Sable Aradia ([SEY-buhl ahr-AH-dee-uh] | /ˈseɪ bəl ɑr 'ɑ di ɑ/)

Queen Sable is in excellent physical condition for her age and profession. Two bouts with Critical Magic Drain reduced her muscle mass, but since her physical therapy, she has reclaimed her physical health. She suffers from a couple of chronic illnesses, including asthma and IBS, but has seen significant recent improvement in both conditions. She has a mild astigmatism and so wears glasses when she is at her keyboard. She does not require the glasses for driving.

Sable-rah is small, but she still possesses more strength and muscle than a woman of her age and size typically would, stemming from an interest in weight training when she was young that she has recently rediscovered. Her skin, while pale, has a golden undertone. She tans easily.   In her bunny form, other than her distinctive white fur, Sable is indistinguishable from a white-tailed jackrabbit; technically a hare, and not a rabbit. She is on the smaller side of the species, just as she is in her human form.   When Sable Bright-Eyes appears in The Void, she has been described as "shining like a star." There is a starlight luminescence to Sable's fur in dim light, even in the physical Realm. Some have also said that they have seen starlight sparkles in her eyes.

On her back, Queen Sable has an arcane tattoo that features a purple pentacle at the center containing a white spiral. It is surrounded by symbols of the four elements in traditional colours. She has a beauty mark on her left cheek, and a spattering of freckles on her shoulders. Her pinky fingers are crooked, stemming from childhood arthritis.

The Mother of Bunnies is right-handed. She walks with a rolling gait that is often described as "like a man." This gait lengthens her stride in a way that makes it easier for her to keep up with taller people.

In addition to being a recognized Combat Literomancer who is numbered among the "power writers," HRM Sable Aradia is a shapeshifter and a witch. As a wererabbit, her bunny and half-bunny forms are as natural to her as her human one is. It is rumoured that Sable also possesses what House Lapin calls Fiver's Insight , which is a strong intuition that warns of danger and grants occasional visions of the future. Princess Sunny believes this is a knack for reading the Void's Paths of Possibility.   Sable Bright-Eyes possesses a unique power of healing. She has Resurrected her son Lord Galakrond from undeath twice, healed herself from a fatal poisoning, and healed the Queen of Bats from a near-fatal slash to the throat. Princess Sunny has suggested this power might be a result of her sister's attunement to The Firmament, one of the layers of The Void. These powers seem to be tied to love; hers, to heal others, and others' love for her to heal herself. However, she has recently shown expanded ability to call upon these powers; simply knowing someone well, or being able to establish an empathic connection, appears to be good enough to allow her to make use of them.   The Bunny Queen has also demonstrated an ability to teleport, which manifests as a flash of pink and gold twinkling light, just as much of her magic does. She can only teleport herself and what she is wearing or carrying. She is also capable of manifesting circles and bubbles of protection around herself with a similar appearance that act as a kind of force field. She has demonstrated the use of this ability frequently against the undead, and most spectacularly in The Great Migration in which she placed a kind of "Faraday cage" in Prinx Tempest's Tang Portal to protect the 1337Speak migrants and others in the portal from its radiation.   Known as the "Star-Bunny" for a reason, Queen Sable is capable of conjuring energetic spheres that resemble glowing stars. These can be hurled against opponents, block energetic blasts, or redirect magical energy for different purposes. Many of her other apparent powers manifest as "stellar effects," such as a ray of sunlight to repel Undead, or a comet streak to enhance a physical charge.   The Bunny Queen is immune to her sibling Tempest's fiery Overflow powers, from their own self-generated flames to the radiation generated by Tempest's "Tang Portal." This has been used to make Tempest's teleportation portal accessible to other people. This does not extend to other forms of fire, however. Whether this translates to an immunity to radiation or not is something Sable-rah has had no desire to test.   During The Third Word War, the Mother of Bunnies let off a blast of literomantic energy that had a "Turn Undead" effect (see The Battle of Kin Beach.) Whether this was a unique circumstance, or something she might be able to call upon again in the future, remains to be seen.   The Star-Bunny glows with silvery-white starlight, and this starlight can be intensified to the level of a blinding glow which will wither Void Polypore mushrooms after exposure.

