Post by Demetra on Jan 12, 2018 1:07:22 GMT -7
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Demetra Kokinos
Demetra Kokinos
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[attr="class","appheading"]GENERAL INFORMATION
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Aasimar
Aasimar
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27
27
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Female
Female
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SigDigs
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Mostly straight
Mostly straight
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Fiamont
Fiamont
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Personal guard
Personal guard
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Paiia
Paiia
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[attr="class","appheading"]PERSONALITY
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Dee is a hard person to parse out sometimes, but one thing that’s to be said about her is that she feels things deeply. That said, she doesn’t always express those feelings, and when she does it’s not always in the most appropriate ways.
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On a good day when she’s sad or angry she will likely do nothing or walk away until she’s over it or she’ll use it to redouble her focus, but on her bad days she will throw chairs, break glasses, start fights or drive people away by saying cruel things she doesn’t mean. Sometimes her actions are deliberately self-destructive but sometimes she just gets so caught up she doesn’t realize how bad she’s made things until it’s too late to go back.
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Alternatively, sometimes when she’s feeling good she feels great. It’s like she can take on any challenge, surpass any obstacle, and take on the world. She’s been known to make poor choices then as well, like accepting challenges she isn’t equipped to deal with or spending too much money on something she only thinks she needs, or drinking more than she can handle. When she’s like this she can also get swept up too easily by a pretty face or a kind word and has sometimes come down from her ‘high’ so to speak in the bed of a stranger.
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Usually these extremes are intense but short-lived, and she manages to have milder highs and lows most of the time. Though she knows of and tries to control her extremes it’s hard for her to do because while they’re happening they don’t seem like extremes, they feel like totally reasonable responses to things, even if afterward she can look back and realize they weren’t.
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Dee can also be a bit of a bitch sometimes, to strangers and to her own friends. Things like making a joke that’s a little too mean or brushing someone off when they introduce themselves are little ways she often unintentionally comes across in a less than positive light.
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Her problem with things like that is that if she doesn’t care about something she really doesn’t care and she won’t even give it a second thought, like the feelings of strangers in most situations. Meanwhile if she does care about something she tends to cares a lot about it, whether it be a person or an animal or a task, though she does take a while to warm up to people in particular. She cared a lot about her education and she worked very hard while in school. She cares a lot about animals and was able to tame a dragon by herself with lots of patience and dedication. She cared a lot about her old roommate Tehodis. She cares a lot about her current friend, employer, and travel companion Trevor too.
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Dee is a hard person to parse out sometimes, but one thing that’s to be said about her is that she feels things deeply. That said, she doesn’t always express those feelings, and when she does it’s not always in the most appropriate ways.
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On a good day when she’s sad or angry she will likely do nothing or walk away until she’s over it or she’ll use it to redouble her focus, but on her bad days she will throw chairs, break glasses, start fights or drive people away by saying cruel things she doesn’t mean. Sometimes her actions are deliberately self-destructive but sometimes she just gets so caught up she doesn’t realize how bad she’s made things until it’s too late to go back.
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Alternatively, sometimes when she’s feeling good she feels great. It’s like she can take on any challenge, surpass any obstacle, and take on the world. She’s been known to make poor choices then as well, like accepting challenges she isn’t equipped to deal with or spending too much money on something she only thinks she needs, or drinking more than she can handle. When she’s like this she can also get swept up too easily by a pretty face or a kind word and has sometimes come down from her ‘high’ so to speak in the bed of a stranger.
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Usually these extremes are intense but short-lived, and she manages to have milder highs and lows most of the time. Though she knows of and tries to control her extremes it’s hard for her to do because while they’re happening they don’t seem like extremes, they feel like totally reasonable responses to things, even if afterward she can look back and realize they weren’t.
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Dee can also be a bit of a bitch sometimes, to strangers and to her own friends. Things like making a joke that’s a little too mean or brushing someone off when they introduce themselves are little ways she often unintentionally comes across in a less than positive light.
