PLAYER NAME: Kara CHARACTER NAME: Kelson Haldane USERNAME:kingforboth NEW CANON POINT: Pax Kelsona, 2 years post King Kelson's Bride CHANGES:
In the last six years, Kelson has learned a lot politically. He's gone from a mature eighteen year old to an twenty four year old adult. He's become adept at negotiations and subtly influencing events in his favor. He's made alliances with neighboring kingdoms, as well as securing multiple marriages, all able to resolve political conflicts as well as being arrangements usually favored by both parties. He also used such marriages as a distraction for his own nuptials, as for three years he'd undergone near constant nagging to just pick someone. Anyone. Not the nun. To that end he marries his cousin, thankfully distant enough that their kids wont have three eyes and bringing someone with joint Haldane and Deryni blood into the throne, so their own kids will be secure in their own power and abilities.
Kelson's grown up. Although he still cried and fought over the loss of his love Rothana, and finally admits that she's better off as a nun, working for him within the church to further his own ends, and melts down the ring he gave her and his first late bride, determined not to give the same cursed ring to his new Queen Araxie. Indeed, his new and rather benevolently conniving wife is good for him, helping to show him different angles of situations he might not have thought of and helping him grow emotionally into maturity. She helps him realize that the death of his cousin Conall could not be prevented, it was not his fault and his reign will no doubt bring other events just as difficult. It comes with the job and he is not to blame. Also, while we don't actually see the aftereffects of his marriage, it can be assumed the memory of the rape Rothana had him relive no longer fills him with as much fear as it once did. It helps him as a king, armed with that knowledge, but is no longer paralyzing.
Kelson has also become more adept at his own abilities, learning different shield configurations, wards and spells from other cultures and neighboring kingdoms, as well as collecting scholarly literature, spells and instruction books for Deryni magic, intending on forming the first school in three hundred years. To this end, he realizes that by trying to hide his own abilities in an effort to not invoke fear in his citizens is actually causing more harm than good and prolonging ignorance. He starts using his powers more outright, and aims to teach, rather than hide. He also resolves his conflict with his mother, relaxing their strained relationship as she realizes they are not damned by their Deryni blood. Knowing his mother doesn't spend all her free time praying for the salvation of his soul and thinking of ways to get his advisers executed helps lighten the load he carries. It's one less thing he has to worry about, and is genuinely happy for her, finally able to have a good relationship with her that doesn't always end in a fight.
Kelson's also grown quite protective of those younger than him. In fostering a young king until he reached age and could safely ascend his throne, Kelson reaches out, well knowing the threat that he himself had once faced. In addition, there have been more children at court and in his immediate family, and he's grown much more comfortable with them as an adult, learning to look at them as children rather than former playmates. He still tries to be a good king and man, he is just able to look at things now from a more experienced angle and is less prone to temper tantrums and self pity.
He's taken back to Hadriel shortly after the birth of his third child.
Note for the curious: Kelson is no longer Overlord of Torenth, Guardian of Gwenarch and Prince of Meara.
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CHARACTER NAME: Kelson Haldane
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NEW CANON POINT: Pax Kelsona, 2 years post King Kelson's Bride
CHANGES:
In the last six years, Kelson has learned a lot politically. He's gone from a mature eighteen year old to an twenty four year old adult. He's become adept at negotiations and subtly influencing events in his favor. He's made alliances with neighboring kingdoms, as well as securing multiple marriages, all able to resolve political conflicts as well as being arrangements usually favored by both parties. He also used such marriages as a distraction for his own nuptials, as for three years he'd undergone near constant nagging to just pick someone. Anyone. Not the nun. To that end he marries his cousin, thankfully distant enough that their kids wont have three eyes and bringing someone with joint Haldane and Deryni blood into the throne, so their own kids will be secure in their own power and abilities.
Kelson's grown up. Although he still cried and fought over the loss of his love Rothana, and finally admits that she's better off as a nun, working for him within the church to further his own ends, and melts down the ring he gave her and his first late bride, determined not to give the same cursed ring to his new Queen Araxie. Indeed, his new and rather benevolently conniving wife is good for him, helping to show him different angles of situations he might not have thought of and helping him grow emotionally into maturity. She helps him realize that the death of his cousin Conall could not be prevented, it was not his fault and his reign will no doubt bring other events just as difficult. It comes with the job and he is not to blame. Also, while we don't actually see the aftereffects of his marriage, it can be assumed the memory of the rape Rothana had him relive no longer fills him with as much fear as it once did. It helps him as a king, armed with that knowledge, but is no longer paralyzing.
Kelson has also become more adept at his own abilities, learning different shield configurations, wards and spells from other cultures and neighboring kingdoms, as well as collecting scholarly literature, spells and instruction books for Deryni magic, intending on forming the first school in three hundred years. To this end, he realizes that by trying to hide his own abilities in an effort to not invoke fear in his citizens is actually causing more harm than good and prolonging ignorance. He starts using his powers more outright, and aims to teach, rather than hide. He also resolves his conflict with his mother, relaxing their strained relationship as she realizes they are not damned by their Deryni blood. Knowing his mother doesn't spend all her free time praying for the salvation of his soul and thinking of ways to get his advisers executed helps lighten the load he carries. It's one less thing he has to worry about, and is genuinely happy for her, finally able to have a good relationship with her that doesn't always end in a fight.
Kelson's also grown quite protective of those younger than him. In fostering a young king until he reached age and could safely ascend his throne, Kelson reaches out, well knowing the threat that he himself had once faced. In addition, there have been more children at court and in his immediate family, and he's grown much more comfortable with them as an adult, learning to look at them as children rather than former playmates. He still tries to be a good king and man, he is just able to look at things now from a more experienced angle and is less prone to temper tantrums and self pity.
He's taken back to Hadriel shortly after the birth of his third child.
Note for the curious: Kelson is no longer Overlord of Torenth, Guardian of Gwenarch and Prince of Meara.