Post by Damien Hughes (D) on Apr 3, 2008 17:50:20 GMT -5
Name: Damien Hughes, Future Marquis d'Maurier
Age: 27
Height: 5'10
Gender: Male
Race: ¾ D'Angeline (Siovalese/Azzallese) & ¼ Aragonian
Home Province: Azzalle
Appearance: Damien is handsome taking on a very D'Angeline look despite his background. His hair is a warm golden brown, dark, but by not much showing the barest hints of a golden hue in the light. Its always kept unusually short cropped just above the ears, something more akin to Aragonian style. His eyes are blue, something that he doesn't share with much of his family, a throw back in his D'Angeline blood line. The one difference you will find in him, other then his shorter stature of 5'10 is the thin beard he keeps on his chin and upper lip. His body is well muscled though still slender and he keeps very fit. The only throw back to his Aragonian family, a small patch work of hair that he keeps all year round. His voice is a gorgeous lusty baratone that seems to drip sexual magnitizm.
History: Damien's story begins with the most prominent family in all Aragonia. Ana Maria de las Aragonia, Princess of Aragonia is Damien grandmother and the current king's aunt. As a child and as the youngest and only girl, it came to Ana Maria to be part of a long line of female princesses pawned off to D'Angeline nobility. When she was only 17 she was sent to Siovale to a Duchy on the border of L'Agnace, to wed an elderly Duc with great funds and a large estate. She went willingly as many of her sister's had gone before, marrying herself to a man she never knew. When she arrived, she found herself in strange company and in a strange new world surrounded by strange new affections. It was her duty to her family and to her house and Ana Maria took the charge seriously. During her summer months at her husband-to-be's home she found herself trapped. Her lord Duc was a kind man no matter his some 30 years her senior and he doted on his fiancé glad for the company. But as their wedding day neared Ana Maria feel in love with a young man of 18, a serving lad in the Duc's staff and of little consequence in status.
A fort night before she was to wed the Duc she fled with her love to the City of Elua, marrying him instead of her intended.
Her father was incensed, the union with the Duc ruined. She was banned, bared, no longer fit for her title, money or inheritance. Cutting Ana Maria off completely she became a pauper for her love and an outcast to her family. Ana Maria and her lover married simply with the small amount of coin that he had saved.
Knowing this he soon decided that he would need a profession and so joined the Queen's Guard. He was trained well and the pair lived happily until the call came for him to travel abroad. This saddened Ana Maria as she had just birthed their first child, a son they name Luc. Never the less her husband traveled away from where ever they called him to. Ana Maria waited for long months. Months passed and then years until the day the letter came and Ana Maria found herself a widow. In that moment something snapped in Ana Maria and she became a sad shell of her former, sitting all day and staring out her window, hoping for her beloved to return. Luc was, until his father's death, a happy boy. But when he was left to his mother's sadness Luc soon felt the desire to be away from the life he was left to. It must have been heard secretly by his mother because she soon after took her own life leaving Luc with a pittance of coin but enough to travel. So at the age of fifteen he traveled to Azzalle, having heard tales of the sea, he joined a ship and stayed in its crew for many years.
At the age of twenty five Luc had made his way to Captain and a tidy living, purchasing an extremely small town house near the coast, Luc soon fell in with a modest but profitable House and sooner after wed Giselle the second daughter of House d'Maurier.
There union was a happy one showing promise from the very beginning, never overly exciting nor overly distressing. Some two years after their marriage Damien was born, like his father, a happy easy going child, always with a smile on his face. When Damien was seven Luc left for sea, traveling through the straights and taking the long way around to Aragonia, taking Giselle with him. Tragedy struck mid way through the journey and Damien was left orphaned. Raised by his mother's family, the death of his parent's left a mark on him and he was more often then not sober and somber instead of happy and smiling. Knowing his own father's past had been much the same as his, he soon began to wonder if there was some curse upon his family. His grandmother's betrayal to her family causing this unhappy rift in their line. Damien spend much of his youth pouring over books of both Aragonia and Terre d'Ange learning all he could. His Aunt teasing him that it was his Siovalese heritage that made him so studious. Having a keen interest in the seas as well, Damien followed his father's path and became a sailor much to the chagrin of his grandfather whom feared that he was face his own end. But his luck seemed to trump any curse that may have been upon him and soon found himself the jewel of Her Majesty's Royal Navy. He had a long career and was considered a chum and friend to all that met him finally finding his happiness once more. Never desiring to travel outside of Azzalle (other then on orders) he was content to live his some what brigand life at the small estate he inherited from his father. It wasn't until his Aunt, his mother's elder sister and only other sibling, declared Damien her heir, did the need to go else where arise. It was made clear to Damien that now he was to become Marquise d'Maurier that he would need to go to court and make himself known.
So it was that Damien set out by carriage to the City of Elua seeking both to understand the ways of Court as well as give his congratulations to the Queen on her engagement. Though Damien has not yet offically received the title of Marquis, when he does he will inherit the Azzallese estate, a town home in the city and 8,000 a year.
As far as Damien's personality, he is a kind and soft mannered young man. Educated, though not as much as some of his peers, only speaking Aragonian and Alban along with his native tongue. And though never raised at court, in the presence of those of high station he is a man of propriety and grace. Even still he is a free D'Angeline and has a fondness for life often found joking, laughing or in deep discussion. Though a navy man through and through, it was often on long voyages that the men would gather and box for sport and gambling. During this time Damien took lessons from a ship mate and in no time became one of the best boxer's in the navy. “A horrible swordsman,” accounted by Damien's commander. “But one hell of a fighter.” Though happy in his path in life and the title he is to inherit, one of Damien's bigger goals is to connect back with his Aragonian heritage and perhaps any of his cousins that may also be at court.