Ivy Marshal

## Ivy Marshal-Alastair of House De Manteau

Painting of Ivy M. De Manteau in ceremonial House Marshal attire (Anthropomorphised)

### Age

~115 (considered as young adult in dandelist aging process)

### Towns

Voskovy, Harrenhal, Fjordmont, Circencester

### Affiliations

House MarshalHouse De Manteau, Archduchy De Manteau

## Physical description

### Hair color

Poison Ivy Vines (Toxicodendron Radicans)

## **Ivy M. De Manteau**

**Ivy Marshal-Alistair of House De Manteau** is a Lorentish politician, architect, herbologist and enviromental activist.

Currently they are 4th Councilor of Ecclypic Council and a duke of Circencester, The Ecclyptic Realm, (Lorentish Empire).

In the past they also governed the Harrenhal estate, now in Serenus (Lorentish Empire)

## Personality

Shy, meditative and pensive, but with playful and whimsical side.

While working he tends to be a little scatterbrained, but is passionate and ambitious with plans and focuses on a project at hand.

Avoids conflict and easily gets attached to the smallest of things.

Loves nature and prefferes to be surrounded by it, and because of that tends to choose stone as a medium to work with to not cause any pain to the plants.

## Biography

#### Origins

Not much is known about Ivy's blood family or circumstances of birth. Their first appearance in the records of House Marshal places his introduction to the family in 189.75 TE, described as a young dandeling found by Chi hiding in the forests near Voskovy. She had taken him and adopted as one of her own.

### Early life

Since their first years, Ivy has shown an interest in spiritual aspects of floral life. It was a usual sight to see them sitting near one of the countless Voskovian bushes and creeks seemingly talking with the plants.

### Education

After acquiring of Harrenhal by his mother teen dandelist was pushed to pursue education in architecture to plan out and design the developing city, taking into account his creative spirit. He's known for incorporation of natural solutions into his designs. In the spare time, they had studied dandelist culture and religion.

### Death of Chi and rights to Harrenhal

After the sudden disappearence and pressumed passing of their mother, he inherited Chi's Voskovy cave residence and development rights to Harrenhal, which resulted in a lengthy talks over the nature of the deal with Harrenhal's rightful owner, JCaldas. The talks resulted in a stalemate that was to be upheld until all of Chi's debtors repaid in full what they were owed.

### Move to Fjordmont

Prolonged and tumulteous talks over of Harrenhal, forced the projects planned in the city to be abandoned and the plot was to stay unused for a long time. That fact lead Ivy to seek other opportunities to develop his skills.

He wouldn't have to wait long becouse not long after, the engagement and subsequent wedding of his house's head - Boreal- was announced. Her spouse was to become one noble man, Charles, freshly appointed head of another powerful Sorligstian noble house of De Manteau. Ivy met his new step-grandfather at his wedding and there, along other news such as the merge between two houses placing Charles as a new joint house head, talks between the two lead to an agreement in which the man promised to place a symbolic cenotaph to his late mother in newly built De Manteau capitol, Fjordmont, in exchange for leading the construction of Goober Godd-Fjell's project and minor contributions to the design.

Interested by the prospect of taking part in such a big project (and partially wanting to get away from the political unrest in Ato) Ivy agreed and started work on the city in the weeks following.

Ivy took over a role of the project overseer and along with Kiwi they led the workers to quick and efficient completion of the city along with Cathedral to the Luthurn religion, to denomination of which he had then recently converted (Bambis), and Chateau De Manteau towering above the rest. Last bricks were layed in winter of 217 TE and now a grown dandelist could, for now, rest in the palace, in which he moved in sometime before the completion of the city as the Chateau was finished first.

### Deep Slumber

After more numerous deaths of De Manteau family members such as Boreal, Charles and tragically the little Marquisse, Ivy taken over by the grief took to the sea to see the world. They went out and explored the lands of Cymru, Haven and the various islands of Rough, Astyllean and Svalden Seas. These journeys ended up awakening Ivy's spiritual connection to nature and and a new calling spoke within the dandelist. After coming back to an empty palace, he walked into his chamber, and with his expiriences of tales told to him by the various plant spirits from far away lands, he locked himself in a cheese barrel to meditate and connect with only his closest plant friends he cultivated in his chamber. And as of today, he still remains inside a cheese barrel in a locked away chamber of Chateau De Manteau in Fjordmont. As he wrote on the signs near his place of meditation, he hopes to achieve a deeper understanding with the plant life of the world.