Languages: Fluency
Celestial: Poor (unspeakable)
Kontinese: Fluent
Common: Basic
~Basic Information~
Race: Ethaefal; returns to her past Konti form when the moon leaves the firmament (during daylight hours).
Rebirth and Age: Cygnus was not born but “fell” from Leth’s realm in the Season of Winter in 500 AV. In her daylight Konti form she appears to be sixteen, but by moonlight her divine form appears to be almost ageless because she remains untouched by the wearying marks of time (though she feels its passing keenly). Her eyes hold a fathomless haunted wisdom, the only thing that hints at her age and what she has endured.
Gender: Female
~Physical Description ~
By moonlight: Under Leth’s luminous light, Cygnus’s true form is illuminated, a pale, willowy being about 5’10’’ with incandescent skin as resplendent as the moon, having wise lavender eyes flecked with jade. When she first washed up on the shores of Konti Isle, winter gripped Mizahar and her appearance, when she first glimpsed it in still water, was of white-gold locks and deep indigo horns enameled in bright silver that curled gracefully around her high forehead like a crown. In fall, her long hair becomes scarlet and her horns a saffron yellow. In spring, her hair is as blue as the spring sky and her horns as green as the blossoming vegetation. In summer, the color of her horns lightens to a creamy pink and her hair becomes as black as the night that is her only reliable comfort.
By daylight: When the dreaded sun rises, Cygnus returns to the Konti form which she inhabited in a past life. Her incandescent skin dulls to a snowy white, her hair fades to a pallid blonde, and her eyes become an icy blue that are full of distrust. Pastel scales trace her body in this form, scurrying up her neck and flowering onto her rosy cheeks. She appears younger in this form, approximately sixteen, and she is smaller as well, only 5’2’’ and slender, a fragile appearance fitting her fragile state of mind.
Some plunged into despair and took their lives in hopes of returning to the cycle or the home of their deity
~Character Concept~
Expelled from the beloved realm of gods and stars, Cygnus found herself awash in the turbulent seas off the coast of White Isle, adrift both in heart and body. Lost and homeless, she swam to shore and succumbed to despair for many years, wandering a sequence of caves which she came to know later as the Crystal Caverns. Her sorrow runs deep in her veins, sheltering a hidden reservoir of hopelessness that she battles with each day. But, devoted to Leth and ashamed to shun the gift of life, she has never allowed Death to sing her its lullabies. Resigned to her fate, she acts and endures with a sadness that gives her an eerie serenity, and if she ever appears distant or indifferent it is because she dreams of the cosmos that was denied her, desperately wishing for its beauty, which is slowly fading from her memory, leaving her bereft.
Madness at time touches her speech, more common in daylight. Rarely is she affectionate, except to her birds, which she communes with in the early hours of morning, sharing minds and healing their ills with herbal remedies. For broken wings and other serious wounds, she waits until dusk and in her true form she ages their hurts with her natural Ethaefal ability, spurring along the healing.
Kind and empathetic to the core, Cygnus is as pacific as any Konti, in either form. If a good-hearted soul is in dire straights, and she happens to cross their path, she will do her utmost to help them. Though sometimes, depending on the sway of her dark moods, she may find the best help is the worst deed.
She harbors an intense dislike of all Eypharians, due to fuzzy glimpses into her past life.
~Character History~
In her past life as a Konti, Cygnus was born into slavery in the city of Ahnatep. Her mother died soon after she was born, leaving her young daughter in the care of the ruthless Manirot with only stories of the magical city of Mura to keep the girl company. Manirot was a Gilded Eypharian known to Cygnus only as Master. Gifted with telepathy, Manirot used her to determine who was and was not loyal to the current Pressor in order to advance his own standing. Such use of her gift drove her to insanity, until a friend and servant to the city helped her escape.
She wandered many days in the heat of summer, south towards Hai, and her gift transmogrified. Her distrust of Manirot now extended to all humanoids, this distrust combined with her growing madness bonded her mind to that of the birds of prey roaming southern Eyktol, until she became more beast than man, and she died of thirst with only feathered companions to mourn her. No doubt they feasted on her bones once she had passed on.
Despite the horrors of this past life, the memories of them rarely flare up now that Cygnus has returned to walk Mizahar as an Ethaefal. At times, her speech can be touched by madness, riddled and seemingly psychotic. But that can be attributed to either of her lives, or perhaps the dizzying combination of the two.
After wandering among the Crystal Caverns for years, her Kanti form’s physical needs drove Cygnus to the White Harbor and eventually to Taviasa where she managed to find room and board in a small home on the edge of Silver Lake. But she remained fearful of others, and always made sure she was hidden away come nightfall, so that her true form is not known to many. Though faithful student to Rak’keli and her healing, she worships Leth devotedly, convinced in her more lucid times, that this may all be a test and he will one day welcome her back to his realm, removed from the cycle of life and death once more.
Equipment:
-One set of clothing: black cloak, white cloth dress, soft leather boots
-One waterskin
-Napsack: bone comb, scented floral soap, bristled brush
-Dried berries, fruits, and veggies (food to sustain for a week)
-Eating knife
-Flint and Steel
-Small house on the edge of Silver Lake with an extended herbal garden, hatchery and staircase going into the depths of the waters
-Four Songbirds
Family Heirlooms: Flute
Ledger:
+100 gm
-4gm (Four songbirds)
-20gm (Dagger, Hollow Pommel)
=76gm
Skills:
Astronomy: +10 (Ethaefal racial bonus)
Medicine: 5+10 (Konti racial bonus) = 15
Flute-playing: 10
Reimancy: 15 (water especially)
Singing: 5
Dagger: 5
Lore:
The Care and Keeping of Songbirds
Herbal Remedies
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