Can you tell me more about dutchess Kirwyn? I love lesbian sylvari content!
kirwyn’s a secondborn who joined the court during its early days, back when it was looking less like a daycare for sadists and more like a group of people genuinely questioning the pale mother. when she left the grove she left all her friends behind, including elyan, who took her absence hard - hard enough that she started sneaking out to see kirwyn whenever she could and eventually decided to follow her into the court.
she wasn’t joining for power, preferring ideology instead, but when asked she reluctantly accepted the title of marquis - dealing in diplomacy and punishment, two areas she didn’t take lightly and wasn’t going to let anyone else take lightly, either. she served under duchess eilinora (first pic), a weak-willed but kind woman who didn’t mind kirwyn’s guidance to push their particular court branch, and later other branches under their joint control, in a more balanced direction.
in present day kirwyn and elyan are married and both carry the duchess title, as eilinora’s untimely death at the hands of a rogue courtier and the residual terror of mordremoth’s voice sent the court into complete disarray. kirwyn’s having to do all kinds of damage control on top of keeping a tight leash on her own courtiers, because she expects perfection and won’t accept anything else - especially after parts of her own court went rogue.
kirwyn’s silver-tongued and serious, and though she’s devoted to the nightmare she can’t stand how ridiculous the general majority of courtiers are. all this stabbing each other...all this beheading...it’s like a circus! she doesn’t care to get wrapped up in court drama, and she makes it known by clearing out arms of the court she feels have gotten too wrapped up in their own issues. now that faolain’s gone she’s realizing that she’s gonna have to step in and take that grand duchess position if she wants the court to go back to the way it was...unfortunately.
mary’s & my shit has so many moving parts...we just love messy lesbian interpersonal drama and we can’t stop making fraught women! lesbian sylvari are genuinely the future
