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Name: Felixient "Felix"/"Grinny"/"Smiles" Grinnaux
Gender: Male
Race: Elezen (half Duskwight/half Ishgardian)
Height:
Voice Claim: Kirk Thornton (Jade Curtiss "Tales of the Abyss")
Age: 31
Name day: 25th day of the Sixth Umbral moon
Patron: Halone, the Fury
Class: Conjurer
Sexuality: Homosexual
Relationship status: Dating Ser Charlemend de Montfort
Background:
Felixient was the oldest of five children and was born to Sofine Grinnaux a Wildwood woman who, due to circumstance was forced to work as a prostitute in the Brume. Felixient was the oldest of her five children and was often described as being a hellion when he was younger.
Felixient was often looked down upon by those who regarded themselves as the Brume’s “betters” due to where he was born and raised, as well as his mother’s occupation and his own status as a bastard, and he would regularly get into fights with those who would insult his family or his birth status, especially insults to his half-hyur brother, Quentenain. He would also help beat up any young highborn foolish enough to wander through or too close to the Brume alone or with scant protection.
It was little surprise that Felixient eventually fell in with the criminal element of the Brume, often doing odd jobs and crimes for the higher members of the criminal element, jobs which included theft, extortion, blackmail, torture and rumours had it, murder. During his spare time, he would often engage in drinking, gambling and whoring. Despite his criminal work, Felixient refused to allow his younger siblings to get involved, instead wanting them to somehow get good, honest jobs.
Tragedy struck his family when he was in his early 20’s, and a particularly nasty disease spread through the Brume, infecting and killing many. Felixient’s youngest sister contracted the pox and, and was forced into quarantine with the others infected with the illness, refusing to allow her youngest daughter to go in there alone, Felixient’s mother went in with her. Both mother and daughter died from the disease. It was a couple of months after their deaths that Felixient came to the realisation that he could not keep living like he was and decided to try and turn his life around. He started to help out with the few clergy brave and compassionate enough to work in the Brume, and with his hard work and desire to learn, it wasn’t long before he earned an endorsement to study at the Scholasticate, and opportunity he eagerly accepted. His acceptance to study at the Scholasticate raised a few eyebrows with some believing that he was turning his back on the Brume to try and cosy up to the higher born.
It took quite some time for Felixient to settle in at the Scholasticate, especially with many insulting and belittling him for his birth status and parentage, and his Brume dialect did not make things easier. Yet he was greatly drawn to Conjury and took to it rather well, and compulsory Elocution lessons meant that most students stopped making remarks about his way of speaking, though a few would still bully him over it occasionally. One of the lesser noble sons once insultingly told him that he would make a good Inquisitor, a path Felixient never even considered but realised that he could do effectively, considering he had some of the requisite skills for it, and had experience in some of the more unsavoury aspects of Inquisition work, so after he finished his studies at the Scholasticate, he applied for and was accepted into the Inquisition.
Most people in the Brume took this as a huge betrayal once they found out about his career path, and quickly ostracised him and his siblings, as they believed that he would be no better than any of the other Inquisitors there, and was only there to try and pretend to be better than his birth and home. Although some residents still supported the family behind the scenes.
Felixient took well to the Inquisition, and had very few qualms in engaging in some of the more shadier and unsavoury aspects of it, though he never took pleasure in it, he did what he did to keep Ishgard safe, and if people had to get hurt or die, then that was the price he was willing to pay. To his great surprise, a few of his old associates in the Brume were still willing to talk to him and act as informants for him, provided he supplied appropriate compensation for their work.
Most of his pay went towards his family, and as they got older, he arranged for his siblings to leave Ishgard to pursue better lives outside of the city. His sister Ursielle ended up joining the Immortal Flames in Ul'dah, and his brother Quentenain became an adventuer after dallying with the Rogues for several years. Only Ivaurault still lives in Ishgard, specifically the Brume, though Felixient is trying to find an appropriate job or guild for his brother to work at or join.
