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salvador arainai

@onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social

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̶F̶o̶r̶m̶e̶r̶ 8th Talon. The sword in the shadows. The bitter taste in the last cup. ( #darp account, 21+, casual to semi-serious.) Rules: #salvadorrules Summary: #salvadorstory Headcanons: #salvadorhc General: #salvadorarainai

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

⇀ ooc. Basic guidelines: - MV / MS ✔️ - 21+ preferred – mun is 30+, muse is 38 - Antivan Crow NPC - Casual to semi-serious, laidback posting & replies - Memes & shitposting will occur - Villain character who WILL be awful ! - DMs open to following & moots, pls be cool ✌️ ( 🧵 #salvadorrules )

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(( A note for any & all newcomers, Salvador is very much a villainous character & antagonist, so please be aware that he’s going to be anywhere from generally awful to downright actually evil if you interact with him. As always, IC ≠ OOC ✌️🫶 ))

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Another expected outcome. Perhaps I shouldn’t bother with these games, if they’re only going to tell me what I already know.

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

*he says nothing, simply nods and smiles at an expected outcome*

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Viago de Riva @viagofifthtalon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

@onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social (ooc: Alt text for clearer reading.) Viago gave the box to the messenger with a grave expression. "Do not open it, and do not dare deliver it yourself. Pass it along to a local courier once you arrive and head back to Treviso at once. Is that clear?"+

Salvador Arainai.
Arainai Headquarters, Antiva City.
10th of Wintermarch, 9:53

Salvador Arainai, Guild Master of House Arainai,

What a letter. It was quite a read, I must admit. I would have laughed if it had been half as funny as you think yourself to be. Although, Salvador Arainai believing himself greater than he'll ever be is not an uncommon occurrence, so I cannot be surprised.

Now, if you're done acting like a petulant child, the adults have deemed it worth informing you that The Seventh Talon, the woman you have decided to insult for reasons unknown to me, considering she constitutes eighty percent of my remaining patience for your lewd taunts, has been taking very good care of some of the progeny you keep dropping all over the country. Should you ever care to visit your children, make sure to keep sending me test subjects, I do so relish having something living to try my latest inventions, their screams are a delicate melody to our ears. You wouldn’t believe the passion Zevran displayed upon discovering the surnames that had cursed them their entire lives, I could barely get a word in, Salvador, and his ideas eclipsed every clownish threat you have ever conjured.

I can’t help but wonder who should be considered Arainai’s table scraps, if their most famous assassin, or a worthless pretender who hasn’t achieved a single merit by his own blade.

No matter. Do make sure to return their faces to their families for me, will you? And tell them just how pathetically they begged, it was delightful.

Viago de Riva, Fifth Talon of the Antivan Crows.
Viago de Riva.
Cantori Diamond, Treviso.

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Villa Sole Nascente glows like a beacon from its place on the cliffs overlooking the Rialto bay. The dining hall, foyer, and front gardens have been fully restored, and though much work yet remains, the Talon of House Arainai has opened the villa’s doors to all under his wing to celebrate. —

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The breezy night is cut through by a shrill but brief wail. A shadowy figure sprints across the rooftops, away from the source of the screams, as fast as their feet can carry them. They do not look back. They do not falter. They do not stop even for a shaking breath until they reach a building… —

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A letter from House Arainai arrives on the desk of the Fourth Talon. The Crow from House Garcya who delivered it into Carmen’s hands is notably absent for several days afterward. Eyes from other houses report its contents back to their superiors, sharing suspicions of a cipher. As expected.

[[A letter from Salvador to the Fourth Talon, Carmen Garcya. Several letters throughout are bolded.]]

Mia cara Carmen,

I’m afraid a reunion will have to wait for the time being. I know I promised a get-together in my last letter, but circumstances have sadly changed. We are on the cusp of something new and exciting. Despite the grumblings of our fellow Talons, Antiva has never been more vulnerable, and ignoring the evidence before our eyes can only hold us back.

I’m quite sure you’ve heard all about our new First Talon’s theatrics. Bonding with a demon has truly made Lucanis Dellamorte believe he is untouchable—a fearsome devil we mere mortals ought to cower before. You know better than anyone, Carmen, my thoughts on the juvenile actions of his cousin. And yet I find myself almost wishing Illario had succeeded.

Almost, of course, and only ever briefly. Handing the Crows over to the likes of the Venatori—querulous, sanctimonious cultists fumbling around like three-legged brontos to barely accomplish anything—would have been the end of the Crows.

Regardless, I cannot sit by and let his affront to my House stand. Crows do not cower, as he ought to know. And besides the matter of honor, you and I see the bigger picture. Antiva is only as strong as the Crows guarding her, and we cannot keep her safe with that abomination leading us.

I do hope the coming storm does not touch your shores, Carmelita. But if it must, know you will always be able to count on me.

Yours,

Salvador Arainai

Eighth Talon of the Crows

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Noa Valisti, The Better Royal Bastard @thirdtalonnoa.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

[A single rather plain envelope, carrying a rather plain parchment found its way to @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social baring the penmanship of the Third Talon but no other markers of where it came from.]

