Basic Information Full Name: Maria Céline Solisti née Giuliard Age: 66 Gender: Female Race: Full-blooded Ailor, Genevaud by birth, Nautilaan by lineage Sexuality: Regrettably heterosexual Preferred Weapon: Her cane or the back of her wrist Skill Information Total Points: +50 (age), +10 (talent), +10 (hobby), +5 (Sailing Art Racial Passive) 15 Baking Art (+10 age, +5 hobby) 15 Cooking Art (+15 age) 10 Mixology Art (+10 age) 3 Linguistic Science (+3 age) 12 Writing Art (+7 age, +5 hobby) 5 Needlework Art (+5 age) 10 Singing Art (+10 talent) 5 Sailing Art (+5 Racial Passive) Body Shape Physical Stat: 0 Body Shape: Slim Body Shape Body Fat: Moderate Body Fat Languages: Common Genevaud (Homeland tongue) Dressalo (taught by mother) Leutz-Vixe (learned from Linguistic Science) Special Traits/Spells/Mutations: Spoiler Infallible Navigator (Racial Passive) Nautilaan Ailor has a photographic memory for star maps and cartographic maps (and maps only), allowing them to recall their contents with perfect accuracy. Nautilaan can always tell what polar north is as long as they have a map with them, or can see the starry night sky. They are also immediately able to tell errors in maps. Iron Gut (Racial Passive) Nautilaan Ailor are exceptionally hardy, capable of surviving and functioning without food, drink, or sleep for up to a week. This makes them exceptionally suitable for dangerous coastal trips with few supplies, but also able to resist being starved out while imprisoned, or caught off guard while dozing off. Favored by the Sea (Racial Passive) Nautilaan Ailor gain a permanent +5 Sailing Art, and the winds favor their ships on the sea, gaining them bonuses to rolls in the World System involving the movement of ships in both Battle and Non-Battle Progressions. Somehow, they always seem to get lucky with the direction of the wind striking them just right in the sails to give them an edge. Visual Information Eye Color: Greyish blue Hair Color: Silver Hair Style: Simple bun under a wimple and veil Skin Color: Pale, bordering sickly Clothing: Dual colored dress, veil and wimple Height: 5’6” Personality Alignment: Lawful Neutral Personality Type: Campaigner Religion: Sancellist Church Life Story Early Life (Birth to age 16: Upbringing & Education) Maria Céline Giuliard was born in the year 243 AC to Florent Giuliard and Lauretta Giuliard. Her father was the eldest in the second generation of the recently stylized House Giuliard, an up-and-coming banking family in the urban centers of southern Genevaud. Maria lived a plush and comfortable life, living as the middle child of two other siblings with their parents in their townhome. In her earliest years, Maria was cared for largely by her mother, rather than servants. Growing up beside her brothers, Maria took to attempting to yodel in a game before being punished for acting out--she later invested her time in more acceptable singing for a Genevaud woman. This was largely one of many examples of shrewdness and penny-pinching Maria’s father was prone to display, Florent making it a constant theme in telling the journey of future success for Maria and her siblings. Per Genevaud convention, Maria was initially educated in matters of household affairs, such as needlework and staff management, but soon it became clear that the young girl had a natural inclination towards the culinary arts. Her mother, endeared by Maria’s youthful passion, further enabled the pursuit of her craft--eventually, the kitchen became something of Maria’s personal keep that she controlled and knew every inch and corner of. This continued until she entered her teenage years, where soon she was finally afforded professional tutoring in Leutz-Vixe while her mother taught her Dressalo, common local dialects that were necessary in broadening her pool of potential suitors. Her family’s business flourished, and soon Maria made her debut. Adulthood (Age 16 to 43: Motherhood & Contentedness) Despite her family’s success in their business, Maria did not find a suitable match until her father was elected as one of their canton’s representatives to the Genevaud Common Assembly. With that brief season of political clout, Maria’s dowry found itself in the purse of the House Sangiovese, a lineage historically associated with the Regalian Admiralty. Maria left Genevaud for the border coasts of Vultaro and Lorhauser to live on the family’s estate in Ventiane. Within a year of her marriage to Giorgio Sangiovese, she bore her first son, Valentino, at the age of 20. In her time of early motherhood, she later gave birth to her second son, Raffaello, at age 22. After him would be the couple’s final child, their only daughter Leonora, with Maria being 26. Maria’s husband in the early period of their childrens’ lives kept to the seas, fulfilling his duties to the Admiralty and the Empire faithfully, leaving Maria with the children in Ventiane. It was during these years that Maria indulged in frivolous passions: poetry, literature and her long-loved pursuit for culinary excellence. Maria raised her children alongside the family’s staff, instilling herself with her husband’s same unrelenting sense of duty, but to her family and her blood. By the time Maria was 43, the Chrysant War began and her husband would depart for service. Late Adulthood (Age 44 to 59: Discovery & Distance) Soon the children grew more and more into adulthood, Valentino eventually parting for Regalia for political pursuits and Raffaello to the navy. Maria remained in Ventiane with her daughter for some years, continuing her simple but pleasant lifestyle. Soon, Leonora would leave and Maria would be joined by Raffaello’s young family. She punctuated her time with rare trips to Girobalda to visit Valentino’s young family with Andrea Bara, her esteemed daughter-in-law. This idyllic life continued until the end of the Chrysant War, when Maria’s husband would be assassinated by Slizzar, alongside other military officials bound for the capital. Shaken, Maria found herself not so much an emotional widow--her time and efforts were more spent in letters of comfort to her children, while she kept a distance in Ventiane. In the midst of this death, particular family secrets and the appearance of previously unknown grandchildren would further shake Maria, though ultimately reinforced her sense of honorful duty and obligation to all her blood--a gesture to her passed husband. Elder Years (Age 60 to 66: Pursuit & Fulfillment) In the early years of the new century, Maria’s son Valentino found himself in the center of a great conspiracy that saw his fall from grace, and consequently that of the rest of his family. While Maria lived in Ventiane, her son’s noble lands at the time saw the brutalities of unrest and violent upheaval from the local populace, Sangiovese property and honor burned and thoroughly tarnished. She could imagine the traumas faced by both Valentino’s true wife Andrea and her children, as well as Valentino’s first wife and her children. While the family kept face by virtue of Raffaello’s involvement in the Regalian Fleet, Maria made it a point to send support, be it monetary or an effort of familiar comfort, to her grandchildren. Her son, meanwhile, continued to traverse the contours and turns of Regalian politics and the opportunities of wartime service, fostering in Maria her conflicting prescription of her son’s sense of duty to his blood everytime she signed a bank note to her daughters-in-law and her grandchildren. Her son’s recent activity in the capital finally aroused Maria’s interest--in so far as she finally mustered the nerve to actively be part of her family’s life again. Without so much as a letter, Maria set sail for the capital, seeking to reunite with her family and finally fulfill her earliest self-prescribed duties to her family--and to correct what mistakes she or her son had made. For better or worse, Maria is driven to Regalia in her most potent feeling of duty--something with an intensity she’s never felt in her mild life.
