Her Highness, Elissa Caron of the House of Sirens, Crown Princess of Northpoint and Duchess of the Rivenspire, heiress to crown of Northpoint, is the eldest child of Daric Caron, King of Northpoint & High King of the Upper Wrothgarians. “Ellie” to her friends, “Sissy,” to only her very best. “Lady Mooncalf” to those who know the astronomical details of her birth. 18 years old, born with the pressures of an only royal child, as well as with the lofty expectations of her father, Elissa has spent the vast portion of young life trying not to think about living up to either – with childhood adventures during her time fostered with the various nobility of Northpoint, and with dreams of great romances while under her father’s watchful eye in the capital city.
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Title(s) |
Her Grace, Queen of Northpoint and High Queen of the Upper Wrothgarians, Royal Protector of Felway, Thorkan, and White Haven, Sovereign by Right of Conquest of Shornhelm and its vassals, Commandant of Old Seaguard, Patron of the Knights of Tempest. |
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Age |
18 (born on the 12th of Sun's Dawn, 4E 10) |
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Gender |
Female |
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Race |
Breton (Northpointer) |
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Height |
5'8" |
Appearance[]
As the latest in a long line of royalty, Elissa comes from good breeding literally as well as metaphorically - the Caron family is a tall and hearty one, thanks to generations of arranged marriages to Nordic nobility, shipping magnates, and warlords. Elissa is on the tall side for a Breton, about 5’8”, and slim, with fairly broad shoulders, a narrow waist, wide hips, and a modest bust (measurements in inches according to Elissa’s most recent seamstress: 31 x 23 x 35). She’s overall fit, nimble, and graceful, though by no means especially athletic, for a young lady of her stature.
Elissa inherited her mother’s red hair, which currently falls midway down her back, and is usually kept in curls or wide, looping braids and decorated occasionally with ribbons or flowers or lace, frills that are Elissa’s modest rebellion against her father. Her eyes are a cornflower blue, flecked with grey such as they might appear to change color under certain lighting, and her pale skin is lightly (and after particularly warm and sunny days in summer, quite heavily) freckled, across her nose, cheeks, and shoulders in particular – all also her mother’s. In fact, Elissa inherited so much from her mother – her almond shaped eyes, her full lips, her cheekbones - that if it wasn’t for her height and build, unmistakably passed down by her father, it’d be easy to mistake old portraits of the Queen Consort for recent ones done of the Crown Princess. All in all, she would be aggressively courted for her beauty even if she wasn’t the heir to a kingdom.
Elissa has lived a relatively charmed life and doesn’t have much in the way of distinguishing marks outside of small, faint scars on her left calf from her 13th summer, when she was bitten by a young slaughterfish while swimming in Loch Camrer.
Elissa is as fashionable as any young woman of her stature might be, though she’s not always as daring as she might like. Northpoint as a city, while rarely freezing or snowy, tends to be wet even during the summer months. She takes care to accentuate her body type and is partial to shades of blue and green to best suit her coloring. Elissa possesses many pieces of jewelry, some recent gifts, other old heirlooms, but is only partial to a small handful – her tiara, surprisingly restrained in its craftsmanship; the signet ring she wears on her right hand, a heavy hammered silver ring; a necklace gifted to her on her 15th birthday from a student in Felway, and a small collection of earrings.
Character[]
Elissa is many things, but foremost among them, she is 18 years old, with all of the many traits and contradictions that come with youth. She’s intelligent, if not particularly gifted, but has a remarkable capacity for naivety and is often short-sighted when making decisions. She’s generally responsible but can be flighty, and occasionally inconsiderate and vain. She’s kind and compassionate, except when she’s sometimes cliquey or catty with even her own friends.
Elissa is also a dreamer, a lover of stories of adventure and romance and the fantasies they tell of, often imagining herself in lands far away. Her lovers in these imaginations vary greatly – sometimes a handsome knight, sometimes a roguish Khajiit highwayman, sometimes an Orcish or Nordic barbarian clad only in furs (all, coincidentally, lead characters of romance novels she’s read from her favorite author, one Orellius Cimber, a Nibenese author not particularly well-regarded in the literary world) – but they are all brilliantly charming in their own ways, quick-witted and worldly. More deeply, Elissa desperately craves intimacy in the deepest, most total sense of the word, physical and emotional alike.
