Princess Adelaide Angelica Tycortua

Personal Attributes

Birthdate: Lilius the 12th, 1964 R.S. (1984 A.D.T.)
Hair: Flaxen Blonde.
Eye-color: Emerald green, more so than one would expect from one of the Steel-folk. Notably, she has very, very, very slight heterochromia; so much so that it would be more accurate to say there is a slight difference in the patterning of the iris, only notable upon close inspection.
Height: Shorter than Erica Greenmaiden. Taller than Lowell of the Forest-folk.
Blood Type: AB Positive, or at least what accounts for AB Positive in modern times.
Birthplace: Riverluck, Tycortua.
Descent: Dominant Tycortuan, 1/8th Skahian, Negligible Quatrainian. An unquantifiable tint of the other-worldly.
Traditional Sunfire Astrological Sign: Rosaritter, the knight of Amal-ea the Gentle.
Traditional Naktikan Astrological Sign: The Gwyllgi.
Elemental Affinity: Fire
Preferred Warm Beverage: Tea, specifically black. Though Tycortua has a historical culture of drinking coffee, Adelaide took to drinking tea at the age of 10 when she started studying her mother’s Skahian ancestry and their practices. Her preferred tea is the Tempest-ash blend from the Sea Scars –known for a ‘muscatel’ flavor — prepared without milk or honey. For variety she often drinks the bergamot scented Naktikan Mist blend or a simple blackberry black blend. For social occasions, she’ll drink whatever plain black tea she can find brewed with milk. For exceptionally special occasions, she’ll break out her ‘hidden’ stash of Viemese Highland Dragon — a luxury blend known for its smoky flavor. She despises green tea unless it’s flavored with additional spices, finding it a shame to the drink.

  • MotBW: Not to nitpick, but does it really mean anything to compare her height to ‘Little Wolf’ Lowell?
  • TWS: Hey! It’ll make sense eventually
  • MotBW: No, but, like…. You’ve seen Lowell, right? Most people are taller than her. Most Forest-folk are taller than her.
  • WotL: Neither of you have any tact at all. Do you have any idea how insulting it is to talk about people behind their back like that? And for what? More gossip?
  • TWS: This is important stuff. It’s what the people want to know.
  • WotL: What people?
  • MotBW: Now I have to ask. I know you put these little histories together for posterity’s sake in the Library of the Crystalline Forest, but are you also publishing tabloid magazines for the Snow-folk?
  • TWS: I would never.
  • WotL: Answer.
  • TWS: Anyway, kinda weird how utterly boring her elemental affinity and astrological signs are, huh? You’d think someone so important at the turn of an age would have some cool fate written for them, but…
  • WotL: That’s not how fate works and I shouldn’t have to tell you that.
  • TWS: Yeah, but it is how magic works and I shouldn’t have to tell you that.
  • MotBW: Proves she’s a Fool, I suppose.
  • TWS: Oh, I don’t like that. I’m going to have to keep a closer eye on her, aren’t I?
  • MotBW: Excellent. Take more responsibilities off my plate.

Family

Father: King Thierry Naimon Tycortua. Born Ventans the 19th 1936 R.S. (1956 A.D.T.). Currently ruling the Kingdom of Tycortua from Riverluck Palace.
Mother: Queen Cynthia Georgios Tycortua née Reece. Born Athanasius the 8th, 1937 R.S. (1957 A.D.T.). Notably, the Reece family is not one of the seventy-two chief houses of Tycortua, but a branch family of the Leclair house, one of the Winter families in the south-eastern region of Tycortua. The Reece family itself would not be notable if Cynthia had not married the current king, except as a historical footnote thanks to her great-grandmother Bethany Reece.
Siblings: If they won’t talk about it, neither will I.
Other: Has a handful of cousins in the Reece family, but she never interacts with them as they live in the town of Florafortuna, to the south-east of Tycortua, and she rarely leaves Riverluck Palace.
Levi Olivier Crownguard is her fifth cousin, though neither of them especially think about the fact much.

