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Lovitar, Galyna, Askavi
Topic Started: Aug 7 2007, 05:15 PM (212 Views)
High Priestess
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Now that the eyrian conqueror is made, i wanted to be careful with his introduction.

For the main plot i was wondering what his affiliation with Galyna is at this point. If there isn't any, then there will have to be some hook she uses to sink her claws in him. His weakness will be his appetites so maybe meadowbrook would be the way she gets him? In a moment of weakness he gets ringed? i dont know.

I also wanted to get ideas for how to introduce him. Should he walk into the Kaeleer soltice ball and cause a ruckus? :) Not the best idea. The other idea was to have him attack a small askavi village, but I need to develop more plot line for that to give him a reason for the attack.

Maybe his introduction should be Galyna getting him in her clutches? What do you guys think?

Did you have something in mind Merciful darkness?
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Melissa
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We can work something out with Galyna if you want. We, as the staff, are pretty lacks when it comes to her. If you want something evil done and don't know who will do it, shove it onto Galyna as that is what she is there for.

As for his introduction, well Laith has been complaining about a man that is under-minding her attorney for a while now. That could be him, if you want. She has been playing it as the man is trying to sway other into thinking that she is a bad ruler. The details are pretty vague at this time. So the only thing would be that, the male was an aristo male, which Lovitar is so it works out.
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Laithrian Yahaira
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Also, I am going to add a Province for you to rule for now if you like. All I need is a name. I was thinking of it being the many Eyrien home province. Kind of like Ebon Rih is the main province of the short-lived humans that live in Askavi.
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High Priestess
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Ohhh lovitar gets a province. Sounds good. I will come up with a name and will put his first posts there. Thanks Mellissa.
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Who knew it would be so hard to come up with a name. I wanted it to be askavi-ish, but couldn't really come up with much. In desperation it seemed sort of northern european and so checked out some finnish, russian, sweedish place names. Here is the best i have done so far.

Viinanen: it seems that brandywine is somehow derived from this.
Susijarvi: Translates as wolf lake.

Not the best i know, but all i can do for now. If these are OK with you mellissa lets go ahead. If anyone else has a beter idea for a name please let me know. I also thought we might add aeries to it. Viinanen aeries. just some ideas.
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High Priestess
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How about Askajarvi aeries? (i have no idea what Aska means, but we can say it translates as sky, so sky lake. Like one of those brilliant blue lakes high in the mountains). I have the basis of a plot line with Galyna responsible for taking him from an outlaw basically to the ledership of the province, emphasizing his example as an ideal eyrian warrior to sway the people.

Once in place they have set their sites on Laith, and so have begun to undermine her rule. They will mock her reluctance to give her offering as a weakness no leader should have, and the compromise that brought her to rule.

Their goal will be to try to sway her to thier influence to attempt to control her dark power, but failing that (as they likely will) tehy will try to eliminate her.
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Here is Lovitar's opening. I hope it is kind of what you were looking for.

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Lovitar prowled though the manor, servants scurrying to avoid him.  As unbelievable as he might have thought it a few hundred years ago, he ruled a province in Askavi.  That was only the beginning.  His dark features broke into an evil grin as he thought of the queen Laithrian broken before him, broken in every possible way.  No longer satisfied with spilling blood to fuel his lust he had acquired a much more discerning palate when it came to killing an opponent.  She had shown him how to spice the blood with fear, horror, and despair, and he loved the way it changed the taste of his favorite beverage.  Over the span of some centuries she had taught him many other things besides: how to manipulate, how to lay a trap, how to be more subtle, how to act like a ruling aristo, how to rule.

She was the red-jeweled queen of hell, Galyna, and he would never forget the day she came to his warcamp.  He was building his army in the wilds of Askavi, an army of conquest.  Galyna had simply walked into his camp, he had roared his displeasure with a female that wouldn’t grovel.  She was the first person who hadn’t shrunk in horror before his enraged personage.  He knew how he appeared in the rage, dark, huge, made larger still with huge black wings unfurled in his fighting stance, fierce yellow eyes burning with such malevolence that they appeared to glow with an evil light.  She had only smiled in response to the roar, and before he could tear her apart she lifted a web revealing a terrified young witch with birthright opal.  Galyna waited until she had Lovitar’s attention before continuing.

“Prince Lovitar.  I bring a gift.”  Galyna studied the warlord’s reaction waiting for his buttons to show so she might begin to push them and mold him.  She had an idea of what they were, if the stories were true.  If they were true, Lovitar would be her perfect instrument.  It had been centuries since she had seen his like, actually now standing before him she amended her assessment.  She had never seen his like.  He was so huge and fierce that it took all of her thousands of years of training to not cower before him.  He was the embodiment of the landen legends of evil demons.  It was difficult to imagine real blood flowed in is veins, but she could smell it and longed to take some.

