Post by Aeryn Sivahn on Dec 13, 2013 2:52:14 GMT -5
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BASICS
Name: Aeryn Delaria Sivahn
Alias: Shadowstar, ۞ (her "signature")
Gender: Female
Age: Over 1,000 years but her memory is a bit jumbled and she honestly can't remember her true age
D/O/B:
Race: Elf
Place of birth:
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 156lbs
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Physical Description: The constant in her appearance has been the silvery-white hair and pale, lusterless glass-green eyes. She is notable for her rather sharp facial features and trim, toned build. She tends to wear mostly deep, muted shades of green and brown. She's definitely older than she looks, but even saying that she is worn down and weary. She walks with her back and shoulders straight, but she looks at the ground.
Special Physical Traits: She has a haphazard web of thin, white scars on her back. Her eyes never seem to reflect light.
PERSONAL INFO
Personality: Aeryn is rather quiet and introverted, very rarely making the first move in conversation. She doesn't trust most people and, since she is confused about what she is as well as her past, she doesn't like to talk about herself. Her disjointed memories and multiple lifetimes sometimes make her feel and act as if she is insane, plagued by multiple personalities that are, in truth, all the same person. In battle, she is cold and calculating and generally out for herself. She has a TINY humanitarian side that creates a slight compulsion to help people in need, but this is rare. She has grown world-weary, and her tolerance for the simple-mindedness of mortals, and even other immortals, has driven her largely into isolation.
That is not to say that she lacks compassion. In spite of her avoidance of others, she has infinite patience when she feels it is warranted, and if she has decided to "keep" you, it is unlikely you will ever be free of her and your life will be rather comfortable--if not slightly boring--for brief a time; danger and discord seem to follow her like a plague, and many have died in her company.
Quirks: Stress-induced Obsessive-Compulsive behaviors; randomly she will cut off her hair, start carving designs in a bit of wood with a knife, rearrange objects in other people's homes to fit her own sense of organization, start gibbering or writing in old, dead languages and dialects, or something as simple as anxiously cracking her knuckles.
Has Trouble With: Trust no one, trusted by no one. She's highly paranoid and guarded; very rarely will anyone really get to know here as she really is.
Loves: (At least 5, separated by commas)
Hates: (At least 5, separated by commas)
Deep Dark Secret: She's much older than she claims to be, if only because she can't remember how old she actually is; there's quite a bit of blood on her hands for someone who claims to have once been a priestess and healer.
CLASS INFO
Class/Trade: Mage
Strongest Skill:
Weakest Skill:
Magic Specialty: Black Magic is her specialty, with a basic healing spell and defensive shield spell under her belt.
HISTORY:
Long ago, Aeryn was born the only child of an elven healer to a family of nobles, Marisyal, and a soldier, Jarrett Sivahn, outside of wedlock. The head of their city-state, a despicable man by the name of Tarka ve'Telatha, took a liking to his healer and, after his most recent wife mysteriously "vanished", Tarka took Marisyal as his wife. He secretly abused young Aeryn (then seven years old), locking her in the dungeons for months at a time all the while telling her mother she had gone to study abroad. Unknown to Tarka, Aeryn would sneak away when she was not in the dungeons and train with her birth father in swordplay, though the former soldier and guardsman had been forbidden to be anywhere near the family or their estate. Aeryn escaped her prison at age fifteen during a war. Velarian--a well-known and celebrated sorcerer then possessed by the demon Moloch--and his unholy hoard attacked Tarka's estate and the surrounding city, reducing it to rubble and making a tomb of the grand castle. Aeryn watched in horror as Velarian murdered her mother, throwing the small woman's body at her daughter's feet. Aeryn and another young man, Xemael Kureilyn (Marisyal's apprentice), were the only survivors, awakening amidst the carnage without a scratch on them.
Aeryn would never discover why Velarian had allowed them to live.
