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Before you looms an intimidating titan of a woman. A physical specimen, she stands well over six foot (very tall for a woman) and in excess of a hundred-ninety pounds, fit more for professional netball or the UFC than the middle aged ex-housewife she purports to be. Thick with lean muscle, there is hardly an ounce of fat anywhere on her. She moves like the wind, a terrifying combination of sheer physical size and power combined with an impossibly durable frame built for heavy fighting. Her skin is tough like bark and here and there leaves sprout unbidden, often in inconvenient locations, like between her fingers. | Before you looms an intimidating titan of a woman. A physical specimen, she stands well over six foot (very tall for a woman) and in excess of a hundred-ninety pounds, fit more for professional netball or the UFC than the middle aged ex-housewife she purports to be. Thick with lean muscle, there is hardly an ounce of fat anywhere on her. She moves like the wind, a terrifying combination of sheer physical size and power combined with an impossibly durable frame built for heavy fighting. Her skin is tough like bark and here and there leaves sprout unbidden, often in inconvenient locations, like between her fingers. | ||
− | Among people she is clad in simple clothing, usually figure-hugging jeans or track pants and a t-shirt, often one or two sizes too small for her. A tattoo of the "Third Eye" sprouts from her forehead, and two great antlers spring from inside a shock of wild red hair inexplicably tangled with leaves. She often suppresses these as they are tell-tale signs that she is Fey, but on close inspection one can identify her. Out in the wilds in her 'persona' as the Emerald Lady, she often wears a beautiful green dress, long frayed skirt and a matching hood. | + | Among people she is clad in simple clothing, usually figure-hugging jeans or track pants and a t-shirt, often one or two sizes too small for her. A tattoo of the "Third Eye" sprouts from her forehead, and two great antlers spring from inside a shock of wild red hair inexplicably tangled with leaves. She often suppresses these as they are tell-tale signs that she is Fey, but on close inspection one can identify her. Out in the wilds in her 'persona' as the Emerald Lady, she often wears a beautiful green dress, long frayed skirt and a matching hood. Her skin is hardened and leathery to the touch like old bark. |
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Nym was born Gabriella Campagna to a mother of Italian descent and a father from the states. Raised in Rhode Island, New England, she grew up assimiliating American cultural values and views on life. When she was still young, her mother successfully campaigned to have her raised according to her cultural heritage and returned to Italy to complete middle school. Instead of attending university, she held down a quiet yet successful job as a hairdresser in Florence before she met a man (also from the states) and ended up marrying him and mothering three daughters and one son (in order of descending age): Isabella, Lucretzia, Fluoro and Leonardo. She was content running her hairdressing business while her husband was often away in the states on business. Marrying into wealth, her family was well provided for and Nym believed (errantly) that she was happy. Despite this she was wracked by recurring nightmares and a niggling sense that she was missing something, something important. This would cause strains on her social relationships with others among her friends and family and cause many to remark on 'what's wrong with her'. Viewed objectively, Nym had it all; beautiful children, a 'loving' husband, good friends and enough wealth that she would never worry about finances. Yet despite all this Nym was still deeply unhappy. It was as if her heart was broken, nothing seemed to satisfy her and she fell into a deep melancholy for several years. Tired of hearing about her misery, her friends and family turned against her and her marriage grew turbulent. Nym did the best that she could, tried to be as loving a mother for her children as they could want, but her efforts were inexplicably thwarted time and time again because despite her best intentions, mothering four children was not her true calling. Nym's children loved her despite this and protecting them and keeping them safe would become her raison detre (reason for living) and guiding principle in a world filled with darkness. | Nym was born Gabriella Campagna to a mother of Italian descent and a father from the states. Raised in Rhode Island, New England, she grew up assimiliating American cultural values and views on life. When she was still young, her mother successfully campaigned to have her raised according to her cultural heritage and returned to Italy to complete middle school. Instead of attending university, she held down a quiet yet successful job as a hairdresser in Florence before she met a man (also from the states) and ended up marrying him and mothering three daughters and one son (in order of descending age): Isabella, Lucretzia, Fluoro and Leonardo. She was content running her hairdressing business while her husband was often away in the states on business. Marrying into wealth, her family was well provided for and Nym believed (errantly) that she was happy. Despite this she was wracked by recurring