A LES MISÉRABLES ARITSAR / RAYBEARER AU? WHY NOT!

 Oluwan and Swana bring his drum; nse, nse 

Dhyrma and Nyamba bring his plow; gpopo, gpopo 

Mewe and Sparti see our older brother dance— 

Black and gold, isn’t he perfect! 

Quetzala sharpens his spear; nse, nse 

Blessid Valley weaves his wrapper; gpopo, gpopo 

Nontes and Biraslov see our older brother dance! 

Black and gold, isn’t he perfect? 

Djbanti braids his hair; nse, nse 

Moreyao brings his gourd; gpopo, gpopo 

Eleven moons watch our older brother dance: 

Black and gold, isn’t he perfect?

 

Eleven danced around the throne, 

Eleven moons in glory shone, 

They shone around the sun. 

But traitors rise and empires fall, 

And Sun-Ray-Sun will rule them all, 

When all is said-o, all is said 

And done-heh, done-heh, done...

Arit folk songs.

 

The title of StrixAlluka's newest AU/crossover is still to be debated - Eleven Moons Aligned or Eleven Moons Eclipsed - it's actually the Eleven Moons Diptych, with each half sporting either title... but anyway, while waiting for her Aritsar take on the cast of Les Mis, here is a little dramatis personae:

The Oba's Council - noteworthy members:

Oba Othello - ruler of the Arit Empire, Raybearer. Currently comatose with his council as regency until he finally dies and his son becomes the next oba - or not?

High Priestess Nadia Satrinava - Dhyrma, death by contagion / hallow of seeing visions:

High Lord General Connor McLeod - Mewe, death by bleeding / hallow of invulnerability:

(Late High Lady General Morga Eirsdottir - Biraslov, death by mauling / hallow of unmatched speed):

High Lady Magus Yan Lin: Moreyao, death by hexes / hallow of bilocation/astral projection:

High Lady Ambassador Cvetka Akulova (here Crown Prince Enjolras' mother) - Biraslov, death by suffocation / hallow of creating cold and ice:

High Lady Archdean Klytemnestra, my OC Elena the netmender's twin sister (Spare Prince Montparnasse's mother) - Sparti, death by organ failure / hallow of summoning fire and explosions

High Lord of Harvests Jean Valjean - Nontes, death by battery / hallow of superhuman strength:

High Lord Judge Javert - Nyamba, death by drowning, hallow of forcing people to tell the truth

High Lady of Castles Aidana (single mother, drunken as an analogy to bonding sickness) - Quetzala, death by poisoning, hallow of "insanity" / seeing the worst in other people

The Crown Prince's Council:

Oloye/Crown Prince Enjolras; son of the oba and High Lady Ambassador Cvetka, heir to the throne, raybearer

High Lord Archdean Combeferre - Djbanti, death by poisoning / hallow of eidetic/photographic memory

High Lord General Courfeyrac - Nontes, death by battery / hallow of optimism inducement and happiness inducement

High Lord Laureate Grantaire - Sparti (cabin boy), death by bleeding / hallow of slowing down and taking away entropy (which works like the Stand Crazy Diamond)

High Priestess Cosette Valjean - Biraslov (half-Nontish half-Biraslov isoken), death by gluttony / hallow of glowing in the dark, a different colour based upon her mood

High Lady of Castles Éponine Thénardier - Swana (one-quarter-Nontish one-quarter-Blessid half-Swanian isoken), death by burning / hallow of lie detection

High Lord Judge Marius Pontmercy-Ghàilenor - Mewe (half-Nontish half-Mewish isoken), death by drowning / hallow of giving/taking away hallows

High Lord Ambassador Feuilly - Quetzala (realmless -ie stateless- orphan isoken dreamcatcher maker, origins unknown), death by suffocation / hallow of speaking and understanding every human language

High Lord Magus Jo-Lee Lin - Moreyao (born in Songland, Redemptor adopted by the Lins), death by contagion, hallow of healing illnesses and injuries and transferring them to himself

High Lord Treasurer Lesgle "Bossuet" - Nyamba, death by organ failure / hallow of giving good luck at the cost of suffering bad luck himself (he does so by shaking hands or having a kiss blown his way, alluding to the lyrics of "Chim Chim Cheree")

High Lord of Husbandry Bahorel - Dhyrma, death by mauling / hallow of unstoppable righteous anger-trance (think Cú Chulainn or the Incredible Hulk)

High Lady of Harvests Jehanne Prouvaire - Blessid Valley (half-Nontish half-Blessid isoken; trans girl), death by hexes, hallow of making plants grow by petting them and singing to them (her power is even seen to affect fungi, but half as much as plants).

The Ghàilenors of Faye's Crossing

Lleu Ghàilenor - the clan patriarch, Marius' maternal grandfather

Arianrhod Ghàilenor - Marius' maternal grandmother

Aoife Ghàilenor - Marius' maternal maiden aunt and tutor

Saoirse Pontmercy, née Ghàilenor (deceased) - Marius' mother, died in childbed due to heavy bleeding, married to a Nontish commander allegedly "killed in battle" at Gaelinagh as a volunteer

The Satrinavas

Nasrin Satrinava - Nadia's mother, governor of Dhyrma

Namar Satrinava - Nadia's father, consort of Dhyrma

Nafizah Satrinava - Nadia's firstborn sister, next-in-line governor of Dhyrma, a mystic

Nazali Satrinava - Nadia's secondborn sister, a powerful healer

Navra Satrinava - Nadia's thirdborn sister, a life-of-the-party

Nahara Satrinava - Nadia's fourthborn sister, a badass

Nasmira Satrinava - Nadia's fifthborn sister, a nurturer

Natiqa Satrinava - Nadia's sixthborn sister, a chatty cathy

The Lins of the Silver Dragon Inn (and a certain young woman from Songland):

Chen Lin - Hay Lin's father and son to Yan Lin

Jo-An Lin - Hay Lin's mother and in-law to Yan Lin

Chou Khan - Jo-An's father, wealthy tea merchant, against marriage to the Lins, still stern and a tad at odds with Yan

Hay Lin - foster sister to Jo-Lee, a creative and eccentric, artistic soul

Ye-Seul (Jo-Lee's real mother from Songland) - a high-ranking Songland court lady, unwilling to send her child to the underworld

Others:

Elena the netmender - Sparti (islands), R's (Grantaire's) biological single mother, unhallowed, outsider since her own shipwreck-widowed-mother Leda died

(Lucio Montagu Morgasson - deceased commander, Biraslov; son of Morga and her consort, husband of Nadia, killed in estate fire - a sociopath who physically, verbally, and emotionally abused his wife)

Montparnasse - spare prince of Aritsar, son of the oba and High Lady Archdean Klytemnestra, prospective usurper - hallow of giving entropy (not the same as accelerating already existing entropy, which his mum has!)

Clovis and Hannah Prouvaire - Jehanne's parents, an average though interracial couple in a semi-nomadic village society in a campsite in Blessid Valley

Sgt. and Mme. Thénardier, Azelma and Gavroche - Éponine's parents and younger siblings, innkeepers on the outskirts of a Swanian market town by a clear lake, a salt lake where lots of flamingos stop on their migration