self-rule; “national colors” of black & white Gixx: a floating city named for its watery host-moon, under Brandobarin control, orbiting the Crown of Sapphire Lagas: capital city of both Arvoreen and Brandobaris, existing along the border of both nations at the mouth of the Rio Provendor; a sacred city of the faith of Yondalla second only to the City & Lands of Beshaba

Important Sites in Lagas: The Rusted Sun Theatre, Parrish Place Bed & Breakfast, Café Molise, The Shuttered Door Academy

Important Hin residing in Lagas: Lord Mayor Emilio Dioceres, Archbishop Quirino Stephanos, Minister of Finance Alessio Villanova, Trade Minister Lazzaro Calistoga, Assistant Trade-Minister Dario Adalberto.

Moander: capital city of Cyrrollalee, built on the ruins of Dún Ailinne.

Mordheim: capital city of Urogolan, former home of “Uric, Last Human King of Urogolan”; this cold and half-tumbled fortress city, towering high above the treacherous stone of the Baía da Loucura, is choked in near-constant ice Perryroyal: massive island city at the far end of the Tymora island-chain that serves as the legendary “gateway to Xhiaae-La,” currently under the control of the Arvorean navy Salt Lake: a religious-outreach community on Ashen controlled by the Church of Yondalla, which seeks to convert the native al’Zihad to the worship of the goddess; this is by far the largest city on Ashen, and the central hub for all rail-travel on the planet Thaumir: a mountain-set Brandobarin research-station on Verdura Tymora: a particularly fertile chain of islands inhabited mostly by humans, currently ruled by the city of Dallah; the islands stretch from Lagas to Perryroyal.

Many traditional Tymoran names -- especailly those found in Dallah -- sound vaguely Greek to 21st-century human ears, but the islands are home to over 7,000 unique human cultures and no single list could possibly home to capure the length and breadth of the names used by Tymorans.

In addition, put bluntly, many people of the island chain simply do not think of themselves as “Tymoran,” but, rather, as members of a distinct culture under foreign occupation.

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Urogolan: grim, north-most Hin nation, noted for its vast mineral wealth, dense coniferous forests, fatalistic populace, and bleak weather; national colors of grey and black.

Urogalandic Male First Names: Ander, Hans, Johan, Ulf, Lars, Sven, Ivar, Leif (layf), Magnus, Ragnar, Sigurd (see-gurd), Herleif (her-leaf), Hjalmar (hyal-mahr), Njal (nj-al), Ødger (ed-ger), Roar (ruw-aar), Rune (ruw-n-eh), Sten (stehn), Trygve (trig-vah), Uhtred (oof-tred), gil (ee-yeh-gil), Einar (eye-nahr), Frey (fray), Geir (geyr), Gudbrand (good-brant), Gudmund (good-moond), Gunnar (guhn-nar), Hagen (hah-gen), Haldor (hahl-dawr), Halvar or Halvor (hahl-vahr), Jarl (yahr-al), Kåre (kehr), Aric (aar-ih-k), Arkyn (aar-khin), Brynjar (brin-yahr), Cuyler (kiel-ehr)

Urogalanadic Female First Names: Áma, Åse, Astra, Astrid, Borghild, Brynhild, Eir, Elli, Embla, Erica, Liva, Ragnfríðr, Revna, Rúna, Saga, Sigrid, Sif, Freya, Heidrun, Hildr, Hrefna, Hulda, Kara

Urogalandic Last Names: Any of the above Urogalandic male first names, with one of the following added to the end: sen, son, sson, søn, datter, dotter, or dottir

Xhiaae-La: legendary islands of gold & jade just beyond Tymora, source of human unarmed martial fighting techniques highly valued by Hin employers; currently under Brandobarin control

Xhiaae-Lan Male Names: Liang, Haoran, Zhen, Shufen, Ling, Lan, Kaihong, Taio, Shui, Qui, Jin, Chun, Ai, Bao

Xhiaae-Lan Female Names: Annchi, Baozhai, Changying, Chao-Xing, Chuntao, Da-Xia, Daiyu, Ehuang, Fenfang, Genji, Hu, Huian

Xhiaae-Lan Family Names: (spoken & written first) Shao, Long, Wàn, Zhāng, Qián, Tāng, Yǐn, Lí, Yì, Cháng, Wǔ, Qiáo, Lài, Gōng, Wén

Zuzadlara: an Arvorean military-base and floating “port city” on Perianth, established to assist Elven forces in maintaining peace across the system.

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Perianth: the elven home-world, a mist-wreathed, twilight-draped bioengineered “forest of prosperity” constructed by the Precursors via unknown means; the deep woodlands are said to hold terrifying gateways to other realms of existence; the courts of the elves are closed to outsiders, and non-elves are permitted access only to a vanishingly small number of sky-ports; the elves of both the Western Courts and Eastern Courts alike do a brisk trade in humans bought from the Hin, and some reports suggest that only 3% of the planetary population is actually elven.

Perianth is “ruled” by House Larethian, although the high throne of that House – that of the Phoenix Emperor (Western Court) or Moonlight Dragon (Eastern Court) – stands empty, as does the throne of his bride: Lolth, the Beautiful Eclipse (Western Court) or Lolth, the Crimson Empress (Eastern Court).

The favor of House Larethian is a currency traded by the other noble Houses; the Western Court name is given for each House first, followed by the Eastern Court name:

House Fleuris / House Kaika: painters, vintners, and rose-garden keepers.

House Sanglante / House Chimanire: the most-expert sword-smiths and sword-saints.

House Chanceux / House Kōun'na: Imperial record-keepers, known for their prodigious luck.

House Illustre / House Kagayakashī: the most beautiful and honorable house, known for their mastery of dance.

House Assombrir / House Kage-tsuki: the lowest of the noble houses, experts in medicine.

Perianth is not known to have any major cities, although each House maintains a number of holdings.

Western Court Male Names: Baillieu, Ménétries, Bachelot, Peletier, Bocuse, Marius, Théophile, Roland, Ancel, Thibaut, Sylvain, Médard, Chauve, Rémy, Maret

Western Court Female Names: Solène, Élisa, Émeline, Joséphine, Ameline, Neri, Mélanie, Coline, Émilienne, Iseult, Asselineau, Eulalie, Roxanne

Eastern Court Male Names: Hyotoki, Gatane, Yamitsu, Dainaga, Akihiko, Yori, Hideaki, Kazuhiro, Wantaro, Anoye, Gezushi, Sesuki, Teitada, Hiroaki, Noboru

Eastern Court Female Names: Haitsuke, Narino, Reinatsu, Maera, Benomi, Kohaku, Kayo, Miyako, Aya, Shizuka, Komina, Jionuye, Kakura, Amiri, Reiko, Yuki, Emi

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The Spider-Moon

The sole satellite of Perianth, a massive labyrinthine ruin to-which one third of the elves — the drow — were exiled long ago; the drow are no longer trapped beneath the surface of the Spider-Moon due to the hideous gifts of the illithid. This oversized nightmare realm is ruled by House Lolth and her loyalists: exiled members of all five noble Houses and their servants. This inhospitable world boasts only a single major trade-hub: the Dark City of Xogotha.

Any type of direct approach on the Spider Moon must find a way to navigate the tens of thousands of floating dead (and undead) – casualties of the Unseelie War – still drifting in orbit around the planetoid. For their part, the drow use this corpse-field as a blockade, employing necromancy to bypass the horror-show whenever necessary.

Drow names are identical to elven names.

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The Celestial Pearl: a mysterious planet-sized anomaly bearing what appears to be a perfectly smooth, bone-white surface: this ghostly pale sphere has no atmosphere and no magnetic field, no geographical features, no marks consistent with any meteoric impact, no evidence of historical habitation, a surface temperature of 3 Kelvin, and a core temperature zero Kelvin. The curious surface itself – which appears to be an impossibly-thin crystalline latticework of monomolecular razor-ribbons covered in a few drifting inches of ice-powder, white sand, ash, and stardust – cannot be landed-upon or even approached: weird, invisible, immovable “arches” — made of something harder than adamantium — protrude in a strange, coiling web of whorls into space, reaching up to 500 miles away from the surface.

