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<blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 568495" data-attributes="member: 630"><p>Rest assured, Nasma, I don't plan on stopping...</p><p></p><p>And now, a brief bio for...</p><p></p><p><strong>REGENT ALYSSA QUIRINIUS, THE LADY OF STEEL</strong></p><p></p><p>Alyssa Quirinius was born Alyssa Cordova in the city of Graes. A beautiful woman of Rus blood, Alyssa eked a living in the Seven City-States as a dancer, traveling with her performance troupe across the Aguire. Her life was that of a hundred dancing girls--until she was brought before Corneilius Quirinius.</p><p></p><p>Corneilius was the last great hope of the Quirinius family. His father and two brothers were dead--one in a duel with Marcus Aventinius, one to the Murkenmire, and the third to a drunken fall off a horse. His grandfather Cinnus was still head of the house, but this was widely agreed to be a temporary situation, seeing as Cinnus was pushing 97, bedridden, and expected to die within a year. With his death, the position of head would fall to Corneilius, or his uncle Marcellus, a dour man with a tendency to spend his days pouring over religious doctrines, and minueta. It would be a difficult position, and would require a man with a great deal of dedication to restoring the fortunes of a weakening house.</p><p></p><p>However, none of this bothered Corneilius who spent his days drinking and whoring, passing the time in a haze of alcohol and dancing girls. And then he met Alyssa, and was so smitten, he did the natural thing.</p><p></p><p>He married her.</p><p></p><p>The result was of course, simple. Cinnus banished him from the family mansion, proclaimed Marcellus the heir, leaving the pair to live on Corneilius's (largely deleted) personal fortune, and expectations. It looked as if the pair were to suffer the fate of many discarded nobles in the City of Thieves--poverty, followed by death. But fate often favors a fool, it seems--Marcellus had a sickly constitution, and a talent for offending people, and so when he was found one day in his study slumped dead over a book of hymns, no one was particularly surprised. After revivication failed, Cinnus immediately declared Marcellus's son Alcybad heir--unfortunately, Alcybad had a tendency to sleep with others men's wives, daughters, and mistresses, and was killed by the Skeletal Hand assassin Nightrose one dusky night. </p><p></p><p>With that done, the only remaining male heirs on Marcellus's side were respectively 5, and 2 years old. There was a 16 year old child, but she was a girl, and in House Quirinius's eyes, that was not acceptable. And there were some distant cousins who were enjoying the hospitality of the Illius family in Talossa after siding with the Midacci during Azerai invasion, which made them even less eligible than the girl. With such grim prospects, Cinnus swallowed his pride, and invited Corneilius and Alyssa to the mansion.</p><p></p><p>The meeting was a rolicking success. Alyssa charmed Cinnus as she had Corneilius, and so Corneilius found himself his grandfather's heir. It was a fortunate occurence, as Cinnus died two months later, and had Corneilius not been the heir, a great deal of dynastic confusion would have begun.</p><p></p><p>As head of the Quirinius family, and with a brilliant, strong-willed charming wife, Corneilius set out to win the position of Primus. He and Alyssa made numerous friends among the Advisory Council, became wildly popular with the folk, and when the election came around, the Advisory Council handed the Primacy to the Quirini.</p><p></p><p>Corneilius alas, did not get much a chance to enjoy this--a constitution undermined by years of hard living quickly led to him falling prey to illness, and dying. His young son Timon was named his heir, and Alyssa Quirinius was Regent.</p><p></p><p>Alyssa was in a difficult situation. An upjumped commoner, she would have to face the ire of the Five Families, some of the oldest, most dangerous aristocrats in the Aguire.</p><p></p><p>She suceeded beautifully, allying with the Merchants' Emporium to keep the Families in check, using the Families to rein in the Emporium, and creating her own private army of soldiers to make sure neither tried to take her on. In a short time, all of Seilen knew that the lady Alyssa was no one to be trifled with.</p><p></p><p>In the time since then, she has earned the nickname "the Lady of Steel" for she is as hard as metal, and about as cold. Her justice is swift, her rule steady. She is good friends with Archsexton Astur Vermis--very good friends, some gossips insist. She is perhaps the most powerful individual in Seilen. </p><p></p><p>But a very careful one...