— ♡ ✧ [ … DOONA BAE / FOURTY SEVEN / NB / SHE/THEY/HE. ] the goddess has given her blessing to TANIS, the ERUWYNN from illium. i heard they’re a COMMANDER of the GUARDIAN class of THE SHIELD OF ILLIUM. when they walk by, you can hear FIGHT ON, FIGHTER by KING & COUNTRY, perhaps it’s because they’re known to be + QUICK-THINKING and - STUBBORN. let’s hope their heart stays true.
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tanis is born as the sun sets on clementia, fires roaring in the house on the outskirts of the city. it’s not quite an omen, but it means that few visit the house who dared to push so hard against custom, turn their faces away from the child born within.
it’s only amongst the other eruwynns that they are able to play, to wrestle and laugh. they learn their history at their mother’s knee, half-distracted by the twitching of their mother’s ears. they learn strategy at their father’s waist, held aloft when he returns home from work, sweaty and smelling of iron, legs wrapped around his sword belt when they visit the barracks to watch him command his small squad through training drills.
they don’t plan to go into the military, no matter their abilities in the field. they initially want to become a member of the archive, to consume knowledge as fast as possible, and spend their days surrounded by their tomes. when they’re barely eleven they watch a merchant near trample their youngest sibling and no-one react, and their eyes open further to the constant injustices, and a new determination flares - to rise above their station.
at first, they think is to join the amber knights, and they apply with full confidence in their abilities, skill, discipline and knowledge. they last till they’re fifteen before they overheard laughing in the corridors and their name whispered and realise that there’s no chance for them here. no matter their skill, their ability to lead, to read the battlefield, the maths and memorisation of hundreds of past battles -
it’s shame mixed with anger mixed with iron that leads them to resign from the knights and immediately walk to the shield of illium, relaxes into the bullying over their previous integration with high society rather than risking the wrath of the powerful over personal enmity. within months it settles into camaraderie, and they find new purpose.
years down the line, their father dies on the field, the arrogance of a knight leading to an underestimation of the raiding party. later still, their mother dies, her health overlooked by the healer who thought she was lying about her pain. tanis is going to change things, going to make people understand that the eruwynn are people even if not human.
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