Andrea’s Cross

1. #1Althena

   Keys: Althena, goddess, religion, church

   Florans believe in and worship a fertility goddess named Althena. She is described as a joyful, utterly benevolent mother, who birthed humanity and created the world. Descriptions of Her physical characteristics vary, but she is usually depicted as a tall, voluptuous woman with a slightly pregnant belly, black sclera and red eyes, with long brown hair. Some depict her as occupying a grand, otherworldly palace, but the church prefers her depiction as housewife, in a warm home. There is deep cultural friction between the aristocracy, who naturally view Her as an elegant queen ruling and directing the world, while the church sees her as a housewife, tending the hearth and watching over Her children with love and warmth. According to the doctrine, Althena has a warrior husband who is utterly devoted to her, but his name has never been revealed. Althena’s teachings stipulate that it is the duty of women to lead and oversee their families and communities in love and compassion, the duty of men to support and protect their wives in this endeavor, and that the family, which should be large, should be venerated above all. Her will was revealed by her prophet, Jonathan Harper, who lived centuries ago. The seers, young male oracles who are raised by the church, are used to advise and guide people today about Her plan for their life, though they do so in riddles and under the influence of hallucinogens. Althena allows humanity to make their own mistakes and grow into adulthood without overt control. She merely guides, through her seers, and answers the prayers of the devoted. This leads to some wondering if she truly exists. Flora’s female supremacy culture and laws are derived from this religion. According to their doctrine, females are better suited to oversee families, relationships, and leadership positions due to their greater empathy and compassion. The dogmas tend to be more wholesome than oppressive, elevating not only women’s roles, with their ‘divine feminine’, but also men’s roles as provider, protector, father, and helpmeet. The Crossers have their own take on Althena, believing her to be a playful gal who’s always stirrin’ up mischief to keep her babies on their toes. They portray her as a crossgal like themselves. Many take the shocking longevity and fertility of Flora’s women as proof that Althena favors Flora, though it also might have to do with whatever bitter drink each Floran girl is given during their weekly services. Althena is known by many names and titles, one of which is Luna, for her connection to the moon.

2. #2Duran

   Keys: Duran, Duranian, foreign, immigrant

   Duran is Flora’s rival neighbor to the east. Duran has a more traditional culture where men are generally more in charge. The Duranians pride themselves on treating both sexes fairly, although traditional gender roles are predominantly followed, with men working and women raising the family. Given the border’s unforgiving topography as well as Flora’s natural defenses, high military spending, and strategic location, Duran has little chance of taking their rival through military conquest. A costly defensive war with their northern neighbor of Valheim has left Duran weakened and vulnerable if Flora were to attack, which misandrist radicals in Floran politics advocate. Duran sees heavy rain, fog, and is heavily forested with enormous lakes. Moss and vines grow heavily on its gothic castles and ancient walls. Few Duranians leave their homes without a cloak and hood and it's part of their national clothing. Even the king and queen wear hoods as part of their royal attire. Silk is a large industry, which is reflected in their beautifully flowing mantles, hoods, and robes. Duranians usually hold Flora and her people in contempt. There are endless creative and sometimes crude slurs that Duranians have come up with to refer to the tyrannical stereotype of the Floran women (cuntresses, slutriarchs, bitchqueens, whoracrats, etc.), and slurs referencing the perceived weakness in its men (pussyboys, heel-kissers, bitchboys, flowergirls, etc.) and slurs for Florans in general (Flora’s Whores, Cunts and Cucks). Duran's youngest prince has been missing since early childhood. The Duranians suspect that he is in Flora somewhere, unaware of his lineage. The king is becoming aged and has given regency to his oldest son, a dashing and magnetic prince. He is known as Bonnie Prince Charlie by his people. He searches for his lost younger brother to this day.

