Tullents Castle

Duke Julian Tully

Julian Tully was born the middle child of three brothers. His older brother, Arthur, was the friends adventurous type. His younger brother, Ricard, was bullheaded and cruel. Julian was the studious and serious brother.

Growing up, Arthur was the heir and spend a lot of time in lessons on how to be a political figure head. Julian studied with the ministry and spend a lot of his time between the Tullents University and the Castle Ministry. Ricard took up fencing and joined the army. Despite their busy schedules, the brothers were close. They spent their summers together, and tried to get together as often as they could.

Julian married the Magistrates daughter, Lady Celia Holgrove, and their daughers Erica and Melany were born two years later. His son Charles were born a year after, and his children all lived with their older cousin Abigail in the family nursary rooms in the castle.

Everying changed the year that Charles were born. Ricard decided that there were too many people between him and becoming the duke, and he lead a rebelling to kill Arthur and Julian and thier children. Carina and Arthur died defending against Ricard in the nursary - and Julian arrived too late to save them.

Out of nowhere, Julian became the duke and stepped into the role of ruler and father figure for his tramatized family and niece. Within the year, Abigail was behaving strangely and was caught talking to things that weren't there... and his son died of sudden infant death syndrome a few months later.

From the ashes of grief and death, Julian decided that he would raise Abigail to take back her rightful place as the Duchess of Tullents - and proceded to put so much pressure on the girl that just pushed them farther and farther apart.

Duchess Celia Tully

Lady Celia Holgrove, daughter of the Lord Magistrate, had a crush on Julian Tully from the moment she laid eyes on him apprenticed in her fathers department. From that first day, she changed her entire lifes plan. She cut off talks with prospective suitors, she hired a tutor to help catch her up to speed on popular literature, and she went out and bought a brand new dress.

Her courtship was almost one sided, because Julian had no idea that he was already caught. Celia convinced her father, and Julian's father, and won over the Duchess and spent a good six months laying the ground work before she organized some happenstance meetings with Julian while he was working in the office.

And she married him. Her wits and humor and loyalty quickly won over Julian. He wasn't anticipating a love match - but through sheer force of fate he got one. Julian adored his wife, and they had three children. Celia had a difficult labor with Charles, who was born earlier than expected, and was told they might never have children again.

Celia was in recovery when the rebellion happened, she picked herself up and left bed rest to be with her husband, working tirelessly to help support him in his grief. Tragedy struck when they lost Charles, and buried themselves in paperwork and learning how to suddenly take on Arthur and Carina's jobs.

Celia loves Abigail, and knows that Julian is hoping to make Abigail the next Duchess. She tries as she can to help, but knows that a combination of physical limitations and long standing grief and trauma make it hard for Abigail to fully open up to her.

Knight Commander Warrick Brenson

Sir Warrick Brenson was elevated to the position on Knight Commander upon the death of his father, Sir Jeremi Brenson, during the Ricard rebellion.

Sir Warrick loved his father, and looked up to him. He respected his and held great pride at the fact that his family has been the head guard for every duke of Tullents dating back eight generations. He was not expecting to take the position as early as he did, and he was not expecting that it would be the very family he swore to protect that would be the cause of his fathers death.

Sir Warrick respected Duke Julian, so he focused all his angry and gried on the surviving Abigail Tally. His father died protecting her, and she grew up as an embarrassment to the entire Tullents line. She was crazy, and stuttered, and reminded Warrick every day that his amazing father was gone so that this young girl could still be here.

Sir Warrick's inner struggles came to a head when he overheard Duke Julian talking with his wife about returning the title to Abigail, and making her the heir after she came of age. Afterwards, he did everything in his power to make it known to all that she was not worthy.

He would do his duty to keep her alive, but he would no longer bite his tongue. To this day, he still despises the young girl... and probably always will.

