teya
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Mother Teya Marie Saint-Saens is a frail and tiny woman, less than five feet tall, with hip-long blonde hair pulled back into a thick braid of honey gold. She's rather a plain woman with an unremarkable face and a delicate structure that makes her appear as if she might shatter like glass at a loud noise. But her complexion is rosy and her lips pink, the glow of health and peace radiating from her along with the soft and subtle scent of some summer wildflower. The woman's only true beauty is a pair of wide, expressive blue eyes the deep color of a winter sky.
Soft white robes cover her from high collar down to the floor, the sleeves sweeping the tops of her hands in voluminous folds. A pectoral cross signifies her rank as Bishop. The robe is simple, clean, neat, and was clearly tailored to fit her small form. White slippers peek from beneath its hem, also simple and unadorned and tiny, and when she moves they make almost no sound.
She wears an eclectic collection of jewelry, probably all gifts. A green malachite bracelet circles her left wrist. In her hair, a deep mahogany clasp keeps her braid held at the nape of her neck. The neckline of her robes is pinned together with a small silver clasp of the Sanctuary Aeon symbol, ringed with tiny saphires. Around her throat is clasped a pendant of exquisite beauty and enormous expense, a clear crystal jumpgate-and-grail. And on her left hand a silver and tigereye ring decorates her fourth finger. She wears no makeup.
Personality:
Kind, compassionate, irritable, honest, strong, passionate, gentle, martyr, tempestuous, intelligent, workaholic.
Relationships:
Pura Saint-Saens Valencia. Adopted daughter. She loves Pura more than any other human being in the Known Worlds.
Porter Valencia. Former husband. (Widowed, not divorced. It's a long story. Scroll down.)
Howe. Late husband. She refers to him now only as "a dear friend." There are very few people still on Vargo that bore any witness to their marriage and might be able to shed more light on their relationship.
Samiloth Justinian. Friend and confidante, in the way that they spend most of their time screaming at each other.
Sanctuary Aeon. Teya has been the head of this Order on Vargo since 4998. They are both her job and her family.
History:
4971: Teya Saint-Saens is born on Artemis, a stone's throw from the central hospice. Her father is an Engineer adjunct to Sanctuary Aeon, trading in and repairing merciful technals. Her mother is a member of the Masq, a concert pianist of great standing (during her heyday, she performed at the Emperor's court). Teya has four older brothers, all of whom eventually went into the guilds and had families.
4979: At age eight, Teya discovers she is deathly allergic to apples, and spends a good deal of time recovering in Sanctuary Aeon. She's given the penance task of caring for stray animals, and follows this task with enthusiasm, precision, and persistence.
4983: Teya begins Amalthean training, eventually becoming specialized as a surgeon. Due to her father's influence and profession, she is extremely skilled in the use of technals. Probably more so than most Engineers, though only Engineers would know that.
4992: After completing her training, Teya is assigned to a small village on a formerly lost world, where she begins setting up a small clinic. Her father dies of illness a short time later; the two had argued and never reconciled. She leaves eighteen months later under circumstances she's never mentioned.
4994: Teya returns to Artemis and works for two years in the central hospice.
4996: After having a personality conflict with her direct superior, Teya is assigned as the Confessor to one Baron Toram (insert long-ass name) Hazat. The Baron travels to Pandemonium in some sort of honor-related quest involving his family's wine shipments. The Baron literally runs over the small street urchin Pura, breaking her left wrist in the process. Teya takes Pura in and mends the wrist. Some time later, the Baron disappears without word, and Teya and Pura wait for two months for his return. He never does return, so she borrows money from the local hospice and makes her way across the Jumpweb to Tethys. It is purely by accident that they're still on board when the transport makes another jump out to Vargo, but Teya was out of money. They stick around.