The changes in Ishgard regarding the city, its leadership and its culture made Felixient quite worried about the future and safety of Ishgard, as well as made him increasingly worried about the security of his job, and whether he would even have one in the near future, and what to do should that occur. The skill set of an inquisitor is not one that can be easily transferred to other occupations. The sudden disappearance of his lover, Jihli'a Ademur, also added further stress and worry to his life.
When the Dragonsong War ended and Dravanians no longer being regarded as the enemy of Ishgard, as well as Ishgard becoming a Republic, Felixient opted to go on pilgrimage with his youngest brother, Ivaurault, hoping that the travel would do his mind good, and that some of his worries would be at ease. While he was away, he found out about the fate of Jihli'a, the miqo'te being alive and well, yet had taken up another lover, much to Felixient's dismay and anger.
He returned to Ishgard shortly after the Griffin's attack on Baelsar's Wall, and the battle between Shinryu and Omega, and almost immediately volunteered to join the Temple Knights in their campaign in Gyr Abania to liberate Ala Mhigo. He was attached to a squad led by Ser Charlemend de Montfort, and while the group was initially wary of him, they eventually warmed up to him.
The events of Specula Imperitoris saw the deaths of all but a handful of Charlemend's squad, as well as the death of Ursielle, Felixient's beloved younger sister, hardening the elezen's heart against the Garleans. In the final battle for Ala Mhigo, Felixient took a near fatal wound, an eques getting a lucky shot in and impaling the elezen on their lance. He remained unconscious for several months after Ala Mhigo's liberation and it was several more months before he was well and fit enough to be able to work again.
While the Inquisition was still struggling to maintain its relevancy, Felixient's direct superior could not bear to see the elezen go homeless, as the man had personal chambers provided by the Inquisition and had not enough gil to purchase a place of his own, and so opted to instead assign Felixient to travel about Eorzea locate and destroy the pages of the Necrologos, as even pages of the profane book had made it to Ishgard. He was given a Temple Knight to escort and protect him, the very same Charlemend whom he had worked with in Gyr Abania and had maintained a vigil whilst he recovered from his injuries.
Personality:
Felixient can have quite an acerbic and blunt personality, not being one to mince words and having little patience for the politics and follies of the highborn and higher clergy, and prefers to just keep doing his work. Despite this, he is full willing to do what he can to protect Ishgard from the Dravanian threat without and the heretic threat within, and can be quite merciless to heretics who have committed grievous and horrific crimes against Ishgard and its people.
Felixient has a self admitted “healthy distaste” of highborn and the high houses.
He does have a kind side, one that is deeply committed and loyal to his family and few friends, and is one who is eager to help out those in need. When he can, he does like to help the citizens of the Brume out, though he usually does it through his informants or other (very few) friends, knowing that any aid he would give outright to the Brume’s citizens would be rejected.
Family:
Mother: Sofine Grinnaux (deceased)
Father: Seraphin Selleverre (deceased)
Younger half-sister: Ursielle "Ursa" Grinnaux (deceased)
Younger half-brother: Quentenain "Quint"/"Duck" Grinnaux
Younger half-brother: Alexondre de Dzemael
Younger half-brother: Ivaurault "Ivar" Grinnaux
Younger half-sister: Vielle "Vi" Grinnaux
Younger adopted brother: Crow Brume
Miscellany:
- He has a birthmark covering his right shoulder, a dark, almost inky blue splotch on his shoulder, which is known as a Gelmorra Stain. It is a hereditary birthmark that is mostly prominent in some Duskwight elezen families.
- He has a pumpkin mandragora called Butternut, a gift from his brother Quentenain, whom he got from the Adventurer’s Guild after helping them investigate the Continental Circus. Butternut usually runs non-sensitive paperwork to and from various people for Felixient.
- Surprising almost no one, most of his assortment of scars was from before he became an Inquisitor.
- Felixient’s right eye was lost after a heretic broke free from his confinements during an interrogation. So Felixient had it replaced with a glass one, opting to have the replacement be red to be more intimidating (a fact he refuses to admit to most). Most tend to find his natural eye to be the more intimidating and unnatural of the two.
