Post by macSlainge on Aug 4, 2020 0:08:12 GMT
Don'chad macSlainge
Baron of Ross, Rigfennid Dal Riata Highlanders Fianna
Don'chad macSlainge, firstborn son of Slainge U'Niel, bloodright pumps thru Donchad's veins. Some say he carries the trueblood of the land from his forefathers, while others whisper his mother's blood also special. What is known is that Donchad is the natural born leader of an ancient noble and well respected clan of the Dal Riata, and that he grew up with a very well rounded education, was expertly trained in many different areas, including the ways of the clan, leadership, and all aspects of warfare by his father Slainge and his grandfather U'Niel, just as they were taught before him by theirs. In recent years Donchad has put that training and education to test, as he has for the last several years lead the Fianna of the Dal Riata Highlanders while his father ruled as the Earl of Ross while Donchad was recognized as the Tainiste for the clan.
With the sudden and tragic loss of his father, Donchad has now been installed by Dal Riata clan law as the new Earl of Ross. His clan, now known as the "macSlainge" clan, are found throughout lands of the North, but are in their greatest numbers in the Highlands of Ross. Clan macSlainge is one of the four most (if not the most) powerful of the kindred clans of Dal Riata.
Donchad has two surviving younger full-siblings, Desdemona and Ro'nain that he cares greatly for, and are noteworthy nobles in their own right. He also has some half-siblings (for U'Niel did get around), the most well known being Muichertach.
Donchad also has fathered four children of his own, ranging from 13 to 18 years of age. Tragically, Donchad's wife died while giving birth to their 3rd son. For several years afterwards, a cloud seemed to hang over and around Donchad, as he grieved the loss of his best friend and life-companion. However, over the last 4 or 5 years, many have noticed a change for the better (some say it is because he has finally found a new love).
As Earl of Ross, Donchad has many holdings in the Dal Riata Highlands, including prime cattle and farming lands in Ross, lordship of a small family "castle" and it's nearby town and markets. Donchad also has over the years built up a small smithworks shop, which produces a wide variety of much needed metal works, perhaps none so essential as weapons and armor, but also equally important necessities like horseshoes, nails and the like.
Donchad is known to b3 proficient with the sword, but is most well know for his skill as a bowman, especially when riding from horseback (which he greatly enjoys). In addition to his elite household guard and cadre of loyal men at arms due to his position as the Earl of Ross, for the last six years Donchad served as captain or "Rigfennid" of the Dal Riata Fianna, a semi-independent band of warriors. The Fiann are made up of landless young men (and women) "fennid", some of whom are of noble blood but have not yet come into their inheritance of land (and in some cases, due to scarcity never will unless things were to change). This is why many of the best and brightest of the younger sibling (and some not so young) clan members can be found in the Dal Riata Highlanders Fianna, or similar mercenary-like bands in the North.
It is this situation, this pressure for more sustainable lands for his clansmen and women that has driven much of Don'chad's efforts to increase the clan's land holdings, so that these young fennid might be able to homestead something new on their own, rather than wait for an inheritance for an existing property that may never come, or one too small to support the all of the heirs. It is noteworthy that many clan members have in recent times followed Donchad's advice and either joined the Fianna or taken to settling nearby (and further away) lands to raid raise cattle or otherwise stake claim for lands of their own and thus expanding clan holdings, for this is the way of things - one must constantly push to individuals (and by extension, the clan) grow stronger, or else the "rot" will set in and take everything good away.
It is well known that from Beltain to Samhain (during the summer), the fiann are obliged to live by hunting for food and pelts to sell, of which there was plenty. Donchad encouraged the young fiann to push out into the borderlands during these times, which they did. However, in order to ensure mother nature's stock of wild animals is not depleted, clan tradition restricts hunting of deer and wild boar during the winter season. It is during this time that as Rigfennid, Donchad quarters and feeds the fianna, while they maintain order on his behalf in the region and perhaps most importantly, its borderlands. For it is in these borderlands that the most trouble brews...
Don'chad macSlainge
Baron of Ross, Rigfennid Dal Riata Highlanders Fianna
Lifepaths: Noble > Prince of the Blood > Arcane Devotee > Lord > Baron > Captain
Stats: Will B5, Perception B6, Agility B4, Speed B4, Power B4, Forte B4
Attributes: Mortal Wounds B10, Reflexes B4, Health B5, Steel B8, Hesitation 5, Stride 7
Resources: B11
Circles: B3
PTGS: Superficial B3, Light B5, Mid B7, Severe B8, Traumatic B9, Mortal Wound B10
Skills:
Administration B3
Bow B4
Calligraphy B2
Clan-wise B3
Command B2
Contract-wise B3
Elf-wise B3
Estate Management B3
Falconry B2
Field Dressing B3
Haggling B3
Hunting B2
Mounted Combat: Bowman Training
Oratory B3
Persuasion B2
Read B3
Research B3
Rhetoric B3
Riding B3
Strategy B2
Sword B3
Symbology B3
Tactics B2
Write B2
Traits:
Blooded (die)
Born To Be King (char): Son in a royal line.
