#eisande

Gentle Eisheth went to the southern coastal lands, which hold dreamers and sailors, healers and traders, as well as the thousand birds and wild cavaliers of the salt marshes. Her province is called Eisande, and it is the smallest of the seven. There are Tsingani who dwell there, and live unmolested.

Provinces of Terre d’Ange [3/7] - Eisande

“Delaunay!” I gasped, the word an agony of grief. “Ah, Elua, the message, Quintilius Rousse, the Master of the Straits . . . you sought passage for him, for the Pictish Prince, to D’Angeline soil! But why . . . why turn to Delaunay?” “Anafiel Delaunay de Montrève.” Ysandre gave me the ghost of a smile. “You never even knew his proper name, did you? His father, who is the Comte de Montrève, abjured him, when he tied his fate to my father’s and forebore to get heirs. He took his mother’s name as his own, then, for she loved him nonetheless. My lord de Toluard would know, being of Siovale.” “Sarafiel Delaunay,” Roxanne de Mereliot, the Lady of Marsilikos, said unexpectedly, smiling. “She was Eisandine by birth. There is an old story in Eisande, of Elua and a fisher-lad named Delaunay. Sarafiel would have understood. She sent Anafiel to me to be fostered when he was a child.”

(From Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey)

Comte Gilles Baphinol wed Marie-Celeste Chalasse after a whirlwind love affair, truly the stuff of poems. Their union was quickly blessed with the first of a brood of children, considering him being a scion of Eisheth this was no surprise. Nonetheless the noble couple indulged each and every one of their issue. In Cateline, a noted healer, the family line is secure, one of her children will take the Baphinol name and one day inherit the title. Dizier is an accomplished chirurgeon, and raising his own hoard in Siovale. Twins Felise and Gervese, a painter and lawyer respectively, dazzle with their matching garb at any fete. Hughes is known across the land for his way with rhyme, his work in print each season. Joia is set to wed a handsome noble from Azzale, whom she wooed with her viol. Auberi currently attends a fine university in Tiberium. And their precious youngest child, Rosanna, has become a jewel of the Night Court. Truly, the Comte and Comtesse could not be more proud of their dear children. 

Elua’s Companions || Eisheth Eisheth is the goddess of music, healing and story and patron of the Mendacants. She founded the territory of Eisande in the south of Terre d'Ange. The D'Angeline wedding ceremony involves the bride lighting a candle and saying a prayer to Eisheth to open the gates of her womb. House Mereliot are descended from her.