#kythereia

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Thanks so much! For Kythereia, my disaster aasimar monk:

13. What is the most heroic act they’ve ever done?

She has more than once seen a predatory-looking person threaten a girl and beaten them up in an alley. She’s 7 feet of emotion, recklessness, and fists. (Once she sees some gameplay we’ll see what else happens lol)

20. Do they have a family?

She has a water genasi husband who’s working on his fantasy PhD in artificing, specializing in health tech. He’s the first family she’s really had, and they adore each other. They own a few cats.

25. Give a condensed back story!

Kythereia was raised in a monastery devoted to art and aestheticism. She was doted on, and trained in the fine and martial arts, but was treated less like a person and more like an art piece herself. She started sneaking out and got involved in a fighting ring nearby, where eventually, a particularly dirty fight got her functionally kicked out of the monastery until further notice and cost her some limbs…. Took some time to recover from that, but she’s got some sweet magic prostheses that her crush-to-lover-to-spouse created and maintains. Now she’s looking for odd adventuring work to earn some cash as her husband finishes his degree.

Gender: Female

Pronunciation: kee-THER-ee-a

Origin: Greek

Meaning: Woman from Kythera; Red one

You ask me, my dear children about the dominions of Love. Know that Love is the way, not an end. Love is the Creative Power that gives Life to the Universe and keeps all things in perfect Balance. Love is the primeval force; joy, happiness…spring from it, and are but the state of fulfilled Love – the Reunion. Know that Love will not grow in the desperate or needy heart, for a flower needs a fertile soil to grow in beauty, so does Love. Hate, envy…are nothing but the absence of Love, that acts like a needy and voracious maelstrom. Love is not to be found inside you, or outside – Love is what connects you with all creations. The Key to the Mystery beyond Existence, my Mystery. I am Ourania, Asteria, Queen of the Stars, for mine is the thread that keeps them apart in the tapestry of the Heavens. And mine is the force that heartens the human soul in its quest for immortality. Open then your heart, for love is also my gift. Let it fill your heart and soul. Let it overflow you and pour out on the earth. Should your heart suffer, let Love flow into it. Should it suffer more, let the flow be a stream. Should you despair, let it be a current, a torrent, a cascade! Let it fill your whole existence! Let yourself become a beacon of it!

Love is the Way, and to you, my beloved priests and priestesses, is also the Quest. And you shall walk the earth, and the Heavens, and venture yourself in the domains of the deep Earth, always guided by me, the Evening and the Morning Star – and always with Love in your hearts.