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Her problem with things like that is that if she doesn’t care about something she really doesn’t care and she won’t even give it a second thought, like the feelings of strangers in most situations. Meanwhile if she does care about something she tends to cares a lot about it, whether it be a person or an animal or a task, though she does take a while to warm up to people in particular. She cared a lot about her education and she worked very hard while in school. She cares a lot about animals and was able to tame a dragon by herself with lots of patience and dedication. She cared a lot about her old roommate Tehodis. She cares a lot about her current friend, employer, and travel companion Trevor too.
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[attr="class","appheading"]APPEARANCE
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The first thing that someone will notice about Dee is her hair. The vibrant red colour of it is striking enough to catch eyes and turn heads, and it falls in loose waves to land just past her hips. She enjoys wearing it down the most, however she is equally likely to pull it back, braid it, twist it into a bun, or whatever strikes her fancy at the time. When she’s bored or distracted she will often find herself braiding it absently, or running her fingers through it to work out the worst of the knots. Hey, when hair gets that long it tangles easily, no matter how much you brush it.
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She may not look physically imposing, but she is not to be underestimated. Beneath her dresses, furs, armour, or whatever outfit she happens to be wearing is a body made strong from work and hard travel. Even as a child she worked on her family’s farm, and when she was old enough she was trained with a basic sword and shield, and a bow should the need arise to defend herself or her home. Despite her time spent in the sun her skin remains quite fair, though it is hot to the touch as a result of her Aasimar heritage.
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Her current line of work, as a personal guard of sorts, demands that she be prepared for anything and as such her outfits are dependent on the situation (much like anyone, really) and could range from a simple linen dress to her full armour - leather, chain, and in some locations even plate. On her belt she always wears a small leather pouch, which looks unassuming but actually contains almost all of her belongings. Anything that can fit through the opening, at any rate. She got one of her professors at school to cast the spell on it for her, and she uses it to hold weapons, food, money, etc. Around her neck she wears a necklace with a ruby pendant that is actually a storage charm as well, something she paid good money for, and in which she carries her bigger items that don’t fit in her bottomless pouch. Her shield and buckler are the most notable items housed in the charm, but she has some wacky things in here – anything she wants to have with her just in case, y’know?
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On the topic of jewelry, Dee wears a lot of it. She has a fondness for shiny things that rivals that of a dragon’s. She will often be wearing rings on most of her fingers, multiple necklaces, and her ears are adorned with large earrings that hang and glitter in the sunlight. She also likes wearing jeweled headbands or pins in her hair, so it sparkles as well. Some of her jewelry contains religious symbols and some is just for show, and she is always on the lookout for a new piece.
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She carries many weapons, some almost always on her person and some kept in the storage charm or her pouch until she needs them. Her shortsword for example is always in a sheath off her belt no matter what outfit she’s wearing. She has a long sword as well that she keeps stored, and a beautiful recurve bow that once belonged to her father. Her shield is almost always kept in the storage charm as well - it’s a large round shield that is excellent in a fight but not excellent to lug around even if you did strap it to your back. She has a smaller circular buckler that she likes to use for quicker or easier combat, or if she’s using her bow.
The first thing that someone will notice about Dee is her hair. The vibrant red colour of it is striking enough to catch eyes and turn heads, and it falls in loose waves to land just past her hips. She enjoys wearing it down the most, however she is equally likely to pull it back, braid it, twist it into a bun, or whatever strikes her fancy at the time. When she’s bored or distracted she will often find herself braiding it absently, or running her fingers through it to work out the worst of the knots. Hey, when hair gets that long it tangles easily, no matter how much you brush it.
