Canon - From Melusine to The Mirador
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millyfoxMildmay was born to a prostitute named Methony who had christened him Mild-may-your-sufferings-be-at-the-hands-of-the-wicked and, with that unfortunate moniker, sold him to a thief-keeper once he'd reached his third indiction. The Keeper, whose name was Kolkhis, chopped his name down to Mildmay and taught him how to pick pockets, burgle houses, and get away without being caught. Mildmay showed a great aptitude for this and he gained a reputation, which led to his title of Mildmay the Fox (and also to his Keeper's derisive nickname of "Milly-fox") but it also led to him getting cocky and careless. One day, some flashy moves in a knife fight laid a disfiguring scar down the side of Mildmay's face and the infection that resulted pretty much insured that he wasn't going to be good for cat-burgling anymore. He was too memorable.
So Keeper decided to turn his skill towards assassinations instead, and he got pretty damn good at that too. Mildmay the Fox soon gained a notorious reputation in the Lower City. Keeper took Mildmay into her bed when he was 14 which was, incidentally, the same year he killed his first mark. Eventually, Mildmay was being sent on jobs to kill wizards and witchfinders, which he did, but dodging curses and feeling bodies flop at his feet made him more and more dissatisfied with what he was doing, until finally he left Keeper at age 17 and started doing jobs for himself.
It was on one such job that Mildmay met Ginevra Thompson, the ex-lover of a nobleman who hires Mildmay to retrieve some jewelry from her beau. He performs the task easily, but Ginevra asks his help to deliver the goods to Vey Coruscant, a dangerous blood witch. Mildmay agrees and goes as her body guard. Vey Coruscant betrays them, but with Mildmay's help, they manage to escape with their lives and the money they were promised. In relief and celebration, Mildmay and Ginevra have sex and then form a relationship. Eventually Ginevra moves in with Mildmay, but there are bumps in the relationship and she ends up leaving him for another man. Soon after Ginevra leaves him, someone sells out her location to Vey Coruscant and she and her new lover end up in the Sim, Ginevra with her throat cut.
Grief-stricken, Mildmay roams around the Arcade trying to keep out of reach of the Dogs who are after him. He catches the Winter Fever and collapses while trying to rob the hotel room of a wizard named Mavortian. It is no coincidence. Mavortian summoned through divination the presence of someone who could help him find Felix Harrowgate, the wizard who broke the Virtu. Mildmay isn't keen on going anywhere near wizards, especially not Felix Harrowgate, but seeing as Mavortian nursed him back to health he agrees to try.
When they eventually do find Felix, it is revealed that he and Mildmay are half-brothers. They both share the same mother, as well as the same red-colored hair. Felix had been driven mad by his lover and teacher, Malkar, who also used him to break the Virtu. The cure to his madness, Felix insisted, was in Troia, and being brothers, Mildmay decided that he'd better see to it that Felix got there in one piece. So during a long, painful, and arduous journey Mildmay followed Felix, protecting him and caring for him. They eventually ended up shipwrecked on the shore of Troia, an event that almost drowned them both and did cripple Mildmay when the charm that held his curse protection from when he'd killed the wizard Cerberus Cresset broke and shattered against his leg.
Both brothers were taken in to the Gardens of Nephele, where Felix's madness is healed, although Mildmay's leg does not get better. Now in possession of his sense and his magic, Felix decides to return to the Mirador and attempt to fix the Virtu. Mildmay, of course, has nothing left for him but to follow his brother. Before they get to Melusine, however, Mildmay asks Felix to perform the obligation d'ame on them both so that Felix can protect him from other wizards and the consequences of killing Cerberus Cresset. The obligation d'ame is a binding by forms that basically gives Felix autonomy over his brother. Mildmay must do whatever Felix commands, and Felix becomes responsible for Mildmay. Felix reluctantly agrees to perform the ritual, and they are bound together by magic.
So Keeper decided to turn his skill towards assassinations instead, and he got pretty damn good at that too. Mildmay the Fox soon gained a notorious reputation in the Lower City. Keeper took Mildmay into her bed when he was 14 which was, incidentally, the same year he killed his first mark. Eventually, Mildmay was being sent on jobs to kill wizards and witchfinders, which he did, but dodging curses and feeling bodies flop at his feet made him more and more dissatisfied with what he was doing, until finally he left Keeper at age 17 and started doing jobs for himself.
It was on one such job that Mildmay met Ginevra Thompson, the ex-lover of a nobleman who hires Mildmay to retrieve some jewelry from her beau. He performs the task easily, but Ginevra asks his help to deliver the goods to Vey Coruscant, a dangerous blood witch. Mildmay agrees and goes as her body guard. Vey Coruscant betrays them, but with Mildmay's help, they manage to escape with their lives and the money they were promised. In relief and celebration, Mildmay and Ginevra have sex and then form a relationship. Eventually Ginevra moves in with Mildmay, but there are bumps in the relationship and she ends up leaving him for another man. Soon after Ginevra leaves him, someone sells out her location to Vey Coruscant and she and her new lover end up in the Sim, Ginevra with her throat cut.
Grief-stricken, Mildmay roams around the Arcade trying to keep out of reach of the Dogs who are after him. He catches the Winter Fever and collapses while trying to rob the hotel room of a wizard named Mavortian. It is no coincidence. Mavortian summoned through divination the presence of someone who could help him find Felix Harrowgate, the wizard who broke the Virtu. Mildmay isn't keen on going anywhere near wizards, especially not Felix Harrowgate, but seeing as Mavortian nursed him back to health he agrees to try.
When they eventually do find Felix, it is revealed that he and Mildmay are half-brothers. They both share the same mother, as well as the same red-colored hair. Felix had been driven mad by his lover and teacher, Malkar, who also used him to break the Virtu. The cure to his madness, Felix insisted, was in Troia, and being brothers, Mildmay decided that he'd better see to it that Felix got there in one piece. So during a long, painful, and arduous journey Mildmay followed Felix, protecting him and caring for him. They eventually ended up shipwrecked on the shore of Troia, an event that almost drowned them both and did cripple Mildmay when the charm that held his curse protection from when he'd killed the wizard Cerberus Cresset broke and shattered against his leg.
Both brothers were taken in to the Gardens of Nephele, where Felix's madness is healed, although Mildmay's leg does not get better. Now in possession of his sense and his magic, Felix decides to return to the Mirador and attempt to fix the Virtu. Mildmay, of course, has nothing left for him but to follow his brother. Before they get to Melusine, however, Mildmay asks Felix to perform the obligation d'ame on them both so that Felix can protect him from other wizards and the consequences of killing Cerberus Cresset. The obligation d'ame is a binding by forms that basically gives Felix autonomy over his brother. Mildmay must do whatever Felix commands, and Felix becomes responsible for Mildmay. Felix reluctantly agrees to perform the ritual, and they are bound together by magic.