Alfrend Spierbaile

Personal Information
Changeling Name: Alfrend Speirbaile

Real Name: Alfred Hemingway

Apparent Age: Mid-late 30s? Maybe 40 Something? Surely he's not in his 50s, but...

Seeming/Kith: Fairest, Telluric + Oracle

Court: Autumn

Roleplaying ties: Former students, Autumn and Summer Courtiers willing to learn and fight, anyone willing to be genuinely terrified of him and to spread rumors about him, anyone enjoying tea.

Description
Mask: He’s a dapper man in his late 20s or early 30s or maybe he’s in his 40s? Certainly he’s not yet 50? His mask and his mien are uncomfortably close. His hair is the color you might expect a character like Rumpelstiltskin to produce, while his eyes seem to twinkle with a nebulous lights and his skin is only flawed in ways that enhance his beauty; creases that show wisdom and character. His features are sharp; nimble of finger, foot and wit. His clothing is impeccable, and he seems like he understands good fabrics. He’s never seen without a timepiece – he owns many.

Mien: As is mask - no really.

Mantle:  The smell of sweet decay and a first frost seems to linger nearer to Alfrend, with low lights and shifting shadows move around his face and person.



Personality: Alfrend has been around the block more times than, well, anyone. He knows that. He knows a lot. He’s genuinely afraid of returning to Arcadia and does not suffer loyalists. Otherwise, he's rather a nice guy. Disturbingly nice. Like a spider in a long parlance with a fly sort of nice.

History
Common Knowledge: Alrend stepped out of the Hedge on Nov 1st, 2010 and right into Freehold society like he belong there, never missing a beat. He walked right into his job as an adjuct professor of astronomy at Stetson University, the baristas seem to pick up his drink order after the first time he ordered it. Everyone just seemed to expect him.

Known only if learned in-game: If you're counting from his actual birth date, Alfrend is over 300 years old, and has been taken three times; and not all of that has been spent in Arcadia.

Rumors
It is rumored that Alfrend denied the Autumn Crown last year, and that's why he and Pretty Girl rarely speak.

It is rumored that he enacts a pledge of loyalty to his students every semester, ensuring that they will pass his class if they do his bidding.

It is rumored that Alfrend is an banished gentry.

Soundtrack
Henrey Purcell A Queen's Dolour (A Farwell)

Gustav Holst Saturn

Andrae Bocelli Les Feuilles Mortes

Ella Fitzgerald September Song

The White Stripes Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground

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