Faerie: Selected Character Biographies
Nuclear Family
Jeanne Adryana Lésane » Heir to the Throne
- born: 14 September 1984
- family: Richard Stover (human father), Adryana Lésane (Faerie mother)
- dislikes: the word 'hybrid,' tragic childhoods, her classmates
- secretly loves: dancing to her uncle's rock music, whispering words in Faerie for no reason
- current status: hiding from life with along with Jeassinae
Adryana Cecylia Lésane » Her Majesty the Queen
- family: Cecylia Lésane (mother and carisae), Regil Devreau (father and counselor), Melayssa
Lésane (sister and chief enemy), Richard Stover (husband by human law), Jeanne Lésane (daughter and
chervari)
- likes: spending time with her daughter, laughter (which she doesn't have enough of anymore), ice cream
- secretly loves: walking along the Lake's shore at sunrise
- dislikes: Council meetings, disrespect, putting up with her sister's machinations
- favorite memory: singing Jeanne to sleep one night when she was little
- current status: worrying about Jeanne
Richard William Stover » businessman and traditionalist extraordinaire
- family: William Stover (father; deceased), Miranda Stover née Roberts (mother; ennobled), Marcus Stover
(brother and best friend), Adryana Lésane (wife), Jeanne Lésane (daughter)
- dislikes: technology (especially computers), Marcus's rock music, Adryana's absentee-ism
- secretly loves: watching Jeanne smile in her sleep
- favorite music: Beethoven's 5th
- current status: deceased and greatly missed
Marcus Nathaniel Stover » doctor and joker
- family: William Stover (father; deceased), Miranda Stover née Roberts (mother; ennobled), Richard
Stover (brother; deceased), Jeanne Lésane (niece), Isabelle Stover née McKensy (wife), Annika Stover
(daughter)
- likes: rock music (especially Arch and The Frames), coffee, making people laugh
- dislikes: mustard and tears
- known for: calling Jeanne "baby doll"
- current status: enjoying nearly every moment of fatherhood
Extended Family
Lady Miranda Roberts » Peer of the Realm
- family: Richard Stover (son; deceased), Marcus Stover (son), Jeanne Stover (granddaughter), Annika
Stover (granddaughter)
- enjoys: the smell of parchment in the basement of the Bodleain, visits from classics majors
- secretly loves: hearing Jeanne call her Oromai
- dislikes: lack of manners
- prefers: that her staff not know her whereabouts at all times
- current status: holed up in her office, unlocking family secrets
Cecylia Tynora Lésane » Her Majesty the Former Queen
- family: Regil Devreau (husband and conscience), Adryana Lésane (daughter and chervari),
Melayssa Lésane (daughter and disappointment), and eight grandchildren
- likes: power, control, spending time alone with Regil or her grandchildren
- dislikes: disrespect, disappointment
- secretly regrets: spoiling Melayssa and punishing Jeanne
- current status: deceased
Regil Devreau » a true Jiminy Cricket
- family: Cecylia Lésane (wife), Adryana Lésane (daughter), Melayssa Lésane (daughter), and
eight grandchildren to chase after
- likes: giving advice, watching his grandchildren grow, spending hours in the quiet of Saint Aderana's Grove
- hates: when Cecylia's plotting involves their family
- secretly regrets: burning so many unsent letters
- believes: in living every moment
- current status: trying to keep the twins in line
Melayssa Lésane » the fallen noblewoman
- family: Cecylia Lésane (mother; deceased), Regil Devreau (father), Adryana Lésane (sister),
Gyrrel Givana (husband), and her seven children: Talin (M), Reganna (F), Cecin (M), Tameran (M), Girren (M), Kallyn (F),
and Alyandra (F)
- delights in: power, attention, thwarting Adryana, the thought of becoming Queen
- hates: everything about Jeanne, having to speak to Veklond
- secretly wishes: that she'd told her children that she loved them
- current status: negotiating in Dreskara
Reganna Lésane » penitent for another's sins
- family: Melayssa Lésane (mother), Gyrrel Givana (father), six siblings, Jeanne Lésane (cousin
and closest friend)
- enjoys: dancing with handsome young men, visits from her grandfather
- hates: the looks people give her because of her mother
- favorite memory: her very first pillow fight, thanks to Jeanne
- wishes: that Talin would come home for good
- current status: waiting out Jeanne's disappearance in Jeasandé
We are the band
Nijole Resclin » minstrel with a disguise
- family: not something we talk about much
- likes: a good ale, an evening with his friend Talin, and a well-tuned lute
- annoyed by: arrogance (particularly that of a certain Princess), barkeeps who don't provide a roof for
their entertainers, groupies
- not so secretly wants: to make Jeanne smile
- current status: re-discovering a complicated past
Talin Maklan (Lésane) » undercover nobleman
- family: unadmittedly royal
- enjoys: life in general since he escaped his mother's grasp, a warm fire and a pint
- dislikes: listening to Jeanne and Nijole argue
- misses: his younger sister
- current status: staying close to Jeasandé until Jeanne and Nijole reappear
Selected Saints
Aderana Lésane » Queen and Chervari
- family: Trijeson Thessily (husband), Kallysa Thessily (eldest daughter), Rytana Lésane (daughter and chervari), Jeassinae Kalisria
(favorite sister)
- role: First Queen of Faerie, patroness of royalty, the Lésane family, and chervaris, maker of the Chalice
- standard: a silver Chalice on a violet background
- known for: her temper
- wishes: to see Jeassinae again, to see her father Veklond defeated, to see Jeanne take her proper place
- current status: keeping a nervous eye on events from beyond K'sarus
Deirdae Heslacam » seer and advisor
- family: Cecyl Joranen (husband), Quenin Joranen (son), Ellia Heslacam (daughter and heir)
- role: Advisor to Adryana, patroness of fortunetellers, young children, and the Heslacam family, maker of the Shield, fabled Bestower of Gifts
- standard: white with a golden Eye
- sometimes spotted: wandering the countryside as a old, blue-eyed woman
- secretly: watches Jeanne more than the others
- current status: hoping that her warnings are heeded
Nijelyn Vanuka » minstrel and musicmaker
- family: Jeassinae Kalisria (true love but not the mother of his child), Jykaria Vanuka (daughter)
- role: Faerie's first musician, patron of the Vanuka family, musicians, bards, and especially minstrels, writer of the Ballad and maker of the Bow
- standard: dark blue with a white Bow and a copper Lute
- favorite memory: his first visit to the Waterfalls with Jeassinae
- loves: Jeassinae more than life itself
- current status: waiting for Jeassinae to cross K'sarus
Jeassinae Kalisria » misunderstood and underappreciated defender
- family: Nijelyn Vanuka (husband), Jeanne Lésane (heir)
- role: Protecter of Faerie, patroness of abandoned children, youth, and servants, maker of the Dagger and of the sword Ilarien
- known as: the defeater of the verildés, the Lost Saint, the Heirless Saint
- secret history: a half-human daughter left in the human world, her "death" was a ruse to cover her kidnapping and imprisonment
- lives: for Jeanne and the thought of reunion with Nijelyn
- current status: helping Jeanne where no one helped her
These characters, stories, and ideas are the original, copyrighted work of Nicole Sharp and are protected under a Creative Commons License.