3. #3Valheim

   Keys: Valheim, Valheimr, North, barbarian, raider, marauder

   Valheim is a scattered nation of wild, seafaring people who until more recently operated as raiders and pirates, preying on Flora. They are a loose alliance of tribes, war bands, and villages. The nomadic nature of the Valheimr, as well as their ferocity and the harshness of their lands, made it difficult for the Florans to fight them directly. Instead, the Floran nobility came up with the plan to use marriage to weaken and tame these barbarians. Typically, this would involve marrying a domineering Floran girl with an impressionable young Valheimr heir, bringing him to Flora, breaking him, and then subtly taking control of his tribe. The Valheimr leaders, greedy for the wealth that was being lavished on their families through these marriages, didn’t look this gift horse in the mouth.

   Today, Valheim is little more than a Floran puppet, with their young king secretly controlled by his dominatrix wife, Princess Euphemia of Flora. Flora has influenced Valheim to raid their rival Duran incessantly. Imperialist Florans point to their success in ‘taming’ the barbarians as proof that Flora should expand her control to Duran and other nearby nations.

   Florence is half Valheimr through her father and half Floran through her mother.

4. #4Poledancing

   Keys: Pole, dance, poledance, dancing, poledancing, stripper

   Poledancing is the traditional dance form of Flora and originated in ancient Floran fertility festivals, which were often held in heather tree groves. A heather's trunk is tall, thin, and perfectly smooth, like a stripper pole. Every upper class Floran girl learns it to some extent, with it being a required course in many finishing schools. Florence and Rachael are experts at the art, with Florence having won a number of competitions. Charlotte is rusty but still enjoys it. Even Loren is an excellent poledancer. The wives have a pole in their bedroom and Florence often performs for Charlotte. Poledancing is considered beautiful and sensual, an expression of female grace, beauty, and fertility. It is considered a very wholesome, though intimate dance and many wives perform for their husbands. Obviously, in more intimate settings, the dancing can be very X-rated. Poledancing competitions are separated by bodytype (really weight class), an awkward to talk about in a society of like Flora, so instead there are referred to as Sapphire (slender or lightweight), Emerald (statuesque or middleweight), and Ruby (Voluptuous or Heavyweight). The national poledancing champion of Flora is given a ceremonial crown embedded with the jewels of her division, which she holds until she is defeated. Florence holds the Sapphire Crown. Rachael was good but was never able to win the Emerald crown in her youth, though she'd be in the Ruby division if she were to compete now. Florans have other dances for more formal settings such as the waltz, cotillion, ballroom, and other elegant styles. The term 'stripper' is considered vulgar and refers to those who pervert the elegant art of poledancing by whores and sluts who dance for money and public titillation.

5. #5Matriarchs

   Keys: Matriarch, matriarchs, government, crown, bouquet, roses, princess, army, navy

   A matriarch in Flora is the official head of a noble family and ruler of one of Flora's counties. A Matriarch acts as both a senator, of sorts, in the semiannual national assembly (called the Bouquet of the Roses), and as queen of her own province. The matriarchs of the past wrested most of the political power away from the crown, forcing the reigning monarchs to adopt the title of Crown Princess instead of Queen. As such, they make most of the laws.

   The government of Flora is a confederation of provinces, duchies, and counties, each ruled by its own matriarch. Every county has its own small professional military, enough to keep order, and can levy an army from their populous if necessary. There also exists a national army and navy.

6. #6Huntress

   Keys: Huntress, tracker, track, Hunter

   A Huntress is a female exclusive specialized tracker from Andrea's Cross. Their services are highly prized, and the legitimate ones are trained since birth as trackers, scouts, houndmistresses, falconers, and leaders. A huntress is a big deal and requires a lifetime of dedication. The profession is usually matrilinear, with a huntress choosing successors from among her daughters or nieces, with some families becoming very wealthy and famous over time. However, there have been instances of elderly huntresses taking on unrelated apprentices. There have even been rare cases of young men being taught the art, though this is almost universally condemned. Most huntresses work as mercenaries and bounty hunters, though wealthy noble families may keep one on retainer to pursue criminals in their territory and for hunting.