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She may not look physically imposing, but she is not to be underestimated. Beneath her dresses, furs, armour, or whatever outfit she happens to be wearing is a body made strong from work and hard travel. Even as a child she worked on her family’s farm, and when she was old enough she was trained with a basic sword and shield, and a bow should the need arise to defend herself or her home. Despite her time spent in the sun her skin remains quite fair, though it is hot to the touch as a result of her Aasimar heritage.
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Her current line of work, as a personal guard of sorts, demands that she be prepared for anything and as such her outfits are dependent on the situation (much like anyone, really) and could range from a simple linen dress to her full armour - leather, chain, and in some locations even plate. On her belt she always wears a small leather pouch, which looks unassuming but actually contains almost all of her belongings. Anything that can fit through the opening, at any rate. She got one of her professors at school to cast the spell on it for her, and she uses it to hold weapons, food, money, etc. Around her neck she wears a necklace with a ruby pendant that is actually a storage charm as well, something she paid good money for, and in which she carries her bigger items that don’t fit in her bottomless pouch. Her shield and buckler are the most notable items housed in the charm, but she has some wacky things in here – anything she wants to have with her just in case, y’know?
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On the topic of jewelry, Dee wears a lot of it. She has a fondness for shiny things that rivals that of a dragon’s. She will often be wearing rings on most of her fingers, multiple necklaces, and her ears are adorned with large earrings that hang and glitter in the sunlight. She also likes wearing jeweled headbands or pins in her hair, so it sparkles as well. Some of her jewelry contains religious symbols and some is just for show, and she is always on the lookout for a new piece.
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She carries many weapons, some almost always on her person and some kept in the storage charm or her pouch until she needs them. Her shortsword for example is always in a sheath off her belt no matter what outfit she’s wearing. She has a long sword as well that she keeps stored, and a beautiful recurve bow that once belonged to her father. Her shield is almost always kept in the storage charm as well - it’s a large round shield that is excellent in a fight but not excellent to lug around even if you did strap it to your back. She has a smaller circular buckler that she likes to use for quicker or easier combat, or if she’s using her bow.
[attr="class","appheading"]HISTORY
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The village in which Demetra was born was located in Padova, the matriarchal kingdom of Fiamont, in a lush valley cradled between a trio of inhospitable mountains they knew as the Three Sisters. The soil was rich for farming and the mountains provided perfect conditions - sheltered from the wind and with adequate protection from the scorching sun - and as a result their land was hotly contested in the past. It was only through strength and determination and collectively banding together to fight away marauders and usurpers looking to claim the land as their own that the village was able to grow and prosper throughout the years. By the time Dee was born it had seen peace for decades, but every villager was still trained from youth to defend their land should the need arise.
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Dee always loved animals, and had a way with them that she didn’t have with people. She would spend hours with the cats or dogs or sheep but she rarely got along with the other kids. It was clear from a young age that she had Paiia’s fire in her, as her temper could flare as suddenly as anything and it made her quite a handful to deal with.
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She would help around the farm as asked but sometimes she would get angry over what seemed like nothing and she would rip apart hay bales or pull up crops or any number of other destructive things. They couldn’t figure out why her emotions could get so wildly out of control but they did find something that could help when it got bad: combat training. As soon as she was old enough to hold a stick she was sent in the afternoons to train with the other kids of the village and it gave her an outlet for her energy and some discipline to control herself, though the last part was more wishful thinking than anything. She was still just as prone to her usual highs and lows but if it got bad she could occasionally be directed to training as opposed to self destructive or property-damaging behaviours.
She threw herself into it with vigor and progressed quickly from sticks to wooden swords to real swords, and gained a proficiency with shields and bows as well. In this time of peace there was no need for it though, and she realized she realized she didn’t want to grow up to be a farmer - she wanted to actually get to use her sword for something, and she wanted to see more of the world.
