All Are Hydaelyn's Children

• Priest

• Bard

• Seer

• 🔒 Goldsmith

• 🔒 Wanderer

• 🔒 Hunter

• 🔒 Surgeon

I will always, always
gladly take:

✔️ Well-crafted lore headcanons to compliment grey spaces around Hydaelyn

✔️ Strictly lore-abiding designs

Things I enjoy tremendously but that need to be discussed:

❔ Explicit and/or sensitive themes (sex, gore, abuse, violence, etc.)

❔ Powerful characters

Yes to:

✔️ Being enthusiastic and confident about role-play!

✔️ Being upfront about OOC wants for the narrative!

✔️ Asking for consent **consistently **together!

✔️ Sharing ideas consistently together!

No to:

❌ Pressuring partners for game time, directly or indirectly!

❌ Being opaque about narrative wants and dislikes!

❌ Leaving one partner to deal with planning and plot!

❌ Forgetting role-play is just collaborative writing!

❌ Negativeposting about how much you suck!

Nathaniel

« Adventure comes to mind, to the lot of them. I only see war. I would not want them to wake up and think I cheated them the day we suffer great losses. Great losses no 'scholarly expedition' should have been living through. I want them safe. So I will try them. Again. And again. And again. Until the reasonable leave, and the fools remain. »

— Nathaniel to Valeriaux, during the Voyage's campaign.

Name: Nathaniel Witchfire, of Salem (born Hakim Ahsan)
Ethnicity: Hyuran (Half-highlander, half-midlander)
Age: Early 40s
Nameday: 28th Sun of the Fifth Umbral Moon (10/28)
Nationality: Ul'dahn
Occupation: Priest of Nald'thal

Nathaniel of Salem, also referred to as Father Salem, is a highly-competent sorcerer and alchemist coming from a long line of priests. Firm and strict, Nathaniel’s Royalist tendencies are known throughout most of Ul’dah and within the Order of Nald'thal itself.His constant success in prosecuting the powerful and the corrupt has left him with a few enemies within Thanalan's high spheres, but his work is acknowledged as holy by common men. His methods divide public opinion: if he is regarded as a saint by some, others seem certain there is a variety of vices practiced behind closed doors.

Known Proficiencies: Tutelage, Rhetorics, Sorcery, Enchantments, Theology, Aetherochemistry, Ul'dahn History, Cursebreaking, Exorcism, Swordsmanship.

Offered Threads
(Willing to provide)

📖 Student of the Ossuary or Phrontistery. Perhaps you enjoy the man's lectures more than you thought you would, and are in need of personal help for a project.

🏺 In need of his skillset, no gil to offer. Nothing's free in Ul'dah, but the character heard Nathaniel may provide help within Thanalan for about any situation without asking for anything in return, and has helped many others through such a process. A deal with the devil, according to some.

🏛️ Esteemed colleagues. The characters regularly work together, and are currently set on a project, either within the Alchemists' Guild, or the Thaumaturges' Guild. They may or may not appreciate one another.

🌃 Foreign contacts. Nathaniel is looking to better his relationships with merchants and noblemen from beyond his borders. The character is new to Ul'dah and needs a caretaker: Nathaniel has been chosen for the task.

💰 Part-time employee. Mercenaries, herbalists, couriers, courtesans and street rats with sharp ears. People Nathaniel relies on for his business' well-being. He may have contracted the character through the Adventurers' Guild, or via other conduits.

🧧 A man to employ. Recent events have driven one of Nathaniel's major benefactors away, and he is working in parallel as alchemist and consultant to put bread on the table. Your character has decided to hire a man of his skill and mettle, expanding a fortune for his services (or his company).

✔️✔️✔️ Anything you would be available to work with, or have ideas for! I am very open to pre-established relationships, for as long as they are modular and superficial.

Available Threads
(Currently searching for)

💎 In need of spiritual guidance. Nathaniel speaks for Azeyma and Nald'thal both, but remains a priest of the Twelve. Maybe your character has elected him as their personal counselor and comes to consult him every now and then for comfort and confidence's sake.

🏝️ Thavnairian acquaintances. Nathaniel's mother was from Thavnair: when he visits the continent away from the Order, he is largely known there as Hakim, son of Fareeha, and lives away from sacerdotal duties, if only for a moment. You've met him there and/or are highly surprised in the strict way of life he's living here, in Eorzea.

✒️ Private tutoring for Ul'dahn nobility. For all of his Royalist nonsense, Nathaniel's skills are undeniable. The character is a young, promising nobleperson whose parents or caretakers reluctantly chose Nathaniel as a new private tutor for the discipline of their choice.