Zionil: Largest space-station in the system, nearly a moon onto itself, this massive gnomish facility serves as an informal way-station -- a respected, nearly sacred neutral ground -- between the “inner worlds” of Ashen, Verdura, Quelya, and Perianth; and the “outer worlds”: the Crown of Sapphire and the Chain of Tears, Fenris, and Moradin’s Forge.

It also serves as the ultimate melting-pot of cultures across Pyrespace: here, humans dressed in fashionable gnomish top-hats & tails rub shoulders with dwarves travling to jobs on Ashen & half-orcs en route to Verdura.

Dominated by the enormous Cathedral of St. Deneir the Scribe and House of St. Mili, the Voice of Heaven, sprawling centers of worship for the Church of Yondalla, Zionil is also home to a huge Xhaaie-Lan population; the Lantan Shipyards are without a doubt the finest facilities in the system for the design & construction of Hin-built spelljamming vessels.

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The city is unofficially under the control of Baronet Giancarlo Lugocelli of Fenris, a devout human aristocrat admired across the system for his shrewd buisness accumen and unbridled civic spirit. 

This artificial moon also serves as home to The Thirteenth: an emergency garrison of specially-designed warforged kept in reserve to make a surgical-strike wherever the threat of Hive activity is detected outside the heavily quarantined moons of Segojan (Hive Colony Euclid), Baervan (Hive Colony Keter), Baravar (Hive Colony Thaumiel), and Urdlen (Hive Colony Apollyon); this force is led by Inquisitor Francesca DiAccursio of La Universidad de Lepidottero as part of a massive anti-xenos taskforce.

An increasing number of dwarves from Moradin’s Forge also now make a holy pilgrimage here to the Muamman Duathal: a library of dwarven law, history, technological innovation, achivement, literary scholarship, and art nearly the equal to the catacombs of lost Dugmaren.

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The Crown of Sapphire & the Chain of Tears: an enormous, shining, many-ringed cerulean gas-giant, host to a dozen moons (listed below) and the long trail of an asteroid belt which follows behind it; the Crown roars with low heat and mild radiation, serving as a “second sun” to the system. As to the means by which the Precursors performed this “stellar uplifting” and manipulated the interior of the Crown, it is impossible to say.

About 70% of the “chain” following behind the Crown was originally the home-world of the gnomes – once known as Kruug od Szlatta, or the ‘Circle of Gold’ – and their many miraculous inventions, which was shattered utterly as the result of a run-away hyper-energy reaction; big money can be made out here, sifting the clockwork wreckage and mining interplanetary debris for rarities; the finest technology in the known universe can be found here: powering the cities, foundries, refineries, sky-docks, casinos, space stations, laboratories, and bio-manufactora which float together in complex nets through the wild void.

Moons of the Sapphire Crown:

Garl: now the largest of the moons, a gem-studded planetoid home to a huge number of scattered mineral-mining operations, including Blistavo Zlatta: now the default capital-city of the gnome people, formerly known best as a decadent, lawless, off-world trade-hub town full of casinos, amusements, cunning illusions, and other cheap entertainments.

Gelth: second largest of the moons, a dark spheroid of endless seething lava-flats, smoldering radioactive pools, toxic black smoke, and jagged obsidian blades miles in height. Home to a small number of mining-colonies (which are outnumbered 10-1 by the destroyed remnants of exactly such facilities).

Callarduran: third largest of the moons, a place of icy-cold wind whistling through thousands of miles of smooth stone tunnels, home to the finest stone-crafting workshops in the system.

Flandal: a hot, near-barren planetoid rich in iron and a number of other valuable metals … but, very specifically, boasting neither water nor arable land. Successfully cleared of all Hive infection after the eradication of Hive Colony Nehemoth in 1463; classified as safe.

Gixx: a fog-shrouded shallow-sea water-world currently occupied by a floating Brandobarin city.

Segojan: a smog-shrouded death-world of fungus and alien monsters, home to Hive Colony Euclid.

Baervan: a lost moon, once a twilight forest-world, now home to Hive Colony Keter; also home to the mysterious, floating Library of the Eremite.

Baravar: a shadowy crystalline moon now home to Hive Colony Thaumiel.

Urdlen: home to nothing but an icy, red-tinged ocean that flows silently between towering black spires, this bleak world now plays host to Hive Colony Apollyon.

Gaerdal: a heavily fortified workshop-moon, now 99% destroyed; original “birthplace” of the warforged.

Nebelun: the still-smoldering remains of a desert laboratory-world, dotted with blackened pits connected by a vast webwork of now-shattered elevated railways.

Rupa u Beskonačnom (the Hole in the Infinite): although not a true moon, this small artificial wormhole drifts in orbit around the Crown of Sapphire, occasionally spiting-out weird horrible alien monsters: the nearby moons of Segojan (Hive Colony Euclid), Baervan (Hive Colony Keter), Baravar (Hive Colony Thaumiel), and Urdlen (Hive Colony Apollyon) are infected with a terrifying strain of bizarre alien life; the wormhole is currently orbited by a small armada of mysterious githyanki ships native to another solar system.

Major Cities of the Chain of Tears:

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Discord: The largest city adrift in the Chain is also the largest city system-wide; in terms of sheer population, only the holy city of Lagas on Quelya even comes close. Discord is a sprawling affair, composed of innumerable asteroids and earth-bergs lashed-together with sparking remnants from hundreds – if not thousands – of derelict and damaged SpellJamming vessels. Although the gnomish population of Discord is lightly smaller than that of Blistavo Zlatta, on Garl, gnomes and their warforged security units run much of the city: High Master Artificer Krenlin maintains strict order among the scoundrels, spacehands, and fortune-seekers … at least, in the neighborhoods capable of paying for his protection. The black markets of Discord’s underbelly are run by gangs of ysoki (ratfolk), dwarves, half-orcs, half-elves, more bizarre human-offshoots, locathah, kasatha, unique creatures from the wilds of Verdura and Fenris, and even drow. Significantly more uncommon are goblins, orcs, and ogres – ancient enemies of the dwarves – and Perianth-born elves; although Hin are occasionally spotted here, it’s incredibly rare to see one without an escort … such as a lumbering Church-sanctioned gargoyle or a heavily-armed mercenary crew.

Serenity: Known better by its inhabitants as ‘Scarcity,’ this ugly warren of trash and filth is – to those with the keen eyes to see it – a goldmine of opportunity. If the ysoki can lay claim to a home-world, this is it: the majority of the population here is ratfolk, and their laws guide the city … for good or for ill. Part of a dense asteroid-field known for dangerous gravitational eddies, the port of Serenity is a haven for pirates and criminals wanted in every other metropolis.

Linger: The last glorious remnants of the Circle of Gold are kept here, a city-sized museum dedicated to the memory of that devastated world, and to honoring the uncounted millions who perished in the flare of its destruction. It is a place of quiet luxury and high technology, where the very wealthiest of those who do business in Discord can pretend – if only for a few hours – that the Circle of Gold was never broken.

Gnomish Male Names: Andrija, Nikola, Luka, Marko, Aleksandr, Jovan, Nemanja, Matija, Miloje, Miroslav, Rodavan, Vlado, Zivko,

Gnomish Female Names: Aleksandra, Teodora, Jana, Katarina, Petra, Malina, Milena, Maja, Hana, Anja, Milica (miy-LIH-ts-a), Sara, Nina

Gnomish Last Names: Jovanović, Petrović, Nikolić, Marković, Đorđević, Stojanović, Ilić, Stanković, Pavlović, Milošević, Katić, Sinđelić, Nedić, Marić, Višnjić, Janjić, Sarić, Miličić, Milenić, Natalić, Zorić, Smiljić, Anđelić

Warforged Names: any; names of warforged are self-selected, are not derived from family, and may be drawn from any culture.

