Lucien Brumenoir
| Alias(es): | Lucianus Brumenoir |
| Full Title: | Sa Seigneurie Lucien, le Marquis de Brumenoir, Sénéchal des Lys, l’Épée de Charlemagne, la Main de Michel |
| Formal Style(s) of Address: | Monseigneur Monsieur le Marquis Monseigneur Lucien Seigneur Lucien |
| Common Title(s): | Capitaine Général (Captain General; if commanding the entire field) Commandant(Commander) Dominus Luciane(Lord Lucien) L’Acier Debout (The Steel That Still Stands) L'Épée(The Sword) L'Épée de Charlemagne(The Sword of Charlemagne) L’Épée de la France (The Sword of France) Le Marquis Éternel (The Eternal Marquis) Sénéchal des Lys (Seneschal of the Lilies) |
| Court Appellation(s): | Gardien des Lys (Guardian of the Lilies) Illustrissimo Signore Lucien (Italian: Most Illustrious Lord Lucien) L'Épée de Roi(The Sword of the King) La Lame Blanche de l’Empereur (The Emperor's White Blade) La Seconde Ombre du Roi (The King's Second Shadow) Le Champion des Lys (The Champion of the Lilies) Main de Michel/Manus Michaelis (Hand of Michael) Maréchal des Ombres (Marshal of Shadows) Miles Christi Perpetuus (The Perpetual Soldier of Christ) Miles Sancti Michaelis (Knight of Saint Michael) |
| Honorific(s): | L’Épée Inlassable (The Tireless Sword) L’Épée Qui Dure (The Sword That Endures) Le Glaive Qui Revient (The Blade That Always Comes Back) Le Veilleur des Champs (The Watcher of the Fields) Notre Capitaine (Our Captain) |
| Folklore Epithet(s): | L’Épée du Givre Blanc (The Sword of White Frost) L’Épée Vivante (The Living Sword) L’Ombre de Michel (The Shadow of Michael) La Frappe du Ciel (The Strike of Heaven) La Main de l’Archange (The Hand of the Archangel) La Sentinelle Silencieuse (The Silent Sentinel) Le Héros Sans Tombe (The Hero Without a Grave) Le Seigneur de la Glace Ancienne (The Lord of the Ancient Ice) |
| Enemy Epithet(s): | Charlemagne’s Curse Hell’s White Marshal Lady Lucien Lucien the Albino Whore-Son Lucien the Never Fallen Lucien Brumenoir, God’s Abandoned Paladin Lucien Brumenoir, the Gentleman Revenant Monsieur Mince-Your-Neck The Alpine Abomination The Alpine Bride of Michael The Black Mist of Brumenoir The Bastard Brumenoir The Boy-Faced Butcher The Cursed Paladin of the Franks The Demon Sword of France The Devil in Benedictine Silk The Effeminate Executioner The Emperor’s Leashed Ghost The Emperor’s White Blade The Ever-Bleeding Lord The Fallen Seraph of the Alps The False Paladin The French Ghost-Boy The French Snow-Doll The French Widowmaker The Frost-Bitten Devil of Mont Blanc The Ghost in Iron The Handsome Horror The Icy Bastard The Inhuman Weapon of the Frankish Throne The King’s Bed-Warmer The King’s Dog-Butcher The King’s Icy Killer The Lord Without A Lord The Lily-Bride of Charlemagne The Maid of Mont Blanc The Marquis Made of Marble The Marquis of Murder The Menace of Mont Blanc The Milk-Faced Monster The Mountain Dandy The Mountain Minx The Mountain Wraith The Never-Dying Frenchman The Painted Seraph The Pale Bastard The Pale Reaver The Pale Witch-Knight The Porcelain Prince The Powdered Reaper The Pretty Death Called Brumenoir The Pretty Reaper The Relic That Walks The Silent Frost-Fop The Slaughter-Saint The Smiling Killer The Smirking French Ghost The Snowborn Fiend The Soft-Faced Devil The Soft-Faced Slayer The Unkillable Knight The Unyielding Lord The Virgin-Knight Who Won’t Stay Dead The Walking Curse of Mont Blanc The White Curse of the Alps The White Revenant The White Widowmaker The Winter Peacock The Winter Prince That Bloody French Snow-Fairy German Das Lächelnde Messer(The Smiling Knife) Der Hübsche Henker(The Pretty Executioner) Der Unsaubere Engel(The Unclean Angel) Italian Il Bello Maledetto(The Cursed Pretty One) Il Fantasma di Carlo Magno(The Ghost of Charlemagne) Il Principe Pallido(The Pale Prince) Il Ritornante(The One Who Comes Back) Il Sorriso di Morte(The Smile of Death) Old Norse Eiðsmíðaðr sverðmaðr(Oath-Forged Sword-Man) Reiðmaðr hinn ófallandi(The Rider Who Does Not Fall) Sverðdraugr konungs(The King’s Sword Revenant) Arabic أمير الثلج (Amir al-Thalj)(Prince of Ice) جندي الجحيم الفرنجي (Jundi al-Jahim al-Faranji)(The Frankish Soldier of Hell) الذي خرج من القدس حيًا (alladhi kharaja min al-Quds ḥayyan)(He Who Walked Out of Jerusalem) الرجل الذي لا يبقى ميتًا (al-rajul alladhi la yabqā mayyitan)(The Man Who Would Not Stay Dead) ملاك السقوط (Malāk al-Suqūṭ)(The Fallen Angel) سيف لا يموت (Sayf la yamūt)(The Sword That Does Not Die) |
