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'''Lilliana Be'letane''' is an [http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=Ysgard Ysgardian] [[Aeromancer]] and [[Druid]], currently living in [[Mikona]]. She is known as a [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet Order]] mage, and the as inventor of a comercially available device for breathing underwater.
'''Lilliana Be'letane''' is an [http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=Ysgard Ysgardian] Moon Elf, currently living in [[Mikona]]. She is known as the current Moderator of the Magisterium, a master [[Aeromancer]] who instructs in the art at the Academy of Mortal Magic, and as the inventor of a commercially available device for breathing underwater.




==Appearance and Mannerisms==
==Appearance and Mannerisms==
[[Image:LillyIG.jpg|thumb|240 px|left|Lilliana Be'letane.]]
[[Image:Administrativeevil.jpg|thumb|400 px|left|Lilly and her associates.]]
As a [http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=Moon_Elf Moon Elf], Lilly is pale skinned, with silver-grey hair. She stands little over five feet tall, with a very slightly stooped posture, likely from too many spent hunched over a desk. She is generally appears dishevelled, with unkempt hair and little obvious effort spent on the way she looks. She is very rarely seen in any clothing other than a practical three-quarter length robe in [[Guild:VioletOrder|Violet Order]] colours, with the insignia of her Order and stylised lightning bolts embroidered on the left shoulder, and the mark of Andrinor's Trust embroidered on the right. She also wears a fine black cloak with a black metal clasp in the shape of a lightning bolt, gloves made of ancient, withered leather and an old belt of Fey design, covered in moss and long rotted by salt water.
A pale skinned Elf with silver-grey hair. She stands little over five feet tall, with a very slightly stooped posture, likely from too many hours spent hunched over a desk. She generally appears disheveled, with unkempt hair and little obvious effort spent on maintaining her appearance. Her attire always prominently displays the symbol of the Academy of Mortal Magic.
A fine russet cloak with a black metal clasp is wrapped around her shoulders. Her hands are always covered by a pair of hard-wearing gloves made of unidentifiable leather, and a intricate ring studded with pulsating black gems on her right hand. She frequently wears a carved wooden pendant in the shape of a woman hurling a stylised lightning bolt, the symbol of [[Verossa]].


She is often carrying a small ironword shield, a sturdy sling and a black bladed sickle that seeps an ill red mist when wielded. She rarely uses any of these in combat. Occaisionally she is trailed by a pair of birds - a raven and a hawk - with nametags around their legs naming them "Hugimn" and "Munin". She tends to refer to both of them as "Bird".
She carries a dagger sheathed horizontally at the small of her back, concealed but sometimes visible in outline beneath her cloak. Occasionally she is trailed by a large, irate raven wearing a small bronze name tag that reads "Huginn".


She has a slightly squeaky voice and frequently speaks too quickly for casual listeners' comfort, with a hint of a M'Chekian accent.
Her voice is slightly squeaky, and her speech is frequently too quick for casual listeners' comfort. Her accent is clearly M'Chekian, though tinged with something else.


==The University of Nagritch==
==Notable Research==
Lilly is originally from the isle of [http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=Hala Hala], Ysgard. Born to Elven parents in the city of [http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=Nagritch Nagritch], her youth was largely uneventful. Both parents being graduates of Nagritch University, she was encouraged from an early age to learn the art of Wizardry, which she took to with gusto and showed aptitude for the art, graduating from the School of Illusion and completing a post-graduate course at the School of Evocation. She continued to live in Nagritch for many years, a period of time which saw some upheaval on the Island of Hala, until wanderlust took hold and she left home to explore the wider world, particularly intrigued by other planes. The most easily accessible being one she heard talked about frequently - Avlis, a prime material world.
Through her time living on Avlis, Lilliana has been at the forefront of numerous advances in the field of Elementalism. First as apprentice to Sarrena Sunflower and close associate of Vintrinia Carnen, then later as an innovative researcher and powerful practitioner in her own right, Lilly has come to be known as one of the most powerful and skilled Aeromancers in the history of the art.


