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Polly The Penguin

## Apperance.

Polly is rather skinny, as skinny as you toy Bonnie and toy chica, his suit is also made of plastic like the toy animatronics, he has a beak that can be taken off and has a slushy cup in his left flipper. His eyes are pure white put they can sometimes be a rather icy blue color. This isn't Polly's first suit, he had one that made him similar to chica, as fat and just about the same color scheme, his color scheme now is a white belly and face and black everywhere else. He has been known to have a Psycho mode, during this his eyes turn red and he likes to show he glass teeth in his beak and he can zap people with electricity
Serah Markham

*Jeffrey, help!* - A common plead from Serah.

Serah is one of the of Five Nights of Roleplay. She is the spirit of one of the Bleu Siblings' victims, she is also the sister of Alice Markham and girlfriend of Jeffrey Williams.

## Death

It is unclear what really happened to Serah, but the police reports show that she was never found. Rumor has it that she was abducted by Christian Bleu and he then raped her before killing her, but this is unknown.

## Appearance

Serah appears to be a normal teenage girl with platinum blonde hair and dark blue eyes. She does have a noticeable scar on her back, but it is usually not visible due to her jacket.

## Personality

Serah is very calm and kind most of the time, but there are times, such as the time that her sister was being tortured in front of her child, when she becomes nothing less of a demon. Around Alice, Junior, and Jeffrey, Serah is very happy and loving. Despite acting tough, she seems to get captured a lot.

## Over The Years

In the Over The Years thread, Serah has a daughter together with Jeffrey, named Hope. She and Jeffrey are considered married, despite the fact that there was never a real marriage

## Fazbear High

Serah is, unlike in the other topics, very shy and reserved. She is easily eembarrassed. She has problems speaking and she doesn't like conflict.

## Trivia

- Serah knew of Alice's cancer before anyone else, even Alice.

- In Fazbear High, Serah is in a with Jenna instead of Jeffrey.
House of Chalion

The **House of Chalion** had ruled Chalion for at least three generations, and possibly as far back as the Old Kingdom, when the Ibran Peninsula was almost completely overrun by invading Roknari. Subsequent generations of 'warrior-thieves' gradually won back most of the lost lands, and the kingdoms of Chalion, Ibra and Brajar gradually re-coalesced.

Members of the House of Chalion included:

* Roya Fonsa the (Fairly) Wise, who slew the Golden General via death magic at the cost of his own life, thus sparking the curse of Chalion
* his only surviving son, Roya Ias, who tried unsuccessfully to break the curse
* Roya Orico, from Ias's first marriage
* Royesse Iselle, from Ias's second marriage to Ista
* Royse Teidez, from Ias's second marriage to Ista - heir presumptive to Orico

Ista, Sara and Bergon married into the House of Chalion, and thus into the curse.
Jade Michaels

*'No... You have to be lying to me... What? Did you lie about loving me? About loving Micheal? About Amy? How could you do this?!' -* Jade to Mitch.

Jade "Blake" Michaels is a character in Five Nights or Roleplay and is single in the Night Shift universe, but is dating Mitchell Fortin in the Fazbear High universe.

## Fazbear High

Jade first appeared in Fazbear High as her male alter ego Blake. She soon gave up this guise after meeting Mitch, who she soon after fell in love with. One night Jade couldn't stop thinking of Mitch, so she tried to get away from home, just to end up at his house. As the night progressed, she became increasingly close with Mitch and eventually convinced him to sleep with her, causing her pregnancy that changed everything for the next ten years.

## All Grown Up

Jade appeared here to have two children, Micheal, who was deaf from an accident, and Amy. She soon ran into financial trouble and had to turn to someone, so she went to the place that she thought that she and the children would be welcomed. Fortunately, they were... Or... It seemed that way. As the weeks progressed, the kids grew more attached to their father and Jade began to try and rekindle the romance they had ten year before. One night, after the kids had gone to bed and Jade was waiting for him to come to bed, Mitch had gone out and murdered someone. Late that night, when Jade had almost given up on him, he came in and they spent their last night together the same way they spent their last night ten tears before. The next morning, Jade read about the murder and told Mitch that she wished they would catch the murder so that he wouldn't endanger the children, causing him to tell her that he was the killer. She was shocked, scared, and angry at him until he told her the police were coming, causing her to try and get the kids away before the police arrived, but she was too late and they were forced to watch him be taken away. Jade is currently depressed and is only comforted by her close friends Amy and Patrick Leemph. Things only got worse and worse for Jade after Mitch died. She began becoming angry and sad at random times, once even throwing a picture of her and her kids out the window. One day, while she was cleaning the house, she stumbled upon two things: Mitch's stash of drugs that he used to kill, and an engagement ring. This only made Jade feel worse about everything, seeing as how one of the only things She cared about in life was ripped away from her before she could even have Mitch back. And now She never would. After finding this, she barely did anything. Several weeks later, her children went to stay with Amy and Patrick, and Jade lost it after finding a picture of her that Mitch had kept.