Your Lordship (char)
Your Grace (char)
Base Humility (char)
Mark of Privilege (die): 1D affiliation with nobility, +1 Ob to conspicuous/falsehood tests if masquerading lower than my station
Noblesse Oblige (die): "I am responsible for the people"*
Gifted (die)
Savvy (2D Call-On for Circles)
Cultural Traits:
Stubborn, Prideful, Bitter
Starting Resources Property:
A Castle** with an Attendant Town
2D Manors, land holdings in Ross
0D (2D) Trades, city/towns
1D Node Dt**
Relationships:
2D Coven mentors; powerful, forbidden
Aerendyl. Love interest; powerful, other family, forbidden
Younger Siblings (TBD); significant, immediate family
Kindred Clan; powerful, family
Affiliations:
2D Dal Riata Court Ross: large, regional/expansive (clan & kindred)
1D (0D) Dal Riata Court: Caithness & Sudrland
1D Nobility
0D (1D) Guild "Dal Riata Highalnders Fiana"; small, local (landless Dal Riata nobility warriors)
0D (1D) Guild "Dal Riata Highlands Smithworks"; small, specialized
Reputations:
2D "Inclusive listener"; Éisteoir cuimsitheach; open to different ideas and people, studies them; regional
1D "Treats his men like his own beloved sons"; (benevolence, justice and righteousness); local
1D "Garg 'nuair dhuisgear"; Fierce when Roused; local
Beliefs
1. "Táim freagrach as na daoine". I am responsible for the people*(via noblesse oblige)
2. "Rialaíonn mé ó dhualgas, oidhreacht agus ceart". I govern from duty, heritage and right
3. "Foghlaim a bheith ag fulaingt". Learn to endure, progress requires sacrifice
4. "Is í an ghlóir luach saothair valor". Glory is the reward of valor
(5. "tha eólas cumhachd". Knowledge is power)
Instincts
1. Fight on my own terms or not at all.
2. Ponder and deliberate before making a move.
3. Strike with extraordinary speed when the right opportunity presents itself.
Starting Holdings:
Affiliations:
2D Court -> 3D
2D Guild -> 0D
2D Coven
Properties:
2D Manor
2D Trade -> 0D
1D Node**
Gear
Arms, Run of the Mill Quality
Reinforced Leather, Run of the Mill Quality
Hunting Bow, Run of the Mill Quality
Riding Mount
Baron of Ross, Rigfennid Dal Riata Highlanders Fianna
Don'chad macSlainge, firstborn son of Slainge U'Niel, bloodright pumps thru Donchad's veins. Some say he carries the trueblood of the land from his forefathers, while others whisper his mother's blood also special. What is known is that Donchad is the natural born leader of an ancient noble and well respected clan of the Dal Riata, and that he grew up with a very well rounded education, was expertly trained in many different areas, including the ways of the clan, leadership, and all aspects of warfare by his father Slainge and his grandfather U'Niel, just as they were taught before him by theirs. In recent years Donchad has put that training and education to test, as he has for the last several years lead the Fianna of the Dal Riata Highlanders while his father ruled as the Earl of Ross while Donchad was recognized as the Tainiste for the clan.
With the sudden and tragic loss of his father, Donchad has now been installed by Dal Riata clan law as the new Earl of Ross. His clan, now known as the "macSlainge" clan, are found throughout lands of the North, but are in their greatest numbers in the Highlands of Ross. Clan macSlainge is one of the four most (if not the most) powerful of the kindred clans of Dal Riata.
Donchad has two surviving younger full-siblings, Desdemona and Ro'nain that he cares greatly for, and are noteworthy nobles in their own right. He also has some half-siblings (for U'Niel did get around), the most well known being Muichertach.
Donchad also has fathered four children of his own, ranging from 13 to 18 years of age. Tragically, Donchad's wife died while giving birth to their 3rd son. For several years afterwards, a cloud seemed to hang over and around Donchad, as he grieved the loss of his best friend and life-companion. However, over the last 4 or 5 years, many have noticed a change for the better (some say it is because he has finally found a new love).
As Earl of Ross, Donchad has many holdings in the Dal Riata Highlands, including prime cattle and farming lands in Ross, lordship of a small family "castle" and it's nearby town and markets. Donchad also has over the years built up a small smithworks shop, which produces a wide variety of much needed metal works, perhaps none so essential as weapons and armor, but also equally important necessities like horseshoes, nails and the like.
Donchad is known to b3 proficient with the sword, but is most well know for his skill as a bowman, especially when riding from horseback (which he greatly enjoys). In addition to his elite household guard and cadre of loyal men at arms due to his position as the Earl of Ross, for the last six years Donchad served as captain or "Rigfennid" of the Dal Riata Fianna, a semi-independent band of warriors. The Fiann are made up of landless young men (and women) "fennid", some of whom are of noble blood but have not yet come into their inheritance of land (and in some cases, due to scarcity never will unless things were to change). This is why many of the best and brightest of the younger sibling (and some not so young) clan members can be found in the Dal Riata Highlanders Fianna, or similar mercenary-like bands in the North.
