Question of the Day!
It's been a bit. We have a lot of new people hanging out. Introduce your WoL/OC! Give us the brief lowdown!
I've posted more than enough about Anna, so instead, I thought I'd introduce my alt of late instead.
I am K'aliya Tisiphone, born of the Thirteenth, former Fury Queen of the Northern Wastes, and current bearer of the Seat of Azem.
I have little memory of my time before the Contramemoria and my subsequent corruption, except that I was called "K'aliya", and curiously this name seems to be recognized by some Seekers of the Sun here on the Source.
As a voidsent, however, I was Tisiphone, of the Furies, the raider queens of the Northern Wastes. Wreathed in flame and shadow, my kind ruled the Wastes for untold years, until Golbez and his minions came and laid ruin to our armies and devoured most of my sisters.
I survived the conflict, but diminished in power, and so found myself in desperate enough straights to accept a pact from an entity in the Source: Esteem, the darkened alter ego of Anna Verde, the Warrior of Light. I served as her Avatar through her trials in the First and the End of Days, but it was in encountering another former Avatar in the Thirteenth and seeing them encounter the mortal world once more with new eyes, that I grew restless.
After much study and deliberation, I was presented with an offer: I could be similarly reborn into the Source as a living, breathing mortal once more ... but in exchange I must take up Azem's crystal, and its geas, in Anna's stead.
I accepted. So desperate was I to live, to feel, to breath and taste and fuck and hurt, to savor all of life's pleasures again, that I scarcely gave it a thought. Perhaps in hindsight, I should have ... With the Seat, came the same compulsion that has driven so many Azems before me. Where once I slew so-called heroes by the score, now I find myself taking up that banner again and again ... a strange and unexpected path of redemption for one of the most terrifying voidsent to ever scourge the Thirteenth.
An unexpected pleasure, however, has been taking the black, studying the very arcane powers that were once used to pull my kind from the void for the ends of Mhachi sorcerors. It is somehow yet only a glimmer of my former power, and yet also surpassing it in such short time. So rich in aether is this land that one can simply pluck it from the very air, and the feats of power a magus of Anna's stature can perform are a wonder to behold. I only hope I can achieve that strength myself in time.
'Tis a strange path I walk, but walk it I must ... there are such sights and sensations to be found in this new world, and I intend to, as many as possible...