## Trivia

- Jade was briefly married to a man in the military who abused her and the children. She told Mitch that he was killed in action, but she actually killed him herself in a way similar to the way Hope Williams attacked Mr Williams in Fazbear High, beating him to death with a baseball bat.
Christina

*I'd give anything to have my life back. I'm not letting you give up yours! -Christina to Alice*

Christina is a spirit that haunts the pizzeria. She(used to) cry a lot, because she had lost her life so young. Because of this she has earned herself the nickname "Crying Christina". She's good friends with Alice Markham, and Joshua Brown's((=Sean the Shark)) girlfriend

## Origin

In the beginning Christina was a very sad ghost that wandered the halls of the pizzeria. The staff called her Crying Christina because she always cried. This stayed the same until she met Sean, who she became friends with after she stopped him from killing a child, followed by Sean throwing chairs around and her catching them, which they repeated multiple times, before Sean confessed that he liked her. They have been in a relationship since then. She also stopped Alice from killing herself

## Relationships to others

Sean: as stated earlier, she is in love with Sean, or rather Joshua, the spirit that haunts him

Blackout: She didn't really like Blackout in the beginning, but later became friends with him and after that found out that he was her stepbrother

Antonia: Antonia was the man that killed her, but after he died he tried to become a better person and, in the Over The Years thread, even adopts her and Blackout

Alice: Alice was the first person Christina really liked, and was also the person she saved from Sean

## Fazbear High

In Fazbear High Christina is a teacher. In this she has a relationship with Jeffrey Williams instead of Sean, who's a bully in this AU.

## Trivia

-Christina seems to do anything Sean wants

-Christina is a goth

-Christina considered suicide in Fazbear High, after Jeffrey died

-Christina's body was actually stuffed into a suit, but her spirit escaped

-Christina has the ability to make object levitate
Katilyn Angel

*OwowowowYourehurtingme!* - Katilyn to Mrs. Hale.

Katilyn Nicole Angel, formerly known as Katilyn Hale, is a teenager in Five Nights of Roleplay. She is the sister of Markus Hale and the girlfriend of Blackout.

## History

Katilyn was abandoned by her mother at a young age, causing the Hale family to adopt her. Katilyn first came to the to find her brother one night. Not long after, she found a friend in Alexandra Markham. After this, a voice appeared in Katilyn's mind, telling her that she was insane and that she needed to kill her brother. Katilyn did stab Markus in the gut and kill him and then killed Alice. She then learned that the voice was None other than Mr Williams and she, after realizing what she had done, killed herself only to be resurrected by Mink and Mina. It was a while without any problems, but then she was abducted by Kristen Bleu and tortured. Not long after, Katilyn attended a birthday party, at which her mother and brother were revealed to be abusing her. She also attempted suicide numerous times, but was stopped.

## Personality

Katilyn is very quiet and reserves due to her fear of her family being found out. She also resents her mother for the same reason. The only time she seems happy is when she's around Blackout and Alice.

## Fazbear High

In Fazbear High, Katilyn was cheerful and preppy despite the abuse she took at home. She was the supportive friend of Alice and the captain of the cheerleaders.

## Over the Years

Katilyn is very cheerful and bright despite her past. She also has a child in this thread, together with Blackout

## Trivia

- Despite her dark past, Katilyn tries to put on a smile and tough through it.

- Katilyn is always called a whore and is therefore self conscious.
Fight History

A history of all the fights that have happened in the Five Fights at Freddy's AU.

## First Fight

The first fight is hard to figure out exactly what happened, as Wibble's posts have been deleted.

However, from Cheif's posts, it is evident that the participants were:

Giovanna

Wilbur

## Second Fight

Participants:

Tiny Tina

Wibble?

As from before, Wibble's posts were deleted. This is harder to figure out, as there was no opponent name stated in Cheif's posts. This fight happened during the first, and evidently Wibble had won.

## Third Fight

Participants:

Seiga Kaku

Tiny Tina

Wibble

## Fourth Fight

Participants:

Giovanna

Alexa

## Fifth Fight

Participants:

Dubstep Gunner

Lightning
The AU roleplay topics

### The Main AU (Night Shift/Day Shift)

The Main AU (Also refered to as 'The Day Shift' or 'The Night Shift') is the AU where most of the roleplaying in the Forum takes place. The setting for this AU is set several years after the FNaF 1 building was torn down, being replaced with the forums AU's (Which is refered to usually as just 'The Pizzaria') Pizzaria, this is set after the 1990's - which is when the FNaF 1 building was built - but before the time era of Fazbear's Fright - placing it somewhere during 2013-2015. This AU is divided into 2 sections, the Day Shift, and the Night shift. However, these weren't always seperate, infact, a long time ago, they were the same. This topic can still be found on the 2nd page

### Night Shift

In the Nightshift, every RP role (Excluding parents) is available to be used here. This is set during 12 PM - 6 AM, when the FNaF game usually takes place in. During this, the guards are being hunted by (Most) Animatronics, who will try to kill the guards. However, these aren't the only roles there, there are also spirits who aren't tied to animatronics and as such, are free to wander the pizzaria unbound to their metallic suits. As well as thieves, people who break into the pizzaria to see what they can snatch. And kids who get trapped within the pizzaria at night. The original post for the Nightshift (Posted by Nightshade Gnar, the wonderful owner of the forums) goes as follows:

'*Purely the Night Shift, only children, animatronics, thieves and guards can be roleplayed on here.*

Survive the night. I bid you well' - Nightshade Gnar

## Five Fights at Freddy's

Originally named Fight Nights at Freddy's, this is an AU that is, in essence, Super Smash Brothers. The Fighters can go one on one, or an all-out Battle Royale between every fighter submitted and accepted. Teams may be turned on, and there are various items, too.