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Fenris: A frozen, rocky world of icebergs & fathomless oceans, mighty fjords, roaring hot springs, steaming river-valleys, shrieking tundra, rolling steppes, drifting ice-floes, frigid marshland, deep emerald forest, and seething volcanoes; it is “ruled-over” by a minority population of warring giants, who tear themselves fully-formed from the simmering ley-lines of the living planet; in their long shadow, bold survivors face the fierce wrath of endless winter; some clans scratch out a meager, subsistence-level hunter-gatherer existence, while others build great longhouses, fortresses, and onion-domed cathedrals of wood & stone, defying the giants; beneath the surface of the world, enchanted mechanical castles — home to slumbering vampire lords — wait in silence to be called-forth for the night-hunt.

Humans and half-orcs “native” to Fenris tend toward Cyrrolaelan and Urogalandic names, suggesting some truth to the legends of doorways in the deep woods leading between Quelya and Fenris.

The massive, smoldering, heavily-entrenched mining-city of Chaldira employs tens of thousands of workers, including innumerable indentured humans and near-humans imported from Quelya by the hundreds through the Church-sanctioned penal transportation program; most such workers are branded, upon arrival, to prevent their disappearance into the local human communities. Specialized squads of “workforce retention agents” operating under Brandobarin authority maintain an uneasy peace with nearby human enclaves … though both groups wisely fear the fury of giants, who on occasion choose to assault the veritable fortress of Chaldira seemingly out of pure malice.

Beyond humans, dwarves comprise the bulk of Chaldira’s employees; outright violence in the barracks between dwarves and their orc-blooded coworkers is frowned upon, punishable by both monetary fine and loss of privileges, but is still not uncommon. Gnomes, warforged, and even ratfolk form the Chain of Tears are also common sights, as are Hin mages and their gargoyle bodyguards, although the only thing rarer than a native of Verdura here is an elf.

For their own part, the native catfolk, kitsune, syrinx, and tengu give Chaldira a wide berth: the huge, heavily militarized mining-city has, for the most part, nothing to offer them.

Moons of Fenris

Bahgtru: A hot, dark, ash-swept landscape of dense black forests, broiling deserts, flinty badlands, murky rivers, and foreboding seas, all bearing the ravages of constant war waged beneath a coal-streaked and starless sky. A dozen or more major orc-blood nations vie for control of this resource-rich, twilight-lit world; the largest single military force – the Broken Skull Clan, led by a hulking creature called Moragrek – dominates less than 10% of the planetoid. In the deepest woodlands, orcs fly crude marrow-stained, gut-stitched banners above fallen towers still sparking with ancient Precursor-tech.

Ilneval: Floating mountains, coiling moebius-spiral waterfalls, serpentine valleys filled with boiling fog, forests of glass, a series of artificial rings, cities of broken fractal room-recursions, walking Precursor-tech “transport-facilities” the size of nations, and stranger landmarks dot this bizarre world. Worse still, the goblin-fungus of this moon has underdone a wild number of dangerous mutations, producing varieties of dangerous goblinoid entities unknown anywhere else in Pyrespace.

Luthic: A damp, echoing, rain-drenched world with a low-burning core, this windswept planetoid sees surprisingly few dangerous meteorological events – considering the near-constant cloud cover -- and features only very mild tectonic activity. As such, impossible caverns filled with warm mushroom forests abound, grazed-upon by bizarre, blind half-fungal elk. This world is by far the economically valuable of the Fenris-moons, a veritable goldmine for its Brandobarin investors; transportation to this moon is a sentence dreaded by every human living under the Church of Yondalla’s laws.

Obould: Miles upon miles of long-fallen ruins – twisting, elegant citadels of what appears to have been ancient elven construction – crisscross this rime-coated world, buried in miles upon miles of shattered ice; unfortunately, whatever strange process causes the planet Fenris to vomit-forth giants from its ley-lines is also active here: titans of frost wander the wastes, obedient to three mysterious warlords: the Shogun of Crimson Snowfall, the Shogun of the Endless Dark, and the Shogun of Winterblind.

Shargaas: High above the roiling toxic cloud-cover, cold mountain-peaks spill miles-long waterfalls from smoldering calderas; far below, falling ash and acidic sleet fall silently on the dark glass libraries of the Precursors. It is said that nothing moves here, in the realm of dead furnaces: a planetoid fallen to night. In the winding passages beneath the dormant facilities, however – the strange passages linking the long abandoned “colleges” of Hopelorn, Cold Fever, and the Citadel of Vanished Audience – somethingold and unclean can be heard clicking-away … hungry, and drawing ever closer.

Vaprak: Trolls are an infectious, predatory presence known across Pyrespace: Verdura, Tiamat, the forests of Cyrrollalee and Urogolan, the wooded isles of Tymora, the Crown-moon of Baervan, and upon most of the Fenris-moons & Forge-moons; in fact, it is believed (but not confirmed by the elves) that trolls may even be known in the wild places of Perianth. No place, however, can be said to have been conquered by the trolls like this horrid planetoid: an endless morass of sinking stonework and icy-cold swamp, a place of stench and the low whine of blood-mad insects.

Yurtrus: Miles below the Brandobarin military research-facility of Khin-Oin, a planet-sized city of war-ravaged, long-overgrown Precursor-tech glitters in the cold sunrise … while another neighborhood, connected by monorails that blur between districts faster than the speed of sound, shines like an ocean of light on the other side of nightfall. The city – nicknamed “Fleshslough” by the researchers who drift in orbit high above, perpetually examining the curious urban properties – is a vast thing of austere, ever-moving wonderment: whatever incurable, perversely-contagious disease hangs in the warm air reduces skin to boiling crimson horror in mere moments.

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Moradin’s Forge: this hyper-dense, heavily volcanic planet is just over half the size of Quelya, yet it commands a significantly more massive gravity well. Although it boasts a minimal surface atmosphere, it serves as the home world of dwarves, goblins, ogres, hobgoblins, and orcs; it is also the staging-ground for an illithid invasion-force with control over a supermassive wormhole situated somewhere beyond the edge of the known solar system; illithid forces include any number of alien monstrosities (many mutated or bio-manipulated by the illithid) stolen from a hundred different systems, of which orcs are the newest prize; 80% of all dwarves system-wide live in bondage beneath the heel of the illithid.

A single rebel city, secret in the extreme, is hidden in the shadows of otherwise-absolute illithid dominance: Veil, last hope of the Forge.

Dwarven Male First Names: Hakk, Osrick, Drok, Brut, Muls, Grold, Urbrik, Aandrak, Buulrol, Kigrer, Fraysik, Korvin, Vog, Bellbaarg

Dwarven Female First Names: Yorgwyn, Urgwan, Rren, Inngva, Kledgeg, Lonnvull, Urrgvi, Kalbri, Khora, Sro, Ohlih, Hyylkis, Memrii

Dwarven Clan Names: Grandmaul, Stonehall, Winterstride, Thunderhand, Icevein, Wargold, Blackstone, Runelore, Heartstrong, Ironblaze, Steelfist, Greysky, Shieldhorn, Axetusk, Proudburn, Stormedge

A NOTE ON DWARVEN NAMING CUSTOMS

Dwarves are hardly a monoculture, and each dwarf has dealt with the loss of Moradin’s Forge in an intensely personal way. Some dwarves have taken to answering only to their Clan name (their first name forever, abandoned), while others refuse to speak their Clan name aloud until they stand once more in the re-taken hall of their ancestors; some dwarves have founded entirely new off-world lineages -- such as Clan Dustblade of Ashen -- and some have adopted themselves into existing bloodlines: Clan Malov, the “dwarven branch” of the Malovitch crime-family is, of course, the most famous of these.

