Knight Harmony

Character Traits

Name

Minerva Aynimen

Head Title

Lord Knight Harmony

Other Title(s)

The Unmovable Object, Skewer, The Beauty of The Knights, and Rayda’s Finger, as well as an unfortunate amount of less-flattering nicknames postured around her various lifestyle choices.

Race/State

Human/…whoa, hold up, now! Stop! That’s too much!

Age

A closely guarded secret (young fellas can get weirded out if they’re about to hook up with someone who could be their great great great great great great…)

Height

Still hasn’t decided. The cosmetic mages over at Kanvane are more than happy to keep taking her money.

Weight

Same as above.

Relevant Faction(s)

Royal Knights of the Old Kingdom of Reinen (Lord Knight)

Original Series

N/A

Hobbies and Interests

An unhealthy obsession with magic’s most dynamic school. She’s reached a level of sophistication that allows her to open and alter an unaware creature’s magical pathways in as little as a second’s time: a technique she’s used more than once against opponents foolish enough to let down their guard…
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll to the point that she’s broken every single tenant of the Royal Knights related to moderation – she’s kind of a wild soul these days…
Fashion, parties, hosting, and all manner of fun things
News, current events, politics – she’s unexpectedly well-informed about interdimensional goings on
Outstandingly accomplished with the “Aenan National Instrument” the violin. Hosts concerts on the regular in any of her numerous estates
Self-improvement and pop-science reading. Refuses to be more beautiful than she is educated and motivated

Notable Relatioinships

Chaos finds her very unfortunate and the “least” among the great Lord Knights of Reinen, so he treats her well as a child, despite her attempts to win him over
Very very “socialable” with a huge number of prominent politicians, rulers, celebrities, and more. I don’t think I need to get into too much detail on the character of these relationships, but let’s just say that she doesn’t take the Reinish Knightly Value of Chastity very seriously. There’s even some murmurings that she’s “won over” a few lesser overlords and fellow Knights to her great benefit
A distasteful but warm friendship with Lord Knight Justice who, while clearly outspoken against her immoral life decisions, remembers the person she was and holds himself partially accountable for not making it more obvious to her in the past that he thought she was a wonderful and worthwhile person
The object of utter worship by a multitude of interdimensional admirers, including Shorts Minion, who idolizes her even more than his beloved High Overlord
Long-running and awkward rivalries with Lord Knight Order, who’s come to despise her loose and shameless nature, and Lord Knight Love, the object of Law the First’s affection
An uncomfortable relationship with Knight Law (The Second) who not only is privy that Harmony despises his surrogate mother, but that he’s also named after the fellow Harmony loved more than anyone else.

Name

Minerva Aynimen

Head Title

Lord Knight Harmony

Other Title(s)

The Unmovable Object, Skewer, The Beauty of The Knights, and Rayda’s Finger, as well as an unfortunate amount of less-flattering nicknames postured around her various lifestyle choices.

Race/State

Human/…whoa, hold up, now! Stop! That’s too much!

Age

A closely guarded secret (young fellas can get weirded out if they’re about to hook up with someone who could be their great great great great great great…)

Height

Still hasn’t decided. The cosmetic mages over at Kanvane are more than happy to keep taking her money.

Weight

Same as above.

Relevant Faction(s)

Royal Knights of the Old Kingdom of Reinen (Lord Knight)

Original Series

N/A

Hobbies and Interests

An unhealthy obsession with magic’s most dynamic school. She’s reached a level of sophistication that allows her to open and alter an unaware creature’s magical pathways in as little as a second’s time: a technique she’s used more than once against opponents foolish enough to let down their guard…
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll to the point that she’s broken every single tenant of the Royal Knights related to moderation – she’s kind of a wild soul these days…
Fashion, parties, hosting, and all manner of fun things
News, current events, politics – she’s unexpectedly well-informed about interdimensional goings on
Outstandingly accomplished with the “Aenan National Instrument” the violin. Hosts concerts on the regular in any of her numerous estates
Self-improvement and pop-science reading. Refuses to be more beautiful than she is educated and motivated

Notable Relatioinships

Chaos finds her very unfortunate and the “least” among the great Lord Knights of Reinen, so he treats her well as a child, despite her attempts to win him over
Very very “socialable” with a huge number of prominent politicians, rulers, celebrities, and more. I don’t think I need to get into too much detail on the character of these relationships, but let’s just say that she doesn’t take the Reinish Knightly Value of Chastity very seriously. There’s even some murmurings that she’s “won over” a few lesser overlords and fellow Knights to her great benefit
A distasteful but warm friendship with Lord Knight Justice who, while clearly outspoken against her immoral life decisions, remembers the person she was and holds himself partially accountable for not making it more obvious to her in the past that he thought she was a wonderful and worthwhile person
The object of utter worship by a multitude of interdimensional admirers, including Shorts Minion, who idolizes her even more than his beloved High Overlord
Long-running and awkward rivalries with Lord Knight Order, who’s come to despise her loose and shameless nature, and Lord Knight Love, the object of Law the First’s affection
An uncomfortable relationship with Knight Law (The Second) who not only is privy that Harmony despises his surrogate mother, but that he’s also named after the fellow Harmony loved more than anyone else.

Minerva was born to rustic parents in Western Ragnivan, and had to share their charming forest home with eight other siblings.