There is now a Fight History, a log of every fight to date.
Felix Markuss Neville

*'Oh? So you're inserting a fucking quote here when I can't even speak? Fuck you Wibble, you ableist shithead!'* - Felix to me, just now.

Felix is the Dutch mute of the forums, he works as a guard and hates it. Just like what he thinks about everything. He was actually diagnosed with duel lung failure. And, if he doesn't get a new pair of lungs in 4 months, he'll meet his demise.

### Appearance

Felix appears as a five foot and seven inches tall sandy blonde. His eyes ar e a jade green in colour and he has a small, scruffy goatee. He wears a sangria-purple long sleeved shirt with a lime green tie. Is quite tubby. His skin is slightly tanned.

### Personality

'Fuck you, fuck you, and especially fuck you.' is pretty much Felix in a nutshell, Felix is almost perminately in a bad mood. As easily seen when his vocal cords were temporarily repaired, he is quite the pottymouth. Flinging around a few fucks, shits, craps, bastards, bitches and the occasional c\*nt. He usually looks down on others and doesn't care about what people think about him, or how they feel about how he feels about them.

### Trivia

- Felix actually has a medical disorder that causes him to be unable to feel fear.

- Felix has duel lung failure

- Felix is Bisexual, but good luck even trying to get him to open up

- Felix knows he is going to die, and he isn't scared of it.

- In the OTY timeline, Felix did actually succumb to the disease and died.

- In BtC, Felix is Rita's robot.

- Felix hates the colour red, and loves the colour brown.

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Jeffrey Williams

*Everyone deserves... a second... chance...*
-Jeffrey to Selina

Jeffrey is a Spirit in Five Nights of Roleplay. He's the son of Mr Williams and boyfriend of Serah Markham, and very close to Kelly and Joey(Not existent anymore).

## Origin

Jeffrey first appeared as a random ghost wandering the halls of the pizzeria. He didn't speak often. He was very shy and distant. Later on he met Kelly and Joey. They took him as family, which made him a bit less distant. A little while after that he first went into his rage mode, when he thought Kelly and Joey were possessed. When they were not nice to him, he mentioned his father for the first time, saying that they were just as bad as him, although later apologizing for that. A while after this he found Junior together with Serah, after which Serah fell in love with him, realizing how kind and misunderstood of a person he really was. Later in the story, his father was introduced, and he has encountered him countless times afterwards.

## Personality

Jeffrey is very kind and cares a lot about his friends. He gets very emotional at times, especially when others show their love towards him, something he never experienced during his life. He does have bursts of rage sometimes, usually when someone threatens his friends.

## Over The Years

In the Over The Years thread, Jeffrey has learned how to control his anger better and is a very kind and loving person. He and Serah are seen as married, although there never was any official marriage. He and Serah also have a daughter in this thread. He is also the mechanic of the animatronics, and completely rebuilt Junior

## Fabear High

In Fazbear High, Jeffrey was a student for a while, until his father murdered him.

## Williams

Jeffrey oftenly gets into fights with his father, Mr Williams, usually because he threatens his friends. He seemingly ultimately destroyed him somewhere between Night Shift and Over The Years, but it is not clear when exactly this happened

## Trivia

-Jeffrey has the ability to light himself on fire

-Jeffrey had a sister named Kate

-In Fazbear High, Jeffrey has a relationship with Christina instead of Serah

-Jeffrey is very bad at Geography, as proven in Fazbear High

-Jeffrey has burn marks all over his body in his ghost form, but they disappear when he materializes

-Jeffrey has problems with talking because his airways were damaged when his father burned him
Sally the Squid

*I'm Sally, Sally the squid!* -Sally's basic greeting to people

Sally is an animatronic squid in the new Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria

## Appearance

Sally is an animatronic Humboldt squid. she, of course, has red 'skin' along with eight tentacles, two of which are used for arms, while the other six are for legs. Sally has rather bright blue eyes and almost always has a smile on her face.

## Personality

Sally is almost always happy. She is almost impossible to make sad and feels like everyone should be happy and have a friend. She usually tries to take care of people that are hurt and will call everyone a friend. she loves to help people and will try to help the best she can. She is also rather clumsy and often trips over her own feet whenever she walks. When she is scared she has a safety function where she vomits up ink, or, possibly, oil.

## Withered Sally

Before Sally was the lovable squid she is now she was withered and extremely hostile. she would attack just about anything that moved and couldn't even talk. Her withered version didn't even have a face and some of the tentacles were missing, as well as holes being in her suit. it was only after other animatronics chose to help her and fix her that she became the fun loving squid everyone now knows about.

## Maria

Maria is the ghost that possesses Sally, and like Sally, she is fun loving and likes to help people. She gets out of the animatronic from time to time, usually only when she's bored or in danger, or sometimes by complete accident. Maria has long black hair going down to her middle back and a pink T-shirt with basic blue jeans.
Umegat

"*The Roknari shone with a white aura like a man standing in front of a clear glass window at a sea dawn. Cazaril shut his eyes, though he knew he didn’t see this with his eyes.*"
―Cazaril finally sees Umegat for who he is[src]**Umegat** (pronounced OOM-me-gat - see Goodreads) was a Roknari divine, scholar, and a saint of the Bastard resident in Cardegoss during the events of *The Curse of Chalion*.

