Amara, the Patroness
From Changeling Venue
Note: This page is still under construction; more information will be added, but email me in the meantime if you want to know more NOW.
About The Patroness
The Patroness is a "beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty." She kept a glade of beautiful slaves all talented in the ways of lyrical composition and dramatic display. The Patroness' domain was an idyllic Mediterranean glade of stone pavilions, olive groves, vineyards, and classical temples. The main attraction, however, was the outdoor ampitheater, where she laughed, cried, and enthusiastically applauded her slaves' performances of classical tragedies, comedies, epics, and re-enactments.
Everything from re-enactments of the battles of Alexander the Great, the seduction of the nymph Diana, Homeric epics, Greek tragedies, and Shakespeare were performed at her bidding. Sometimes she was the only one in the audience, sometimes she shared her theater with other True Fae, who might have brought along their own slaves to attend them during the performances.
The Patroness compelled her slaves to perform for her whims things that were humiliating, humbling, and degrading, as well as roles that were glorious, empowering, and blah. In every case, Amara would accept nothing less than the most realistic portrayal of these roles, causing her slaves to ride the emotional rollercoaster of the performance as though they were actually experiencing it. Many of her slaves developed severe emotional barriers, breakdowns, or psychoses from the psychological strain of maintaining these constant, unceasing, convincing theatrics.
The pictures on the right are all meant to illustrate examples of what the Patroness decreed for her entertainment. This is part of the conundrum of being enslaved by Amara. While there is a certain amount of delight to be had in bathing with beautiful ladies in a picturesque lily-pond, Amara's slaves never forget that they are doing it because they have been forced to do so, and furthermore they are under strict orders to act in a certain way, according to what Amara has decreed she would like to see portrayed that day.
Amara has an enforcer, a tough, silent brute of a Fey, who's entire job is to guard Amara's slaves and make sure none of them ever try to escape or act insubordinately. He is despised and feard by Amara's slaves (more so than Amara herself), and they mockingly call him "The Eunuch" behind his back, in reference to his job as Amara's "harem-keeper."
Slaves
Wow, What a Cool Concept. Can I be part of it?
Well of course you can. The Patroness looks for changelings of all shapes, sizes, Seemings, Kiths, and abilities, so long as there is a place for them in her little playhouse. Whether that means that you are a Bright One who was forced to be the lighting for her evening performances, you're a Hunterheart who played the Stag in a theatrical re-enactment of a Great Hunt, or you're a dark, shadowy figure who can play the roles of the Evil Sorceress in a retelling of an epic lyrical poem, the Patroness probably had a use for you. The more the merrier.
Feel free to use this Gentry as your Keeper, but let me know, because this concept implies that the Patroness' slaves all knew one another, as they worked together as closely as any ordinary theater cast and crew would. I'd love to set up some background ties based on our characters' shared experiences as the playthings of the Patroness.
Contact: Jenny Stearns, Stillwater, OK.
