Editing Solve For Ex: Thousand Cunning Magpies (section)

=History=
Of her past, Magpie is willing to say little. Her true human form is of a young woman with the decidedly exotic look of one from An Teng, and she did admit once that she was born out of wedlock. And life in An Teng is not kind for an attractive young misbegotten woman - though rife with opportunities to please Luna, if one manages to survive the experience.

Luna's blessing did her few favors. A retrieval pack was dispatched to find her, but was waylaid by an unexpectedly persistent Wyld Hunt. Instead, she fell into the hands of one of the Abyssal Exalted - Harrowed Mind Screams, intended both as an experiment on the nature of the Lunar exaltation, and as an eventual gift for the Deathknight's patron as an amusing pet. Under his tutelage, she proved stubbornly incapable of learning Laughing Wounds style, instead manifesting a series of degenerate, useless expressions of the martial art the Deathknight deemed valueless. Forbidden to shape-shift, Magpie did not fall into chimerism, though her period of captivity did little for her sense of self, her identity nearly obliterated.

Upon rescue by a group of Celestial exalted, she has been properly tattooed by the Silver Pact, and is beginning to find her footing again - including discovering that her failure to learn Laughing Wounds was instead actually her learning the style's predecessor technique.