“But a better land is there, Where Olympus cleaves the air,
The high still dell Where the Muses dwell, Fairest of all things fair!
O there is Grace, and there is the Heart’s Desire,
And peace to adore thee, thou Spirit of Guiding Fire!”
– Euripedes, The Bacchae
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| Overview
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Pretty + smart makes for an intimidating combo just on its own, but add in the two edged sword of growing up a Waitlie, and she looks downright unapproachable. She's known locally as an artist and a budding patroness of the arts. She's known as well for being seen around with her twin sister Semele.
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- Art / Sculpture / Jewelry
- Agave is a talented artist, a sculptor in metal, stone and wood. She earned a scholarship for her art, and was courted by a number of academies. Her works are a little strange for the town's art scene, but the gallery at ARU displays a piece of hers called 'Isis In Chain' being an Egyptian styled necklace of cut silver, chain and dichroic glass.
- Art History
- She grew up immersed in it, from the ancients to today. She's going to school to study it. She already knows it better than some of her professors. She is heavily involved with undergraduate research.
- Local and Famous
- For starters, she's a Waitlie. National merit scholar. Talented artist.
- She attended Stella Maris Academy for her primary and high school classes.
- She is set up to graduate from ARU in June of 2013.
- Travel
- Agave has traveled extensively, especially to France, where she spent the first semester of her Junior year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.
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- Family
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| Gallery
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| Agave Ambrosia Waitlie
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| Date of Birth:
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June 13, 1991
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| Apparent Age:
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20-ish
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Student
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| Virtue:
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Temperance
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| Vice:
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Sloth
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| Profession:
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Artist
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| Family:
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Waitlie
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| Languages:
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French
Greek
Lapea (See below)
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| Notable Stats:
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Striking Looks-4
Fame-2 (Waitlie)
Contacts in the Art business.
Expert linguist, occultist, artist, poet.
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| Entitlement:
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None
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| Soundtrack
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Delerium - Aria
- I have wist, sin I couthe meen,
- Tha children hath by candel-light,
- Her shadowe on the wal iseen,
- And ronne they after,
- All the night.
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Conlang: Lapea
Lapea is a language constructed by Agave Waitle as a vehicle for her poetic and artistic endeavors. Unlike languages such as Esperanto where the clarity of communication was paramount, Lapea is expressive and embraces the abmiguity of natural languages. With careful choice not only of words but of orthography and punctuation, multiple meanings can be woven in and through lines of text. These features render true fluency difficult, but not beyond the reach of the studious.
Lapea can easily be described as 'Beautiful' as the sound flow when spoken is full of expression and emotional content, the management of ambiguity and shifting pronunciation allows a skilled speaker or writer excellent control over just what possibilities are intended.
Phonology
Lapeaq phonology contains many 'enharmonic' consonants, which is to say that they are pronounced and spelled differently but have the same meaning as a word, creating virtual accents within the language itself. This allows a single word to be pronounced and written differently depending on authorial intent. Should a word here be liquid? Rhythmic? Contain some tension? Pun with this particular word or that? By shaping the consonants emotional content of a word may be shifted as well by choosing harsh sounds for an imprecation or soft for a loving nickname.
Orthography
Lapeaq orthography is based, loosely, on Medieval Korean Hangul and John Dee's Enochian script. It is a proper alphabetic writing system unlike the visually somewhat similar Chinese pictographs or the Brahmi or Kana syllablaries used in Japan and South Asia. It was designed to be composed of organic shapes and thus easily worked into drawings that represent both a word and a picture, tho possibly ones that conflict.