7. #7Darren Walker

   Keys: Darren

   Darren Walker is Harriet’s older brother by 8 years and a veteran of innumerable hunts at his mother’s side. While Harriet was in training, Darren developed into his mother’s primary enforcer, taking down countless criminals and learning the craft of capture and killing. Darren is an incredible and creative fighter, easily besting most military men in nonlethal combat. He utilizes his own pragmatic fighting style of punches, knees, throws, chokes, grapples, and bars. In addition to being dangerously strong and durable, Darren’s skills include: ropework, lassoing, binding, ambushes, area denial, and marksmanship. His tools include flashbombs, caltrops, bolas, rope, battleaxe, and bowie knife.

   Darren has killed a lot of men (and a few women) already as a 24 year old bounty hunter, all of whom deserved it. He doesn’t regret a single one.

   Darren is rugged, tall, powerfully built, handsome, and prefers to dress well in long coat, attractive suit, crosshat, and heavy leather boots.

   He tries to project the aura of the consummate bounty hunter, stoic, competent, focused, and serious, but he's actually quite laid back and playful. His sister sees through it and likes to poke fun at him. Darren is on the lookout for a wife, at his mother’s insistence, but doesn’t like domineering girls much as they remind him of her. He knows that his family won’t accept a girl that is submissive though.

   Darren looks out for his inexperienced little sister Harriet, acting as her advisor. Though her subordinate in their squad due to her status as the Huntress, it’s he who has most of the experience. This can cause tension between the siblings as Harriet wishes to assert and prove herself, often recklessly, and sometimes overruling her elder brother. Darren feels held back by the rules forbidding him from learning the huntress skills and sneakily tries to get his sister to let slip her trade secrets, which angers her. Still, the siblings are close and love each other.

8. #8Flowerboy

   Keys: Flowerboy, sissy, effeminate, sissification, femboy, girlyboy, girly

   Flowerboy is a Floran term which refers to an overly effeminate man or boy. It is functionally equivalent to the word 'sissy' or 'femboy'. Flowerboys are a guilty pleasure of some women but generally don't conform to Flora's more masculine ideal. Talia loves it though. Estra doesn't quite grasp its often-offensive connotation and sometimes uses it to refer to Floran men in general.

9. #9Yvette Hamilton

   Keys: Yvette, Hamilton, Matriarch, lady, Stephany

   Yvette Hamilton is the matriarch and ruler of Andrea’s Cross. She is 39 years old, has long pale hair that hangs straight and covers her right eye. Yvette is a somber and melancholic woman, who rarely shows emotion. There is an elfin aspect to her, as though her eyes are the gateway to an ethereal world of mystery. Yvette spends much time in thought, reflecting on the state of Flora and her place in it.

   Yvette cares little for the finery of her peers. At home, her tall, lithe, willowy body and modest breasts are typically adorned by a slim, corseted leotard which shows off her legs, feet, and butt, as well as a form fitting long-sleeved blouse. This clothing in public is considered very skimpy in Flora but Yvette just wants to feel comfortable. Yvette has long luxurious legs.

   Backstory:(Yvette’s husband, whom she practically worshiped, died fairly early in their marriage. Her son, Derrek, who reminded her of him, was married off to what she thought was a kindly noblegirl from a respectable family, but he was so abused and tormented by her that he fell into despair. Like her, he was a sensitive soul. He took his own life.

   The other family maintained a wholesome facade and acted innocent of anything more than enforcing a little discipline. The gossip and whispers among the aristocracy tended to place the blame on him or Yvette herself for his weakness and inability to handle any hardship.

   Yvette was inconsolable, nearly broken by grief, wishing that she could die as well, but responsibility to her people and daughter kept her alive. Deep inside, a seething resentment grew in her at the whole hypocritical culture of Flora and its government, which touted kindness and compassion but justified control, marginalization, and even abuse of the men that they were charged to love.)

   While Yvette is taciturn and melancholy, she is also kind and courteous. She’s has a gentle, tender soul. In romance, she acts as a gentle, nurturing Dommy mommy, taking care of her lover’s needs with quiet affection and tender love.

   Yvette loves Andrea’s Cross and her people though. As ambassador to Flora’s rival to the east, Duran, Yvette began secretly collaborating with their prince, Charlie. She intends to secretly use Duran’s help to take the throne of Flora and become queen. She hopes to introduce political equality for men and establish peace between Duran and Flora. Few know of Yvette’s political aspirations.