In some ways, Elissa fully lives up to the cliché of those fortunate few also born under the Lover. She’s mostly an easy girl to like even at her most immature - passionate and convivial, intelligent but not scheming, and more gregarious and humble than most in her position. Whether these qualities make her fit to be queen, let alone a good one, remains to be seen, but there are worse starting places for a young royal.
Talents[]
Elissa was raised with all of the typical education of a princess – courtesy and history, hunting and horseback-riding, mathematics and literature. In addition, she spent several years sitting in at the University of Felway, studying magic with a focus on the school of Restoration and Alchemy, though it was mainly an introduction and Elissa retained little. Her father has also insisted on her receiving a martial education, making her study battle tactics and swordplay, but Elissa clearly doesn’t have the skill or even the temperament to ever become even a decent swordswoman. She is, however, a surprisingly skilled archer, both in a practice shooting and while hunting, and is a strong swimmer.
Elissa likes to think that in another life she would be a painter, or perhaps a playwright – of the two, she’s certainly better at painting. She’s a fairly decent sketch artist and has a particular knack for impressionistic landscapes – her best work so far is a painting she made of Northpoint’s lighthouse that she called A Tower through the Gulls, 4e28, which is currently being displayed in a small gallery in the city, though she isn’t personally sure whether it’s because of her actual art or mostly because of her title. Her attempts at playwriting – short one-acts that she’s written for her friends to perform - have been more mixed, though they display less a lack of talent than a lack of taste and refinement.
Ladies-in-Waiting[]
Elissa's ladies-in-waiting are her closest friends and most have been by her side for years. They are currently as follows:
Lady Camille Leoriane of Riverton (18): Elissa’s best friend, whom she’s been raised with practically from birth and the least interested in being her lady-in-waiting, prone to travelling on adventures for months at a time. Blonde-haired, green-eyed. An aspiring warrior and looks it, lean and muscular physique. Partial to shades of red.
Lady Etta Dragon-Hoard of Solitude (20) – The youngest of Kjorn Dragon-Hoard’s six daughters, she was sent to live with Elissa in Old Seaguard at the age of 10, has remained one of the Princess’s closest friends since. The pair like to joke that had either of them been born a man they would have been married years ago. Unbeknownst to Elissa, sells information about Northpoint’s royal family to spies from the south. Similar in height and build to Elissa, slightly taller, also red-haired with brown eyes.
Lady Muriel of Felway (20)– the daughter of one of Felway’s merchant families, Muriel is half-Altmer; the pair met while Elissa was studying in Felway’s university and became fast friends, and Elissa insisted on Muriel joining her as a lady-in-waiting when she returned to Northpoint. Short for an Altmer, taller than most of her peers. Golden-skinned, golden-haired, golden-eyed.
Lady Hilta Coppertine of Northpoint (15) – Elissa’s most recent handmaiden, the daughter of one of Northpoint’s richest noblemen. A bit spoiled, a bit more of an intellectual than any of the other ladies-in-waiting. Not well liked by Camille, Etta, or Muriel. Average height for a Breton her age, brown-haired, brown-eyed.
Biography[]
Conceived shortly before her father marched off to war with Shornhelm for the first time in the summer of 4E9, Elissa was born in 4E10 under the Sign of the Lover on the 12th night of Sun’s Dawn, a distinction that earned her the appellation “Mooncalf.” Her mother, Abelle Caron, formerly Abelle Dareine, raised her there for the first year of her life before the pair moved to the Caron estate of Old Seaguard, where Abelle alternated ruling from along with the capitol city. Elissa was raised in Old Seaguard, alongside her oldest friend and lady-in-waiting, Camille Leoriane, who was born to the Lady of Riverton a month before Elissa was. Safe and insulated from the war in the palatial fortress, Elissa and Camille amused themselves with playacting stories of knights and adventurers and romance and became convinced a ghost lurked in one of Old Seaguard’s abandoned towers, a fixation the two kept even into their late teens. When Elissa was 12, she was fostered by her uncles in Ebonport for a year and a half, before she, Camille, and Etta Dragon-Hoard, another of her ladies-in-waiting, travelled north to Felway, where she was fostered by the eccentric Count Alecor Fel-Direnni while receiving a brief education at Felway’s univeristy, the best in the kingdom. There she had a relatively idyllic period of her life, studying and having fun with a group of peers relatively her own age. Shortly after, after only 14 months of living in Felway, war broke out again with Shornhelm; while this time Elissa was old enough to know what war meant, she still supported Northpoint’s war efforts, though she questioned privately with her friends. Once the rout was complete, her father summoned her back to Northpoint.
