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FULL NAME: Eris Vanserra EPITHET(S): Heir to the Flame, Autumn Heir, Princeling/Lordling GENDER: Cis-male SPECIES: High Fae HEIGHT: 6'4” AGE: 700+ years old BIRTHDAY: The Fall Equinox

HAIR: Dark auburn, naturally wavy. Cropped a little longer than his pointed ears and typically kept off his face. Without the glamour, his hair is ash-colored and as long as his shoulders, full of leaves and twigs and seemingly wet. EYES: Hazel and rimmed in gold and feline. Without the glamour, fully black eyes including the sclera and bleeding black blooded tears. SKIN TONE: The last dredges of summer-kissed skin fading. Pale skin warmed by the moon. Dusted in sparse freckles. Without the glamour, a sickly pallor is prevalent. BODY TYPE: Lean muscled and tall. Long limbed. VOICE: Dulcet and musical. Drawling and casual and ever full of mischief. Typically speaking in facetious tones, his smug and teasing and trickster nature present in his voice. POSTURE: Befitting of a prince. Without the glamour, there’s obvious pain in the tight string or sometimes low droop of his shoulders and the clench of his hands. SCARS: With the glamour, none. Without the glamour, the corners of his mouth extend with gruesome scars and reveal his sharp-toothed back teeth. His back is covered in whip lashes, some which still do not appear fully healed. He has scars on the back of both his hands and the bottom of his feet from his father’s abuse as well. NOTABLE FEATURE(S): His pointed High Fae ears. His red hair. HIGH LORD BEAST FORM: Large black hound, dog skull for a face, with molting antlers protruding from his head.

HOBBIES: Hunting with his smoke hounds. Reading and learning new things. Fashion. Spellcrafting and herbal work. Faerie wine and connoisseuring. PHYSICAL ILLNESSES: Cursed by his power-greedy father, Eris is unable to fully wield the entirety of his magic abilities. ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Neutral VULNERABILITIES: As all Fae are, Eris is vulnerable to ash wood. Salt and iron are also a weakness which can be used to incapacitate him though they won’t kill him.

CURRENTLY.

the sins of the father. PRESENT DAY. eris is in the midst of his plans to unseat his father from the throne of autumn court, but is waiting for the right timing. until then, he continues to both train and lead the autumn court armies as one of its generals; as well as act as emissary and ambassador, using his courtier skills to navigate the political landscape of the faerie realm to gather intel on the coming rebellion against the night court as well as collecting future allies for his own cause.

QUICK FACTS

eris is the eldest of seven brothers and thus the heir to the faerie court of autumn. the autumn court deals in dark magic, necromancy, and pyromancy among other crafts; though it should be noted that the use of magic is banned for anyone within the court's lands not of the royal family, punishable by death as declared by the high lord. autumn court magic is typical faerie magic where it demands payment for its use; as such, the high lord beron, who uses it constantly, has been growing more and more ill and frail as the centuries pass. the only thing keeping him alive anymore is the magic itself, even as it is killing him.

the vanserra brothers grew up pitted against each other as a means to earn their father's respect and affection and as a result, resentment to the point of violence amongst them was inevitable. abuse at the hands of their father, beron, was rampant; eris did what he could to take most of the punishments during their childhood, but always at the cost of purposefully inflaming his brothers that they would never be at odds with beron for growing close to the eldest son. eris establishes very early on that he will follow in his father's cruel footsteps by forcibly drawing a divide between himself and his younger brothers, all the while fervently protecting them when he can.

eris is especially close to his mother, the lady of autumn, who suffers at the hands of her husband as much as her sons do. she is perhaps the only person alive to know the truth of eris' heart, which he keeps so well hidden between his wickedness and cruelty.

the reputation of the heir to autumn is despicable at best and deliberately crafted that way. still, he is magnetic and cunning, an accomplished commander in the autumn court armies, a skilled hunter and tracker, and a devoted son to his mother. he has 12 hounds which he raised himself to be loyal hunting companions.

autumn court fae can’t lie! not in the traditional sense anyway. they can exaggerate (and often speak hyperbolically!) and they can spin circles to avoid landing directly on the truth and they can trick as much as they please (and most often do whether they intend to avoid the truth or not!) but they cannot lie. the only thing is that most not from autumn don’t actually know this to be a fact anymore as it’s another thing to have cycled so much through the sifting ages that it’s often believed to be something the humans made up about fae in general which actually works really well for autumn court anyway. if asked a direct yes or no question, they have to blatantly ignore the question to avoid telling the truth which just gives them away anyway. so no literal lying.

eris has 12 scottish deerhounds all of whom he rescued as a full litter when their mother birthed them, and consequently died, in his father’s stables. beron would have killed them had eris not interfered. he’s raised them himself and they have grown into a pack of exceptionally talented, with the exception of one, the runt, which he gifted his mate, vasilis.

if beron is dying, why doesn't eris just easily kill him/why don't his sons/court rise up against him? fear for one thing. for eris in particular, it's the timing. he is "working for" his father within his court, but under the table he is securing alliances and putting out feelers to those who would be loyal to a court no longer ruled by beron. there are many who are loyal to beron whether by fear or similar ideals and eris has to be very careful when navigating the political waters.