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On a particularly bad day she and her parents got into a fight about it, as she being the only child was expected to take over the farm when they couldn’t take care of it anymore. In her anger she cried out that she wished the farm would burn, and as though a prayer answered by the goddess herself one of the torches on the wall practically exploded. The fire caught quickly onto the bales of hay they had stored but luckily her parents were able to douse it before the barn itself went up in flames. Later, it was decided that the best course of action was to send her to a school so that she could learn to control the magic she was capable of wielding. To not do so would only be to invite another incident.
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Thus it was at the age of 15 that she was sent to Eight Veils Academy, and it was there that she would meet Tehodis Kitai. The two girls were paired as roommates and it was likely only because of this fact that they even spoke in the first place, but somehow over the course of their years at the school they became close friends. Tehodis was a diviner and though Dee herself was destined for transmutation she was able to pick up a few tips and tricks from her - namely, Dee’s now-favourite divining spell of all - familiar. The spell could be used on an animal, any animal, and it would bond it to you, in a way. You couldn’t force it to do your bidding, no that was more of an enchantment thing, but you could connect with it. Dee first practiced it on a squirrel on the school grounds and she had more or less success with it - sometimes it was like she could almost hear it speaking to her, and sometimes it was just being able to figure out the meaning of a flick of its tail or twitch of its whiskers. But from then on she had a squirrel friend too, and she brought him to class with her in her book bag.
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The school insisted all students should go to classes for all schools of magic (some such as necromancy and enchantment were more knowledge-based than practical) regardless of personal talent or innate abilities, as they believed that to learn magic most comprehensively you must understand all natures of it and not just the one you wielded yourself. It was because of this belief that Dee was able to pick up a few beginner spells from other schools as well, not just Familiar but also for example Shield from abjuration which she found particularly useful to use in conjunction with her physical shield in order to better withstand attacks.
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That wasn’t to say she didn’t practice with her own school of magic because that she most definitely did. She threw herself into it much like she had thrown herself into swordsmanship, and over the years she found herself improving tremendously. It didn’t help her wildly shifting moods but like practicing with the sword it gave her an outlet to more productively expend her energy.
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After a few years Tehodis met a man that would change her life: Tristan Cowell. By extension Dee also met this man, and for a while they all spent time together. Dee became friends with Tristan this way, and he helped her learn how to create elements through evocation rather than simply control them using her own transmutation. Tehodis became more than just friends with Tristan, and the two became engaged. Dee was... happy for them, really, but when Tristan became the ruler of Malscure and Tehodis announced she would be dropping out of school to move there with him Dee was not as understanding as perhaps a friend should be. That is to say that she was absolutely not understanding at all.
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Tehodis was abandoning school, abandoning her life, and abandoning Demetra for a totally new, totally different life in Malscure with Tristan, and as much as Demetra really cared about Tristan and Tehodis she did not approve. Demetra didn’t have a lot of friends, honestly just Tehodis and Tristan, and the idea of both of them abandoning her was too much. She reacted harshly, to say the least, and Dee decided that if Tehodis was going to abandon her then she was going to abandon Tehodis. She told her that if she moved to Malscure she would never talk to her again, but Dee wasn’t as important to her as Tristan was and that was all there was to it. Tehodis left school, left Dee’s life, and Dee never spoke to her again. She avoided any news related to Tehodis, Tristan, or Malscure for years. Long enough that she never even knew Tehodis had gone missing.
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After that she requested a single dorm and redoubled her focus on her studies. For her remaining years at school she hardly did anything outside of study magic and keep up practice with physical combat. Eventually, she graduated. The term was arbitrary at the school as you could consider yourself ‘graduated’ at almost any time; finished learning all the basic spells? Graduated! Learned your first advanced spell? Graduated! Decided to leave school early to move to Malscure with your true love and leave your best friend behind? Graduated.
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For Dee her graduation came at 25, after a decade at the academy, and it was because she had mastered every basic spell in the school of transmutation, a few in some other schools, and had spent additional time mastering a couple of advanced spells in her own school as well. She decided it was about time she took her knowledge on the road, and left with the intention of returning home to visit her family.