HRM Queen Sable's "royal regalia" is a set of fluffy white bunny ears and, sometimes, bunny paws — though it is unclear whether these are items that are worn, or a partial shapeshift. She occasionally wears a silver crescent moon crown with a moonstone at its center, or her Iron Crown of the Woodlanders and a royal mantle for official functions.

The Chief Rabbit prides herself on being able to conduct literomancy anywhere, at any time. She has been known to write with phone, tablet, Blackberry, laptop, PC, notebook and ballpoint, chalk on the pavement, quill and ink, and at least once, her own blood. She used to carry a laptop wherever she went, but she now defaults to a smartphone in a glittery pink leather phone case and wallet.   Sable uses a falchion and an iron mace named "Fluffy" as personal weaponry. She learned to fight with them when she was a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. She also carries a .44 pistol in a belt holster and, in times of war, may be seen on the field utilizing automatic weapons, the latest being an L5 Bullpup Rifle, colliquially known as a "Lapin Typewriter".   The Bunny Queen was given a suit of technomantic armour by her daughter Senna Nightshade just before the beginning of The Fourth Word War. It shifts appearance and colour according to the wishes of the literomancer who wears it, including being able to blend perfectly with its surroundings if so wished. Further powers of this armour, if any, remain classified.

Sable Aradia Lapin was born to one of the ancient literomantic Houses in a time when the power of The Great Houses had waned. But the future Bunny Queen was always driven by the power of the written word, and pursued careers in writing-related fields, such as novel-writing, songwriting and performance, and journalism. She claimed she learned Literomancy at the age of ten, when she received the Key to the Lapin Library that had been held in trust from her grandmother's will.   As a child, the future queen was regarded as something of a child prodigy, especially in English. She arrived at kindergarten able to read at young adult level and do multiplication. An IQ test requested by her teachers in the first grade resulted in a suggestion that she ought to move up to grade 3. Her parents, fearing she would be ostracized more than she already was, refused. Her school librarian gave her access to the intermediate student library and got involved in reading for the Children's Choice Awards. Her mother signed for an adult card at her public library when she was ten years old.   Young Sable spent much of her intermediate and high school studies in accelerated learning programs, but high school was a considerably greater struggle. She began to show signs of dangerous depression. At 15 she was diagnosed with an eating disorder, although ironically, around that time she was selected to represent her region at a government-sponsored round table on the environment, which helped to establish the foundation of environmental studies in secondary schools in her province.   Sable left her parents' home in the summer between grades 11 and 12. She failed the final semester of her creative writing class in grade 11 and failed her Math 12 final exam, but still graduated alumni. She did not compete for any scholarships.     Sable graduated school into the worst recession in Canada history, and struggled to find lasting employment. For some time, she worked under the table as a graveyard shift dispatcher and answering service operator. While she moved in with her high school sweetheart, she left him after two years, and moved in with the future Prince Consort, Erin Righ. A few months later, she became a full-time stepmother as Erin's son three-year-old son Daniel came to live with them. A few years later, their daughter Becca was born, and they adopted a young Wererabbit Jackalope named Jean. Even with Erin Meles' employment in the Canadian Armed Forces, they struggled to make ends meet.  