4997: Teya arrives on Vargo from Pandemonium with the ten-year-old Pura in tow. Finding no leadership at Sanctuary Aeon, she quickly began making changes and decisions and generally running the place. She meets Porter within a few days of arriving, and it's fighting at first sight; it was inevitable that the two would either kill each other or get married, and so Porter became Teya's first love. Porter and Teya were married in a ceremony performed by Father-Commander Leviticus, and in the same ceremony adopted the orphan Pura as their child, becoming the legal child and rightful heir to both of them. A few months later, Teya works her first theurgic rite, healing Porter. (The man got shot a lot.) To this day, they still fight viciously and yet love one another deeply... though Porter has bizarre ways of showing his affection, and most of them involve either violence or cooking.
4998: Teya is named Bishop of Sanctuary Aeon. During this time she learns forensic science courtesy of an invasion of husks, and quarantines the planet for several months due to a Symbiot invasion. Porter and Pura were in a shuttle leaving Vargo. It exploded in orbit and both were declared legally dead on that date. At that moment, Teya became legally widowed. She grieved deeply and for a long time, and it appears that this was the beginning of a long slide into extreme workaholism and depression.
4999: The Triumvirate is formed in the fall of 4999, consisting of Alvaro of the Hazat, Howe of the Engineers, and Teya, who is appointed as Archbishop of Vargo. For the sake of political stability (so the claim goes), Teya marries Howe. He presented her with quite possibly the most unromantic wedding gifts ever, for an Amalthean - a synthsilk slip and an energy shield. The two were very rarely seen in one another's company in public, except for occasional dinners at the Sultan. Their relationship was mostly conducted behind the closed doors of the Engineer Guildhall and Sanctuary Aeon. Curiously, Howe seems to have been the only person Teya never entered into screaming fights with. He is known to have spent a great deal of money protecting the Hospice with energy shields and providing them with medications at no cost.
5000: Porter and Pura returned to Vargo, not dead, (Yay!) and announce that Kurgans have invaded the planet. (Boo!) Since Teya had been legally widowed, Porter and Teya were no longer married. From a theological perspective a Bond of Light may still exist. Legally, no relationship exists. Teya and the Triumvirate start working on repelling the Kurgan threat. Howe and Porter have an uneasy relationship at best, and Pura hates Howe largely out of loyalty to her dad.
5002: Porter, now bizarrely single due to being technically dead, married Carnait. This was legal and is recognized by the Church. So far no one has had the testicular fortitude to ask Teya's opinion on this, which is probably a wise collective choice on the part of everyone.
5003: Teya is recalled to Artemis. No one knew why at the time. Speculation of Orthodox conspiracy abounded, and a few stories about her always-rocky marriages circulated, but the reason was actually small and personal: her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Teya took a position in the high echelons of Sanctuary Aeon's bureaucracy, which basically consisted of logistics and politics. It was her job to coordinate the distribution of medicines and merciful technals being sent from Artemis' main hospice to war-torn or infested regions of worlds all across the jumpweb. After work, she went home to take care of her mother. This continued for more than four years.
5004: Howe is assassinated in the Agora. Teya is widowed again. Somebody sends her a telegram. No one now living knows if or how she grieved.
5005: Porter and Carnait had a son, Llewellyn, who is the legal child and rightful heir of Porter and Carnait. Again with the people not asking Teya what she thinks of this.
5006: Carnait, misinformed and believing Porter dead, disappeared. (Vargen PCs should contact Carnait for details if needed.) Neither she nor Porter were ever declared legally dead. Their marriage still exists. Teya was on Artemis and (in theory) totally missed out on the opportunity to jump Porter's bones while his wife was presumed dead. All are sad.
5008: Carnait and Teya both return to Vargo City. Jokes abound regarding Porter's love life. Teya's mother passed away on the same day as Bishop Anwar's death, and so Sanctuary Aeon dispatches Teya back to Vargo. She returns as the Presiding Bishop of Sanctuary Aeon, but still has at least informal status as the former Archbishop of Vargo. On a more personal note, she seems to have found some peace and happiness, a hint of calm and maturity that had been unseen in her since the moment Porter and Pura had "died" in their shuttle accident.
