CrimsonStar:Megaera

Game: Children of the Crimson Star

Megaera (Meg-AIR-uh) is the youngest daughter of Stheno, Lady of House Erinyes.

Basic Statistics

Height: 5'1"
Weight: 90 lbs.
Age: 16
Hair Color: Auburn (Dyed green for spellcasting, is currently faded to grey due to captivity.
Skin Color: Red
Race: Tiefling
Class: Bard
Background: Athasian Minstrel
Paragon Path: Summer Rhymer
Epic Destiny: N/A

Personality

Megaera is relentlessly cheerful. Relentlessly, because even (maybe especially) when she's angry, she's smiling. She is incredibly vain, often choosing extravagant outfits for as little reason as to turn a few more heads in the arena. Vain as she is, however, she is also very calculated. Every glance, hand movement, and blink of her eyes is perfectly timed to get the response she's looking for out of anyone who talks to her. There is no such thing as a casual chat in her vocabulary. Despite this, she gives the impression of a total ditz who has problems putting together a complete sentence.

Connection to the Party

Megaera was handler for Ka'tho before his untimely death. She is now handler for a new gladiator, Harbek.

Alecto, eldest daughter of Stheno and Scion of House Erinyes is her sister.

History

Megaera is the youngest daughter of Stheno, and as such is a Scion of House Erinyes. She has an older sister named Alecto, and a brother named Tisiphone. She has a healthy rivalry with both of her siblings, Alecto being her complete opposite in terms of demeanor, and thus opposed to her every decision, on principle. Her rivalry with Tisiphone is based upon household standing, That she is placed higher than him within the House due only to her gender chafes him, and makes any conversation they have a terse one. As a child, Megaera found a calling in music, and soon began training to be a bard. As her older sister was studying magic as was traditional for the family (under cover of The Way, of course), Megaera was free to choose her own path, and soon found herself a sought-after minstrel, both for her musical talents, and her way with the dangerous Thri-kreen.

Megaera, after a long private discussion with Stheno, was given as a gift to House Sfika, to cement an alliance between the houses. Her training as a minstrel made her an ideal spy for her mother, as well as a blessing on the house, with her influential music. At the tender age of 13, and with permission from the Lady of House Sfika, Megaera found refuge as a handler in the gladiatorial pits. As one of the only members of the house who could speak Thri-kreen, Megaera found herself becoming friends with the Thri-kreen gladiator champion Ka'Tho. As his handler, she made spending money, but also a lot of enemies in the arena. When her brother Tisiphone started to fight in the ring, Megaera was annoyed. She couldn't bet on the highest paying fights in the arenas because they often included her deadbeat brother. More problematic for her was the fact that Ka'tho refused to kill off her brother. "He smells like you", he'd said, and refused to do more than incapacitate him when they were rivals in the ring. This only worsened the relationship between Megaera and her brother, who was determined that she was telling Ka'tho not to hurt him, and thus hurting his reputation.

Just as things were starting to get boring for Megaera, she recieved a surprise visit from her sister Alecto. At the best of times, conversations between the sisters were sharp, and a visit was totally unprecedented. Megaera soon learned that Alecto was to be married to Reacar from House ((That one she can't remember that was picked out of the Ikea Book)), who was the worst match possible for Alecto, but would seal an alliance that had been in the works for a very long time. Alecto, at her most cunning, said just enough to plant ideas in her younger sister's mind. At 16, Megaera had no trouble using the bits of information she had gained from the conversation with her sister to sabotage the wedding. The young scion of Markae was too naive to tell the difference between the older and younger daughters of Stheno. Megaera seduced the young man on the afternoon of the wedding, and "accidentally" killed him through burning. She has denied any intention of anything other than stealing some time with Reacar before he was married to her sister and forever off-limits.

Star Dream

You are sitting in a valley in the desert somewhere under a blood red sky. You are sitting at a richly appointed table with a chess set on it. "Are you ready for the storm that is to come?" a cloaked figure sitting across from you asks. You take one of his pieces. "How ready do I need to be?" you ask, amused. He takes your queen, his clawed hand grasping it and placing it carefully to the side of the table. "Better than now... you can’t even beat me at chess... how do you expect to beat me in war?" His dry cackle ends as you move a rook and checkmate your opponent, smiling as you look into his ancient draconic eyes...

The scene changes. There is a massive battle in the same valley in which your chess game took place. Large squares of troops move towards each other as eldritch blasts go flying in the space in-between. You call a name in a harsh language. Rose appears. You order, "Take up my banner. Time to end this." She stands 8 feet tall and has a nimbus of menace. "We seem to be in some peril..." the demoness comments as a large rock lands nearby. "Not really… this is just like chess, only more complicated," you state, as the chaos around you all of a sudden seems as orderly as game pieces on a board.

Your vision turns to a red light from a star that seems to bleed. You wake up with a tattoo.