| Suppressed Title(s): | Angelus Bellator(Warrior Angel) Angelus Vindex (Avenging/Protecting Angel) L’Ange aux Bottes de Fer (The Angel With Iron Boots) L’Ange qui Dort dans la Neige (The Angel Who Sleeps in the Snow) L’Épée Immortelle (The Immortal Sword) L’Immortel de la Montagne (The Mountain’s Immortal) La Main Droite du Ciel (The Right Hand of Heaven) Le Soldat des Archanges (The Soldier of the Archangels) Le Tranchant Immortel (The Immortal Edge) The Lost Angel The Unending One |
| Territory: | Marquisat de Brumenoir Symbolic and military value, 600 square miles; 85% of which is unusable. It is dominated by Mont Blanc and encompasses both the upper Arve valley beneath it and the high pass into the south. |
| Seat of Power: | Château de Brumenoir, high on Mont Blanc’s northern flank, overlooking the Mer de Glace and the upper Arve valley; a nearly unreachable site accessible only via fortified switchback designed to resist avalanches. |
| Residence(s): | Château de Brumenoir Paris Residence (Hôtel de Brumenoir) Avignon Villa Lyon Manor Bordeaux Estate (Château de la Mer) Le Pavillon de la Lune Blanche Marseille Residence (Maison des Voiles) |
| Status: | Alive |
| Nationality: | French |
| Gender: | Male |
| Orientation: | Bisexual |
| Loyalty/Loyalties: | Family; France; Marquisat de Brumenoir, The King of Twilight |
| Partner(s): | Ian Murray |
| Birthplace: | Near Tours, West Francia |
| Birthdate: | Awakened 3/21/766 Baptized 6/13/766 |
| Era / Age: | Carolingian Era |
| Death: | — |
| Role: | Immortal protector of France. |
| Combat Role(s): | Battlefield Rally-Point Field Commander Heavy Cavalry Linebreaker Master Swordsman Morale Anchor Vanguard Marshal |
| Specialties: | Adaptive Battlefield Reading Aura of Unbreakable Morale Breakthrough Tactics & Shock Engagement Counter-Rout Interventions Dueling Psychological Warfare via Reputation Siege Breach Leadership |
Education & Training |
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| Scholastic: | Near Paris Collège de France (1530 onward - Non church, elite: mathematics, medicine) Collège de Navarre (1305 onward: quiet and elite- arts) Faculté de Médecine de Paris (1200ish onward: medicine, anatomy etc) The University of Paris (Sorbonne) (11th Century onward: classics, medicine) Near Mont Blanc University of Geneva (Swiss, 1559 onward: scientific correspondences) University of Grenoble (1339 onward: some arts) University of Turin (Savoy, 1404 onward: law, medicine, natural sciences) |
| Martial: | Abbey of Saint-Maur (Castrum near Angers; Benedictine foundation with a “defensores abbatis” corps) |
| Religious: | Taught by Father Aurelian at the Chapel of Saint Martin at La Roche near Tours. Charlemagne's court taught all of the rest of what he needed. |
| Other: | Self trained scholar, alchemist, herbalist |
Languages |
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| Fluent In: | Arabic (Crusades) Alemannic German (Swiss / Swabian variants) Bavarian German (Upper Bavarian / Inn Valley dialects) Breton Church Greek (Koine) Cornish Czech (Old Czech → Modern Czech) Danish Dutch (Old → Middle → Early Modern → Modern) English (Old → Middle → Early Modern → Modern) Flemish French (Old → Middle → Early Modern → Modern) Frisian German (Old High → Middle High → Early Modern → Modern) Greek Hebrew Hungarian (Magyar) Irish (Old → Middle → Early Modern → Modern) Italian Ladin (Dolomitic Romance) Latin Moravian Czech Norse (Old Norse) Occitan / Old Provençal Old Church Slavonic Ottoman Turkish Polish Portuguese Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh) Romanian Russian(Late Early Modern, would be like Shakespearean English) Scots (Middle Scots → Modern Scots) Scottish Gaelic Silesian Slovak Slovene / Old Slovene Sorbian Sudeten German Spanish Venetian (Merchant Italian) Welsh Yiddish |
| Semi-Fluent In: | Bosnian / Serbian (Historical Shtokavian base) Catalan (reading fluency; limited spoken) Chakavian Croatian (coastal dialect; merchant use) Dalmatian (extinct; known via port records and legal texts) Kajkavian Croatian (Austro-Slovene border dialect comprehension) Persian (Reading fluent, some conversational) Romani (caravan argot; curses, practical field-level communication) Walloon (mining + contract dialect exposure) |
The Marquisate
