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voidvillemod) wrote2013-03-09 01:42 pm
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Who are you? Liisu
How did you get here? up in here, up in here
Any alts? Wendy Darling/Gwendolyn Barrie
Canon information
Character name and canon: Martel / The Elenium
Character background: As a Knight of the Church, Martel was a brother-in-arms to Sir Sparhawk, a man who would be closer than blood to him even when they ultimately stood on opposite sides of a line Martel himself drew in the sand.
Martel was born the only son of a wealthy noble family in Elenia, but his blood relatives proved to be largely meaningless to him in the grand scheme of his life; fondly but distantly remembered, his father Lord Romiar, Margrave of Damerel, and his mother an Arcian noblewoman, Lady Veleda (note: details regarding his family beyond ‘rich as shit’ and ‘highly ranked’ are largely headcanon, extrapolated by necessity for a fuller background). He joined the Pandion Order at the traditionally young age, and had he not taken the path he did, he would have come through one of the finest knights they'd seen in their ranks, set to marry well and likely on his way towards the rank of Lord Preceptor. An expert swordsman and handy with a lance, Martel was a brilliant warrior, tactician and sorcerer (as tutored in the secrets of Styricum by the Pandion tutor in the arts, Lady Sephrenia).
It was, she would later say, in part his downfall.
Too clever for anyone's good and too ambitious by half, Martel sought instruction in the forbidden secrets; when Sephrenia refused him, he went looking elsewhere. His family's money, recently inherited, was more than enough to get him what he wanted - at least in the short term. He'd been chosen by the Styric sorcerer Zalasta to act as the opposite number of Anakha, and it was his own ambition that screwed him over. For the forbidden magic and the murder of several Pandion Knights who'd been sent to apprehend him, Martel was forcibly expelled from the Order and stripped of as much of his power as the Younger Gods could take.
Having effectively cut all the ties that meant anything to him, Martel went away from Elenia weeping and swearing revenge - revenge that, as the best and most well-connected mercenary in Eosia, he would spend more than a decade working to get. He aligned himself with Otha of Zemoch in order to get his shot at vengeance on the Pandions in general and Sparhawk in particular, which brought him an uneasy alliance with the corrupt churchman Annias, the incestuous Princess Arissa (sister of the late Elenian King and aunt of his successor, Queen Ehlana), everybody’s favourite alcoholic Krager and an assortment of other charming individuals that he collectively disdained as disgusting human beings. (He wasn’t actually wrong, he was just also a monstrous hypocrite.) Though it took months to become clear, Martel was likely the highest ranked of the conspirators under the dark elder god Azash, acting as tactician, general and cracker of whips. ...or was he, see: The Tamuli for the aforementioned revelations that Martel had been manipulated by Zalasta all along.
(Unfortunately for his repressed conscience, Zalasta never actually forced him into anything; he manipulated the circumstances and counted on Martel’s hubris to do the work for him. It did. Martel, while deeply ashamed, is almost physically incapable of backing down once he’s set himself to something; he considered the bed he’d made for himself and reworked himself into the best of self-made faux-sociopath bastards.)
In short, he sparked a religious and civil war in the Elene countries, intent on subverting the Church of Chyrellos from the inside out, subjugating the continent beneath the heel of the soon-to-be-released-from-his-hideous-captivity god Azash, which would be followed, of course, by setting himself up as Emperor of Basically Everything while Annias ruled the new church and Azash...horrified everyone. His obsession with the loved ones he’d driven away from him (though he preferred to think of it as him having been rejected, which was and was not quite accurate) was constant, but unfortunately meant in several cases that he repeatedly tried to murder them.
He didn't win, of course; plots were twisted, secrets were kept and revealed, Sparhawk prevailed and Martel, his brother's sword through his chest, drowned in his own blood on the floor of a dark temple, his head in his mother's lap. Death ultimately came as a welcome mercy from continuing to live with himself.
Voidville information
Character's Voidville name: Benoit Lefevre (REAL FRENCH PEOPLE ARE NAMED THAT, CLAIRE)
Voidville background: Benoit Lefevre, despite the painfully French name, was born and raised in England; he left under a cloud of dubiously legal and ethical business and personal practises, with his best friend's girlfriend, Lilia Gallo! They were married shortly after, but he discovered her infidelities when she was pregnant with their daughter, and an angry, ugly divorce followed. He now has sole custody of one Milagros Lefevre, a very serious little girl of mixed race (white/afro-latina) and decided temperament (angry). He moved here a few years ago as somewhere quieter to raise his daughter.
Played by?: Timothy Dalton, tho I might have a fit and change it later.
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