Florius Novellius

Florius Novellius
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Appears In	Lucernian Series End of Darkness The Rise of Lucerne Westros (Book) Burning Dreams
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Vital statistics
Born	5100
Religion	Chaos Titans
Status	Alive
Allegiance	Family Loyalties House Novellius House Senopiana House Swift
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Family
Parents
Father	Numerius Novellius
Mother	† Auria Senopiana
Siblings
Siblings	Half Siblings Cassia Novellius Atrius Novellius Numerius Novellius II.
Internal Family
Spouse	Betrothed Taylor Swift
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Florius Novellius is the son of Numerius Novellius, and Auria Senopiana making him a baseborn member of House Novellius through his father, and a baseborn member of House Senopiana through his mother. Florius has several half siblings of which he has never met due to the fact that he is barred from returning to the Roman Empire where his family lives on pain of death.

Florius Novellius would be born the bastard love child of Auria Senopiana and Numerius Novellius of whom were both nobles in the town of Pisa where the affair causes a great stir in the city eventually leading to outright war between the two families when Numerius refused to accept the child. Florius would spend his earliest years on the run following the victory of House Novellius against House Senopiana and was saved by his mother who traveled north eventually spending time in Venice. While in Venice Auria would meet Timone Swift and would engage in an affair with him and this affair would lead to Timone secretly bringing Auria and her son Florius with him back to Brill. Following the death of Edgar Swift it was Timone Swift that became the Lord of House Swift and as he engaged in his affair with Auria Senopiana his mother took control of House Swift and arranged a marriage of Timone to Theresa Crane, and by the time Timone realized what was happening Theresa and her family had arrived in Brill for the marriage. The weak willed Timone would be unable to resist his mothers wishes and would marry Theresa thus leaving Auria pregnant and with no options but another base born birth. Without options a pregnant Auria would attempt to murder Theresa and take control of House Swift but was stopped by Liarra Swift and the two engaged in a brutal fight which left both dead a scene which Timone would come upon leaving Timone to care for Auria's son Florius taking him on as a ward. Following the birth of Taylor Swift it would be Florius that was sent away to become a ward of Lord Rickard Karstark as an attempt by Timone Swift to protect Florius from what was increasingly becoming a hostile environment in Swiftvale for him. Timone Swift would visit Florius several times in the years that he was a ward in Karhold but each time for Florius it felt for him that Timone was looking at him more and more as a soldier and less and less like a son. Florius Novellius would return to Brill having reached eighteen and a completely changed man he discovered upon his return that he was forced to take on a new persona as to protect him from the hostility of Theresa Swift and thus under this new identity he realized that he would have to make a new life for himself. With the help of his father Timone he would become involved with the Circle of Magi and would serve for them in many missions but one of the first of these missions would be in the Fall of Alice Lovie. Florius through his work with the Circle of Magi would be tasked with assassinating Orival Crane in Brill but when the time to do the deed came the risk to Taylor Swift made him turn away and this would lead to his demotion in the Circle of Magi and the eventual Florian Affair where he was exiled to Forks by his father as a result. During the events of the Lucerne Civil War he was paid by the Kingdom of Bolten to assassinate members of the House Swift leadership, and specifically Taylor Swift. His attempt failed and following this attempted assassination of Taylor Swift he fled Lucerne, and fled eastward towards his benefactor in Bolten. Following the death of Roose Bolten Stephan would become extremely close to Ramsey Bolten becoming one of his primary soldiers and was responsible for atrocities in the northern Bolten village of Defrinia.

History

Florius Novellius would be born the bastard love child of Auria Senopiana and Numerius Novellius of whom were both nobles in the town of Pisa where the affair causes a great stir in the city eventually leading to outright war between the two families when Numerius refused to accept the child.

Early History

Florius would spend his earliest years on the run following the victory of House Novellius against House Senopiana and was saved by his mother who traveled north eventually spending time in Venice. While in Venice Auria would meet Timone Swift and would engage in an affair with him and this affair would lead to Timone secretly bringing Auria and her son Florius with him back to Brill.

Lord Swift

Following the death of Edgar Swift it was Timone Swift that became the Lord of House Swift and as he engaged in his affair with Auria Senopiana his mother took control of House Swift and arranged a marriage of Timone to Theresa Crane, and by the time Timone realized what was happening Theresa and her family had arrived in Brill for the marriage.