He served as head groom to Roya Orico's menagerie, and hosted the miracle of the menagerie that mitigated the effects of the curse of Chalion on Orico. In his youth in the Roknari archipelago where homosexual relationships were regarded by the predominant Quadrene faith as a perversion of the Bastard, Umegat fell in love with an older man. Together they planned to escape to Brajar, but Umegat's lover was caught and martyred. Umegat escaped and eventually became a Temple divine of the Bastard. As a young divine, Umegat was an assistant Inquirer for the Temple investigating charges of death magic.

Of noble Roknari descent, Umegat was tall but a little stooped, had leathery skin that had been gold but came to be faded to ivory, and curly bronze hair going gray.

Umegat first appeared when Cazaril, Iselle and Betriz paid a visit to the menagerie.
Darwin Bright

*"Hey buddies!" Darwin's greeting*

Darwin Bright is the overly happy 8 year old ghost who was drowned in a toilet. He haunts the Fazbear Entertainment Pizzaria.

### Appearance

When in their natural form. Darwin appears as a transparent, coal black sillouhette of a child with their legs invisible, replaced with a long ghostly tail. Their most noteable feature is their eyes and teeth, which glow a bright white. Revealed later on, Darwin's form as a living person was a person with light brown skin and firey, red, curly hair. He also wears a pair of yellow suspenders with a smiling sticker. His eyes a brown in colour.

### Personality

"Be happy, spread the happy, make people happy." Pretty much sums up Darwin in a nutshell. He is overly jolly, and very, very cheerful. And is perfectly willing to spread the happy! Even in death, he remains as his merry self he established in life. Bizzarely, he knows stuff no eight year olds should know....

### Over The Years

There isn't much to be told about Darwin, due to the fact he moved on and now lives on in the afterlife. He soon found out that it's lonely there (and plus the food sucks) and longs to be freed.
Ottovin

**Ottovin** was a companion of Prince Jokol of the southern islands, and the brother of Jokol's intended wife, his "beautiful Breiga". Ottovin spoke Wealdean, though not as well as Jokol.

During the drinking session after Ingrey kin Wolfcliff helped the islanders get Fafa the ice bear back to their boat, Ottovin gave the crew the tale of Yetta and the three cows, which Jokol claimed was "too filthy" to be translated.

Ottovin had brown hair and was a good head shorter than the very tall Jokol. He dressed, like Jokol, in simply cut tunic, trousers, and a coat, dyed and decorated with embroidery.

 Appearances

* *The Hallowed Hunt*
Boar's Head Castle

**Boar's Head Castle** was a hunting seat owned by the kin Stagthorne family in the Weald.

Prince Boleso lived there for a time (until his death), in exile from the rest of his family.

## People of Boar's Head Castle

* Prince Boleso kin Stagthorne
* Rider Ulkra
* Cumril

## People who stayed there for a short time

* Princess Fara kin Stagthorne
* Ijada dy Castos
* Ingrey kin Wolfcliff

## References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*, particularly chapter 1
Techno the Bear

*The true beauty in life, is in death,* -This is the rule Techno has gone by ever since he died.

## Techno's behavior/personality

Techno is an animatronic that would much rather have peace between everyone than stand by and watch the fighting. But he can also be a savage. For he has an split-personality which calls itself Bloodie. This split personality always comes out during a fight or whenever Techno is angry. But otherwise that Techno is calm.

## Techno's backstory.

He was young whenever he died, around 7. He was raised well and his parents loved him alot, but the parents didn't love each other. When he was 4 they got a divorce. And he lived with his mother but his dad always took him out to do things with him like go to water parks and etc. But when he was 6 his dad wanted to take him to a new pizzeria down the road with a red animatronic bear. This place was called Red's pizza palace. And Red loved the thought of going, especially since him and the bear shared the same name. So his dad picked him up and took him there. They had a party there with some of Red's friends. They had fun until there was an explosion in the kitchen which was caused by an unknown source. Everyone was rushed out and was kept outside, or atleast they thought it was everyone. Red was still inside, he had gone to the bathroom and when he got out he was surrounded by flames. He was trapped until the animatronic bear walked up and started saying things like "initiate fire proof sequence!" and "protect children" so the chest of the bear opened up and it grabbed Red and put him in the suit. Red didn't know how to work the suit but he sure did try, he ran and ran but the fire was to much, the building exploded and everyone thought he to be gone for good. But his body was still in the suit, and his soul was not ready to leave this world.

He was moved from a lot of different locations and was upgraded at each of them with protection functions and a more kid friendly look. And now he is the Techno you all see today.

## Rage.

Rage, the name of another split personality of Techno. But he is not just angry like Bloodie he is insane and bloodthirsty. He is a demon that invaded the suit when it was possessed by Red. He possessed the suit because he wanted a mortal body and Techno's suit was the best body he could find to reek havoc. His first appearance was in a battle between Bloodie in Ritanger when Bloodie couldn't concentrate on holding him back and had to let him go.

## Bloodie

As I said before about Bloodie he is a split personality of Techno. But, he has become his own spirit as well. He left Techno's body in hopes of finding his own, he went to the place from which Techno was created and found an old suit an endoskeleton. He "modified" both to his liking. The endoskeleton was able to catch flame using the gasoline in Bloodies Endoskeletons stomach when the gasoline spread to his body two metal pieces would spark catching flame to his entire body.