The First Word War

Sable Lapin was working as a reporter for the ASC News Network when The First Word War broke out. She was on location for many of the events. Suddenly, Sable-rah found herself leading House Lapin and an army of Tome Knights against the Night Monarch and force of Tome Zombies.   As the Houses fell around her, she discovered that her husband was this new Night Monarch who was threatening the Realm with destruction. Her friends, the leaders of the other Great Houses of literomancy, became Undead one after the other. Only House Lapin and House Mollusca remained to oppose the Undead Horde.   House Lapin was besieged on November 25, 2020. House Lapin and the Varangian Guard were overwhelmed. Many of the kittens and leverets of The Warren were eaten by the Undead. Some of the attacking Undead were people Sable considered friends, such as SiobhanTheWriter, King Bob and others. Her eldest two children, Daniel and Becca, went missing sometime during the rout, and were presumed dead, since they were not literomancers. Sable's surviving son and heir, Prince Jean, was taken by the Horde as well.   Sable-rah and her friend, Commander of the Varangian Guard DM Stretch, and one of her House Guard, James Woodwright survived the fall of the House, and fled to the ocean to join forces with the Cosmic Kraken. Nathalia Books of the Varangian Guard fell to the Horde saving Commander Stretch and Sable. James Woodwright saved Sable Aradia's life in the escape, and Kitoypoy, another member of the Lapin House Guard, sacrificed his life to save them as well.   Since Sable was the only Major House leader who was not claimed by the Horde when her house fell, this earned her the epithet "Sable Bright-Eyes." Since she was the only Major House leader to survive to bend the knee to another House, she also earned the epithet "The Queen Who Knelt."   Sable-rah and the survivors of House Lapin fought side-by-side with the Molluscans in a last stand against the Horde, to support their claim to The Iron Tome. Together, they successfully repelled the Undead and claimed the Tome for the Cosmic Kraken. All of the Undead were restored to life, much to Sable's great relief — and everyone else's too.   House Lapin returned to the Warren, not without their scars. Her Royal Majesty and the Prince Consort became estranged in the aftermath of the war, and Erin Righ joined House Chiroptera for a time as their Guard Captain.  

The Second Word War

Elevated to monarchs of large Protectorates in order to protect the Realm, the scions of the literomantic Houses worked to perfect their arts. Twice in the course of 2021 they met for a Tourney of Tales to practice those arts, should they be needed again.   This turned out be excellent foresight. In late October 2021, The Iron Tome went missing from House Mollusca's vault. Zombie Summoning Totems in the symbols of the Great Houses appeared near the traditional seats of power of other houses.   With a bat totem being the first found, and on House Lapin's territory, Queen Sable believed that Siobhan the Writer, Queen of Bats, had attacked her house, and declared war, launching The Second Word War.   Conflict escalated between Chiroptera and Lapin. Minor Houses Incendium and The Missing House, traditional bannermen of Lapin, offered their loyalty to other Houses.   Selected as the Captain of her Owsla, the elite House Lapin guard who protect the Chief Rabbit, James Woodwright recruited others to the cause of the queen's protection to meet this new threat, including DM Stretch, Kajetan Writes, and a resurrected Kitoypoy.   Queen Sable and Queen Siobhan faced each other directly in a duel in the early stages of the conflict. For whatever reason, both House Leaders left the field of battle alive.   The Missing House returned to the Warren, saying that they'd had a debt of honour they'd been required to discharge. Queen Sable and Queen Siobhan met at the Great Library to negotiate and put aside their differences to deal with the greater threat of the Undead.   While those negotiations were taking place, House Meles fell to the Undead Horde, and young Meles scion Lord Galakrond was taken. This greatly upset Sable, and she angrily called up the King Badger and the Bardger as they sheltered with House Mollusca.   In the meantime, House Chiroptera fell to the Undead Horde, and Queen Siobhan, now heading the survivors of the fallen Houses of Sauropoda and Tiki and a large number of bannermen, sought succor with House Lapin. Instead of requiring her to bend the knee, the Bunny Queen embraced the Queen of Bats in what would become known as the Babbit Alliance .   Surprising everyone, House Meles left The Zafforza Trench in favour of the Warren, leaving House Mollusca with only the support of House Ceapaire. Tensions mounted between Mollusca and Lapin, as Coffee Quills accused Sable of engineering the war in order to make a bid for power against them.   When House Mollusca fell to the Undead Horde, they and Ceapaire reluctantly fled to the Warren, having nowhere else to go. After a personal conversation with the Bardger, however, the Cosmic Kraken and the Bunny Queen put aside their differences, and Mollusca offered Lapin their full support. It was later revealed that the reason the Chief Rabbit had asked Meles to come was that Lord Galakrond was her son, too. The Mother of Bunnies is also The Mother of Badgers.   Queen Sable led the Grand Alliance to victory against the Nite Monarq AuthorGoddess in an epic battle of literomancy known as the Battle of the Warren, and claimed The Iron Tome on December 2, 2021, earning the title "the Holy Queen of Buns."  

