Mortalborn Information
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Character Background information: She's more or less a blank slate, having woken up about two arcs ago during the Fall of Emea. Since then, she's had to learn to speak, to communicate, and just find a place in the world. I plan on doing some memory threads with her, maybe a couple, where she picks up just enough knowledge to get by in Desnind.
Character concept: I wanted to do a mortalborn of Treid that was older than most characters on the site, and yet is well explained her lack of skills and development. I think the story below does that well enough.
I wanted to explore the history and deeper lore of magic, marks, Immortals, and eventually Emea with her. In general, I want to play her as a pair of fresh eyes, seeing the world for the first time and acclimating herself slowly to the place she finds herself in.
Appearance:
- Wavy, dark brown hair.
- Wide almond shaped eyes with dark lashes.
- Dark brown eyes.
- Aquiline nose
- Statuesque facial features.
- Toned, curvy build.
- Height is 6ft even.
Mortal Parent: Artenea, a Naerrik agent of Augiery. She among Audrae's Naer strongly resembled Yvithia with olive skin, dark hair, and sea foam eyes.
Mortalborn story:In the one-hundred and fiftieth arc that followed the Great Shattering, Treid found comfort in the idea of reconciliation. His heart began longing for his estranged love, so far away in Viden. His sleep was haunted by dreams of his estranged love, and the danger to her soul should she remain divided from him. Some of these dreams were more pleasant than others, and it was during one such a dream, that Audrae facilitated the infiltration of one of her Naer followers to the very chambers of Treid. During his sleep, she had her agent deceive him into thinking that she was Yvithia come again to him. As they copulated, Treid felt the possibility of procreating with his Immortal lover. Not quite understanding in his half-sleep, yet longing for the possibility of having a child with his beloved, he gave in to the conception of a mortalborn. He created her domains within his own, of Sleep, Occultism, and Emptiness.
The Naer agent departed soon after Treid fell into a deeper slumber, but not before stealing a kiss from the Ice King. Little did Audrae bargain with her own Naer's heart going astray from her mistress.
Yet when she returned from her long confinement in Augiery, Artenea refused to give over the mortalborn child to Audrae. That was her final mistake, as Audrae easily dispatched the protective mother, and stole away the child. She kept the child safe deep within Augiery, while she went after Treid, whom her agents said had begun to make his way to Yvithia, to try and reconcile. Before he could reunite with his beloved, Audrae tore his heart from him, and so the story went, how Audrae imprisoned his heart and the heart of a pig in a pair of cursed chests, and left them in the darkest shadows of Oscillus, while Treid's Ellune mourned.
Audrae returned to the chamber where the Mortalborn of Treid was kept, not quite sure what she would do about it, now that her enemy was dispatched and thoroughly defeated. The child was sleeping soundly, and though Audrae tried, she was unable to harm her in sleep. Intrigued by the child's ability, she decided to make her one of her own, and raised her among the Naer of Augiery. There, she lived for centuries, plotting with the dark mother's children, learning the ways of guile and subterfuge.
She learned to hunt with the Naer, and became quite adept at it. However, her sisters noticed something strange about Diana before long. Although the Naer were long-lived, Diana soon outpaced them all in maintaining her lifeforce through the centuries. Eventually living well beyond what they'd expect of any other. Her sisters began to envy the mortalborn's vitality, wondering what could be the cause. Eventually, this resentment turned to action on the part of a sect of particularly petty and vindictive sisters.
On a hunting trip, where they brought Diana out to chase after mortal prey, they'd set her up to take a fall into a deep cavern. They had a sleeping poison on hand, that would ensure she'd never be able to escape the cavern. When inflicted with a wound from the poisoned dart, they locked her down into the tavern, rolling stones into the entrance so that, should she awaken, she wouldn't easily make an escape.
There, she slept until the Cycle of Rebirth 719, when perhaps prompted by the resurrection of Treid or else the Fall of Emea, she woke. Etherstorms and various other natural disasters had since washed away the rock formations that held her cavern in isolation, and she emerged, bewildered. Her skills and acumen for hunting had withered over the years, atrophied by inactivity and slumber. Thus, she set out, alone toward the west of the Southern Continent. She eventually found refuge in a small village on the outskirts of Desnind, where she resided for a few years, convalescing and regaining what she could of her health.
Mortalborn domains: Sleep, Occultism, Emptiness.
Mortalborn abilities:
Sleep Undisturbed Sleep: When Diana sleeps, she is unable to be disturbed in any way. She's effectively invulnerable in sleep, immune to cold, heat, and all forms of harm, and needs no sustenance should she become hungry. When she awakens, she experiences an entire bit of time where she's invulnerable, or until she's perfectly lucid at which point her protections are null. Lucidity is the key to nullifying her invulnerability. Were a Dreamwalker to make her lucid, she would not be protected. Being made lucid as per dreamwalking would render her protections null without a similar delay of a bit. Were she to dreamwalk herself, her Undisturbed Sleep ability would not function as it normally does with the invulnerability, and she would not be able to stay asleep indefinitely.
Otherwise, when sleeping and not lucid, she can also sleep indefinitely, for an entire season, or for arcs as desired.
Occultism: Etheric Gnosis: Diana has an intrinsic knowledge and awareness of domain magic, magical effects, as well as marks. When a technique is used near her, or on her, or if she even reads an accurate account of the technique being used, she can perceive their domain or immortal of origin, their limitations and durations. This only extends to Champion and Revealed level custom powers to the point that she can determine the domain/Immortal of origin, but not the exact parameters of the power.
She can also identify a magic item's use just by maintaining a few bits of contact with that item. She cannot divine the uses of various alchemical items, unless they utilize some form of blood magic. However, her soul cannot be marked by any Immortal, paired with a spirit familiar, nor be imparted any domain magics. Her soul rejects such alterations.
Emptiness: Exsanguination:
Diana can drain the energy of a being, whether it be spiritual ephemera, ether from a mage, lifeforce from a mortal or animal, ectoplasm from a ghost, or emotional energy from all of the above. This energy can then be held in reserve, to either give a burst of energy for a break, heal wounds at a moment's notice, or heal them as she's draining her target. The extraction of energy can only be done when the target is lying prone or otherwise subdued.
In mechanical terms, this means that she can drain them in a bit for a break of energy, or enough power to heal a minor wound. This unit of energy can be stored, up to a maximum of 9 bits. No more than a quarter of a being's life force/energy can be absorbed in this way, which amounts to roughly 3 bits absorbed for most humanoid-sized creatures. This does not impair the creature's normal functions, beyond however she decides to dispose of them. Should she choose to leave them alive and well, they will recover within a bit, after being dazed, but won't be suitable to be fed upon for an entire cycle.
She can heal 1 minor wound with 1 bit, 1 moderate wound with 3 bits, and 1 serious wound with 9 bits stored.
These bits can be claimed as loot, when she drains a character in thread and must be linked to when she utilized the ability.
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