Ceroux Grenthyx

== Overview ==
Ceroux Grenthyx was a female member of House Grenthyx and notably daughter and first child of Forkoux and Ophellaer Fyth, born in 202 AG. Like her father, she was intelligent and calculating, and was often remarked to be calm and collected. However, there existed strain between her and the Ruling Family Fyth of Helmont as she grew older, seeing the Chaestlands as a more prestigious route to facilitate her raising herself above her heritage.
== Appearance ==
Ceroux had brown hair, and striking blue eyes. Much like her father, she was inordinately tall, standing at six feet - and owning a pronounced jawline much like her father. Her clothing consisted mainly of muted colours, and were largely unremarkable in style, save for the formal occasion where she was commonly seen wearing expensive dresses.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Ceroux was born in 202 AG, shortly after the conclusion of the Uprootings, to Forkoux and Ophellaer Fyth, the then Patriarch and Matriarch of Helmont. In her first few years, although her father was busy, holding many positons of responsibility, she enjoyed all of the company he could give her. Indeed, much to Ceroux's pleasure, he took Ceroux around The Continent with her as much as he could, exposing her to many cultures. Her early relationship with her mother was fruitful also; she primarily presided over Ceroux's early education as Forkoux had little time to do so, and Ophellaer deemed that he would be unlikely to keep his education at a level of comprehension appropriate to Ceroux's age. Forkoux monitored Ceroux's language acquisition from an extremely early age, eventually informing his scroll, 'The Language Scintilla' published in 230 AG. 
By the time Ceroux was a teenager, she grew closer to her father, and he, in turn spent more time with her discussing more complex ideas with her. Forkoux, however, was reticent to expose her to the true extent of his fame across the Continent, a task that was relatively easily achieved when she could be educated in the confines of Helmont Castle. Ceroux grew an appreciation for nature during this time, feeling an affinity with the harmony between the equally indifferent beauty and hostility that characterised nature, a trait Forkoux admired in his young daughter. 
=== Introduction to the Capital ===
Having high hopes for his daughter, both his mother and father agreed that she was of sufficient maturity and education to, as with her father before her, attend the prestigious Capital University of Oparo early - being only 16 years old. Enthused, Ceroux arrived in the Capital in 218 AG. There, she studied history, Cross-Continental Cultural Studies, Natural Studies and Commerce. Gradually, through her peers and teachers, she began to become aware just how significant her parentage was, in-particular with regard to its bearing on her academic expectations. Over the course of her studies, although relishing in the culture of opportunity and commerce in the Capital, she began to feel stressed and under pressure due to these expectations placed upon her. Many of her teachers in the Capital knew Forkoux on a name-to-name basis, and somewhat inconsiderately, asked of her to talk about her father at length, much to her chagrin. By this time, she had grown intensely frustrated that people seemingly disregarded the content of her character and took an interest in her solely because of her father or her family's legacy. 
=== Exploration across the Continent ===
==== Llanoreid ====
By the end of her studies in 221 AG, which she completed with flying colours, she elected to move (at first) temporarily to Llanoreid, and spent most of her time in Turrinad. She recognised it through her study of history and commerce as the place to gain experience in forging a future in trade and negotiations, and spent 5 years familiarising herself with its various most successful shipwrights and tradesman, even at times communicating with the royalty of House Braitbirn. She seldom communicated with her mother or father during this period, with her experience in the previous few years besmirching her affiliation with them in her mind. Her success in Llanoreid, she thought, was primarily due to her ability to distance herself from her father and the resultant drive she felt to prove, by her own means, that she was more versatile and thus more capable than he was. 
==== Meeting Prince Parter Braitbirn ====
At ball in 222, to which Ceroux had been invited, she met with a distinctly lost-looking Prince Parter Braitbirn. The two bonded over the evening, sharing dances and enquiring into one-another's lives. Over the coming weeks, the two met frequently. They discovered qualities which the other loved deeply, for Ceroux in particular, she found Parter seldom probed into her being Forkoux's daughter and judging her on this basis. The two quickly entered a relationship, and by 224 AG, Ceroux noticed that she had become visibly pregnant. Feeling incredibly anxious and unprepared for this, Ceroux acted in a hostile manner to her partner, with state of confused worry clouding her actions. Eventually, the pair agreed to wait for their child to be born (albeit on shaky terms). However, once Ceroux birthed, it was apparent that she had given birth to twins. They were named, in honour of Helmontan culture, Teron and Vendorn Braitbirn. However, Ceroux did not react positively, and became overwhelmed with the responsibility and negotiated with the Llanoredic heir a separation in which he would raise the children; Ceroux wished to depart from Llanoreid having felt she had spent more than enough timethere already. Reluctantly agreeing, the lovestruck Parter bid Ceroux farewell.
==== Departure from Llanoreid ====
Vehemently determined to make her own name from her frustration with her burden and shock of giving birth to twins unexpectedly, she left Llanoreid in 226 AG with respectable recommendations from among the finest involved in administering trade flowing through the kingdom - and left for the Capital once more. In the capital, she began to establish a respectable portfolio, working in and around the Treasuricus bank as well as with Oppidan Shipwrights. However, just when Ceroux had began to cement her place in Capital hierarchy in 227 AG, she received word from her mother that she needed Ceroux to arrive to care for her toddler sibling, Maroux Fyth, with Forkoux and her being unable to provide as much care as the ailing toddler required. In a decision she would come to regret, Ceroux ignored the mail with the intention on focusing her efforts on her pursuit of higher aims in Capital society. She assumed that her parents were perhaps over-reacting and that, with their resources, they could hire many carers for the infant, carers who did not need to be siblings. 
==== Return to Helmont ====
This mindset changed dramatically when Ophellaer died in 228 AG. Shocked by the death of her mother, she felt a stinging sense of regret that she did not come to her aid a year earlier to help with the care of Maroux. Though she was still fervent on ascending in Capital society, Ceroux saw fit to revisit Helmont for the first time in 7 years out of a sense of responsibility to both her widowed father and motherless sister.
== Family ==
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