Eleanor of Aquitania

Face-up artist(s):

Pearls of Danube

Date of acquisition:

2016

Provenance:

DoA

Reason for choice:

I actually had a Salomé right after she got released in 2014 but that was the year I turned so disgruntled with my crew that I sold most of them, started wih Blythes and srsly thought I'd stop with BJDs altogether so she got sold.

But I have in the recents months started to lust after a Salomé again and after finding a character for her to take over I put up a WTB ‘just in case’ and not even 24 hours later I had a PM by not only s.o. from my country but also the one goddamn Salomé I mooned over the most. My wallet does not appreciate me atm, I am sure.

Eyes:

Chinese Glass

Wig:

Will be MaryamDN

Favourite colours:

Green / Bronze / Gold

Name story:

Eleonor/Ellie as a character even predates Stephanus – she is from when I was around 7 and deep in dinosaur amazement. Remember “The land before time”-franchise? God did I love those films and me and my friends used to ‘role play’ as those dinosaurs. I always was Ali (which I misheard as ‘Ellie’), the little brontosaurus girl which soon became a T-Rex cause T-Rex ftw! And from that she evolved first into some sort of imaginary friend and then as the whole creation of what is now Silmä took off she became Pazuzu’s motherly advisor. She has an equally badass (and tiny) girlfriend who has a good chance of seeing a resin form as well… fml. The ‘of Aquitania’ part is added as a nod to Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of my favorite historical ladies <3 (and my inability to remember that it is Aquitaine and not Aquitania lol)

Character gender:

female

Offsite roleplay:

This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.

In the dark forests of the continent Adebola a woman by the name of Eleanor of Aquitania took over the charred remains of a city long demolished by the forces of the Council and rebuilt it, attracting people who had previously lived there and survived as well as new homeless people seeking to make themselves a new home. She was wealthy by means of marriage and soon took up trade as a merchant for everything her city produced and procured from the earth. She was the first to start a network of traders over the five countries of Silmä, thus making her both a woman who people looked up to and despised at the same time. The city walls were built of pale sandstone, earning it the nickname of Ciudad Blanca with Eleanor as reina pálida, the pale queen.

Not much is known of her heritage and rumour has it, that giants blood flows through her veins as she is of huge and stocky build. She herself neither confirms nor denies. She often dresses in plain peasant clothes and mingles with the ’simple folk‘

Cunning and wise as she was, she also built the first orphanage for the war had left many children orphaned and adrift in a world that was still healing. They soon were referred to as her ‘Lost Children’ and many of them grew up more loyal to Eleanor than to anyone else. Three children she took in as her own out of the many orphans – Rex, Tyrion and Hoshea, children of soldiers and peasants who had lost both their parents to the bloodshed the war had rained upon everyone.

Eleanor meets the young reborn Stephanus by chance and instead of alerting the Council to the rebirth of a god that was executed for a reason, she listens to his ideas of the future and decides that his plan can mean the hope, the freedom for Silmä. So she adopts him as some sort of protégé, giving him a base to work from until Land’s End is restored. She plays an important part in raising the reborn Pazuzu, who lovingly refers to her as „Aunt Ellie“.

Her and High King Arundel are credited as the most influential people aside from the Gods to Silmä as a whole.