Here is the link for a picture of Bloodie,

http://m.imgur.com/ZRaVAAY

Here is the link for a picture of Techno

http://m.imgur.com/8BifAaR
Dubro

**Learned Dubro** was a Temple sorcerer from Izbetsia in the duchy of Orbas.

He was older than Penric, being in his late sixties when Penric first met him in The Physicians of Vilnoc. He had been a soldier in Orbas's army from 16 to 36 years old, and then a farmer near Izbetsia for several decades after. He became a sorcerer after his farm dog, Maska, contracted a demon from a weasel it killed, and then later died in his arms. His demon, who Dubro also called Maska, was imprinted with the dog and was therefore generally friendly, loyal, and eager to please.

Despite his age, he was a less-experienced sorcerer than Penric, as he had no other sorcerers around to teach him in the small town of Izbetsia.

He was a widower with two children.

## References

* The Physicians of Vilnoc
* *The Assassins of Thasalon*
Roya of Brajar

The **Roya of Brajar** is the ruler of Brajar, a country along the eastern coast of the Ibran Peninsula.

The Roya of Brajar is Iselle dy Chalion's cousin. He is 57 years old and is reputed to be a drunkard who sports with his court ladies. Recently widowed, he already has a full-grown heir. For all these reasons but especially the last, he is rejected as a suitable husband for Iselle.

The famed Ordol wrote letters to a prior Royse of Brajar; they are collected into a book, *Letters to the Young Royse dy Brajar*.

## Mentions

* *The Curse of Chalion*, chapters 2,8,11,14
* *Paladin of Souls*, chapters 3,9
Carpagamon Islands

The **Carpagamon Islands** were a chain of islands stretching mostly north off the coast of Carpagamo and running somewhat along the coast of Cedonia.

## Individual Islands in the chain

* The last island in the chain was Rathnatta.
* Approximately midway along the chain was Lantihera.
* Somewhere between Lantihera and Rathnatta was the island of Astwyk.

## Behind the scenes

In real-life geography, the island chain is located approximately where Italy would be. The islands should stand roughly where the Apennine mountain tops are.

## References

* The Prisoner of Limnos
* The Orphans of Raspay
Darkus982 (Fighter)

The Fighter version of Darkus982, or True Darkus, has various unique features and drawbacks. He has a record of 1 win.

## Moveset

* Sketch: True Darkus pulls out a sketchpad and starts drawing a weapon of any kind. When the move is completed, the weapon is created in True Darkus' hands, no matter how heavy it should be. The amount of time used for this move varies on the weapon.
* Ink Blot: True Darkus takes out a fountain pen and sprays ink on his opponent, blinding them.
* Cheating Death: Drops a dummy body while turning invisible, faking his death. Cannot attack while invisible.

## Final Smash

True Darkus has a unique Final Smash in that it varies every time. These are the Final Smashes seen so far:

* Purification: Requires a Baseball Bat, True Darkus and the bat turn black and white, and uses the move Ultimate Homerun from the game OFF.

## Planned/Suggested Final Smashes

These are final smashes that Darkus982 himself or other people can plan and suggest. These will not be put into the actual Final Smash list unless actually used.

* Abstract Mind: Requires that nothing be in True Darkus' hands, he turns the entire world abstract, being the only one able to navigate and KO/kill other fighters.
* Hammer Time: Requires a Sledge Hammer, the hammer itself turns large, and True Darkus swings it around in a tornado or hurricane style. Ends it with throwing the hammer at someone.
* Backstab: Requires a knife (Of any kind), the single-target Final Smash is an instant KO/kill, which involves True Darkus disappearing and reappearing behind the closest fighter, stabbing them in the back for a large amount of damage.
* -127: Requires the Robot's Hat, another single target insta-kill. Spikes suddenly appear beneath the farthest fighter, but is able to hit more than one fighter as well as himself. This is a reference to Darkus982's favorite game, Cave Story.
Jokol Skullsplitter

"*Ingrey studied Jokol once more, considering the nature of a mind that could take his disaster of sunset and transmute it into heoic poetry by midnight. Extemporaneously.*"
―a poet-pirate[src]
**Jokol Skullsplitter** was a prince of Arfrastpekka, the southern islands. He traveled north to the Weald in search of a divine to bring back to his lands, a condition for his proposed marriage to Breiga. In exchange for the divine, he offered the temple Fafa the ice bear and several large bars of silver. The temple eventually promised to provide the divine in exchange for the silver, as long as Jokol took back Fafa.

Jokol was a broad-shouldered giant, perhaps in his twenties or early thirties. He had blue eyes and long red hair held in a horsetail by silver clamps. In addition to his native tongue, he could speak Wealdean and some Darthacan, but could not write, complaining that all feathers broke in his hands. Despite appearances, Jokol was a talented bard, having memorized perhaps a hundred epic poems and written many others himself. The Lady of Spring was his patron, and he acted on her behalf during the rite at Bloodfield.
Mother's Day

**Mother's Day** was a festival on the first day of summer, the summer solstice. Mother's Day events included collecting the quarterly gifts that kept the temple running for the next three months.

The ceremony involved a young bride, acting as the Lady of Spring, and a pregnant matron, representing the Mother of Summer, exchanging places on the throne of the reigning god's avatar.

A secondary holiday for the Mother was held at **midsummer**.
Clara

**Mother Clara** was an acolyte, midwife, and petty saint of the Mother at the Temple Hospital of the Mother's Mercy in Cardegoss. She described herself as a "small domestic saint" and felt she might have thought only that she was lucky in her profession and not have known she was a saint without Umegat's teaching.

