Fawkes Teutonicus ad Alendir

Fawkes Teutonicus ad Alendir, is the Principe of Novoros, the Conte of Cadabia and a Rector within the Autokratoria of Sirradra. He is the second-born son of Maximal Teutonicus and Emilie ad Alendir, as well as the twin of Lachs Roseâ.
== Appearance ==
While a rather tall man, standing at 186cm, Fawkes is not of impressive build. Though he has gained muscle and overall mass compared to his rather willowy build in his younger years, he still maintains a rather lean appearance.
More pretty than handsome, Fawkes has rather delicate features, and few noticable, blemishes, marks or scars on his face. Usually wearing his hair open and unbound, Fawkes has lightly curly hair, that, depending on lighting varies in colour between a dark gold-blond and a very light brown, it reaches just short of his shoulders. His eyes are of almond shape, and a dark blue in colour, describable perhaps best as indigo.
His skin is only lightly tanned, in spite of the blazing Novorosi sun, which Fawkes does his best to cover himself from as much as possible.
Fawkes prefers longer garments, and has a taste for a certain, subtle, opulence. For formal occassions, he is typically dressed in a white, gold-embroidered novorosi-cottonwool shirt, and wears loose fitting, heavily embroidered sable cottonwool pants. He wears soft, red-brown snake leather slippers, embroidered with fine, red-gold stitchings. As the top layer he wears a long, yet light and loose sable robe, embroidered with gold, featuring novorosi patterns. Though the most prominient part of his formal dress, is the crown of Novoros he wears atop his head. Whrought from novorosi gold, in the shape of intertwining and rising grape vines, in it there are eight cut pieces of obsidian set. He also wears two gold rings on his right hand. On his left hip wears a ivory covered sheath, decorated with carvings of hunting scenes, with a ceremonial, golden, ivory handled short falx inside.
For less formal occasions, Fawkes wears long sable cottonwool pants, that reach into almost knee high, lightly heeled, leather boots. He wears a white cottonwool shirt, which reaches up to his neck. Above he wears a long, wide sable cloak, which includes a hood. On his right hip, covered by the cloak, he wears a sheath for a non-ceremonial falx.
When venturing outside cities, for activities such as hunting, especially within Novoros, Fawkes wears dark leather pants, a belt with a, high brown riding boots and wears a white cottonwool shirt, with another undershirt beneath it. He wears a shorter, less wide cloak above as well as long, leather gloves. When appropiate he carries a bow, as well as his falx and a hunting knife.
Fawkes owns an eleborate set of highly decorative, yet functional Novorosi bronze armour presented to him by the tribes of Novoros at his coronation, with each piece stemming from a different major tribe. It includes a set of shoulder plates, a cuirass, greaves, bracers, armored boots and a masked helmet, decorated with various traditional Novorosi symbols, including images of grape vines on the cuirass, and images of a ram's horns on the helmet. He wears it in combination with the skin of a large black novorosi panther as a cloak.
== Personality ==
Fawkes, especially in public, maintains a reserved, proud, and aloof demeanor, rarely breaking from it. He remains nearly faultlessly polite, doubly so in insults and confrontations; this is more so born of pride than anything else; he is unwilling to disgrace himself for the sake of someone he considers inferior or an enemy.
Fawkes sees himself as striving to create a better and more just society, holding no particular prejudice towards commoners or foreigners. He strongly believes all people, whether peasant or ruler, rely on one another; like bricks in an arch, one cannot hold in place without the others.
However, equally strong as this conviction is his distaste or even hatred for those who, in his eyes, refuse to fill a place in his envisioned arch of society; he despises outlaws and social parasites and believes that like an unsuitable stone, they must be hewn to fit or disposed of.
As such, he equally works to keep justice, peace, and communal prosperity, as well as harshly and often cruelly dealing with those he sees as in opposition to his goals, being willing to go to extreme lengths to cut the world to the shape he wishes.
