Once the Baroness of Howls in the Nightmare Court, when Mordremoth awoke the one she thought most loyal to her began hunting her down, and she ended up losing herself to the call at the worst possible time, just as she was merging with one of her nightmare hounds in hopes of escaping her Knight's fiery wrath.
Transformed into a quadrupedal beast of thorns, Nytum wandered the jungle, attacking anyone she came across, obeying her master's will along with her twisted pack of hounds.
That was until the attack on Auric Basin, where a moment of hesitation at a familiar face resulted in severe wounds. Maimed and blinded by the pain, she ran away aimlessly until she fell into ancient ruins, deep enough for the dragon's call to give her respite as she struggled to survive.
The events after Mordremoth's deaths are blurry for her: the sudden silence giving way to the panic of clarity, desperation and begging for mercy at the golden city's gates, receiving news so heartbreaking she returned to her real self for the shock, and then lots of waiting and... kindness she did not deserve.
It took years for her to return to a life one could call normal, all thanks to old friends and enemies forgiving her, especially one of them who opened both her arms and heart to her, but now things are... fine. More than she deserves, probably.
She's learning how to be a merchant, she's seeing things in Tyria she never considered before, and, as unpleasant as it is, she is ready to transform into a wretched creature of thorns if what she loves is threatened.
Still, Nytum kept something from Maguuma, a Mordrem wolf she found and tamed to prove to herself that, if there was hope for such a creature, then there was hope for herself.
Grimbloom is scary, so most of the time they hide its true appearance with illusions, but it's a softie and eager to help out. Maoulmuire doesn't mind, she's a necromancer after all, and Apribag does like a seemingly tireless beast to carry more wares.
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Morwen was a Dreamer, and a devoted one at that! She wholly believed in Ventari's teachings, and thought the Pale Mother can do no wrong, almost to a fault.
A few people believed her to be a favorite of the Pale Mother, and while it's true that Morwen spent a lot of time in her presence whenever she was at the Grove, it was mostly her asking for things she could help with (being a talented mender) or directly searching for her guidance and reassurance, as she never forgave herself for how her actions had inadvertently driven a dear friend of hers to Nightmare.
The attack on the Pale Tree terribly shook Morwen to the core, so much that after the attack on Camp Resolve she insisted on sailing with the Pact Fleet to help put an end to the elder dragon who caused it all. Sadly, that's where her life would be cut short, by the last person she'd expect to hurt her.
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5. Are they from the first batch of Secondborn or did they awaken at some later point? What's their opinion on the Firstborn?
She was awakened in 1317 AE, 15 years after the first batch of Secondborn.
While Morwen thinks some of the Firstborn tend to be a bit stuffy and too self-important at times, she had enough conversations with them to understand they're just like Secondborn, only with more weight on their shoulders that they can't show.
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18. [Free space for 3 pieces of trivia about your sylvari!]
- She and Maeveryl were besties, but also partners for a time! It didn't last long, as it was them emulating older sylvari as they were still young saplings who still had to understand themselves, but they remained so close that even after a long time apart they could still understand each other without needing to talk.
- She was extremely soft spoken and kind, but she could be quite assertive and not back down one bit once she set her mind to something. Useful thing, given she was a mender/medic, sort of helped by how her boyfriend Gareth liked to make fun of rookies: he'd tell them Morwen was actually an extremely evil witch that'd turn them into toads if they didn't behave, like she did with him many times, and then he'd set frogs around the infirmary tent. Morwen never liked that. ... okay it was just a little bit funny to see bigass battle-scarred charr look at her with uncertain fear.
- She had two pets, a fern hound named Rosebud and a snowy owl named Lune, and they both aided her when it came to using her druid powers. Rosebud was a gift from her then-dear friend Nytum and was a pup reared by her hounds, while Lune eventually became Eurys's pet after she awakened, sensing her energy through Eurys's revenant-like powers.
[adding a pic under readmore just to show her face]
(this pic is so old that it's done with the old shader and now I realize it made her look weird welp. I really gotta retake all portraits of my non-in-game ocs)
6. What is THE thing(s) that inspired you to make the character? Would they like it?
There was no "one thing" exactly, if not the story Heart of Thorns itself (and she did NOT like living that nightmare lmao).
Context: In 2019 I was really inspired and made a TON of OCs back to back to "fill out the story roster" (when you give a backstory to an OC, and then the mentioned entity becomes an OC, and then you give it a backstory, and then-) and get ideas for new in-game characters.
At that point I wanted a sylvari OCs who turned mordrem during HoT, and I ended up with her, albeit very different from her current self.
At some later point she split into two characters: Gareth took on her earlier backstory (Warden > Pale Reavers in the Pact) and part of her personality, while with her I went the Nightmare Court route. I think they already knew each other at some point, though that changed in vibe.
At that point I left Nytum's story at the good basis of "NC -> mordrem -> oh no that sucked, I was spared by someone I knew and I'm gonna be better now", waiting for something to make it sprout.
Well, her development picked up steam a few months later, when I was listening to music and got Defying Gravity and Crossing the Line in short succession.
I consider those THE key development factor in her (and Morwen's) story, as they perfectly defined their almost-relationships turning from love to bitterness and (still loving) regret.
Nytum would definitely like Rapunzel as a sapling, but she'd LOVE Wicked at any point of her story.
Her decision to join the Nightmare Court was accelerated and sealed when Morwen reacted strongly against her spending time with Courtiers, which Nytum felt as quite dissonant from the way she always encouraged her to live her life the way she wanted.
They weren't exactly "together" yet at that point, but despite Morwen trying to mend things and maintain their friendship before they parted ways, Nytum never really recovered from that rejection. Over the years and as she rose to power within the Court, she kept trying to bring Morwen to Nightmare as well (Faolain was a bad example and encouraged stuff like that), twisting more and more how things had gone to justify herself and her actions.
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16. Where were they when the call of Mordremoth struck? Did they hear and follow it, or did they resist it?
Being a Baroness in the Nightmare Court, Nytum was part of the group that followed Faolain into the Heart of Maguuma prior to Heart of Thorns, and she heard the call loud and clear along with everyone that was in the Court's camp.
Minutes before the call, the Pact Fleet soaring in the sky had the whole camp on edge, and Nytum and her Knight, Chandler, were busy calming down the pack of nightmare hounds that was having a disproportionate reaction to it all, clearly afraid of something beyond that as they tried to break free of their cages.
When hell broke loose, between the jungle erupting against the airships, the call itself and burning airships parts falling from the sky, the camp became part of the warzone. In the chaos, most of the hounds that survived ran away, either in fear or already turning, and only her two personal hounds (Thorn and Brier) and a few others remained at her side to fight the newly-turned... including her Knight, who had immediately given in, hungry for power and with a few personal bones to pick with his Baroness.
Chandler wanted her to turn as well, to give up those silly court games and finally be with him, but Nytum kept resisting, not believing the true colors of her most trusted confidant even as he wounded her in the fight and came clean about many things, all while torching or sending her hounds falling down the cracks with his boosted fire powers.
In the end she fell down the cracks as well, barely surviving the landing and her wounds, still resisting the call somehow while her Knight raged against her from afar.
To her luck, not long afterwards one of her hounds managed to find and reach her, wounded and without its companion. In a desperate attempt to escape before Chandler did the same, she merged with it... just as another of Mordremoth's calls struck.
[adding a pic under readmore just to show her face]