When she saw the look Lovitar gave the young witch she knew that she had gambled and won, won big.  The witch groveled before him pleading, and there was no mistaking Lovitar’s naked hunger.  He lifted the witch with one hand, signaled the guards to keep drawn weapons on Galyna and took the witch to his tent.  The screams were horrible.  The guards all snickered as they always did when their leader took his pleasure, making the crudest of jokes as screams pierced the night.  The only pause in their enjoyment came when they approached Galyna.  She didn’t move, didn’t flinch, the only emotion she showed was just a hint of regret, not for the witch for it seemed judgmental, more like a teacher disappointed in a promising pupil.  When the screams had ended and Lovitar emerged bloody from his tent, Galyna simply shook her head at him in disappointment.  This of course enraged Lovitar.

“Witch. Do you desire to be next?”  He deep voice rolled with threatening thunder.  She replied with the measured calm rulers use to give pause to the ruled.  “No prince I wish to hone an edge to your impressive power and hunger.  I desire to be allies.  I wish to see the queen of Askavi broken before you.  I have another offering to back my words.”  She lifted the web revealing another terrified young witch.  “What I would enjoy is being able to refine your appetite for young witches.  There are subtler methods that bring so much more pleasure.”  The words tempted him as none had before, but it was her smile as evil as his own that sealed the bargain.

The cold pleasure of his deep laugh echoed in the marbled halls of the manor as memories of their association in the following centuries flashed though his mind, little snapshots of the horrors they had wrought together.  The taking of the young be it landen, witch, healer, warlord, prince, warlord prince, queen.  Galyna had taught him to savor the uniqueness of each one and now he was a connoisseur.  Lately, she had teased him with stories of a school, meadowbrook, full of the tender morsels he enjoyed so much.  Lovitar didn’t know it but Galyna had him under her control as surely as if he wore her ring of obedience. 

‘Ahh the ring.’  More laughter as he recalled Galyna’s surprise when he said he wanted to use them also, and after surprise Galyna smiled.  He hadn’t seen her evil smile since their first meeting and realized he had missed it.  ‘Damn.  I could love that woman, if she didn’t smell so funny’ He laughed again at his little joke about guardians.

Once she had hooked him she began to cultivate him.  It took a few hundred years and uncounted gifts but she had molded him into one of her favorite weapons.  They had crafted a story that his depredations were tales concocted by those who scorned the perfection of pure-bred eyrians.  How the faction opposed to the purity of the race had placed obstacles in his way bring him low, but being the perfect eyrian warrior he had overcome everything and everyone placed before him.  It was an easy story to sell.  One look at him was all it took to see eyrian perfection, and to see him in battle…..  There had not been a warrior of his caliber in all the years chronicled by the story-tellers.  Just being in his presence stirred the blood of eyrian warriors, and they flocked to him.

Now he led the pure race faction, and ruled ___________ province.  Galyna’s plan was working to perfection.  He even enjoyed how her instruction had changed him.  It was almost as much fun to have some aristo fluff cower before his words as it was to slaughter them.  Nay it was better, for it lasted for years upon years.  It was especially fun to destroy the families of the aristos that tried to humiliate him in the war camps so long ago.  The terror they held in their eyes like rare elixir to savor as they slowly died.

Finally Lovitar laughed because is would happen soon.  He would rule all of Askavi.  The landen and the short-lived Rhilanders would cower in terror as he unleashed the full fury of his eyrian warriors.  That green-eyed half breed queen would lie broken at his feet, and then he would have it all, rule over Kaeleer, meadowbrook, and the means to crush even one so strong as Salvador Kane.  After his purge of Kaeleer, there would be none stronger than his grey unless they wore his ring if male and collar if female.  On that day he would no longer have to hide his appetites.  He could walk through all of Kaeleer feasting at will, and all of kaeleer will shudder in fear.


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Gawyn Nadien
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he he I completely miss the post the first time. Sorry about that, not sure why that happened. I really like Susijarvi. It just looks cool.

Also, for the most part, all of Askavi thinks that Latih is a Opal to Red jeweled witch. So it would be a major upset.
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High Priestess
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np Susijarvi it is. :)

i am not quite following the bit about an upset. i assume you mean when laith defeats lovi, which is the outcome i am hoping for. yeah. Lovi and Galyna should be pretty cocky about now. All the better when they go down.

I will leave out the mocking of her not offering since they think she has, sorry missed that the first go around.

I poked Ysamavar to post so he should soon, giving Laith another weapon against lovi.

maybe we should get LaLa involved since she seems to be the only other one posting?
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Laithrian Yahaira
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I put up the Province sub forum now. Have fun posting.
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