Fawkes only feels and acts truly free either in truly private situations, with close friends or family, or in pursuit of his three great passions of scholarship, hunting, and architecture, so much so that some go as far as saying that Fawkes only truly feels alive when learning something, chasing something, or planning something.
Fawkes maintains a youthful, almost childlike ease of excitement in these subjects, often overstepping norms or boundaries without much thought, willingly discussing a topic with a lowly acolyte as with a renowned and already established scholar, or bloodying himself while skinning a felled animal.
== Biography ==
Fawkes was born as the second son of Maximal Teutonicus and Emelie ad Alendir, and enjoyed a sheltered and secretive, though privileged upbringing. He spent much of his youth reading through his family's library and acquiring knowledge from any source he could. Particular interest did he find in texts on natural sciences and philosophy, though he also enjoyed and enjoys history and poetry.
While not his father's oldest son, Fawkes still took eagerly to responsibility and matters of governance, aspiring to follow in his father's footsteps. When Sirradra acquired Novoros, both through his aspirations and qualifications and not least through his father's influence, who was Consul of Sirradra at the time, Fawkes was granted rulership of the lands, with the man responsible for their return to Sirradra, Jakobus Fawkes, serving as his advisor.
Since the start of his rule, Fawkes has greatly matured through his responsibility, growing from a boy to a man. He continues to rule the province dutifully from his home and seat of Cadabia as Principe. Though he willingly does his work and is thankful for the trust placed in him and the possibilities and freedom it grants him, he often feels worn out by his work, seeking relief in his passions whenever possible.
== Relations ==
=== Family ===
Maximal Teutonicus (_Max_imal_) - Fawkes maintains a good and friendly relationship with his father, who has set him on his path in life before his fall from power and was responsible for much of his upbringing. He respects his father, and keeps in steady contact with him, though their relationship has grown more distant in recent years as Fawkes has assumed his own responsibilities and they see each other rarely.
Emilie ad Alendir (Einfach_Emi) - Fawkes maintains a positive and respectful relationship with his mother, though he has been throughout his life much more his father's child, so to speak. Regardless, Fawkes loves both of his parents and is thankful for his privileged upbringing.
Lachs Rosaê - Fawkes' twin brother, has been a steady companion in his youth, whom Fawkes cared for and cares for still. Their current relationship is to a large extent dominated by their cooperation in the administration of Novoros. He is not happy about his marriage to Zelphyr Rosaê, despite having granted the latter lands in Novoros.
Slid Zane Teutonicus ad Alendir - Fawkes oldest sibling, yet only a half-brother, he maintains a distanced relationship with him, kept in place by a steady wall of polite formality. He considers him often childish and yet overbearing towards him.
Other siblings and close relatives - In general, Fawkes likes to maintain steady contact and be friendly with all of his close relatives, considering family one of the few truly reliable parts of life, and an important source of stability and support.
=== Friends ===
Llyre es vel Volaerys - While he is far from truly understanding him, and knowing full well he most likely never will, Fawkes considers Llyre a friend. Despite their brief engagement, which Llyre broke off, he harbors no ill will towards him and considers him a kindred mind, sharing many points of view on the world and society. He trusts and appreciates Llyre, granting him and Kemria great autonomy and allowing him various freedoms compared to his other subjects.
Jakobus Fawkes - Though now deceased, Jakobus still played an important part in Fawkes recent life. After his actions, which led to the incorporation of the province of Novoros into Sirradra and his subsequent flight and exile from Eisenland, the former foreign minister settled in the lands now ruled by Fawkes, a boy named after him, and the son of his friend Maximal Teutonicus. The old and experienced politician assumed an advisory and mentoring role in Fawkes' early years of rule. Fawkes greatly mourned his death and still considers himself to owe a great debt to the man, who taught him much about diplomacy and rulership.
=== Enemies ===
Iris Vaohemszhlak - Fawkes holds deep resentment for the woman who attempted a, admittedly rather pitiful, plot in his province and has since fled back west to her native lands of Floria and would, given the chance, end her life, lawfully or not.
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