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MC (Arbore): You are a triplet from a village where that isn't allowed. Thirdborns are a sin, and triplets are unheard of. Most thirdborn children are left to die in the forest or die quite young in accidents. You are a pariah in the community. You manage to survive until the maturity ceremony, and that is when everything goes wrong. You will leave the village with two people and meet others along the way. Those people are:
Amber: is a thirdborn and a healer. Her gift comes from her being trained in medicine, growing up in the village. She was allowed to be born because her sister was sickly and wasn't supposed to survive childhood, but when she did, her village tried to cast her out. The spirits, in turn, swallowed the village and turned it into a swamp. She remains in the village in the last standing house, the one where she did all her training.
Alvise: is a secondborn and has weapons training. He has no gifts and comes from a rather brutal village that he was cast out of after killing his father, the first elder of the village, not before being tortured and permanently disfigured by his older brother, who took the spot of first elder after his father's death. Some months after he was cast out, his entire village died off; no bodies were found, but all buildings were left standing. This village was by a large river and sits low because of this; Alvise can fish. (more to come)
Alecto: was a firstborn who left her village after many people fell ill due to her curse/power she is afraid to touch people. She is quiet, and her hands are always covered. She is from the neighboring Acacia village that your elders had tried to offer you to before your coming-of-age ceremony to avoid sending you off to die in the forest. They never heard back because the village had already died for sending her away.
Caius was drawn to being by the shadow spirits. He was crafted from the souls of others who lived in the fog beyond. Well, that is how he introduces himself. It is close enough to the truth that he doesn't feel bad for it. The spirits are curious, and he is there to investigate.