Marriage

The weak willed Timone would be unable to resist his mothers wishes and would marry Theresa thus leaving Auria pregnant and with no options but another base born birth. Without options a pregnant Auria would attempt to murder Theresa and take control of House Swift but was stopped by Liarra Swift and the two engaged in a brutal fight which left both dead a scene which Timone would come upon leaving Timone to care for Auria's son Florius taking him on as a ward.

Ward of Karstark

Following the birth of Taylor Swift it would be Florius that was sent away to become a ward of Lord Rickard Karstark as an attempt by Timone Swift to protect Florius from what was increasingly becoming a hostile environment in Swiftvale for him.

Drifting

Timone Swift would visit Florius several times in the years that he was a ward in Karhold but each time for Florius it felt for him that Timone was looking at him more and more as a soldier and less and less like a son.

Return to Brill

Florius Novellius would return to Brill having reached eighteen and a completely changed man he discovered upon his return that he was forced to take on a new persona as to protect him from the hostility of Theresa Swift and thus under this new identity he realized that he would have to make a new life for himself.

Circle of Magi

With the help of his father Timone he would become involved with the Circle of Magi and would serve for them in many missions but one of the first of these missions would be in the Fall of Alice Lovie.

The Florian Affair

Main Article : The Florian Affair

The Florian Affair I trusted you Taylor. From here out this only ends when one of us is dead.

“Father you cannot ask me to leave those people to their fate. You cannot ask that of me.” — Orival Crane Orival Crane during his attempts to understand why they had abandoned Tree Hill would decide that the only real thing to do was to travel to the north where he would attempt to meet with a member of the royal family in the form of Catherine Bell. Catherine would make this move in an attempt to find out whether or not there were truly survivors at Tree Hill, and saw Orival and his power base as the best opportunity to enter the Tree Hill Forbidden Zone. Catherine left Lucerne with Emma Bell telling James that she was going to visit there sister Katia at Castle Trachtenburg, but members of the Circle who were beginning to suspect Catherine as a major member of the Yellow Dragons would send spies after her when she left. Anna's Turn “All my friends greeted my like a queen returning from some distant war. They chatted endlessly about how poor the Cranes must have been. How savage the people. Every word they said was rude, or cruel in someway and I couldn't help but immediately wonder if this is who I was seen as.” — Anna Kendrick Working her way back into the most powerful of the noble girls in Brill it was Anna that this time felt conflicted by everything. Her time with with Orival had changed her view of herself and this made her depressed seeing the kind of person she was without him. This depression would bring her into contact with Taylor Swift of whom she apologized to for all the things that she had done to her in their life and this apology succeeded in bringing them closer together. “The Swift Family is a den of liars dear Anna. Taylor might be their worst member.” — David Kendrick Anna returning from another day out with Taylor this time having spent the day with her friend at the Dragonoph Temple where Taylor is rising quite high, and entering her house she is confronted by her father, brother and her brothers wife. Resisting her fathers demands to turn against Taylor Swift she is is shown a letter by her father that he says he has intercepted from House Crane to House Swift. Reading the letter it details that everything Orival Crane felt had all been a big manipulation in order to get revenge for what had happened to Taylor earlier. Questioning the letter her father reveals that Taylor Swift's mother is in fact a member of House Crane and everything was just a trick played by House Swift on her. Failure Anna's Revenge Faced with the consequences of what Anna had revealed to the city it was Timone that summoned his entire family to a meeting including Florius Novellius. At this meeting it was a shocked House Swift that at first wanted to fight against the rumors and perhaps say that it wasn't true, but Florius stopped this when he told them that he wanted to take the fall for them. While at first resistant to this idea it was Theresa who having always hated Florius as a memory of his mother that would lead the call to take his advise and let him take the fall for all of this. Telling the Truth With Florius having been exiled from Forks in order to try and protect House Swift as best they could he prepared to leave the city. Florius in this moment was emotionally devastated but for his part was genuinely still in love with Taylor and thus would decide to attempt to protect her as best he could before he left the city and her life for good. Unable to meet with Taylor as she had been sent to Swiftvale to shield her from the immediate aftermath of the reveal of his identity it was Florius that decided to instead meet with Anna Kendrick and set the record straight. “I promise you Taylor that all the times we spent together were true. I wasn't fake then. I'm sorry that I was too weak. I'm sorry I proved you right about me.” — Anna Kendrick Fall of Katia

Dragon in Forks It was like this constant ache in my head the entire time I was in Forks. Something felt wrong but I could just never place my finger on the reason behind it. While I lived this fake life I just kept living within my dreams.

