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HelpRe: Fantasy congrats KUY (1/10)
in reply to a message by Espanolelwales
I'll be starting a new one, as my family members kept getting killed off in my previous game haha
H [45] Lord Lupus Thaddeus Castletown, 1st Viscount Castletown
W [40] Lady Callista Marlene Appleton, Viscountess Castletown
Lupus & Callista || Cassian and Orlando
S1 [18] The Honourable Cassian Ezra Castletown
- Fiancée [18] Miss Xanthe Amabel Honeycutt
Cassian & Xanthe
S2 [18] Officer Cadet Orlando Salvador Castletown
🪺
Lady Callista Appleton was a woman of 19 with straw-blond hair and a rather horse-like demeanour, bored to tears during a ball thrown to honour one of her five sisters' coming of age. The guests in attendance were - like herself - country bumpkins, and their company one she had endured her whole life. She liked the country, with its bracing weather and its foxhunts organised by her father, the earl, but she would have enjoyed some diversion.
Said diversion presented itself in the form of one of the guests, who, in his stiff, ill-fitting uniform of Her Majesty's Secret Service - not the official name of the clandestine organisation he belonged to, of course - cut quite a different figure than the other attendants. He was sallow of complexion, and his jaw-length black hair seemed rather greasy, but something about the young man intrigued Lady Callista, and she arranged an introduction.
She learnt that the man in question was 24 year-old Lupus Castletown, a promising agent of Her Imperial Majesty. While he was shy at first, he soon proved an amiable companion with a talent for wry observational humour much after Callista's own heart, and they spent the rest of the evening chatting away affably.
In the evening, they both retired with different convictions: Lady Callista, that she had struck up a pleasant acquaintanceship, and Lupus, that he was madly in love and had to do whatever was in his power to gain Lady Callista's heart - and her hand in marriage.
His chances, at first glance, seemed hopeless. Lady Callista was expected to marry a member of the landed gentry, not an upper middle-class urbanite, even if he was an agent of Her Imperial Majesty. But Lupus Castletown was nothing if not ambitious - and dizzied by the frenzy of a first love, he secured an invitation to another ball, where, once more, him and Callista talked the whole night through. When it was time to retire, he allowed himself to be so bold to ask Callista if he might write to her. She agreed with unconcealed enthusiasm.
Their correspondence slowly, painstakingly grew amorous, but Lupus was aware that Callista would never marry him against her father's will - nor would he ever ask her to. He was a gentleman by character, if not by breeding. Instead of cajoling her with honeyed words, he resolved himself to serve his country as best he could - something that, as a patriot, he would do regardless, but he now had the additional incentive of one day proving a worthy match for his beloved.
He worked tirelessly on clandestine operations for Queen and country, at home, in the Imperial Realms, and abroad, in the few strips of land which remained unconquered by the Empire. Finally, after a particularly risky stint which involved dispatching a rogue agent and which ended up saving the life of the heir to the throne, Lupus was created 1st Viscount Castletown, and awarded a generous piece of land - the sloping hillsides of Castonia, covered in sprawling heather.
The first thing he did was write to Lady Callista. He expected her response to be enthusiastic. What he did not expect was an invitation to her father's house and explicit permission for him to ask the earl for his daughter's hand in marriage. The Earl grumbled slightly, but upon seeing the medals that bedecked Lord Lupus' uniform, and the true, unadulterated affection with which his daughter regarded her beloved - an agent of Her Imperial Majesty - he consented to the union.
As a wedding present, Lord Lupus commissioned a mansion for his wife. The Quail's Nest sits perched on the tallest hill of the Viscounty of Castletown, between sprawling heather and billowing willows. Built by the foremost fashionable architect in Albion, the mansion is neoclassical in style, meant to resemble the temples of old, where commoners and kings alike would seek advice from priests and prophetesses.
A year into their marriage, Callista gave birth to the only children the couple would have: fraternal twin sons named Cassian and Orlando. Both are now eighteen, of average height, erect carriage, a distinctly hollow-cheeked countenance, and curly hair. Cassian is the slighter of the two, with sparkling blue eyes and ear-length, straw-blond hair. Orlando has a more impressive physique, his eyes are a murky, greyish blue, and his hair shoulder-length hair is black and often tied back with a ribbon.