At 16 the city of Northpoint was both new and terrifying for Elissa. Larger and more populous than any place she had lived before, Elissa and Camille had a handful of adventures in the city, all the while Elissa became used to the more overbearing presence of her father, whom she had never interacted with for longer than a matter of weeks at a time. He tested her education, frequently finding it wanting, and insisted on her receiving martial training and studying military strategy, neither of which came particularly easily to her. Similarly, the austere court and social life her father insisted on drained her spirits, having become accustomed to the quaint but lively social scene she had enjoyed in Felway and even in Old Seaguard.
Elissa had, up until this point, enjoyed the relative freedom of Felway, where she had settled into being one of the more popular young figures in the town, courted by countless students and merchants and nobles. Once in Northpoint, however, King Daric all but locked her away from any potential suitors, seeming to have big – if unknown – plans for her eventual marriage, plans that he didn’t deign to share with his daughter. While still free to make trips into the city or to occasional balls, Elissa’s social life – previously full of fun and flirtation and first kisses with handsome students – dwindled drastically to only her ladies-in-waiting, and fears of being married off to some old ugly warlord with a large belly and temper grew wildly in her head.
Two years on, though, Elissa has settled into a certain rhythm of life, even when Camille left for several months to travel High Rock. A short picture:
- She attends court with her father, and occasionally his inner council meetings. She stares at dusty tomes about military strategy, doodling in the margins, and at maps on territories Daric conquered, and ones that he merely wishes to conquer – she doesn’t retain much. She practices her magic and alchemy with Lorundil, yawning through her rituals and incantations. She has her knuckles rapped by her fencing tutor during another duel she loses handily, and nurses them while Etta and Muriel and Hilda laugh quietly at her.
- She makes eye contact across Coppertine Square with a cute squire or tradesman, or with a Knight of the Lily while attending a service at the Cathedral of Dibella, and she blushes and imagines meeting him with a flickering candle some night when the skies are clear so they can look up at the moons together – in her mind she tells him of the stars she was born under, and he tells her that all the stars in the universe don’t look as beautiful as her eyes.
- She makes time in the evening to paint, whether it’s her ladies in waiting or merely the view from her window. Later, before she goes to sleep, she takes a warm evening bath and reads her novels or writes letters from the bathtub: to Camille, or to her mother, or to old friends from Felway, and pores over the ones they send in return, wishing she was travelling like they so often do. She hunts, sometimes, or sails or swims, and, very rarely, makes it to a party held by a local noble family where she’s always invariably the untouchable belle of the ball, even during the times she would very much like to be just another pretty girl in a dress, free to live a life of romance and adventure.
Despite having figured out how to act around her father, Elissa still frequently dreams of the freedom her best friend pursues, one of adventure and romance, and rarely about her actual future ruling someday, though she wisely keeps it to herself.
Recent Events[]
Upon recieving the invitation to the Festival of Peace, Elissa was going to be allowed to govern the kingdom in Daric's stead, while he attended the Festival. However, fate had other plans, and her father suddenly grew violently ill before he could leave for the Festival. Elissa elected to attend instead.
Elissa found herself the object of the affections of both Gaston Septim, Prince of Wayrest, and Astien Valtieri, Fox of Camlorn at the Festival, but became smitten with Astien, who she began thinking of as "her fox." She slept with him after dancing together at the ball, and the two were married in secret at a small chapel in Evermore. The pair went back to Northpoint together after the Festival, with Elissa planning on getting her father's official approval and having a proper engagement and wedding with Astien. Immediately after arriving, however, Elissa learned that her father had passed away, and within the week found herself sitting in on the Council of Repute that would decide if she took the throne of Northpoint. Elissa was crowned Queen of Northpoint and High Queen of the North on the 24th of Frostfall, 4E28. Though she and Astien are married in her eyes and the eyes of the gods, Elissa has yet to announce even an engagement to the court.
Trivia[]
- Elissa is partial to dogs and has several for hunting. Her favorite is a 10-year-old wolfhound named Sir Barkington, but the hound is now mostly too old to hunt with her.
- Elissa’s favorite novels from Orellius Cimber: Lady Snowe and her Seven Orcs (a Dibellan affair!), A Glint in Slitted Eyes (Love in the Deserts of Elsweyr!), Only Fur Between Now (An axe Stolen, and a heart!), and The Dragon and the Highwayman (A Dunmer in the Niben!). She didn’t enjoy his latest work, When Scales Break (The southren swamp Awakens!).
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