(6:27:14 PM) TychoBrahesNose: Hey OKShark, slydingdoor and I are trying to come up with some connection between Elizara and his character, Haval d’Orien.  Any ideas as to why Elizara might have a connection with an Orien Transporter?
(6:27:34 PM) TychoBrahesNose: It could even be unrelated to your jobs; slydingdoor mentioned that your mentor disappeared around about the same time his did…
(6:28:31 PM) slydingdoor: as it happens, New Cyre, where Haval was before Sharn is on the border of Breland and [s]Zilargo[/s], where Elizara's from [actually it's on the Darguun border, corrected later]
(6:39:17 PM) OKShark: let me think
(6:41:19 PM) OKShark: well, she could certainly be reading his mail
(6:41:42 PM) slydingdoor: all that fan mail :)
(6:42:17 PM) OKShark: I imagine decrypting orien transport manifests would be the sort of thing she'd do at work
(6:42:24 PM) OKShark: or something more personal...
(6:43:46 PM) OKShark: I dunno; what's Haval do?
(6:44:35 PM) OKShark: did he go to school?  like, Korranberg, or Wynarn university?
(6:45:33 PM) slydingdoor: [s]probably not, Orien adopted him and tried to keep him as far away from education and shadowy backdealings as possible[/s] [decided he should have studied at Korranberg, at least picking up some of that gnomish cleverness]
(6:45:44 PM) slydingdoor: he was/is a publicity stunt
(6:46:07 PM) slydingdoor: Cyran refugee manifests the Mark of Passage on his back
(6:46:09 PM) OKShark: tricky; lizara is all about shadow backdealings
(6:46:19 PM) slydingdoor: that's the thing, he's not an idiot so he knows stuff
(6:46:23 PM) slydingdoor: but they don't know he does
(6:46:46 PM) slydingdoor: he reads the newspaper and puts two and two together
(6:46:51 PM) OKShark: what class?
(6:46:55 PM) slydingdoor: just a fighter
(6:47:00 PM) slydingdoor: well, a Blade of Orien
(6:47:14 PM) slydingdoor: basically a champion, face of the House and all that
(6:47:35 PM) slydingdoor: participates in exhibition duels and knightly competitions and such
(6:47:52 PM) OKShark: they could be engaged in an epic duel in the Sharn Inqisitive editorial section
(6:48:11 PM) slydingdoor: haha, i was actually going to use the duel thing to have a bond w/ celio
(6:48:18 PM) OKShark: duelling crossword puzzles at dawn
(6:48:27 PM) slydingdoor: "thanks for seducing one of my opponents before our duel"
(6:48:36 PM) slydingdoor: "their mind was elsewhere"
(6:49:00 PM) slydingdoor: anyway, his orien stuff would probably be less of a point of contact
(6:49:08 PM) slydingdoor: pre-Orien, he was a refugee in New Cyre
(6:49:19 PM) slydingdoor: which is in the mountains on the borders of Breland and Zilargo
(6:49:25 PM) slydingdoor: lots of crime and unrest in that city
(6:50:13 PM) slydingdoor: he was the son of a dueling instructor
(6:50:25 PM) slydingdoor: did a lot of that, and vigilante stuff in the night
(6:50:37 PM) slydingdoor: beating up goblin gangsters
(6:51:27 PM) slydingdoor: he was just a boy, but Elizara is a gnome, gnomes live a long time
(6:51:54 PM) OKShark: yeah, i'm just struggling to think fo something.
(6:52:01 PM) OKShark: she's sort of a nerdy prissy city-girl
(6:52:27 PM) slydingdoor: started out as a courier though
(6:52:45 PM) slydingdoor: then moved up to a desk job
(6:53:40 PM) OKShark: true
(6:53:52 PM) OKShark: Elizara started in the mail room and worked her way up
(6:54:04 PM) OKShark: well, for a nepotistic value of "worked"
(6:55:08 PM) OKShark: she could have taken and delivered messages to him
(6:55:15 PM) slydingdoor: maybe she delivered something to his mother, the dueling instructor
(6:55:19 PM) slydingdoor: who's actually important
(6:55:39 PM) slydingdoor: and later recognized him beating up some criminals in the street
(6:55:48 PM) OKShark: that could definitely be something
(6:55:51 PM) slydingdoor: he'd be like "don't tell Haldi"
(6:55:57 PM) slydingdoor: his mother
(6:56:05 PM) OKShark: is he... handsome?
(6:56:47 PM) slydingdoor: he is now, having been groomed to be a face of the house
(6:57:19 PM) slydingdoor: maybe he was an angry pimply kid back then, or maybe he was always handsome
(6:58:53 PM) slydingdoor: the former would probably be funnier
(7:01:04 PM) OKShark: that could work

(5:09:14 PM) slydingdoor: yeah we'll say Haval and his mother Haldi made their way to Sharn from Starilaskur [from New Cyre]
(5:09:22 PM) slydingdoor: from which you can go basically anywhere
(5:09:43 PM) slydingdoor: so they went south through zilargo
(5:12:00 PM) slydingdoor: the triumvirate is korranberg, trolanport, and zolanberg
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(5:15:53 PM) slydingdoor: it'd have to be korranberg
(5:16:00 PM) slydingdoor: maybe something having to do with the library?
(5:16:24 PM) slydingdoor: adding a cyran fighting manual
(5:16:30 PM) slydingdoor: trick weapon blueprints
(5:16:51 PM) slydingdoor: so the knowledge won't die with the last survivors of cyre
(5:18:28 PM) slydingdoor: ooh or looking for geneological records
(5:18:33 PM) slydingdoor: to find idk relatives
(5:18:47 PM) slydingdoor: then the relatives could be in Sharn [or the records could just lead them there and the relatives they refer to are dead/gone]
(5:18:48 PM) slydingdoor: boom
(5:19:15 PM) slydingdoor: "the library often funds expeditions to study ancient cultures"
(5:19:24 PM) slydingdoor: when cyre blows up it's basically ancient
(5:59:31 PM) slydingdoor: ok so i'm gonna say to make money and find family, Haldi took Haval to Korranberg to help some researcher learn about cyran weapons and martial arts and to research their own geneology
(5:59:38 PM) slydingdoor: as part of the research she started a dojo