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The daughter of Mare and Ezra, Nuage was adopted when she was 7, after her birth father died of an illness. Nuage grew up by technicality an only child; but with the amount of time that was spent with the children of her parents’ friends and teammates, she essentially grew up with 10 siblings. It took time for her to emerge from her shell, but when she did, she was a bright young girl who took after her parents in talent and interests.

Nuage trained to become a Hunter, unlocking her semblance (resistance to hits and fog with it) without much difficulty. Her weapon was modeled after Romy Albrecht’s, a beautiful sabre with Dust engraved into it-- though after years of practicing with her father when she was a child, she was happy to add a pistol to her arsenal as well. She did well at Signal, exceeding in both her studies and her combat training.

Beacon proved to be its own challenge. With her aunt, Lilac, as headmistress there now, she was constantly wary of favoritism; however, she needn’t have worried. The team she was chosen to lead was something of a nightmare: team NEON, comprised of herself, Emerald Yinxing, Olive Arv, and Narcissus Panemorfi. Emerald never shared anything; Olive was depressed to the point of throwing herself at monsters without a thought. And Narcissus... he was someone Nuage desperately tried to connect with, as he was her partner, but he simply never let her in enough for that to happen. She had a hopeless crush on him for the first two years of their time together, trying to get him to be anything other than an asshole; but eventually, this turned to bitterness and resentment over his attitude and constantly pushing her buttons. In trying to deal with Narcissus and the rest of her team, she slept around with quite a few people in her year. Some of the relationships were messy, and Nuage made sure to learn her lessons from those.

Her team never really became functional, and when graduation rolled around, Nuage was happy to split off from them and never really talk to any of them again. However, she did find herself falling into a relationship with someone else from her year: Leon Raslocar, a teammate of one of her practically-siblings (Snapdragon, who was on her way to taking over Beacon in Lilac’s stead.)

Leon and Nuage made good partners, both as Hunters and romantically. They worked together, eventually living together, for several years before everything imploded all at once. Gathering samples of the sludge Grimm emerged from for another one of Nuage’s practically-siblings who studied Grimm for a living, she and Leon were on their way to Beacon to chat with her uncle Damien when Snap’s scream sounded from the roof. Leon, who had been carrying the jar of sludge, froze and dropped it before taking off at a pace Nuage had never seen before. With her boyfriend leaving her in the dust and her sibling’s scream echoing through the air, she ran to follow.

Nuage and Leon discovered one of Beacon’s teachers and a former classmate of theirs, Cerise, removing her sword from Snap’s body and pushing it off the roof. Cerise simply smiled at them and thanked them for making her work even easier, and how her mistress would be so pleased at how easy this whole thing was. When Nuage and Leon looked over the school grounds, their hearts sank. Grimm were everywhere now, and Cerise was running as they surveyed the scene.

The Grimm had spread from that pile of sludge, of course; and the terror brought by that scream only attracted more Grimm. Hunters from anywhere close enough to help were called, and that included Mare and Ezra, her parents. It was as they were making their way back to the ground floor that Nuage received a call from Ezra, one last conversation to tell her how much they loved her in case anything happened. The call was cut short, and Nuage knew that her parents were not surviving this fight.

Born in 1837 in Italy, Lucetta was an orphan who quickly learned that the most assured way to survive was to care for yourself first and foremost. She became a prostitute as a teenager, serving the lowest and the highest alike as long as they could pay her price. It was here that she learned of the existence of the Kindred, serving various members of the Lasombra clan and seeing through the mask of a man named Gabriele Caro who took a liking to her as soon as he met her. She continued her work in the brothel until 1860, when rumors began to circulate that regulations would soon be imposed upon the brothels of Italy. Lucetta, who had become a prostitute for the independence and freedom it gave her, was not happy about this news. She turned to Gabriele to ask him to make her Kindred as well so that prostitution wouldn’t be her sole means of survival: it took some convincing, but eventually, he agreed, and became her sire.

