Marfal
Daughter of Evening
Marfal was the daughter of Hopheht, the first médōnai to be set upon the earth. With her, she brought teachings of guidance and healing. The myths surrounding her are broad and varying depending on one's culture, but in most stories, she has two forms: in some, she appears as a great serpent with scales of all the colors of the sunset; in others, she is a médōnai with a crown of golden snakes and dawn-colored eyes that hold an infinite depth.
As all the twelve original daughters of Hopheht did, she wandered the earth, spreading the word of the goodness of the gods. She worked miracles and healed those who could find no solace from their pain and illness. When the good ages passed, and the gods fell out of favor, she fought against the crumbling of faith. The gods were real and good, she proclaimed: she and her sisters were proof of it.
The people's minds had already been set, however, and she was captured and held. From her prison, she still tried to sway people back into the light; her words were regarded as poison and treachery, and in her last days, she was gagged. The day when the moon would eat the sun, she was dragged to the foot of Ataroun. As the moon reached its zenith and blotted out the sun's light, Marfal was killed. Two arrows—one of pine and one of ash—pierced her heart, and she was left to bleed out on the cold rocks.
Divine Domains
As her sisters were created by Hopheht as varying symbols of Light, Marfal—the firstborn—was created as light and warmth itself. She is, in médōnai lore, depicted alongside Hopheht as the sun, typically the one seen in the summer months. She is also seen as a patron of healing and medicine.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A half sun is typically used to depict her, although in healing circles, a snake coiled around a staff is used to identify her.
Physical Description
Special abilities
While it is majorly speculation and myth, as no modern médōnai or anyone of médōnai descent has any semblance of magic, Marfal was said to have healing capabilities beyond the normal ways. Tales tell of her healing the sick and injured with a simple touch and a few uttered words. Such myths typically paint her as a witch or sorceress, although they never speak of her using these magic powers to cause harm.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
She was born, as were the other twelve original médōnai, fully formed, although not without an innocent and curious naivety towards the world. For nearly 4000 years, she wandered the earth, spreading word of Hopheht and the other gods. Of her sisters, she was the healer, and the one who sought to provide comfort and guidance to those who were lost.
Those two millennia wizened her and learned her to the horrors of humanity: all its pain and suffering, illness and death, both natural and unnatural. She did her best to take it in stride, to teach the people to be better, and to ease their suffering as she could.
For a long time, she was seen—as she properly was—as a godsend. Word of her visiting a city or village was met with gratefulness and jubilance. The ill and weak would get reprieve from their woes, and great gifts and feasts would be given in Marfal's name.
Her end, of course, came with the downfall of the gods. Her constant voice to take the gods back into their heart drove the people to bloodshed, and Marfal died at the foot of her father's temple without the sun to warm her as she drew her last breaths.
Gender Identity
As all the original médōnai were, she was created as a woman. Some stories tell her as genderless, however, typically the ones depicting her as a great serpent rather than a more human form.
Morality & Philosophy
Marfal was strictly pacifist, and unlike some of her sisters, she never drew a drop of blood unless it was to help the person. In her travels, she tried to teach this pacifism, but it was often met with disgust or laughed at for being naive.
Her philosophy of be kind to yourself and others never wavered, however, and before her death, she bade her remaining sisters and kindred to not take vengeance for her murder.
Taboos
Unlike most of her sisters, she remained celibate throughout her long life. She never bore a child, although she often took orphans under her wing and raised them to adulthood.
Divine Classification
Nephilim
Species
Life
1857 PL
18 REA
1875 years old
Circumstances of Birth
She was crafted from sunlight and summer dust gathered by Hopheht's hand from the earth.
Circumstances of Death
Her heart was pierced by two arrows and her golden blood watered the rocks outside of Hopheht's temple. To the common people, her death was cause for celebration; for her kindred Medusan, her death was the harshest blow fate could have wrought.
Birthplace
Summit of Motasicre
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Eyes
Some stories depict her eyes as the color of dawn while other's tell it as a calm, soft green.
Hair
In her médōnai form, her crown is said to be one of many writhing golden snakes.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
She is typically depicted as having a dark, tanned skin tone with a mottling of golden scales.
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