#paliano

📍: Paliano

Non ci resta che piangere (1984, Robert Benigni and Massimo Troisi)

Since I’m still preparing to post some story developments about her that happened on New Capenna, let’s do a quick summary of the character (beyond her old character sheet) and what happened to her up until the point she went to New Capenna.

She’s an Azra from a fan-plane. As part of Azran culture on that plane, the true name of any Azra is a well-kept secret, generally only known of them, their spouse(s), and their demonic ancestor. Day to day, they use other names they choose for themselves. Dolores isn’t Dolores’s true name, and she tends to use a different one on every plane. Though most of the time I don’t bother with that myself for clarity and call her Dolores.

She grew in a city with quite a few siblings and her parents, trying their best to set their children on promising paths despite their own humble origins. And sometimes despite what said children wanted.

Dolores ended up a nurse, apprenticed to a physician (she will never mention this part of her past and good luck finding out,) and there she learned to use magic in the form of a few minor pain relief spells, taking patients’ pain away from them and turning it into harmless light.

She practiced with what she knew and developed those spells into much more than they were ever meant to be, and a form of magic all her own. Using pain as a fuel for many different spells or using it as it was. But before she got too far into that, she had a confrontation with her father, a bad one.

It ended up with her sparking, and forever hating her father, wanting him dead, and worse. But the demon patriarch of their family intervened and exiled him instead, giving him a new name and a new life, a decision she still resents. She occasionally looks for him when she’s back on her home plane.

Her first planeswalk landed her in Trest, on Fiora. There, she made a new career for herself, still improving her mastery of her magic and of torture, of the art of getting answers and knowing if they’re true. No shortage of places or people to practice that on Fiora. Her unique style, and her ability to leave no marks on her targets, gained the attention of an ambitious and favored noble, Leovold, who took her under his employ.

When he was sent to Paliano as an emissary, he brought her with him, as a minor noble of his entourage.

Paliano was when she started getting into the scheming herself. Always wanting to get her worth, she slowly offered her services to more and more of the factions of the city, thinking she was playing them against each other and telling them all she was really working for them and double-crossing the others. She’s good at torturing people. She’ll tell you she’s the best. But she’s no sadist, she doesn’t take pleasure in inflicting pain, it’s just something she’s very good at and how she earns her pay and place.

In Paliano, she met her current girlfriend, a bounty hunter that sometimes was the one to brought her the people she’d work on, a Zendikari vampire planeswalker named Inza (belonging to @astrisjanus).

...But her stunts in Paliano didn’t last more than a year. One night, blades and clubs were drawn on her, along with a couple of crossbows. She got badly hurt, but unintentionally turned into a demon temporarily after being cornered and wounded. This isn’t a thing Azras do on her plane nor something she thought possible, and she has no idea how it happened in the first place.

Next thing she knew, her assailants were dead. She met up with Inza, and they salvaged what they could from Dolores’s home in Paliano, already turned over and partially burned. They fled together and (after some crying,) Dolores resolved to make herself a new life in a new place. Maybe not repeat some of her mistakes. Inza might have a place in mind for that, a city named New Capenna.

I wrote a story, a little while back, about a Fioran mage with ADHD named Levantera (my icon is a chibi, courtesy of @isharton, of her (source in the image)), a former custodi, now King Brago’s only Caller (a position made specially for her), who specializes in communing with spirits. As you may have guessed, this story takes place shortly before the events of Conspiracy: Take the Crown. I recently forced my all too-patient friend @flavoracle to give it a read and his feedback has proven very useful. So, emboldened by his kind words, I’ve decided to post it again, in shameless self-promotion, and see if anyone else would be interested in giving it a read.

I tried to follow the structure that we typically see in stories from @wizardsmagic‘s awesome Creative team itself, to facilitate reading by adding some relevant images at semi-regular intervals.

The story is on Google Docs and can be found here.

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