==The World of Avlis==
==Lord Kale and the Minor Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix==
Having travelled to Avlis, Lilly set about learning about the world around her - how it differed from her home, and how it was similar. Lacking the properties of the plane of Ysgard, the incidence of undead in the world came as something of a shock, but nothing that couldn't be taken in stride. She explored the cities and countryside of Southern Avlis - Elysia, Mikona, Le'or T'nanshi - and took a particular liking to Mikona, the bustle of it's streets and prevailing political climate reminding her greatly of Nagritch. After a short stay it became clear that something major was different on this world - Magic seemed to work completely differently than she was used to. This revelation led to research and exploration in to the why and how of it, and she became interested in Andrinor's Trust, and the history of Mortal Magic on Avlis. Of particular interest was the Nine Mage Orders - no similar arrangement existed back on Ysgard - and the advanced magical techniques Andrinor grants to those that embrace his Trust. She became particularly enamored of the idea of being part of a Mage Order, and decided to stay on Avlis for the forseeable future to complete this aim. She took the exams required for membership of the Trust and joined the Red Order of the Flame, settling in the Order's newly constructed tower in Mikona. From here, she began researching what was to become her great love - Aeromancy.
The first of her major breakthroughs came as part of a call to arms in M'Chek - the undead monster Lord Kale and his legions of Death Warriors had plagued the nation for months, but finally, after several hard fought battles, the location of his secret island fortress had been obtained. A daring secret raid to cut out the heart of his operation and destroy the Lord himself was planned, with mages from many orders gathering to help devise and implement the plan. Some mages focussed on the preliminary bombardment of the island before the main assault, others on scouting island, and others still on how to destroy Kale once and for all when he had been defeated. Lilliana, meanwhile, focussed on the means of staging a surprise attack on an island - ships would not do. An idea was formed - to walk to the island, along the bottom of the sea. To this end Lilly began experimenting with methods for breathing underwater. She quickly discovered that the presence of an Air Elemental would allow people to breathe - they could breathe the elemental's very essence. Obviously, equipping an entire forty-person attack force with an air elemental of their own would be impractical. Instead she devised a means of trapping the vital essence of an air elemental and encasing it in a specially designed tube of glass, capped with brass. Precision-designed valves and tubes allowed a bearer to inhale the essence within, thereby allowing them to breathe underwater. Lilly, in her enthusiasm, declared that this invention had defeated water itself, and named it to reflect this fact. The assault on Kale's island fortress, assisted by the water conquering field generation matrices, went off without a hitch, though Kale himself escaped.


==Aeromancer==
Imitations of Lilliana's original design for the Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix have been made publically available by Humphrey in [[Port Eridanus]], [[Ferrell]]. It's continued success is a point of pride to her, though she grows irritable and refuses to comment if questioned on the subject of royalties.
Under the tutelage of [[PCs:Sarrena Sunflower |Sarrena Sunflower]], a [[Halfling]] mage of the [[Guild:GreenOrder |Green Order]] and alongside fellow apprentice [[PCs:Vilne Elor |Vilne Elor]], Lilly began to study Aeromancy, the art of casting electrical elemental evocations and conjurations. Electrical spells had long been a favourite of hers - Lightning Bolt and Scintillating Sphere were staples of her Evocation studies - and grasped the opportunity to study electricity more closely, and use it as her primary magical weapon. Her early tuition was successful, despite her complaints at Sarrena's love of making her apprentices write endless essays, and she eventually took the first of many steps on the long road to mastering the art. Becoming a journeyman Aeromancer, she left Sarrena's tutelage to follow her own path of research and experimentation, with wildly varying degrees of success. Many of her experiments ended in disaster - some with explosions and the attendant fines - whereas others led to fascinating breakthroughs, and the discovery of potent new techniques and their practical applications.
 
