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06-14-05, 05:07 PM
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|  Mae'ethra Shadowsbane
Name: Mae'ethra Shadowsbane
Age: 27
Class: Wizard (with dualist down the road)
Race: Human
Sub-Race: Tiefling
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Deity: Lucinda
Bio:
Mae'ethra sat upon her father's death bed, dabbing his forehaed with a damp cloth. Two small horns protruded from her father's brow, a gift from his mother. A small fire burned in the evenings hearth, casting a flickering glow about the room. Long wavey ebon hair fell about her to her waist. Her skin was unnaturally pale, a trait passed on from her father's blood. Laying before the fire was her companion Syril, her black feline coat shimmering in the firelight.
Mae'ethra had spent the last year taking care of him as his crippling mortal disease set in. It had been trying for her, for she had been apprenticing under a local mage in the arcane arts. Her keenly intellagent mind taking in magic like a sponge. She had excelled where former apprentices failed, and her mentor had wanted her to travel with him in search of lost magic. She even took lessons learning to weild the rapier, a weapon that suited her unnaturally agile frame well. Her weaponsmaster showing her to use this weapon with grace instead of stregnth. But Alas, it was all not to be as the illness set in.
Local clerics did all they could to try and cure her father but to no avail. Even though he was not immoral in his beliefs, his tainted blood would not accept thier healing. She had spent a fortune on their magics which only proved to make them broke. All that remained now, were a few small coffers, barely able to keep food and what herbal elixirs were needed to ease her fathers pain. The small apartment she rented was nothing compared to the once large home they possesed. Poor and needed, Mae'ethra left her mentor's to take care of her father in his last days.
"Mae'ethra..." Coughed her father as she sat with him. "Mae'ethra..." His voice barely audible.
"What is it father, are you in pain?" She reached over to again dab his forehaed and look at him. He was sweating alot, and his eyes had a wild look in them. It would not be long, death was a shadow on their doorstep.
"Your mother..." He mummbled "She... Syrendal..." He began to cough gain, blood trickling from the corners of his mouth. She had never know her mother, only that she had dissapeared when she was young. Mae'ethra's emerald eyes began to water, it would be soon. She reached over and put another pillow behind him, trying to comfort him. Slowly his coughing subsided and he bagan to rest. Standing up, she moved to stoke the fire, noticing the small pile of wood. She reached down to place another log upon the fire, its flames licking her hand as she did. But again her fathers blood protected where others would burn.
"Oh Syril, what will I do..." Her voice full of doubt and concern for the future. "There is nothing left here for us once father is gone." She looked down at the large feline. "I guess will head off into the world..." She sighed and fell into a chair beside the hearth. Sleep decended upon her as she did...
Mae'ethra awoke to cold darkness around her. Syril was nudging her to get her attention. Opening her eyes and taking a second to get her bearings. She could hear her father muttering again, and he sounded terrible. Rising from the chair she muttered the Incantation for a light spell. As the silvery glow began to fill the room she watched as shadows swirled about her....
"We... have come for him..." They hissed at her. "It is time..." An icey chill raced down her spine and as she backed toword the bed and her father.
"You will not have him yet." She cried "I am not ready..." She reached down to grasp his hand as if that would hold his soul here. The shadows danced around the rooms edge, their erie yellow eyes watching her. Syril lept at the closest only to pass harmlessly through it.
"Mae'ethra.." her father muttered again, strain in his voice. "Your mother... Syrendal... Storm..." He gripped her hand with more stregnth then she though him possible. The words he spoke seemed to burn in her mind. What did they mean? Her mother? She looked down at him confused and saddened.
"I love you..." He said, and with those words, his eyes glazed over and he was still.
The shadows took no time to hesitate, reaching in with inhuman speed the tore what Mae'ethra belived her fathers soul from his body. Its dark mass held by them all as they shifted into the darkness and were gone. Tears streamed down her face. And grief set in.
She spent the next days and most of the last of the gold giving her father a proper burial in a small marked grave. Alone and perfering it that way, she vowed would shed no more tears, for that time was done. She had gathered what belongings she could carry and with Syril head of into the world. Her fathers last words like fire in her mind... Mother... Syrendal... Storm...
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06-14-05, 07:31 PM
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| RE: Mae'ethra Shadowsbane
Nice Bio. One note... the shadows would have been of various shapes and in your eyes you may have seen a demonic being and a smaller female being shifting through those shadows...but you can not be certain.
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