🔮 Follower of Saint Salemtaza Matataza. Nathaniel and priests of his ilk are known to be "of Salem", taking the doctrines of Salemtaza Matataza of Belah'dia, a dunesfolk saint that brought water to the arid parts of Thanalan through feats of conjury. His followers worship Azeyma and Nald'thal both. Though largely obsolete, there are some rare keepers and believers of the faith. You are adjacent to their beliefs, and/or seek counseling from a Salemite.

Lucaell

« You destroyed me as much as she did, then. Years of paranoia spent thinking of friends as people ready to sell me for coin. I wouldn't wish a life of loneliness of that degree to anybody. Except to you. »

— Lucaell to an old friend, reminiscing betrayal.

Name: Lucaell the Bard (born Lucilia Townsend)
Ethnicity: Hyuran (Midlander)
Age: Mid 20s
Nameday: 25th Sun of the Sixth Umbral Moon (12/25)
Nationality: Undisclosed
Occupation: Adventurer, Bard

A baby-faced, wide-eyed young woman of Hyuran descent, Lucaell is the very archetype of the Eorzean adventurer. She is as scruffy, as exhausted, and as starved for attention and gil as any other man or woman seen lurking by levemates and their counters all over Eorzea and beyond.The bastard daughter of an influential Sharlayan scholar that had turned to piracy after being exiled in La Noscea, Lucaell has since made a name for herself, breaking her shackles of 'daughter of'. Nobles and commoners alike vie for her attention, often adoring her skills as writer and musician, as well as her outsanding presence on stage. When she's not pilfering gil, sinking into debt, or antagonizing patrons, anyhow. Here's a character that values freedom above all.

Known Proficiencies: Music Theory, Acting, Minstrelsy, Disguise, Archery, Gunmanship, Tracking, Diving, Hunting, Bardism, Sharlayan Sagecraft.

Offered Threads
(Willing to provide)

🎻 Are you Lucaell the Bard?! You've seen her perform and move rugged crowds of the Adventurers' Guild. You know she's allied with notorious bandits. Maybe you're an admirer who would like to hire her for song or two, or maybe you're someone she owes a lot of money to. Huh-oh.

💰 Levemates, always. Living day to day, most of Lucaell's gil is made through levework, taking up plates from the Adventurers' Guild. It's very likely you could use an archer of her caliber to complete a mission, or have met her beforehand, and thoroughly enjoyed working with her.

🏹 Eagle-Eyed Lucile. The girl's first real trip in Eorzea led her to Gridania: the Archers' Guild both loves and hates her. If she shines in every tournament and inspires the kids, she tends to break targets laid out through the forest, leaves a mess in her locker, and tends to slack when the missions do not interest her. Her appearances at the guild are sparse, but her general idiocy made her a bit of a legend. You're a member or a local who knows her.

🎵 Skysinger, perhaps. Beyond the fun-loving girl and the adventurer stands a bard, but one that is beyond mere minstrelsy. Aetherially inclined characters can easily feel the weight of a soul crystal on her person belonging to bards of Eld. A lost art whose history nearly died with the Autumn War. Wherever did she get it, and why are you so eager to find out?

🗣️ Information broker. Who's small, blue-haired, smart, and travels all over Eorzea? Through the mud and to the underworld... Lucaell's bardic skills also allow her to move even around nobility or bourgeoisie, when invited as performer. You would not believe whatever is heard there. Send her off to investigate for you.

✔️✔️✔️ Anything you would be available to work with, or have ideas for! I am very open to pre-established relationships, for as long as they are modular and superficial.

Available Threads
(Currently searching for)

🔮 Only mages wear foci of that caliber. Beneath the girl's shirts lies a small pendant bearing strong aetherial qualities of light, water and wind. Any mage worth their salt would know the thing is a sorcerer's focus of foreign make, made portable. Perhaps its true form is a staff, or a grimoire? This item is probably worth a manse in Ul'dah's hightown. Why is a bum like her carrying it, why does your character care?

💔 Daughter of Galante the Cruel. Lucaell's mother was known throughought La Noscea and even Sharlayan as Galante the Cruel. A brilliant businesswoman by day, and a cunning pirate queen by night. Unbeknownst to the population then, she had enslaved notorious pirate crews to do her bidding. The woman faked bankruptcy to stash her treasure on a cursed island, and finally died in an arson some few turns back. The Townsend ironworks have since been bought, and Galante's allies killed or emprisoned. Where does Lucaell stand in all of this? And why does your character care?

💎 Student of Sharlayan. Through recent developments, Lucaell has made the choice to give in to her mother's family demands, and visit them in the Old World. She is periodically seen there, forced into the Studium by relatives she knows little about. You may have seen her there, and understood her out of place, or struggling with matters of discipline. What is a bum like her doing there, and why does your character care?

