#karesh

This is a doozy of a story so buckle up if you want to hear it!

Basically, my lamorn OC Karesh was a scientist in the laboratory in the Ice Belt. However, he was turned into a lamorn during a green energy rain shower, not the great tragedy shower, and so therefore he was turned into a griever. Millennia later, his griever instincts left him in Fury Green, right in the path of my other OC Doctor (almost but I’ll get to that) Elara Voss.

Background on Voss: she was a student at a technological university but she was scrutinized by her professors because the professors had more knowledge than her about what she is capable of and what path she should be on instead but she refused to accept that being in a doctorate of science was not her path. The professors saw her becoming a historian and a degree in ancient histories because she really had a knack for it and secretly she had a passion for it. In a fury, she decided to pry open the restricted area of the artifact vault to a secret device that not even the most advanced professors could figure out, and she decided to mess around with it to try and make it work to prove that she was deserving of a science degree. However said device was a teleporter key from one of the 13 lamorn that didn’t return. She activated it and actually was sent to Viewros. She crash landed in Fury Green and over time after throwing a fit and getting angry at her surroundings, Voss eventually began to let her historical passions slip and she began to document and study everything. Apparently, there were already people there that had left. There were human federation additions to ancient technology and so she knew that she had to keep going to find out more. She eventually found out that there was a group of stranded federation troops that had made it out somehow due to the things they left behind. Voss COULD find a way to escape and prove once and for all that she was worthy of a doctorate in science BUT she decided to explore the ruins, thus choosing the path that her professors had wanted her on all along.

Back to Karesh. Voss realized that the lamorn was an extinct version of the grievers. She accidentally on a whim decided to try and reverse it herself, to which she used her advanced chemistry certificate (not degree ik what I’m talking about) and decided to try separating the green energy from the water base compound it was in. She succeeded and so when Karesh as a griever came, she accidentally cured him.

Karesh was beyond culture shocked and disgusted at how his species basically died. However he found peace that the memory fruit and the chosen one had indeed came and left. Over time, Elara and Karesh cured whatever populace they could and began to rebuild Viewros albeit with many setbacks. Elara lost her physical form after being almost killed by a griever but she gained a Lamorn synthetic tissue body that eventually overtook her human body that was patched up by the lamorn synthetic tissue.

Elara was reunited with her professors which granted her diploma in ancient xenohistory and (to her annoyance that it wasn’t another diploma) an advanced certificate in chemistry. Elara eventually accepted her path and her mission and her and Karesh became mates. Viewros became established and Elara, despite her pleads that her intentions were purely accidental at the beginning, was seen as the true chosen one. Because she had actually saved them. The funny thing is that the lamorn keep calling her Doctor Voss, thinking that Doctor is her first name and Voss being her last. She does have a Lamorn name, E’Varya, which means ‘savior of the earth’ but no one ever calls her that unless it’s in writing only.

to be clear: this university that she was a part of was like a boarding school college with professors being also like personal guidance counselors that would guide the student to be wherever they saw the student benefiting the most. Elara refused to leave the science wing of said school but there were other sections of the school, like history and medicine and English, but she only knew the science wing. She wasn’t gonna get kicked out of the school in entirety. The school is an unpronounceable name, an extinct language that only the founder of the school named it and knew what it meant, so they just call it the school.

Xy'ela + Anwar

Xy'ela and its bug friend Anwar for @xalatath / @xyela

At first she was struggling with the fear of missing out hard. As she sees it, she really owes Dice for the suggestion to talk to Talonoa as that has led to a lot of growth within her and Talonoa took a chance on her that she is very appreciative for that. The crew is very important to her and she wanted to be out there with them. Now, she feels guilt. Rationally, she knows that she wouldn’t have made a difference one way or another, but to have people she cares about come home with injuries, really sits in the center of her. As serious as she was taking her train, she will be even more focused after this.

(Mentions of @dicenne and @talonoa )

Does anyone else just feel like how the wastelanders are treated is really gross??

They been betrayed and abandoned for thousands of years, trapped on a shattered desert planet. They struggling to just survive on the hostile rocks.

They old kin show beck up, call them 'feral' thieves and murderers and don't let them inside the eco-domes, the only places with water/flora/fauna.

So the wasterlands of course attack and raid the domes, like duh. If the brokers were so willing to spend a fortune investing in the domes, why not like just provide for the wastelanders to stop their attacks? Surely sharing food and supplies would be less expensive then an eco-dome.

I don't care that the wastelanders are murders that want revenge. They were betrayed, their home destroyed, and themselves physically altered against their will by the sorcerer elite. I support their revenge.

And then, we the player help Xal'atath lie directly to the wasterlanders face so they will fight and die for us. That made me feel so so slimy.

This clearly doesnt end well either, hence the eco-dome dungeon where we kill them.

Dora could say that she had felt true fear plenty of times before. When she was seven her mother’s horse had nearly trampled her. When she was nine she had accidentally wandered into the Wisteria training field and nearly got skewered by a javelin. When she was fourteen and had publicly danced with Everand during a royal gala. 

None of those were as terrifying as being stared down at by a Elder dragon. Seong and Karesh were both pinned to the ground by the Elder’s forelimbs, unable to even squirm under its weight.

Karesh: Epser; he/him; A talented spy with a knack for illusion and teleportation magics.

Cypheus: Bant; he/him; A powerful astromancer who draws strength from the starry sky.

Malain: Dimir; they/them; An insane diviner, who gains their divination from the bodies and blood of the deceased. 

Ventir: Mardu; he/him; A dangerous vampire knight who’s honor and pride nearly outweigh his brutality and ruthlessness

Xhiltas: Izzet; he/him; A genius of a mage with an uncanny alacrity for insane experimentation.

Adrick: Black; he/him; A demented Dementist who can wield the nightmares of his enemies as well as his own.

Ingdiir: Blue; she/her; A tenacious cryomancer who can warp water into her own Frost Familiars

Krishai (OT): Jeskai; he/him; A calculated monk who’s precise strikes can redirect his opponents power against him.

Krishai (AT): Azorious; he/him; A passionate monk who aeromancy allows him to control the gales and strengthen his wings.

Prophet: Mardu; he/him; An aggressive angel who’s fall from grace only empowered his righteous fervor.

Colors: WUB

Species: Human

Plane of Origin: Dromnire (fanplane)

First Planeswalk: Esper

Appearance: Average height, ordinary hair, unassuming face, one of the most generic humans you’ve seen

Backstory: Karesh was born on Dromnir, a plane full of political intrigue. Mages and Warlords struggling for power endlessly. Karesh found himself working as a spy for various parties, so long as they were paying well enough. Through a mixture of Teleportation and invisibility magics he could allude most guards and security. Life was a challenge, but a welcome one, until the arrival of one certain Planeswalking Elder Dragon. Nicol Bolas sought to claim the plane for his own, and end the petty squabbles. The local Lord’s, however, did not take too kindly to an outsider trying to claim power, and resisted, to their own demise. Karesh also attempted to aid against the Planeswalker, but to no avail. During the Siege of the Final City Karesh was helpless to stop him, his powers were no match for the Elder Dragon’s. As Bolas was removing the last of the vermin from his new realm, Karesh experienced an overwhelming surge of power, not enough to stop the dragon, but enough to save himself, warping away at the last moment, this time not to a safehouse, but to another plane entirely. The Shard of Alara: Esper.