==Lord Kale and the Minor Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix==
[[Image:Zzzap.jpg|thumb|900 px|right|Aeromancy in action.]]
The most drastic of these breakthroughs came as part of a call to arms in M'Chek - the undead monster Lord Kale and his legions of Death Warriors had plagued the nation for months, but finally, after several hard fought battles, the location of his secret island fortress had been obtained. A daring secret raid to cut out the heart of his operation and destroy the Lord himself was planned, with mages from many orders gathering to help devise and implement the plan. Some mages focussed on the preliminary bombardment of the island before the main assault, others on scouting island, and others still on how to destroy Kale once and for all when he had been defeated. Lilliana, meanwhile, focussed on the means of staging a surprise attack on an island - ships would not do. An idea was formed - to walk to the island, along the bottom of the sea. To this end Lilly began experimenting with methods for breathing underwater. She quickly discovered that the presence of an Air Elemental would allow people to breathe - they could breathe the elemental's very essence. Obviously, equipping an entire forty-person attack force with an air elemental of their own would be impractical. Instead she devised a means of trapping the vital essence of an air elemental and encasing it in a specially designed tube of glass, capped with brass. Precision-designed valves and tubes allowed a bearer to inhale the essence within, thereby allowing them to breathe underwater. Lilly, in her enthusiasm, declared that this invention had defeated water itself, and named it to reflect this fact. The assault on Kale's island fortress, assisted by the water conquering field generation matrices, went off without a hitch, though Kale himself escaped.


Immitations of Lilliana's original design for the Water Conquering Field Generation have been made publically available by Humphrey in [[Port Eridanus]], [[Ferrell]]. It's continued success is a point of pride to her, though she grows irritable and refuses to comment if questioned on the subject of royalties.
==The Vengeful Land==
As part of her continuing journey to develop as an Aeromancer, Lilliana took several trips to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning. A travelogue of her impressions of the plane has been published, and is publically available. In her teaching, she stresses the importance of this trip - or a similar one - to developing Elementalists of any type. She maintains that developing cordial relations with appropriate elementals, starting with learning their language to communicate on their terms, is a vital step to achieving true understanding of your element and achieving the breakthroughs that follow.


==The Violet Order of the Skull==
==Anti-Sahuagin Weapons==
[[Image:Lillykeel.jpg|thumb|700 px|left|Lilliana Be'letane in her natural habitat.]]
During the war against Drotid, Lilliana offered her services to the M'Chekian navy in service of the war effort. A variant of the Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix was developed, substituting the essence of Air and breathing apparatus for an essence of Electricity and a timing mechanism. These weapons could be thrown from the deck of a ship being attacked by Sahuagin raiders to detonate beneath the surface, creating a large electrical explosion that would prove fatal to any unprotected lizards, while leaving the hull of the ship completely undamaged.
Some time after the assault on Kale's fortress, Lilliana began to encounter increasing idealogical differences with her fellow mages of the Red Order, a feeling which was shared at the time by [[PCs:Vintrinia Carnen |Vintrinia Carnen]] and [[PCs:Gurth Istar |Gurth Istar]]. Having decided that the Red no longer fitted her outlook on the world, she began to look for a different Order to join. She examined several, before finally settling on the Violet - their stated aim of seeking Mastery over their chosen arena and their surroundings appealed to her. Contacting [[PCs:Dameon|Dameon Nepirtas]], then Great Mage of Internal Affairs of the Order, she set in motion the process of transferring orders, requiring her to complete a variety of tasks for Dameon to prove her desire to move. Upon her success she was granted full membership of the Violet Order. As a member mage of the Order, she has strengthened her friendship with the ogre mage, [[PCs:Orfanos |Orfanos]], an acquiantance from their time as members of the Midnight Mercenary Company. She has also worked with the preeminent [[Sereg |Sereg'wethrin]] [[Artificing |artificer]] Alaren Tre'lanin on several projects of interest to both of them. She remains a member of the Violet to this day, and is active in training up and coming Evokers, particularly those with an interest in Aeromancy.