This was at the turning point before Rayda and The Knights really brought the sword down on the Dragon-Kin armies, and as such the cultural precedent was for “proper” families to have as many kids as possible to ensure the survival on not just the family bloodline, but also the human species.

Despite the dire straights of humanity on the Aernan continent around this time, Minerva’s life was generally peaceful, if loud. Her primary energy of the day was spent trying to get the attention of her parents away from her siblings, and it was a constant struggle.

She was a charming girl, but a bit lanky, unusually tall for her age, and had a style of countenance that caused a slight nervous tick to appear in her face any time she was explaining something.

…As much as parents want to say that they love all their children equally, Mister and Missus Aynimen were slowly swayed by incidental factors into which of their kids they subconsciously enjoyed seeing more often, and it wasn’t her.

Puberty came, and while her sisters flourished into smiling, confident maidens, and her brothers into sunny-faced, racing boys, she seemed to have missed the wagon when it came to development. She became taller, and lankier, and her confidence degraded ever more.

Her moment of glory came, as is so often the case, tied hand-in-hand with tragedy.

The Kin-Armies’ latest sweep cut into their woodland village like the eruption of a volcano. She was a blink away from death, and that’s when a certain Knight Law (The First) intervened.

Saved by the broadsword of a brave Reinish Knight, she immediately broke ties with her family and trained in magic incessantly to join their order. Millennia later, she thought she had moved on from the injurious image she’d been raised with, but some things need more than a little bit of history to change.

Despite her actions, her valor, her dedication to the cause, she was relegated to a role of sister warrior, not something to be cherished past her utilitarian role: a life she saw fit for men, but not for her.

She was not idolized the way many of the other female Knights were. She was not cute like Order, classically beautiful like Love, reserved and cold like Space, nor bright and friendly like Bravery. Harmony concluded in the decades leading up to the Traehern Massacre and subsequent fall of Reinen that what she valued most deep down was the admiration that was so freely given to the others because of how they looked, acted, and accepted themselves as.

Strictly speaking, she had developed a particularly obsessive body-image issue, one that only became worse with time.

Without the disapproval of Law the First (who she believed never admired her in the first place) and Rayda himself upon his disappearance at Chaos’ hands, it was only a few years before Harmony decided the time had come for a change.

Employing the greatest cosmetic mages of Kanvane’s secret academies, Harmony underwent a true total body makeover, all the way down to the genetic level.

Blond locks, silver gaze, a figure to catch any eye…

Her voice, her smile, her skin, everything up to the point of changing her mental state with neuromancy was altered significantly.

Cosmetic mages called her their “truest masterpiece,” and interdimensional society as a whole seemed to agree.

No more lanky girl with a bags under her eyes. No more uneven freckles. No more tears.

She transformed into the kind of woman that gets everyone’s attention: a legendary appearance to match her legendary actions.

The social uproar was enormous, Order practically cut ties with her upon hearing the news, but she wasn’t going to back out of the spotlight after spending her entire life out of it.

Harmony is now considered the most beautiful person in the Aernan continent, an incredible hostess of the greatest parties, and a smart, wise, yet brave personality that royalty, heroes, archmages, and more all clamor to gain favor with.

After all, she is the best, and the only way she’ll accept that as fact is if she’s always needed.

Primary Magics and Abilities

Considered among The Knights of Reinen to be second only to Rayda himself when it comes to master of Mutamancy, Mae (as her acquaintances call her) can produce a truly eye-popping amount of physical force in the blink of an eye. No one has butchered, bastardized, and experimented with their physiology more than her, and as such she’s mastered a truly incredible array of constitutional talents.

We’re not talking “baby archmage’s first” stuff like breathing underwater or surviving being frozen solid, Mae’s developed a stamina that can survive the vacuum of space, pits of lava, as well as parties where she’s the only girl there (which is usually her preference when it comes down to business.)

As one of Rayda’s first knights, she’s maintained a policy of responsible maintenance with her equipment and weapon for millennia. This includes regular visits to the Reinish smithworks to keep her equipment rock-solid, super-durable, and enchanted to the rims with all the latest stuff the mages could come up with. Her lance and tower shield, “Strike” and “Sneer” respectively, have never been broken in combat… at least, not until the Traehern massacre, an altercation in which she was lucky to get away with just some broken equipment.

That said, she’s learned each time from her mistakes, and has built her equipment and body up to a point that utterly humiliates the vast majority of her challengers. Her strength is often likened to the very strongest of the Knights, Order’s freakishly unexplained strength, Justice’s outstanding grasp of multiple magics to jointly delivery strikes of incredible power, and of course Rayda, the legend of legends himself with his mountain- leveling unarmed attacks. She’s proud to be counted among the best of them, but she always keeps close to the basics: her equipment, and herself.

Regularly capable of outrunning flighted mount-travel, she’s gained a certain notoriety over the centuries to complete the intent of her missions before the rest of her team can get there: a decisively brash outlook for someone so concerned about equipment. If asked, she’d say it’s because she can’t trust other people, and ultimately this is a telling answer that connects the dots.

Despite her incredible martial abilities, she has such little trust in other people, that she constantly expresses a desire to magnetize all attention, all effort, and all desire towards her. As long as knows others need her, rely on her, and respect her, then she knows she can have that little amount of control she needs to complete the mission swiftly and brutally – a very unorthodox, utilitarian outlook on civil service and warfare alike.

All-in-all, she’s a clever, dedicated fighter capable of speed and strength comparable to Rayda, but without quite as much of a revulsion of “popular” magics.