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FAOLAN

COURT Shardless; Seelie-sworn
TITLE Seelie Marshall's Hound
OCCUPATION Bodyguard, Assassin, Spy
ABLE TO FAST-TRAVEL

Teleportation between the gardens of Caer Glaem & Caer Scima

Teleportation in Dorchadas at night

Teleportation to Lancelot's side

Cleg
RESIDENCE IN 2,701 Caer Glaem
RESIDENCE IN 2,702 Caer Glaem

MAJOR EVENTS

HIGHLIGHT
Description [ ✖ ]

PLANS
- Keeping an eye on Lancelot both in Caer Glaem/the White Citadel and on his travels.
- His mission for Lancelot to connect with all of the agents stationed in the cities closest to Caer Glaem.
- Becoming Spymaster under the direction of the Seelie Marshall should said mission be fulfilled.
- Watching over Bridei when Lancelot is not around and making sure that he is safe.
- Possibly spreading more positive sentiments towards the Seelie court (or at least positive sentiments towards Lancelot) in the form of ballads.
- Upholding his oaths to the best of his ability.

SUMMARY OF KNOWN DETAILS
TBA

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

SPRING IN 2,701 (Mar, Apr, May)

MARCH - Gwen is happy to see Faolan alive again. Faolan spends most of the month hiding from the cold under Lancelot's charmed blankets with Bridei, and feeling guilty he won't let him light a fire.
APRIL - Faolan starts to hear harp-playing everywhere, both in and out of his dreams, and his emotions go off of the charts. He resents harps, and he resents what they mean to him. He would never destroy an instrument in or out of his dreams however so he will be affected the whole month. There are significant interactions with Lancelot and Guinevere during this event.
MAY - Faolan accompanies Lancelot on the first of his many Public Relations trips, this time to Parrais.

SUMMER IN 2,701 (Jun, Jul, Aug)

JUNE - As of the month before, the lockets and the fairy rings do not work, and as such, communication with agents stationed out in cities has become a challenge. Lancelot assigns Faolan the task of traveling to them and communicating in person, since it is easier for him to travel around than most others these days, being shardless. He starts out with Treun, where he participates in the Melee competition of the Tourney and is bested by Connor early in the running. Lancelot is there to soothe his bruised ego. Also at the Tourney he speaks to Aragorn, Lucrezia, and Natasha. He also meets with the agent in Treun before continuing on his mission south to Leathann, where there is no agent stationed, but he spends a while investigating in their stead.
JULY - From Leathann Faolan does a massive traveling loop back up to Parrais on his mission for Lancelot to meet with the agent stationed there. And from there he goes on to Doanna for the final stop in his journey, where he discovers that there is some unrest after the hangings that take place there. He speaks to Diarmuid and they exchange information, before he returns to Caer Glaem to share his findings with Lancelot. (All throughout the mission he has been checking in here and there, to let him know that he's alive, and because Bridei misses him.)
AUGUST -Faolan accompanies Lancelot to Leathann for more Public Relations on behalf of the Seelie court, and tries desperately not to be in the way during the Festival of Lights. While he's there, he takes some time to investigate this new Oracle (and possibly work on establishing a new agent in the city?).

FALL IN 2,701 (Sept, Oct, Nov)

SEPTEMBER - Faolan returns with Lancelot to Parrais for more Public Relations touring.
OCTOBER - On the 25th of October, the Drabwurld celebrates Samhain once more. Faolan attends, and reminisces about last year with Lancelot. He spends less time brooding than he did last year, and even accepts a few dances, including one with Gwen.
NOVEMBER - Faolan spends much of the month on regular duties. When word of the escaped convicts from the prison colony in Leathann reaches Caer Glaem, it makes him uneasy - are any of these people a threat to Caer Glaem itself?

WINTER IN 2,701/2,702 (Dec, Jan, Feb)

DECEMBER - Having won the Hunt last year, Lancelot will apparently get it into his mind that he doesn't need to take it seriously this year, thereby ending up getting himself cursed into becoming an animal this go around. An otter, to be exact. Faolan must then watch over him, Lady, and Bridei the three of them for the next few days until Lancelot is himself once more. Any gifts he receives for Yule he struggles to return in kind, even if his own gifts by comparison are likely not as fancy or expensive as those that are given to him.
JANUARY - Faolan accompanies Lancelot back to Treun once more for more Public Relations touring on behalf of the Seelie court. He checks in with the agent stationed there, and puts out feelers as to what might be going on with the Fortuna family, after the Governor was forced to abdicate his position. (The 26th marks Faolan's return from death, an event that is possibly worth celebrating?)
FEBRUARY - Faolan travels with Lancelot back to Leathann again for another Public Relations visit on behalf of the Seelie court. (If he has established an agent in Leathann at this point he will check in with them.) Also during this month, on the 14th, Bridei turns one year old.