The two often butted heads growing up, as each envied the others' position. Cassian, as the elder of the two - if only by a few minutes - stood to inherit the estate and become 2nd Viscount Castletown. This tied him firmly to The Quail's Nest - there he had to remain for the rest of his life, acting as steward until he passed it down to his own son. Travel, freedom, and exploring the world - options Lord Lupus enjoyed in his youth - were not at Cassian's perusal. He had a responsibility to the house he stood to inherit, and a legacy of safety and stability to create for the Castletown name.
Orlando, as the younger of the two brothers, stood to inherit nothing. This is not, of course, to say that he would be left penniless - Lupus and Callista loved both their sons equally and would leave neither unprovided for. But Albionese inheritance law stated clearly that while an elder son had more responsibility that the younger, he also had heaps of security the younger could not dream of. Orlando had to make his own fortune if he wanted to amount to anything, and, at 14, enlisted in an officer's academy - one he is currently in his last year of.
Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. This proved true for Cassian and Orlando. When the latter left home at fourteen, their rivalry seemed to mellow. While Orlando wrote dutifully to his parents each week, Cassian rarely had to wait more than two days between letters from his brother - letters he wrote back to enthusiastically and at length. Orlando regaled Cassian with tales of life as a cadet, while Cassian wrote of matters at home - including those pertaining to the object of his affection, Xanthe Honeycutt. Orlando would not stop ribbing Cassian about his infatuation, but when he visited The Quail's Nest, he found Xanthe personable and witty, and approved of the match.
Lady Callista and Lord Lupus - who had since retired, grown corpulent, and dedicated himself fully to maintaining his estate - also approved of their son's courtship with Miss Honeycutt. Xanthe, the daughter of a wealthy baronet, lived in the nearest city. She was gregarious, charming, and well-educated. Their recent engagement came as no surprise, and congratulations flooded in from all over the country.
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
H [45] Lord Lupus Thaddeus Castletown, 1st Viscount Castletown
W [40] Lady Callista Marlene Appleton, Viscountess Castletown
Lupus & Callista || Cassian and Orlando
S1 [18] The Honourable Cassian Ezra Castletown
- Fiancée [18] Miss Xanthe Amabel Honeycutt
Cassian & Xanthe
S2 [18] Officer Cadet Orlando Salvador Castletown
🪺
Lady Callista Appleton was a woman of 19 with straw-blond hair and a rather horse-like demeanour, bored to tears during a ball thrown to honour one of her five sisters' coming of age. The guests in attendance were - like herself - country bumpkins, and their company one she had endured her whole life. She liked the country, with its bracing weather and its foxhunts organised by her father, the earl, but she would have enjoyed some diversion.
Said diversion presented itself in the form of one of the guests, who, in his stiff, ill-fitting uniform of Her Majesty's Secret Service - not the official name of the clandestine organisation he belonged to, of course - cut quite a different figure than the other attendants. He was sallow of complexion, and his jaw-length black hair seemed rather greasy, but something about the young man intrigued Lady Callista, and she arranged an introduction.
She learnt that the man in question was 24 year-old Lupus Castletown, a promising agent of Her Imperial Majesty. While he was shy at first, he soon proved an amiable companion with a talent for wry observational humour much after Callista's own heart, and they spent the rest of the evening chatting away affably.
In the evening, they both retired with different convictions: Lady Callista, that she had struck up a pleasant acquaintanceship, and Lupus, that he was madly in love and had to do whatever was in his power to gain Lady Callista's heart - and her hand in marriage.
His chances, at first glance, seemed hopeless. Lady Callista was expected to marry a member of the landed gentry, not an upper middle-class urbanite, even if he was an agent of Her Imperial Majesty. But Lupus Castletown was nothing if not ambitious - and dizzied by the frenzy of a first love, he secured an invitation to another ball, where, once more, him and Callista talked the whole night through. When it was time to retire, he allowed himself to be so bold to ask Callista if he might write to her. She agreed with unconcealed enthusiasm.