Orc, Goblin, Ogre, Hobgoblin Names: Wurgoth, Gradba, Azuk, Speghat, Cagan, Wilaktug, Sbghat, Omegugh, Fogugh, Braugh, Oggugat, Yegoth, Oogorim, Vothug, Nildud, Golag, Bugharz, Zguk, Ombilge, Zudagog, Tothag, Sogg, Narfug, Ergoth, Xorag, Orpigig, Agronak, Orakh, Xulgug, Fudagog

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Moons of the Forge AKA “The Morndinsamman”:

Abbathar: A shimmering world of vast iron pyrite slabs floating across a seething ocean of molten lead, shot-through with veins of plutonium. Extreme weather events triggered by mega-scale Precursor tech embedded at the moon’s poles – still barely understood, even in theory – routinely cause the surface temperature and atmospheric pressure to reach or exceed 4,000 degrees Kelvin and 18 gigapascals (2,610,680 pounds per square inch): converting portions of the atmosphere into solid, crystalline “red oxygen” while shattering the vast methane-plumes into sheets of pure diamond.

Berronar: A temperate world of steep valleys and winding natural cave systems, with a craggy mineral-rich surface marked by broad streams and small hardwood forests, this served for nearly seven centuries as the “second home” of the dwarven people, founded soon after first contact with gnomes from the Circle of Gold. The early loss of this quiet paradise-moon, along with the entirety of its population, to the illithid during their invasion was a brutal blow to the Clans of the Forge.

Clangeddin: A storm-wracked world of mighty fortresses and massive iron-foundries, this was the very last of Forge-moons to fall: its bleak surface is still marked with endless fields of the unburied war dead, broken banners, and mighty siege-engines half-buried in seas of ash. The endless lightning strikes are said to illuminate black rivers of goblin-fungus running between the most hallowed halls and treasure-filled tombs of the ancient dwarven kings: funerary-stone and pale gold circlets trod into the grey mud.

Duerra: In some ways, on certain battle-fronts, it can be said that the dwarven race yet stands: roaring in open, bloodthirsty, unrelenting defiance of the illithid and all their servants. On this inhospitable planetoid, a vast labyrinth of toxic metal-tainted pools, rusted razor wire, and dizzying mineshafts once used to extract silver, iron, gemstones, and titanium by the cubic ton, two rogue creations of the illithid – the duergar and the dark naga – wage endless war in the dark, focusing the psychic energies of their cold anger on killing anything that so much as looks at them sideways … and plotting, always, to escape the oubliette and shackle the universe as their slave.

Dugmaren: What was once the center of all dwarven scholarship – the eternal echoing repository of some thirty centuries of discovery, poetry, engineering, innovation, and invention, the epicenter of all history recorded by the Clans of the Forge, the memories of a people writ in rune – has been lost. None can say how many tomes and testaments were lost during the Battle of Dugmaren, put to the torch and the axe … nor how many of the great, austere library-moon’s sacred record-keepers were devoured by the rapacious illithid, their minds stolen to be used as horrid weapons against the living. For those who treasure the knowledge of ages, the fall of Dugmaren was perhaps the greatest loss of all.

Dumathoin: A lightless world, shrouded in constant slate-grey cloud-cover, riddled with dangerous – yet fantastically lucrative! – gemstone cave systems of seemingly limitless depth. In the many centuries of its exploration, it yet continues to reveal strange new secrets: some treacherous, some fantastic, all of them beautiful and curious in the extreme. Legends suggest that the winding passages here are truly limitless: that the halls curl back on themselves, leading to tunnels beneath the surface of the Forge, the Spider-Moon, the sands of Ashen, the tombs of Chronepsis, the vampire-castles of Fenris, and even the strange armor of the Celestial Pearl.

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Gorm: A cruel planetoid, a howling nightmare of treacherous, winding obsidian passageways, covered in goblin-fungus and lit only by the low blood-red flickers of a hateful molten core, the Gauntlet of Gorm was once the final testing-ground of the greatest dwarven warriors and the finest dwarven armor: here, unstoppable heroes and unbreakable shields alike were forged. Fallen, now, to the illithid, the retaking of unassailable Gorm may yet represent the last, best hope of the dwarven people.

Haela: The imposing mountain peaks of this glimmering moon are carved with the likenesses of the great clan leaders, the eternal Kings and Queens of the Forge. Beneath their austere gaze, feuding clans have, for centuries, set aside their hate and their bloodthirst to settle generations-old grudges through honorable challenge: tests of skill-at-arms, bravery, strength, endurance, mettle, riddling, drinking, cunning, and even the gift of poetry. The halls here have fallen silent, picked-at now by lean, faceless nightmare predators: misshapen things born under unclean stars.

Laduguer: A hard world wrapped in chill grey mist, a moon of foul reputation and terrible whispers drifting on the winds beneath the stone. Under a steel-grey sky flickering with impossible darkness, bottomless pits sparkling with adamantine and black diamonds rend a jagged landscape of petrified Precursor tech: shattered alien weapons, armor, engines, towers, biological experiments, and massive shipwrecks of sea, star, and air, all transformed to iron. Vast, gaping holes in the surface – some miles across – open into mazeworks of silver and mithral, precious blood-onyx and fantastic skymetals, the tunnels lit by the twisting glimmer of an unwholesome and unnatural flame. The icy peaks of this foreboding moon are home to three long-abandoned dwarven strongholds: the Citadel of the White Rose, the Fortress Hammergrim, and the Throne Perilous.

Marthammor: A wild and far-wandering forest moon of geysers and thermal vents, known for its near-constant earthquakes, its towering native flora and fauna, its softly luminescent gemstones, it extreme and unpredictable weather, and – perhaps best of all – for its sprawling subterranean woodlands: vast, steaming caverns filled with trees adapted to survive seemingly without need of sunlight. Legends speak of doorways in the deep woods to other worlds, and ancient elven runes – some millennia old – can be found carved alongside incomprehensible alien glyphs on the many moss-covered marble pillars, stairs, ivory archways of long-fallen ruins.

Sharindlar: A dusky, crimson and rose-gold planetoid of impossible buttes, wide mesas, abundant hot springs, and huge naturally occurring stone “monuments” interlaced with warm shallow seas, all brushed with glittering, coral-pink sandbars, echoing grottos, and wide white beaches. The rare minerals and exotic plant life of this moon are said to possess a variety of astonishing medicinal properties, capable of restoring life, joy, and vitality to even the most crippled form. A massive temple – seemingly of dwarven construction, yet over 7,000 years old – rises from a golden hillside surrounded by circles of great standing-stones, marked by runes of indecipherable origin.

Thard Harr: Thought to be the ancient origin-point of goblin-fungus, the so-called Labyrinth of Life is home to terrible, primordial beasts seen nowhere else in Pyrespace. This bizarre, sweltering jungle world is stacked in “layers” of independently-floating, constantly shifting plateaus, all orbiting a single boiling ocean: the destination of all waterfalls and the source of constant warm mist and heavy rain. For reasons yet unknown, the maddening complexities of this moon are well-recorded in the oral histories of many monstrous species dwelling on Verdura, who claim to have walked star-paths to this place – for purposes of tending to a mysterious “Temple of the Deceiver / Serpent-Father” – in ancient days.

Vergadain: A small planetoid of gentle hills and clear lakes with a wide orbit, this moon was – for nearly seven centuries, since 1051 A.D. – the preferred meeting-ground to facilitate trade between the races of gnome and dwarf. In the wake of utter cataclysm befalling the shattered gnome home world (in 1492 A.D.), a number of wealthy and prominent gnomish merchant-families established permanent residence here at the heartfelt invitation of their friends among the Clans of the Forge; the casual annihilation of those families by the illithid at their outset of the invasion was a horrific shock to both races.