Lucetta fell easily into the Lasombra clan. Beautiful, confident, and charismatic, it didn’t take long for packs to ask her to join them. Once independent from Gabriele, Lucetta joined the pack that she felt suited her best: though it already had an established leader (Savio), everyone there was loyal beyond death and welcomed her with open arms. Over the course of years, the pack’s humanity dwindled, until Savio discovered the Path of the Night: an alternate morality revolving around the idea that Kindred exist to worsen the world around them. Intrigued, he proposed it to his pack, who all agreed to give it a shot. It was all too easy for them to fall into this path: it let them do whatever they wanted to achieve their goals, and told them to encourage others along this path of darkness. Lucetta enjoyed the freedom it gave her, and did her best to follow its code.

Fen is a wood elf evocation wizard. The beginning of Fen’s life was relatively normal compared to everything later in his life. His family worked as tailors, and he found quickly that this craft was not suitable for him. A bipolar mess trying to get himself together, he found that fire drew his attention, and then magic. He spent a lot of his time hiding in abandoned houses, where any explosions wouldn’t harm anyone; and he learned quickly, making him an excellent wizard. However, a wizard with a penchant for fire was not very useful in a small town like this, so he made his way to the blacksmith in hopes that at the very least, he could hone his control helping with that fire.

Of course, the town grew restless. Fen was volatile, and there had been small explosions where he had lost his temper. This eventually culminated in a riot that chased Fen out of the town, where he ran to the woods and released all of the pent-up emotions, burning nearly half the woods down. Unbeknownst to him, this wood was the home of a lone fey who was not happy to find half her home gone.

While Fen perhaps deserved what happened, his family certainly did not. The fey cursed Fen and all of his siblings: his eldest sister will never be satisfied; his second eldest sister was blinded and deafened; Fen will lose everything he loves; his younger sister is constantly sick, and will never get better; and his youngest sister will eventually kill their parents.

Endra is a College of Glamour bard/archfey patron warlock, and an elf. There is little Endra remembers about her past, and what she does is merely snapshots: visions from the Feywilds, of a red and gold kirin who felt like family, of trees in flames and fleeing through smoke. Of the pain in her head and her back, the scars that something left that she keeps covered up at all times.

Damaia and Kiana are wildmagic sorcerer dvati twins. Damaia and Kiana Didymo’s parents did not know that they were going to be having twins, let alone dvati twins. They certainly did not know their children would end up wildmagic sorcerers, and were woefully unprepared for having to take care of their children with all their strange and destructive abilities. As minor nobles, they were able to afford servants to help; but all of the servants charged with this caretaking left at one point or another, claiming that the children were devils and could not be helped.

The parents did their best to find their children a teacher, another sorcerer who could teach them to control their powers; and they did find one, an old halfling woman named Demina who was a wildmagic sorcerer as well. After spending some time with the twins, she informed the parents that there were multiple problems: one, that the twins didn’t just have wildmagic— they also had the blessing of some god, and they would have to find a cleric or someone to get that sorted out. The other problem was that it wasn’t that the twins didn’t have control over their magic— in fact, they had a relatively good grasp on it, she told them. The problem was that Damaia and Kiana simply liked destroying things.

Their parents took them to a cleric to see what could be cleared up with that: it turned out that Ralishaz, the god of insanity and misfortune, had taken a liking to the twins with their unusual combination of wildmagic and dvati-ness. That was about the moment their parents knew there was nothing that could be done for the twins except try to guide them on the right path, which was proving increasingly difficult seeing as the twins had picked up the hobby of pranking, in combination with their already-destructive tendencies.

Damaia and Kiana grew closer while the rest of the world grew distant from them. Their pranks became larger and more destructive, until at the age of 16, the twins “accidentally” set their own house on fire. Their parents escaped, terrified of what their children had become; and the twins left the city, not eager to face the consequences for arson, and far more eager to make their way around destroying things in more pranks.

Caoileann is a human cleric of Wee Jas. Orphaned at birth, Caoileann was raised by the ghosts in her town’s graveyard. They warned her that should people find her, they would likely take her away; and she was happy with her ghost family, so she learned to hide easily. As she grew up, she ventured into town mostly for food and supplies– no one could find her if she didn’t want to be found. To the town, she was essentially the local cryptid: the girl with pink hair who floated in and out like a ghost. No one knew how she got her money or where she resided.

