artemis
"My parents were nomads. That is what the sages have told me. My father was one of the sages, my mom was a traveling nomad with a small group. When they stayed near Arcadia, they met when my father was doing fieldwork. It was like the fairy tales. Love at sight. My mother her group stayed at the city for longer than they usually would have and soon my parents learned she was expecting. My father and mother decided together they wanted to travel, my father would join the nomads and he could do his research out into the world. However, having a newborn as a nomad is not ideal. I was told that my parents left me in the care of the sages. And when I would come to the age of 7, I was permitted to join them."
"They never came back."
"The news reached the sages that the nomads died, trying to get out of a blizzard in the north and were attacked by something. Till this day, no one knows what took them. All we know is that the remains were barely recognizable. All that was found for me to hold, was my father's research, together with a small crystal he was researching. And my mom's locket with a picture of the three of us."
"The keepsakes were left in my care and I was left to grief. The sages never were as emotionally available as a child would need, especially a grieving one, so no one knew what to do with me. Neither did I."
"Until at night, something did. A voice reached out to me as I layed awake, holding my dad his crystal."
Child. Your grief is well-placed. This world is cruel and cold. The loss of your parents cuts deep. Let me help you
"'Who are you?' I had asked in alarm to the unfamiliar voice. I sat up in bed, looking around in a panic, cluthing the smooth stone."
My child, I am the one true god. I can protect you by giving you powers unobtainable by your kind. Powers you would never thought possible. No one would be able to hurt you
"I had listened intently before looking at the stone in-between my small hands. The energy radiated from it as the voice spoke. My eyes widened in realization that this stone, my father's stone, held the god I was talking to. As if it had read my mind, it spoke again."
Child of Soren, owling of the sages. Let me grant you strenght. In return, I ask you collect the same crystals you now hold. Together we will gather my strength. Once it is achieved, I will grant your deepest desires.
"I was silent for a bit before answering the god. But instead it was an answer in the form of a question. 'Who are you, your grace'".
The people once knew me as Nuvdum my child, but that was in an age long gone. Now I have been forgotten and only a small group might still remember me. Now my child. Do we have a deal?
"My tiny hands had clutched the crystal close to my chest and I had nodded, my mind racing a milion miles an hour with questions and possibilities. But the thought of maybe getting my parents back. That was worth working together with define intervention. 'Yes your grace. Please, I'd be honored to be your chosen follower'"
"From that day forward, Nuvdum guided me as I aged and helped me forge my weapon which upheld his first promise to me. Granting powers to me I could never achieve on my own."
"Over the years Nuvdum had told me my father had set out on the same path as I had to follow him. Yet my father, once up north, took the fall. This crystal was my father his legacy and his small research was enough for me to set out on my own path. The sages deemed me ready when I was 24. I traveled north, once where my father was headed to find clues. I was ill prepared for that journey, as it nearly had cost me dearly. A giant serpent like creature had attacked me. I had never fought monsters before either. It would've killed me if it wasn't for my grace his guidance. I was not strong enough to slay the beast, but I could get out alive."
"It was decided I'd head south first and travel in the calmer of regions to learn more about my grace and uncover the truth and locations of the crystals. I ended up starting in Targus, hearing tales of old families, generations that had passed. This would surely be a good starting point if I was allowed to access their archives."
"However, I was met with an unpleasant dilema. A fight to the death for crimes I had not committed, decided by a twisted king long lost his mind. I am however very glad this happened. This is how I met with the most unlikely of people that I learned to consider as something I never had"
"A family"
Species
Age
25
Date of Birth
2475 afy 12/10
Birthplace
arcadia
Children
Sex
woman
Gender
woman
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