==Master of Lightning==
Unfortunately the program suffered numerous issues, particularly with the timing mechanism frequently getting flooded and causing the weapon to fail to detonate. By the time these flaws were excised, the power of Drotid's navy had been shattered, and the program was shelved. She continues to cite this invention effort as one of the key pieces of research that led to her finally attaining mastery in her art.
As part of her continuing research and development of the art of Aeromancy, Lilly has undertaken a variety of research projects. On a trip to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning, and in particular the city of Stormfront, she conversed with the eldest electrical elementals and Djinni that she could attract the attention of, and in so doing discovered information that helped her solve the final puzzles in mastering the art of Aeromancy. She continues to hone her skills and develop the art as much as possible, helping to adapt [[PCs:Vintrinia Carnen |Vintrinia Carnen]]'s breakthroughs in the field of Elementalism for use with Aeromancy techniques. She currently holds the unofficial and largely symbolic position of Master Aeromancer within the Violet Order. Together with old fellow apprentice Vilne Elor, she is counted as one of the foremost Aeromancers in Southern Avlis. Her research notes are [http://www.avlis.org/viewtopic.php?f=159&t=112298 publically available.]


She has regularly tried to take on formal apprentices to pass on her knowledge, but has found interest in the art sorely lacking. Recently she has taken on and successfully taught the Gold Order Conjurer, [[Neeb]], the basics of the art, and hopes to continue working with him to develop his skills and her knowledge in the future.<br>
==Last Breath==
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Lilliana's latest and most dangerous piece of research culminated, after many years and many false starts, in the development of a new field of study and a spell unique to her: Last Breath, an Evocation that mimics elemental Vacuum. Based off of the battle magic spell Incendiary Cloud, Last Breath evokes a bolt of pure Vacuum energy that travels to a target location before detonating, immediately and dramatically destroying all air in the vicinity. Air elementals are banished, clouds dissipate, and living creatures in the area risk being torn to pieces by the massive sudden change in pressure unless warded against death magic.
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==Allies and Associates==


* [[Neeb]]
She cautions against the attempted use of Vacuum or other Negative Para-Elements in her teaching, often joking that wielding the Negative Energy admixture of Air is taking years off of her life.
* [[PCs:Orfanos |Orfanos]]
* [[PCs:Quin |Quin]]
* [[PCs:Angus Blacksail |Angus Blacksail]]
* [[PCs:Vintrinia Carnen |Vintrinia Carnen]]
* [[PCs:Vilne Elor |Vilne Elor]]
* [[PCs:Silver Fox |Silver Fox]]
* [[PCs:Miette Hartley |Miette Hartley]]
* [[PCs:Flenken Jolliemausch |Flenken Jolliemausch]]
* [[PCs:Dameon |Dameon Nepirtas]]
* [[PCs:Kurt Villanova |Kurt Villainova]]





Latest revision as of 16:05, 5 July 2023

Lilliana Be'letane
Race: Elf
Classes:
Wizard (Aeromancer)
Guild affiliations:
Magisterium
Most active on server:
Mikona
Visimontium
Contact: Leave a message

Lilliana Be'letane is an Ysgardian Moon Elf, currently living in Mikona. She is known as the current Moderator of the Magisterium, a master Aeromancer who instructs in the art at the Academy of Mortal Magic, and as the inventor of a commercially available device for breathing underwater.


Appearance and Mannerisms

Lilly and her associates.

A pale skinned Elf with silver-grey hair. She stands little over five feet tall, with a very slightly stooped posture, likely from too many hours spent hunched over a desk. She generally appears disheveled, with unkempt hair and little obvious effort spent on maintaining her appearance. Her attire always prominently displays the symbol of the Academy of Mortal Magic.

A fine russet cloak with a black metal clasp is wrapped around her shoulders. Her hands are always covered by a pair of hard-wearing gloves made of unidentifiable leather, and a intricate ring studded with pulsating black gems on her right hand. She frequently wears a carved wooden pendant in the shape of a woman hurling a stylised lightning bolt, the symbol of Verossa.

She carries a dagger sheathed horizontally at the small of her back, concealed but sometimes visible in outline beneath her cloak. Occasionally she is trailed by a large, irate raven wearing a small bronze name tag that reads "Huginn".

