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These are characters that might work well as PCs should someone wish to pick them up. If you are interested, please contact Garrick.

Onni - Lord Ulstelan's first daughter and Garrick's mother is a shrew, ambitious, pushy, and ingratiating. His father is a non-entity.
Guy friends - members of Garrick's posse.
Girl friends - Chasers, scorned women, heartbroken ones...

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Women should know their place. Now if only someone were brave enough to tell Ustelan's oldest daughter Onni that. A shrew of a woman, she was early married off to the second son of Lord Keroon, a quiet, shrinking man that her family felt would give her no advantage in Keroon's court.

Unfortunately, no one counted on Onni and her new husband not leaving Nabol at all. Izan was given a fair-sized stake in Keroon's lands by his father, but the management of that land has stayed in the hands of its steward ever since. Onni refused to leave her home and her family, and Izan did not argue much, though he never felt really part of Nabol's family. Onni, as one of the oldest of Ustelan's children, felt she should have more say in the Hold's running, and if she couldn't be Lady herself, then she resolved to make her first son that.

But it wasn't quite so easy. While she might have gotten an earlier start on pregnancy than her older brothers Huelet and Anders, Onni lost several pregnancies (and even one son before he reached a turn) before she finally managed to give birth to Garrick. Subsequent pregnancies also failed, and the continued strain led Onni to finally give up and pin all her hopes for her future standing on her one surviving child, Garrick. But it was too late to call him heir: Huelet's wife had had a son herself, four turns earlier.

With his mother always pushing him toward outshining his older cousin, toward impressing his grandfather the most, Garrick early started to rebel. He said whatever he thought, but while a child, this only made him more favored by his older relatives. Eventually, though, he outgrew this stage: what's cute in a chubby-cheeked teenager is not so cute in a too-tall teenager who once broke into the Lord's wine cellar just to smash several very expensive bottles.

Such overt displays of rebelliousness, however, faded as Garrick grew older. He grew more bored with the constant politics of Hold life and didn't even consciously rebel anymore, didn't try so much at all to irritate his family. Instead, he became more preoccupied with entertaining himself, and if those entertainments caused consternation in the ranks, well. How else is a young rich boy to occupy himself, if not with wild oats? Sowing them's the closest thing to honest work Garrick's likely to ever get.

Of course, just because Garrick's not a frontrunner in the battle for Heir doesn't mean his mother's given up. Onni remains an overbearing presence, always interfering and trying to walk over him like she does her husband Izan. Garrick, for the most part, ignores her, though he often wishes Izan would just man up and slap her down already. Garrick won't because she's his mother; Izan won't because... well, he's just not that kind of guy. He's wasted away, mentally if not physically, at Nabol over the turns, retreating into himself and his horses, the closest thing to being back at Keroon. Garrick's contempt for his father is well-known.

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