Giovanni Luca Savelli

Giovanni Luca Savelli Summary

Growing Up
Born in 219 AT, The son of a Khorlissian Trade Delegate and a Merchant Naval Captain, the result of a careless night abroad while they were both away in Zhou. He grew up mostly in the courts and capitals of the far east, specifically Hebei living with his Mother while she travelled around performing her duties.

His parents not being together he had little contact with his father, spent a handful of months aboard his father’s ship as a child when he was 8. Apart from that he had seen him maybe once a year when their paths crossed in ports.

At Age 9 he contracted a bad case of Synoptaphage which stunted his physical development in the plague of 228 AT. Bed ridden mostly for years, he spent time reading tales from all across the land. Mother moved back to Khorlise permanently settling in the small Vivirli Village just outside of Kent. His father assisted them with Coin where he could as his mother could only work infrequently, not being able to travel on long voyages and trade envoys any longer.

Having moved back to his father’s hometown he also developed a relationship with his paternal grandparents. His grandmother was sweet but stern, his grandfather a bard who relished in the way Luca’s eyes lit up when he would tell him stories and sing him songs of great fantasies and tales of the past.

During these years bedridden, recovering from his disease Luca learnt to tell stories and play musical instruments at the instruction of Luciano. Eventually as he was settling into his teenage years he was finally able to become more mobile and could move about semi normally again, albeit with a Cane. Luciano helped him to develop his skills further teaching him bardic magic, he taught him spells of illusion and healing, and how to apply some of these skills to a performance to bring his stories to life.

Becoming a Bard
At 17 he was finally healthy enough to resume a place in society and took jobs as a musician and story teller, he’d travel around Khorlise earning keep at Taverns, teaching music to the children of various nobles, even to the less well off when times were good and he didn’t have to worry as much about coin. He found an incredible gift for mimicry listening to the life and flow of taverns and the cities around him. He was utterly enthralled by people and the crazy ways in which they behaved. He used these skills to further add flavour to his historical pieces bringing real life to the characters of old and even bringing real life people to life twisting them comically for the effect of others.

He started to travel, wanting to see the world again after being cooped up for most of his childhood and adolescence. He found his way into the courts of the world making his way around various courts and kingdoms (see the route list below). He mostly found work entertaining the children of the nobles and merchants in the cities he visited, until one day by chance his performance was caught a particularly enthralled lord who invited him to a notable gala in the region. He performed some of his favourite stories Luciano had passed down to him of heroes of old, tall tales of glory and a moving Concerto he had written when his grandmother had passed. Filled with all of her sweetness and edge. The magic he added to his performance, with lights and illusions to bring the characters to life earnt him a small amount of regard within that circle.

He spent the next few years travelling around various courts mingling with the younger less experienced courtiers and up and coming merchants, performing for people and enjoying a socialite lifestyle. He found himself travelling across the continents slowly making his way closer to home.

Encounters with Avum
While in The Kingdom of Zelira, Luca became involved with Countess Ellen of Tann, working with the commonwealth delegates to promote a big commonwealth/Zelirian deal. She pressured him into being her personal Bard offering him “protection” from a powerful Zelirian noble, the a son of the regional Marquis, Auris Herano,  after he made some impressions publicly that weren’t taken in the spirit intended and he was beaten by a handful of thugs apparently working for Auris Herano. Stuck in a predicament, an emissary of the Avum Empire approached Luca offering him safe passage and some coin if he could acquire proof of her taking bribes from the commonwealth to assist with the trade deal. He managed to acquire incriminating letters which he gave to the emissary, who arranged for Luca to be whisked away to the safety of Avum.

Since then he has spent the last 5 years working on and off with the Empire as a long-distance contact. (Fairly Ad-hoc relationship for the most part, rather than a formal chain of command. He isn’t an agent working for them, but a contact whose talents are acknowledged and who has learned to sniff out useful information). Both gathering and spreading information around various courts of interest to the Empire. Initially motivated only by the pay he has started to find himself agreeing with Imperial values; We are weak.

Travels Across the Land
Khorlise countryside -> Zachliche Commonwealth (Duchies of Savary -> Loithui -> Althun )-> Clurland -> Vaalburd -> Zelira - > Eamanland (has big break here) -> Kier -> Astonia -> Kier -> Eamanland -> Zelira (Gets in trouble, falls in with the Empire) -> Empire (not the Capital, but mostly around the western Arban region) -> Deal.