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the wicked within: "a princess"

adalaide my beloved <3

transcript & taglists under the cut!

transcript:

“Cal?”

They nod. “Adalaide.”

She’s changed; her eyes are weary, and her hands are rough and callused, tiny scratches and bruises covering her arms, but her voice is the same as Cal remembers it. “What are you doing here?” She places her hands on her hips, a display of the powerful aura she always had.

“We,” they point at Jereth, “and three others need a place to stay.”

“You know that’s not what I meant. What are you doing in Portingdale? How did you get in?” When her questions go unanswered, she adds, “I should be sending someone to alert the king—hell, I should be going myself. This is a serious breach of national security.

They glance at Jereth, asking a million questions and receiving only a shrug.

“Can we stay the night or not?”

Cal can only imagine how awkward Jereth must feel, standing between two ex-lovers during a less-than-ideal reunion in which one party is seeking shelter before attempting to infiltrate the very palace to which the other party belongs.

Adalaide is—by every definition—a princess. Her warm brown eyes never stray away from Cal’s icy blue, yet they can’t help but feel a chill run down their spine under her gaze.

“Follow me,” she says.

/end transcript

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[infantateresa]

intro

✧ ━━ the courts of switzerland present TERESA TRASTAMARA of SPAIN, the INFANTA of SPAIN. the TWENTY THREE year old had been CHARISMATIC and  COMPASSIONATE before the break of war but have now become  A HOPELESS ROMANTIC and COMPLAISANT. SHE is often remembered by their likeness to ELEANOR TOMLINSON and ROMANCE NOVELS HIDDEN UNDER HER PILLOWS, EFFORTLESS DANCES TILL DAWN, A PAWN WAITING FOR INSTRUCTIONS. the rumor mills of europe claim that her allegiance lies with THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE and that she is for PEACE.

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME :  teresa juana trastamara

MEANING : 

Form of THERESA used in several languages. Saint Teresa of Ávila was a 16th-century Spanish nun who reformed the Carmelite monasteries and wrote several spiritual books.

Spanish form of Iohanna (see JOANNA), making it the feminine form of JUAN (1). This name was borne by Juana the Mad, a 16th-century queen of Castile

Unknown

name: teresa

middle name: juana

surname: trastamara

MONIKERS / NICKNAMES : resa (family nickname)

TITLE : 

infanta of spain

GENDER & PRONOUNS : 

ETHNICITY : white spanish

DATE OF BIRTH & AGE:december 15th 1535 

ZODIAC SIGN : sagittarius 

ORIENTATION : heterosexual, heteroromantic

MARITAL STATUS : unmarried

OCCUPATION : none? patron of the arts?

CURRENT LOCATION : castelgrande castle

BACKGROUND

PLACE OF BIRTH : royal alcazar of madrid

RESIDENCES : royal alcazar of madrid

RELIGIOUS VIEWS : roman catholic

EDUCATION : private tutoring befitting her status though she excelled more in her social education then her academic subjects (besides languages)

LANGUAGES SPOKEN : spanish (native), portuguese (fluent), italian (fluent), latin (proficient nearly fluent), french (proficient), english (proficient), arabic (conversational can’t read it), german (conversational, can’t read it) 

ALLEGIANCES : 

monarch house, if applicable ; trastamara

house of birth  ; trastamara

FAMILY :

       king alonso of spain (eldest brother) 

       duke tomas of barcelona (older brother) 

       infanta luciana (older sister, deceased) 

       infanta mariana (older sister)

OTHER FAMILIAL RELATIONS :

      queen beatriz of portugal (sister in law) 

      manuel, prince of asturias (nephew)

      infante christobal (nephew) 

      infante miguel (nephew) 

      infanta ines (niece) 

      infanta carlota (niece)  

      princess adalaide of masovia (sister in law)

APPEARANCE

FACECLAIM : eleanor tomlinson

HAIR COLOUR / STYLE : teresa has vibrant red hair that if she spends too much time in the sun with sometimes appears nearly golden colored. when not perfectly styled her hair can easily be described as a wild mane (especially after horseback riding) but in most social situations is perfectly styled in a fashionable updo. 

EYE COLOUR / SHAPE : teresa was blessed with big round blue green eyes that you can see every emotion she has in, her eyes are truly the gateways to her soul 

HEIGHT : 167 cm / 5′6″.

BUILD : teresa has never been able to keep any meat on her bones or muscle always looking more like a twig then anything else despite being in perfectly good health and relatively physically active

SPEECH STYLE : teresa has always been gifted with a skill for language and generally speaks with very little accent. her tone is almost always soft and she generally speaks at a calm and quiet voice. she has the sort of voice that you could listen to all day.

RECOGNIZABLE MARKINGS : though her wild red mane is her most recognizable feature, she does have a large birth mark on the right side of her hip

BEAUTY HABITS : hygiene is very important to teresa, she can not stand bad smells of any kind. is also a sucker for a red lip and is often seen wearing one

PERSONALITY

TROPES : beauty = goodness, indifferent beauty, spoiled sweet 

INSPIRATIONS : allie hamilton (the notebook), rose (the titanic), and edith crawley (downton abbey)

MBTI : esfj

ENNEAGRAM : type 2- the helper

ALIGNMENT : lawful good

TEMPERAMENT : phlegmatic

HOGWARTS HOUSE : hufflepuff

POSITIVE TRAITS : loyal, compassionate, charismatic 

NEGATIVE TRAITS : naive, complaisant, hopeless romantic

HABITS : when bored she tends to hum since she always have a song stuck in her head, when nervous though she fidgets a lot with her favorite ring she wears daily on her left pinky

HOBBIES : teresa’s two favorite hobbies are dancing and horseback riding. she will take any opportunity for either though she often wishes she was more skilled in the formal arts but she isn’t so she simply enjoys viewing them and being an active patron of various artists

USUAL DEMEANOR : teresa is a very calm person and her company is usually enjoyed because of her gentle demeanor. despite that she is definitely not a boring person and will do anything she can to make people happy and love to laugh and enjoy life making her very popular with most people.

HEALTH

PHYSICAL AILMENTS : thankfully is very physically healthy though she did catch two very terrible fevers as a child but they do not appear to have effected her long term

NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION : teresa is also blessed to have relatively stable mental health. she does have some anxiety about her unstable future but she is very private about it

PHOBIAS : autophobia (fear of being alone), claustrophobia (fear of small spaces)

ALLERGIES : a pretty severe allergy to peanuts, had a severe reaction as a child and her family became very protective keeping them away

SLEEPING HABITS : teresa has always been an early riser and loves watching the sun rise when possible, can not sleep when there are storms though

SOCIABILITY : the poster child for a social butterfly, not just because her social position requires it, she genuinely just loves being around people. almost never alone because of it and becomes incredibly anxious if left alone for too long. the only social situations she dislikes is ones discussing politics because she is not very politically minded.

ADDICTIONS : teresa has never used drugs and is not a big fan of the taste of alcohol. she understands drinking though is a part of socializing and will drinks when it is required at social events but generally is always sober

[hrh-princess-amalia]

Coronation of Queen Victoria ll

In one of her first formal international events as Crown Princess of Lillistaad, Amalia and Fredrik traveled you London’s Westminster Abbey to be their countries representative at the coronation of Queen Victoria ll. Amalia chose a light peach Badgley Mischka dress with matching suede LK Bennett shoes. Her jewels included one of her favorite tiaras to wear: Queen Maud’s Rose Tiara. She also wore a sapphire, diamond, and pearl necklace that had been a wedding present from the first Queen Victoria Abe Prince Albert to the future Queen Adalaide when she married into the Lillistaad Royal family.

Amalia enjoyed the ceremony and got emotional as she watched her friend get crowned. The pomp and circumstance of the entire day was overwhelming and beautiful.

[emoticonheart]

How would your newer and older original characters react if they saw each other?

