Clementine Purpletress Character in Toriel | World Anvil

Clementine Purpletress

Clementine Purpletress is a Halfling and a commander knight among the Seekers.
 

History

A tragic past

Born in a humble family in the Lightfoot Kingdom, she is the twin sister of Vanessa Purpletress. The two grew in the countryside, far from the trouble of the capital. Clementine was always curious, exploring the nearby woods with her sister, the two used to play in those wood, diving always deeper while playing hide and seek, and other kid's games.
  Clementine had always been weak, at least compared to her sister, skinny and pale, she couldn't help much with the more important task of the house. But Vanessa was always her to cheer her up and worked twice as much to compensate.
  The purpletress family house was a small and humble house higher up on the hills, slightly isolated from the rest of the village, during the winter the travel back and forth was quite the journey for Vanessa, has the snow slowed her down, the back and forth trip usually took half a day.
  One day, she had to leave the house quite late to get wood for the fireplace, and left the house with the sunset. Clementine tried her best to stop here, but Vanessa was too stuborn and left anyway. Hours passed by, and no one in the house was able to sleep without Vanessa back. The time continued to flow, yet the little halfling wasn't coming back, and a terrifying blizzard started to roar outside.
  Clementine cried when she heard the blizzard hitting the house, knowing her sister was outside, it was too much, and she finally decided to try and look for her sister, escaping her parents' watch, and getting out. With only a wood cutting axe, and heavy coat, she started to look around in the woods, almost instinctively going where she use to play with her sister, the heavy blizzard preventing her from seeing much.
  And there, she witnessed something terrifying, a monster like she's never seen before, something unnatural, something that ain't just a wild beast, but a being from another world... a demon. The demon was feeding on the dead body of her sister, a frigid aura emanating from him.
  She lifted the axe, and charged, clementine had no idea what she as doing, yet she was doing it anyway, tear running down her cheeks, transforming into ice and burning her skin as she was getting closer. Then suddenly, everything faded to black.
 

Seeking the savior

When she opened her eyes again, Clementine was on the ground, she had fallen in the blood-covered snow, her dead sister by her side, and the demon, beheaded, also on the ground. Above the body of the monster was a man in black leather armor, with a long and unusual sword.
  "If you want to live, you better learn how to fight" he said, tossing his sword to the ground, a gift to Clementine, and disappearing. Clementine did not understand what was going on just yet, and stayed there, crying over her dead sister. With the end of the blizzard, her parents soon joined her.
  It took months for Clementine to mourn her sister, but the tragic incident made her stronger, much stronger. Her physical attributes were still low, but her skills were incredible, she had an extraordinary ability to learn and master anything. Training with the word she was given, her strikes were weak but precise enough to cut through anything, she started to work for her parents, doing what her sister used to.
  Two years after the incident, she still felt like she wanted an answer as to what happened to her sister, a burning desire to find her savior and to interrogate him. She talked to her parents, and they agreed to her leaving, Clementine wasn't a child anyone, and she was free to roam the world looking for answers.
  Her investigation lead her to learn about the Seekers and after three additional year of investigation, and honing her skills, she finally met him, her savior.
  He was old, and retired from the Seekers, yet he was pleased to see Clementine, and remembered her vividly. He told her what he knew, the monster was a demon, a being from the abyss, many of those monsters manage to get into Toriel, thanks to rifts, portals, and other planar links, but the seekers are there to try and stop them. If she wanted to know more, she would have to join them.
  And so, she did, joining the order, she started to fight the demons, hoping to save the people from a similar fate.

Clementine Purpletressl


Titles
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Race
Halfling
Sex
Female
Alignment
Neutral Good
Children


Cover image: Farewell by Greg Rutkowski
Character Portrait image: by Nino Setiawan

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