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Gender: Female Age: 27 Race: Elezen (Duskwight) Main Job: Dark Knight Server: Aether (Sargatanas) A woman from Limsa Lominsa whose frequent silence belies a sharp mind and a sharper tongue. The weight of her failures and anger-driven mistakes sits heavy on her shoulders, but ever she carries on. For those she has lost, and for those she can yet save. Current thru 6.1 |
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Heavensward+Stormblood
Date: 2022-07-15 05:00 am (UTC)Heavensward and Stormblood
Learning the truth of the Dragonsong War was a wakeup call for her. Having very little prior knowledge of the conflict, she saw things with the clarity that comes from a lack of pre-existing biases. What she saw was a thousand year long tragedy born of a bloodthirsty vengeance not unlike the one she continued to take on Garleans even after the death of the woman ultimately responsible for her pain. Her resolution to be more forgiving encountered a stumbling block, however, in the form of her lover's death, and she took up his sword for the sake of enacting bloody vengeance against Thordan and the Heaven's Ward, despite the struggle of adapting to heavy armor when she was used to leathers at the most cumbersome.
With Thordan dead and Ishgard rebuilding, Aelienor decided that the best way to honor Haurchefant's memory would be to contribute to the restoration efforts. Thus, she put her natural dexterity to work, weaving work clothes, tarps, and furniture coverings. Her childhood angling lessons also found use, putting food in the distressingly not-picky bellies of the Ishgardian people.
All was not fully quiet during the restoration, however. The corruption in the ranks of the Temple Knights went further than the Heaven's Ward, and taking the job stone from the corpse of a Dark Knight slain in a sham trial by combat under accusations of heresy led to her learning to channel her rage into protecting the helpless, rather than lashing out in blind aggression. While the path of the Paladin had proven to be a poor fit for her, drawing on the Abyss came naturally in a way entirely separate from her quick skill in archery and skuldiggery.
Despite her overall distrust of the Temple Knights, she had developed a fondness for Aymeric from when Haurchefant had introduced them. She gladly accepted his invitation to dinner, and even dressed up for once for the occasion, though she found herself tensing as a servant handled drinks, painful memories of Nanamo's assassination and her own recent experience with drugged ale leaving her distrustful. Though it was something wholly unrelated that interrupted the otherwise pleasant meal, she remained uncomfortable accepting drinks other than water from a source she didn't completely trust.
When the conflict between Ala Mhigo and Garlemald resurged with a horrific vengeance, she was perhaps a little two quick to agree to intervene. Having now lost Ysayle and Minfilia, on top of Haurchefant, she began throwing herself bodily into her work as a Scion, determined to both carry forward the hopes and dreams of the lost and to escape her own pain by moving constantly forward. Proving powerless to stop Papalymo's sacrifice, followed by a humiliating defeat and acquisition of multiple scars at the hands of Zenos exacerbated her growing recklessness, culminating in her going along with Yugiri's ill-planned assassination scheme in Doma.
By the time she confronted the Garlean prince in Ala Mhigo, her hatred had reached a boiling point, only worsened by his shallow understanding of her and inability to grasp what made them different. She stubbornly rejected his overtures of friendship, and found herself unable to enjoy her victory, as it only gave him what he wanted. Ultimately, she took satisfaction in the fact that it was over, and that Zenos would never cause problems for anyone again.
When Scions started passing out one by one, their souls apparently ripped from their bodies, she was understandably scared, particularly as she didn't have the first clue how to help them. Alisaie's fear mirrored her own, and the two attempted to reassure each other, having grown close during their adventures in the Far East. When the twins also succumbed to the strange affliction, she was at a loss…particularly as she considered the reappearance of Gaius Baelsar to be yet another cause for concern.
Elidibus taking Zenos' corpse for a vessel and using it to manipulate Garlean politics was definitely a cause for concern, but not being politically minded, there wasn't much she could do about it until the peace conference. Though she disliked Varis, she advocated for listening to his side of the story, adamant that fighting without understanding their enemy would just lead to unnecessary bloodshed. What she wasn't prepared for was finding out that Varis already knew about Ascian involvement in Garlemald, and meant to beat them at their own game.