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Your PCs never stop making me smile and/or clutch my hair. Angela was really funny and great.

I will miss THEORIES OF THINGS...

An excellent PC, a great example of how developed and experienced characters have the potential to become on EfU. Thank you for the RP, for your really awesome forum writings and for making the setting more alive and interesting in the past while.

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Rosalia      Sunspyre

Thanks: to my Knave pals -- by now you know who they are -- for all the fantastic RP and conflicts we had. Thanks to Howland, Abala, Ironside, and thanks to Stranger and the players of Madrick Marjolo, Cordelia Winespill, Aurelia Greywood, Eris Hale and Cao Huan. And to the many other PCs that Rosalia schemed with or against, feuded with, allied with or fooled. It was a lot of fun. A special thanks to Bearic.

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Lady Rosalia Sunspyre was the daughter of Lord Tarquin Sunspyre and Lady Lucrezia Giovanni, and was the granddaughter of Lady Reggina Sunspyre. Tarquin, who like many Sunspyres served as a Sunpurse retainer, died in a duel with Bernard Glitt when Rosalia was just a child. Her mother died of affliction not long after. Rosalia hated Bernard Glitt and wanted one day to kill him or bring about his ruin.

Raised in what remains of House Sunspyre -- the second-oldest remaining House in the Peerage, but destitute, consisting of little more than a hovel, a doddering manservant and some tarnished antiques -- by what middling tutors her grandmother Reggina could afford, Rosalia's upbringing was one of alienation. She was kept at arm's length by Reggina -- who seemed to despise Rosalia, perhaps because she was a girl and represented the failure of Tarquin to produce a male heir before his untimely death, seeming to doom the House to final extinction. Rosalia had no family nor servants to bond with, and other young women of the Burgage who were in a similar life situation were never friends but always rivals.

Her illustrious ancestry -- the blood of Sunpurse, Skybloom and Moonspear was in her veins -- may have been impressive to the long-shuttered College of Heralds but did nothing to alleviate her poverty or ease her bleak quotidian existence in the Burgage. Forbidden by Reggina to walk in her father's footsteps and become a retainer, Rosalia eked out a living as a clerk at the Royal Archive, and learned how to forge documents, putting food on the table by supplying the black market for fabricated land deeds and letters-patent out of the Spinning Groat.

She was, like many of the lesser nobility, resentful of the Great Houses and saw no future in the Peerage, which she considered little more than an open sewer ruled by pompous hypocrites paying lip service to a king in dotage. Over suppers of stale bread by candlelight in the Sunspyre hovel, she dreamed of watching the Peerage burn and the Houses fall. Clerking year after year at the Archives and eventually making Junior Secretary, Rosalia honed her forger's craft with single-minded determination until finally, she caught the eye of the exiled heir, Anders Orza, and found herself invited to an exclusive gathering at the Spinning Groat ... her journey into the service of the Red Queen which followed thereafter, is full of spoilers and cannot be revealed.

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What is known is that Rosalia spent the time of Nephezar's Banner Lordship wearing the royal red robes, and the figurative mask, of an Archivist, publicly engaging in such noisy antics as would make people consider her little more than a harmless fool, while privately and quietly guiding the Ward's affairs along the well-oiled tracks of the Dark Design ... as the Peerage witnessed the declaration of Phelan's death, the wedding plans, the issuing of the Sorrows, the dragon war, the destruction of Nephezar, and finally the marriage itself. How much of this was she involved in? Who can say?

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Incredible things lay in store for Rosalia, but she was taken before she got to see them.

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Here are some assorted screenshots -- maybe some day ages from now I can add the most spoilery ones.

[hide=The Height of Peerage FASHION.][/hide]

[hide=Scheming with Stelian Orza.][/hide]

[hide=Sunspyre and Sunpurse, side by side as the Lord intended.][/hide]

[hide=Au revoir to Anders.][/hide]

[hide=The old man had it coming.][/hide]

[hide=Nosier than you think ...][/hide]

[hide=Philosophy with Madrick Marjolo. 1-2]

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[hide=Playing dress-up with Marco.][/hide]

[hide=Discussing the Knave threat with Bishop Alberic "Gallant" Steelsworn.][/hide]

[hide=Midnight in the Burgage.][/hide]

[hide=The Forgotten City.][/hide]

[hide=Cradled by dusk.][/hide]

[hide=Pious Lady Rosalia.][/hide]

[hide=A chat with Bishop Gallant.][/hide]

[hide=Getting on Helyna's wick.][/hide]

[hide=Getting creative with Marco.][/hide]

[hide=Mentoring Nadine. 1-3]



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[hide=Dear Colleague Alphonso][/hide]

[hide=Dear Vincent Cantercall][/hide]

[hide=A planar disturbance.][/hide]

[hide=Aurelia. 1-2]

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[hide=Bonus: "The Diligent Scribe", unknown artist][/hide]

Rosalia      Sunspyre








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You are one of the most amazing players ever to grace this server. Thank you for this and all your PCs.

Excellent! More like this, please!

<3

Rosalia Sunspyre

Everywhere and nowhere ... absolutely terrifying. Well done, I very much enjoyed our interactions.

I love your PCs. Enjoyed our interactions very much. Bayezad helped keep the Peerage interesting at a time when there was otherwise little RP to go around. He will be missed. Thanks for making him!

A really cool PC that left a lasting impression. Well done!

Taking a break for a few days to focus on work and studies.