nightmares and a niggling sense that she was missing something, something important. This would cause strains on her social relationships with others among her friends and family and cause many to remark on 'what's wrong with her'. Viewed objectively, Nym had it all; beautiful children, a 'loving' husband, good friends and enough wealth that she would never worry about finances. Yet despite all this Nym was still deeply unhappy. It was as if her heart was broken, nothing seemed to satisfy her and she fell into a deep melancholy for several years. Tired of hearing about her misery, her friends and family turned against her and her marriage grew turbulent. Nym did the best that she could, tried to be as loving a mother for her children as they could want, but her efforts were inexplicably thwarted time and time again because despite her best intentions, mothering four children was not her true calling. Nym's children loved her despite this and protecting them and keeping them safe would become her raison detre (reason for living) and guiding principle in a world filled with darkness. | ||
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With the advent of the secret war, Nym ended up swallowing a Bee, but far from changing her into a servant of Gaia, she remembered that she already was one. This further strengthened the schism in her heart and having always played the role of the dutiful, submissive housewife - and truly thinking that this was all she could aspire to in life - Nym found her newly reawakened powers and innate sense of power to clash with her husbands expectations of her as a wife. This caused an irreconcilable riftin their relationship. With the advent of her 'powers' only further isolating her from all the muggles around her, Nym fled into the night, abandoning her husband and four children without warning. | With the advent of the secret war, Nym ended up swallowing a Bee, but far from changing her into a servant of Gaia, she remembered that she already was one. This further strengthened the schism in her heart and having always played the role of the dutiful, submissive housewife - and truly thinking that this was all she could aspire to in life - Nym found her newly reawakened powers and innate sense of power to clash with her husbands expectations of her as a wife. This caused an irreconcilable riftin their relationship. With the advent of her 'powers' only further isolating her from all the muggles around her, Nym fled into the night, abandoning her husband and four children without warning. | ||
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Becoming her own agent for a time a middle aged Nym wandered for several years, eventually coming to terms with her nightmares. With the benefit of time, what had appeared superficially as nightmares were revealed as the memories of previous lives and the significant traumas she had experienced in service to Gaia. During this time Nym met and became fast friends with a man known as Atley, and a woman known as Casey, the latter becoming an important member of her family, while the former convinced her to at last give up the responsibility of the monstrous sword Regret . This was of great importance to Nym as it symbolised a contract she had forged in blood lifetimes earlier. Immediately she felt her spirit lightened and gladly relinquished the cursed sword to Atley's safekeeping, finding herself a simpler, less storied weapon to use in the meantime. In her interactions with Atley and Casey, Nym came to understand that her reason for being was to protect others and that if she did her job right she could shield her husband and her family from the familiar horrors of the Secret World. This also provided pathos to Nym as her decision to abandon her family, and later the Templars, had never sat right with her. Reconciled with her 'nightmares' and with Regret put to rest, Nym saw the world for what it was and her place within it became clear. Nym's purpose was to protect. To shield those weaker than she. She had performed this task countless times for Gaia and now, blessedly, she would do so by choice. | Becoming her own agent for a time a middle aged Nym wandered for several years, eventually coming to terms with her nightmares. With the benefit of time, what had appeared superficially as nightmares were revealed as the memories of previous lives and the significant traumas she had experienced in service to Gaia. During this time Nym met and became fast friends with a man known as Atley, and a woman known as Casey, the latter becoming an important member of her family, while the former convinced her to at last give up the responsibility of the monstrous sword Regret . This was of great importance to Nym as it symbolised a contract she had forged in blood lifetimes earlier. Immediately she felt her spirit lightened and gladly relinquished the cursed sword to Atley's safekeeping, finding herself a simpler, less storied weapon to use in the meantime. In her interactions with Atley and Casey, Nym came to understand that her reason for being was to protect others and that if she did her job right she could shield her husband and her family from the familiar horrors of the Secret World. This also provided pathos to Nym as her decision to abandon her family, and later the Templars, had never sat right with her. Reconciled with her 'nightmares' and with Regret put to rest, Nym saw the world for what it was and her place within it became clear. Nym's purpose was to protect. To shield those weaker than she. She had performed this task countless times for Gaia and now, blessedly, she would do so by choice. | ||
