And then 40 and 45 - characters of your choice!
Once again I found it hard to make a decision, so I used a random number generator to pick the characters.
King Tenotaka: 40 - How does your character treat people in service jobs?
Rather curtly, but not rudely. He expects people to do their job, do it well, and not make any trouble about it. He has little patience with poor performance and poor excuses, however. He can show suitable recognition for good handiwork, even though he’s never one to heap praise or display much appreciation. Impassive approval is the best you can hope for, and it’s not easy to get.
Queen Eilah: 45 - What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?
Eilah has long since made peace with the concept of death. She spent many long years sick and dying, knowing death could come at any moment, sooner more likely than later. When Relonia miraculously used the magic she had torn from the fallen Warlock to heal her, she got a second shot at life, and got busy living it to the fullest.
The Sirn flavour of faith is very inspired by Ancient Egypt - the royals have very large and elaborate tombs for their remains to rest in, filled with art and gifts to ensure a heavenly afterlife. Exactly what happens to one’s spirit after death is in Chima’s hands, the goddess of life, death and judgment. If you’ve lived a good life, you will have a heavenly afterlife, reunited with loved ones in lavish paradise. If you’ve carried sin and guilt with you into death, you will pay for it. And possibly, if you’re still needed, or if you’re too much of a grey area for outright judgment, your spirit may be sent back to live on earth for another lifetime.
Eilah definitely feels she has lived a good life, and with a daughter being a high priest of Chima to send her spirit off when the day comes, she isn’t worried.
In the end, she dies peacefully at old age, falling asleep while reading in her beloved gardens and simply never wakes again. She’s missed by many, hailed a great and wise queen, and thanks to her oldest daughter and odd foreign son-in-law, her tomb blooms richly with her favourite plants and flowers, forever sweet and green in the dark.
Thank you so, so much for the questions! I’m still sick - it’s been 3 weeks now, going from really horribly ill to almost fine, to really ill again, over and over. These asks and notes are amazing little lights in dark times, and I’m so grateful for them. ♥ Thank you.
