Meminisse

I was asked this over on Tumbler, but I felt like sharing it here as well. Mainly because I love Aellae, both as a headmate, and as her IC version in game.

If your character was to be imbued with prayer and become a primal, what might they look like? How would they be fought against?

shorkgirl answered:

Aellae would never consciously call for an Eikon. Not that many in that deep place of despair truly fathom what they are doing.

If Aellae was pushed beyond the limits, beyond what she has already endured, there is one person on this star or any other that she would cry out for. Who she would cry for from that place of what she cherishes the absolute most, the memories of her Nanny and her childhood in Garlemald, her Primal summon would be less one invoked into herself, than one called for in brutal desperation. It would be an Ala Mhigan Miqo'te of middle age, adorned in a mixture of Ala Mhigan attire, and Garlean over coat for warmth. She would be wielding fang, claw, and kitchen knives. In her right hand, a meat knife, and in the left a chef's knife.

Tajhia would have several wide sweeping multiple target attacks involving the claws and cleaver. An attack that targets the healers in particular where the chef's knife is thrown brutally to deal savage damage to the healer targeted. The tank crushing attack would be a cross slash with both knives followed by a bite attack to the throat to leave them bleeding.

In order to prevent her aetheric assault that would eliminate the whole party, the party would need to resist the sleep induced state as she began to read a bed time story. Completing the bed time story she's reading, which summons forth characters from Aellae's cherished childhood story Octavian and the Missing Matanga will cause all party members to slip asleep forever, and to be replaced by characters from the story. If the story is resisted by all, none of the characters are summoned. If some party members fail the spell, they will slip into that slumber, and in addition to that individual death, a character from the book is summoned, and must be defeated in addition to Tajhia.

Aellae and her Birb Daughter having story time.

Aellae and her Birb Daughter having story time. She really does love Meteion, and really does think of her as her daughter. She draws on all her best memories of Tajhia to try and show her feathered daughter all the love in the world.

Did Aellae van Neru have a best friend when she was climbing through the ranks? She did in fact have one. One that she'd known since she was eir Neru.

Aulus mal Asina. Her medicus, confidant, and gossip. They could wax on for hours on end about nothing much in particular.