Danton Stone

**Danton Stone** was a male Borealan Human who served as the Sentinel of the planet Borealis. Stone was a charismatic and powerful aristocrat as the Lord of House Stone during the noble family's occupation of the planet. Stone's rulership was marked by clear abuses in power and numerous plots to secure his power and control over Borealis, in an effort to ultimately expand his reach throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy.

As patriarch of House Stone, Danton was married to Tiffany Stone of House Pha Lê and the father to their one daughter, Dahlia Stone.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5900 ASA, Danton Stone was born on the planet Borealis. He was the grandson of Milo Stone and the only son and child of Edgar Stone, both of which ruled the planet as Sentinels and aristocratic lords before him. His mother was Persephone Stone, who was often melancholic and distant as a result of an unhappy political marriage with Danton's father.

As a result of Persephone's despondence, Edgar's influence was strongest in shaping Danton into the man that he would become, later in life.

Danton eventually met and married Tiffany Pha Lê as a symbol of alliance between House Stone and House Pha Lê, and so the couple had a single daughter. In 5930 ASA, Edgar Stone died of old age. His powers as Sentinel were miraculously transferred to his son Danton, and as such his position as Lord of House Stone. In the instant that he was given power, Danton stopped at nothing to cement his newfound control over his home planet.

### Colonization of Aurora: A Path Paved By Blood

Before his grandfather committed suicide long before Danton was born, he had secret plans to colonize the planet of Aurora during his reign. One step of this plan was to exterminate the native Aurorans that lived on the planet. Milo Stone's plans were never realized during his lifetime, but Danton Stone took it upon himself to complete his grandfather's mission in the name of House Stone and for himself as someone striving for more power.

Danton called for the silent genocide of Aurora's original sentient bear-like inhabitants. The few survivors of this purge went into hiding as the Borealans tore down parts of their forests to build their cities. The founding of Aurora was the first of its kind, as it served as a colony fully dedicated to a single noble house of Borealis. Aurora's colonization was a just a single step out of many in House Stone's goal to essentially reinstating a total monarchy that hadn't existed since the days of the ancient Artifice Wars from thousands of years past. Alden Lafayette of House Lafayette would later go on to recall the once-kept-secret and bloody foundations of the Aurora colony for the entire Galactic Embassy of the United Cassiopeian Republic to witness.

Borealan settlers—those who fully supported House Stone in its entirety or forced through conscription—made a home for themselves on Aurora as its colonial inhabitants. Cities were built on the land where great forests once existed, and Aurora became a symbol of House Stone's power within the Cassiopeia Galaxy. Aurora's distant location in the Central Expanse made it a prime spot for the atrocities commmited on the planet to go unnoticed by the United Cassiopeian Republic.

### Conspiring Against House Lafayette

In 5947 ASA, Danton Stone conspired with the different noble houses of Borealis against House Lafayette and subsequently Alden Lafayette, a political rival of Danton's who held the seat of Ambassador of Borealis to the UCR in the Galactic Embassy. To protect their dark secrets and to keep themselves in power, House Stone wrongfully accused House Lafayette of treason, subsequently resulting in the incarceration of all of House Lafayette during a raid, including Alden himself. Oswald Rosewood, patriarch of House Rosewood, believed Alden to have been killed during this raid. In reality, Alden was kept imprisoned on the Borealan colony of Hailstorm with the rest of his noble house, where he would remain for a decade.

The only members of House Lafayette to have avoided imprisonment were Agatha and Horace Lafayette, who lived safely on Cassiopeia Prime, and Amber Lafayette, who was away from the Lafayette home during the time of arrest and fled off-world to live with her grandparents. Danton would go on to remember Amber as the one final member of House Lafayette that posed any real threat to his seat of power on Borealis.

### A Deal With Praelior

Sometime during the year 5957 ASA, Danton Stone met with the Sovereign of the Praeliorian Empire, Empress Esper Aznaré, who ruled over her shining homeworld of Praelior for over a thousand years.

The two galactic leaders had a common enemy: a group of freedom fighters called the Dawns. Danton wanted to rid the world of Amber Lafayette, while Esper wanted to rid to the world of Annesidora and Moon, who were two Dremirian women that caused the Empress significant trouble in the recent past. Danton proposed an ambush on the Dawns and, should the ambush prove to be successful, a continued alliance and deal with the Praeliorians.

This partnership between Borealis and Praelior had many facets, on top of their efforts in eliminating the Dawns. For Borealis, Praelior would provide the Borealans with the crystal dust of fallen Dremirians that could be used for "aesthetically enhacing" Borealis and its territories. For Praelior, Borealis would try and garner an observer seat on the Galactic Embassy and subsequently more presence in UCR, granting Praelior more political power in the galaxy as it once had hundreds of years ago.

Ultimately, Empress Esper accepted the deal, much to Danton's satisfaction.

## Personality and Traits

Danton was a Human man with silver-colored eyes, brown hair, and light-toned skin. In his old age, his hair greyed out. He was often recognized for his naturally smug-looking face and for his mustache.

Above all else, Danton was a man that craved power and was not afraid to perform heinous acts to get what he wanted. While playing up a persona of regality and prestige, Danton abhorred the peasantry of his homeworld and completely disregarded their livelihoods, like his father and grandfather before him. He framed his unethical actions as promotions and efforts for the prosperity and continuous order of Borealis. Egotistical and narcissistic, Danton upheld the name of House Stone to such a high degree, having founded the Aurora colony as a place where his followers would live in complete devotion to his noble family. Danton often schemed and worked with others to achieve his goals, often enacting plans that would hinder his opponents' progress without requiring him to pull as much as a muscle. Danton had many contacts and political allies throughout his life as a ruler.

A cold and sadistic man, Danton had complete apathy and contempt for those he considered beneath him and his keys to power, not hesitating to enact his grandfather's plans of planetary genocide and colonization as seen with Aurora. Danton wasn't afraid to betray his keys to power if it meant securing his own power and alliances with others. He was perfectly fine with sacrificing part of his own family in order to gain favor and maintain standing with those he believed would help him maintain his own control and constriction over what he owned and oversaw. Danton truly saw himself as a king, and hoped to reestablish total monarchy, one that had not been seen on Borealis for thousands of years.

## Skills and Abilities

As Sentinel of Borealis, Danton was gifted with the divine ability to create smoke clones of himself. He often used this ability to overwhelm his enemies. Danton was also trained and skilled in swordplay.

## Trivia

* Danton was originally named Danburite as a former *Steven Universe* fan character.
* Originally, Danton oversaw one of the moons of a planet called "Tetrazed", sharing its mother planet with two other moons overseen by Neelan Jali and Herman Sauler.