Ultime d'Ysmaul
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Ultime d'Ysmaul (707-802?) was a Dementlieuse merchant, ship's captain and explorer commonly accepted as the discoverer of Rokushima Táiyoo.
Life
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Ultime became involved with the Valliere family, and eventually married one of the house's daughters, Luce. Their first son Albert was born in 734 BC.
At some point prior to 740 BC, Ultime d'Ysmaul came into possession of the Red House and the Ligeia.
The Ligeiad
During the Great Upheaval, the Ligeia failed to return from a routine voyage to Blaustein.
Unable to rely on his star charts to set a course, and possessing no maps, d'Ysmaul and his crew were forced to sail blindly into the northeast. This was attempted on three separate occasions in 742 BC and 743 BC (during which the Ligeia was forced to turn back before it ran out of supplies) before its success in 744 BC.
Ultime met a woman he variously identifies as "Seauchoureaux." When the two met is uncertain, as it was left out of the ship's log and the Ligeiad, but it could have been no later than mid-743 given the birth of their illegitimate son Maurice d'Ysmaul in 744 BC.
After the Ligeiad
Capt. d'Ysmaul finally returned to Port-a-Lucine in September 747 BC, during a powerful autumn storm. With no visibility and a skeleton crew, the Ligeia wrecked itself on the docks of Pernault Bay, killing Seauchoureaux and losing most of its cargo. He was still able to salvage the ship's log, thirty tons of silk, and a collection of seeds, the proceeds from which made the d'Ysmaul family the nouveau riche of Port-a-Lucine.
After Ultime and Luce met each other's natural children, they went through an extremely acrimonious divorce. Ultime's subsequent marriage to Luce's younger sister Camille d'Ysmaul did nothing to improve matters.
During the 750s, Ultime d'Ysmaul built the Amber Mansion to reflect his new status.
Legacy
Ultime d'Ysmaul is popularly accepted as the first person to discover the Way of Venomous Tears. While the mistway was reported and named during his absence, the voyage of the Ligeia is thought to be the first time the Mistway was actually used.
Historians hotly dispute whether d'Ysmaul actually visited Rokushima. While he was apparently fluent and literate in the language, his maps of the Occident are wildly inaccurate, and the Ligeiad goes into great detail describing the geography and society of a nonexistent continent southwest of the archipelago. Later visitors investigating "Seauchoureaux" also reported that no such family was known to exist.
Family
By his first wife, Luce d'Ysmaul:
- Albert d'Ysmaul
- Simone (later Simone du Blangis) and Jean-Paul d'Ysmaul
By Seauschoureaux:
Illegitimate children of Luce Vallière, acknowledged by Ultime:
By his second wife and former sister-in-law, Camille d'Ysmaul:
