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Meet the cast of Gilded Leylines! Every character below belongs to one of Delmare's many magically gifted noble houses. As the year's new Social Season begins, they will each navigate high society to form alliances, chase ambition, avoid scandal, and find love.

Interested in joining? Take a look at the interest check post to learn more about the premise, setting, and expectations, then send @selcouth a message to secure a spot amidst Delmare's aristocracy!

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Emrafah Hyzenthlay

⠀"We can’t be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves."⠀

INTRODUCTION. ​

• *Title & Aliases: Marchioness
• *Leyline Type: Dream Manipulation
• *Age: 34
• Birthday: February 20th, Pisces (1st Decan)
• *Gender: Female, her/she
• Sexuality: Straight
• *Season Status: Widowed
• *Family Standing : Respected

APPEARANCE. ​

• *FC: Christina Ricci
• *Height: 5'1
• Physique: petite and curvy
• *Complexion: pale
• *Eye Color: dark
• *Hair Color: dark
• Hair Style: The 'titus', a rebellious short, and shaggy style. Inspired by roman statues, those brazen enough to wear it are often seen as rebellious or eccentric. In Emrafah's case, she simply finds it easier to maintain and thus, she would more appropriately fall into the latter category. Of course wigs are always an option in a pinch if the occasion warrants it.
• Distinctions: Large beseeching and haunting eyes, often gives off the impression of innocence but observer beware.
• Clothing: Outsiders will have noticed by now a gradual tilt into eccentricity in the Lady's choices in style. Her preferences when it comes to fashion, quite characteristically, changes on a whim and she is not embarrassed to experiment, a privilege she can afford due to her good standing in society, within court and with all thanks due to her father and late husband. (Now, if she can just manage to maintain the privilege on her own merits - and that of her vast fortune - has yet to be seen.) She has of late, taken to powdering and painting her face as if in nod to bygone eras, or even daresay, to the women of a lower caste. Her envelope-pushing when it comes to her trials in appearance are commonly forgiven and have even sparked a number of fads among the coutiers. Trendsetting aside, what is not common knowledge regarding her sartorial expressions is that it is likely strongly influenced by her prolonged usage of opium.

PERSONALITY. ​

• *Personality: Emra - as friends are prone to call her - is an exquisitely charming and generous ally. Her ability to laugh, love and to not take life too seriously is a strange talent indeed in these buttoned up and patriarchal times. She is known to be sharp of wit and exceedingly candid. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Emrafah can be a formidable foe who does not flinch easily and does not like to lose.
• *Loves: Peonies, the extraordinary, reading, disillusionment, the night sky (lesser luminaries in particular), the taboo, magic, games, belly laughs, wine, macrons, rain, velvet, rodents, spiders, watching innocence fade to make way for something remarkably better, and the esoteric
• *Hates: the necessity for pretense, being condescended to, being taken for weak, tears (her own and others)
• Habits: her eye contact is unparalleled and she will use it to her advantage, as well as her amazing poker face she likes to tease people with for her own amusement.
• *Strengths: bold, intuitive, being underestimated
• *Weaknesses: sharp tongue, can be unempathetic, short in stature
• Trivia: She absolutely loves gossip and the latest esoteric topics of the day; mesmerism, Swedenborgianism, rumors of secret societies, forbidden art, spiritualism, etc.

BIOGRAPHY. ​

• *House Hyzenthlay : The Hyzanthlay's were a respectable house and considered irreplaceable within their community, in no small part owed to Lord Hyzanthlay making good use of his leyline ability. He became known as a dream doctor, a title that never sat entirely too comfortably with the Lord but was allowed to persist as it helped him find favor in the eyes of the gentry and eventually, the crown. The King had suffered from night terrors for years and thought beyond all hope until word of a physician of dreams began to spread through court, and it wasn't long before Lord Hyzanthlay was able to procure favor with the royal family itself. Consequently, all at once he became a familiar face among the courtiers at the palace and often, on such occasions that he was called to court he would bring with him his only child and inherent of his leyline, Emrafah, who learned his trade and through this tutelage grew to become even more adept than he. It would be at court that Emrafah would be introduced to the much older Marquess Blanchard and though it was not love that would sprout, there was a fruitful arrangement to be struck.
• *Leyline Type: The Marchioness can create and manipulate her own dreams and that of others. She can even influence people by placing messages deep within the subconscious of a sleeping person while they dream. Depending on how deep in thought a person is at any given time there is the potential to manipulate daydreams as well, although this is harder to accomplish as one might suspect, it is not impossible. She can also conjure specific or non-specific nightmares or conversely, can promote specific or non-specific spiritual or emotional healing in a person through their dreams. Further, it is possible for Emrafah to step inside a dreamscape with or without the dreamers knowledge and as one can imagine this holds an array of potentialities, both lovely and devastating depending on the goal (or price paid).
• *Reputation & Rumors: The Marquess Blanchard had always a reputation for generosity. He donated frequently to charity and built several schools plus a hospital, even extending his benevolence to the individual poor, taking in wards from the local towns he saw promise in. He would in such cases help the entire family where needed and within reason, all of which cemented his standing amongst the commoners and gentry as a man with an abundant heart and a purse to match. The obtaining of his families wealth being no secret as he was an avid investor with a good eye for talent and "betting on the right horse". As such a man, he once served as trusted counselor to his Majesty before his illness became of the dire sort. At the height of his ailment it was Emrafah who eased her husbands suffering by entering into his dreams to comfort him and in the end helped to usher him unto the waiting arms of death. Though their marriage had never transformed into the type of love longed for by romantics at heart, the love that had developed had taken a lovely shape all of its own.
• *Upbringing: Emrafah's upbringing as an only child had been radiant, and as the apple of her fathers eyes she was treated like a princess and spoiled to the heavens. Her gift became apparent as a child when, for a period of time all she wanted to do was sleep. Where at first it was thought that the young girl had fallen into sickness it was soon discovered that she had been sneaking laudanum from her fathers cabinet of tinctures to induce sleep wherein she could live fantastical and romantic adventures to her hearts content. Upon questioning the girl, it was clear her dreams were not of the same mundane sort as others and that in fact, she had inherited her fathers leyline. Unfortunately, her acquired taste for laudanum would follow her into her adult years and beyond.
• Current Stakes: Emra, though in no real need of money since her husbands passing, has yet created a lucrative business for herself as - what she calls - a 'Dream Guide', in which she has followed in her late fathers footsteps most proudly. She is looking forward to this season not out of any personal, romantical curiosity but more so as an opportunity to expand her business and make connections. Even if money does not exchange hands, a trade could be just as seductive. After all, the young and clumsy in love could find themselves at a disadvantage in seeking a mate if not for a little 'guidance'. A note should be entered into the record that Emrafah has not written off love for herself entirely, she's just placed it behind other priorities. Yet if love did see fit to cross her path she would not go out of her way to dodge it.
• Connections: His majesty, Soren Augustine holds her on perpetual retainer if ever in need of her services again.