Her voice is slightly squeaky, and her speech is frequently too quick for casual listeners' comfort. Her accent is clearly M'Chekian, though tinged with something else.

Notable Research

Through her time living on Avlis, Lilliana has been at the forefront of numerous advances in the field of Elementalism. First as apprentice to Sarrena Sunflower and close associate of Vintrinia Carnen, then later as an innovative researcher and powerful practitioner in her own right, Lilly has come to be known as one of the most powerful and skilled Aeromancers in the history of the art.

Lord Kale and the Minor Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix

The first of her major breakthroughs came as part of a call to arms in M'Chek - the undead monster Lord Kale and his legions of Death Warriors had plagued the nation for months, but finally, after several hard fought battles, the location of his secret island fortress had been obtained. A daring secret raid to cut out the heart of his operation and destroy the Lord himself was planned, with mages from many orders gathering to help devise and implement the plan. Some mages focussed on the preliminary bombardment of the island before the main assault, others on scouting island, and others still on how to destroy Kale once and for all when he had been defeated. Lilliana, meanwhile, focussed on the means of staging a surprise attack on an island - ships would not do. An idea was formed - to walk to the island, along the bottom of the sea. To this end Lilly began experimenting with methods for breathing underwater. She quickly discovered that the presence of an Air Elemental would allow people to breathe - they could breathe the elemental's very essence. Obviously, equipping an entire forty-person attack force with an air elemental of their own would be impractical. Instead she devised a means of trapping the vital essence of an air elemental and encasing it in a specially designed tube of glass, capped with brass. Precision-designed valves and tubes allowed a bearer to inhale the essence within, thereby allowing them to breathe underwater. Lilly, in her enthusiasm, declared that this invention had defeated water itself, and named it to reflect this fact. The assault on Kale's island fortress, assisted by the water conquering field generation matrices, went off without a hitch, though Kale himself escaped.

Imitations of Lilliana's original design for the Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix have been made publically available by Humphrey in Port Eridanus, Ferrell. It's continued success is a point of pride to her, though she grows irritable and refuses to comment if questioned on the subject of royalties.

The Vengeful Land

As part of her continuing journey to develop as an Aeromancer, Lilliana took several trips to the Quasi-Elemental Plane of Lightning. A travelogue of her impressions of the plane has been published, and is publically available. In her teaching, she stresses the importance of this trip - or a similar one - to developing Elementalists of any type. She maintains that developing cordial relations with appropriate elementals, starting with learning their language to communicate on their terms, is a vital step to achieving true understanding of your element and achieving the breakthroughs that follow.

Anti-Sahuagin Weapons

During the war against Drotid, Lilliana offered her services to the M'Chekian navy in service of the war effort. A variant of the Water Conquering Field Generation Matrix was developed, substituting the essence of Air and breathing apparatus for an essence of Electricity and a timing mechanism. These weapons could be thrown from the deck of a ship being attacked by Sahuagin raiders to detonate beneath the surface, creating a large electrical explosion that would prove fatal to any unprotected lizards, while leaving the hull of the ship completely undamaged.

Unfortunately the program suffered numerous issues, particularly with the timing mechanism frequently getting flooded and causing the weapon to fail to detonate. By the time these flaws were excised, the power of Drotid's navy had been shattered, and the program was shelved. She continues to cite this invention effort as one of the key pieces of research that led to her finally attaining mastery in her art.

Last Breath

Lilliana's latest and most dangerous piece of research culminated, after many years and many false starts, in the development of a new field of study and a spell unique to her: Last Breath, an Evocation that mimics elemental Vacuum. Based off of the battle magic spell Incendiary Cloud, Last Breath evokes a bolt of pure Vacuum energy that travels to a target location before detonating, immediately and dramatically destroying all air in the vicinity. Air elementals are banished, clouds dissipate, and living creatures in the area risk being torn to pieces by the massive sudden change in pressure unless warded against death magic.

She cautions against the attempted use of Vacuum or other Negative Para-Elements in her teaching, often joking that wielding the Negative Energy admixture of Air is taking years off of her life.