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Helen passed by the room on her way to her apartments, sighing that she was prior occupied...

(Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia agrees with the response, ensuring her best friend Anna sees and sends it forward. At teatime, she talks about it to everyone - her husband, her other friends, his friends - regardless of how much she actually loves such announcements. "We shall soon give them real casus bellis!" she'd comment to them! In fact, her fat courier Tobias is even sent to send it outwards more! @libbybelle @shay @zuziee @Kujo @Hephaestus

my spell will give me custody of the kids

(Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia's clapping at the talent show was the greatest for Henry Penton. She tells her fat courier, Tobias, to ask Anna to invite him to their next tea session. @libbybelle

(Pretty) Princess Helen of Crestfall once more met her fat courier boy, Tobias, behind the palace stables. "Do you have it?" she asked, with a thin tremble to her voice, a silent tremor upon her worried, beautiful lips. "The last supply in Providence," he replied, his jowl fat bouncing with greed. He left six Marks richer that day, and she left with her guiltiest pleasure - another copy of Hearsay of Hanseti-Ruska.

(Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia sat in a Providence cafe with a selection of her closest friends. As the springtime of youth flowered amongst the debutantes and young lords of the empire in the streets and palace grounds, she wisely quipped, "Mortality makes us human. Greed makes them Dwarves." @zuziee @jcbeno @EmiliainWonderland @shay

PROSPECTIVE MISTRESS FORM IGN: edelos Name: (Pretty) Princess Helen Antonia Ruthern nee Novellen Age: 22 Place of residency: Augustine Palace, Providence Bank account balance: 150 mina Hobbies: Travelling, Drinking, Writing, Reading, Patronage of the Arts One interesting fact about yourself: I'm married. Why should Tatiana choose you?: No emotional commitment required.

PROSPECTIVE BACHELOR FORM IGN: zombieman999 Name: John VIII Age: 50 years young Place of residency: 1 Augustine Place, Providence Bank account balance: 89,000 mina Hobbies: Knitting, Flower Watching One interesting fact about yourself: I have the biggest dining room in Oren. Why should Tatiana choose you?: I'm single and ready to mingle.

Pretty Princess Helen nearly faints. Thank GOD, with GOD emphasized, that I did not find myself among that lot, she thought as she pondered how long she could stay sober.

Helen worried for the relations between her two best friends, Anna Henrietta and Maisie, from afar. Sullenly, she drank tea alone that day.

The wildly attractive (Princess) Helen Antonia smiled wryly as she watched the debut and following dance, disappearing from the sidelines near the end to have a bottle of Pruvian Port with the Governess. @libbybelle

Princess Helen, that most faire of maidens, receives multiple letters inquiring about personal invites. Sighing, she mutters, "I'll do it myself." Personal invitations from HIH, Princess Helen Antonia are sent to the following persons, their envelopes scented with Carrington Company perfume (not an ad); Captain Caspian, for how could Helen forget her childhood savior? @Shmeepicus Cardinal Robert Bourdon, whom she met once at a lesser ball; @Tiresiam Elizaveta Ruthern, among her dearest childhood friends; @EmiliainWonderland Her pet bear, Bearsby; Her best friends, of course, in Anna Henrietta and Maisie - and a second invitation to Maisie, just to be certain; @libbybelle @zuziee The young, prodigal Simon B., provider of all of Helen's cosmetics; @jcbeno Her lunatic of a brother and his +1; @Nectorist Her eldest sister and her husband; @VIROS Simon Casimir Pruvia-Provins and his notorious brood; @MisterChenn @Fie Her eldest brother and his new wife; @ErikAzog And finally to her esteemed colleague, Mister Napier; @Hanrahan

Princess Helen turned back to Maisie, pinching the older girl's cheek with a coy smile. Their moment, of course, was ended by the rushing in of maidservants, to help Helen dress in normal clothing once more. Soon the biweekly afternoon teatime shared by the two was brought out in earnest - this time, with exotic Sutican dessert cakes. @zuziee

The prettiest princess in Oren - perhaps, indeed, in all Almaris - stood before a tall, handsomely embellished vanity, staring at herself in a simple white dress. Her long-standing companions in Anna Henrietta and Maisie by her sides, the enchantingly beautiful lady let out a sigh. "Let us hope the anxiety-biscuits do not alter my proportions too heavily, lest I fail to fit in the corset when the time comes," she commented, an impossibly pretty smile on her face. @zuziee @libbybelle