− | Eventually she came across Cucuvea in Transylvania who looked her straight in the eye and said something that caused a deep recognition within her. They talked late into the night and come the morning Nym made to leave, but Cucuvea said to her 'You've been down that road before. Is that really where you want to go?' Baying her to stay, Nym came to live with Cucuvea and became her live-in protege, student to an unconventional and often crotchety old crone. After some months of apprenticeship the old woman abruptly came to her, informing her that she could not teach anymore and that the 'fledgling bird must leave the nest sooner or later'. She advised Nym learn more about the Filth so she could understand not only her enemy, but more importantly why she fought. | + | |
+ | Eventually she came across Cucuvea in Transylvania who looked her straight in the eye and said something that caused a deep recognition within her. They talked late into the night and come the morning Nym made to leave, but Cucuvea said to her 'You've been down that road before. Is that really where you want to go?' Baying her to stay, Nym came to live with Cucuvea and became her live-in protege, student to an unconventional and often crotchety old crone. After some months of apprenticeship the old woman abruptly came to her, informing her that she could not teach anymore and that the 'fledgling bird must leave the nest sooner or later'. She advised Nym learn more about the Filth so she could understand not only her enemy, but more importantly why she fought. | ||
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Nym battled the corruption in Transylvanian personally over the years, eventually completing her tutalege with Cucuvea and on seeing the degredation of the Forest firsthand and the many foes that threatened it, she agreed to stay. Taking up the mantle of the 'Emerald Lady', Nym took her first footsteps on the path to becoming Cucuvea's replacement and finally granting the old woman the right of death, her sacred task complete. At this point the woman known as Nym became a distant memory, known only to a select few, and arising from the ashes of her spirit was a terrifying agent of nature known as the Emerald Lady, providing safe habour to allies and bringing swift retribution to enemies of nature. | Nym battled the corruption in Transylvanian personally over the years, eventually completing her tutalege with Cucuvea and on seeing the degredation of the Forest firsthand and the many foes that threatened it, she agreed to stay. Taking up the mantle of the 'Emerald Lady', Nym took her first footsteps on the path to becoming Cucuvea's replacement and finally granting the old woman the right of death, her sacred task complete. At this point the woman known as Nym became a distant memory, known only to a select few, and arising from the ashes of her spirit was a terrifying agent of nature known as the Emerald Lady, providing safe habour to allies and bringing swift retribution to enemies of nature. | ||
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- Nym is a newly raised member of the Fey Court and a minor deity with several domains, notably protection, nature and Travel. You can pray to her and she can sense her 'name' being invoked in from a vast distance. She can also sense when others tap into spells, powers or skills that have any of her domains as a key theme. | - Nym is a newly raised member of the Fey Court and a minor deity with several domains, notably protection, nature and Travel. You can pray to her and she can sense her 'name' being invoked in from a vast distance. She can also sense when others tap into spells, powers or skills that have any of her domains as a key theme. | ||
− | + | Nym is a reluctant deity. She rarely answers calls for the sake of he own peace of mind and is usually content to let others resolve their own problems for the most part, but particularly impassioned pleas can move her. She does acknowledge all the prayers that she can but only commits as a last resort. She can grant some of her power to others in close physical proximity, or when another is closely aligned with her thematically. | |
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''Protection:'' This domain extends to protecting others or self, wards, abjuration magicks. Those who need shelter or protection are often drawn to her without knowing why and Nym will often protect those who are less experienced than she is. This, combined with her Nature domain, also mean that she automatically grounds other people near her. Her presence provides those who wish it great reassurance and a sense of peace, that everything is under control. | ''Protection:'' This domain extends to protecting others or self, wards, abjuration magicks. Those who need shelter or protection are often drawn to her without knowing why and Nym will often protect those who are less experienced than she is. This, combined with her Nature domain, also mean that she automatically grounds other people near her. Her presence provides those who wish it great reassurance and a sense of peace, that everything is under control. | ||
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