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rhialto, post: 568495, member: 630"] Rest assured, Nasma, I don't plan on stopping... And now, a brief bio for... [b]REGENT ALYSSA QUIRINIUS, THE LADY OF STEEL[/B] Alyssa Quirinius was born Alyssa Cordova in the city of Graes. A beautiful woman of Rus blood, Alyssa eked a living in the Seven City-States as a dancer, traveling with her performance troupe across the Aguire. Her life was that of a hundred dancing girls--until she was brought before Corneilius Quirinius. Corneilius was the last great hope of the Quirinius family. His father and two brothers were dead--one in a duel with Marcus Aventinius, one to the Murkenmire, and the third to a drunken fall off a horse. His grandfather Cinnus was still head of the house, but this was widely agreed to be a temporary situation, seeing as Cinnus was pushing 97, bedridden, and expected to die within a year. With his death, the position of head would fall to Corneilius, or his uncle Marcellus, a dour man with a tendency to spend his days pouring over religious doctrines, and minueta. It would be a difficult position, and would require a man with a great deal of dedication to restoring the fortunes of a weakening house. However, none of this bothered Corneilius who spent his days drinking and whoring, passing the time in a haze of alcohol and dancing girls. And then he met Alyssa, and was so smitten, he did the natural thing. He married her. The result was of course, simple. Cinnus banished him from the family mansion, proclaimed Marcellus the heir, leaving the pair to live on Corneilius's (largely deleted) personal fortune, and expectations. It looked as if the pair were to suffer the fate of many discarded nobles in the City of Thieves--poverty, followed by death. But fate often favors a fool, it seems--Marcellus had a sickly constitution, and a talent for offending people, and so when he was found one day in his study slumped dead over a book of hymns, no one was particularly surprised. After revivication failed, Cinnus immediately declared Marcellus's son Alcybad heir--unfortunately, Alcybad had a tendency to sleep with others men's wives, daughters, and mistresses, and was killed by the Skeletal Hand assassin Nightrose one dusky night. With that done, the only remaining male heirs on Marcellus's side were respectively 5, and 2 years old. There was a 16 year old child, but she was a girl, and in House Quirinius's eyes, that was not acceptable. And there were some distant cousins who were enjoying the hospitality of the Illius family in Talossa after siding with the Midacci during Azerai invasion, which made them even less eligible than the girl. With such grim prospects, Cinnus swallowed his pride, and invited Corneilius and Alyssa to the mansion. The meeting was a rolicking success. Alyssa charmed Cinnus as she had Corneilius, and so Corneilius found himself his grandfather's heir. It was a fortunate occurence, as Cinnus died two months later, and had Corneilius not been the heir, a great deal of dynastic confusion would have begun. As head of the Quirinius family, and with a brilliant, strong-willed charming wife, Corneilius set out to win the position of Primus. He and Alyssa made numerous friends among the Advisory Council, became wildly popular with the folk, and when the election came around, the Advisory Council handed the Primacy to the Quirini. Corneilius alas, did not get much a chance to enjoy this--a constitution undermined by years of hard living quickly led to him falling prey to illness, and dying. His young son Timon was named his heir, and Alyssa Quirinius was Regent. Alyssa was in a difficult situation. An upjumped commoner, she would have to face the ire of the Five Families, some of the oldest, most dangerous aristocrats in the Aguire. She suceeded beautifully, allying with the Merchants' Emporium to keep the Families in check, using the Families to rein in the Emporium, and creating her own private army of soldiers to make sure neither tried to take her on. In a short time, all of Seilen knew that the lady Alyssa was no one to be trifled with. In the time since then, she has earned the nickname "the Lady of Steel" for she is as hard as metal, and about as cold. Her justice is swift, her rule steady. She is good friends with Archsexton Astur Vermis--very good friends, some gossips insist. She is perhaps the most powerful individual in Seilen. But a very careful one... [/QUOTE]
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