Life in Forks “I don't remember anything. All I know is my name is Alice, and I have a terrible pain in my head.” — Alice Lovie Following the spell ending the existence of Alice Lovie in the memory of those who knew her Alice Lovie was dropped off in Forks by James Lovie's cronies Kieth Schwartz. James had set her up with a job in Forks, at a local tavern, where he silently hoped she would be killed while working there and on top of this he created back stories for her where in her parents were killed, and she had left Lucerne because of this. When Alice awoke in she was on the ground on the side of the road and her head was in horrible pain, and so debilitating was the pain that she was unable to move four hours and found herself forced to pull herself into the ditch at the side of the road which saved her from being run over by the constant wagons that crossed the roads. In debilitating pain from the spell she found herself unable to move and thus she would be forced to sleep in the ditch using her jacket as a means of covering herself and woke up hours later finally able to raise her head. Finally able to move she got up from the ditch and in the early morning darkness she could see the outlines and fire of the nearby city of Forks and the created memories of the spell drove her towards Forks where she could find things in her mind that told her she worked at a local tavern, but despite this feeling she also felt as if this was somewhere strange to her and not her real home. While she had been in debilitating pain, and sleeping in the ditch she was being watched by Keith Schwartz, Florius Novellius, and Johan Snow of whom the three would have starkly different views of what was happening with Kieth and Florius caring little for Alice while Johan Snow would feel terrible and during the night would leave food in the ditch which led to Alice surviving and being able to make her way forward. When she arrived the tavern owner who had been paid by James Lovie went about punishing her for her lateness, and then on James's orders prepared to make her life a living hell. Alice Lovie would go from a life of complete luxury in terms of what she had available to a life of a commoner. This was made more difficult by the fact that Bill would leave responsibilities to several people around Alice to make her life more difficult. For Alice despite the memories she had been given as a part of the spell her life in Forks just felt wrong to her, and no matter what she tried she couldn't shake a silent depression that wracked her so completely that on most nights she could not sleep because she was crying so hard. To add on to this her boss the owner of the tavern in the form of Flavius Elvorix II. seemed to hate her with a passion that she had never known before with Flavius going out of his way to cause her problems. Things became somewhat better for her when she become friends with Rosalie Cullen of whom had secretly also been sent to the tavern as a means of hiding her bastardy beginnings and thus her father Carlisle Cullen had kept in contact with her through letters but never revealed who he was in constant fear of the shame it would bring him. Rosalie and Bella would share in a mutual grief which while neither could completely describe to each other they were at least able to give each other comfort as the pain of their existence threatened to push them over the edge and for Rosalie towards suicide. There friendship would expand to a third person where while there were walking the streets of Forks late at night they found a girl hiding out in some bushes and talking to her they discovered she was Bella Swan, and was hiding from her father who she had gotten into an argument with. The two would hide her at the tavern that night and would be nearly executed when Lord Swan finally discovered where they were but she lied for them and they were protected by Bella and following this she would return to the tavern with her cousin Brody Swan and the three would build a strong friendship. Florius Novellius “Monsters come in various shapes and forms Alice. Some monsters are hideous and can be discovered quite quickly. Others I fear are more like the monster you found in Stephan. They aren't hideous. They aren't easily seen.” — Bella Swan During her time in Forks while she was stuck without her memory Alice became involved with Florius Novellius and in this relationship she became enamored with this man that showed her the kind of attention she had been craving since she had been in Forks. She originally met him through the bar that she and Rosalie worked at, and the moment she begin talking to him Rosalie attempted to step in and make him leave, but he was so charismatic that he convinced Alice to ignore her friends warnings and to leave with him. Throughout their time together she was constantly though feeling that she was unimportant in comparison to many of the other people that he surrounded himself with, and this didn't get any better. Alice made numerous attempts to make him care about her, and many of the things that she did she felt ashamed by, and as it continued it caused tension between her and Rosalie of whom did not like him and what he was making her do. During this time she found a soundboard for her confusion in Bella Swan, and this along with some other things had a large effect on the reason they became the best friends that would grow into being. In fact his behavior became more and more unstable as time went on and this behavior first started out as his becoming promiscuous on a level that even Alice knew was happening. She confronted him on this and this confrontation would lead to the next evolution in his dark behavior. “I went into his room and found him half naked with two women laying on his body. They held him tight but the general appearance of his body was such that it was clear he cared nothing for these girls, and watching him this way made me completely confused as to what crazy part of my mind cared for this boy. As I coughed in order to wake him up the two girls sprung up and clothed themselves quickly before skulking out of the room. The entire time this went on he just lay there without moving. He stared at me the entire time with nothing in his eyes but the faint appearance of amusement. When I started yelling at him, his eyes changed into something different and it wasn't until he got up and slapped me in the face that I understood what his emotion was.” — Alice Lovie The moment he slapped her everything changed. She realized in that moment that she was crazy to be staying in this situation and she simply put her hand to her cheek to shield herself from the pain before crying and trying to leave the room. As she pulled open the door she felt his hand on her arm of whom pulled her back into the room and tried to have his way with her. As his hands ran up her body she knew where this was going and she refused to accept this was going to happen to her, and so she lashed out at him. As he flew off of her she grabbed a pole from the corner and smacked him across the face knocking him unconscious. She then walked past his now motionless body and into the street where she stumbled her way towards Swan Keep where she hoped to find Bella Swan of whom she knew would protect her from his vengeance. Bella Steps In “I knew I should have gone to see Rosalie because she was the one that deserved the right to tell me she told me so. I just knew how that conversation would go, and after nearly being raped I really wasn't in the mood to be yelled at anymore so I went to see Bella. Her home in Swan Keep never felt as inviting as it did walking across the drawbridge and seeing the white armor of the Swan Guards.” — Alice Lovie When she arrived at Swan Keep she was greeted by the guards of whom led her into the back stables where Bella was spending her day, and the moment that she saw Bella she begin sobbing and fell to the ground where she was met by the arms of Bella surrounding her in a loving hug. Alice clung to Bella for sometime before she was finally calmed down enough to explain to Bella what had happened. She made Bella promise not to do anything about it, and Bella in a shocking move refused to let this go, and told Alice that the first chance she got she would be telling her father of whom she knew would have him removed from Forks. Alice attempted to make her change her mind but Bella wasn't going to change in her opinion of what she had to do, so Alice simply clung to Bella and prayed that nothing would happen. But she was wrong, and the moment that Alice went to sleep Bella left her room and went to see her father of whom was still awake. She told her father what had happened and her father did exactly what she knew he would do when he summoned him to Swan Keep to answer for his crimes. Instead of arriving in Swan Keep he got notice that he had been recalled to Brill and thus would no longer be in Forks. Attempted Execution of Alice Lovie Main Article : Attempted Execution of Alice Lovie “Listen. If this were up to me, I would take you away and keep you safe until your brother came for you. This isn't that reality. In this reality your father wins. You die.” — Alice Lovie