Being raised by ghosts, Caoileann was well familiar with different death gods. Her multitude of family worshipped the Raven Queen and Kelemvor among others. The god she found most inclined to follow, however, was the goddess Wee Jas. As a benign death goddess who stewarded the dead that didn’t worship anyone in particular, Caoileann felt aligned with her values– particularly her indifference to undead, so long as they were reanimated consentingly and their remains procured lawfully. Besides, if she was being honest, she had always felt a pull, as if Wee Jas was watching over her.

Mare was 9 when her life was turned upside down. Her parents and their team hadn’t been given some information, or there were missing details, because the amount of Grimm they encountered was far more than they had been told. Leo was killed, Borea was flung far into the forest and presumed dead, and Kristall’s back was broken by an alpha Ursa. Taro had to flee from the fight to get Kristall to safety, barely escaping with their lives. Kristall and Taro, working mostly as commissioned Hunters, had nowhere near the funds to afford the Atlas prosthetics that would be needed for her to continue her work as a Huntress. Wheelchair-bound, she turned to teaching at a school, while Taro took up a more stable job as an accountant.

Kristall found that she couldn’t keep up with the stresses of being a teacher while she was adjusting to her new life, and turned heavily to alcohol to help. It didn’t take long for the alcohol to bring out the cruel streak in her: she had always been at least a little bit manipulative, and the drink allowed her to wallow in self-pity enough to excuse all kinds of actions. What was once asking Mare to do the dishes was now demanding that she do them, and losing her temper if Mare tried to point out that it was unfair (this could range from screaming to breaking a plate over her head). Taro, seeing this behavior begin, started to stay later and later at work, leaving Mare to take the brunt of her mother’s abuse.

As Kristall sank deeper and deeper into her depression, she quit her job as a teacher and began to only stay at home and drink. Her alcohol consumption became so great that she cut off Mare’s piano lessons (one of her only sources of joy in those days), and eventually sold their piano. Mare was only 12 when her mother determined for her that she would never be the pianist she thought she might be.

Eventually, as time passed and Kristall’s drinking problem only continued to grow, the inevitable happened: her liver failed, and she died of alcohol poisoning. Whether it was an accident or suicide, without a note, no one knew; so everyone hoped it was an accident. Following her mother’s death, Mare was in a state of numbness. She was 14, and had decided that she was going to go to Signal Academy to begin her training as a Huntress. Nothing about that changed; however, in the three months between her mother’s death and the start of school, she only saw her father thrice: his initial discovery of Kristall’s death, her funeral, and sending Mare off to school. Alone for so long, pushing herself and her training was the only way she could keep from going insane.

Awiti is a high elf gunslinger fighter. Aisha was abandoned to the streets by her parents as a baby, only surviving due to the kindness of a young teen named Inas whose unplanned child had been stillborn. Seeing as her parents had left her no name, Inas named her Aisha. However, owing to the fact that she was abandoned by her parents from the day of her birth, other children on the street nicknamed her Awiti– a name meaning “thrown away”. Aisha despised this name at first, but eventually embraced it: the children of the streets learned not to mock her anymore when, at the age of 10, she cut off the pinky finger of one particularly cruel child and then asked if she should throw it away too. The name took on a new meaning as she worked hard on her skill with any and all weapons she could find. No shot was thrown away.

Shaeni is a halfling monk/druid. Growing up in a small village in the Breadlands, life was pretty quiet for Shaeni. Her family were farmers; she took care of the sheep and goats, content to spend most of the day with just her animal friends. Of course, this tranquility was shaken severely when an orc tribe raided her village, killing or taking nearly half the villagers. Shaeni, only 7 at the time, was understandably traumatized by this; but as the village went back to trying to repair its life, she fell back into her routine with her sheep and goats.

As time passed, she began to develop druidic tendencies— something she first found out only a year after the raid, when she was focusing a little too hard on trying to understand her goats and, out of nowhere, turned into one herself. Startled but pleased by this realization, Shaeni began to put work and attention into druidic studies, realizing that it would give her an advantage should anything ever happen to her village again. And, unfortunately, something did.

When she was 14, another tribe came to invade; but the village, having survived an attack in recent memory, was not keen on losing more people. Between the people of the town and Shaeni’s beast shapes, they were able to drive the orcs out of the village, sustaining only minimal losses. However, this wasn’t enough for Shaeni: she chased the tribe back to their camp, destroying everything and everyone she could. No orc was left alive by the time she was done. However, looking over the smoldering ruins of the camp gave her no satisfaction; instead, she just felt hollow, and empty. She returned to her village, where she was greeted as a hero; but the longer she stayed, the worse she felt. She had to find a way to make peace with things.

