Editing Running Sheet Donovan (section)

=='''Miscellany'''==
Age 30

Donovan is the son of Julian and a high lady of the Fae Court, Cyrene*.  The court approached Julian to hold midsummer night festivities in one of the glades of Arden, a courtesy enacted every year and Julian attended. Cyrene’s wild feral warrior nature caught his attention.   A passionate huntress, the two had a brief but rare relationship for either, based on a mutual love the forest, animals and the hunt.  When she found out she was pregnant, Julian and Cyrene made an arrangement that Donovan would be raised in Amber during the winter months and in the fae high court in the summer months once Donovan was five mortal years.  He split time in Arden and among the fea, learning the ways of both.

As he approached his teen years, he came to live with rangers and has been there for a short while refining his tracking, hunting and fighting skills.  Skills that he started learning well in his mother’s court.  

Julian not much of the paternal sort, left the raising of Donovan to those of the Arden rangers and any cousins’ parents who might have been the same age.  He was something of a mascot when he was young.  His brother Duncan fairly doted on him as a kindred spirit, raised in Arden, not often in Amber.



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He is generally fond of the family in sort of an amused way from afar way.  I imagine he and his cousins may have had a few nights out wenching, gambling and drinking together. 
  
He approaches whatever he sets his mind to with a focused passion.  Whether it is his role in the Rangers, partying and flirting or the machinations of his mother’s court. 


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*According to the internet, Cyrene, the daughter of Hypseus, was a fierce huntress. Nonnus referred to her as a “deer-chasing second Artemis, the girl lion killer.” She didn’t fear to wrestle the lion when it attacked her father’s sheep. It’s said that she was a nymph, not a mortal. The name Cyrene is extremely usable and is sure to stand the test of time.