  • WotL: Speaking of a lack of tact.
  • TWS: It’s seriously not my place to make it public news. Like, certain things need to be resolved before anyone is willing to deal with that.
  • MotBW: Let’s shift to another topic before you two realize you’re talking about two different problems.
  • WotL: Huh? What’re you–
  • TWS: Anyway, worth note that Adelaide’s only the latest in a long line of… Uh… Let’s say ‘exuberant’ women from the Reece family.
  • WotL: Again, what’re you talking about? And why do you know that?
  • TWS: Well, Bethany Reece did a favor for the Snow-folk once, so I’ve kept an eye on the family since. But this is the crazy thing: before she got exiled to Tycortua, good only ‘Ironfist’ Bethany was slaying dragons in Naktikos.
  • WotL: And? Skahios and Naktikos are close. It’s fairly common for hunters to cross the border to track down whatever they’ve got their sights on.
  • TWS: She was up past Afallach. And she was a druid, not a linden-mage or even a glyphmaster.
  • WotL: What the hell? Why was she in Naktikos? Why was she hunting dragons in Naktikos?
  • TWS: I don’t know!
  • MotBW: And that’s not getting into Cynthia. Talk about a special lady.
  • TWS: You never think a Reece is going to be competent until they prove just how competent they are.

Skills

Lattice Engineering: She is a genuinely competent lattice engineer — not to the extent that she’s on the bleeding edge of research and development, but she has a solid grasp of book theory. She can perform repairs on just about any household lattice device and put together simple personal-scale devices herself.
Royal Educated: As a result of her future role, she is very well educated for one of her age; in breadth as well as depth. Most of her life has been committed to learning what she needs to know to rule a country, so she is at least conversational in mercantile theory, military strategy — though not tactics — both Tycortuan and Sunfire legal principles, proper forms of governance and taxation, the history of the Sunfire Empire, and the current political climate of Chevaladin. This is in addition to the topics she’s more personally interested in such as lattice engineering and the associated magical theory, other-worldly ecology, and Scholastic theology. Surprisingly not especially well-versed in mythology, as her sense of adventure is devoted more to modern heroic figures and specific mystical beasts as opposed to their homelands.
Athletic Mediocrity: Far more physically adept than one would expect. Which is not to say she’s athletic, but she has a decent amount of stamina from repeatedly strolling through Riverluck Palace and can, for instance, walk or run longer than most of a scholarly persuasion.
Unique Constitution: Possesses the uncanny ability to blend in when she does not properly belong. The mechanics are incredibly complex and the reason why she can do so is… not mine to tell, but in short, there’s a kind of aura of oddity about her. So long as people have no reason to notice her, they will not and their mind will basically filter her out because there’s no reason why she should be there. Rarely comes into effect in her life, since she only really goes places she belongs and not nearly as useful as it might sound, since she can’t sneak past people who anyone would want to sneak past. Just a bit of oddity.
Culinary Understanding: Technically a capable cook. Insofar as she understands the basic principles of cooking. The only dish she can actually make with any success, however, is cherries jubilee.

  • WotL: What’s this about a ‘unqiue constitution’?
  • TWS: Did you miss the part where I said ‘not mine to tell’? Because it really isn’t.
  • WotL: Well is it magical in nature?
  • TWS: *Audible staring*
  • WotL: Oi. You’re not so far away I can’t punch you. I know it’s obviously mystical, but is it magic? Is it something she does without realizing or is it innate?
  • TWS: Innate. Obviously. Comes from the blood more than anything. And literally blood, not ancestry or anything.
  • WotL: O~h. It’s one of those things, is it?
  • MotBW: Indeed. Not enough to make a major difference or give the kind of proficiency in magic her counterpart has by birth, but a mark of the uncanny nonetheless.
  • WotL: Is that all it does?
  • TWS: Eh. It probably gives her above average magical capacity, but not the skill to use it. Which really just makes her a more appetizing target for the things that can see that.
  • WotL: A ‘more appetizing target’? Are you sure this happened as a result and wasn’t always the case?
  • MotBW: Quite sure. That particular incident is noteworthy for the sheer oddity of it. The motivations don’t quite make sense even ten years after the fact, but it may just be one of those things done for amusement. You might have a better chance of cracking it, Morgan.
  • WotL: Hmm. If I have the free-time, I’ll ask around.