April Tourney 2022

When the biological parentage of Lord Galakrond and the Forgelings was revealed, it became a very public scandal. The Realm was uneasy with concern about the succession.  

If a vault at the bottom of the ocean and Molluscan literomancy wasn't enough to protect it, I don't dare let it out of my sight.

— Sable Aradia

  Sable-rah began carrying the Iron Tome with her in a backpack wherever she went. This almost cost her her life. In January of 2022, there was an assassination attempt on the Mother of Bunnies that was very nearly successful. The assassin stabbed the queen multiple times, grabbed the Iron Tome and made a run for it, but was killed by Commander Stretch of the Owsla and Tempest Kwake attempting to escape.   The Chief Rabbit was rushed to hospital and put into a medically-induced coma to recover from her wounds for more than a month. Even still, she might not have survived, except that her estranged husband reappeared and summoned a Litwalker with healing magic from their co-created The Wyrd West universe.   Over the course of the Tourney season, Sable Bright-Eyes made some physical recovery, but it quickly became clear to her friends and loved ones that either the circumstances, or the Iron Tome, or both, led to deterioration in her mental health. However, this did not stop her from negotiating for what would later become a historic military alliance, The Treaty of the Great Houses.   Erin still did not return to the Warren after this incident, and over the course of the Tourney, Sable gradually became more insular and withdrawn. The Owsla continued to investigate the attempt, and eventually discovered the identity of the assassin — a Tome Knight named ShadowMalachi — but not who sent him.   Things came to a head near the end of the Tourney. DM Stretch, apparently on some kind of black op to investigate The Company , disappeared. While the Owsla were distracted with the effort to recover him, another assassination attempt was made — this time by poisoning some leftover chili from an earlier "chili cookoff" event.   Only the quick intervention of Sir Kitoypoy saved her life, and once again she was rushed to hospital. There the Owsla learned that their intervention was only a temporary reprieve — Sable-rah had been poisoned by a fatal dose of strychnine rat poison, and her death was only a matter of time.   At her request, she was brought back to the Warren to die in familiar and comfortable surroundings. But in the meantime, the Owsla discovered that the Iron Tome was lying on its face on the floor of Sable's burrow in the Warren, surrounded by an aura of pink and gold light, and it could not be moved from its fixed point in space. Even attempts to cut through the floor to get at it were foiled.   Seeking the advice of Coffee Quills The Cosmic Kraken, the only other living person who had spent any time around the Iron Tome, Sir Kitoypoy was told that it was likely Sable-rah's own subconscious magic that was protecting it.   But then, Senna Nightshade called up Siobhan the Queen of Bats, and suggested that someone was deliberately trying to isolate the Holy Queen of Buns in order to weaken and break her. But her "Kind Bear Glare" powers suggested that her magic was powered by love.  

Sable saved us at the Battle of the Warren with the power of love. Maybe we can save her the same way.

— Senna Nightshade

  A worldwide literomantic ritual was organized by Senna Nightshade and Queen Siobhan to lend the power of love and magical aid to the Mother of Bunnies.   Having heard the news, Erin Righ finally returned to the Warren. When they reached out to clasp each others' hands, the magic that had been rallied took effect, and Queen Sable was miraculously healed by her own "Kind Bear" powers, supported by the outpouring of love from those who cared about her.   At the end of the Tourney, it was discovered that Queen Sable was Voidtouched, and she joined the group known as Voiders Anonymous.  

Following the April Tourney 2022

 

July Tourney 2022

Scandal continued to plague the Mother of Bunnies during the July Tourney. The Chief Rabbit, Tal ElementEds , and Queen Siobhan sued the GOT News Network for airing private conversations recorded without their knowledge or consent, and for destroying Tal and the Queen of Bats' careers. GOT News responded by launching a smear campaign against the Mother of Bunnies, the Voiders, and literomancers in general.     During the Tourney, it was discovered that Tempest Kwake, former head of defunct House Incendium and current Filkmaster and leader of the Chaos Cartel, was Queen Sable's sibling. She officially recognized the relationship, and they were given the title Prinx of House Lapin. They also joined the Owsla, volunteering to protect their sibling until the return of missing Commander DM Stretch.   Eventually, the GOT News Network and the plaintiffs of the lawsuit settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. However, it is unlikely that they saw any of it, because the network declared bankruptcy not long afterwards and dissolved the company in the wake of tanking stock values.   Despite all of this, the Great Houses successfully ratified their mutual defense pact treaty during the Tourney.  