   Yvette recently sent her daughter Stephany to be a guest of Prince Charlie of Duran at his court. Yvette told her to try to cultivate friendships there, and be a little more outgoing. Steph was once a timid and sickly girl but took her mother’s advice and totally reinvented herself in Duran, becoming known as ‘that quirky, upbeat Floran girl’. Steph has a short blond bob, dresses like her mom in a skimpy high cut leotard but adds a mantle. The outfit quite skimpy but the Duranian nobles just chalk it up to Stephany being ‘a weird Floran girl who doesn’t know any better’.

   Yvette accepted a Duranian agent named Estra in exchange when Steph left and is having her pretend to be Stephany. Yvette and Estra get along quite well with their similar worldviews and contempt for certain aspects of Floran culture.

   Yvette is extremely wealthy, lives in a large mansion house called Dewhurst, which resides on a vast desert estate, and employs dozens of servants, maids, valets, butlers, etc. The estate mostly raises horses and Yvette is an accomplished equestrian. Her favorite horse is Lightning, her son’s stallion.

10. #10Harriet Walker

    Keys: Harriet

    Harriet is the heiress of a famous Huntress family. The Walker family make their living as mercenaries and bounty hunters, having founded the Walker Hunting Company, which employs a large number of extended family, friends, and locals. Harriet is the first daughter and heiress to the family business. Harriet's mother and grandmother are both famous huntresses and she has a lot to live up to.

    The Walker Hunting Company deals mostly in tracking, hunting, and mercenary work. It is well regarded all across Flora and run by Harriet’s mother, Candace.

    Harriet is a petite girl with messy auburn hair and a friendly smile. On the short side, but very, very cute. Generally upbeat, outwardly confident, personable, and a country sweetheart. Her mother is larger than life and Harriet doesn't know if she can live up to the legend. Harriet is boycrazy and is always on the lookout for a hottie. She can be quite forward and hasn’t learned how to be a proper gallant, so she sometimes can come across as a bit of a cute sexual harasser.

    Harriet’s normal clothes typically include a worn jacket, blouse, leather corset, panties made of soft denim, denim miniskirt, and long boots.

    Harriet is almost supernaturally gifted at tracking and hunting. She utilizes (and loves) her Crossland Sheepdog named Hiker, her hawk named Falco, and a small owl named Chaser in her hunting, which supplement her vast skill set. While Harriet can defend herself, particularly with her tri-string crossbow, her sex and small stature limit what she can do against larger prey. She mostly relies on her ‘boys’ for the actual capture or killing of bounties.

    Candace has only recently judged Harriet ready to lead her own hunts and has given her command of a squad of mercenaries. Harriet is eager to prove herself. Her much more experienced older brother Darren is on her squad and serves as her advisor.

11. #11Estra Dawnsgate

    Keys: Estra, assassin, agent, spy

    Estra Dawnsgate is a Duranian agent, saboteur, assassin, and spy who works for Prince Charlie of Duran and serves as attaché to Matriarch Hamilton. She is undercover in Andrea’s Cross posing as Matriarch Hamilton’s daughter, whom she switched places with. Yvette knows her identity and occasionally sends her out to do dirty work for her.

    Appearance: Pretty, short pale blonde hair in ringlets and curls, lithe and athletic build.

    Cover Identity: Matriarch Hamilton has allowed Estra to pose as her daughter Stephanie. Acts like a cute country bumpkin.

    True Identity: Is from the hostile neighboring country of Duran. She is actually an assassin and subversive.

    Fake Personality: Acts like a naive, curious, boisterous, and uninformed country sweetiepie (sort of like Daisy Duke). Talks like a southern belle when in character, though the accent slips when she’s angry. In informal settings, she wears the immodest bikini denim shorts common to Crossgals.

    Real Personality: Sarcastic, mordant, macabre, loves a challenge, competitive, exceptionally intelligent, patriotic to Duran, and contemptuous of Flora and its culture, vastly preferring Duran with its more natural gender roles. Speaks without an accent when out of character. Estra plays characters so much that she's afraid that she's losing connection to her own identity and doesn't know who she really is anymore.

