Gabriella Campagna

'Green Lady, Nym'

Played by: Unknown

INFORMATION

Ancient Bee, Female, Unknown (40 something)

Aliases: None known
Nationality: Italian-American
Residence: Transylvania
Employer: Unknown
Function: Hermit

• Early Life •

• The Secret War •

• Personality •

• From TSW to SWL •

• Known Associates/Affiliations •

• Special Notes / OOC •

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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.

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 caused significant tensions in her already strained relationships with friends and family.

She initially joined the Templars who promised her resolution to her questions, but after staying with them for a short time realised they were mostly smoke and mirrors and promised more than they were actually capable of understanding, so she wandered Asia, eventually falling in with the Dragon with whom she served 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.

Becoming her own agent for a time, a young Nym came across Cucuvea in Transylvania who looked her straight in the eye and said 'I see you, Servant of Gaia.'

If your character existed in TSW (The Secret World) before coming to SWL (Secret World Legends) -- how do you treat the transition? Are they exactly the same? Did they suffer memory loss? Are they some 'alternate reality' version of themselves?

- Has extensive contacts with Gaia and her agents, especially ones connected with nature. -

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- Her aura is thick with honor and death and responsibility. Regret weighs heavily upon her soul.

- Has now retired from active service, but is still considered Chosen by Gaia and greatly respected by direct agents of Gaia, such as the Old Gods of Transylvania. These agents will readily come to her defence if she needs it.

- Lifetimes of service to Gaia in opposing the Filth have lead Nym to see what others do not and know what is better left unknown. This knowledge has forever altered her and rendered her seperate from others, especially the Bee's of the modern era whom she views as a 'desperation defence' by Gaia. She is considered an Outsider (angel/demon or similar) for the purposes of how magick and weapons can effect her. In addition she is immmune to most normal weapons and low level magicks, but anti-celestial powers work well against her, such as banishment spells. Characters strong in the occult - especially subtle magicks like tarot or psychometry - can pick up on this and other details (PM me).

- As the Green Lady, Nym is a manifestation of Anima-taken-flesh in the Forests of Transylvania, a mythical figure that stalks the forests rooting out the Filth wherever she finds it and rendering aid to the Forest and those in need. As an Outsider, she terrifies the local vampire populations who spread nightmares about her, and provides safe harbour for Agents of Gaia in the area, providing they respect the Forest she calls home. She strikes without warning and dissapears just as mysteriously, seemingly no rhyme or reason to her targets and is waging a psychological war against the enemies of Gaia on one of Earth's key battlegrounds. This has become so effective that vampire and Filth populations throughout Translyvania are beginning to suffer from PTSD like symptoms following an encounter with her. Wildlife is drawn to her and she is often seen 'conversing' with animals and trees.

- Is considered Anima-Touched, which is functionally similar to being a Bee (but not one from the Modern Era)

- Has taken up with Cucuvea in Transylvania and is tracking to be her replacement in her twilight years.

- Skilled in various melee weapons (especially hammer and sword), blood and nature magics, and rifle.

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