After the July Tourney 2022

Sometime during the interm, at a special event in The Swamp, Sable revealed that Senna Nightshade and Mykola Void were her and Erin Righ's daughters. The details behind this remain a mystery.     Just before the start of The Third Word War, Queen Siobhan and Prince Jean were in a motor vehicle accident. The Queen of Bats was killed and Prince Jean severely injured. While Queen Sable was able to aid her son, she was not able to save her friend.  

The Third Word War

Despite heavy critique by her political opponents, Sable Bright-Eyes made extensive preparations in the belief that the Undead Horde would rise again in November. She spent billions of the newly-minted Lapin Protectorate's budget on bunkers, infrastructure, and military and militia equipment, supplies and training, as well as outfitting The Warren with the best security systems money could buy.   She was proven right when the Iron Tome was stolen by Lord Galakrond on Halloween of 2022. Later, Lord GalaWight emerged as one of two new Night Monarchs; the other one being ECC Books of House Sauropoda.   In conjunction with Regent EGryph of House Avis, the Bunny Queen launched a massive literomantic attack on the Undead Horde right out of the gate on November 1, utilizing their maximum tactical advantage. This later became known as The 50K Offensive.   Lord GalaWight appeared to concentrate on collecting his family members into the Undead Horde, though it quickly became clear that each Night Monarch controlled independent "Hordes." House Meles was the first to fall, and GalaWight claimed his sibling Prinx Xantos in that attack, while Meles fled to the Warren to take refuge with their family among the Bunnies.     The survivors of House Ailurus also fled to the Warren, aided by the magic of Queen Sable and Prinx Tempest, and the Woodland Family Alliance was formed when Darth Nikolas, Sable Aradia and Mykola Void agreed to make decisions for their Houses as a triune council.   Then the Horde turned their sights on House Lapin. Lord GalaWight commanded the assault against the Warren, while ICC DeadPeople focused on the Transcontinental Portal in Aldergrove thus dividing the Woodlander forces.   Queen Sable made the decision to evacuate the Warren on November 16, 2022, to join the fight with House Sauropoda when the Warren was surrounded and Okanagan City was overrun. During the evacuation, a helicopter tasked with fetching King Consort Realm of Music and the Forgelings from a field trip crashed down in Okanagan Lake. The Woodland family launched a rescue attempt, but Princess Monkey, the youngest daughter of House Meles, was killed by the corpse of her brother Xantos.   To this day, no one is sure what happened next. Queen Sable, who was on location leading the rescue attempt, let out a primal scream, and then a massive explosion of literomantic power. There was a blinding white light that was seen for kilometers and had the "double flash" effect of a nuclear detonation. "Regular" zombies were reduced to ash and Tome Zombies were repelled in a 200m radius from Sable. Casualties were estimated at roughly 2500 zombies. She then fell unconscious. This was later likened to a "Turn Undead" effect out of roleplaying games by Owsla Commander Kitoypoy.   With the portal created by Prinx Tempest and Queen Sable severed, two helicopters were dispatched to airlift the Woodland family to safety, and the soldiers trapped in the area by the zombies were able to retreat. Some Woodlander soldiers, particularly those who are veterans of what is now known as The Battle of Kin Beach hold a degree of reverence for the Mother of Bunnies as a result of this.   With five of her ten children now dead, and her literomantic energy severely depleted, the Bunny Queen "overcharged" with energy from The Firmament to continue to power her magic for the remainder of the war. She was observed by many at Mount Mitchell glowing with a radiant moonlight glow and speaking in an "otherworldly" voice. Along with Darth Nikolas, she continued to command the unified Woodlander forces under King Bob of Sauropoda.   Sometime during the Battle of Mount Mitchell on December 2, 2022, Queen Sable, Prinx Tempest, and Duke Buddha Kwake left the field for reasons unknown, and ended up directly confronting Lord GalaWight in a literomantic duel in Okanagan City. They successfully defeated and resurrected him with a filk. They returned to the battle, where the Undead Horde, now down one Night Monarch, were divided in the confusion. The united forces under the command of House Sauropoda successfully defeated the Undead and claimed the Iron Tome for the Dinos.     All of this magical effort was not without its costs. After the resurrection of her children, Queen Sable collapsed in a state of complete literomantic and physical depletion and had to be taken from the field in a wheelchair. Recovery was expected to take months, but by the clever summoning of yet another Litwalker healer, Erin Righ was able to affect a full recovery, except the Mother of Bunnies' significant and dangerous sudden weight loss, before Tomesmas.  

