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[libratus]

PLAYER
Name: Jenni
Contact + Notes: jennibeans or PM. I also play Max and Pietro!
Anything We Should Know: I'm on PST and mostly tag on weekends b/c im old
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CHARACTER
Name: Ilias Fabria
Info Page/App: app / shamefully unfinished info page
Who They Are: A tired workaholic death mage. Ilias is a devout member of the Mortalitasi order, collected, professional, and a low-key disaster in his personal life, but whatever, who needs a personal life when everyone you love is dead. Consider instead: more work. He's not a social butterfly, but he's usually the one tasked with talking grieving families through the whole Nevarran death ritual thing, so he's a good listener, and has that Will Graham esq capacity to be Fine with things other people might find upsetting. Like viscera!
Where They've Been: Nevarra City, mostly! He’s traveled some within Nevarra but not very much outside it, except maybe as a controversial guest lecturer or something. He spent the mage rebellion having a very contained breakdown and then went back to playing by the rules.
What They Want: To help restore the Veil and take care of spirits and keep himself busy enough to never have to think about his mistakes. His grandmother would like him to not get assassinated when Nevarra's succession crisis explodes.
Plot & CR Desires: I'm here for spooky death cult stuff and spirit nonsense and ambiguously conservative mage politics.
Anything Else: Bring me your necromancers. No really, I’m brewing us up a plot, so come here and let me touch all your faces while i try to figure out deets.

Comments

[exequy]

slides in, poses dramatically with necromancer

For past CR purposes, Kostos was in Nevarra City when he was 15–19, so when Ilias was 18-22! He was apprenticing with the Mortalitasi but then disappeared overnight because his twin had tried to kill King Pentaghast. Annnd he was kind of quiet and sullen, also competitive, thought he was kind of a hot shot because the spirit medium thing made a lot of spirit stuff Just Work for him, didn’t have m/any friends, was a baby Loyalist who meant to follow the rules but also got into a couple of fist fights and a few people’s robes, etc.

So my guess is they wouldn’t have been close and might actually have not liked each other at all, especially since Kostos could easily have taken Ilias’ Mortalitasi Legacy Status personally and wanted to outdo him, but !! unsure.

[libratus]

Oh boy, that is an exciting time period to overlap. They'd have definitely been in proximity during the early part of Kostos's training! And yeah I think not liking each other very much seems likely, Ilias was a nice boy but super shy and studious and overly polite in a way that's easy to misread as "a stuck-up kiss-ass" if you're so inclined. He would have been harrowed at some point while Kostos was around, too, after which was probably peak time for any politically ambitious instructors to brag about how great he is in hopes of riding future family coattails, surely endearing him to everyone.

I think he'd have been pretty ???? about Kostos in general, b/c he's not competitive at all and believed Working Hard Gets You Far Enough (while also hugely benefiting from his family name), like maybe stop being such a hotshot and just do your work and it'll be fine, there's enough mummies for everyone!! But he'd have wholesale avoided any confrontation about it and vis-a-vis probably avoided Kostos a bit, which might've just made him seem more stuck up.

I'd been vaguely assuming Mortalitasi go live el...swhere, like closer to the necropolis at some point after harrowing?? In which case they might've been outside each other's orbits during their respective big life dramas? But there would certainly have been rumors about Ilias's cousin's death and his ex's abrupt transfer and the fact that Ilias went nigh on catatonic for a bit when he was 20ish. And I assume he'd have heard about Kostos disappearing and Nikos trying to kill the king, wtf dude. Iiiif they were around each other at all in between those two events Ilias would have been a hot mess of bad decision coping mechanisms, one of which could have been Kostos, but it's equally possible they just didn't reconnect. Until now.

[exequy]

That all sounds faaaaaab.

I’ve said places that Kostos got harrowed earlier than normal and more as a prerequisite to Mortalitasi training than as a capstone, but I’m totes fine with that being unusual—it was more “this kid is potentially a timebomb and how the heck do spirit mediums even work, let’s make sure he isn’t going to embarrass us in this specific way before we get in too deep” than anything good, and he knew it, so he could have like quadruply resented Ilias later when people were starry eyed.

And in any case he never made it to full-fledged Mortalitasi so they wouldn’t have been seeing much of each other after Ilias left—I think real Mortalitasi actually live in the Necropolis? or immediately adjacent maybe? since Cassandra and her brother were raised by their uncle there... anyway your theory makes sense. But if you want a witness to some of Ilias’ bad decisions Kostos could have come on field trips as part of apprenticing and been like “oh wow I like you way better as a disaster,” and I’ve also said places that he didn’t really sleep with men until he went to Orlais, since Orlais is The Most Cool with it, but they could totally have made out, and then we could both have “in the a literal necropolis” as an answer for “what’s the weirdest place your character has made out with anyone” memes.

[libratus]

you were just waiting for that, weren't you

anyway: /stamp of approval, yes that all makes sense!! im glad we can conspire to win "weirdest makeout place" and lose IC "never have i ever" to some cruel soul.