Robin O’Connery, Arrach, and Runt, from Stolen Crown.

Princess Addison Bloomington and Ruby Daniels, from What You Find Along the Way.

Sierra Watson, Conner Eve, and Lizzy Harris, from The Universe Chose You, so I Will Too.

Rick “IckyRicky”, Ashley “Flexsteel” Fox, and Lily Alonto, from Flexsteel and IckyRicky.

Meira Yelren, Thalia Orog, Ascal Yelren, Lilian Yelren, Nareg Orog and Darion Orog, from Impressions.

Carmen Lopez and Zoe Papadopoulos, from At Your Worst.

Princess Adalaide, King Ian, King Rupert, and King Hunter, from Courtesy and Poise.

Abigail Longfoot, Willow Hastings, Selene Mapleleaf, and The Faren twins, from Crashing the Party.

thank you for linking the original post in your ask!! i'll only include my newer characters in this post, but if you missed part one, just click the link above!!

but anyways, here we go!!

princess adalaide: one very important thing to know about adalaide is that while she knows she's quite a talented burper, she only sees it as something her body seems to do. she doesn't find joy or pleasure in it, but she also doesn't find embarrassment in it either. and since she has complete control over when she burps, she only ever does so when it'll help relieve some discomfort or when she's trying to prove a point of some kind. so, when interacting with everyone, she'll talk and laugh and just enjoy everyone's company, but she won't burp because she doesn't feel the need to. she won't judge all the other women for showing off their skills, but she just won't participate herself. also, she won't interact with conner at all, even though he seems nice enough. sorry, she just really hates men!

kings ian, rupert, and hunter: they wouldn't even last five seconds without being shamed for their weak burps and then laughed out the door.

abigail longfoot: poor girl is terrified out of her mind. again, that day at the frat party was the first time she had ever burped like that before, but to see so many people who burp like that all the time? she's not sure what to make of that? like does that mean she'll start burping like that all the time too?? will she ever be able to just be a normal dwarf ever again?? a part of her thinks she should be comforted to know she's not alone, but she's too busy being stressed.

willow hastings & selene mapleleaf: i lumped them together because they react the same way: hiding in the corner of the room alongside lizzy. they couldn't be more disgusted. abigail tries joining them at one point but they immediately push her away because according to them, she's one of them now.

the faren twins: they can't burp (they were really only joining the contest at the frat party so that they can listen to everyone else burp) but they're in heaven listening to all these amazing burpers. they love thalia and robin especially, but only robin wants anything to do with them. thalia keeps her distance from them. in fact, the only people that interact with them are robin, selena, and willow.

thanks again for the fun ask!!

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In Touch, April 8

Cover: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will name their baby girl after Princess Diana 

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: Who Wore It Better? Elsa Hosk vs. Danielle Campbell, Adriana Lima vs. Dree Hemingway, Morgan Stewart vs. Jasmine Tookes 

Page 4: Down-and-out Tori Spelling rents $13K-a-month house 

Page 5: Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in movie poster for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood don’t look like themselves, Lucy Hale goes brunette, Ben Affleck admits the reaction to his back too hasn’t been positive, Chrissy Teigen tells an onliner that after kids you don’t want to see her in a bikini, there are 432 minutes left of Games of Thrones 

Page 6: Crib of the Week -- Bruce Willis’ Brentwood mansion, find love with Vinny Guadagnino and “Pauly D” DelVecchio, Jenny McCarthy slams Barbara Walters 

Page 8: Stars who give out spoilers -- Sylvester Stallone, Mark Ruffalo, Sophie Turner, Rachel McAdams, Will Smith, Tom Holland, Kate Middleton stealing Lisa Vanderpump’s style 

Page 9: Man Candy of the Week -- Anthony Joshua, Winner of the Week -- Call Me By Your Name fans will be getting a sequel written by Andre Aciman, Loser of the Week -- Ramona Singer forced to aologize after claiming Bethenny Frankel’s late boyfriend Dennis Shields was on drugs before he died 

Page 10: Oh Baby -- Kylie Jenner and daughter Stormi, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian with kids Reign and Saint and Chicago and Penelope and great-grandmother Mary Jo Campbell 

Page 11: Hilary Duff and daughter Banks, Jamie Lynn Spears and Jamie Watson’s daughter Ivey, Jessie James Decker and Eric Decker’s son Forrest turns 1, Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley’s daughter Adalaide turns 7, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Jen Harley’s daughter Ariana turns 1, Paula Patton and Robin Thicke’s son Julian turns 9 

Page 12: Up Close -- Ben Affleck and kids Samuel and Seraphina 

Page 13: Jennifer Lopez, Prince Charles shirtless with wife Camilla, Amy Poehler 

Page 14: Hairy Situations -- Ellen DeGeneres and Olivia Wilde cut Jason Sudeikis’ hair, Channing Tatum goes blond, Nicole Richie, Gilles Marini gets a trim 

Page 16: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers, Busy Philipps and Lisa Rinna, Queer Eye’s Tan France and Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski and Karamo Brown 

Page 18: Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, Rami Malek filming Mr. Robot, Clueless reunion with Alicia Silverstone and Donald Faison and Breckin Meyer and Paul Rudd 

Page 20: Pregnant Amy Schumer on Seth Meyers, Heidi Pratt and Kristin Cavallari, Lupita Nyong’o 

Page 22: The Bachelorette alum Becca Kufrin and fiance Garrett Yrigoyen at Chippendales, Lucy Hale and Zane Holtz filming Katy Keene, Reese Witherspoon and son Tennessee 

Page 24: Willow Smith, Miley Cyrus, Donnie Wahlberg filming Blue Bloods 

Page 25: Ariana Grande 

Page 26: Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph 

Page 28: Kids’ Choice Awards -- Will Smith gets slimed, Chris Pratt gets slimed, Adam Sandler gets slimed, DJ Khaled gets slimed, Frankie Grande 

Page 29: Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin, David Dobrik and Josh Peck and Kiernan Shipka, Taylen Biggs, Jojo Siwa, Jennifer Hudson, Lana Condor and Noah Centineo 

Page 30: Cover Story -- Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s moving tribute to Princess Diana

Page 34: College Admissions Scandal -- Lori Loughlin’s daughter who lost sponsorships is blaming her parents and others of making her life hell and thinks everyone is just jealous 

Page 35: Felicity Huffman’s daughter Sophia is mortified by the scandal and loves school and feels she didn’t do anything wrong 

Page 36: Jessica Simpson’s baby joy over daughter Birdie Mae Johnson 

Page 38: Gwen Stefani tells Blake Shelton she can’t marry him until she gets her marriage to Gavin Rossdale annulled by the Catholic Church 

Page 40: Lady Gaga’s hot new romance with Jeremy Renner 

Page 41: The truth behind Wendy Williams’ relapse, Selena Gomez dating a mystery man, Star Sightings -- Annalynne McCord, Cuba Gooding Jr.,Agnez Mo, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Casey Madden and Theresa Travis, Blind Item 

Page 42: Jennifer Lopez wants a cheating clause in her prenup with Alex Rodriguez, Hailey Baldwin and Justin Bieber fighting because he won’t wear his wedding ring 

Page 46: Julianne Hough on her marriage and big career news 

Page 48: Their Best Summer Bodies -- Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Hurley, Julianne Hough, Halle Berry

Page 50: Fashion Radar -- Ashley Graham is a bold beauty 

Page 54: Beauty -- Add flair to hair -- Dakota Fanning, Lupita Nyong’o, Kendall Jenner 

Page 55: Jenna Ortega, Camila Mendes, Alexa Chung 

Page 56: Did I Really Do That? Eva Green, Drake Bell, Lauren Ash 

Page 58: Sneak Preview -- Keeping Up With the Kardashians 

Page 60: What Team Are You On? Chad Johnson 

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Page 72: Last Laughs

[heavyarethecrowns]

Who are your favorite princesses?

