Editing Talbot (section)

==Personality==
Talbot was once the type of person who would devout himself to containing a potential disaster and only ask the instigator to make something better with their life as recompense.<ref name="16.ye1"/> Hundreds of years later his personality is much-changed, having been degraded by centuries of isolation,<ref name=":b">'''Behavior''': Trussed are victims of time, their minds eroded much as their bodies are. They may be delirious, single-minded, or left with whatever few key words or ideas they’ve managed to hold onto over the years. This almost always includes some focus on the events that led to their (self-)incarceration. They while away the days and years with routine or by talking to themselves, and rouse only if the space is intruded on. Their reactions vary from violent retaliation and defense of the area to the elderly individual that rouses once they realize they have visitors. In rare cases, they may try to capture visitors to take their place.<br><br>Trussed very rarely venture from their space and when they do they don’t venture far before finding new places to settle. They are prone to repeating themselves and may not keep good track of a conversation. They clarify more when and if conversation turns to specific subjects.<br>[...]<br>'''Weaknesses''': Trussed are slow, and as much as they are repositories of knowledge, their awareness of immediate environment is restricted in scope; they may be hyperaware of any who tread on the cracked or root-ridden floor, but blind to a hand moving before their faces.  They’re often too addled to be good negotiators, too clumsy to even use an object they are given to pass the time.  They are the last thing standing between perceived threats and the door, they have their space, and they remember the old days.  Other things and capabilities have been worn away. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvukMJfW_Ci6_rsqrigpeDBhBsBqFajWmTEyL-b3XCU Bestiary: Trussed]</ref> Milly opined that the [[Wikipedia:Gu (poison)|Gu]] [[Goblin]] Gaol that he keeps watch over has affected him, making him meaner, nastier and viler.<ref name="16.ye3">[Talbot] made another creaking response.  A lip bled as it cracked.<br><br>“Here,” [Milly] offered.  She wet his lips with the cloth.  He kissed the cloth and sucked away dirty moisture.  “Don’t drink that just yet.  I’ll give you clean water in a moment, if you’ll wait.”<br>[...]<br>“Here, drink,” she told him.  She put the cloth to his lips.<br><br>“No,” he answered, his voice still a creak of a sound.  “Would rather- would rather be thirsty.  Better to stay thirstier than anything than to be reminded, then be thirsty again.  ''Bitch.''”<br><br>“I don’t think that’s you talking,” Milly told him. “That’s the poison and goblin-ness in the jar, leeching out to you.”<br><br>“''Bitch'',” he repeated, that one eye looking at her in the gloom.  “Why would you say it’s been a month?  Let me forget ''time''.”<br><br>“I’ll remember that for next time.  I can make the visits irregular.”<br><br>“Don’t come.  Don’t give me water.  Don’t mention time.  You ''bitch''.  A slit-shaped hole for cocks to spit into.”<br><br>“Talbot, I know you’re a better man than this.”<br><br>“A hole.  A whore.  A hole.  A whore.  A hole-”<br><br>He rocked as much as he could with the roots that bound him to wall and floor, cradling the jar, a mad look in his eye. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

Yet such degradation and personality changes are typical of a trussed<ref name=":b"/> and Talbot proved particularly misogynistic even if it was seemingly a defense mechanism he used to justify his unending vigil.<ref name=“Miso”/> A further observation, he doesn't understand how society has changed in the hundreds of years he's been guarding the jar jail.<ref name=“Miso”>“Talbot, as your Lord-”<br><br>She stopped herself.<br><br>He snickered to himself.  “You’re a Lord?  Did they run out of boys?  Oh, but you wear trousers.  I know your type, whore bitch.  Don’t got a willy and you feel the lack.  Two ways a woman like that can go.  They go to a man to fill the hole or they act the part of a man.”<br><br>“Women wear pants now.  You’re behind the times, Talbot.”<br><br>“Don’t talk to me about time!” he spat dust as he shouted.  Flecks of broken, stone-crusted lips and blood from the split in his lips flew out with the spit.  “Don’t talk to me about time!  Don’t!  Bitch!”<br><br>“You were a good man.  You’ve been poisoned and maddened,” she told him.  “You made such a sacrifice.”<br><br>“Bitch,” he spat the word, not even looking at her, or anything, anymore. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

===Relationships===
Anyone that would have watched over him is long gone now.<ref name="16.ye1"/>
====[[Milly Legendre]]====
Was incredible rude and acerbic to Milly, this affected her own view on Sealing.<ref>She wasn’t sure what being a ''great'' warden or knight of seals might look like, but a part of her was terrified that it looked like ''this''.<br><br>The heroic sacrifice. Holding an evil back for so long that she became a part of the door, of wall, of floor.<br><br>Until now, and until tonight, she’d imagined there was a resigned nobility in it.<br><br>But Talbot was no longer noble.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> Regardless he has to give her secret sealing knowledge given her position and  showed her a new [[Warding|ward]].<ref name=”kni”>You’ve become living protective magics<br>[...]<br>[Milly] replied. “One last thing, then. As an Other of wards and seals, you’re attuned to forces. By the knighting ritual as a keeper of groves, sanctuaries, and holds, I’m in my rights to ask for secret knowledge.”<br><br>His hand creaked and cracked as he pulled it away from the jar.<br>[…]<br>His finger scraped the paper, leaving a smudge of clay-like white-brown. He marked the page, the movements almost mechanical.<br><br>Possibly a new ward. Or something that could contribute to greater knowledge about wards.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>
====[[Hugh Legendre]]====
Hugh could well have been the first person Talbot met after at least a century of isolation.