Post WW3

After the war, Sable Bright-Eyes was uncharacteristically quiet, seemingly content to gather her family together for Tomesmas and concentrate on being a mom. The only controversy to rear its head was the unexpected appearance of a new daughter, Princess Luna, even though there had not been any official announcement that the Bunny Queen was pregnant. Her sibling and their husband also presented a new son, Count Uri Kwake. HRM claimed she and the Prinx kept the two new royal children in a Void pocket after they were born until the end of the war in order to protect them. This choice, considering the circumstances, has been widely regarded with deep sympathy among the general public.    

April Tourney 2023

During the April 2023 Tourney of Tales, Queen Sable rallied support for a ritual to forever banish The Nite Qing from possessing the Prince Consort. A combat in the form of a literomantic edit took place in the Lapin Library, and she was injured in the battle although the details were not initially revealed. A recent video released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the injury was of an extremely personal nature, and a viral video shot with a camera phone at a local karaoke bar shows her parodying the event in a filk.   Queen Sable also participated in the ritual to raise the new city of Penwall in the Ailurus Protectorate.     Her Royal Majesty placed well in the first The Literomantic Games, claiming the silver in the overall event along with Feral Foxx, and tied for the gold in the second The Literomantic Games July 2023.  

The Great Migration

The Bunny Queen spent most of the rest of 2023 focused on war preparation for November, and preparing a mass evacuation from the 1337 Speak Reality, which, according to Prinx Tempest, was soon to be destroyed by The Overflow in a natural process known as Reality Recycling. Since this reality had been home to the Prinx for many years, being the birthplace of their husband Duke Buddha Kwake and the native reality of their foster family, Prinx Tempest enlisted Queen Sable's help in plans to evacuate about a million people into their universe. The two also enlisted the help of the other Houses and Protectorates in the effort.   Plans were expanded to accept anyone who came for the training, and extras if it was possible, and the decision was made that any "extras" accepted would have to be children only. The Prinx and Queen prepared themselves to open the biggest Tang portal, and accompanying Faraday cage force field, they had ever created, for as long as possible.   While almost 2 million people were successfully evacuated, the effort ended in tragedy. Whether because the Great Flame was overwhelmed by the effort, or for some other reason, the portal collapsed. Prinx Tempest disappeared, and according to the Bunny Queen, who was the only one who saw it, dissipated into the Void. They are currently listed as Missing in Action.   Queen Sable was rushed to hospital once again with critical Magic Drain and her recovery took several months, leading to questions as to whether she would be able to command the field and her House should war come again in November.     Concerned for her health, the Queen's daughters, Panda Archon Mykola Void, now calling herself Mykold Void-Lapin, and Panda Polemarch Senna Nightshade, decided to stay with Her Royal Majesty at the Warren for the duration of the war they all knew was coming.   Spoiler: Events from the Fourth Word War that have not yet been aired  

2024

In the peacetime season since, the Mother of Bunnies has been engaged in helping to ease the transfer of power as House Ailurus steps into the role of a Major House, changing places with House Meles. This has been complicated by the revelation that Seneschal Purpleheart and Seneschal ShyRedFox are the illegitmate daughters of the previous Great Badger, King Darth Nikolas' father. Queen Sable has also been buckling down into rebuilding the Warren once again. As a result, she has been notably absent in the socio-political scene.

Sable describes her/themself as bigender. While it is more typical for people to use "she/her" pronouns, and she does not object to them, much of her identity remains non-binary or even genderfluid. It is perhaps best said that she remains unattached to her gender.

