CORDELLIA
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Servants
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Mental Influence
the ability to alter the way someone feels emotionally and physically or the way one thinks
Cordellia is not quite sure when she appeared, nor how long it has been since that time. The passage of time means little to her. Events that do not directly affect her mean nothing. She does not care about wars and very rarely takes sides in them. Intangible things such as countries and their borders do not register in her mind as anything but a name connected with a place. There are very few things that hold great importance for Cordellia, one of which being contracts. Any sort of contract is to be upheld. A promise is eternal. She has no sympathy for those who break their vows. They will either die a painful death, or live a painful life, depending on the degree of their crime. Cordellia is not merciful, nor particularly vengeful. The reason she will not let a contract breaker go unpunished is not because of personal revenge, but simply because that person is a criminal that has committed the worst sort of crime. Killing, theft, and the like are minor crimes in comparison. The only times she will act when these occur are when her most faithful servants request her to. Even then, her aid comes with a price. Cordellia rarely does anyone a favor for free. She will protect a Weaver, even one she does not know, in danger, but that is solely for the sake of upholding the old contract that was made between their two races. Whether or not that Weaver serves her or someone else, the contract was made as a race, and she will respect it as such. Otherwise, Cordellia treats weavers as she would any other 'lesser' race—indifferently. She, unlike most Royals, does not consider the Elves, as a race, enemies. The word 'enemy' is used rather loosely as someone she dislikes. It is quite the feat to get Cordellia to feel any way towards a person, so it is very rare that a Royal, not to mention an Elf, can be elevated to the title of 'enemy'. Enemies are hunted down and killed on sight. Cordellia respects other Royals, but hardly interacts with them. She has no known family, and so does not feel the need to stay with any Royal for a prolonged period of time. Cordellia's only companions are a few servants. She is rarely in the company of over a handful of people, not because she is uncomfortable around them, but simply because she does not recruit servants or try to find many companions. Those who follow her do so because they choose to. Cordellia could care less if she had two followers or ten thousand. All the races other than her own are the same to her, and all of them are accepted equally. The only exception is the Jesters, whose existence is not acknowledged by Cordellia. She avoids conflict for two reasons, one is that it is simplest that way, and the other because blood disgusts her. There is no particular reason for this, but an excess of blood strikes her as vulgar and distasteful. Therefore, if anyone needs to be killed or tortured, she usually entrusts it to her servants. Very rarely will Cordellia call for assistance from anyone she is not contracted with. She does not like being indebted---debt being another thing she takes very seriously. Those indebted to her, though, have more leniencies. The debtor is expected to repay his debts at some point, but that is not specified unless she calls upon him to repay it with a task she chooses. It is quite often, though, that she does not call, and instead the debtors repay her with other, more material things. Those that refuse to pay their debts when called upon are given the same treatment as those who break vows. Cordellia never strays from her values. Her emotional climate almost never changes and she thinks things through rationally, intelligently, and patiently. Her patience was once described by a former servant as 'tranquil', though that is not so. Cordellia can wait for years, for decades, seeming to do nothing but wander the world. But there is a tension inside her. There is something off. Her mind is calm, but not peaceful. There is dissatisfaction that Cordellia barely recognizes and cannot explain. Something is missing. But she will wait, and she will find it without needing to look. Everything eventually passes her by. Cordellia wanders, travelling with no real destination in mind. Only some people notice her presence. She doesn't stand out as much as many of her kindred. With a passing glance, from a passing stranger, she could be mistaken for any one of the races. Cordellia lacks horns, strange ears, or anything that usually distinguished Royals from other humanoid races. She has a strange sort of beauty that vaguely resembles Elf. However, it doesn't take too much before her heritage makes itself apparent. Cordellia has fairly long ebony hair that has a soft, strangely feathery texture and a fair complexion that seems to glow in dusky lighting. Her eyes are an unnatural shade of watery aquamarine, but her gaze is sharp and clear like cutting diamonds. Cordellia's voice is soft, but has a clear, almost haunting quality. Her voice is so unique that she does not need to speak loudly—most people just stop to listen. Cordellia is tall, but not imposingly so. She stands like a noble, but delicately so. She moves liltingly, like a feather in the breeze. She has a cold, ethereal grace. Despite her outer delicacy, Cordellia can move startlingly quickly when she wants to. Cordellia's gift is nothing obvious, nothing imposing, but it is as powerful as any other Royals'. She can influence people's minds. She can dull hunger, sorrow, and pain for an indefinite amount of time. She can sense and amplify emotions, redirect them, and make them vanish altogether. Of course, emotions never really go away, but they can be well sealed, well hidden. Cordellia can even alter memory, changing how people felt at certain times in their life or how they saw things. She can make them forget. She does not read thoughts, but can look into people's minds and sense the emotions as well as see images connected to those emotions. It is rare that she hears words with the images. Cordellia can use her power on a single person or hundreds people at a time. If she ever were to raise an army, it would be fearless, painless, and nearly unstoppable.