All Are Hydaelyn's Children
Pray, select an available soul that would inspire you.
Player Contact
If you are here, it means you're set on a character you'd like to play with. I'm excited in advance at the prospect!
I am Meishali, my timezone is CET (EU, France), though I can be available at NA times every now and then.
Contact is made via Discord, and I role-play exclusively in game. I'm plot-heavy, but very low-maintenance!
We do not have to role-play regularly for me to enjoy it.
Before we go, however, here's some more info!
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!
I would prefer:
👍 Debriefs after sessions. See what the narrative was like, our character's motivations, and discuss it together for fun!
👍 People with initiative. People providing strong hooks during play, as I do, and who will reach out to me on their own terms.
👍 People with an entourage. I like to engage people who do their best to meet as many players as they can. I do not want to be your only role-play partner.
We cannot write together if:
⛔ You role-play as the Warrior of Light themself, named NPCs, or frequently sockpuppet named NPCs.
⛔ You incorporate heavily anachronistic and/or heavily militarized themes to your role-play.
⛔ You use words such as "f+/futa/trap/femboy" and other terms harmful to trans people.
⛔ You are a sealioning racist, LGBT+phobe, cop-lover and/or capitalist bootlicker.
⛔ Your character is under the age of 18.
⛔ You are under the age of 21.
Discord:
Meishali#7572
I typically accept all requests, but please be upfront about who you are so I don't dismiss you as spam when I add you! See you there.
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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.
Nathaniel
« To smother innocence, compassion, in order to think rationally, and faster than most. You saw a man where most see a monster. They are not wrong and neither are you. What shall we do, now? »
— Nathaniel to Helios, during a chance encounter.
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.
Narrative intent and challenges
Nathaniel was built for social situations, and to address dynamics of power, responsibility, and politics in a pre-modern world. His themes are centered around culture against nature, redemption, rebellion against corruption, spirituality, loss of agency, power imbalance, violence and boundless love for family and home.Mundane adventuring is out of the question, and combat RP is largely off the table as a result. He is an extremely competent character built specifically as anchor, mentor and consultant, which I know can be difficult to handle within an MMORP context. It is also something that I know relies on the most part of the quality of my writing. I always put my partner's needs before my own, so you will never role-play anything you do not want to role-play! That includes being subjected to powerful actions!It is also important to know that when I speak of Nathaniel as a man of law, he is a man of divine law: he knows most of the laws applied in Ul'dah serve the rich, the powerful, and a variety of classes he despises. His values lie in passation of knowledge, care for others, though the application isn't always... Thorough. Nathaniel is a deeply flawed individual, though not one incapable of good things. This needs to be acknowledged by my partners in turn.
Narrative impossibilities
⛔ I can not role-play Nathaniel with aetherially tainted, possessed, haunted, void-touched subjects.
(Why?) Nathaniel is an ableist zealot, an aetherochemist and an exorcist by trade. He will want to fix the subject (place, item, or person)'s situation upon feeling their presence, by all means necessary. This situation is non-negotiable due to the Nathaniel's narrative build. I do not want to police other people's characters and certainly not halt them in their fun, but Nathaniel will! Demons, corruption, and all of these things are a liability, and feared throughout Eorzea and beyond for a reason - reason Nathaniel has fully experienced during the Calamity and throughout his education as mage. He will want them cleansed, sealed, if not destroyed. That's why I would prefer to avoid playing with such subjects altogether, unless we're extremely thorough in how it is built. If you do need Nathaniel as a nuke option for any kind of plot you have tied to such a thing though, let me know!
⛔ I can not role-play Nathaniel with characters wielding forbidden magic (black, white, void, necromancy etc.).
(Why?) Same as above. Nathaniel is a man of law and a capable mage hunter. He believes that most people should stay incapable of wielding this kind of power for safety reasons. Again, I do not wish to police characters, nor roleplay any sort of chase!
« Time spent wondering what men fear most is a waste—It is either death, or failure. This divides the world into two distinct categories of people. Those who favor survival, and those who favor ideals. »
— Nathaniel to Gotou, during a chance encounter.
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.
Lucaell
« I'll shape myself. I'll make an adventure out of my life, always, again, and again, and again. You who live for freedom, why can't you simply act the same!»
— Lucaell to Rensa Brokenshire, Captain of Carlisle's Dirge, during a confrontation.