Despite its proximity to the Savoyard frontier, the Marquisate of Brumenoir has never been regarded as part of Savoy. Covering roughly six hundred square miles—about thirty miles across—the territory functions as a French border march established in the early medieval period and held continuously under the authority of the Marquis de Brumenoir. Local identity follows the lordship rather than the neighboring duchy; inhabitants describe themselves as “of Brumenoir,” and French administrative documents recognize the domain as an autonomous frontier holding rather than a Savoyard region. In political, cultural, and military practice, Brumenoir stands as its own distinct land, with Savoy serving only as the adjacent foreign power beyond its southeastern limits.
Because the marquisate was never formally revoked—even during Napoleon’s widespread abolition of hereditary titles—the region retains its historical name into the modern age. Administratively it falls within France, but culturally and locally it is still known as Brumenoir, a continuity strengthened by the unbroken tenure of its immortal marquis. Centuries of population records, land grants, parish documents, and military reports reinforce the identity of the territory as a distinct march rather than a subdivision of Savoy, ensuring that both residents and national authorities continue to use “Brumenoir” as the permanent designation for the valley and its surrounding lands.
Law Study
Though originally educated in governance directly at Charlemagne’s court, Lucien refreshed his legal knowledge across the centuries through private tutors, monastic instruction, and occasional study at major universities. He never required a degree—the law changed, and he adapted with it.
He doesn’t go to philosophy. Philosophy comes to him.
Through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the salons of Paris, the Alpine retreats, all the way to the edge of the French Revolution…
He doesn’t need lecture halls.
He needs a warm room, a fire, a bottle of wine, and someone curious enough to come knocking.
And they always do.
Scholars wander uphill toward him the way moths drift toward flame.
They’re not drawn by his wealth or rank.
They’re drawn because they can tell, somewhere deep inside, that he has answers older than their questions.
Theology?
Rome is the center of canon-law production.
Does he go as a pilgrim? Sure. But his “pilgrimage” is a research trip.
Early on, he’d wander:
• Lateran archives
• papal libraries
• monastic scriptoria
• Dominican and Franciscan lecture halls
And the Renaissance and later? Lucien would go not only for theology, but:
• classical philosophy
• textual criticism
• natural philosophy
• cross-cultural religious currents
• arguments about free will, virtue, reason, and the soul
He would sit in a cloister courtyard and say nothing, and scholars would talk themselves breathless trying to impress him.
By the 1600s, a “pilgrimage” is simply the least controversial story.
He goes because:
• the Vatican library is unmatched
• canon law shifts
• political theology evolves
• European philosophy fractures
• the Church tries to adapt to a rationalizing world
It’s not piety. It’s reconnaissance. Rome is well aware and honors him anyway.
| Height: | 5'8" |
| Build: | 145–152 lbs Fit 128–137 lbs Convalescing |
| Eye Color: | Steel blue |
| Hair: | Platinum blonde |
| Skintone: | Fair, light, typically Alpine. |
| Scars: | We'll go into that mess later. |
| Tattoos: | None |
| Piercings: | Wore earrings when it was socially acceptable. Holes are faintly visible. |
| Distinguishing Features: | He is of compact stature, with an agile, well-conditioned physique suited to speed and sustained exertion rather than mass. Valkaenar's features bleed through the human guise: his supernatural beauty and grace have been remarked upon by both soldiers and clergy through the ages. |
| Notable Gear: | A sword is always at his hip; usually a slightly curved katana-like blade. Sometimes carried (always functional) gifts or used weapons more suited for the specific combat role required of him. His armor was replaced as needed and though it matched, it was a hodgepodge of centuries of differing craftsmanship styles. He always replaced his ceremonial armor at the same time he did his combat armor and ensured that even ceremonial armor was fully functional. |
