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This is my OC, Iulius, with his one year old daughter, Thalia! I wanted to color this drawing in a more painterly style =w= I'd definitely do a redraw of this concept sometime in the future when my digital painting skills get better. Also I've realized Iulius' pauldron thing had switched sides from his original design, by accident o_o I think I'll keep it on his right side AHA it looks better that way.

And here's lore ~~~

The Ilion (Trojan) people would've preferred sons. The fathers certainly wouldn't be this excited to hold a daughter. But Iulius loved his daughter, Thalia, deeply.

Iulius was unlucky with women. He had five potential wives in his lifetime, all princesses from neighboring kingdoms, but they all died in some fashion before he could wed them. Three of them killed each other out of jealousy. One died of illness. The final one, because she was being wed against her will, decided to run away and was drowned when she fell into a river. Because of these incidents, a sort of superstitious rumor formed that Prince Iulius was cursed and unfit to wed, and no fathers dared give their daughter's hand to him in marriage.

Then, a lady by the name of Kerephone arrived in Ilion. She was a princess from a city-state called Ephyra, and she came to Ilion against her father's wishes. She proposed that if the Trojan prince successfully protects her city-state from surrounding invaders, she would gladly wed him of her own accord. When Iulius asked what she thought about the rumors, she answered, "I don't care if my father thinks you are cursed. And frankly, I don't care if you are truly cursed. You have the power to protect my home, and I have the ability to give you a heir. I think this is a good deal, wouldn't you agree?" Iulius was struck by Kerephone's courage, and he fell deeply in love. He went to war, and it took him five long years to drive the invaders away from Ephyra. Still, he upheld his word. Kerephone was moved by the prince's honor and sincerity, and she married him wholeheartedly when he returned. But despite how happily they wed, Kerephone was infertile in their first year of marriage. She was devastated, believing herself to have failed as a wife. Still, the prince loved her, and no matter what she said, he refused to take another wife. "If it's my fate not to father heirs," Iulius said, "then so be it! You are already my greatest reward in life, Kerephone."

His words made Kerephone cry. "I am not worthy," she wept.

"You are," Iulius answered firmly. "If I asked more of you, it would be self-indulgent." And he embraced his wife. His love for her was unconditional.

The second year of their marriage, and having had doctors come visit from everywhere from Corinth to Egypt to Persia, Kerephone finally conceived a child in a miraculous manner. Iulius named his daughter Thalia, to mean "joyous", and he treasured his daughter more than anything in the world.

Description
This is my OC, Iulius, with his one year old daughter, Thalia! I wanted to color this drawing in a more painterly style =w= I'd definitely do a redraw of this concept sometime in the future when my digital painting skills get better. Also I've realized Iulius' pauldron thing had switched sides from his original design, by accident o_o I think I'll keep it on his right side AHA it looks better that way.

And here's lore ~~~

The Ilion (Trojan) people would've preferred sons. The fathers certainly wouldn't be this excited to hold a daughter. But Iulius loved his daughter, Thalia, deeply.

Iulius was unlucky with women. He had five potential wives in his lifetime, all princesses from neighboring kingdoms, but they all died in some fashion before he could wed them. Three of them killed each other out of jealousy. One died of illness. The final one, because she was being wed against her will, decided to run away and was drowned when she fell into a river. Because of these incidents, a sort of superstitious rumor formed that Prince Iulius was cursed and unfit to wed, and no fathers dared give their daughter's hand to him in marriage.

Then, a lady by the name of Kerephone arrived in Ilion. She was a princess from a city-state called Ephyra, and she came to Ilion against her father's wishes. She proposed that if the Trojan prince successfully protects her city-state from surrounding invaders, she would gladly wed him of her own accord. When Iulius asked what she thought about the rumors, she answered, "I don't care if my father thinks you are cursed. And frankly, I don't care if you are truly cursed. You have the power to protect my home, and I have the ability to give you a heir. I think this is a good deal, wouldn't you agree?" Iulius was struck by Kerephone's courage, and he fell deeply in love. He went to war, and it took him five long years to drive the invaders away from Ephyra. Still, he upheld his word. Kerephone was moved by the prince's honor and sincerity, and she married him wholeheartedly when he returned. But despite how happily they wed, Kerephone was infertile in their first year of marriage. She was devastated, believing herself to have failed as a wife. Still, the prince loved her, and no matter what she said, he refused to take another wife. "If it's my fate not to father heirs," Iulius said, "then so be it! You are already my greatest reward in life, Kerephone."

His words made Kerephone cry. "I am not worthy," she wept.

"You are," Iulius answered firmly. "If I asked more of you, it would be self-indulgent." And he embraced his wife. His love for her was unconditional.

The second year of their marriage, and having had doctors come visit from everywhere from Corinth to Egypt to Persia, Kerephone finally conceived a child in a miraculous manner. Iulius named his daughter Thalia, to mean "joyous", and he treasured his daughter more than anything in the world.