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She made it back to Fiamont but before she got back to her village she found something she never would have expected to come across in the wild: a dragon. It looked fairly young, large enough to ride but only just, and it also looked sick. Healing was not her forte, so she returned to the nearest town and found a healer who was willing to come with her and check it out. Naturally, the dragon didn’t allow either of them to come anywhere near it, so the healer gave Dee a second option. She made a potion of sorts that could ease its pain and accelerate its own healing to fight whatever was wrong with it, and told her good luck.
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But Dia was determined to help the beast, and if her reasons were perhaps a little selfish who could blame her: if she could earn its trust perhaps she would be able to tame it and use her solitary divination spell to make it a true familiar. So she went hunting and caught a rabbit which she put some medication inside of and then left it about as close as the dragon would allow her to get, then moved farther back and waited. The dragon was sick and hungry, but even so it put up a good show of ignoring the food for many hours, to the point where she began to grow sore from waiting and hungry enough want to eat the rabbit herself, before finally moving over to it and snapping it up. After that it became easier. Each time she brought it food she would move closer and closer to the dragon, earning its trust over what must have been almost a month. Eventually, the creature took the rabbit right out of her hand and allowed her to lay a hand on its neck, and it was then that she realized it had been fully healed for a little while now and had yet stayed there. The two were bonded even before she cast the spell.
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She named the dragon Palla and the two set off. She decided to write a letter home that she wouldn’t be returning, and it was possible her family was glad for it in a way. Shortly after she’d been sent to school her parents had been blessed with twins, who both loved the farm and would surely grow up to be everything Dee wasn’t, and she had never fit in well there anyway.
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Instead she decided to travel, starting with seeing more of her own country before settling down and getting a real job, somewhere. She didn’t know what she wanted to do yet, but she figured she would figure it out along the way.
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A few months later a man approached her, barely more than a boy really, who introduced himself as Trevor. He was a monster chronicler, he said, and he had heard tale of her taming her own dragon and figured he could use someone like her on his travels while he, well, chronicled monsters. That and he could use a personal guard of sorts, as the chronicling of monsters tended to be a little... dangerous. This sort of thing was right up her alley, so after they discussed payment (she wasn’t going to just do it for free of course) and terms (only for a few months, while she figured out what she wanted to do for a real job) it was decided. The two of them, or three of course if you counted Palla, started off on their adventure.
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Now the thing was that over the months that they worked together Dee and Trev got really close. She was slower to open up after her last close friend, Tehodis, had left her, but the chronicler managed to weasel his way into her heart anyway, and so when the time limit on their contract was up she made some excuses about how she would be willing to put off getting a real just for a few more months because he would clearly be lost without her, and so it was renewed. It happened the next time as well, and the next, until it became more theatrics than anything that she would graciously decide to stick around to help keep him alive. In fact their contract now states her end date as ‘to be declared’ but every few months they go through the motions again, and the routine is comforting in a way. He still pays her, despite how close they’ve become as friends, but Dee would travel with him even if the payments stopped and she suspects he knows this to be true as well. But he keeps paying her, and she keeps taking it, and together they keep travelling and chronicling monsters.
The village in which Demetra was born was located in Padova, the matriarchal kingdom of Fiamont, in a lush valley cradled between a trio of inhospitable mountains they knew as the Three Sisters. The soil was rich for farming and the mountains provided perfect conditions - sheltered from the wind and with adequate protection from the scorching sun - and as a result their land was hotly contested in the past. It was only through strength and determination and collectively banding together to fight away marauders and usurpers looking to claim the land as their own that the village was able to grow and prosper throughout the years. By the time Dee was born it had seen peace for decades, but every villager was still trained from youth to defend their land should the need arise.
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Dee always loved animals, and had a way with them that she didn’t have with people. She would spend hours with the cats or dogs or sheep but she rarely got along with the other kids. It was clear from a young age that she had Paiia’s fire in her, as her temper could flare as suddenly as anything and it made her quite a handful to deal with.