Gender: Male
Race: Elezen (half Duskwight/half Ishgardian)
Height:
Voice Claim: Kirk Thornton (Jade Curtiss "Tales of the Abyss")
Age: 31
Name day: 25th day of the Sixth Umbral moon
Patron: Halone, the Fury
Class: Conjurer
Sexuality: Homosexual
Relationship status: Dating Ser Charlemend de Montfort
Background:
Felixient was the oldest of five children and was born to Sofine Grinnaux a Wildwood woman who, due to circumstance was forced to work as a prostitute in the Brume. Felixient was the oldest of her five children and was often described as being a hellion when he was younger.
Felixient was often looked down upon by those who regarded themselves as the Brume’s “betters” due to where he was born and raised, as well as his mother’s occupation and his own status as a bastard, and he would regularly get into fights with those who would insult his family or his birth status, especially insults to his half-hyur brother, Quentenain. He would also help beat up any young highborn foolish enough to wander through or too close to the Brume alone or with scant protection.
It was little surprise that Felixient eventually fell in with the criminal element of the Brume, often doing odd jobs and crimes for the higher members of the criminal element, jobs which included theft, extortion, blackmail, torture and rumours had it, murder. During his spare time, he would often engage in drinking, gambling and whoring. Despite his criminal work, Felixient refused to allow his younger siblings to get involved, instead wanting them to somehow get good, honest jobs.
Tragedy struck his family when he was in his early 20’s, and a particularly nasty disease spread through the Brume, infecting and killing many. Felixient’s youngest sister contracted the pox and, and was forced into quarantine with the others infected with the illness, refusing to allow her youngest daughter to go in there alone, Felixient’s mother went in with her. Both mother and daughter died from the disease. It was a couple of months after their deaths that Felixient came to the realisation that he could not keep living like he was and decided to try and turn his life around. He started to help out with the few clergy brave and compassionate enough to work in the Brume, and with his hard work and desire to learn, it wasn’t long before he earned an endorsement to study at the Scholasticate, and opportunity he eagerly accepted. His acceptance to study at the Scholasticate raised a few eyebrows with some believing that he was turning his back on the Brume to try and cosy up to the higher born.
It took quite some time for Felixient to settle in at the Scholasticate, especially with many insulting and belittling him for his birth status and parentage, and his Brume dialect did not make things easier. Yet he was greatly drawn to Conjury and took to it rather well, and compulsory Elocution lessons meant that most students stopped making remarks about his way of speaking, though a few would still bully him over it occasionally. One of the lesser noble sons once insultingly told him that he would make a good Inquisitor, a path Felixient never even considered but realised that he could do effectively, considering he had some of the requisite skills for it, and had experience in some of the more unsavoury aspects of Inquisition work, so after he finished his studies at the Scholasticate, he applied for and was accepted into the Inquisition.
Most people in the Brume took this as a huge betrayal once they found out about his career path, and quickly ostracised him and his siblings, as they believed that he would be no better than any of the other Inquisitors there, and was only there to try and pretend to be better than his birth and home. Although some residents still supported the family behind the scenes.
Felixient took well to the Inquisition, and had very few qualms in engaging in some of the more shadier and unsavoury aspects of it, though he never took pleasure in it, he did what he did to keep Ishgard safe, and if people had to get hurt or die, then that was the price he was willing to pay. To his great surprise, a few of his old associates in the Brume were still willing to talk to him and act as informants for him, provided he supplied appropriate compensation for their work.
Most of his pay went towards his family, and as they got older, he arranged for his siblings to leave Ishgard to pursue better lives outside of the city. His sister Ursielle ended up joining the Immortal Flames in Ul'dah, and his brother Quentenain became an adventuer after dallying with the Rogues for several years. Only Ivaurault still lives in Ishgard, specifically the Brume, though Felixient is trying to find an appropriate job or guild for his brother to work at or join.
