#caesonius

[cityandking]

the vigilant ▸ CAESONIUS VERNA TIDARIUS ↳ the slave; the favorite; the free

👮 — occupation + caesonius for @forcekenobi // moodboard meme

[cityandking]

5, 12, 19, 23 for dai, bran and caes!

thank youuuu // oc asks: the basics

5. Where is your OC from? Where do they live currently?

DAI — dai is from airedon, though he was born (made? wished into existence?) in the underdark. post-campaign he settled mostly in selto, though he travels a fair bit helping repatriate void travel victims and also just. generally fix wiztopia

BRAN — bran was born in rivia, a prosperous trade city in the west. she currently lives aboard the luckrunner, her ship

CAES — caes was born in vyrantium and lives there still

12. What class is your OC? What’s their subclass?

DAI — he’s a cleric/paladin multiclass (cleric 14, paladin 6). his subclasses are sky domain and oath of the shield respectively

BRAN — bran is a fighter, gunslinger subclass

CAES — dragon age rules, he’s a mage. d&d rules, he’s a sorcerer. his subclass is force mage (and it slaps I wanna put him in a fight so bad)

19. What is your OC’s enneagram type?

(I put this on this list knowing I would have the hardest possible time answering it. I did this to myself.)

DAI — with the caveat that everything I ever learned about enneagram I learned from tabby (thanks tabby and I'm sorry), I think he’s 1w9 - the idealist (purposeful, principled, strong sense of justice)

BRAN — 8w7 - the independent (determined, natural leader, charismatic, sociable, self-confident and ambitious)

CAES — this is hard but I thiiiink 3w4 - the professional (dedicated, stubborn, seeking, afraid of failure)

23. What color do you associate with your OC? What’s their favorite color?

DAI — sky blue and yellow/gold. I think his favorite color is probably also blue? but a much deeper and darker blue than the color I associate him with (zaref blue, perhaps)

BRAN — blue, tan, gold, cream. she’s got a whole palette. her favorite color is gold (in the yellow way and also in the money way) except for all the worlds where her favorite color is a rich clay red

CAES — I associate him with cream, gold, black, and a deep royal blue. his favorite color isssssss I don’t know. either gold or purple? maybe purple.

[cityandking]

☝️the first scheme for caes and minah xx

oh boy!! // first times meme

CAES + scheming

before the magic and the lessons and aneleus' favor, when he was just a lowly house slave who slept in the kitchens with all the other lowly house slaves and sleeping arrangements were decided by favor and seniority, caes arranged for another one of the boys—a year or so older than him, liked well enough to avoid the grind of chopping vegetables and washing dishes in favor of running plates too and from the dining room—to have an accident. nothing serious, but a worn-out sandal strap and the overturned corner of a rug were enough to send the boy down with the master’s favorite porcelain on a night when he had guests to attend. the head of the kitchens had words and a birch for the boy, and caes was called in to replace him, careful to avoid the shards of dinnerware strewn across the carpet as he carried wine and dates and grape leaves in a tunic far nicer than any he’d ever owned. it was too bad for the boy, really, but caes enjoyed sleeping closer to the hearth after that

MINAH + scheming

[redacted]

[cityandking]

pulled out caes' character sheet to check something and immediately missed playing a caster sooooo bad

[cityandking]

12, 21, 37, 56, 67 for minah, caes + shepherd!

thanks you!!!! // get to know my d&d characters

12. have they ever been in love?

MINAH — yes

CAES — no

SHEP — yes

21. do they follow their head, their heart, or their body?

MINAH — she’s been re-learning to listen to hear head over her body these past few years; these days she follows her head a bit more

CAES — head

SHEP — heart

37. what is their favorite thing to hold?

MINAH — gold

CAES — his own leash

SHEP — his daughter

56. what animal do they most relate to?

MINAH — rabbit (for now)

CAES — guy has immense snake energies (and a snake familiar) so I do have to assign him snake (a badge he’d wear gladly) but there’s a bit of jackal to him too I think

SHEP — this is kinda cheating but he’s a coyote so. coyote.

67. what makes them laugh?

MINAH — answered!

CAES — his enemies’ misfortune. irony. watching someone else get their ass handed to them.

SHEP — observing the follies of youth. kids doing pretty much anything.