Civil War

Main Article :Lucerne Civil War

Following the embaressing release of the information regarding his affair with Taylor Swift Stephan found his way of life threatened, and the leadership of House Swift was so upset with him that they placed him in horrible positions for the entire period of the Lucerne Civil War. This caused a growing amount of bitterness, and this bitterness found its fire when he met Hallister Bolten in the local tavern of Brill. Hallister had been attempting to find an individual in Brill who could be paid to kill members of House Swift in order to destabalize the loyalist section of the Kingdom of Lucerne.

During the events of the Lucernian Civil War the only effect the war had on Taylor was the influx of funds for her temple, and for this reason she was completely unprepared for the coming attack she would suffer during the final days of the conflict. While Taylor was in the House Swift estate she was attacked by Stephan De'Marco, who attempted to kill her after he had been bought off by the leadership of the Kingdom of Bolten.

Stephen's initial ambush failed to hit her so he chased her around the house until he was finally stopped by Emile Hirsh who happened to be arriving at the estate to meet with William Swift. Emile and Stephan engaged in a duel and Emile was victorious but wasn't able to kill Stephan who managed to escape the estate.

Kingdom of Bolten

Main Article : Kingdom of Bolten

New Benefactor

Following the death of Roose Bolten Stephan would become extremely close to Ramsey Bolten becoming one of his primary soldiers and was responsible for attrocities in the northern Bolten village of Defrinia.

Family Members

Auria Senopiana - Mother

Timone Swift - Adopted Father

Relationships

Main Article : Relationships of Florius Novellius

Taylor Swift - - - - - - - Friend/Lover - - - - - - - Taylor and Florius would come to meet after Florius finally returned to Brill and becoming eventually betrothed it was Florius who came to truly love her and while she could neveer get there due to her obsession with William Lovie III. she cared for him deeply. Their relationship would eventually collapse when Florius chose to protect her over his mission from the Circle of Magi and while this saved her life it also caused his exile which then led to him losing her and becoming further and further adrift until eventually he accepted a mission to wipe out House swift which this time he accepted reluctantly but again failed due to the intervention of others causing his departure from the Valley of Lucerne.