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Gonsuave Giovelli, the Legendary Lover

Born c.18,050.

Location: the Disputed Lands, the Kingdom of Alfafanar, many other places in the Shield.

Gonsuave Giovelli was a wandering lover. Little is known of his early childhood, but some rumor is that he was trained as a Heart Elemenstor (controversy upon controversy). As such, he would travel from town to town looking for people to love. It was said that he had so much love in him that he could take anyone, man, woman, or otherwise, and drive them to complete phsyical desire for his person. (see Dorayee, Weeptinda, and Earl Montgarte D'Raspcalligan, to name a few). In Book 6 gonsuave is actually used as an adjective to describe a man who held romantic sway over the women of a tiny hamlet.

After realizing his potential as a "lover of a most passionate and intimate variety" (as one of his many lovers put it), Gonsuave decided to try and capitalize on his rare ability to bring anyone to ravenous ecstasy in seconds. He would round up everyone who was ready, willing, and/or able in a town, get them all locked into a room, and then give them the "Gonsuave Giovelli Experience".

As anyone who experienced the Experience was so closemouthed about it the history books were left to speculation. Filthy, filthy speculation. It is in fact known that those who fell into Gonsuave's thrall found it hard to return to their lives. They often abandoned their material possessions and lived an ascetic lifestyle after the Experience. It has not gone unnoticed that this practice of giving away worldly possessions did no harm to Gonsuave's coffers, and his mode of travel and accoutrements always reflected a well-lined coin pouch.

What is known are the effects of the Gonsuave Giovelli Experience. Usually women would lay in bed for a fortnight crying out his name in pain, as though the women could feel the distance and magnitude of their separation from Gonsuave. Men, on the other hand, would for six months kneel down twice a day for half an hour, always pointing in Gonsuave's direction, always closing their eyes and murmering his name to themselves. Years afterwards, the Gonsuave Monks (as they would come to be called) would speak among themselves of the Experience in hushed and reverent tones.

A few, due to a certain lacking in their mental makeup chose a path of drinking, gambling, or violence that mirrors the infamous drinking and pill binge, often they would end their lives in some overly-romantic way.

For historians, Gonsuave Giovelli offers a remarkable puzzle. Even though it is definite that he existed and cavorted most ravenously, the details are hard to come by. This compounded with the sheer Epic-ness of the man's abilities, it is incredibly difficult to seperate the truth from the myth, or the man from The Legend. Some would argue that perhaps the man was indeed a Heart Elemenstor, perhaps the only one.

Most of the tales of Gonsuave's conquests are told from the perspective of the jilted lover left by one tainted by him. Many scholars believe that most of these tales are merely excuses used by someone who was left due to their own failings - a particular example of this is Alflorence Chittae whose girlfriend likely left him merely due to his own preoccupation with running, and was then murdered by her jilted ex. This is supported by the fact that many of these tales come from an area and over a time period simply too large for merely one man. By this token, many believe that the Gonsuave Giovelli Experience is a corruption of a historical movement of emancipation and greater rights for women spreading through the land.

Gonsuave Giovelli eventually found his romantic and sexual equal in Libys the Sane and the two (or forty, depending on your perspective) were wed. They had many, many, many, many children.