Clara saw the Daughter's and the Bastard's god lights on Cazaril, and assisted in caring for Umegat after the attack on Orico's menagerie. The Mother gave Clara a message for Cazaril to "beware despair above all" when he had the death demon and Dondo dy Jironal bound inside him after the death magic attempt. She participated in the funeral rites for Dondo, singing alto with the massed clerics at the service.

Clara was a dumpy, middle-aged woman. To Cazaril's second site she glowed like a candle seen through green glass.
Provincar dy Yarrin

> "*Old dy Yarrin was as canny as you. He suspected this trouble from the first. I'd asked him why he thought we needed so large a force to enter Cardegoss -- he murmured, 'No boy, it is to* leave *Cardegoss.' I didn't understand his joke. Till now*." - March dy Palliar to Cazaril
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The **Provincar dy Yarrin** ruled over Yarrin, one of the sixteen provinces of Chalion. He was also the highest ranking lord of Chalion to have chosen allegiance to the Daughter's Order.

In T*he Curse of Chalion*, the Provincar dy Yarrin brought charges against the comptroller of the order after having assembled extensive evidence. Dondo dy Jironal threw out the charges and banished dy Yarrin from court. Dy Yarrin later worked to bring charges against Martou dy Jironal for failing to ransom Cazaril.

Dy Yarrin was later appointed Holy General of the Daughter's Order by Royina Iselle.
Roknar

**Roknar** was a region to the north of Chalion which consisted of the five Roknari Princedoms on the Ibran peninsula, and the Roknar Archipelago.

## Geography

The **Roknari Princedoms** were lands held by Roknari on the mainland of the Ibran Peninsula. The princedoms were bounded by Ibra, Chalion, and Brajar to the south and the sea to the north.

From west to east the princedoms were:

* Jokona
* Borasnen
	+ Located between Jokona and Vardo and north of Chalion at Gotorget.
	+ The capital city was the port of Visping.
* Vardo
* Tavaki
* Jarn

   The **Roknari Archipelago** was a group of islands north of the Ibran Peninsula settled by Roknari of the Quadrene failth, but not part of the Roknari princedoms.

Cazaril claimed that in nineteen months of being a galley slave to the Roknari, he'd rowed around at least half the Archipelago.

## Language

The language of Roknar is **Roknari**, which had subgroups of common (called "vile" or "rude") Roknari and **court Roknari**. Court Roknari had multiple modes indicating the relative ranks of the speakers, such as "servant to master", "master to warrior", and "servant to lesser servant". Pronunciation was "purer" on the islands than as spoken in the princedoms.

## Religion

The prevalent religion in Roknar was the **Quadrene religion**, which believed in four gods (Father, Mother, Son, Daughter). The Bastard, regarded as a god by the Quintarian religion, was held to be a demon like his father, not a god like his mother. Quintarians referred to this belief as the Roknari heresy.

An outgrowth of the Quadrene beliefs was that the sort of odd loves under the purview of the Bastard in Quintarian lands were treated as crimes in Roknar. Divines and others devoted to the Bastard, if identified and caught by Quadrenes, were generally tortured and killed by first cutting off the thumb and the tongue (the finger and organ that represented the Bastard), and (for men) the genitals, then moving on to whatever horrible means of death could be devised.

## Roknari People

Roknari were recognizable by reddish hair and bright coppery brown eyes.

Particular Roknari people seen in the tales:

* Umegat

* Daris

* Joen of Jokona

* Jedula Corva

* Lencia Corva

* Seuka Corva

## Behind the scenes

There is an approximate equivalence between the Roknar princedoms and the former Moorish (Arabic) presence in Spain, but their culture has been modified with the intent of producing at least some Viking cultural similarity.

The archipelago is roughly located where real-life Northern Africa is.

## References

* *The Curse of Chalion*
* *Paladin of Souls*
* The Orphans of Raspay
Tigney

"*The man could certainly put the* grim *in grimace.*"
―Penric's opinion of Tigney[src]**Learned Tigney** ran the Bastard's Order for the region around Martensbridge in the Cantons, and served as boss to any local sorcerers.

## Biography

"*Cowardly demon-destroyer. Ruchia may have thought him diligent, but* we *always thought him a prig.*"
―Desdemona's opinion of Tigney[src]When he was young, he was gifted with a very strong demon, and Learned Ruchia trained him in how to manage the condition. However, a few years later, the demon ascended and fled to Orbas. A year later, Ruchia and Desdemona tracked him down, subdued him, and took him to the Saint of Idau, who took the demon from him, killing it.

Tigney recovered entirely, with no grief for the lost demon. As a result of his experience, he was extremely dubious about the very young Penric's ability to manage an extremely powerful demon, and sent for the Saint of Idau, in secret from Penric, to rid him of it.
Broylin

"*A short, stout old man wearing a stained white dressing gown and stumping along with a stick entered the room.... His hair was white and receding and combed back to a thin queue; his face was as round and wrinkled as a winter-stored apple, but not nearly as sweet.*"
―Penric meets Broylin[src]**Blessed Broylin** was the Saint of Idau; gifted with the ability to remove demons from the world. He lived in Idau within the earldom of Westria. He had a bad back and a rather cantankerous world-view.