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She would help around the farm as asked but sometimes she would get angry over what seemed like nothing and she would rip apart hay bales or pull up crops or any number of other destructive things. They couldn’t figure out why her emotions could get so wildly out of control but they did find something that could help when it got bad: combat training. As soon as she was old enough to hold a stick she was sent in the afternoons to train with the other kids of the village and it gave her an outlet for her energy and some discipline to control herself, though the last part was more wishful thinking than anything. She was still just as prone to her usual highs and lows but if it got bad she could occasionally be directed to training as opposed to self destructive or property-damaging behaviours.
She threw herself into it with vigor and progressed quickly from sticks to wooden swords to real swords, and gained a proficiency with shields and bows as well. In this time of peace there was no need for it though, and she realized she realized she didn’t want to grow up to be a farmer - she wanted to actually get to use her sword for something, and she wanted to see more of the world.
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On a particularly bad day she and her parents got into a fight about it, as she being the only child was expected to take over the farm when they couldn’t take care of it anymore. In her anger she cried out that she wished the farm would burn, and as though a prayer answered by the goddess herself one of the torches on the wall practically exploded. The fire caught quickly onto the bales of hay they had stored but luckily her parents were able to douse it before the barn itself went up in flames. Later, it was decided that the best course of action was to send her to a school so that she could learn to control the magic she was capable of wielding. To not do so would only be to invite another incident.
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Thus it was at the age of 15 that she was sent to Eight Veils Academy, and it was there that she would meet Tehodis Kitai. The two girls were paired as roommates and it was likely only because of this fact that they even spoke in the first place, but somehow over the course of their years at the school they became close friends. Tehodis was a diviner and though Dee herself was destined for transmutation she was able to pick up a few tips and tricks from her - namely, Dee’s now-favourite divining spell of all - familiar. The spell could be used on an animal, any animal, and it would bond it to you, in a way. You couldn’t force it to do your bidding, no that was more of an enchantment thing, but you could connect with it. Dee first practiced it on a squirrel on the school grounds and she had more or less success with it - sometimes it was like she could almost hear it speaking to her, and sometimes it was just being able to figure out the meaning of a flick of its tail or twitch of its whiskers. But from then on she had a squirrel friend too, and she brought him to class with her in her book bag.
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The school insisted all students should go to classes for all schools of magic (some such as necromancy and enchantment were more knowledge-based than practical) regardless of personal talent or innate abilities, as they believed that to learn magic most comprehensively you must understand all natures of it and not just the one you wielded yourself. It was because of this belief that Dee was able to pick up a few beginner spells from other schools as well, not just Familiar but also for example Shield from abjuration which she found particularly useful to use in conjunction with her physical shield in order to better withstand attacks.
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That wasn’t to say she didn’t practice with her own school of magic because that she most definitely did. She threw herself into it much like she had thrown herself into swordsmanship, and over the years she found herself improving tremendously. It didn’t help her wildly shifting moods but like practicing with the sword it gave her an outlet to more productively expend her energy.
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After a few years Tehodis met a man that would change her life: Tristan Cowell. By extension Dee also met this man, and for a while they all spent time together. Dee became friends with Tristan this way, and he helped her learn how to create elements through evocation rather than simply control them using her own transmutation. Tehodis became more than just friends with Tristan, and the two became engaged. Dee was... happy for them, really, but when Tristan became the ruler of Malscure and Tehodis announced she would be dropping out of school to move there with him Dee was not as understanding as perhaps a friend should be. That is to say that she was absolutely not understanding at all.