[cityandking]

4, 14, 17, 22 for minah, vesper, + caes!

thanks tabby!! // oc asks: the basics

4. How old is your OC? When is their birthday?

MINAH — minah is (wow I had to look this up I couldn’t remember what year I said she was born) currently 28! her birthday is 24 bloomingtide (may 24)

VESPER — vesper’s birthday is 23 kingsway (september 23) and she was born 9:13 dragon. she was 28 when she became the herald of andraste, 29 when she was named the inquisitor, and 40 during veilguard

CAES — caes is 34 and his birthday is 30 firstfall (november 30)

14. What kind of armor or protection does your OC wear most regularly?

MINAH — warden scout armor! it’s a very nice kit she appreciates it

VESPER — light armor. she’s got the enchanter’s coat with enchanter arms and legs. (me: thinking about redesigning vesper’s armor Again)

CAES — he has a set of adamantine-threaded robes that negate critical hits, as well as a ring of protection to improve his armor class and saves

17. What is your OC’s zodiac sign?

(using this thedas zodiac list)

MINAH — fervenial (independent, adaptable, sometimes temperamental or aloof). irl she’d be a gemini

VESPER — toth (loyal, practical, detail-oriented, sometimes anxious or a workaholic). she’s a cuspie tho; she’s right on the edge of servant (creative, generous, good at uniting people). irl she’d be a libra

CAES — tenebrium (disciplined, efficient, ambitious, often aloof and unforgiving). irl he’d be a sagittarius

22. What is a song you associate with your OC?

MINAH — the calling - the amazing devil

In the waters, I see a face I don't want to look back Do you like my dress? It's got pockets The rocks beneath my feet begin to crack Oh, I look into the waters, long ago that current caught us And we tried, I tried, I really fucking tried But the rain kept coming down, I watched that woman drown

VESPER — midnight moon - oh wonder

You with the sad smile, don't lose your courage, courage Dance in the high tide and don't be worried, worried Your soul's in a wild fire, feel it beating, beating, beat-beating Dreams on a gold wire, won't you believe it?

CAES — heat stroke - black math

Untouchable I live for this I breathe for this You know I bleed for this

[cityandking]

1, 12, 25, 32 for minah, kol + caes!

thank you!! // oc ask game

1. are they associated with a certain color? what color do they wear the most?

MINAH — minah’s got a warm browns/reds palette—ocher, red ocher, (burnt) sienna, gold highlights, etc. she wore a lot of browns and reds with the orchestra but with the wardens she’s shifted more towards darker/richer browns and blues (very dusky blues. dark, stealthy blues.)

KOL — I associate her with white and grey. she wears mostly black and white and, in a past life, red. one day she’ll earn some more color but she doesn’t really have that much going on right now

CAES — caes’s color palette is blue, cream and gold (I think those might be house nivaeum’s colors? I can’t be bothered to find my notes right now), but I see him shifting towards more black, purple and gold as he slips out from the shadow of house nivaeum

12. how long have they been around? do you know their birthday? is their birthday the day you made them or another day? what do they think of celebrating birthdays?

MINAH — according to discord the first vague notion of minah-to-be is from April 1, 2022, back when she was a boy. minah proper appears in my chat history with kite on July 15 which means it’s probably her inceptionversary RIGHT NOW (omg). her actual canonical birthday is May 24/24 Bloomingtide because I wanted her to be a fervenial according to the Unofficial Dragon Age Zodiac (also honestly gemini is pretty fitting for her what with the two faces of it all). she likes celebrating birthdays in general, just not her own

KOL — I wrote down my very first proto-kol thoughts(TM) on May 12, 2024 and she spent most of that year cooking before we started playing in January 2025. I have no idea when her birthday is but I think it’s probably summer/early autumn given that she was 11 and three quarters when shit got fucked in the prologue and that was springtime. she’s been, uh, trained out of viewing birthdays as anything special

CAES — caes was first conceived in late September 2023 and fully formed on Nov 9, 2023. he hasn’t got a canonical birthday and doesn’t particularly care about celebrating birthdays.

25. how good/bad is their hearing? what about their eyesight?

