Editing Irène LaPointe (section)

=20 Questions=


1: What Nation?

Montaigne

2: Physical Description?

Short and unimposing, if not almost scrawny. Brown hair and eyes. Spectacles.

3: Recurring Mannerisms?

Tends to tap, metronome-like, on surfaces when bored.

4: Main motivation?

Use of science over sorcery to put power back in the hands of the common people.

5: Greatest Strength? Weakness?

Astounding Intellect. Need for validation for her work.

6: Most Favorite Thing? Least?

Visits to Vesten lands. Comparisons to the artists and musicians of the court.

7: Psychology?

Somewhat narcissistic, in a way that geniuses tend to be. Somewhat cold, emotionally.

8: Single Greatest Fear?

That Inquisition-like activities will spread over Theah in response to things like guns and bombs.

9: Highest Ambitions? Greatest Love?

A free Montaigne, with no royalty. The feeling of progress and invention.

10: Opinion of Montaigne?

A nation of lovely, capable people ruled over by idiots and hedonists.

11: Prejudices?

Porte Sorcerers. You can’t even search them for the knife they’ll put in your back.

12:  Loyalties?

To Montaigne, and to the Rilasciare

13: In Love? Betrothed?

No. She’s usually surrounded by people that disgust her.

14: Family?

Born to a middle-class merchant family in Charouse, where she gained her initial distrust of the sycophants and bureaucrats that tried to muscle/cheat her family out of money.

15: How would her parents describe her?

Brilliant, but sullen.

16: Is she a gentle?

Codes of conduct are chains used to contort a person’s actions to the will of those in power.

17: Religious?

No. In fact, an atheist.

18: Member of anything?

The Rilasciare secret society.

19: Sorcery?

She doesn’t have an opinion one way or the other regarding the “unblooded” sorceries, but Porte and Sorte use usually serves to pinpoint “the problem” and solve it.

20: Advice?

Weapons might be an effective way to effect change, but you’ve gotta be prepared to live with the natural conclusion of these efforts.