Sable identifies as pansexual. She is also the Mother of Bunnies. You figure it out.

Sable worked for what was then the ASC News Network at the outbreak of the First Word War. Her work history is a self-described "writer's resume." She has been a nanny, a care aide, a dispatcher, an answering service operator, a goth and filk musician, a housekeeper, an agricultural worker, a busker, a bookstore clerk, a professional Tarot reader, and the owner of a small metaphysical store. She was also a published author before she assumed the throne of the Lapin Protectorate.

Sable-rah received her rabbit totem in Lapin's traditional ritual at a very young age, and is quite comfortable with the rabbit aspects of herself. She is a published author and a literomancer of note. While she did not begin her literomantic career as a particularly fast writer, training and experience have pushed her into the ranks of the "power writers," though she would be the first to say this is more for her skills at editing than drafting. She has considerable capabilities in both arenas, and seems to have the best understanding of the workings of literomancy of any Tome Knight.   Sable holds 31 Flames of Encouragement. The first was awarded in the April 2022 Tourney of Tales and second from the July 2022 Tourney, and two more were awarded during the Third Word War (November 2022) for her work with encouraging storytelling through Lore. The rest were awarded in the 2023 Tourneys or during the Fourth Word War and following, the war decorations being earned for her tenacity. She also holds the title Defender of the Realm for her actions in The Battle of the Book and The 50K Offensive.  

Queen Sable carries significant survivor's guilt for what has happened to her children in the course of the Tome Wars, her sibling in The Great Migration, and her brother as a result of her childhood. Her public reputation suffered a major blow during the smear campaign launched by the GOT News Network, and while it has recovered, the blow to her confidence from that experience, the Great Migration, and the last two Word Wars, has not.

PTSD and C-PTSD plagues Sable Aradia after her childhood and the events of the Word Wars, and the assassination attempts from the April 2022 Tourney. She is haunted by the losses and betrayals she has endured. Often her traumas keep her awake at night, and between that and her ADHD, sleep is something the Mother of Bunnies struggles with. Surprisingly for such an approachable person, she also suffers from considerable social anxiety, and is often required to retreat from public life to rest and recharge.

Sable, as befits a trickster spirit, has a keen mind and a sharp wit. She possesses a deeply-ingrained sense of wonder and curiosity that helps to drive her study of literomancy and the mysteries and nature of the world. She also possesses an unusual ability to grasp the whole picture of a situation from small details, as well as keen foresight.   In addition, Sable is highly empathic, and while she is known for her directness, she is also known for her deep love and compassion towards all Tome Knights, and her Lapins in particular. She is called the "Bunny Mom" because of this, and has a bit of a "Granny Weatherwax" reputation for delivering sharp critique out of that deeply held love.   Over the course of the Tome Wars, Sable has developed a reputation for being a clever strategist and tactician, and her military acumen is respected by both her peers and the military forces under her command. She jokes she had a head start on learning this over many other literomancers because she writes military science fiction.   However, she is also a peacemaker. It was she who was the architect of the Grand Alliance and the Treaty of the Great Houses. Having had absolute power from the formation of the Lapin Protectorate, she restored a constitutional monarchy by her own initiative, and held public federal elections in 2023. She has built her power base more on alliances than threats or even displays of strength. Some mistakenly see this as a sign of weakness, but thus far, she has risen above all opposition.

The Mother of Bunnies chooses kindness and courage in the face of apathy and fear. She actively avoids dishonesty whenever possible, even if that honesty sometimes hurts. Since she also will not offer praise unless is it deeply and honestly felt, compliments from her are treasured as high honours.

Sable-rah will never break an oath, or her word once given. As a result, she is notoriously careful about what she is willing to promise.

Sable Aradia feels a deep calling to teach and nurture the art of literomancy whenever she can. She loves to tell a story and is even more joyful when those stories are appreciated by others.   Because she was bullied as a child, the Chief Rabbit hates bullies, and will go out of her way to protect their victims or, preferably, to neutralize the threat.   In the wake of recent events, Sable is perhaps more than a little obsessively overprotective of her family.