Dear Salvador Arainai
My, how desperate you are Salvador. Over seven hundred letters where you begged for a response. Now that my business of the past year has concluded, I will give you this brief recognition and address all of your concerns at once. Since some of us have responsibilities to uphold.
Contained in your first correspondence you offered to teach the unwanted heir of House Valisti, how to become a proper Talon, and while I am certain you think this a generous offer, I must refuse on the principal of a Crow does not ask the feral dog how to be a Crow. In another early letter you proposed the idea of marriage as at one time, I should have been a crow of House Arainai. Truly these notions were humorous. It appears you missed a calling as an imperial court jester.
I would have thought, the death of an inept Crow sent to halt my flight, would have been a clear message. Yet by all accounts you are only capable of stroking your ego to completion and not much else. The allegiance between House Valisti and House Arainani died when Claudio Valisti did. It was only maintained out of a sense of pity by the previous two talons. I am not as kind or forgiving as my siblings. Treviso is scarred from invasion, and your house’s fall from grace has been decades in the making. As the Third talon, I agree with---

--the judgement of the First, Fifth and Seventh. Perhaps if you had not been so consumed by whimpering at the tips of my wing you could have saved yourself. Though I think there a fledglings more capable than you.
In regards to the complaints I some how managed to read in your unhinged threats you have sent. I personally have no qualms about garnering the assistance of the Exile, provided he is willing. From the rumors I have heard since my return, he is not only a better assassin than anything House Arainai has produced in the last thirty years, but he is also better company. Working with him should prove a pleasure and very dissimilar from the pathetic excuse of a man clinging to relevance by sheer hope of being an annoyance. You are not worth the waste of finer paper and ink, or the cost of Wax. Go quietly Salvador, though I know you will not. You are to pathetic to do anything but be a child throwing a tantrum.
Sincerely
Noa Valisti, Third Talon

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The sounds of hammers, saws, and the grunting of workers fill the villa, floating through the open study door and up through the balcony overlooking Rialto Bay. A cacophony of impending change, ringing in a new era of the Crows’ history. He inhales the salt-sea air, afternotes of Antiva City’s …

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Lucanis Dellamorte @deathismycalling.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A messenger crow departs Villa Dellamorte in the early morning, bearing an anklet scroll and a light wooden box. It arrives intact to one Salvador Arainai, carried the rest of the way by a grim-faced servant who should not have looked in that box. It was, after all, full of severed tongues.

A letter, penned on black paper with silver ink, stamped by a dark purple wax 'D' upon the bottom. It reads:

Salvador Arainai

It is customary to inform you of this, as it is only civil. Your assassins have been very
forthcoming since my acquisition of them. I
trust you are familiar with the techniques we
employ in House Dellamorte. I know your intentions, and of your attempts to incite my colleagues. I had been content to allow you your tantrum, if only because the Antaam remain a more important threat.

However, you have forced my hand. I take no pleasure in what I must do to see the continued prosperity of Antiva. There was once a time I would have considered you among the best of us. Now, I can see that you are merely a hindrance.

I had hoped to settle this amicably, and perhaps even discuss ways you could still serve the Crows despite the dismantling of your house. Know that what happens next is entirely the consequence of your own actions.

Best Wishes,
Lucanis Dellamorte
First Talon of the Antivan Crows

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Viago de Riva @viagofifthtalon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

[Alt text for clearer reading] The parchment crinkled under the tight grasp of his gloved hands, a deep frown decorating his features. Oh, Salvador…If you just knew. +

Viago,

What a forward way to make your formal acquaintance as a colleague. Imagine my surprise when I read your astoundingly rude letter. How disappointing. Coming from the Fifth Talon, I would’ve expected so much better.

Then again, that might’ve been wishful thinking, what can you expect from a traitor who’s letting the Black Shadow turn him into a cuck?

Oh, you think I wouldn’t notice their little gondola dates? You truly believed that your people had dispatched my spies? Not like I would need many of those, considering how they flaunt their sweet little romance.

I am so curious, Viago, how does it feel to drink another’s man seed from her core? You must be quite an expert by now, considering her line of work, but this feels personal. Does she ask you to watch? I’d bet my best knives that she does, and her loyal purse dog is always eager to please.

I hope she enjoys my House’s table scraps, I do hear he’s quite talented in bed. It shouldn’t surprise me considering where he was born, a pup always grows up to be like its bitch mother.

No matter, tell Caterina’s guard dog to sit tight and enjoy the ride for as long as he can, House Arainai has many plans for the future of the Crows, and I don’t plan to let any of you see them come to fruition. No hard feelings.

Salvador Arainai, Eight Talon of the Antivan Crows.

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salvador arainai @onceandfuturetalon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

⇀ ooc. Basic guidelines: - MV / MS ✔️ - 21+ preferred – mun is 30+, muse is late 30s - Villainous character!! - Casual to semi-serious, laidback posting & replies - Memes & shitposting will occur - Saved Treviso or Minrathous - DMs open to following & moots, pls be cool ✌️ ( 🧵 1/2 #salvadorrules )

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