Ingvie

## Background

### History

House Citrine was once a major house of Gemworld. Due to their Fine Gem possessing the ability of enhanced intellect & eidetic memory of Gemworld history, many of their citizens would go on to become part of the highest ranks of Gemworld's academia. But eventually, House Citrine became tired of Gemworld's bureacracy & took a back seat to political affairs in order to just focus on the intellectual enligtenment of their House. They gave their land to their neighbor House Amethyst & allowed citizens to remain there if they so pleased. The rest moved to Manipoor Island off the coast of the Turquoise Shores, which they acquired in an alliance that was sealed with the marriage of houses' Fine Gems.

### 2002 - Present: Princess Citrine

Princess Ingvie is the daughter of Princess Senshe of House Citrine & a commoner named Enar. Unlike the royals before her, Prince Senshe decided to marry for love & fell for a soldier. As the eldest of Princess Senshe’s two children, Ingvie would eventually succeed her grandmother & mother as House Citrine's Queen, Blood Gem & head archivist. Her acsension time shortened after her mother & father were killed by a disease when she was just two. Because of her mother's death, her grandmother Queen Myda was all the more insistent on Ingvie understanding the ins & outs of House Citrine. But Ingvie found studying boring & preferred to be in the field, having adventures.

Nine years after the death of her parents, the Dark War broke out in Gemworld. Many were killed in the process but House Citrine's noble family was mostly unaffected other than distant relatives. Despite her future status as Queen, Ingvie decided to join her house's military after seeing the atrocities of the war. She was trained by Elzere, a hulking elite warrior who served closely with her father. By the time she was eighteen, she was essentially a lieutenant & answered only to her grandmother, the Queen. She even had her own unit entrusted with sensitive missions, leading to her seeing multiple skirmishes & committing a few deaths.

Unfortunately for the princess, her military career has been put on standby. To help broker peace between House Amethyst & House Diamond, her grandmother set up a political marriage between Ingvie & Prince Talzanar of House Diamond. The prince was the youngest of his siblings, meaning he was unlikely to innherit the throne & had no true want to do so. But his father did not agree & went forth to set up alliances through marriages of his children. Neither Ingvie nor Talzanar were on board, as neither of them had met before & had no intention of getting to know each other better. But with a wedding date coming up soon, the two don't have much choice.

## Romantic Relationships

* Talzanar of House Diamond: Fiancée (2020 - )

## Personality

Ingvie likes action & adventure. She is curious about new & unusual things, leading to her going on many excursions. She’s very different from her well-meaning & hidebound grandmother, who has had a lifetime of study & politics. She has no interest in ancient history, though she grudgingly studied matters of relevance to the present situation.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Noble Gemworlder Physiology**
	+ ***Accelerated Healing*:** Gemworlders possesses accelerated healing.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***
	+ ***Enhanced Durability***
	+ ***Omnilingualism***: All members of the noble famly are branded with the citrine-of-tongues, allowing them to speak, read & understand every language to have ever existed.
	+ ***Sorcery*:** Like all other Gemworlders, Ingvie is a descendant of the Homo Magi race. But unlike the Blood Gems, she does not have magical abilities but can perform small magical feats if she has the aids of relics or extreme devotion.
* **Equestrianism**
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Ingvie learned combat from her house's military, allowing her to know how to operate in the thick of a battle as long as she has melee troops to run interference & give her some space. She is not one to hide in a corner afraid of shadows & will charge into battle.
* **Historiography:** Even though she will gain all the information on Gemworld when she becomes the Blood Gem, her grandmother was insistent on her learning as much as she could about the various realms of Gemworld.
* **Tracking:** Ingvie has a good knowledge of her native land due to military training & hanging withrural commoners. Because of this, she has ranger-type skills such as tracking & forest running.
* **Weaponry:** Despite the minor house's small military & less units, she is skilled in archery, bladed weapons & sticks.
	+ ***Archery*:** Ingvie primarily trained as an archer with the House of Citrine’s military, making her a quick & accurate bowwoman.
	+ ***Knives:*** Ingvie normally has a stout dagger sheathed on her belt.
	+ ***Stick Fighting***
	+ ***Swordsmanship:*** She is also trained as a swordswoman & is every bit as competent fighting this way as with her bow. If Expecting battle, she will also have a broadsword instead of her dagger.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Her grandmother is a traditionalist. She has a long list of rules from the old days.
* The first time she killed someone, she puked.
* She is good friends with Princess Amethyst. Their mothers were also friends.
* House Citrine is located on Manipoor Island, off the southern coast of House Turquoise. Despite its location, its most powerful ally is House Amethyst. They used to be a much major house centuries ago but have decided to take a back seat to Gemworld's political affairs & work to keep a intellectual balance of their world. They gave their land to House Amethyst