Tolirion tes Kholi'ani
Prince of Clan Kholi'ani, Lifemate of the 'Lesia

Each of the 4 Tularin clans has its own Royal Family within it that governs clan affairs. These Families are only recognized as royal within the clan to which they belong. Outside it, the members of that family are just another group of Elves.

"Tolirion" means "Firebrand of the People". He is the Prince of Clan Kholi'ani. His parents are the current leaders, and they live in the main house of a village a few day's journey from Sarna.

Tolirion is my second cousin. His mother and my mother were first cousins. In this picture, he is wearing the Clan Khoili'ani braids in his hair. Only members of our clan may wear their hair this way: a topknot on top in the back, then 1 braid in front of each ear and two behind.

Tolirion lives in Sarna because he is Lifemates with Torlinque and I. He lives in the main house in what used to be exclusively Torlinque's room. The story of how that happened is in the Stories section of this web site.

Tolirion is a very talented Plantmancer, which is very different from the position of TreeSinger. A Plantmancer works with plants and trees in a symbiotic relationship the way stonemancers work with stone and weathermancers work with the weather.

When Tolirion returned to Sarna after some time away, he at first hired himself on with Darr's landscaping crew. Darr wasn't sure about this girly Kholi'ani Prince in all the jewelry at first, and neither was the crew. They put Tolirion through some very rough tasks for awhile, but Tolirion accomplished them all with a smile and won them all over.

Now, he has taken over the entirety of one of the smaller southern wings of the conservatory (He hates when I call it a "greenhouse"). He spends most of his days there creating new flower hybrids, seeds for the farmers, and "pushing" food plants to grow and produce foodstuffs for the kitchen staff at the main house. He works more hours in a day than any Elf should.

He has his favorite flats of little pots, bags of different soil mixtures, and all his tools back there with his big work table. He's usually standing in front of it, shirtless because of the heat and humidity in there, or with his bib apron on, aiming magick at a flat of seedlings to speed up their growth rate.

At the end of the wing he has blocked off is a large half circular area formed by the architecture of the building. It is surrounded by frosted windows. There is a large window seat area built there where Torlinque and I have spent many happy times with him, distracting him from his work.

He is the village florist, and creates many decorations for the seasonal festivals that go all over the village. He is the botanist if a tree needs a branch mended or is suffering an ailment of some type. Everything to do with plants and flowers, Tolirion can take care of.

He's a very happy person, and laughs often. For this reason, I call him My Sunshine.

Because he is the Prince of our clan and is entitled to wear it, and because he expresses his feminine side more than most male Elves, Tolirion wears lots of gold jewelry: earrings, hair clips, necklaces, bracelets, arm bands, beaded and decorated dance belts during the day, waist chains, anklets... You name it, he's probably wearing it. He doesn't usually wear circlets though. He hasn't the rank for that.

Tolirion is extroverted and likes being out in the Great Hall most evenings surrounded by his friends. He's a gambler, and plays sinnot for coin nearly every night. He's very generous though, and sometimes gives back his winnings to the person he won them from at the end of the night, especially if he knows the loss would be a hardship. He just loves having a good time playing sinnot and doesn't care about the coin really. He wins quite often though.