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Tehodis was abandoning school, abandoning her life, and abandoning Demetra for a totally new, totally different life in Malscure with Tristan, and as much as Demetra really cared about Tristan and Tehodis she did not approve. Demetra didn’t have a lot of friends, honestly just Tehodis and Tristan, and the idea of both of them abandoning her was too much. She reacted harshly, to say the least, and Dee decided that if Tehodis was going to abandon her then she was going to abandon Tehodis. She told her that if she moved to Malscure she would never talk to her again, but Dee wasn’t as important to her as Tristan was and that was all there was to it. Tehodis left school, left Dee’s life, and Dee never spoke to her again. She avoided any news related to Tehodis, Tristan, or Malscure for years. Long enough that she never even knew Tehodis had gone missing.
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After that she requested a single dorm and redoubled her focus on her studies. For her remaining years at school she hardly did anything outside of study magic and keep up practice with physical combat. Eventually, she graduated. The term was arbitrary at the school as you could consider yourself ‘graduated’ at almost any time; finished learning all the basic spells? Graduated! Learned your first advanced spell? Graduated! Decided to leave school early to move to Malscure with your true love and leave your best friend behind? Graduated.
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For Dee her graduation came at 25, after a decade at the academy, and it was because she had mastered every basic spell in the school of transmutation, a few in some other schools, and had spent additional time mastering a couple of advanced spells in her own school as well. She decided it was about time she took her knowledge on the road, and left with the intention of returning home to visit her family.
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She made it back to Fiamont but before she got back to her village she found something she never would have expected to come across in the wild: a dragon. It looked fairly young, large enough to ride but only just, and it also looked sick. Healing was not her forte, so she returned to the nearest town and found a healer who was willing to come with her and check it out. Naturally, the dragon didn’t allow either of them to come anywhere near it, so the healer gave Dee a second option. She made a potion of sorts that could ease its pain and accelerate its own healing to fight whatever was wrong with it, and told her good luck.
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But Dia was determined to help the beast, and if her reasons were perhaps a little selfish who could blame her: if she could earn its trust perhaps she would be able to tame it and use her solitary divination spell to make it a true familiar. So she went hunting and caught a rabbit which she put some medication inside of and then left it about as close as the dragon would allow her to get, then moved farther back and waited. The dragon was sick and hungry, but even so it put up a good show of ignoring the food for many hours, to the point where she began to grow sore from waiting and hungry enough want to eat the rabbit herself, before finally moving over to it and snapping it up. After that it became easier. Each time she brought it food she would move closer and closer to the dragon, earning its trust over what must have been almost a month. Eventually, the creature took the rabbit right out of her hand and allowed her to lay a hand on its neck, and it was then that she realized it had been fully healed for a little while now and had yet stayed there. The two were bonded even before she cast the spell.
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She named the dragon Palla and the two set off. She decided to write a letter home that she wouldn’t be returning, and it was possible her family was glad for it in a way. Shortly after she’d been sent to school her parents had been blessed with twins, who both loved the farm and would surely grow up to be everything Dee wasn’t, and she had never fit in well there anyway.
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Instead she decided to travel, starting with seeing more of her own country before settling down and getting a real job, somewhere. She didn’t know what she wanted to do yet, but she figured she would figure it out along the way.
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A few months later a man approached her, barely more than a boy really, who introduced himself as Trevor. He was a monster chronicler, he said, and he had heard tale of her taming her own dragon and figured he could use someone like her on his travels while he, well, chronicled monsters. That and he could use a personal guard of sorts, as the chronicling of monsters tended to be a little... dangerous. This sort of thing was right up her alley, so after they discussed payment (she wasn’t going to just do it for free of course) and terms (only for a few months, while she figured out what she wanted to do for a real job) it was decided. The two of them, or three of course if you counted Palla, started off on their adventure.