The changes in Ishgard regarding the city, its leadership and its culture made Felixient quite worried about the future and safety of Ishgard, as well as made him increasingly worried about the security of his job, and whether he would even have one in the near future, and what to do should that occur. The skill set of an inquisitor is not one that can be easily transferred to other occupations. The sudden disappearance of his lover, Jihli'a Ademur, also added further stress and worry to his life.
When the Dragonsong War ended and Dravanians no longer being regarded as the enemy of Ishgard, as well as Ishgard becoming a Republic, Felixient opted to go on pilgrimage with his youngest brother, Ivaurault, hoping that the travel would do his mind good, and that some of his worries would be at ease. While he was away, he found out about the fate of Jihli'a, the miqo'te being alive and well, yet had taken up another lover, much to Felixient's dismay and anger.
He returned to Ishgard shortly after the Griffin's attack on Baelsar's Wall, and the battle between Shinryu and Omega, and almost immediately volunteered to join the Temple Knights in their campaign in Gyr Abania to liberate Ala Mhigo. He was attached to a squad led by Ser Charlemend de Montfort, and while the group was initially wary of him, they eventually warmed up to him.
The events of Specula Imperitoris saw the deaths of all but a handful of Charlemend's squad, as well as the death of Ursielle, Felixient's beloved younger sister, hardening the elezen's heart against the Garleans. In the final battle for Ala Mhigo, Felixient took a near fatal wound, an eques getting a lucky shot in and impaling the elezen on their lance. He remained unconscious for several months after Ala Mhigo's liberation and it was several more months before he was well and fit enough to be able to work again.
While the Inquisition was still struggling to maintain its relevancy, Felixient's direct superior could not bear to see the elezen go homeless, as the man had personal chambers provided by the Inquisition and had not enough gil to purchase a place of his own, and so opted to instead assign Felixient to travel about Eorzea locate and destroy the pages of the Necrologos, as even pages of the profane book had made it to Ishgard. He was given a Temple Knight to escort and protect him, the very same Charlemend whom he had worked with in Gyr Abania and had maintained a vigil whilst he recovered from his injuries.
Personality:
Felixient can have quite an acerbic and blunt personality, not being one to mince words and having little patience for the politics and follies of the highborn and higher clergy, and prefers to just keep doing his work. Despite this, he is full willing to do what he can to protect Ishgard from the Dravanian threat without and the heretic threat within, and can be quite merciless to heretics who have committed grievous and horrific crimes against Ishgard and its people.
Felixient has a self admitted “healthy distaste” of highborn and the high houses.
He does have a kind side, one that is deeply committed and loyal to his family and few friends, and is one who is eager to help out those in need. When he can, he does like to help the citizens of the Brume out, though he usually does it through his informants or other (very few) friends, knowing that any aid he would give outright to the Brume’s citizens would be rejected.
Family:
Mother: Sofine Grinnaux (deceased)
Father: Seraphin Selleverre (deceased)
Younger half-sister: Ursielle "Ursa" Grinnaux (deceased)
Younger half-brother: Quentenain "Quint"/"Duck" Grinnaux
Younger half-brother: Alexondre de Dzemael
Younger half-brother: Ivaurault "Ivar" Grinnaux
Younger half-sister: Vielle "Vi" Grinnaux
Younger adopted brother: Crow Brume
Miscellany:
- He has a birthmark covering his right shoulder, a dark, almost inky blue splotch on his shoulder, which is known as a Gelmorra Stain. It is a hereditary birthmark that is mostly prominent in some Duskwight elezen families.
- He has a pumpkin mandragora called Butternut, a gift from his brother Quentenain, whom he got from the Adventurer’s Guild after helping them investigate the Continental Circus. Butternut usually runs non-sensitive paperwork to and from various people for Felixient.
- Surprising almost no one, most of his assortment of scars was from before he became an Inquisitor.
- Felixient’s right eye was lost after a heretic broke free from his confinements during an interrogation. So Felixient had it replaced with a glass one, opting to have the replacement be red to be more intimidating (a fact he refuses to admit to most). Most tend to find his natural eye to be the more intimidating and unnatural of the two.