Their correspondence slowly, painstakingly grew amorous, but Lupus was aware that Callista would never marry him against her father's will - nor would he ever ask her to. He was a gentleman by character, if not by breeding. Instead of cajoling her with honeyed words, he resolved himself to serve his country as best he could - something that, as a patriot, he would do regardless, but he now had the additional incentive of one day proving a worthy match for his beloved.
He worked tirelessly on clandestine operations for Queen and country, at home, in the Imperial Realms, and abroad, in the few strips of land which remained unconquered by the Empire. Finally, after a particularly risky stint which involved dispatching a rogue agent and which ended up saving the life of the heir to the throne, Lupus was created 1st Viscount Castletown, and awarded a generous piece of land - the sloping hillsides of Castonia, covered in sprawling heather.
The first thing he did was write to Lady Callista. He expected her response to be enthusiastic. What he did not expect was an invitation to her father's house and explicit permission for him to ask the earl for his daughter's hand in marriage. The Earl grumbled slightly, but upon seeing the medals that bedecked Lord Lupus' uniform, and the true, unadulterated affection with which his daughter regarded her beloved - an agent of Her Imperial Majesty - he consented to the union.
As a wedding present, Lord Lupus commissioned a mansion for his wife. The Quail's Nest sits perched on the tallest hill of the Viscounty of Castletown, between sprawling heather and billowing willows. Built by the foremost fashionable architect in Albion, the mansion is neoclassical in style, meant to resemble the temples of old, where commoners and kings alike would seek advice from priests and prophetesses.
A year into their marriage, Callista gave birth to the only children the couple would have: fraternal twin sons named Cassian and Orlando. Both are now eighteen, of average height, erect carriage, a distinctly hollow-cheeked countenance, and curly hair. Cassian is the slighter of the two, with sparkling blue eyes and ear-length, straw-blond hair. Orlando has a more impressive physique, his eyes are a murky, greyish blue, and his hair shoulder-length hair is black and often tied back with a ribbon.
The two often butted heads growing up, as each envied the others' position. Cassian, as the elder of the two - if only by a few minutes - stood to inherit the estate and become 2nd Viscount Castletown. This tied him firmly to The Quail's Nest - there he had to remain for the rest of his life, acting as steward until he passed it down to his own son. Travel, freedom, and exploring the world - options Lord Lupus enjoyed in his youth - were not at Cassian's perusal. He had a responsibility to the house he stood to inherit, and a legacy of safety and stability to create for the Castletown name.
Orlando, as the younger of the two brothers, stood to inherit nothing. This is not, of course, to say that he would be left penniless - Lupus and Callista loved both their sons equally and would leave neither unprovided for. But Albionese inheritance law stated clearly that while an elder son had more responsibility that the younger, he also had heaps of security the younger could not dream of. Orlando had to make his own fortune if he wanted to amount to anything, and, at 14, enlisted in an officer's academy - one he is currently in his last year of.
Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. This proved true for Cassian and Orlando. When the latter left home at fourteen, their rivalry seemed to mellow. While Orlando wrote dutifully to his parents each week, Cassian rarely had to wait more than two days between letters from his brother - letters he wrote back to enthusiastically and at length. Orlando regaled Cassian with tales of life as a cadet, while Cassian wrote of matters at home - including those pertaining to the object of his affection, Xanthe Honeycutt. Orlando would not stop ribbing Cassian about his infatuation, but when he visited The Quail's Nest, he found Xanthe personable and witty, and approved of the match.
Lady Callista and Lord Lupus - who had since retired, grown corpulent, and dedicated himself fully to maintaining his estate - also approved of their son's courtship with Miss Honeycutt. Xanthe, the daughter of a wealthy baronet, lived in the nearest city. She was gregarious, charming, and well-educated. Their recent engagement came as no surprise, and congratulations flooded in from all over the country.
masculine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124079
feminine list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/191050/124080
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