let's go in the garden, you'll find something waiting

Phil's starting a new campaign next week! We're starting in an expy of the Republic, with the rival paradigm being a more papacy-style authoritarian system, because we're philosophy nerds like that. TBH I'm more than slightly worried about finals, but this'll be a good diversion, and I promise to keep my more Terrible habits in check and do my best!
I'm playing this guy:

• Name: Sutelim Amades
  • Official registry name: Sutelim
  • Common name: Telim, weight on the second syllable
  • Private name: Su
    • Used by: immediate family. And the emissary (whether the emissary knew or eventually figured out the significance is a question I do not have an answer to).

further notes under the cut!
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I can't figure out a good name for his wizard friend from the north. The language insp is supposed to be broadly germanic for the monotheists, but the only one that fits in my head is Gabriel and I'm still not sold on it. But he does need a name bc I like to have one PC and NPC as a set to offer a DM, so I'll have to finish his profile soon too.
also he needs a name bc he and Telim came This close to being boyfriends while he was stationed in the republic. Telim asked him to call him his private name on the docks one evening, this sort of thing is supposed to be a date if they weren't too dense!! But no, Telim spent all that time deciding to be patient with him, bc it's different in the north and he's not going to rush him into anything :))) And Gabriel (we'll call him that for now) spent the same time being sure Telim Su wasn't Really flirting with him, it's just that they do things differently here and he wouldn't want to make it awkward :))))
and I know they're both my own OCs but wow are they dumb!
Also, for the sake of my own backstory, I think they met first when Telim had gone up into the second city to visit Te - that's Maya to everyone else, thank you - because the teaching temples are illustrious enough to merit placement closer to the governance centers, so she'd be particularly frustrated by their reciprocal foolishness.

Also, I still need to figure out an audio aesthetic for him, bc it's so weird to have a char but not a playlist; usually I start with the musical style of a region (see: the baroque playlist for the Changeling campaign in Venice, or the filk selection for my exoplanet) and find songs with the right attitude within that genre. But this one's up to Phil and actually this is relatively little worldbuilding on my part, for once. Not an angry issue! But I need more than just Mykonos and Ho Hey because they remind me of the Eagle of the Ninth and that's all I've got to start on lol.