MINAH — both her hearing and eyesight are fine, tho I do think she’s maybe on the path to some mild hearing loss between the music performances and the explosives

KOL — her hearing is average and she has perhaps slightly sharper-than-average eyesight (investigation + perception proficiency)

CAES — I think caes has uncommonly sharp elf hearing and is a tiny bit predisposed to nearsightedness; he’d end up with glasses down the line (and look so dashing)

32. do they have any habits that aren't particularly self-destructive, just maybe odd?

MINAH — she’s got her various performer superstitions. really minor stuff, habits she doesn’t really think about doing but definitely does. idk what they are. touching a wagon wheel before a trip, saying thank-you to a performance space, tapping (or miming tapping) the lintel of a door. not saying the name of the Marcher Play. that kind of thing.

KOL — I think she’s got a like, memorization tic she tries to hide but doesn’t always succeed in masking. some kind of funky finger tapping association thing maybe?

CAES — he’s done an excellent job of training himself out of doing anything odd/unusual publicly, but I think he maybe has an evening or morning routine that would be a little strange to watch. something really private and a little extreme focused around protecting/delineating his space that comes out of a long history of not quite being able to trust his privacy

[cityandking]

2, 14, 17 for Caesonius, Minah and Narayani?

ty!! // oc asks childhood edition

2. Where did your muse grow up? What was their home like? Did they like where they grew up?

CAESONIUS — grew up in Vyrantium, first in his family's meager lodgings and then in the house of Magister Aneleus when his older brother sold him into slavery to pay off a gambling debt. neither was great—the first was in poor condition and he had to deal with his brother's frequent gambling and unsavory companions; the second was his master's house, where he was afforded a cell of a room and endless obligations. but he also received an education and training and power, so between the two... well, he got what he wanted eventually MINAH — minah grew up in the Free Marches. she had a pleasant home life; she got along with her family and had her own room and she could go down to the river when she wanted to. she was happy there. NARAYANI — rani grew up on the move with her clan, which was a small but tight-knit community, and one she liked. she had, if not an interesting childhood, at least a happy one—which is honestly maybe better

14. Who was a mentor or a hero to your muse as a kid? Why did your muse look up to them and what did your muse learn from them? How is that relationship now?

CAESONIUS — absolutely not a hero, but Magister Aneleus was certainly a mentor. he taught caes magic, and cruelty, and ambition, and the machinations of power. in return, caes helped drive his house to ruin and killed his children. so it goes. MINAH — minah really looked up to her dad. he had a strong work ethic and cared about the community and knew loads (from her young and un-worldly perspective), and she'd spend hours traipsing after him, soaking up everything he had to offer. his death really messed her up. NARAYANI — of all the clan elders, Iravel was the one she looked up to most—something about the old woman's personality, her patience, and her stubborn pride spoke to little rani. they had a fight shortly after rani became a hunter, a mission she'd accepted that Iravel disagreed with. rani went anyway, and when she got back afterwards (flushed with pride and success, hands bloodied for the first but not the last time), Iravel had passed. she regrets not resolving that argument before Iravel's death, though she doesn't regret accepting the hunt. this was the first snapping thread between her and the clan, though she didn't realize it til years later.

17. How is your muse with kids now? Do they want kids of their own? What lessons from their childhood would they pass on to the next generation?

CAESONIUS — simply wouldn't know what to do with a child if he saw one. he's been around kids, vaguely—some of the other slaves had children; some of the other slaves were children—but he outgrew that long ago and has no interest in dealing with kids. the only lessons he has to pass on are sharp, and even he knows better than inflicting them upon a child. MINAH — there were always kids coming to see the Orchestra's shows, so she's got some familiarity with entertaining and humoring children. she also (once upon a time) really wanted kids of her own. these days, she's a little iffy about them (she doesn't want any herself), but she's still pretty good with 'em. she's not sure she has any lessons of her own worth passing on—maybe remembering to tip entertainers? (I guess her advice to loras—to be his own man, that he doesn't have to be what his father was—is its own sort of lesson.) NARAYANI — rani's spent a bit of time around kids and has taught a lesson or two to apprentice hunters—it's impossible to avoid children in the clan—but she's not interested in having children and is just a little awkward around them. her own childhood feels ages ago, and it's a little uncomfortable to be reminded of the hollowness it carries in her memories