When you say Princess, do you mean born as Princess or married in too? Also do you mean those who have that title or just a royal of any title?

I will do a mix of both and hope that is OK, in no order and both past and present.

I will put in bold my extra favourites because I know already it will be a long list.

Sophie, The Countess of Wessex 

Queen Paola

Queen Mother 

Queen Maxima

Queen Marie of Romania

Queen Letizia

Queen Jetsun Pema

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Charlotte 

Queen Alexandra

Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, The Countess of Harewood

Princess Martha Louise

Princess Marie

Princess Margaret

Princess Madeleine

Princess Haya

Princess Beatrice

Princess Eugenie

Princess Claire of Luxembourg

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

Princess Ameerah al-Taweel

Princess Alice of Battenberg later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark

Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Princess Alice, The Duchess of Gloucester

Katherine, The Duchess of Kent

Birgitte, The Duchess of Gloucester 

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians

Queen Adalaide

Beatrice Borromeo

Queen Camilla

Empress Matilda

Queen Mary

Queen Rania

Lady Gabriella Windsor

Queen Sonja

Lady Sarah Chatto

[iamunsureatthemo]

BIRTH NAME: Princess Adelaide

KNOWN AS: N/A

ALIASES/NICKNAMES: Adel

TITLES: Princess of Charmington.

KINGDOM: The original name for the Kingdom of Snow White has been lost, once it joined the United States of Auradon is became known as Charmington.

FACECLAIM: Daisy Ridley

FATHER: Prince Florian

MOTHER: Snow White

SPOUSE/PARTNER: Single

SIBLINGS: Prince Ferdinand

THE ISLE: She openly opposes the Isle of the Lost, she is also not afraid to vocalize her belief to those who hear her. She believes the actions taken make them just as bad as those they have condemned, people who may just need a redemption.

MAGIC: Adelaide does not have a complete understanding of magic, but she doesn’t believe those who do not use it should have a complete and total say on the matter.

Some say apples do not fall far from the tree, however, for Adelaide, some question how she could be her mother’s daughter. Everything started from the day she was born, Snow White fell into early labour and many feared for the life of the Queen and her unborn child. After a long labour, finally the young Princess was born and she was taken swiftly under the wing of one of the nurses who had been hired to assist in raising her.

As second-born this meant her parent’s focus was normally upon her elder brother, this left her to view things from a distance and see things that others often missed; work conditions for those who worked within the Castle, the lives of those who lived outside, the unhappiness that had started to grow the older she got. It soon became a tradition that Adalaide would often sneak out from the Castle, or within the areas deemed as “the servant quarters”.

When she was finally given the freedom to attend Auradon, it was soon clear she was not just going to sit quietly by and not questions. Outspoken and opinioned, she often finds herself in trouble with those who are strict to the rules. To many, she is a bit of an outsider, but she’ll always fight for the “side-kicks” and those who are suffering under the current policies of Auradon.

[themusesoffantasy]

BIRTH NAME: Princess Adelaide

KNOWN AS: N/A

ALIASES/NICKNAMES: Adel

TITLES: Princess of Charmington.

KINGDOM: The original name for the Kingdom of Snow White has been lost, once it joined the United States of Auradon is became known as Charmington.

FACECLAIM: Daisy Ridley

FATHER: Prince Florian

MOTHER: Snow White

SPOUSE/PARTNER: Single

SIBLINGS: Prince Ferdinand

THE ISLE: She openly opposes the Isle of the Lost, she is also not afraid to vocalize her belief to those who hear her. She believes the actions taken make them just as bad as those they have condemned, people who may just need a redemption.

MAGIC: Adelaide does not have a complete understanding of magic, but she doesn’t believe those who do not use it should have a complete and total say on the matter.

Some say apples do not fall far from the tree, however, for Adelaide, some question how she could be her mother’s daughter. Everything started from the day she was born, Snow White fell into early labour and many feared for the life of the Queen and her unborn child. After a long labour, finally the young Princess was born and she was taken swiftly under the wing of one of the nurses who had been hired to assist in raising her.

As second-born this meant her parent's focus was normally upon her elder brother, this left her to view things from a distance and see things that others often missed; work conditions for those who worked within the Castle, the lives of those who lived outside, the unhappiness that had started to grow the older she got. It soon became a tradition that Adalaide would often sneak out from the Castle, or within the areas deemed as “the servant quarters”.

When she was finally given the freedom to attend Auradon, it was soon clear she was not just going to sit quietly by and not questions. Outspoken and opinioned, she often finds herself in trouble with those who are strict to the rules. To many, she is a bit of an outsider, but she’ll always fight for the “side-kicks” and those who are suffering under the current policies of Auradon.

[plaidconvers]

Kingdom of stars

A/N: Hello kiddos! This is my first story (posted anyways) so if you guys could give me feedback that would be amazing. This isn't based on characters it's solely just a story of two people I made up. So yee, I really hope you enjoy. Feel free to dm me requests :)

Word count: 1322

Summary: A rather harsh prince finds a change of tone. He meets a wonderful person and falls in love. 

Warnings: I think there's like, two cuss words? Idk enjoy kiddos :) Possible errors because well, I’m a ballsy hoe ;)

He was a hard looking prince. Rarely smiling while out in public. Always had a stern look plastered onto his face. When he gave an order to either the servants or to someone within the royal court, it was always hard, stern, and borderline barked at them. No one in the public dared make the young prince angry. Some even went as far as to not even look at the young prince. 

Behind closed doors oh his bedroom, he was a different person. All the hardness was stripped away. The young prince was happy. He smiled. He laughed (although soft enough so no one were to hear). He was replaced with such a kinder, soft-hearted version of the hardened prince. No one was to know of his smiles and laughs. No one was to hear his kind questions and orders to the servants. This was all due to the exchanging of letters to another kingdom. 

As the days progressed, so did the prince's attitude. He became more soft to the public. They saw him smile, something that never happened before. His words were kind to the servants and the royal court. He even talked to the town's people. This shocked everyone. The king and queen were absolutely delighted. And no one questioned why he changed. 

The day came for the prince to either betrothed someone or be betrothed. The prince was uninterested in the princesses and queens that were presented to him at the ball. It's not that they weren't beautiful or anything like that, it's just that the prince had an unacceptable secret, he did not want a princess. The town's people, his parents, servants, and the royal court had not even the slightest idea of the prince's interests. 

 "Darling, would you please at least talk to one of the suitors?" The queen asked her son. She was starting to get worried. He was doing so well showing his emotions and being kind, now he seemed turned off to the guest. 

 "Okay, mother." Was the only reply out of the prince's mouth. He got up and greeted one of the princesses, "Hello." he said, sounding extremely awkward. 

"Hello." She said with an obnoxious giggle. 

The prince just smiled and continued to walk around the ballroom greeting his guests. He wasn’t interested in keeping a conversation with his guests, he was on the lookout for the person on the other end of the letters. After walking around and greeting the guests with a smile the town had come to love, he saw a handsome figure standing in the corner. 

"This could be him." the prince said under his breathe. Those letters he had been writing to the other kingdom had been to a prince named George. He had been happy writing to George. Every word was meaningful an happy. There was never trouble, except when George wanted to meet. As the young prince approached George he began to feel nervous, something he never felt.

 "H-hello," the young prince said nervously. He could feel his heart beating in his chest and his hands fidgeting at his side. 

"Hello, your highness," George said with a tender smile jumping onto his face. 

The prince extended his hand, "You can call me James." The prince said as George took his hand. A moment of realization shadowed Georges' face. This was the boy from the millions of letters. As quickly as the realization appeared it was washed away with a bright smile that reached his eyes. He had found his James.

"James." George breathed. 

"George," James said in a delighted tone. It took both the boys every ounce of them not to pull one another into a hug. The boys were absolutely delighted to finally meet one another in person rather than through letters. James was supposed to be sending letters to an Adalaid, but George got the letters instead and that lead to the two princes sending letter after letter to each other. 