It is this situation, this pressure for more sustainable lands for his clansmen and women that has driven much of Don'chad's efforts to increase the clan's land holdings, so that these young fennid might be able to homestead something new on their own, rather than wait for an inheritance for an existing property that may never come, or one too small to support the all of the heirs. It is noteworthy that many clan members have in recent times followed Donchad's advice and either joined the Fianna or taken to settling nearby (and further away) lands to raid raise cattle or otherwise stake claim for lands of their own and thus expanding clan holdings, for this is the way of things - one must constantly push to individuals (and by extension, the clan) grow stronger, or else the "rot" will set in and take everything good away.
It is well known that from Beltain to Samhain (during the summer), the fiann are obliged to live by hunting for food and pelts to sell, of which there was plenty. Donchad encouraged the young fiann to push out into the borderlands during these times, which they did. However, in order to ensure mother nature's stock of wild animals is not depleted, clan tradition restricts hunting of deer and wild boar during the winter season. It is during this time that as Rigfennid, Donchad quarters and feeds the fianna, while they maintain order on his behalf in the region and perhaps most importantly, its borderlands. For it is in these borderlands that the most trouble brews...
Don'chad macSlainge
Baron of Ross, Rigfennid Dal Riata Highlanders Fianna
Lifepaths: Noble > Prince of the Blood > Arcane Devotee > Lord > Baron > Captain
Stats: Will B5, Perception B6, Agility B4, Speed B4, Power B4, Forte B4
Attributes: Mortal Wounds B10, Reflexes B4, Health B5, Steel B8, Hesitation 5, Stride 7
Resources: B11
Circles: B3
PTGS: Superficial B3, Light B5, Mid B7, Severe B8, Traumatic B9, Mortal Wound B10
Skills:
Administration B3
Bow B4
Calligraphy B2
Clan-wise B3
Command B2
Contract-wise B3
Elf-wise B3
Estate Management B3
Falconry B2
Field Dressing B3
Haggling B3
Hunting B2
Mounted Combat: Bowman Training
Oratory B3
Persuasion B2
Read B3
Research B3
Rhetoric B3
Riding B3
Strategy B2
Sword B3
Symbology B3
Tactics B2
Write B2
Traits:
Blooded (die)
Born To Be King (char): Son in a royal line.
Your Lordship (char)
Your Grace (char)
Base Humility (char)
Mark of Privilege (die): 1D affiliation with nobility, +1 Ob to conspicuous/falsehood tests if masquerading lower than my station
Noblesse Oblige (die): "I am responsible for the people"*
Gifted (die)
Savvy (2D Call-On for Circles)
Cultural Traits:
Stubborn, Prideful, Bitter
Starting Resources Property:
A Castle** with an Attendant Town
2D Manors, land holdings in Ross
0D (2D) Trades, city/towns
1D Node Dt**
Relationships:
2D Coven mentors; powerful, forbidden
Aerendyl. Love interest; powerful, other family, forbidden
Younger Siblings (TBD); significant, immediate family
Kindred Clan; powerful, family
Affiliations:
2D Dal Riata Court Ross: large, regional/expansive (clan & kindred)
1D (0D) Dal Riata Court: Caithness & Sudrland
1D Nobility
0D (1D) Guild "Dal Riata Highalnders Fiana"; small, local (landless Dal Riata nobility warriors)
0D (1D) Guild "Dal Riata Highlands Smithworks"; small, specialized
Reputations:
2D "Inclusive listener"; Éisteoir cuimsitheach; open to different ideas and people, studies them; regional
1D "Treats his men like his own beloved sons"; (benevolence, justice and righteousness); local
1D "Garg 'nuair dhuisgear"; Fierce when Roused; local
Beliefs
1. "Táim freagrach as na daoine". I am responsible for the people*(via noblesse oblige)
2. "Rialaíonn mé ó dhualgas, oidhreacht agus ceart". I govern from duty, heritage and right
3. "Foghlaim a bheith ag fulaingt". Learn to endure, progress requires sacrifice
4. "Is í an ghlóir luach saothair valor". Glory is the reward of valor
(5. "tha eólas cumhachd". Knowledge is power)
Instincts
1. Fight on my own terms or not at all.
2. Ponder and deliberate before making a move.
3. Strike with extraordinary speed when the right opportunity presents itself.
Starting Holdings:
Affiliations:
2D Court -> 3D
2D Guild -> 0D
2D Coven
Properties:
2D Manor
2D Trade -> 0D
1D Node**
Gear
Arms, Run of the Mill Quality
Reinforced Leather, Run of the Mill Quality
Hunting Bow, Run of the Mill Quality
Riding Mount