Valora and Larten are fiercely protective of one another and contrary to their parents oddly hands-off coddling, Valora passed lessons she had learnt onto him, most especially a modified form of swordfighting. Her gift to him on his tenth birthday was a new cane topped with the fleur-de-lis of their House and concealing a thin, sharp fighting blade.
At some point she met and struck up a strange unspoken friendship/alliance with several Sylvari Nightmare Courtiers. Their need for supplies and her penchant for finding things people need are useful together, as is their over-arching tenet of 'self-determination' something Valora feels very strongly about.
Current Activities: Now at twenty-five, Valora's main goal in life is to use the lifetime's worth of lessons she's learnt to secure her House's position at least two rungs higher than the Viscount House they currently are. Painfully aware of how lowly her brother is regarded in the close-minded view of the Court as heir of the House due to his age, stature, and soft-spoken attitude, she has no wish to be head of House Leocanto-- only to make sure Larten is respected as such in the event of their parent's deaths. She will kill, lie, scheme, marry, and manipulate herself and her family into a higher position no matter what consequences befall her, only so long as they befall her and her alone.
There is nothing she wouldn't do for her brother, or to people she overhears disrespecting him.
-House Name: Leocanto
-Head of the House: Vincent Leocanto and his wife, Konnie Leocanto.
-Business Dealings: Traders by, amusingly, trade, House Leocanto grew from a port-side transport company to a sprawling Import/Export empire that deals with nearly 32% of all Tyria's goods movement. They expanded quickly and efficiently, mostly this is put down to the fact that in the event of Pirates, House Leocanto offered them a deal. You either swore fealty to the House-- and to become an employee-- or you were executed by their highly-skilled swordsmen & women.
Several generations later and Leocanto trade ships are staffed by some of the most merciless and efficacious Captains and Crew members around, the fact that other trade ships sometimes happened to sink in mysterious circumstances has never been pursued.
-Reputation: House Leocanto, while not especially high in the pecking order, is a long-standing House that has maintained an equilibrium over the generations, has several ties to House Carellious from the days when the latter was a military family, and trade dealings with many other families, no matter their rank.
- Political Gossip:
The eldest Leocanto is by far, Valora. A proud and beautiful daughter, she represents what is best about House Leocanto in charm, dignity, grace, good humour, and pride. Outwardly at least. In actual fact the eldest Leocanto is on a single-minded quest to claw her House up into more powerful ranks, and plans to surpass her whole House herself, if she must. The driving force behind this is her younger brother and the heir to the family, Larten Leocanto. At age 12, he is a somewhat uncertain boy who dotes on his elder sister, and she on him. In fact, her determination to get House Leocanto among even bigger names is mostly out of a desire to make sure the House is in good standing when their Father dies and he must take over.
Most are fearful of what would happen to House Leocanto in the event of Larten taking over--they need not. Larten Leocanto is in possession of a sharp wit, scholar's brain, kind heart, and the knowledge that people often underestimate him.
- Personal Gossip:
There is something of a rumour circulating around the Leocanto maids and nurses who took care of the children when they were a lot younger that their parents were not the most hands-on, affectionate, or even present type.
There is another rumour that Valora and Larten flinch when raised voices are heard.
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His accent is always atrocious and his grammar is always so formal. And he makes Yael go bright red in the face when he starts speaking fluently…with endearments she’s used in the past.
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do u think Eli teaches Cullen how to speak Elvish? Because I do. Otherwise this poor sucker and his extended entirely elven family….
he's clearly taught elvish by eli & lath to surprise yael w/ & he clearly not only learns it w/a very respectful manner but when he speaks it it's very measured and carefully weighed & almost a little reverential because he's being taught a lost language by his daughter & basically sister-in-law from a race that had that language ripped away from them
I like to imagine Lavellan swears a lot and it starts to rub off on Solas without him realizing it and one day he’s sitting in his Skyhold cylinder getting frustrated because his paint isn’t mixing properly or he can’t find the book he’s looking for and finally he throws up his hands and snarls “BY THE DREAD WOLF” and then just stands there for a moment feeling really weird about himself.
i would like to cordially invite you all to salad hell
meet Ser Coinneach, whose name literally means ‘handsome one’
he’s the right hand man & co-researcher of/with Harmonia Academia Charmlocke [the scholarly woman who hates her name & the hippie parents that gave it to her]
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