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Cieryn Windsong
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Cieryn

Birthright jewels only please
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Birthright: Summer Sky (39) :)

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Cieryn

Cieryn Windsong
Age: 28
Caste: Witch
Race: Glacian
Birth Territory: Glacia
Home Territory: Glacia, ETC
Birthright Jewel: Summer Sky (JP)

Description
Physical Description:

Cieryn's once milky white skin has taken on a more washed-out tone from lack of care. Her hair is almost the whitest of blond, but is often dirty and unkempt. Her eyes are ice blue, but have long since lost their sharp look, replaced by confusion, a lack of focus born of constantly trying to figure out what's real world, and what's twisted kingdom. Quite, she looks as though she has not seen a shower or warm bed.

She is very slight of frame. There is a frailty to her that speaks of poor nutrition for a long period of time. Sometimes food is hard to come by, other times, she forgets to eat.

Her clothing is worn, faded, whatever she can find, or what someone has given her to replace torn rags at any given moment in time. She has little care for style or color.

She has no use for jewelry or the likes, but has a bag of trinkets ranging from a shard from a broken mirror to a locket, to a few child's color sticks. Occasionally, she can even tell someone what those items signify, or even where she acquired them. More often than not, they are just something that caught her eyes at the moment.



Personality:

Cieryn is locked in the Twisted Kingdom. She is jumpy, unbalanced, nervous, and occasionally volatile, or violent. She is, however, not broken. Her craft is intact, though she doesn't not control it well, or remember to use it half the time.

Part of her remembers another life, in glimpses, occasionally. At times, she reaches towards it, and other times, she shies away from it. A traumatic even sent her careening into the twisted kingdom, and things that remind her of that trauma tend to make her slide further from reality, and deeper into the twisted kingdom.

Somewhere lost in the twists and turns of her mind is a woman that cares about those that surround her, that would do anything for a friend... when she can remember who her friends are. Those that are able to get to know her, and see beneath the madness find a woman that was once very intelligent, with a quirky, almost wicked sense of humor. She was once quick to smile, quick to turn to hope, and not afraid to reach for her dreams, though what her hopes and dreams might be have long since been lost under the weight of the twisted kingdom.

There are those, from town to town, that recognize her, and are quick to care for her, when she allows it, and despite the madness, she is a likable person. For a time, she can be content to remain, but eventually, something inside her snaps, and she leaves, often forgetting to tell anyone that she is departing.


Likes and dislikes

Cieryn's likes and dislikes change as often as spring time weather. Things that she liked in one moment could easily be a dislike, or even something that just disturbs her the next.



History

Though she is mostly unaware of her past, it speaks of a rather tragic tale. She is the youngest of three children, the baby of her family. Her childhood was comfortable, she was well cared for by her mother and father. An Idyllic, happy childhood, even if she was a bit spoiled, as the youngest child often is, her parents clinging to her youth longer than they should have.

At her Birthright Ceremony, she received the Summer Sky jewels. Her childhood craft lessons went well, though she was a mischievous child that often drove her tutors to wit's end with her antics. She grasps her lessons quickly, and most of her trouble and pranks were born of boredom.

Everything changed when she was 13. She was traveling with her family to the country side to visit shortly before Winsol, when they were attacked. The children were ordered to run, and hide, but Cieryn was the only one that escaped, though from her hiding place, she watched the horror unfold, unable to tear her eyes away, too frightened even to scream. Her parents were killed quickly, her brother as well. A worse fate faced her older sister, only a few short months away from her virgin night, she was broken on the spears of their attackers before she too was killed.

The next day, when her family didn't arrive at their destination, search parties were sent out, and found her frozen in horror. With much coaxing, they were able to draw her out of hiding, and bring her to the family she had left in the country. After the attack, she was never the same. She was not broken by what she saw, but something inside of her broke, though she was not completely lost then to the twisted kingdom. It was clear that she teetered on the edge of madness after that night. She continued with her craft lessons, but it was as if the impish joy of her childhood had been sucked out of her. She attended to her lessons, almost listlessly, but completed them nonetheless. She never spoke of the events of that night, she rarely spoke at all after, only when she was directly addressed.

When she was old enough, her virgin night was arranged, though it was uncertain as to what would happen, given her reaction to the previous trauma. It was decided that it was better to see her through it, rather than to be broken violently, and against her will at some point. Her virgin night went well enough. The man that saw her through it was close to the family, and understanding of Cieryn's situation. She came through the night un-broken, though something inside her snapped. Despite the man's gentleness, and skill with guiding a woman through her virgin night, it opened a floodgate of memories. In the nights that followed, she began to have nightmares, and an incident that she had locked away deep into the recesses of her mind flooded to the surface.

Years afterwards, she was forced to deal with what she had been hiding from the entire time, and she had to face what happened to her sister, to the entirety of her immediate family. Unable to cope with the horrors of that night, her mind retreated in the only way left available, deep into the twisted kingdom.

For a short time, she stayed with her aunt, though with her complete fall to madness, her aunt could not control her. When she ran away, the woman, who tended towards uncaring coldness, did not do much to find her, hoping only that a cold winter's night would take mercy on the girl's torture.

Cieryn tends to wander, often finding her way back to the place where her family was attacked, though she no longer remembers why she is drawn to that place. Though it is a tighter squeeze that it was when she was 13, she often tucks herself into the same hiding place she used then, a small hint of safety in the horrors surrounding her. Occasionally, she is cared for by kindly strangers, and those that have grown fond of her over the years, but she tends to move from town to town, as if searching for something, never quite finding what she is looking for. Often, not even knowing what she is searching for.
An offering to the darkness was never attempted. It was never even considered, though she still wears her birthright, the summer sky.


Family:

Aunt Martha Unjeweled aunt living in the Glacian country side. Though she cared for Cieryn, she tends towards a cold, unfeeling nature. After the girl's decent into the twisted kingdom, she was not unhappy to see Cieryn leave.

Player Info
OOC Name:
Jess AKA Iniquitous Rage

Past Characters: Include castes and jewels.

I have read the Rules!: checks for the Llama update* No llamas for the drama, sad Panda. Yes, I've read them.
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Rhyissa Elyon
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bump per gabby's suggestion.
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Rhyissa Elyon
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bump per gabby's suggestion.
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Is this character ready for review?
Edited by SRawr, Jan 10 2011, 10:21 AM.
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Rhyissa Elyon
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yes...
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