Age Plotting and Other Stuff

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Malacus is older than Briieth.
Khyilenna is younger than Malacus but older than Briieth.
Andrion is younger than Briieth but older than Oraania.
Nathanius is midway between Oraania and Mareph in age.
Mimnristriqua is midway between Mareph and Cahdrisian in age.
Cahdrisian is older than Karnyimyia, but not by very much.
Kataryia is younger than Karnyimyia.

Nathanius was in adolescence when Mareph was born.
Mimnristriqua was a young adult when Cahdrisian and Karnyimyia were both born.
Karnyi was already "missing" when Kataryia was born.
Cahdrisian was still living in the royal palace when Kataryia was born. He was sent into hiding not long after.
The real reason Cahdrisian was sent into hiding is due to Koldren's political faction.
It was due to demands made about Cahdrisian that Nathanius finally ran away from home.


Plot has happened. Again.

Koldren Quaadreccorllon is dead. Old age. His wife is still alive.

Koldren's faction was the one who wanted to "mercifully" execute Oraania, and Mareph. Latter, after the end of the war, the same faction though Cahdrisian was practically as bad as Mareph, because he was half-Riftbeing. Threats were made, demands that Cahdrisian be "put down" were levelled. A few even wanted Ksalla executed for willingly laying with the Riftbeing.

It came to a head when an attempt to assassinate Cahdrisian was made, forcing Andrion to appeal to Khyilenna to take the child into protection. Even after that, threats were levelled at Khyilenna for taking the child, so Mimnristriqua took him into hiding similar to what she did with Karnyimyia. Khyilenna issued an official missive to the Keepers stating that any Keeper who attempts to attack the Nexus lands will be subject to Blood Feud between the People of the Flame and the responsible Keeper clan (and only that clan, as Khyilenna would not hold Andrion responsible for the actions of people who threatened his family, who Khyilenna considers her family as well).

It was in the aftermath of these events, and Koldren's role as one of the leaders of the faction in question (not to mention one of the voices that were saying that Cahdrisian was "defiled" and Andrion unfit to rule due to adopting him) that made Nathanius (Koldren's third son, Andrion's younger brother) leave and disappear from Keeper territories entirely, hiding in the cycle of lower Reality reincarnations.

Malacus's place in this was that he stayed silent, despite everything his father did. Both Andrion and Nathanius took this to mean he agreed with Koldren, but as Mim is starting to find out, that was not true at all. Malacus kept quiet because he knew that without Andrion to inherit the leadership of the family, Nathanius would collapse under the pressure of Koldren's closest allies, so Malacus would have to hold out, putting on a loyal face for his father so he would not be disinherited like Andrion was when he married Briieth.

Now that Koldren is gone, Malacus is slowly and carefully separating the Quaadron family from the hardline faction Koldren was involved in. It's not easy going, and Malacus's mother is constantly objecting to every move he makes.

Malacus doesn't agree with everything Andrion does, and was taken aback when Mim went and put Oraania and Karnyimyia in charge when she absconded with Andrion, but he is not speaking against Andrion anywhere near as much as Koldren used to.

It's a pity [Iphignia] is still holding the hardline against her second son, and by doing so is undermining her eldest son.

But Malacus now has a new ally in Mimnristriqua.

ETA 20/4/13: More Headcanon has happened.

Malacus was the one who made Kataryia disappear. His reason was the same as why he stayed silent - he did it to protect her from their parents. [Iphignia] was starting to raise Kataryia with all of the family prejudices and Malacus, who adored his baby sister, did not want that happening to her, so he hid her.

He did try to keep track of her but lost her when she ran into a piece of the Nexus Weapon. From there her insensible form ran into Karnyi in between reincarnations and they got tangled up and stayed so until Carol's soul crystal accident. Even then Kataryia did not regain her memory until after Koldren died. Malacus had also blocked her memory so she wouldn't try to come home, and hoping she was still out there, undid the block at his end after Koldren's funeral. It took a little while for it to take effect however - a process that may have spanned all of Nina's life (since that life marked Kataryia's separation from the Weapon as it joined with the last of it components and was then born as Tarlia), but the real effects have only become evident recently.

Bonus Plot:
In the time-travel AU, Malacus also receives future memories. He however wasn't present when Khyi and Mim did the time reversal, so he doesn't immediately understand what's happened, not until he has a chance to speak with Andrion. Mal misses Mim. They didn't have anything official up until then, but they had something going on and now Mal is coming to terms with the idea that Mim may have been his One.