#averrin

My recent characters in no particular order:

> A dominant, terrifying tyrant of a fey wilds. They are cruel and unforgiving and have changed the realm like it changed them - for they themselves were once marked by the fey. Passed around like a powerful - but utterly enslaved - toy, their name and powers stripped away from them. They didn't even understand the losses they were being mocked about. And then they died. And then the thirst for revenge brought them back. The old name didn't apply to them anymore. The fey lost their power over them - and they did not hesitate in dismantling the Courts, one by one, and uniting the Wilds under their one power. This new role scraped their soul hollow, leaving very little personality beyond cruelty and pain. Their soul is torn by ancient losses, and they can and will break if those aren't addressed - but their role does not allow weakness. If anyone smells even a drop of it.. they will be torn apart alive.

> A quiet, well-built guy, growing up on dead plains with only gray grass all around.. the dead plains wasn't a hyperbole, by the way. Those lands are marked by an old asteroid that crashed in there, and brought odd poisons with it. Nothing can prosper in those lands.. and yet animals and people alike manage to survive. His childhood was quiet and solitary, and the death of his mother to sickness was as well. It was an odd sickness, coming in waves... It took him years of sailing on the open sea after leaving his old home to realize where exactly that unknown sickness came from. The pristine seafoam, sneaking up on his mother, and eventually washing her away. Having to leave his life behind yet again, he hopes this next try will not end in the rushing of waves.

> A guard who is a bone carver in the present times. Getting born with a birth defect - muteness - is not immidiately a disadvantage in his culture. Unfortunately, his village was rather superstitious, and coincidence made it look like a curse from something deep inside the woods. Growing up without a language of his own and ostracized from his family and village, his emotional and language development was heavily stunted. There was supposed to be no future for him, and he's made peace with that. It takes little convincing for him to make a deal with this world's version of the devil, and sell his soul without second thought. It helps. For a few years. Before the woods begin trying to eat him.

> Youthful force of nature, a domain of space with a mind of its own. It was destined to replace the current civilisation, and reshape it into something new when the old world dies. It was to be vibrant, and entirely alien to how life is perceived in the current world. The current beings in power, however, did not want to perish - and chose to subject their world to a slow decay, rather than a transformation. They attacked this force of nature, and twisted and broke it, until it lost the ability to bring about the transformation. So now, it waits, full of memories of what never will be, and it waits for the world to end, so that everything will end. It is not bitter about this in the slightest. Trust. As a result of the twisting and breaking, it is able to break the fourth wall and peer beyond the limitations of the story it is being held in.

> Young cosmic god who wandered the empty universe and fought others of his kin, until he found a quiet corner to settle in, watched by distant stars. He carved and sculpted a city out of the sea cliffs, each cathedral a heartbeat, each empty building an echo of his soul. There was nobody there to keep him company other than the city he so dearly loved, and that in time begin to breathe and hum with life of its own. But everything that is alive can decay, and so did the city, poisoned by the wrath of the dark sea. The god's beloved city crumpled under his hands, his heart torn out and the scar burned by seawater, until he drowned in that very sea. He has never spoken to another person, as he lived long before the tongues of men were invented.

> Young hatchling of something that would have been great and cheerful.. were it not thrown into what I affectionately call Superhell. It forgot how to speak as times went on, but it learned to hunt and fight and flee very quickly. Basically going from an almost fully formed person into an animalistic, powerful beast, that can never get a restful night's sleep. Once he got out, it took months for him to be able to speak to another person, and he still hasn't figured out what he was supposed to be before all this - or what he is supposed to be now. For this one guy though, at least the times are really good now.

> A kid, born with a strange and ancient power - power over bones. His family was thrown into chaos the moment the gift has shown - the constant tensions between keeping the kid free and growing, and safe and under control. A special amulet managed to contain the curse's powers, but it still hums and dreams within him. He wishes to use it for good, but he can not do that if he can not learn to use it in the first place. His parents went to see a Seer to determine where the power came from, but the Seer's sight got burned and she still had no answers. There was a time when he had two spines, before he figured out how to change his bones back.

> A young soldier trainee, always focused, always vigilant. On the run from her own country and army, hiding away in the next country and hoping to run away to a whole another continent. She remembers little of what happened to her as a kid, but it was enough to shatter her mind into several pieces. She has to cooperate with the new people inside her mind to not get caught, finish her training - and keep herself intact. She is almost painfully sharp, comcerningly smart, and deeply fragile. Which she obviously deals with like the well-adjusted adult she isn't. When she finds a host family to stay with, she almost manages to find a sense of normalcy. Everything goes to hell once she begins to detangle what happened to her, and when she finds out the country she plans to emigrating to is the same one that opresses her host family.