Apparent Retrograde Scribbles

((Opalesse sar Falas is eleven years old, and was not directly involved in any battles during the war. She is, however, aware of the continuing bandit problem her country faces, and has decided to become a guard. She is a relatively serious girl, interested in all of the arts of fighting and defending, though in her free time she practices embroidering butterflies.

She is a member of the Fala-kiir, a catchall term for the Vounouti ethnic groups that live exclusively in the low mountain valleys of the country. They are the most populous groups, but also the ones that suffered the most dissolution of culture and customs under Archosi rule. 

((Lymel sar Vouna is a twenty nine year old Vounouti ex-soldier, member of the Children of the Mountains separatist group, rabble-rouser, and monarchial loyalist. He feels an all consuming responsibility toward Vounous as a whole, and puts its safety and people foremost in his life. To this end, he works to subvert support for foreigners in the country, by which he means anyone who does not have Vounouti parents. These, he feels, should not have citizenship, and should not have the same rights within the country as Vounouti citizens. Ideally, they wouldn’t even live within the country. Since 99% of non-Vounouti citizens are Archosi, this is a sentiment that is not uncommon among the general populace, and the Children of the Mountains enjoy widespread support in many parts of the country. Most notably, they do not receive that support in the capital, nor among the Vouna-Kiir, the ethnic groups they took their name from.

Lymel focuses most of his energy on spreading his doctrine among the people of the capital, keeping his eye on the non-Vounouti citizens located there, and attempting to convince Princess Helix to change foreign relation policies, and to refuse her foreign betrothed in favor of a Vounouti man.

That he is the princess’s only surviving lover from the war has much to do with this, though he would never, ever admit it.