Ernest Morray
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[edit] home is a feeling i buried in you
LORD ERNEST MORRAY, Baron of Morray and more recently Duke of Thalened, is an Isleman and western nobility. He lived his life mainly in Morray and LaMut (as the LaMutian military bursar, an appointment he took at the beginning of the riftwar), until the murder of himself and his (pregnant) intended bride in their bed. They had been planning on merging the baronies of Morray and Mondegreen with their marriage. Since his death and resurrection in the nexus, the Baron lives as a widower and 'distant relative' of Lord General Martel in the Elenian city of Cimmura, where he assists the Earl of Lenda with the treasury and will likely take the position himself within a year or so. He is rarely if ever seen without some sort of cravat or scarf covering the scar where his throat was slit, and wears an engraved wedding ring (oak leaf design, a set of dates on the inside) in memorial of Carla and their child. Recently remarried - to the Duchess Teobhan - he has switched his memorial ring to the right hand, making room for the wedding band that matches his wife's.
[edit] and i can't ask for things to be still again
As far as the court of Cimmura is aware, Ernest Morray is the twenty years younger cousin of their own Lord General Martel, 'til now living a quiet life in his own barony with his wife, where they were expecting their first child. Since his abrupt summoning by the Lord General and arrival at court, rumours have run rampant - the murder of his wife and unborn child are attributed to enemies of the Lord General or indeed the Baron himself, depending on who you ask, and in a family famed for scandal, everybody's waiting to see how the newest and until now unmentioned scion turns out. He serves as aide to the Earl of Lenda, on the understanding that he will eventually take the Earl's own position in the treasury when he retires before a full year is up - thus putting himself in the most inconvenient position for a man of his rank (a rank that he would quickly and mostly inadvertently ascend past): outranked by most, and at the ear of the highest of the high.
The truth is that Ernest and Carla didn't live long enough to be married, that he was lost in the nexus after his death and resurrection and Martel's youngest daughter took pity on him (then prevailed on her father to do the same), that rather than coming straight out of a quiet seclusion in fourteen years of peace he's fresh out of the middle of a warzone-
Even the people who know part of the truth don't know all of it, because Morray's a secretive bastard with some valid reasons for it.
[edit] my window through which nothing hides
[edit] (counting the signs)
[edit] (cursing the miles)
[edit] i played the fool today
Baron Ernest Morray featured in the Legends of the Riftwar book Murder In LaMut where he was, funnily enough, murdered in LaMut. I do not claim anything created by Raymond E. Feist or his veritable army of co-authors and am not profiting from my use of his/their creations. Morray's current universe is a continuation/projection of The Redemption of Martel, an Eddings-based roleplay project. I don't own anything David and Leigh Eddings did, either. Also not mine: the lyrics to 'Breathe' by Melissa Etheridge. Morray's typist is Dele.