When Penric first contracted Desdemona, the head of the Bastard's Order of Martensbridge, Learned Tigney, sent for Broylin intending for him to take the too-powerful demon from the unprepared young man. Instead, the Bastard refused Broylin's attempt. The Saint counseled that the Order should accept Penric as a sorcerer.
Penric kin Jurald

"'*Did he realize what I really was?'
'I have no idea what you really are,' said Zihre, sounding exasperated.* "
―Madame Zihre's opinion of Penric[src]**Penric kin Jurald** was a sorcerer originally from Greenwell in the Cantons. A much lesser son (the seventh child, with three older brothers and three older sisters) of a minor lord, he was intended to be married off to a neighboring cheese merchant's daughter until he abruptly contracted the demon Desdemona at age 19.

Penric married Nikys Khatai at around age 31. They went on to have two children, Florina and Llewyn. Nikys miscarried their hoped-for third child. They later adopted a young shiplost girl, Otta, who carried a very young demon.

## Homes

* His first 19 years were spent near Greenwell.
* Age 19: He then spent some time in Martensbridge.
* Ages 19-22: He spent three years at the seminary in Rosehall in the Weald.
* Age 23: Spent a year in the Weald learning about shamanism.
* Age 24: Back at Martensbridge, spent about a year learning medicine.
* Ages 24-29 were spent mostly in Martensbridge, except for:
	+ Approximately age 25: Attended a temple conclave in Carpagamo.
* Age 29/30: Spent 1 year in Adria.
* Ages 31-?: He lived some years in Orbas; he married Nikys near the beginning of that time.

## Appearance

"*Her first thought was not* man, *or* woman, *but* ethereal*.*"
―Nikys' first impression of Penric[src]
He had bright-blond hair and "luminous" blue eyes. His skin was much paler than the color of most people in Lodi, Orbas, or Cedonia, making him stand out in many of the places he lived and traveled. He was quite tall and relatively thin. Many women and homosexual men (and at least one heterosexual man) seemed to find him attractive.

When he disguised himself as a woman, he was also extremely attractive.

Desdemona used her powers to keep him young, or perhaps young-seeming. Even when Penric was 40, he still appeared to be in his mid-twenties.

## References

* Penric's Demon
* Penric and the Shaman
* Penric's Fox
* Masquerade in Lodi
* Penric's Mission
* Mira's Last Dance
* The Prisoner of Limnos
* The Orphans of Raspay
* The Physicians of Vilnoc
* The Assassins of Thasalon
* Knot of Shadows
* Demon Daughter
Breiga

**Breiga** was the proposed bride of Prince Jokol Skullsplitter, and older sister of Jokol's best friend, Ottovin. She and Ottovin once killed two horse thieves who came to rob their father's farm. Impressed, Jokol proposed to her and added the blood price of the thieves to her dowry. She refused to marry Jokol, though, until he returned to Arfrastpekka with a divine.

 References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*
Suttleaf

**Suttleaf** was a town in the Weald twenty-five miles to the south of Red Dike.

## Facts about Suttleaf

* The roads between it and Red Dike were poor.
* It was the site of a Mother's Order seminary where Learned Hallana and Learned Oswin taught. The library there contained predominantly medical tracts.

## References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*, chapters 4-6,8,15,19, epilogue
Savo

**Savo** was the nephew of Scuolla (his mother was a much younger sister to Scuolla) and one of the two hunters who found Inglis kin Wolfcliff in the snow. He and Bern brought Inglis to their hunting camp.

He had had little interaction with his uncle, though he did get the Great Dog Arrow from him. Arrow attached himself to Inglis as soon as he was discovered, to Savo's annoyance.
Iselle dy Chalion

**Iselle dy Chalion** was the daughter of Ias dy Chalion and Ista dy Baocia, Ias's second wife. She was the half-sister to Orico, Ias's oldest child, and had a younger brother Teidez. At the end of *The Curse of Chalion*, she married Bergon dy Ibra. Upon Orico's death, she became Royina of Chalion.

Iselle had a generous mouth, hair in ringlets neither blond nor red, pale skin, and heavy-lidded eyes. She was shorter than her companion Betriz dy Ferrej. Iselle turned sixteen 6 weeks after the opening of *The Curse of Chalion*, at the midpoint of spring. Her tutor Cazaril told Ista she was quick at arithmetic and geometry, and "persistent" at Darthacan.

## Appearances

* *The Curse of Chalion*

* *Paladin of Souls*
Boleso kin Stagthorne

"*All his short life... Boleso had been alternately petted and neglected by parents and servants both, the natural arrogance of his blood tainted with a precarious hunger for honor, fame, reward.*"
―Igrey ponders Boleso[src]
**Prince Boleso kin Stagthorne** was the youngest son of the current hallow king at the time of The Hallowed Hunt. He was notorious for his wild behavior and self-indulgence, perhaps a result of a childhood which alternated between petting and neglect. He was banished to his hunting seat at Boar's Head Castle after he murdered, gutted, and skinned a manservant. He was killed by Ijada dy Castos using his own warhammer.

Boleso was tall and muscular. His facial features had the long jaw of the Stagthornes, and wore a short brown beard.

## Plot to obtain the hallow kingship

Boleso had attached the sorcerer Cumril to his household and was experimenting with rites of the Old Weald to invest himself with animal spirits. Unlike Old Weald spirit warriors who took a single animal spirit, he had gained the spirits of multiple animals, attempting to have a spirit representing each kin group to gain power. Boleso sought the spirit of a leopard to gain control over Ijada, the leopard to represent her Chalionese blood. This rite was also to have involved Ijada's rape, but Ijada killed the prince before the rite or the rape was completed. The Son of Autumn then called the leopard spirit into Ijada.

