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Name: Jean Martin Lépine III (Or just Martin)
Traits and Political Views:
- VERY RELIGIOUS, he's literally part of the Solar Order idk.
- MATHISIEN, develops and is shaped by Mathisien theology and the philosophy he derives from it.
- OPTIMIST, he loves to love, no matter the situation. This mostly derives from his faithful belief in the Heliomaat, and that everything is Sol's providence. He believes that no matter how bad things get, Sol loves us, and whatever he wills must necessary. He wishes to profess this love as widely as possible, and while limited to Tarborian Solarists, ideally even to the Čajrabenika in Carpesia.
- JEANIST. There is no God but SOL and JEAN is his Prophet.
- PARTLY "PRAGMATIC", Martin isn't really stubborn or dogmatic despite his hard-line belief if Sol, he develops his ideas from Sol Magna teaching and Mathisien tradition, but he is open to new discoveries (and at the same time, very open to refute any and all arguments posed in front of him) that fit the Mathisien worldview.
- ANTI-RATIONALIST, he sees no reason in pure reasoning as it feels paradoxically irrational to him (reason cannot explain Absolutes and Harmony).
- OBSESSED WITH HARMONY, EVERYTHING is harmonious, nothing exists outside order and harmony and that which opposes it is IMMORAL and UGLY and ASYMETRIC and must be radically opposed, it is the FABRIC of reality.
Some goals:
- Understand Čajra thought and tradition for easier conversion.
- Be a good Solarist.
- Keep Tarboria Solarist, serve the Solarists there.
- Develop a systematic philosophical Mathisien study of things. SECONDARY
- Make the Académie Royale des Arts Moraux a relevant and functional institution. SECONDARY
- Make the Order Great Again
Background:
The story of the Lépine in Tarboria starts in 1610, with the birth of Jean Martin Lépine III's great-great-grandfather: Emmanuelle Lépine. Emmanuelle Lépine moved to Tarboria at the tender age of 20 as an apprentice for one of the sailors who brought monks from Aréole to the Solar Order of St Mathis of Neploni. Emmanuelle would fall in love with a Pastichen girl there, and after the fall of the Monastic State in 1634 he would become trapped in Tarboria, abandoning his sailor job to settle down with her.
Emmanuelle Lépine had a son in 1644, Jean Martin Lépine I. Unlike his father, Jean Martin I was more inclined towards the arts, and despite their lower background started a career as a musician and poet, however, disaster would strike when during a conflict between some Sailors and Čajras in Tumul, he would get his dominant hand severely injured, leaving him not only incapable of playing but also of writing. Despite finding comfort in his developing family, specially from his son Jean Martin Lépine II born in 1674, he would become a heavy drinker, drowning his sorrows in the taverns of Tumul reciting his old poems at the tune of his songs, until one night he didn't come back home, leaving his kid and wife alone never to be seen again.
Jean Martin Lépine II had a better life than his predecessors, when due to the status of his father his mother had enough resources to enroll him into a prestigious school, then pursuing a career in natural philosophy and botany. In one of his expeditions in the forests of Carpesia he would meet his future wife Marie-Soleil du Chein, daughter of a wealthy widowed Aréole socialite. Despite having planned to go back to Aréole, their plans would be cut short when Marie-Soleil had son in 1710, Henri-Baptiste Lépine, Jean Martin Lépine III's father. Sadly, however, Marie-Soleil's mother would end up engaging in gambling and alcoholism, leaving her bankrupt and making Marie-Soleil inherit part of her debt, which would leave the family in a very damaged situation.
Henri-Baptiste, tired of the misfortunes that had torn apart his family, decided to abandon city life early on, becoming a farmer under church lands. There, he would eventually raise Jean Martin Lépine III, born in 1739. Henri-Baptiste saw the events that happened to his family not as a curse but as a cautionary tale, he explained what happened since Emmanuelle to them, and how many years of joy and suffering existed in a single family. Despite being strict, he used these talking points to teach Jean Martin Lépine III what he saw as integral morals for a Solarist: Not to enrich oneself, helping others when possible, cherishing life, and avoiding vices. Jean Martin III however saw in this not only that, but a motivation, from the day his father explained the stories of their family he had wanted to form part of something greater, something that would spread love and harmony as widely as possible, and headed towards studying in the Order. Early on, Henri-Baptiste wasn't very keen on the idea, preferring that he should stay in the farm and be homeschooled, but accepted his choice after seeing the grades of his son only a few weeks into formal education. Slowly but surely, Jean Martin Lépine III would raise the ranks of the now small and defeated Solar Order, which had been progressively abandoned and overshadowed by the works of other Orders, and Jean Martin III had faith, faith in a moral and harmonious society, and at the very least, faith in himself to spread goodness and harmony to others as much as possible.
Now, at 50 years old Jean Martin Lépine III is one of the two most important members of the Solar Order in Tarboria in 1789, and Prevost of Alchemists in the General Court of Corporations in the Marquisat of Reauce.