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Note: Much of the following took place in character (including interactions with Nym's family) | Note: Much of the following took place in character (including interactions with Nym's family) | ||
− | Nym was born Gabriella Campagna to a mother of Italian descent and a father from the states. Raised in | + | 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. | ||
− | + | She travelled for many years before she would return to them and in this time she found a very gentle, light hearted peace in her heart. To Nym's surprise, she learned that she loved travelling, going to new countries, trying new foods and speaking to strange people. Initially joining the Templars who promised her resolution to her questions, she didn't stay long before realising they were mostly smoke and mirrors. She ended up travelling the world alone for two years and when she found herself in Asia, was contacted by the Dragon. She ended up serving with them dutifully for a number of years despite a growing sense of unease. Fearing a second 'recurrence' of what caused her to leave her family in the first place, she fled. At some point she also came into contact with an ancient weapon of power, a sword from the Third Age which spoke to her in a way she could not understand. It was so heavy and physically demanding to wield that she was forced to undergo strength training to safely handle it. When her hands finally closed on the hilt and she drew the great weapon from it's sheath, she was overwhelmed by a feeling of unexplained sorrow, hereafter nicknaming the sword Regret, and remarked to Gaia that the weapon resonated with her, as if she had held it previously. | |
− | + | 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. | |
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− | + | 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. | ||
''Note: Nym did eventually reunite with her family and agreed to stay in touch when her duties didn't keep her busy. She has kept her promise to this day, even if her daughters don't understand - or believe - that she is who she says she is. Despite this, the eldest, Isabella has shown a facility in protecting others similar to Nym herself, while Lucretzia picked up Nym's talent for magic.'' | ''Note: Nym did eventually reunite with her family and agreed to stay in touch when her duties didn't keep her busy. She has kept her promise to this day, even if her daughters don't understand - or believe - that she is who she says she is. Despite this, the eldest, Isabella has shown a facility in protecting others similar to Nym herself, while Lucretzia picked up Nym's talent for magic.'' |
Revision as of 13:52, 10 November 2020
'Nym (the Emerald Lady)'
Played by: Unknown