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Name: Camille Sylviane Descatoire de Durendaire
Age: 33
Gender: Woman?
Pronouns: She / her
Race: Ishgardian Elezen
Profession: Retired Temple Knight. Current Hunter-Scholar.
Proficiencies: Greatsword, lance, shortsword and shield.
Residence: Often traveling, but somewhere south of Coerthas.
Obligatory Ishgardian List of Titles: Ser Descatoire, Watcher, Hunter-Scholar, Cursebreaker, Moonchaser... (You already know this girl keeps a written list.)

Before you stands a tall, broad Elezen whose build proves her ability to wear her platemail. Camille is tall by nature and broad only by what must be a constant effort in training. Her dark skin and hair cut a sharp contrast to jewel-red eyes, cool in tone despite their bright color. Her jaw is strong for an Elezen, although her sharp angles still carve out a slightly heart-shaped face overall. Her hair is shaved at the sides, and the soft black curls atop her head are shaped into locs that fall forward against her face.Her features speak to the almost genderless beauty of the Elezen, and thus her presentation decides her fate. Camille is constantly crashing against the restraints of social norms for highborn Ishgardian ladies, but those same norms allowed some degree of discrepancy through knighthood. She's embraced it: much of her presentation is crafted intentionally to evoke the gallant nobility of the knights of eld.Her clothing is elegant but utilitarian, sourced from the mens' section at any Foundation tailor. When forced out of her platemail, she favors high-collared blouses and long coats, making her chest easy to mistake between musculature and the curve of breasts. While her black leather gloves are nearly ubiquitous, if one should sight her bare skin, they would note a ring of carved antler on her right hand.

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"The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth."

C.S. Lewis, "The Necessity of Chivalry"

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them."

Margaret Atwood, "The Testaments"

This is a summary of information available via rumors or public records, provided to help create more personalized roleplay hooks.
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The Descatoire bloodline claims its nobility only through its continuous production of Knights Dragoon, for their estate was a gift earned from the patronage of the High House Durendaire, who retained the family to add to the House's enduring reputation of military might. As the eldest child in her generation and the daughter of the Lord and Lady Descatoire, Camille would be born and bred to be the next to take up the mantle.Camille entered the Temple Knights as a squire just after her eleventh summer. As with many of her peers, her teenage years were dedicated to martial pursuits, with academia as an aside once she returned to the barracks. As she reached adulthood, she qualified for further training amongst other prospective Dragoons by felling her first full-grown dragon in a highland skirmish. But like the vast majority of those chosen few, Camille was eventually cut from the ranks. In her case, she was cut down physically, bearing wounds most grievous from a sacrifice chosen just before the prime of her military career. The medals on her uniform would be little consolation compared to the title that should have been hers in but a few moons' time.Anyone curious enough to dig through public records in the Pillars or chat with the servants of High House Durendaire could find that Camille was discharged for medical reasons-- and that some of her medals are gifted specifically to those maimed in the course of battle. There is no Camille Descatoire in the current roster of Temple Knights.Bereft of the brotherhood that embraced her and stripped of her chance at the title of Knight Dragoon, Camille seems to have somehow recovered enough to find a secondary path in the hunt. Now that years have passed, her name is again notable as a Hunter-Scholar and adventurer, and those who run in such circles may well have heard of her. Although she visits Ishgard regularly, those close to the Durendaires might know that Camille hasn't come home to the Descatoire manse for some time.

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