Sable Aradia was a stereotypical nerd as a child. She had a facility for academics, and was a precocious and early reader, but lacked hand-eye coordination and was accurately described as a "klutz." Childhood asthma did not improve her physical abilities, and she was often ill. It wasn't until her adulthood that the queen discovered a love for physical activity that did not require heavy aerobic exertion or team coordination, such as weight training, yoga, hiking, and various martial arts.   The Chief Rabbit is as highly creative as her House affiliation might indicate. She enjoys a variety of creative pursuits, including but not limited to creative writing, songwriting, performance, directing, video editing, crafts, and painting.   Sable-rah also has dyscalculia and ADHD, neither of which were diagnosed in childhood, and she suffers from C-PTSD due to a difficult upbringing. She may also be somewhere on the autistic spectrum.

Likes: creativity, RPGs, reading, music, performance, combat sports, exploring, space science, speculative fiction, general geekiness, helping people believe in themselves, surprises, trying new foods, travel, learning things   Dislikes: boredom, math, team sports, waiting, bureaucracy, bullies, cruelty

The Bunny Queen is capable of an impressive level of lateral thinking that likely informs her literomancy and her strategic and tactical acumen. She can harness ADHD hyperfocus to an almost supernatural level.   Perhaps Queen Sable's most defining trait is her emotional strength. She has an ability to pick herself up, carry on, and encourage others to carry on in the most dire of circumstances. This has served her and her people well in the Word Wars.

The Chief Rabbit can be terse and abrupt in her manner, which is sometimes interpreted as anger or irritation. Combined with her considerable force of personality, some find this intimidating. When she is, in fact, angry, she is widely feared.   When she doesn't get enough sleep or food, she is churlish and irritable. If she is focused on something, it is easy for her to burn herself out to exhaustion, and she often enlists others in her plans, unintentionally driving them to exhaustion as well. This may be a coping strategy for her anxiety, depression, and other PTSD symptoms. This is something she has been actively working on as part of her therapy, which she widely credits the Self Care Mafia for.  

Voiders just aren't that great at the sleeping thing.

— Queen Sable Aradia

  The Bunny Mom has a tendency to neglect her own needs for the needs of others, and the Owsla have despaired of keeping her from putting her life at risk. She is notorious for rarely sleeping and not eating properly, although she has been making a conscious effort to do better.  

I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date!

— The White Rabbit

  Sable Bright-Eyes, due to her dyscalculia and ADHD, is often late for appointments, and has a tendency to double-book herself. This is not due to negligence or a lack of concern for others, but a real challenge that she actively struggles with. She has arranged her living and working space to combat her issues with object permanence, but she is likely to lose important links and emails, and often needs to ask for them to be re-sent.   Sable smokes cheroots and cigars, but refuses to smoke cigarettes. She also has a weakness for carrots.

The Chief Rabbit is somewhat indifferent to hygiene, especially when she is focused on a goal. Her burrow is perpetually untidy, though it is rarely allowed to degenerate further than that. She wears her hair long, straight, and without bangs because she cannot be bothered to spend much time on such things. She never wears makeup unless it's a special occasion, and her typical outfit is a T-shirt and yoga pants.

1993-present: Chief Rabbit, Leader of House Lapin

2021-present: Queen of the Lapin Protectorate

 

• Daniel - son - missing, presumed dead
• Becca - daughter - missing, presumed dead
• Prince Jean - son and heir
• Mykola Void - daughter
• Senna Nightshade - daughter
• Lord Galakrond - son
• the Forgelings - children
• Erin Righ - husband
• Princess Rowean - sister
• Princess Sunny - sister
• Prinx Tempest Kwake - sibling

Wiccan; Frith and El-ahrairah

The Mother of Bunnies has 3 cats: Scooter "Old Man;" Ash "Mister," "Young Man," "Jim Dandy;" and Smokey "Missy." She enjoys RPGs, music, painting, drawing, reading, and crafts.

Sable Bright-Eyes speaks with a mixed Canadian accent that contains elements of West Coast, central Canadian, and French Canadian. She also swears a lot.  

That's because I'm Canadian — it's when Canadians stop swearing that people should be concerned.

— Queen Sable Aradia