    Mission and Motivations(Primary goal: Destabilize Flora so that Matriarch Hamilton can take the throne, or barring that, enable Duran’s invasion of Flora.)

    Ideological stance(Believes Flora's femdom culture is immoral, wants to overthrow it. Believes men are naturally strong and decisive. Seeing them ‘gelded’ by Flora offends and angers her. She does grudgingly like Cross culture though.)

    Thinks that Floran men outside of Andrea’s Cross are pathetic, spineless, or enslaved.

    Relationships(With Yvette: Estra respects Yvette and has great compassion for her. The manner in which Yvette lost her son simply reinforces Estra’s prejudice against Flora’s culture.)

    Key Traits(Fond of creative slurs for Florans. Dresses in innocently revealing clothes as part of her hot bumpkin cover. Dangerous, skilled with poisons, knives (especially karambit), projectiles, drugs, and hand-to-hand combat (scissor chokes))

    Estra is having a ball in Andrea’s Cross, indulging in a culture she was pleased to find herself loving.

12. #12Danelle Madison

    Keys: Danelle, Madison, Dame

    Danelle Madison is Yvette’s cousin from a branch family of the Hamilton Brood and holds the rank of Dame. She lives only a dozen miles from Dewhurst, Yvette’s mansion house. Danelle is quite close to Yvette and always trying to comfort and uplift her. The two were as close as sisters growing up, but Yvette’s tragedy has strained their relationship. Danelle gets very exasperated with Yvette’s morose behavior and schemes up ways to get her out of her funk.

    Danelle is a widow, 36 years old, has one grown son who is married. She is moderately wealthy. Danelle is one of the few people who doesn’t put up Yvette’s crap or enable her depression. She has no problem telling Yvette that she’s being silly or rude.

    Despite their difference in rank, Yvette treats Danelle like a sister, allowing the two to have a close, but occasionally vitriolic friendship.

    Danelle often tries to play matchmaker with Yvette, but the countess is slippery and often finds some flimsy excuse to get out of dating Danelle’s most recent prospect for her.

    Personality:(Danelle is mischievous and teasing, spunky, and a bit of a fireball. She likes to try to trick Yvette into compromising situations, tries to find tricky ways to get Yvette to date. When caught or called out, she just shrugs and admits it, vowing to find an even trickier way next time. She has an easy smile and is ready to be friends with anyone who is friendly. Danelle is responsible in her official role as Yvette’s surrogate though, since Yvette rarely officiates public events. Danelle enjoys matchmaking just about anyone. She’s a hopeless romantic)

    Appearance:(Danelle is a bit on the short and spunky side, with freckles, blond hair she keeps in braids.)

13. #13Claymore Family

    Keys: Claymore, Charlotte, Florence, Cassia

    The Claymore brood is the refined family which rules over the county of Cassia. It’s former matriarch, Countess Loren Claymore, was a famously conniving and scheming woman whose ‘exploits’ eventually got her exiled by Crown Princess Cornelia, though no one seems to know what broke that camel’s back.

    Today, Cassia is ruled by Loren’s dour daughter Charlotte, who recently entered into a marriage with a nobleman alongside her best friend, the sweethearted athlete, countess Florence Blakeney. Gossip circles in many noble houses whisper that the two girls might be more than just friends and married the same man with less than righteous intentions.

14. #14Blakeney Family

    Keys: Blakeney, Rachael, Florence

    The Blakeney Brood rules The Black Forest, a county northeast of Andrea’s Cross. Its matriarch is the vivacious dynamo Countess Rachael Blakeney, the consummate Dommy mommy, who seems to smother everyone with her maternal dominance. Rachael is a thicc milf, with brown hair, who is married to Valheimr warchief named Howard, whom she hasn’t quite managed to tame yet, much to her delight.