Mother Teya Marie Saint-Saens is a frail and tiny woman, less than five feet tall, with hip-long blonde hair pulled back into a thick braid of honey gold. She's rather a plain woman with an unremarkable face and a delicate structure that makes her appear as if she might shatter like glass at a loud noise. But her complexion is rosy and her lips pink, the glow of health and peace radiating from her along with the soft and subtle scent of some summer wildflower. The woman's only true beauty is a pair of wide, expressive blue eyes the deep color of a winter sky.
Soft white robes cover her from high collar down to the floor, the sleeves sweeping the tops of her hands in voluminous folds. A pectoral cross signifies her rank as Bishop. The robe is simple, clean, neat, and was clearly tailored to fit her small form. White slippers peek from beneath its hem, also simple and unadorned and tiny, and when she moves they make almost no sound.
She wears an eclectic collection of jewelry, probably all gifts. A green malachite bracelet circles her left wrist. In her hair, a deep mahogany clasp keeps her braid held at the nape of her neck. The neckline of her robes is pinned together with a small silver clasp of the Sanctuary Aeon symbol, ringed with tiny saphires. Around her throat is clasped a pendant of exquisite beauty and enormous expense, a clear crystal jumpgate-and-grail. And on her left hand a silver and tigereye ring decorates her fourth finger. She wears no makeup.
Personality:
Kind, compassionate, irritable, honest, strong, passionate, gentle, martyr, tempestuous, intelligent, workaholic.
Relationships:
Pura Saint-Saens Valencia. Adopted daughter. She loves Pura more than any other human being in the Known Worlds.
Porter Valencia. Former husband. (Widowed, not divorced. It's a long story. Scroll down.)
Howe. Late husband. She refers to him now only as "a dear friend." There are very few people still on Vargo that bore any witness to their marriage and might be able to shed more light on their relationship.
Samiloth Justinian. Friend and confidante, in the way that they spend most of their time screaming at each other.
Sanctuary Aeon. Teya has been the head of this Order on Vargo since 4998. They are both her job and her family.
History:
4971: Teya Saint-Saens is born on Artemis, a stone's throw from the central hospice. Her father is an Engineer adjunct to Sanctuary Aeon, trading in and repairing merciful technals. Her mother is a member of the Masq, a concert pianist of great standing (during her heyday, she performed at the Emperor's court). Teya has four older brothers, all of whom eventually went into the guilds and had families.
4979: At age eight, Teya discovers she is deathly allergic to apples, and spends a good deal of time recovering in Sanctuary Aeon. She's given the penance task of caring for stray animals, and follows this task with enthusiasm, precision, and persistence.
4983: Teya begins Amalthean training, eventually becoming specialized as a surgeon. Due to her father's influence and profession, she is extremely skilled in the use of technals. Probably more so than most Engineers, though only Engineers would know that.
4992: After completing her training, Teya is assigned to a small village on a formerly lost world, where she begins setting up a small clinic. Her father dies of illness a short time later; the two had argued and never reconciled. She leaves eighteen months later under circumstances she's never mentioned.
4994: Teya returns to Artemis and works for two years in the central hospice.
4996: After having a personality conflict with her direct superior, Teya is assigned as the Confessor to one Baron Toram (insert long-ass name) Hazat. The Baron travels to Pandemonium in some sort of honor-related quest involving his family's wine shipments. The Baron literally runs over the small street urchin Pura, breaking her left wrist in the process. Teya takes Pura in and mends the wrist. Some time later, the Baron disappears without word, and Teya and Pura wait for two months for his return. He never does return, so she borrows money from the local hospice and makes her way across the Jumpweb to Tethys. It is purely by accident that they're still on board when the transport makes another jump out to Vargo, but Teya was out of money. They stick around.