Lady Pam Nels

Head lady-in-waiting and maid for the daughters and ward of the Tullents Duchy. Pam might have been from a noble family, but her parents died when she was very young, leaving her destitute. She lived for five years in the rougher parts of the city after she was turned out as a child, but survived by reading and selling the newspaper.

When she was going to be apprenticed, she caught the eye of the Lord Magistrate Holgrove, who remembered her father and didn't realize what had happened to the family he left behind. The Lord Magistrate apprenticed her to his own household and she grew up waiting on Lady Celia. Despite her lower accent, for which Pam doesn't care to correct because it constantly makes people underrestimate her AND she's perfectly willing to fade into the background, Lady Celia brought her as one of her trusted aids into the castle. She too was not anticipating to be put in such a high position of power, but when Lady Celia became the Duchess, Lady Pam was promoted as well.

Tullents City Mages Guild

Guild Master Hansen Ulrik

Hansen Ulrik has been the Guild Master for 30 years, and is hoping to retire in the next 10 years. He is a Master Mage who specialized in Support Strategic Analysis - or some other fancy words that just mean his powers all focus around enhancing the abilities of those around him.

He can look at a person, and if he focuses his magic on that person, he gets an understanding of what that person needs to shine. "That person is best with a bow", "That person needs to learn from that master", "That person shouldn't be allowed to do that job or they will fail.". But the time he was a Journeyman, he was already being primed to take on the Guild Master position.

Hans has always had to push to get people where they need to be, and a few times he's had to get in trouble to do it - as is the case when he here's about and meets Abigail for the first time.

Duke Julian sent him a short warning that his niece - the one everyone says is crazy - would be attending his guild for testing in the near future... and Hans immediately summoned Damien to come see him as well as all of the Masters in the guild. He knew that others couldn't see the forth orb normally - it had an enchantment on it to keep it hidden because problems searching for Gifted mages two hundred years back left behind a terrible fear in the magic society that continued in silly rules to this day.

Hans knew that he needed everyone who could make to appear and witness the testing of Abigail, and even if nothing became of it then having the prestigue of the guild present wouldn't be a bad political move while testing the dukes neice.

Things started to go sidewise the second the girl walked into his office. He KNEW. He knew that she couldn't go back to the castle, that what she needed was right here in his guild... and he made the choice that would put him in a terribly awkward position for years to come.

He doesn't regret it.

Journeywoman Helena Umbrath

Helena was the tallest person in Pine Hollow before she was twelve. There just were not a lot of anyone over six feet in the small village, and her lumberjack father from the north left behind a legacy in her height.

When Helena was thirteen, she started experiencing weird feelings every time she tried to do her chores. Like she was doing the wrong, or like she was using the wrong hand. Eventually, she and everyone else figured out it was magic when all the spice containers floated up and chased her around the room.

There was one mage in Pine Hollow, a young woman named Anetha who had the ability to transform into marsh animals. The woman spent a week trying to guide Helena and when that didn't work, they shipped her off to Tullents to see about finding a better teacher at the official Mages Guild headquarters in Tullents.

There she apprenticed to Heather Shardis, a very very old stitchwitch who helped with the laundry. Helena spent most of her time running errands and cleaning the guild alone... until Brock arrived. Brock was short, slightly heavy, and the quiet type. And Helena liked him as a great friend immediately. He took on most of the kitchen work and she helped with cleaning and running the bar. She likes to think that she had a crush on Brock before his growth spurt that left her finally looking up at someone... but all the same she's madly in love with him and trying to figure out what to do next.

Journeyman Brock Manse

Brock really likes to cook. His powers started whenever he poured drinks at his parents pub - and people started to notice when he served a soup that proved to be the perfect hang over cure.

He joined with a few other apprentices, but mostly ended up working alongside the tall and sweet Helena. What a woman. Not that she'd ever look at him of course, and they were just friends so he had no reason to muck up a good thing by going anywhere inappropriate.

Brock happily makes food for everyone in the back and chats mostly with Helena and Nari, the woman in charge of laundry. He is very content.