Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mell's Background - Amon's Character

(Posting everything with Amon's permission)




 

Mell was born in the nation of Nidal, The city of Albatross. She is an Half-elf. Both parents were half-elves. At a young age Mell noticed that she had the ability to summon animals to her side. Her ability was effortless and precise. She greatly enjoyed the company of the forest animals. It drove her parents crazy! All these animals in the house.

 

Her parents hired a summoner to teach their daughter the correct ways to summon. So in her late teen years Mell was introduced to her mentor….Clista, a great summoner and more.

 



Clista showed and taught and trained Mell the ways of summoning. Calista was the one that told Mell how important it was to do a sacred summoning for what is called an Eidolon. Mell trained and later fought by Calista’s side for fifteen years.

 

After the first year, Calista took Mell away from Nidal and across the land into Varisia. Mell is an only child, and missed her parents greatly….but Calista was a great teacher. The opportunity couldn’t be missed. In the city of Urglin, Mell attended the palace and training ground Calista owned.

 

Mell was not the only one being trained in the ways of magic by Calista. A vampire boy by the name of Sholin was one her most adept pupils, although Mell quickly noticed that he showed no summoning ability.

 



Sholin and Mell fell in love within the first year at the palace training camp. They became the talk of the palace. The two were inseparable. Calista found the romance hopeful and endearing. It made Calista feel motherly.

 

Calista had a small army of orcs…..all spellcasters. Mell at first found this shocking! She thought Orcs so daft, that they wouldn’t be able to spellcast. Mell did notice that she was the only true summoner on Calista’s “team”.

 

Mell’s Eidolon that came and bonded with here was beautiful. A separate four legged creature. It looked horse-like with peacock markings. Mell sometimes rode Dipsem, the name she had given him. Sometimes even Sholin took a brief ride about.

 

Calista had a major rival. The reason for the rivalry is unknown to Mell, Calista refused to go into any details. His name is Vazrel…...A powerful spellcaster with skeleton minions.

 



One afternoon, Calista announced that her “group” was ready. Calista took her whole spell casting calvary to a place called Mobhad Leigh, located in the same nation of Varisia, but many mountain passes away. Calista said they need to obtain an artifact before Vazrel got his hands on it.

 

In a perfectly round pit in an otherwise nondescript field at the foot of the Kodar Mountains, a path of stairs leads partway down into the shaft’s throat. The stairs end after a few hundred feet down.

 

Mell remembers going down the stairs, but nothing that happened down in the ground, or coming to the surface. She remembers chatting and staying close with her lover, Sholin, while descending down. She remembers Calsita leading her and the mainly orcs and misc spell casters.

 

Mell awoke face down in the dirt at the top entrance of the stairs. No one was around but her, not a single party member. She summoned her Eidolon, thinking she would descend again to help or save her trainer and lover.

 

To her horror she felt pushed back out of her body…..she was aware of a dark presence…..her normal Eidolon was nowhere in sight.

 

“We need to taaaaalk……” a sexy perverse voice purred. “I’m Poshhhhmora…….acolyte of Krune. You’ll be helping me my dear.”

 

Mells heart sank in despair…..

 

 



Poshmora seemed to able to override Mell’s presence. Poshmora explained in a wicked way, how she had slayed Mell’s beautiful Eidolon and taken it’s place. Poshmora knew not if Mell’s adventuring party survived the pit or not. She merely explained an opportunity was seized., and Mell was to do Poshmora”s bidding now.

 

“Head to the Cinderlands and then Korvosa my pet…..you need know nothing more.”

 

Over the course of traveling, Mell learned that Poshmora could only gain control if summoned or if Mell’s mind was distracted from constant concentration. Even though Mell was mostly in control after a month of traveling, Mell still reluctantly did as told. Once Poshmora obtained something and awakened the runelord Krune, she would leave Mell alone in peace Poshmora promised.

 

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