"How insidious!" the inordinately pretty Princess Helen responded. "But it is not good for your skin to take such petty attention-grabbing to heart, dear Anna - here, have some more Savoyard Delight." At this, she clapped her hands, ordering a servant to bring in a silver platter positively covered in the sugar-covered, gelatinous trifles. "You too, Maisie," she said as she delicately took one, looking to the third girl at the table. @zuziee

The obscenely attractive Princess Helen lies among a field of wild poppies, basking in the summering sun. "Dearest me, how the time flies," she says, after a while. "It is nearly time for afternoon tea!" At this, she stands, pulling up too her companion in Anna Henrietta, and the two return to the picnic that had been so meticulously made by their servantry. @libbybelle

On a fine, sunny day in Providence, the enchanting Princess Helen walks the grounds of the palace gardens. "Look here! See you the peonies so finely colored? I should hope the handmaides pluck some, that they may be brought inside to adorn our halls," she quips to the not-quite-as-attractive, but still beautiful, Anna Henrietta. @libbybelle

Deep in the Orenian countryside, the wildly attractive and flamboyant Princess Helen shouts in delight. "Nearly, Anna!" she exclaims to her ever-present compatriot, the Governess of the Augustine. "It is nearly springtime!" Obviously nobody had informed her flowers bloom well within the Spring, and therefore that it eas already springtime... @libbybelle

Pretty Princess Helen mourns the loss of her mother - on the surface, at least. Beneath the surface, she prepared to celebrate her wicked mother's absence.

"Dream Catchers were made by pagan Dark Elves called Warhawkes!" exclaims Pretty Princess Helen in horror upon discovering the brochure, shoving it in front of her best friend, Governess Anna Henrietta. "This is cultural appropriation!" ..She readies her purse to buy one anyways, though, knowing how very trendy it shall soon be. @libbybelle

Pretty Princess Helen's sad gaze followed her grandfather to his end. His reign did not greatly alter the Empire's course in history; but it did bring with it a generational peace. She mourned for him, just as the well-read of their faire Empire would, for with his death brought with it the unknown upon their realm.

Pretty Princess Helen Antonia prepares to propose to her uncle, in true [redacted] fashion!

Application: Nation Type: Tribal Nation Flag (optional): Nation Name: The Torchbearer Kings | Taimatsu-no-Ōkamigami Nation Culture (Brief description): Among the myriad fables of the Elraic Empire, one tale speaks of a land on the edge of the world, where the disobedient are fed to a dark forest. There, the grass is black, the sky is dark, and Stygian devils replace its gods. Indeed, even its people are warped, with only their black teeth visible beneath demonic masks and many-layered bone armor. It, of course, is just another of the stories-from-before-time meant to persuade children to be good. Nation History: A thousand warring tribes make up the Torchbearers, each worshipping their own creation myths, each with their own shamans, their own chieftains, their own languages. Unerringly, however, they all possess a single common story - the Death of the Forest, or the Birth of the Four Gods. The Lotus Auspex | Hasu-no-Uranaishi The Frozen Moor | Tōketsu-no-Gen'ya The Dark Fable | Yami-Gūwa The Dead Forest | Korosareta-no-Mori Nation Race: Human Special Characters: The Lotus Daughter | Hasu-no-Miko | Mage | Her red lacquer mask is shaped as a skull, vines growing from its orifices. Her body is a slithering, serpentine mess of exoskeleton and oozing blood. The Frozen Daughter | Tōketsu-no-Miko | Mage | Her white lacquer mask is devoid of detail, a perfect oval. Her body, too, is a blank canvas - in fact, the haze of white mist that covers The Frozen Daughter's body makes it impossible to make out specifics. The Dark Daughter | Yami-no-Miko | Mage | Her black lacquer mask is shaped as a circle, pulsating light in its center forming a perfect recreation of an eye. Her body, a mess of black wings and creaking bones jutting out of the corpse of a child. Primary Magic: Stygian | Black Torch Secondary Magic: Druidism | The Wilds Unique Point of Interest: Jukokkai | The Forest of the Cold One | Nok Lor | The Dead Forest The Forest of the Cold One is said to have a soul - the Dead Forest, a name that has in the common languages become interchangeable with the name of that sea of trees. There, an eternal night blankets the land in shadow, and the howling of Stygian beasts is constant and deafening. Few, if any, visitors from foreign lands have returned from that dreadful place - and all rave madly of a silent, haunting Stygioi wearing the skull of a deer, tall and slender, and its utter dominance over the world around it.

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Pretty Princess Helen Antonia finds the letter on Charles' desk on one of the many days he's tried to recruit her. "This is the most attractive thing I, the prettiest princess in all the land, have seen all day," she'd comment idly to Anna Henrietta. @sergisala@libbybelle