Eir Armstrong

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

RP Basic Information

All you need to know when meeting Eir

Origin Archives

In depth account of an isolated upbringing and a headstrong runaway

Continued Journey

From Ul'dah to Ishgard

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Snapshots in Time

Basics

Name: Eir Armstrong
Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 18 / 24 (depending on if you meet her in Ul'dah or Ishgard)
Server: Crystal - Mateus (PST)Preferences:
✅ 21+ RP partners
✅ Multi-Paragraph (especially for Discord RPs)
✅ Brainstorming plots and crying over our OCs together
✅ Long-termOpen To:
❤️ Dark, angst, light to medium combat, mature-themes
❤️ In-dungeon rp adventures!
❤️ Comedy, rivalry/enemies, character development
(I'm generally open to most themes as long as we communicate and brainstorm through it thoroughly)Not Open To:
🚫 ERP
🚫 Death
🚫 IC = OOC
🚫 Permanent injuries (unless discussed/consented OOC)
🚫 WoL characters

Hooks

🦋 Eir trained with the lance with the Wood Wailers. While she enjoyed the work, her experience was limited to the basics. She would enjoy learning, particularly from a Temple Knight as the Order of the Knights Dragoon were a favorite subject to read about while she was sick and bedridden.🦋 As a merchant's daughter, Eir is always invested in the price and sources of mercantile goods. She is also looking for supplier or donation contacts for the refugee shelter she is helping organize in the Brume.🦋 Following in the footsteps of her older "brother," Tristan, Eir has taken to wielding nouliths. She recently took up training in Sharlayan herself and can often be found studying at Noumenon or training as an assistant at the Psysis Technon. She has endless enthusiasm for discussing or learning more about all forms of healing arts.

An Isolated Upbringing

Eir is the only daughter of Laurence Armstrong, a merchant prince of Gridania. Laurence started out as a lumber trader with ties to Hingashi. He was able to grow his network throughout the eastern continent thanks to networking skills of his wife. The young headstrong daughter of a Kugane textile manufacturer, Reina Maibito was as passionately in love with Laurence as he was with her. Together they founded The Golden Lotus Trading Company. They would go on to specialize in importing the exotic fabrics of Aldenard and Thavnair to Gridania.Unfortunately, Eir's parent's romance was tragically brief. Reina died from health complications exacerbated by giving birth prematurely to Eir. Laurence, it is said, never fully recovered from the loss.

Mirroring her mother's ill health, Eir was born so weak it seemed unlikely she would survive her first year. Laurence spared no expense in hiring chirurgeons and conjurers. Easily exhausted and prone to flares pain throughout her body, the best her caregivers seemed capable of was sedating the child through her ordeals. Despite this, Laurence remained distant. Eir did survive and he would shower her in gifts on his visits. He rarely spent time in their home. Eir was raised primarily by her tutors and her father's assistants; sheltered, controlled, and largely bedridden.

At the age of seven Eir met Tristan Mondesir. Laurence had hired Timot Mondesir, a renowned healer at that time. While the father was able to expertly treat the child's symptoms, allowing her extended periods of reprive, it was the son who identified their cause. He deduced that her body was oversensitive to the abundance of Gridanian aether that took on the aspect of astral earth.

Going against their tenants of secrecy, Tristan shared what he was studying about barrier magic at The Studium. When he accompanied his father on Eir's healing sessions, he would secretly teach Eir how to, within herself, shield reserves of aether by aspect. Over years of practice she became highly adept at sensing aetheric aspects around her. She is able to shift a barrier around a given type within herself without much conscious thought.

Once healthier and able, Eir happily traded her bedside library for a polearm. She trained to join the Wood Wailers, which her father allowed on the condition that she also work at mastering bookkeeping and inventory management for the family business. Though Laurence had no intention of letting his daughter actually join the lancer guild, he felt the physical training helped improved her health and instilled some much needed discipline.

It was at 15 years of age that Eir's lifelong friendship with Tristan Mondesir came to a halt. The Sage, who had become like a brother to Eir, was reported to have been killed by black mage cultists in the outskirts of Ul'dah. Not for the first time, Eir wished to travel beyond the confines of the Black Shroud.

Though she had countless times tried leaving Gridania, her father, with his innumerable work contacts, thwarted her every attempt. For years Eir was plagued of dreams of Tristan - visions of his continued life so detailed that she could not shake the feeling they were somehow real. Each dream, foggy as it was when she tried to recall it, showed the sage wandering lost and afraid. He seemed displaced, like a shadow unable to connect with those around him. Many fights broke out between Eir and her father over her desperate desire to look for Tristan. Lawrence went so far as to restrict Eir to her rooms for days at a time if she even so much as mentioned Tristan. The connection between father and daughter was never more strained.

At 18, Eir was informed she would be sent to Ishgard. Purportedly this was to refine her education in regards to etiquette in an affluent and newly formed republic. But Eir understood the true meaning of this venture - to be used in forming a profitable social connections.Despite years passing, she was still plagued by nightmares of Tristan's shadow existence, though they came less and less frequently. Now finally allowed to travel beyond Gridania, Eir made a decision to escape her travel escorts and head to Ul'dah search for Tristan herself. Though she knew she hadn't much time to investigate before her father's extensive contact network discovered her, she realized this would likely be her only chance.

Future Foundation

It was not Eir's wish to forsake the will of her father completely. Her hope was to foster fortuitous connections in Ul'dah and eventually do the same in Ishgard on her own terms. She planned to seek a great house (of her own choosing) to serve and learn from ...and hopefully extend her freedom just a little bit longer. Little did she know she would encounter Ishgardians sooner than she'd gussed.

All clues seemed to point to Tristan's former companion, a retired thaumaturge who ran a quiet shop in the Pearl Lane. Unfortunately, the proprietor seemed to have vanished into the Sagolii Desert some years past. Her store remained boarded up in the Pear Lane and from there the trail went cold.

Arriving at the Quicksands, Eir took up work as a currier, making many social connections with local merchants thanks to her discerning eye. This also gave her access to a variety of organizations within the city as she followed up on the mystery of her childhood friend's disappearance.

Among the connections she made in Ul'dah was with a young Ishgardian lord named Alvoix Duseaux. The once disgraced noble had in the past found themselves without fortune and naively unprepared for the reality of Ul'dah's cutthroat culture. He recognized and was deeply annoyed by the vulnerable position Eir had placed herself in. After much chastisement, the elezen decided to keep a watchful eye over Eir.

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