"Finally, we meet and at the most unexpected time," James said to George. It wasn't unusual for George to be there, after all, all the kingdoms were invited. 

"I'm glad I came them. I wouldn't want to miss you for the world,"

 The rest of the evening the boys talked. About kingdoms, books, about leaving the kingdoms behind and living their own lives. 

Later that night the boys snuck off into the gardens. The two princes layed in the grass and gazed up at the night sky. Thousands of stars shimmered in the sky. As George stared up into the sky, James looked at him with tenderness and adoration. 

"Let's run away," James said into the night. 

"Why?" George questioned. 

"So we can be together," James said with hope lacing his words. This surprised George out of his thoughtful gaze towards the stars as he rolled over to look James in the eyes. Had he heard him correctly? Did he want to be with him? 

"You want to be with me?" George asked uncertain had heard the boy beside him correctly. 

"Of course I do dummy. Since the hundred-and-first letter," James said in a soft and embarrassed tone with a hint of timidness.

So many things raced through Georges' head. What would the kingdoms think? Hell, what would his parents think? 

"What about the princesses and queens that you met today? I thought you had to marry?" George inquired.

 "Fuck them. I don't want them. I'm not interested in them." James said rolling onto his back and staring up into the stars. George was stunned into silence. Not interested in them? Then it clicked in his mind. 

"Oh." George breathed into the darkness. How could he be so dense? James was practically screaming what he meant. He liked him. Him! Of all the people he could have, he chose to want him. 

"Ya," James said in a thick voice. He felt as if he could cry. This boy laying next to him was all he wanted. He didn't want a princess or a queen. He wanted George. All those letters filled with love and compassion. All those long letters about finding the right person. He tried his best to hint at it but George never followed along. 

"If you don't feel the same, it's fine," James said with tears filling his eyes. "Just promise not to tell anyone," he said as the tears spilled over his cheeks. How could he be so stupid? Wanting a boy? Why did he have to want him? Why couldn't I keep my mouth shut? Tears were falling down his cheeks like mini waterfalls. 

"Hey," George said rolling over to James' side. He cupped the boys face in his hands and brushed his tears with his thumbs. His skin was soft to the touch and glistened with tears in the moon light.

"You don't need to cry because I feel the same about you," George said with love bubbling into his words. A new feeling bubbled into his chest. It scared him but he welcomed it just he welcomed James. 

“I'm stupid," James cried into the space between him and George. 

“For what?” George questioned

“For wanting a boy,” James cried sobbed

“Then that makes me stupid too,” George said realizing the gap between them

The gap soon closed as George pressed his lips to James'. He closed his eyes and just reveled in the feeling. James kissed him back. The two pulled back and stared at one another. 

"Let's run away James," George said to James with a sweet smile painted on his face. He kissed James again. This was better than any queen or princess. 

The next morning there would be a kingdom-wide search for the missing princes. Little did they know that the boys were never going to be found, for they had left earlier that morning. James' mother would go into his room and find a note. 

"Dearest mother and father, 

I'm sorry to say that I have left. Don't bother looking for me because I don't want to be found. I ran away with Prince George and we won't be returning home. Don't worry though mother we are happy and in love. 

Your Son, 

James” 

His mother would cry, not only for her lost son but out of happiness. Her son had found something that made him happy. Someone that made him feel love after so long.

[illusionsoffantasy]

Let it be known that Princess Adalaide will fight for side-kick rights, fight to right-wrongs and call out those who need to be (King Beast, her own Mother, etc). There has been plenty of times that she and her mother, Snow White, have clashed and she refuses to back down when this happens.

[emoticonheart]

Do you have any burping headcanons for your newer original characters? Like, what their belches sound or smell like, how frequently each person burps, what their reactions to their own and others’ belches are, and who is the horniest for being burped on, if any?

Carmen Lopez and Zoe Papadopoulos, from At Your Worst.

Princess Adalaide, King Ian, King Rupert, and King Hunter, from Courtesy and Poise.

Nareg Orog and Darion Orog, from Impressions.

Abigail Longfoot and The Faren twins, from Crashing the Party.

You may also give more burping headcanons for your older characters again.

Robin O’Connery and Arrach from Stolen Crown.

Princess Addison Bloomington from What You Find Along the Way.

Sierra Watson and Conner Eve, from The Universe Chose You, so I Will Too.

Rick “IckyRicky”, Ashley “Flexsteel” Fox, and Lily Alonto, from Flexsteel and IckyRicky.

Meira Yelren and Thalia Orog, from Impressions.

okay!! i'll answer what i can/what i'm comfortable with!!

carmen lopez (at your worst): carmen is an exception to my usual ocs because she's not usually burpy/gassy. she's very well mannered in that sense. the events in the story were very much an exception for her (and an embarrassing exception at that). but i mean when she does burp out loud (which is almost never. unless she physically can't, all her burps will be a muffled, closed mouth burp) it's not bad. she's definitely not exceptional at burping, especially compared to all my other ocs, but her burps certainly aren't weak either. but she'd rather die then let anyone know that.

zoe popadopoulos (at your worst): the events of the story were out of the norm for zoe too, but for completely different reasons. since she's an angel, she's not usually able to burp. like her body is perfected and therefore doesn't need to release excess air like that. the only reason she was so gassy that night was because she was taking some of the discomfort from carmen, which inevitably made her just as gassy as carmen. but unlike carmen, she actually really enjoyed herself. it wasn't often her body got to make all those sounds, so she was reveling in it while she could. in fact, there were times she had to physically cut off the burp she was letting out because she didn't want carmen to get suspicious of how long they were getting. but if it were up to carmen though, she would've let those burps keep going on and on and on and on and... you get it.

princess adalaide (courtesy and poise): adalaide is a princess, and she takes that position seriously. she was taught manners and poise from the moment she left the womb, and it is very important to her that she maintains that regal image. however, she was also born with an inate ability to belch with more force than should be possible for any human at all, let alone a human as small and fragile as her. however, unlike most, if not all, of my other ocs, she has complete control over her burps. she only burps when she wants to. and she usually never does. after all, princesses don't burp. it's unbecoming! but in some very rare instances, her abilities are necessary. and trust me, her burps leave an impression every time.

king ian, king rupert & king hunter (courtesy and poise): big, burly, and immature men with big, burly, and immature burps. they can only burp after eating/drinking something, so their burps are usually very wet and gurgly.

nareg orog (impressions): while she's nowhere near thalia's level of... everything involving burps, she's definitely a talented burper herself. as an ogre, it's just in their biology to let loose with burps that shake the earth, and she's not shy about it either! in fact, one of the orog family's traditions is a mother-daughter burping contest at the end of every meal. every meal. narag's burps are especially chunky, like pebbles are rattling around in her stomach. it's one of the things she's most proud of, since it makes her burps so unique!

darion orog (impressions): darion wasn't much of a burper until he met narag. darion was head over heels for narag the moment he laid eyes on her, and her constant burping didn't change it one bit. in fact, he found himself burping more and more as a way to impress her. while he doesn't go around burping all the time like his wife and daughter, when he does let one out, he does so without shame. the thing that makes darion's burps so unique is how deep they are. being part giant, it just kinda came with the territory. but yeah i cannot emphasize how deep his burps are. no one in my lineup of ocs can come even close to his bass.

abigail longfoot (crashing the party): i'm not gonna lie i'm still trying to come up with an explanation as to why she was able to burp the way she did that night. i will say though that like carmen, this was definitely out of the ordinary for her. she had never burped like that before, and i'm still trying to decide if she'll be able to do it again. so... maybe i'll get back to you on this.

the faren twins (crashing the party): they're average burpers themselves at best but they don't mind. they're much more interested in hearing others burp anyway...

hope this answered your question!! if it didn't please lmk and i'll try again!! thanks!!