🌀 Sister of Sue Townsend, the Whorl's End. Of all the Townsend known in and around Limsa Lominsa, Galante wasn't the only one. Sue Towsend, Lucaell's older sister, was a hero among the members of the Maelstrom, eager to wash away her mother's misdeeds through acts of heroism. A staple and great teacher of the Coral Tower, she fell Leviathan twice with her crew in the span of a single turn... Only to die at the hand of a Garlean spy some turns after the Calamity, her tragic death preceding even her mother's. Where does Lucaell stand in all of this? And why does your character care?

Tieve

« You read stories of heroes wearing wolfskin to go through the woods unnoticed. Through that logic, what do wolves wear, in the throes of civilization? »

— Tieve, to a friend, on matters of animality.

Name: Tieve Corwell
Ethnicity: Hyuran (Midlander)
Age: Unknown, assumed early twenties
Nameday: 32nd Sun of the Third Astral Moon (31/05)?
Nationality: Gridanian
Occupation: Conjurer, Hearer for Stillglade Fane

A maple wand, washed-off blue robes and a pointy hat: this Hyur stands as one of the many hearers of Gridania. Eager to help and satisfy, she's often seen assisting others in any way she can. Understood as having the confidence doormat in most contexts nowadays, Tieve talks about many things eagerly, but rarely about herself.

Albeit a skilled conjurer, and a loyal agent of the Shroud, Tieve struggles to connect with her peers, due to with an unhealthy amount of superstitions relating to incidents happening during her teenage years, as well as a parent she never knew, but that the city seemed to loathe. Leading an isolated lifestyle, Tieve strives to better the relationships between man and nature, favoring contact with the marginalized clans of the Woods, such as the Sylphs, Ixali, Keeper, Duskwight, or otherwise.

Known Proficiencies: Hearing, Aetherial Empathy, Gridanian Conjury, Cursebreaking, Wardmaking, Aetherial Glamours, Traditional Medicine, Botany, Divination (Haruspicy, Lithomancy, Oneiromancy).

Offered Threads
(Willing to provide)

🌿 Blessings against Greenwrath. Tieve is one of the many agents of the Twelveswoods able to ease woodsin through prayer or rites in an official capacity. Your character has a troubles passing through the boughs, and is in need of her services on short or long-term.

🩸 Discrete healer. The ruin Tieve calls her house is open to those needing the skills of a back-alley healer. Outlaws in need of stitching, proper noblefolk looking for emmenagogues, and more. Tieve has it all, and will not ask for payment or justification at any time, provided the patient promises respect while in the forest. People ought to be tended to, and no exceptions will be made.

🌳 Ally within the boughs. This is known: Ixali, Sylphs, Mhigan, Duskwight and Keeper populations are treated horribly within Gridania. Tieve, also living on the fringes of its society in spite of being embedded in it, acts as ally within the Fane to the downtrodden. In need of assistance for diplomacy's sake, or to find passage to the city, the character has been in contact or seeks contact with Tieve.

🎖️ Baelsar's Wall, the Gyr Abanian Campaign, the Ilsabardian Contingent. Enrolled as conjurer for the Adders, Tieve participated in the most recent campaigns that shaped the current state of the Alliance and Eorzea, and has also done rehabilitative work with former conscripts or Garlean soldiers. Perhaps your character has seen her on battlefields, or awoke as patient in one of her tents.

✔️✔️✔️ Anything you would be available to work with, or have ideas for! I am very open to pre-established relationships, for as long as they are modular and superficial.

Available Threads
(Currently searching for)

💜Hilda Corwell's little one. In old tongue, Tieve would mean hillside: the place where she was found by the Coerthan border, some two decades ago, near her mother's lifeless body. It is said that when the wailers cut the umbilical cord and seized the babe, they recognized the parent as Hilda Corwell, a hedge witch of the Shroud. A woman known to be a peerless Hearer, but loathed by Gridania due to her lack of cooperation with the Fane, and support of those alienated by the Elementals. The character has knowledge or interest in Hilda, and seeks to share it all with Tieve.

🦴 To read bones and entrails, to guide. Tieve is also known for her complicity with Nymeia, sometimes inflicted with visions, or a potent understanding of the paths ahead. She owns an old Gelmorran board on which she reads futures untold, by throwing knucklebones, among other things. Your character needs this kind of guidance, and seeks her for that very reason.

🧭 Guide of the Twelveswoods. It is said there is not a single part of the Twelveswoods Tieve has not explored on her lonesome. Even the uncharted, wilder, or otherwise cursed parts of the forest do not seem to phase her. For the right favor, she will guide the characters wherever they need to be guided, and prevent attraction of woodsin all the while.

💔 The tramp. Accusations of promiscuity fused once upon a time, and still do every now and then, for those who know where to listen within Gridania. Tieve's late teenage years were marked with unreasonable acts of looseness, according to hard gossip. For some reason, the character knows more about this, and/or has met her because of this situation.