De Haguns Family/Furiae
| Furiae de Haguns | |
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| Status: | Alive |
| Continent: | Dwilight |
| Realm: | Tol Goldora |
| Titles Held: | Baroness of Faithill |
| Class: | Warrior |
| Honor: | 24 |
| Prestige: | 5 |
| Age: | 17 |
| Height: | 5'7 |
| Weight: | Slim |
| Eyes: | Blue |
| Hair: | Black
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Motto: Through Iron and Fire!
Furiae de Haguns is sir Orpheu de Haguns cousin, and the second oldest of five brothers and sisters. Born in the cadet branch of House de Haguns.
Presumed dead after she disappeared while hunting in her barony.
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Appearance and Character
The beginning of Furiae's journey:
Furiae has inherited the classical Haguns traits: raven black hair, striking blue eyes and sharp beautiful features. High cheekbones adorne an easy smile to come by. She stands 5'7 tall, with a slender and elegant figure. In general, she would be considered beautiful or pretty by most people. Her body is not particulary strong and she could easily lose a fight against a stronger opponent on unarmed combat, although she has some skills with a sword.
Furiae is confident and proud of her heritage, and considers herself intelligent and cunning, having no qualms in making use of her appearance to enthrall others or obtain favour. She is willful, impatient and hot tempered, but those characteristics come more from her age and upbringing than to natural predisposition. In truth, the Haguns girl has sound judgement and a good moral compass, and abhors injustice. She firmly believes in individual freedom, which may place her at odds with slavers. Accordingly to her free spirit and defiant nature, she will only accept to follow a ruler she trusts.
Her weaknesses are her quick temper and easily hurt pride. She has a tendency to hold grudges against her opponents. Despite this, she can recognize valour and grow to respect a rival should she deem him worthy.
In court or social settings, Furiae wears light gowns of velvet and lace, and her favorite colour is blue, matching with her eyes. When riding her horse Swiftstar, she wears padded leather, breastplate, graves and cuisses. She finds full plate mail too heavy, preferring light armour.
After the events of Birth of the Thunderstorm Longbowmen and The Darkness Within Laraibina:
Furiae has discovered an odd aspect about herself. Growing up listening to tales of virtue and chivalric self-sacrifice in Perdan, she had thought those attributes were a given to her. Still, when faced with the horrors and glories of war, the dame's heart grew colder as she had no qualms in leaving the wounded behind to be fed to monsters and undead in Laraibina, or even fellow commanders to fend for themselves. Despite initial self-doubts about her actions, she was just glad to be alive, even if others under her command had died. Her path lies across their graves. While maintaining a courteous and gentle demeanour to the outside world, ruthlessness traits started to show on her, a darkness within she tried to hide.
There is something well hidden within the teenager’s soul, perhaps even unknown to her. Ever since early childhood, she had this competitiveness that drove her, creating imaginary rivals - first and foremost, her cousin Orpheu, the scion of House de Haguns. Now, as a young, proud and vain noblewoman in the realm of Tol Goldora, she tries to assess by instinct potential threats to her status, and act accordingly as she spread her webs of intrigue. She enjoys toying with other nobles, and even if she tries to refrain her impulses, sometimes she may tell an evil jest, carefully wrapped in plausible deniability as a friendly joke. Those situations are unpredictable even to her, for one moment she could be smiling pleasantly and be courteous, only for the next to drip venom. She would never recognize, however, that most of these stirred from the fear of loss and an everlasting self-doubt.
Upbringing and life before arriving at the shores of Tol Goldora
Furiae was the second oldest in the cadet branch of House Haguns, daughter of Julius and Erin. She grew up as a lesser noble of a smaller and poorer branch of House de Hagun. Without great expectations for her future, she was quite neglected as a child in favour of her older brother Caesar, who was on the path of knighthood. The lack of attention had its perks, allowing her some freedom to play with other children her age, without a care for social standing.
Eventually, after she had seen 7 winters, she was sent as a ward to her maternal uncle's manor, who was a rich and influential noble in the Mines. Furiae's parents wanted her to learn proper etiquette, so she could grow up to become a lady-in-waiting to serve the higher nobility. This in turn would bring potential matches for her and opportunities for the Haguns. Afraid to be away from "home" for the first time, she was welcomed as royalty by her uncle sir Noah de Mohun, finding herself pampered like never before. Sir Noah and his wife were famously indulgent and felt specially spendthrifty towards their niece. Unable to have children of their own, they found that Furiae made their house livelier with her willful, yet cute and innocent behavior, peppered by childhood curiosity. Meanwhile, Furiae enjoyed the best silks, velvet, jewels and toys money could buy, as well as the attention that had been denied to her so far.