Anidori is a drow rogue/sorcerer. Anidori grew up in Darkos, a fairly shady hold inhabited mostly by drow and tieflings. As such, she adapted quickly to her environment, learning how to steal and falling in with a thieves’ guild at a young age, only thirteen years old. Her mother and father were in more legal careers, but didn’t mind her business: as long as she was safe and happy, they were happy for her. However, this was soon to change when her mother was caught practicing magic, and arrested for witchcraft. At only fifteen years old, Anidori witnessed her mother’s public execution by the Sand Devils, a group dedicated to hunting down and killing those who performed magic.

Besides this trauma, Anidori continued to grow with a relatively alright life. She made friends, especially amongst her thieves’ guild, and eventually found herself with a girlfriend: a tiefling girl named Aran, the daughter of the baker down the street, and a baker herself. It was through her that Anidori really discovered her love for cooking– when one partner bakes and the other cooks, after all, well. That’s a power couple for certain.

Anoriath is a half-dryad divination wizard. Anoriath’s mother was a dryad, and his father was an elven wizard who shared his name (this was, in fact, where he took his name when he picked it, being a trans man). Though the two were very in love, the dryad couldn’t bear to leave her forest, and the wizard couldn’t bear to part from his studies.

After his father left his mother, Anoriath grew up with her in the forest, where he became very close to all the nature in it. However, he would visit the nearest village for a week at a time when his mother needed time alone to photosynthesize. He was consistently fascinated by the technologies and magics that merchants sold; and what he lacked in social graces, he made up for in sunny disposition and pure curiosity. Anoriath made friends with a few of the merchants who frequented the village, and one who knew of his father’s background suggested that, between his curiosity and his likely innate talent for magic, he should consider learning magic in some way. Eager to learn more, Anoriath agreed, and set out towards the nearest city to find himself a mentor.

It took him a lot of searching to find someone who would take a half-tree with no magic experience at all; but eventually, struck by his sheer thirst for knowledge, a human wizard named Ixahla decided to take him under her wing. She tried teaching him for nearly a year, but became very frustrated with how slowly he was progressing– despite his interest in knowledge, he took his time with things (as trees are prone to). For Ixahla, who was a fast-paced learner and teacher, this was unacceptable. She evicted him from her tutelage, leaving him mentorless.

Taliesin is a tabaxi cleric of the Raven Queen. Taliesin, despite having a good childhood, grew up to be an incredibly depressed teen. Even after transitioning, her depression didn’t ease; and despite her family and her tribe’s kindness and attempts to help, she just became more miserable at the fact that nothing was helping. Finally, she made the decision to leave to go adventuring: though she told her tribe she was going in the hopes that meeting new people might bring her new hope, her true intention was to die and help some people along the way.

Philia is a tiefling cleric of Sune, the goddess of love and beauty. Growing up the only tieflings in a small village, Philia’s family decided to move when she was about 12. They moved to the capital of the country, where they were no longer the only tieflings; but the move cost them a lot, and Philia had to resort to petty thievery for food when they didn’t have enough. This changed only a few months later, when she stumbled across the temple of Sune in the city. The acolytes welcomed her with open arms, telling her that surely Sune had led her here for them to help her. From that moment on, Philia dedicated herself to Sune, becoming an acolyte, and eventually a priestess. It wasn’t easy being a tiefling and a follower of Sune: some of the acolytes were there more for the material benefits and lavish lifestyle of following Sune than for her actual philosophies; and occasionally, followers who didn’t know her would harass her, or even on occasion attack her.

Nia is a high elf lore bard/wildmagic sorcerer (their main instrument is keyboards; they prefer piano, but have a portable synth and also mbira that they use for casting.) Given to a conservatory at a young age by their parents, Nia grew up a musical prodigy and quickly flew through all their studies. Unsatisfied with finishing early, they took it upon themself to learn magic as well. At only 14 (a young age even for a human, but practically a baby for an elf), they left the conservatory to find a mentor so that they could become a bard. They found a human man named Sander, who took them on as an apprentice after they thoroughly impressed him with their musical skills.