Rank: Arch-Duke (rank elevated from Duke to Arch-Duke: 567 MR)
Domain: Alamie/Tuornen

Heraldry: Sable, a panther rampant argent, with gold flames

Child:
Calindrea Alam-Dieme married to Caelan Dieme and heir apparent of Alamie.

Description:

Carilon Alam is a tall, thin, well appointed man in his mid-forties with a meticulously groomed moustache and trimmed, small forked beard. Shoulder length dark hair with the lightest touches of silver. His gray eyes miss nothing of the goings on around him. He has fine, aristocratic chiseled features that occasionally show the disdain he has for the lower orders of life. He moves with the lethal grace of a great cat. He has a regal demeanor and a calculating intelligence.

The duke favors somber colors, dressing in the finest silk or linen shirts with elegant blackwork. His chausses are of the finest wool in winter and silk in the summer.

In winter, his cote (tunic) is plush, high quality wool. In summer, it is gold embroidered brocades in deep reds and blues, or black. Cotes are embroidered gold or silver.

He wears a well tailored ankle length gown of plush wool or piled velvet in blacks or deep blues.

For court occasions, gowns long or short are usually of black cloth of gold. He wears a ducal coronet over his hat or cap of maintenance.

His head is always adorned with a black, blue or burgundy piled velvet hat.

Winter clothes are lined with sable or vair.

He wears a thin belt of the best cordovan leather with gold mounts. He wears gilt bronze spurs, chased with filigreed designs and enameled with his coat of arms and engraved with his motto.

He wears an assortment of three or four gold rings set with rubies. One is his seal.

He always has a staff of 10 discreet body servants on hand who are dressed in clothes of gentlemen of wealth, made from the highest quality wools or silk brocades. His servants are nobleman and gentlemen of Alamie.

Alamie protects his realm and his people with the skill and savvy of any great regent.


Alam’s Armour:

Alamie’s heraldry: Sable, a panther rampant argent, with gold flames.

Helmet: Dhalaenian manufactuer visored sugarloaf greathelm of elegant proportions of blued steel with decorative re-enforcements in gilt brass.

Crest: It is a work of the goldsmith’s art. It is a silver panther inlaid with gold spots, gold flames, magicked to protect it from damage. Ruby eyes. The mantel adorning his helm is black brocade with reverse white brocade and all is held in place with a ducal coronet.

Underneath his helmet is a blued sevellier with an aventail of blued enameled Diemian maille with a 2” border of solid gold rings.

Hauberk and chausses of finest quality Diemian double maille, blued to match the aventail. Also has a matching 2” wide hem of solid gold links.

He wears a Dhalaenian coat of plates covered in black velvet and studded with silver and gold nails with panther heads.

He has Dhalaenian blued steel gauntlets with a gilt latin border around the cuff, engraved with his motto.

He wears Dhalaenian blued steel greaves and knee cops trimmed, engraved, and gilt to match the gauntlets.

He wears a fashionable surcoat of black silk brocade with panther embroidered in silver and gold thread.

Sword belt of finest cordovan leather with gilt buckle and mounts enameled with his coat of arms.

Dhalaenian sword of the highest quality with gilt steel pommel and guard. His arms are enameled on the pommel. The scabbard covered in black velvet and mounted with gold.

He has a matching dagger.

He also has a high quality Dhalaenian mace that is elaborately decorated.

His horse is a dappled gray Alamian Destrier. The horse’s bard is of high quality maille, covered with a caparison of black silk brocade with powdered panthers embroidered in silver and gold thread. The broad reins on his horse’s bridle are covered in black velvet, as is all the horse tack. Gilt latin pendants enameled with his arms dangle from the tack.

He is often in the company of two black panthers wearing collars of gold plaques which are enameled with his coat of arms.

His shield is diapered black with a panther in silver and gold leaf.

Note: The Carilon Alam in our game is not an old duke that cares nothing for his realm.