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=• Life History •= | =• Life History •= | ||
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Nym was born Gabriella Campagna to a mother of Italian descent and a father from the states. Raised in Long Island 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'. Nym quickly tired of hearing these accusations, especially as she did her best to be a mother her children could be proud of, but often fell short because mothering four children was not her true calling. Despite this, her children loved her. They could sense her heart was in the right place and Nym was often the glue that kept the family together through what would end up being a rocky marriage. | Nym was born Gabriella Campagna to a mother of Italian descent and a father from the states. Raised in Long Island 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'. Nym quickly tired of hearing these accusations, especially as she did her best to be a mother her children could be proud of, but often fell short because mothering four children was not her true calling. Despite this, her children loved her. They could sense her heart was in the right place and Nym was often the glue that kept the family together through what would end up being a rocky marriage. | ||
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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. Having always played the role of the dutiful, submissive housewife, Nym found her newly reawakened powers to clash with her husbands expectations of her as a wife and ended up leaving the family without giving an adequate reason as to why. This ended up being a major source of regret for her and caused significant tensions in her already strained relationships with friends and family. | 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. Having always played the role of the dutiful, submissive housewife, Nym found her newly reawakened powers to clash with her husbands expectations of her as a wife and ended up leaving the family without giving an adequate reason as to why. This ended up being a major source of regret for her and caused significant tensions in her already strained relationships with friends and family. | ||
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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, the se were revealed to be memories of distant lives and of significant traumas she had experienced. 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. | 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, the se were revealed to be memories of distant lives and of significant traumas she had experienced. 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. | ||
− | 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 sword she had brought with her. 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 is to protect others, that if she did her job right, her son and daughters need never learn of the horrors of the Secret World. | + | 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 sword she had brought with her. 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 is to protect others, that if she did her job right, her son and daughters need never learn of the horrors of the Secret World. This also provided some pathos to Nym for her choice to abandon her family, despite how dearly she loved them, as she realised that she could be of greater benefit to the world than she ever could to the fruit of her loins directly. |
Nym returned to Transylvania years later and completed her tutalege with Cucuvea and seeing the degredation of the Forest firsthand and the many foes that threatened it, she agreed to stay. Taking up the mantle of the 'Green Lady', Nym became a manifestation of anima itself, forever changing into an Outsider (Fey/Celestial) that patrolled the forests of Translyvania in the manner of the Cucuvea of old, providing safe shelter to allies, and swift vengence to agents of the Filth. | Nym returned to Transylvania years later and completed her tutalege with Cucuvea and seeing the degredation of the Forest firsthand and the many foes that threatened it, she agreed to stay. Taking up the mantle of the 'Green Lady', Nym became a manifestation of anima itself, forever changing into an Outsider (Fey/Celestial) that patrolled the forests of Translyvania in the manner of the Cucuvea of old, providing safe shelter to allies, and swift vengence to agents of the Filth. | ||
+ | ''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.'' | ||
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I recognise that it's a tricky thing to write a convincing deity, even a minor one. I'm open to discussion and compromise about the details below and how that might or might not influence your character. Just message me. :) | I recognise that it's a tricky thing to write a convincing deity, even a minor one. I'm open to discussion and compromise about the details below and how that might or might not influence your character. Just message me. :) | ||
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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 ancient occult knowledge. You can pray to her and she can sense her 'name' being invoked in from a vast distance. She can then use the Gaia Transport Network (read: anima wells) to teleport across the planet's surface although this takes time as Nym's 'spiritual code' is far denser than a normal Bee's. | - Nym is a newly raised member of the Fey Court and a minor deity with several domains, notably protection, nature and ancient occult knowledge. You can pray to her and she can sense her 'name' being invoked in from a vast distance. She can then use the Gaia Transport Network (read: anima wells) to teleport across the planet's surface although this takes time as Nym's 'spiritual code' is far denser than a normal Bee's. |
Revision as of 08:12, 6 November 2020
'Nym (the Green Lady)'
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