One day, after receiving the news that her cousin Orpheu was being tutored to become a knight, she became jealous of the young boy's fortune and demanded to be trained in arms as well as in etiquette, so she could be knighted herself. The Mohuns tried in vain to explain that as a young noble lady, she would eventually settle down and marry a knight or even a lord, so she should not worry herself with swords and shields, and more about traditional womanly activities. Furiae threw such a furious tantrum that the Mohuns were convinced that it was better to pay for her training than to try and convince their beloved ward otherwise. The older couple had a sweet spot for their "little princess", and thought no harm could come if the girl knew how to defend herself.
By the time Furiae had seen seventeen winters, the girl had matured into one of the beauties of the realm, and many nobles sought her hand in marriage, offering large sums to her family. However, Furiae refused each suitor, decided as she was that she would have the final say on to whom she would marry, when she would marry, and even if she was ever to marry. Soon enough her father's patience ran out and he went straight to the Mohun's manor to fetch his defiant daughter, who was to be married to a middle-aged knight who had offered the largest price so far for the young Haguns girl's hand. Her parents had already accepted the proposal in her name, and half of the price had been paid in gold coins, which would be used to afford the expensive horse and amor for her brother Caesar, who was soon to be knighted. Without options, and taken by surprise, she went with her father, plotting how to deal with this situation...
A week prior her wedding, knowing that she would soon be sent away to the knight's estate, Furiae decided to move forward with her plan. As her family slept and dreamed of all the gold coins her daughter would bring them, the young Haguns girl stole her father's sword and horse, as well as the bridal price that had been paid in advance to her family, and galloped as fast as she could towards Pelasgia. There, she paid for accomodations in a ship that was sailing away to far and distant lands... to Tol Gondora, in Dwilight, where she hoped to be free to shape her own destiny. Through iron and fire.
Bride on the run
Roleplays:
Dame of Golden Farrow, Baroness of Faithill
Roleplays:
- Home is Where the Hearth is
- The Darkness Within Laraibina
- At the Red Hound, Inside the Red Hound
- The Lady and the Pirate
- Letters on the Rebellion of Itaufield
Non Playable Characters, Ships and Units
Captain Magnus - the second-in-command to the Thunderstorm Longbowmen, formerly a veteran Haguns man-at-arms and then mercenary, he led the Perdanese Free Company when Furiae hired them as an escort towards Tol Goldora. He has been with Furiae ever since she left the Perdan Mines, acting as the young ladyling's mentor. Initially distrusting and annoybed Furiae when they met, he grew to care for the young dame, and now serves her as captain of her personal guard after the skirmishes in Mozyr and Farrowfield.
He is a large, sturdy man, reaching his forty winters. He carries a lonbgow, quiver and shortsword, and wears boiled leather armor with steel padding bearing the silver dragon of the House of Haguns. He has dirty blonde and almost greying hair and black, piercing eyes, as well as a small scars on his cheeks.
The Roar - Furiae's ship, it is usually docked in Golden Farrow when not raiding overseas. It is a medium sized galley which can carry eighty men aboard, of which fifty are soldiers and thirty oarsmen. Two masts with white square sails, hull built in oak and cedar, the The Roar stands out as a fast ship with high maneuverability. Its design is slender and has few adornements, something Furiae wishes to one day address. One can recognize it by the flying banners of Tol Goldora and House de Haguns flying high above the two masts. Historically, it used to be a merchant ship which had been salvaged after a wreck by the Perdanese Free Company.
Furiae's Thunderstorm Guard - also known as the Thunderstorm Longbowmen, the Haguns girl's retinue was formerly the mercenary company known as the Perdanese Free Company. The sellswords were preparing to sail from Pelasgia, in the Perdan Mines, towards the South Islands, when they were approached by a young noblewoman who offered a large sum in payment if they were to escort her to the continent of Dwilight. Former soldiers born and raised under perdanese and perleoni values of loyalty and honor, they kept their side of the bargain, despite initial mistruts. Slowly through their voyage and later in Tol Goldora, Furiae enthralled the men and women in the guard, who would acclaim her as their new leader, definitely joining her quest to make a name within Dwilight.
They carry longbows and shortswords, are a disciplined force and have a distinctly way of saluting their commanding officer by raising their shortswords in silence. Initially composed by perdanese and perleoni, now the retinue has goldorans in its rank.
