9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
This lady (who chooses to remain nameless) is professional assassin who hails from the city of Naglorond. She does most of her work for private citizens since the end of the House Wars, where she was responsible for the deaths of a number of House personnel.
The handle she is currently using is “Targeter” All that is known about her so far is that she was a child prostitute in Naglorond who killed her way out of the business , and decided to never put her fate in the hands of another ever again.
For Kira to break her new cover like that, while in the employ of someone who had the power to break her out of a supposedly un-breakable facility, the motivation must have been strong indeed.
She must have known her new patron would likely not be pleased by her taking such a risk, and yet she did it. Though it’s also been shown that her judgement can be flawed and maybe she thought she could gain something for her patron as well.
If the reward is higher than the risk, it can be considered worthwhile.
Kira was always playing both ends against the middle with an Aim to ensure her survival and power base. You don’t get as high up the food chain in a House as she did if you’re sloppy or careless. This time though…she picked the wrong target. At an epic cost.
It is a bit of a shame in a way. What she had in her head would have been worth possibly saving her life.
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She must have known her new patron would likely not be pleased by her taking such a risk, and yet she did it. Though it’s also been shown that her judgement can be flawed and maybe she thought she could gain something for her patron as well.
Kira was always playing both ends against the middle with an Aim to ensure her survival and power base. You don’t get as high up the food chain in a House as she did if you’re sloppy or careless. This time though…she picked the wrong target. At an epic cost.
It is a bit of a shame in a way. What she had in her head would have been worth possibly saving her life.