Alix, Lord Montmuide, Lord Faience

Alix, Lord Montmuide, Lord Faience (pr. "Ay-lix") is a Lord Temporal and a member of the central group of Lords Temporal who rule la vieille. Alix is in her late thirties, of average height, with olive skin, a dismissive or lackadaisical manner, and dark brown hair typically kept in a long, tight braid. Alix wears fine clothes, favouring burgundys, plums, golds, and tans, typically in daring or unconventional styles that allow her freedom of movement. She is also a renowned fencer, and often makes a point of carrying her rapier with her to political meetings.

Alix was born as the heir to House Temporal Faience and assumed that lordship in her twenties, but was only created Lord Temporal Montmuide 8 years ago. This caused a great degree of controversy, as it's not normal for someone to hold two seats Temporal at once, and has seldom happened historically, usually only extremely complex extenuating circumstances.

People don't know how to stylize Alix's title - should the Faience come first, or the Montmuide? Occasionally the "Lord Faience" is dropped in favour of the shorter title "Alix, Lord Montmuide," but the opposite - "Alix, Lord Faience" - is usually intended as a slight.

Alix has also courted controversy by flagrantly and pointedly flouting the rules of decorum and conduct expected of Lords Temporal. Her prominent hedonism and disregard for social convention both scandalize and excite the common people of la vieille, who regard her with mixed fascination and reproach. Alix has had several minor clashes with Ashe, Lord Argent, though they also cooperate when expedient, and has historically had a longstanding antagonism - personal, political, spiritual, aesthetic - with Eimd, Lord Wolandie.