*For some of you, this garden has been home for years beyond years. For others, it has been home only for a few generations. And for two, it is not yet even home. This is the garden of the Rashaan family, one with fey blood running through their veins, unwitting guardians of the last bastions of ancient fey power.*
The Manor House of the Rashaan family
Rashaan Formal Garden - Here is the more formal part of the garden, the one most of the visitors see.
Enchanted Garden - But here is your garden, the half-wild place of wildflowers, mushrooms, streams, and statues, where the children love to play. Behind it is the entrance to the graveyard where the Rashaan ancestors lay buried. A small stone chapel lies within. One of the ancient trees in the graveyard is the home of an equally ancient dryad, whose wisdom is now in the Rashaan's care. Many spirits haunt the graveyard, many benign, but some not so much.
Your duties are to protect the Rashaan family from being corrupted by evil, and to protect their children from harm. The three daughters of House Rashaan are eleven year-old Katherine (left), a bright and happy child who still whole-heartedly believes in fairies (she is at a time of testing, being on the cusp of womanhood), Layla (middle), a beautiful and talented sixteen-year-old and already courting a noble son of House Yildre (she is every inch a lady), and Ida (right) a skilled weaver and tapestry-maker, this fifteen-year-old has several offers of marriage already.
The youngest member of the family, Titian, is eight years old, and the only son of House Rashaan. A boy given to daydreaming more than study, he is constantly chased by his tutors and nannies to get back to his duties. He often successfully hides with Katherine in the garden or the graveyard.
The Lord and Lady of the House are quite happily in love together. Lady Felada Rashaan is an elegant woman with a talent for growing things. Her garden is her greatest pleasure. Her husband Lord Esador Rashaan (formerly of House Kelvaris) is a skilled courtier and renouned duelist.
Today is a fine spring day, a cool and misty morning. The sun is just turning the clouds over the garden pink...
[You guys can just bump around and talk to each other while other people are finalizing their characters.]
Here's a great picture of a fairy ring, just for mood...Fairy Ring (on Midsummer's Eve)
The Manor House of the Rashaan family
Rashaan Formal Garden - Here is the more formal part of the garden, the one most of the visitors see.
Enchanted Garden - But here is your garden, the half-wild place of wildflowers, mushrooms, streams, and statues, where the children love to play. Behind it is the entrance to the graveyard where the Rashaan ancestors lay buried. A small stone chapel lies within. One of the ancient trees in the graveyard is the home of an equally ancient dryad, whose wisdom is now in the Rashaan's care. Many spirits haunt the graveyard, many benign, but some not so much.
Your duties are to protect the Rashaan family from being corrupted by evil, and to protect their children from harm. The three daughters of House Rashaan are eleven year-old Katherine (left), a bright and happy child who still whole-heartedly believes in fairies (she is at a time of testing, being on the cusp of womanhood), Layla (middle), a beautiful and talented sixteen-year-old and already courting a noble son of House Yildre (she is every inch a lady), and Ida (right) a skilled weaver and tapestry-maker, this fifteen-year-old has several offers of marriage already.
The youngest member of the family, Titian, is eight years old, and the only son of House Rashaan. A boy given to daydreaming more than study, he is constantly chased by his tutors and nannies to get back to his duties. He often successfully hides with Katherine in the garden or the graveyard.
The Lord and Lady of the House are quite happily in love together. Lady Felada Rashaan is an elegant woman with a talent for growing things. Her garden is her greatest pleasure. Her husband Lord Esador Rashaan (formerly of House Kelvaris) is a skilled courtier and renouned duelist.
Today is a fine spring day, a cool and misty morning. The sun is just turning the clouds over the garden pink...
[You guys can just bump around and talk to each other while other people are finalizing their characters.]
Here's a great picture of a fairy ring, just for mood...Fairy Ring (on Midsummer's Eve)
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