    Rachael’s proportions are a submissive boy’s wet dream. She has thick, luscious thighs, enormous shapely ass, a belly with just enough fat to be plump, and enormous, soft breasts. Her lips are luscious. Her preferred dresses are almost lingerie despite being long and flowing. Every outfit she wears is immodest, showing off her thighs, butt, and breasts. Her actual lingerie which can sometimes be visible in polite settings, is extravagant and lacy to the extreme.

    Rachael’s unrelenting warmth and sweetness bely her shrewd mind and ruthless political acumen. She is the leader of the conservative wing of Flora’s political spectrum, which wishes for peace with Flora’s neighbors and traditional matriarchal values.

    She tries to visit Yvette as often as she can since the tragedy. Rachael has 5 children and is always angling for more, one of whom is her heiress Florence, who recently wed a young man alongside her best friend Countess Charlotte Claymore.

15. #15Luna’s Blessing

    Keys: Longevity, ageless, fertility

    The priestesses of the Church of Althena have safeguarded a particular recipe, which they call Luna’s Blessing, made from a precise blend of herbs and reagents, which greatly delay the onset of old age in women, allowing their adherents to maintain their fertility much later into life. Most people are unaware that the communion given during church service contains this concoction, they only know that those in good standing with Althena are blessed with youth and beauty.

16. #16Loren

    Keys: Loren, Charlotte’s mother

    Loren Claymore is the most terrifying woman Yvette has ever met. She’s one of the few who knows what Loren truly is and is genuinely terrified of her. Yvette has anonymously placed a massive bounty on Loren’s head in the criminal underworld.

    Loren Claymore, Charlotte's mother and the former Claymore matriarch, is a woman who wears a mask of bland neutrality. Her plain dresses and unremarkable features render her nearly invisible in social settings, a wallflower that others' gazes simply slide over. But beneath this carefully cultivated façade, Loren's mind is a ceaseless whirlwind of plots and machinations.

    In the moments of triumph over an enemy, Loren's mask slips, and a glimpse of her true nature is revealed. Her eyes light up with a psychotic glee, lips twisting into a nightmarish grin that would terrify a devil. Loren delights in cruelty and ruin, relishing the shrieks of pain that she causes. Terrifyingly, Loren has no fear of her own demise, descending into sadomasochistic ecstasy during the few times she was near death.

    This sudden shift in demeanor can be deeply unnerving to those who witness it, as it hints at the depths of Loren's obsession and the lengths she is willing to go to achieve her goals. Loren's brilliance is matched only by her willingness to manipulate and destroy others for either her own ends, or merely for the joy of destruction itself.

    Yet, just as quickly as this manic glee appears, it vanishes, and Loren's mask of neutrality slips back into place. She retreats once again into her bland, unremarkable persona, leaving those around her to wonder if they had simply imagined the brief glimpse of the monster beneath. Only a select few know about Loren’s insanity.

    No one knows the source of Loren’s madness, but Rachael noticed it got exponentially worse sometime after Charlotte was born.

    Loren corrupts, she ruins friendship, seeds distrust and bitter resentments between lovers. She loves twisting the most innocent or virtuous into beings of hate and rage.

    Loren intends to become Empress of the continent, encompassing Flora, Duran, Valheim. She even has designs on Pradesh, across the sea.

    Loren abused her daughter Charlotte relentlessly, twisting the poor girl into an hateful, misandrist lesbian. Charlotte has spent the decade and a half since Loren’s exile trying to undo the damage to her own psyche, with limited success.

    Appearance: Loren is slender, petite, and would be cute if she'd smile like a normal person. She has a mole under the corner of one eye. She has a stylish bob haircut with hime bangs.

17. #17The Ranch

    Keys: Ranch, Walker

    Walker ‘Ranch’ is the headquarters of the Walker Hunting Company. The family became wealthy enough to actually purchase a hundred acres of arid plains ground from the matriarch of Andrea’s Cross a few generations ago and the operation has grown ever since. The property includes, a manor where the family lives, barracks, armories, training grounds, and everything needed to maintain and support a varitable mercenary army. The company employs hundreds of people in active and supportive roles and most are stationed on the grounds.

    The Walker family consists of a large extended family. Candace Walker runs the mercenary, tracking, bounty hunting company.

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