During the cleansing rite Ingrey kin Wolfcliff performs at Boleso's funeral, he identifies animal spirits of a boar, wolf, stag, badger, fox, hawk, dog, and a housecat.

Ingrey speculated that Boleso might have hoped to gain the hallow kingship through forces exerted by his spirit animals. It does appear that he was buying votes. Cumril testifies that Boleso planned to assassinate his brother Biast, also to this end.

 References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*
Ias dy Chalion

**Ias dy Chalion**, known as Ias the Good and Ias the Unlucky, was roya of Chalion before Orico; he reigned for 35 years. He was the sixth son and only surviving child of Fonsa the Fairly Wise, and became roya on Fonsa's death in working death magic on the Golden General. Ias was married twice, first to a Brajaran noblewoman, and then to Ista, youngest daughter of the Provincar dy Baocia. Ias's long-time lover was Arvol dy Lutez. Ista says that Ias died of grief and guilt over the death of dy Lutez in a failed attempt to break the curse of Chalion.

## Appearances

* *The Curse of Chalion*

* *Paladin of Souls*
Rosehall

"*I’ve heard of it! A great university, yes?*"
―Nikys in Cedonia knows of Rosehall[src]**Rosehall** was a town in the Weald with a world-famous university.

## Facts about Rosehall

* The university was three hundred years old at the time of Penric.
* They housed about six thousand students at a time.
* Training for a divine usually took six years.
* There was a seminary of the Bastard associated with the university.
* Books were extremely expensive; the poorer students rented and shared them, sometimes leading to fights over them.

## Students of Rosehall

* Penric kin Jurald - completed a six year course of study in three years; graduated almost with honors.
* Wegae kin Pikepool - graduated with second honors

## References and Mentions

* Penric's Demon
* Penric and the Shaman
* Penric's Fox
* Penric's Mission
* The Orphans of Raspay
Fafa

"*Pacing slowly after the others loomed the most enormous white ice bear Ingrey had ever seen. The thing was as tall as a pony, and as wide as two. Its narrow eyes were the color of frozen urine, and about as expressive.*"
―Fafa takes part in a funeral ceremony[src]
**Fafa** the ice bear was a pet of Jokol Skullsplitter brought to the Weald as part of an offering to the gods and people of the temple so that Jokol could bring a divine to Arfrastpekka.

Fafa had several adventures during his time at the temple, including helping with the breaking up of a conspiracy to mis-identify which god has taken up what souls.

## Behind the scenes

Fafa was at least partly inspired by a tale from *The Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity* (1997) by Richard Fletcher. In that tale, some Greenlanders sought a bishop in 1125, so they sent a bear to the King of Norway to encourage him to send one to them.

## References

* *The Hallowed Hunt*

1. ↑ Lois McMaster Bujold, post to the Bujold mailing list, 14 May 2015, http://lists.herald.co.uk/pipermail/lois-bujold/2015-May/170644.html
Religious Roles

## Temple hierarchy

Note that the details of Temple hierarchy and business likely varied from realm to realm and over time.  Temple issues were worked out in regional councils and there was no overarching authority. The following descriptions were primarily of the time and places of *The Curse of Chalion* and *Paladin of Souls*.

**lay dedicat**: A lay person who pledged him/herself to a particular task on the behalf of a holy order, but had not entered in to the full disciplines and training of that order. Lay dedicats might serve in the military orders (Son's Order, Daughter's Order) as soldier-brothers, or perform various non-military functions in the service of their god.

**dedicat**: The lowest or beginning level of members of a holy order, also used for those who had not taken their final vows. Dedicats had made a higher level of commitment than lay dedicats.

* **dedicat-commander**: A lay dedicat or dedicat serving as an officer in a military order.
* **lord dedicat**: A lord dedicat might be either a lay dedicat or fully in an order, but in any case had special administrative responsibilities for the task at hand. Lord dedicats were drawn from the nobility.

**acolyte**: An intermediate rank of members of a holy order, above a dedicat and below a divine. An acolyte was directly employed by and served the temple, either in their current capacity, or on the way to being a divine. Examples were senior theology students, or persons of middle responsibilities who did not plan further training.

**divine**: The highest rank of members of a holy order; almost always entailed advanced schooling. A divine was expected to be a preacher and a teacher, as well as assuming other tasks in holy service, most commonly of supervision of a temple on the local level. Smaller or more rural temples often made do with leaders of lesser training and rank. Divines were addressed with the title Learned. A divine who taught other divines would be addressed as Most Learned.

**archdivine**: The person with highest and central administrative responsibility for a region of the Temple, including all the orders operating therein; in Chalion, there was one for each province, and their seat was normally in the provincial capital. Compare to divine.

## Saints

Saints were outside of the temple hierarchy:

**saint**: In Quintarian and Quadrene theology, a saint was a living soul who gave the gift of their soul (the control thereof) to their god, thereby allowing the god to act in the world. Saints had a second sight that allowed them to see a glow on other saints but not on themselves. The person ceased to be a saint when the god’s presence was withdrawn, and they ceased to glow.

A **petty saint** was one whose ability to channel their god is very limited.

## Behind the scenes

The author took great care to make all of these roles gender-neutral.