Likes (Restricted to five, for brevity’s sake)

1) Jam of any assortment, so long as it’s sweet.
2) Trickery without malice.
3) The strangely smooth texture of Ancient-folk woven cermets.
4) Fairy tales involving either the kinder members of the sidhe and related groups or Humans outmatching their cleverness, like Skahian tales of parents recovering their lost children from the Bendith y Mamau.
5) Reading pulp novels and adventure serials, particularly the tales of free-investigator Isotta Moro, the ‘Rose of Dawn’.

  • TWS: Ok, but seriously? I get it about the cermets. I still don’t really know how they managed to make them feel so fascinating.
  • WotL: What?
  • TWS: It’s like… I mean, it’s metal. It clearly feels like metal, but it also is kind of cloth-y? There’s a weave to it. And then an all pervasive smoothness like porcelain. Way more delicate than you’d think something that hard could be.
  • WotL: No, seriously. What?
  • MotBW: How, in the name of all that is holy, is ‘tea’ not listed one on that list? She drinks a disconcerting amount of tea. I’m fairly certain she’s slightly underweight because she fills up on tea too often.
  • TWS: Yeah, I kind of assumed that one was at point 0, so to speak. It’s not so much a like as a core facet of her being.
  • WotL: That’s not how preference works.
  • TWS: I think it is. Every version of her in every possible future I’ve witnessed bore the same obsession with tea. And always in the same exact way: black over green, straight for her preferred blends but milk in plain. It’s like a cosmic constant. One cannot be Adelaide Angelica Tycortua without liking tea.
  • WotL: I think I need another lecture on augury, prophecy, and alternate worlds.
  • TWS: *Intake of breath*
  • MotBW: Not now.

Dislikes (Restricted to five, for brevity’s sake)

1) Bacon and other cured meats; the greasy, overly salted nature of much of them bother her.
2) Dishonesty, insincerity, and adhering to the letter of the law over the spirit.
3) Clothes which leave the midriff and/or collarbone exposed.
4) A philosophy of defensive conquest.
5) The Baron of Chevaladin.

  • WotL: Does anyone actually like the Baron of Chevaladin?
  • TWS: Yeah. A lot of people. He’s a folk hero.
  • ‘BK’: And it should be pointed out that Skye has a certain affection for him, if somewhat overpowered by extreme disappointment.
  • MotBW: Getting off track, friends.
  • WotL: Right. Because I do need to ask about that third one.
  • TWS: Hey now, it’s her thing, not mine. And at least I didn’t put ‘hips’ as well. I kinda thought that went without saying.
  • WotL: And yet you said it.
  • MotBW: I’m more bothered by the first. How can you not like bacon?
  • TWS: Easily. For me personally, it’s more that she doesn’t like salami. I think I take personal offence to that.
  • ‘BK’: If I may interject, before my lord goes off on a food rant again, why does defensive conquest irritate her so? I was under the impression it was an effective strategy.
  • TWS: She thinks it’s too hypocritical of a policy. ‘If you’re going to go to war, go to war. Don’t act high and mighty just because you weren’t the aggressor’ or something.
  • WotL: Do you have anything else to add, or can I go back to work? I do have important things to attend to, you know.
  • TWS: Now that’s just absolute–
  • ‘BK’: *Audible staring*
  • TWS: Fine.