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== Character History ==
 
== Character History ==
  
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*I was taught to fly by a sister, so I could escape
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*'''I was taught to fly by''' . . . the undertaker, to pay my respects.
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*I left my home because I was too constrained
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*'''I left home because I was''' . . . too restless and too questioning.
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*I fly so I can return stronger
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*'''I fly so I can''' . . . find my destiny and die meaningfully.
  
  
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=== Details===
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=== Questions ===
  
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====Appearance====
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''How do your people dress and act to enforce a hierarchy?''
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A pale skinned young woman with green eyes and her hair shaved down on one side, and long and unkempt on the other. She has an elaborate green tattoo of the forest running up from her left hand to her shoulder. She wears prominently green colours, and walks with a notable limp, often times needing a cane.
 
  
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====Questions====
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Only the priests may perform certain bloodletting ceremonies, so their forearms become covered with knife-scars. We wear sleeveless or short-sleeved garments, and an elder with many scars is accorded great respect. Only scars from ritual bloodletting are so honored; they must be fine and straight and heal cleanly.
  
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Children wear simple one-piece garments, while adults may wear hoods. Elders and priests wear robes with deep hoods, to cover their eyes from the bright world so their thoughts may be dark, and to cover their gifts - what you might call mutations - except during sacred ceremonies.
  
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How did the world of industry, the world of men, spurn or reject you? Sabrina is the second daughter of four from the von Pützlow family. Her father is a minor nobleman who used the fall of the world as a justification for his fall into tyranny. He rules their town and his family with an iron fist, and Sabrina, who never wanted to be the dutiful, obedient daughter; took the brunt of that in their home.
 
  
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When you began learning magic, who guided you? What mistakes did you make? Sister Rose was the leader of a coven on the edges of the town. In trying to find ways to escape her father, Sabrina looked to those on the edges of society, and found Rose and her other sisters. They had sworn to teach any woman who asked, so she inducted Sabrina into the group and taught her the ways of the Wild, Fae and even flight.
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''Who was the first person close to you who you lost to the sea?''
  
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Sabrina's greatest mistake was she was too careless with who she let know about her newfound passion. Others found out. Including her father. And her father brought his wrath down on the sisters for daring to corrupt his daughter. And his daughter for letting herself be corrupted.
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My favorite uncle Zebediah. He was young and handsome, a traveler, full of exciting stories of the dry lands and of strange people. He always had time for us young ones. One day, without explanation he leaped from his balloon and plunged into the sea where he just started swimming, out and out far beyond the safe zone, just swimming and swimming. I watched him slip under and not come back up. That was when I learned the Dark Ones are capricious and sometimes cruel.
  
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It was the fallout of his response to this, both personal and to her friends, that ultimately led Sabrina to flee Pützlow.
 
  
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To whom do you still owe a debt? What will you do if they come to collect? Sister Rose, the one who taught her. Sabrina currently isn't with the coven after they all scattered away from Pützlow, but if they called on her; she would do anything for her and them.
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''Why do the patrons of the deep look out for you?''
  
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What has to change before you would return home? Sabrina must master her arts and her skills. One day, she intends to return home and stop her father from hurting people. She doesn't want revenge. But she does want him to stop. And may be she can rescue her other siblings from his control.
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Who can know the minds of the Dark Ones? But they are clearly not displeased with my leaving, else they would have stopped me. I feel like they want me to find something among the inlanders, some terrible knowledge or deep revelation. Once I have accomplished whatever my destiny is, they will take me.
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''What has to change before you would return home?''
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Some days home feels like a cage; others, I would give anything to be there again. I would need to feel that I had accomplished whatever the Dark Ones wanted me to out here in the wilds, that I could return home with pride rather than in defeat.
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'''On the Culture and Religion of the Fishers'''

Latest revision as of 17:57, 3 December 2023

Character History[edit]

  • I was taught to fly by . . . the undertaker, to pay my respects.
  • I left home because I was . . . too restless and too questioning.
  • I fly so I can . . . find my destiny and die meaningfully.


Questions[edit]

How do your people dress and act to enforce a hierarchy?

Only the priests may perform certain bloodletting ceremonies, so their forearms become covered with knife-scars. We wear sleeveless or short-sleeved garments, and an elder with many scars is accorded great respect. Only scars from ritual bloodletting are so honored; they must be fine and straight and heal cleanly.

Children wear simple one-piece garments, while adults may wear hoods. Elders and priests wear robes with deep hoods, to cover their eyes from the bright world so their thoughts may be dark, and to cover their gifts - what you might call mutations - except during sacred ceremonies.


Who was the first person close to you who you lost to the sea?

My favorite uncle Zebediah. He was young and handsome, a traveler, full of exciting stories of the dry lands and of strange people. He always had time for us young ones. One day, without explanation he leaped from his balloon and plunged into the sea where he just started swimming, out and out far beyond the safe zone, just swimming and swimming. I watched him slip under and not come back up. That was when I learned the Dark Ones are capricious and sometimes cruel.


Why do the patrons of the deep look out for you?

Who can know the minds of the Dark Ones? But they are clearly not displeased with my leaving, else they would have stopped me. I feel like they want me to find something among the inlanders, some terrible knowledge or deep revelation. Once I have accomplished whatever my destiny is, they will take me.


What has to change before you would return home? Some days home feels like a cage; others, I would give anything to be there again. I would need to feel that I had accomplished whatever the Dark Ones wanted me to out here in the wilds, that I could return home with pride rather than in defeat.

On the Culture and Religion of the Fishers

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