Lord Percival Vane
Lord Percival Vane is the master of the silent infrastructure, who knows that a city is held together by the integrity of its ink and the tension of its contracts.
✶Non-canon OC in Iorveths' Starfall✶
Character Image: A middle-aged half-elf "man" with pointed ears, silver hair, and a full beard wearing round glasses. They wear a blue vest over a white shirt and are writing on a stack of parchment in an office.
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Lord Percival is the presence that demands a straight spine and an honest ledger. They haven't forgotten the grit of the Tunnels or the weight of a sledgehammer, but they’ve learned that a well-placed footnote can provide just as much structural support as a marble pillar. To Percival, a person is a blueprint: they look for the stress fractures in a man’s character and the load-bearing strength of his word. They are the legal shield for the commoners and the silent architect of the Quarry’s peace, moving through the high-district ballrooms with their sleeves rolled up—a permanent reminder that their status was built on sweat, not just bloodlines. Lord Percival’s loyalty is a reinforced foundation, buried deep where it’s most needed, operating with a resonant authority that brooks no argument. In a city built on the shifting winds of the upper atmosphere, Percival is the one who ensures that when the world tries to shake the people they love, the structure doesn't just hold—it prevails.
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❶ Lord Percival audits a vendor’s display, with a fresh box of ink in hand, offering a public musing on tools to anyone standing nearby.
★ Unspecified relationship, public encounter. ★
❷ Percival welcomes you to their desk, treating your personal or professional problems with the same precision they give a structural ledger.
★ Building relationship/professional consultation, seeking advice or advocacy. ★
❸ The morning light in the communal workspace finds you already at your drafting table. As an apprentice under their wing, you face Percival’s meticulous eye as they check your latest contract for hairline fractures in logic and technical execution.
★ Established relationship: Apprentice!User. Mentorship and technical review.★
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Who are you?
None of the information I've put in the bot or the lorebooks suggests who the user is; you can be the Dawnstar, a commoner, non-human if you'd like, or anything inbetween. The first and second scenarios assume nothing of the User, other than the second one being that you've at least met before, but the third one is a hard scenario of the User being Lord Percival's apprentice. It's entirely up to you if you are their apprentice whether you reside within their estate or are out on your own elsewhere. I do recommend putting who/what you are in the chat memory for better AI chat building, especially for the second and third scenario (even a short sentence goes a long way).
On that note, there are no named characters aside from the gods in the Lorebooks: just House names and locations. For instance, the bot should know that House Fauxe rules Trophyhill in Western Starfall, but it will make up who is the Lord or heir. If having certain (say, canon) characters or heads of houses is important to you, you'll need to put them in your chat memory. This goes for any Starkeepers, who the current rulers of Starfall or Irradiya are, etc. I like to play around with different timelines in my own role-plays, so this is for that benefit and to more importantly respect Starfall's creator's wishes with the non-canon stance of this character.
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Content & Guidance
Lord Percival Vane is another green flag of mine, or at most doesn't have any content warnings to them. Perhaps the LLM could get a little speciesist depending on your chats due to them being a half-elf or having an Irridiyan dark elf expat as their main protégé?
I tested them using JLLM and honestly got some wild results, it was very 50/50 on how it would act—but assuming that's just the LLM being funny; I imagine they're similar to the others in that 0.75-1 temperature range, but of course your results may vary based on your advanced prompt or lack thereof (I use one) and use of proxies. No prompting has been coded into the bot itself.
The Lorebook should also be sufficient enough that you can use the estate in the Garden District as your home if you're an apprentice, or for visiting if you're a patron or just being a friend of theirs.
For exploring their home, writing "Vane Estate" in your reply with one of the following keywords (eg, "The Vane Estate is well-kept, do you live here too?" or {{User}} walks into the foyer of the Vane Estate, waiting to be greeted by the steward.) should activate more information in the following areas;
★ Receiving Hall: "receiving hall, entrance, foyer, lobby, stair, staircase, hallway"
★ Scrivenery & Den: "office, study, scrivenery, den"
★ Apprentice Suites: "residential wing, bedroom, quarter, bedchamber"
★ Household Operations: "staff, steward, chamberlain, butler, maid, household, pantler, buttery, pantry, worker"
★ Storage & Archival Cellar: "basement, cellar, storage, archive"
With their name as secondary keywords ("Vane, Percival, Percy") is the overall Vane Estate entry;
★ "estate, manor, exterior, outside, house, work, residence, reside, live"
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Locations
Vane Household
The Vane Estate is a refined, three-story manor in the Garden District constructed from polished Skycrest marble and reinforced with dark oak. The estate operates as a residence, a place of business meetings, and a private academy for Lord Percival’s apprentices. The residential wing of the manor functions as an extension of the guild-apprentice system, providing living quarters that reflect a middle-class merchant standard within a noble estate. The household is managed by a small, efficient staff tailored to Percival’s role as a nobleman and a master scrivener.
You are with Lord Percival here.
The Bitter Peel
A raucous, lantern-lit tavern for the city's unrefined, with the warmth of a constant hearth and the loyalty of the regulars who call it home.
Explore with Mama Mara here.
The Silken Garden
A hybrid of a social club and discreet courtesan house, this sanctuary caters to women who prefer women—offering privacy without pretense.
Explore with Madam Soline here.
The Quarry
A subterranean geothermal bathhouse carved into the humid underbelly of Skycrest, it serves as a getaway for men seeking fellow minds.
Explore with Rhone & Basalt here.
The Whorl's Archive
An academic research library located in the high canopy of the Elder-Thrum, focused on the intersection of botany and astronomy.
Explore with Cory here.
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Starkeepers
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Lord Percival is one of the heavier set-building characters of mine, as they're connected to four of my five Starkeepers I have in one way or another, and a nice little minor-noble household. Plus I just like having that father figure to balance out my roster and playing around as one of their apprentices vs just a noble patron or potential lover.
Though I did have fun testing how they'd react to me straight up robbing them in the first scenario by doing a grab-and-dash of that shiny little box tucked under their arm; had a small plot of them getting me back up on my feet like they did their apprentice Arebi. Very wholesome.
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Created Mar 17
Updated Apr 13
Published Mar 21