SPRING IN 2,702 (Mar, Apr)

MARCH - Faolan joins Lancelot and all others defending Caer Glaem by decapitating the skeletons of the risen dead, and is largely unsettled by their appearance.
APRIL - Fairies start to go missing from Caer Glaem, leaving everyday tasks unfinished. Faolan knows how to make do without them, although it is an inconvenience in certain aspects. This too is concerning, however, and he wonders what it could mean going forward...

( codes by whambam )

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Faolan sits with Maglor's harp on his knee, his fingers poised on the strings. It's been a long time since he's touched a harp - well, not that long, really. Only since Samhain. It just feels like it's been a long time, since every time he hears one playing, at every feast, every gathering, his fingers have itched for one. Maglor had said that he would get him back into music one way or another. He just wishes that it hadn't been this way.

But he needs to play, to practice. He's written a ballad, not only the words but the music, all in his head. (He's had a lot of free time to himself recently, with all of this sitting back and taking it easy that he's had to be doing while his hands healed. While he watched after Bridei in the first month of his life.) But now it's time that he found out whether the ballad in his head really works as a ballad aloud. If this is really feasable, what he has in mind, to spread the song around and rally folk behind - if not the Seelie court, than at least behind Lancelot. A lot of people had to be wary, considering the total destruction of Caer Scima. Everything resulting in that would fall on Lancelot's shoulders and Faolan wanted to do his damnedest to make sure that he softened that blow.

Bridei and Lady both sit as his feet, looking up at him and the instrument on his lap with fascination. Lady at least knows to keep her distance. Bridei he's had to coax out of climbing up his leg a few times before he's convinced he'll be safe using his hands elsewhere. Once he (and Lady) have him settled, though, he has no more excuse. He's tuned the harp, and to his chagrin it's perfectly on. So setting his fingers to the strings, he begins...

Lancleot can hear the faint strains of music through the door, and although he knew Faolan had been given the harp it surprises him to hear it being played. It could be someone else, he thinks, although somehow he doubts Faoaln would be so bold as to invite a person into his room without so much as asking -- yet when he quietly pushes the door open and slides in there he is. Harp upon knee, animals in quiet attendance as he plays.

More than that, Faolan is singing. He is singing well, in fact, something which surprises Lancelot -- Faolan had always seemed uncomfortable around music. Had always seemed to have distaste for it, for singing. Yet here he is, playing the harp and singing himself. Singing as if it is a thing he is no stranger to, as if it is a natural talent in fact. Lancelot dares not make a sound, dares not step forward even lest he stop so stay still he does. Still and quiet, back in the shadow of the doorway.

The song itself is a charming one, a tale of a battle of some sort, yet the more it goes on the more Lancelot has an odd sense that the story it tells is oddly familiar. Very familiar, in fact -- and then -- then his suspicion is confirmed. A song of the battle they both fought in! He had no idea such things existed already, let alone one which had him in it, and Arturia? He had no idea many people even knew of what happened! Had it been so witnessed? Was the tale so widely spread?

At least, he thinks, the song does not name him directly -- although he supposes there is an implication of sorts. That, and he supposes he should be grateful it does not slander him in some way. Faolan's fingers still finally, the last notes ringing through the air, and Lancelot smiles a little at the sentiment. It reminds him of what he has told Faolan himself many a time, and there is something pleasing about seeing it echoed so here.

"I had no idea you sung," he says, breaking the silence, and Bridei and Lady are suddenly on their feet and scurrying toward him now they realise he is there.

Edited 2015-03-12 00:29 (UTC)

He messages Dorian Gray, requesting that they meet to speak.

Edited 2015-03-12 00:27 (UTC)

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SPRING 2701

SUMMER 2701

AUTUMN 2701

WINTER 2701 - 2702

SPRING 2702

MARCH 2701

APRIL 2701

MAY 2701

JUNE 2701

JULY 2701

AUGUST 2701

SEPTEMBER 2701

OCTOBER 2701

NOVEMBER 2701

DECEMBER 2701

JANUARY 2702

FEBRUARY 2702

MARCH 2702

APRIL 2702

towards the end of the month

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TREUN

PARRAIS

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DAONNA