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Now the thing was that over the months that they worked together Dee and Trev got really close. She was slower to open up after her last close friend, Tehodis, had left her, but the chronicler managed to weasel his way into her heart anyway, and so when the time limit on their contract was up she made some excuses about how she would be willing to put off getting a real just for a few more months because he would clearly be lost without her, and so it was renewed. It happened the next time as well, and the next, until it became more theatrics than anything that she would graciously decide to stick around to help keep him alive. In fact their contract now states her end date as ‘to be declared’ but every few months they go through the motions again, and the routine is comforting in a way. He still pays her, despite how close they’ve become as friends, but Dee would travel with him even if the payments stopped and she suspects he knows this to be true as well. But he keeps paying her, and she keeps taking it, and together they keep travelling and chronicling monsters.
[attr="class","appheading"]ABILITIES
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Advanced Transmutationist[break]
Demetra is well-educated. After her natural affinity for Transmutation revealed itself she was sent to a well-recognized school for magic and threw herself into her studies with vigor. After a decade of studying she has mastered all beginner spells in her school and the following advanced spells: Major Enhance Ability, Minor Polymorph, and Barkskin
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Extensive Education[break]
The school Demetra was sent to believed that a comprehensive education was the most beneficial to a magic user, and as such Dee has learned some beginner spells from schools outside of transmutation. She learned the Divination spell Familiar with the help of her friend Tehodis, and the Evocation spell Minor Elemental Burst with help from Tristan.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Combat training[break]
Dee had been trained with the use of common weapons before she was sent away for schooling, and while at Eight Vales she continued to practice her combat training. She has almost two decades of experience with common weapons such as swords, shields, bows, and daggers and as such she has reached a comfortable level of skill with all of them.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Celestial Trademark[break]
As an Aasimar, Demetra has all the classic marks of one – she has an ethereal radiance and beauty to her, and an innate talent for magic though in her case in Transmutation, which is an uncommon one for Aasimar. In addition, she has the trademark of her patron deity Paiia, which means that her skin is always hot to the touch as though she has a fever, and she is virtually impervious to pain. That is, she cannot feel it unless the pain is almost life-threateningly massive. This can be both a good or a bad thing – she has burnt her fingers on fire without realizing it for example, but in a fight she can power through pain that would incapacitate other people. She also doesn’t feel exhaustion to the extent of a normal person, and can accidentally push herself so hard that her body physically gives out on her if she doesn’t monitor herself carefully.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Advanced Transmutationist[break]
Demetra is well-educated. After her natural affinity for Transmutation revealed itself she was sent to a well-recognized school for magic and threw herself into her studies with vigor. After a decade of studying she has mastered all beginner spells in her school and the following advanced spells: Major Enhance Ability, Minor Polymorph, and Barkskin
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Extensive Education[break]
The school Demetra was sent to believed that a comprehensive education was the most beneficial to a magic user, and as such Dee has learned some beginner spells from schools outside of transmutation. She learned the Divination spell Familiar with the help of her friend Tehodis, and the Evocation spell Minor Elemental Burst with help from Tristan.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Combat training[break]
Dee had been trained with the use of common weapons before she was sent away for schooling, and while at Eight Vales she continued to practice her combat training. She has almost two decades of experience with common weapons such as swords, shields, bows, and daggers and as such she has reached a comfortable level of skill with all of them.
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[attr="class","appability"]➢ Celestial Trademark[break]
As an Aasimar, Demetra has all the classic marks of one – she has an ethereal radiance and beauty to her, and an innate talent for magic though in her case in Transmutation, which is an uncommon one for Aasimar. In addition, she has the trademark of her patron deity Paiia, which means that her skin is always hot to the touch as though she has a fever, and she is virtually impervious to pain. That is, she cannot feel it unless the pain is almost life-threateningly massive. This can be both a good or a bad thing – she has burnt her fingers on fire without realizing it for example, but in a fight she can power through pain that would incapacitate other people. She also doesn’t feel exhaustion to the extent of a normal person, and can accidentally push herself so hard that her body physically gives out on her if she doesn’t monitor herself carefully.
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[attr="class","appheading"]Fortuna-RPG
