Threadgold

Honoremus Serviendi

Personal Information

Appearance

The Dame is tall and sturdily built, always dressed impeccably in the closest modern equivalent to the socially correct dress of her youth. In court or in company, she is dressed in purple-accented black with a high collar, jabot, full smocked shirt, corset and bustled silk skirt. She will usually also have long lace cuffs, standing ruff and lace veiled riding hat, but she has been seen without them.

Personality

She's a true product of Queen Victoria's reign - proud, upright, and correct to a fault. Will often refuse to speak directly to somebody she hasn't been properly introduced to, although she can sometimes get creative about it. Always polite, especially when she's being rude. The finer points of wording are occasionally lost on her though, as this is the first English (she would consider the term loosely applicable) speaking court she has visited. Her requiem has until now been spent in Europe, so misunderstandings do occur especially where Invictus technicalities aren't immediately distinguishable from last century's high-society language.

Information Known by Kindred Society

considers Prague her home court, still finds this country jarring
came from Kiev, was there because of the border disputes
arrived the night before the 2016 January court
was named Priscus within a fortnight

Quotes

Quotes By

"I cannot rely on matters outside my control continuing in a fashion that suits me."
"A waltz always looks like a waltz. The trained eye knows when the lady is leading."
"... one sought to belittle the ties of family by saying the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb...All ties of the Kindred are blood"
"There are three members of this court who may claim to know my given name. None have my leave to use it in public."
"The DJ and I had some differences of opinion on the best course of action....This disagreement was a little more energetic than most"
"I am an Acolyte. The next kindred who knows better and calls me Invictus... I'll remove their throat with the Mother's own fangs!"
"I've found the strangest correlation between gentlemen of certain inclinations and severe trauma to the throat." - over a game of Tarocca on her haven roof
"...we don't watch our inevitable deaths coming for us at a distance of mere decades. If it comes for us, it's by force and violence. We have the time to manage ourselves and our surroundings, to remove or mitigate the chaos that allows that violence to breed and feed on itself. Survival - self interest! - for us is on examination a thing of patience and management and structure, broad considerations of culture and population not the immediate satisfaction of greed! You don't need to look to my altruism for assurance. I recognise that my survival depends on the survival of kindred, because I am one. My wellbeing and comfort depend on the stability and prosperity of society, because I am part of it." - the conclusion of an impassioned monologue under the use of revelation by a suspicious prince

Quotes About/To

"She's a woman of impeccable taste, of the finer things in life - things that I too desire. She speaks wisely and only when necessary and is one of the few I enjoy listening to. Perhaps one day I too will gain what she has." - Murmur
'When she comes, she scream out "I'm arriving! I'm arriving!"' - Jue Wang
"some call her a snake but they are wrong a snake is cold, heartless, it doesn't feel loyalty or devotion no The Dame is no snake ... she is something all together more dangerous. What is she? Well that remains to be seen." - Karlin
"I know I should do something to take her down, but I really don't want to." - Lucky
"If I tried to understand the Dame's motives I'd probably go insane" - Toryn
"You pull more strings than you let on, love." - Judith Doulton
"I love you sweetie, but if you had any more waffle, I would have to cover you in maple syrup." - Luna
"She is a dangerous yet remarkably stable compound, a weapon without peer. I wonder to what cause she is wielded." - Jocasta to Conner in conversation
"Dame Threadgold is a politician, she is no doubt a student of the laws of power. She entwines you, you become part of a circle within many circles that she controls - Joey Johnson
"In the eye of the hurricane there is a quiet, such an alluring quiet." - in a letter from Joey Johnson to the Dame
"About as dodgy as they come. Only an idiot would think they could trust a snake and she's like one of them ones that sit waiting in the grass deciding if she can be bothered to bite you or not" - Aisha
<frenzy check> "You shouldn't know that..." - Tatiana Miasnivena
<sharp gasp>"That is definitely something you shouldn't know." - Jocasta Flamel
<twitch> - Carsten Sobels
<glaring with clenched fists> "...How much does she know?" - Darrien Arnholt
- "I am constantly surprised at her ability to put things together that she should not know..."- Tatiana Miasnivena
"I wish to dance with you in this game of ours forever, please be alive when I wake." - Joey Johnson
"She's the Head of my Covenant and we've known each other a while. She knows me and she knows what will help me" - Samira

Conversations

Dame: If I've missed anything you'll be able to collect it tomorrow and complain about the old lady whose ancient eyes missed it.
Luna Threadgold: Oh no worries. I'll prepare a nice rant full of bitching just in case.
Dame: Make sure the expletives are properly conjugated.

Carsten Sobels: Precedent has been set. There is now a clear path I can follow.
Dame: That's both promising and completely opaque.
Carsten Sobels: You are an excellent tutor, Dame Threadgold :)
Dame: (glares)

Anne Lacey: "The purpose of a conspiracy is to seek the truth, or so its proponents would have us believe. If the truth swirls about you unknowingly, is it any wonder people conjure wild stories to try to explain you?"
Dame: "They could simply ask...They just don't like believing the answers"
Anne Lacey:"Perhaps they don't think you would answer at all. You're more candid than I expected."
Dame: "You haven't pried into the things I'm unable to talk about. When I'm free to discuss a matter there's no reason to be difficult about it. If you had, you'd have found me absolutely impossible until conversation turned back to topics on which I'm not bound to silence"
Anne Lacey: "Another reason not to expect them to ask, I suppose."
Dame:"This is why truth threatens my requiem - because I choose it, and in choosing it I seem to draw it to myself in unsafe quantities. When ones requiem is forfeit so many times over for knowledge others will kill to keep secret, and those others know...well, ones relationship with truth becomes a little odd and strained, close as it may be."

Dame: "How many times have I said a thing, and you've told me I shouldn't know that, or thought as much without bothering to state it?"
Jocasta Flamel: "A lot. More than is probably healthy."
Dame: "Is this line clean?"

Gloria: "Are we sure that the Dame is linked in with Crone and Invictus?"
Alec Stryder: "Yes?"
Gloria: "Yes we think or yes we confirmed?"
Alec Stryder:"We know she has a history with both."
Rasmus Laursen:"She has ties to the Invictus."
Gloria: "Ok... because there could be another angle. But I'm seeing things about the Dragons that would be cause for a hunt in here"

Rumours

Even when she sleeps, she still wears a corset.
Several reputable sources have said she is able to fly, some even say she grows large black wings.
sent a floral death threat to Holly Grant
had an invisible OD assassin at someone's back while extorting a life boon from them
interfered with internal Invictus politics
interfered with internal Daeva politics
subverted the Invictus leadership
is actually Invictus
attacked the Dragons
or might be a Dragon?
sent a death threat to Felix Edmiston under the guise of a gift
- or it might have been something else, nobody's quite certain

Inspirations and Soundtrack

Peace of night on you and yours until we meet again