Aeryn sought revenge against Velarian for killing her mother. She was shunned by the neighboring cities, seen as cursed and favored by the demon that had spared her. They blamed her for the deaths of their family and friends that had lived in Tarka's realm. She spent years travelling with Xemael, her only companion, until the two finally found a peaceful area they could live. The two had fallen in love during their struggles and decided to start a family. Their first and only daughter, Zara Mikala Kureilyn, was born in humble surroundings in a small farmhouse on the outskirts of Nedrynn. They lived happily together for seven years.
Aeryn soon discovered that Velarian was not finished tormenting her. War had broken out along the coast and Xemael was called in to lend his healing abilities to the men and women on the front lines. Xemael bid his family a tearful farewell, assured them he would return safely, and departed. He was never heard from again. Aeryn received word that he had died defending his lieutenant against Velarian himself. Wrought with depression, Aeryn nearly died of heartache.
News of a new general, Velarian's new right-hand man, reached the city. Aeryn was shocked that this new general's apperance was strikingly similar to her beloved Xemael. Part of her was happy, but only a small part; if it was indeed Xemael, it was not the Xemael she would remember.
Late one night, after the war had begun to subside and Velarian's troops withdrew, little Zara vanished without a trace.
Xemael had come home to sever all ties with his former life. He killed his daughter as a show of loyalty and sacrifice to Moloch, then requested that he give his wife to his new master as a gift. She lived her life of servitude in quiet obedience, knowing nothing else of life except the grand, dark halls of Velarian's estate in the mountains, the memories of her former life sealed within the furthest reaches of her mind by a spell. There, she learned how to use her astral form to travel through rips in the astral plane as well as how to harness the magical energy around her to shield herself from potential dangers and to unleash a devastating attack that would level a city. She worked as a spy for Moloch as well as an assassin, until she was killed by Venaras Y'dragol, a holy knight,who had sensed the evil spell that bound her and took her out while trying to slay Velarian. She gave her life to save the creature who had stolen it from her in the first place. She had "lived" as a mindless predator in Velarian's coterie for almost a hundred years before her death.
She awoke with Venaras at her side, her once raven-black hair made platinum by her rebirth. She found herself lying in the grand bedroom that once belonged to Tarka and her mother, completely restored. She ran to the window, the city itself restored, as well as the people living there. Venaras attempted to explain that they were the rulers of the kingdom and had been for quite some time. Disjointed memories of Velarian, Moloch, and Xemael flooded her mind, and eventually began to drive her insane. She confronted Venaras, demanding to know the truth. He told her that the life she was living WAS the truth, that everything she had experienced until that point was a dream, a nightmare, a lie. She began to believe him...and the two lived a sweet, loving life. They even had a daughter together, whom Venaras named Zara...a name that haunted Aeryn's nightmares.
Xemael returned, his essence fused with Moloch's, demanding that Venaras release Aeryn from the spell he had her under and return her to her master. A battle began, and Venaras showed his true self: He was a holy being of light, a god in disguise as one of the Álfar, attempting to "heal" the damage done to Aeryn's soul in the hope that the power granted to her by her link to the demon lord would become sealed away. Xemael and Venaras battled, and Aeryn's memories began to resurface. She remembered her love for Xemael, their family, and the hell they had lived through at the hands of Velarian and Moloch as well as her death at the hands of Venaras. She watched as Xemael murdered her daughter for a second time. The sudden shock of memories and having to relive the loss of her daughter TWICE finally broke her. She destroyed the castle, the city, and everyone inside...including herself. She does not know if Venaras survived, nor where he may have fled to after, and the fate of the demon who had been the root of her suffering would remain unclear for several centuries.
TRIVIA:
✦Aeryn speaks several Elvish dialects (most no longer in use), Common, and {Sends}.
✦Aeryn has learned to cause pain with Sending, but she has only done it three times in her long life.
✦Aeryn does not know if any of her memories are actually real; it's likely her entire lifetime til the last hundred years has simply been a fabrication implanted in her mind.
PLAYER INFO
Player Handle: Aeryn
Other Characters: N/A
Creator Comments: I agree
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