Post by Gabriel Shahrizai on Jun 12, 2007 1:12:14 GMT -5
Name: Gabriel Marmion Shahrizai
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Race: d'Angeline
Appearance: Unmistakable as anything but a Shahrizai, Gabriel's blue eyes and blue-black hair proclaim his heritage from miles away. His artfully muscled form is kept from going soft by lots of time on horseback. He stands just over six feet.
History: After taking sanctuary from Nicola L'Envers, Marmion began to live his life over until the dark days of the past followed him. A young girl came beckoning one day, and Marmion wed his young Shahrizai niece, only daughter of Persia, at the tender age of sixteen,. At seventeen she was with child.
Believing Marmion owed her a full life for the one he took, she sought out the uncle who murdered her mother. True to Shahrizai blood Penelope twisted Marmion around her little finger and he gave her the world in both gold and the bedroom. Many in Aragonian court soon feared Penelope as she was so young and yet so cunning, even for those that knew the Shahrizai Penelope was beyond sadistic. Soon after her eighteenth natal she gave birth to twins; Magnus and Marise. Pregnant again soon after the birth of the twins, at nineteen Penelope gave birth to Martin.
All three children were raised wholly by Penelope as soon after the twin's second natal Marmion hung himself. It was said a note was never found and that some suspected Penelope did him in herself.
All three children grew up with a strong understanding of their Shahrizai nature, their mother insuring that they had the best tutors in and out of the bedroom. Martin never felt completely included though, for their mother developed a perverse fascination with the twins and sometime after their fourteenth year that Penelope encouraged Magnus and Marise together.
Penelope, after living in Aragonia for nearly twenty years decided to return to the Shahrizai fold and a cousin that offered her a tidy marriage bed. Martin, longing for time with his Shahrizai kin followed with her, hoping to find a sense of family he'd missed in Aragonia.
Once in Terra d'Ange, Martin found the kinship he'd been longing for, becoming a member of the Shahrizai clan as if he'd been born on Kusheth soil. Martin even fell in love, with one of the unacknowledged bastard daughters of Faragon Shahrizai, Abigail, and they were married. A year later, Abigail gave birth to Gabriel.
Martin gave to his son everything that he had not had and Gabriel grew up the darling of any of his kin that met him. His large Shahrizai blue eyes and innocently sweet smile were winning the hearts of men and women before Gabriel could even speak. Behind those eyes though worked a mind as cunning and clever as any his grandmother Penelope could have hoped for.
Gabriel grew into the epitome of courtier, able to woo any man or woman he truly set his sights on. His innate skill with language gave him an in to many situations he might not have experienced otherwise, where he always managed to glean a bit of knowledge here or there to use to his advantage later. Never having had to perform anything close to a day's work in his life, Gabriel lives only for pleasure. He is just as likely to be found in the Opium rooms at Gentian, or the baths at Balm, as his family's dungeon in Valerian.
Feeling the need to escape the City for a bit, Gabriel allowed one of his many lovers, the Duchess Giamore to make him her live in lover on her estate in Kusheth for the last year. For a year Gabriel lived a pampered life any courtesan would envy, and yet he found himself quickly bored. With his unfailing skill, Gabriel convinced the Duchess that it was her idea to send him back to the City and to life at court.