4997: Teya arrives on Vargo from Pandemonium with the ten-year-old Pura in tow. Finding no leadership at Sanctuary Aeon, she quickly began making changes and decisions and generally running the place. She meets Porter within a few days of arriving, and it's fighting at first sight; it was inevitable that the two would either kill each other or get married, and so Porter became Teya's first love. Porter and Teya were married in a ceremony performed by Father-Commander Leviticus, and in the same ceremony adopted the orphan Pura as their child, becoming the legal child and rightful heir to both of them. A few months later, Teya works her first theurgic rite, healing Porter. (The man got shot a lot.) To this day, they still fight viciously and yet love one another deeply... though Porter has bizarre ways of showing his affection, and most of them involve either violence or cooking.
4998: Teya is named Bishop of Sanctuary Aeon. During this time she learns forensic science courtesy of an invasion of husks, and quarantines the planet for several months due to a Symbiot invasion. Porter and Pura were in a shuttle leaving Vargo. It exploded in orbit and both were declared legally dead on that date. At that moment, Teya became legally widowed. She grieved deeply and for a long time, and it appears that this was the beginning of a long slide into extreme workaholism and depression.
4999: The Triumvirate is formed in the fall of 4999, consisting of Alvaro of the Hazat, Howe of the Engineers, and Teya, who is appointed as Archbishop of Vargo. For the sake of political stability (so the claim goes), Teya marries Howe. He presented her with quite possibly the most unromantic wedding gifts ever, for an Amalthean - a synthsilk slip and an energy shield. The two were very rarely seen in one another's company in public, except for occasional dinners at the Sultan. Their relationship was mostly conducted behind the closed doors of the Engineer Guildhall and Sanctuary Aeon. Curiously, Howe seems to have been the only person Teya never entered into screaming fights with. He is known to have spent a great deal of money protecting the Hospice with energy shields and providing them with medications at no cost.
5000: Porter and Pura returned to Vargo, not dead, (Yay!) and announce that Kurgans have invaded the planet. (Boo!) Since Teya had been legally widowed, Porter and Teya were no longer married. From a theological perspective a Bond of Light may still exist. Legally, no relationship exists. Teya and the Triumvirate start working on repelling the Kurgan threat. Howe and Porter have an uneasy relationship at best, and Pura hates Howe largely out of loyalty to her dad.
5002: Porter, now bizarrely single due to being technically dead, married Carnait. This was legal and is recognized by the Church. So far no one has had the testicular fortitude to ask Teya's opinion on this, which is probably a wise collective choice on the part of everyone.
5003: Teya is recalled to Artemis. No one knew why at the time. Speculation of Orthodox conspiracy abounded, and a few stories about her always-rocky marriages circulated, but the reason was actually small and personal: her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Teya took a position in the high echelons of Sanctuary Aeon's bureaucracy, which basically consisted of logistics and politics. It was her job to coordinate the distribution of medicines and merciful technals being sent from Artemis' main hospice to war-torn or infested regions of worlds all across the jumpweb. After work, she went home to take care of her mother. This continued for more than four years.
5004: Howe is assassinated in the Agora. Teya is widowed again. Somebody sends her a telegram. No one now living knows if or how she grieved.
5005: Porter and Carnait had a son, Llewellyn, who is the legal child and rightful heir of Porter and Carnait. Again with the people not asking Teya what she thinks of this.
5006: Carnait, misinformed and believing Porter dead, disappeared. (Vargen PCs should contact Carnait for details if needed.) Neither she nor Porter were ever declared legally dead. Their marriage still exists. Teya was on Artemis and (in theory) totally missed out on the opportunity to jump Porter's bones while his wife was presumed dead. All are sad.
5008: Carnait and Teya both return to Vargo City. Jokes abound regarding Porter's love life. Teya's mother passed away on the same day as Bishop Anwar's death, and so Sanctuary Aeon dispatches Teya back to Vargo. She returns as the Presiding Bishop of Sanctuary Aeon, but still has at least informal status as the former Archbishop of Vargo. On a more personal note, she seems to have found some peace and happiness, a hint of calm and maturity that had been unseen in her since the moment Porter and Pura had "died" in their shuttle accident.