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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3155424" data-attributes="member: 7280">Janis ir'SandalSlightly Unhinged PatriotBackground"Golden Cyre, Cyre of my youth, my homeland, my mother and father, is no more. Let the rejoicing begin. Long live Cyre.Let me explain. We who once held the world in our hands still clasp it. Like children, culture is an ideal, a concept. It transcends boundaries, and a people unbowed are still a people triumphant.I believe this, because it is true.The line of Wyngarn stumbles along as a parasite in Breland's side, but the soul of Cyre remains in its people. I will not let it die. I will not let it falter. I will reclaim my birthright by transformation and example without bitterness or malice. I will avenge the slain by embracing the next generation, the new, and sweep the past aside by establishing a shining future.I will do this, because necessity claims it.No one shall stand in my way in any stead, not if I must write it upon the heavens with my own blood and the blood of those who oppose me. Cyre lives as Cyran hearts beat, as those who would cherish the true heritage of Galifar admire. Cyre, the land, has died; the better to show Cyrans of good grace their true path to reclaiming Khorvaire for Cyre. The Purple Jewel of Galifar yet shines, and shall shine forever.I promise this. Let none doubt me."    Notes from her private journalThe Sandal family was long a member of the political opposition party of the House of Wyngarn in Cyre, fostering dissidents and socially progressive legislature over the years that always seemed to be just a few years too soon for the adoption by the crown. As such it maintained much support among the common people of Cyre even through the war, and that and its notoriety in the arts and arcane research did much to blunt any possibility of real reprisal from the crown. So entrenched in Cyran politics were the Sandal family that they began to conceive of a rather more expansive interpretation of their "duties" and very discretely began to plot against the crown in rebellion.Unfortunately for them, the Sandal plots were discovered by Cyran agents and instead of a more severe punishment, many chose to enlist to serve in the Cyran army, to casually venture to far away provinces of the world such as Xen'drik, and in Jannis ir'Sandal's case to work her way across the borders into Breland where she arrived only a few months before the Day of Mourning.Jannis spent her requisite days of shock and horror along with the rest of the Cyran expatriates, and then she began to compensate. Jannis decided that her most worthy goal was to remake a Cyre such as Cyre always was to her, but her political inclinations and upbringing couldn't bring her to participate in the machinations of Prince Oargev in Breland fully, a fact which she voiced to the wrong people at the wrong time. This proved to be a mistake, and Jannis found herself once again fleeing the reach of House Wyngarn, this time to parts unknown.Primary RoleJannis shall be a primary arcane caster (Wizard), leaning heavily upon some choice reserve feats (because I think they're awesome). If Unearthed Arcana was just left off the list of sources accidentally, she'll also be a Human Paragon (full progression) because I think it would aptly reflect her "lead by example" New Cyran ideal.Quirks/Abilities/Justification/Personality CuesShe loves her country and the idea of Cyre, but she distrusts other Cyrans to some degree since she's been burned rather heavily in the past by Cyran politics. These days she's much more reticent about voicing her opinions on Cyre and the world in general, simply as a measure of self-defense. Secretly she's voraciously power-hungry though, because she sees power as a means of imposing her ideals of right and wrong upon the world, to bring back Cyre in all of its former glory - by any means necessary.She's going to have reserve feats showcasing her "different" Cyran magic, and some rather odd ranks in "aristocratic" skills if I can manage it. I think she'll shy away from metamagics and item creation feats for the most part though, because they're not particularly the sorts of things I expect a Cyran dilettante to automatically specialize in.</blockquote>

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