Lord_Gareth
2008-11-13, 10:11 PM
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"Sometimes - sometimes I wake up and I don't even know who I am. You know, right?"
Endeca Spellweaver is a short, slender arctic elf female of the Bralai tribe. She's colorful, flamboyant, and friendly, and she genuinely loves everyone and everything she meets. She is Chaotic Good.
Most of the time. Sometimes, she's vicious, and mean, and vindictive. Sometimes, when the light of madness leaves her eyes and cold reason replaces it, she's wicked, and merciless, and utterly without empathy for any living thing.
Endeca is a young elf with problems. Her mind is fractured and falling apart, and she's half-ignorant of it. One half of her mind - sadly, the sane, dominant half - is a miserable, evil wretch filled with self-loathing and bitter, angry thoughts. It remembers everything, and while her other personality lives Endeca's life, the evil half of her pulls the strings, carefully guarding her innocence and shielding her from the atrocities she sometimes commits. It does these things out of a twisted sense of love for Endeca's other, childlike personality; it considers the other personality to be a better person, and deserving of the life it thinks it has wasted.
Endeca's good personality, however, has its own problems. It sees the world through rose-colored lenses, as a place where everything is wonderful and people are nice, kind, and good all the time. It trusts and loves everyone and everything totally unconditionally, and would happily give away its last scrap of food to the man swindling it. Deep down, though, it knows something is wrong - stretches of memory are missing, there are times when it doesn't say what it meant to and it can't explain why, and it never remembers any of its dreams. It sleeps instead of trances like other elves, and it doesn't for the life of it know why. It suspects something is wrong, and so it keeps up a barrier of obfuscating stupidity over its crumbling facade of innocence.
The dominant personality chooses to remain in the background, and is Lawful Evil. Anything that threatens the innocence of the Chaotic Good personality is either forcibly forgotten, or the Lawful Evil personality assumes control and destroys it as utterly as it possibly can. It tries its best to aggravate Endeca's situation, keeping the Chaotic Good personality as childlike as possible, but it senses that its control is slipping. It's getting desperate, and if a confrontation is forced between Endeca's two personalities, it may try to drive her to suicide to avoid responsibility for its own actions.
Endeca's mental condition is the result of nearly a decade of torture and repeated applications of mentally-violating magic by an epic-level lich.
Thoughts? Questions?
"Sometimes - sometimes I wake up and I don't even know who I am. You know, right?"
Endeca Spellweaver is a short, slender arctic elf female of the Bralai tribe. She's colorful, flamboyant, and friendly, and she genuinely loves everyone and everything she meets. She is Chaotic Good.
Most of the time. Sometimes, she's vicious, and mean, and vindictive. Sometimes, when the light of madness leaves her eyes and cold reason replaces it, she's wicked, and merciless, and utterly without empathy for any living thing.
Endeca is a young elf with problems. Her mind is fractured and falling apart, and she's half-ignorant of it. One half of her mind - sadly, the sane, dominant half - is a miserable, evil wretch filled with self-loathing and bitter, angry thoughts. It remembers everything, and while her other personality lives Endeca's life, the evil half of her pulls the strings, carefully guarding her innocence and shielding her from the atrocities she sometimes commits. It does these things out of a twisted sense of love for Endeca's other, childlike personality; it considers the other personality to be a better person, and deserving of the life it thinks it has wasted.
Endeca's good personality, however, has its own problems. It sees the world through rose-colored lenses, as a place where everything is wonderful and people are nice, kind, and good all the time. It trusts and loves everyone and everything totally unconditionally, and would happily give away its last scrap of food to the man swindling it. Deep down, though, it knows something is wrong - stretches of memory are missing, there are times when it doesn't say what it meant to and it can't explain why, and it never remembers any of its dreams. It sleeps instead of trances like other elves, and it doesn't for the life of it know why. It suspects something is wrong, and so it keeps up a barrier of obfuscating stupidity over its crumbling facade of innocence.
The dominant personality chooses to remain in the background, and is Lawful Evil. Anything that threatens the innocence of the Chaotic Good personality is either forcibly forgotten, or the Lawful Evil personality assumes control and destroys it as utterly as it possibly can. It tries its best to aggravate Endeca's situation, keeping the Chaotic Good personality as childlike as possible, but it senses that its control is slipping. It's getting desperate, and if a confrontation is forced between Endeca's two personalities, it may try to drive her to suicide to avoid responsibility for its own actions.
Endeca's mental condition is the result of nearly a decade of torture and repeated applications of mentally-violating magic by an epic-level lich.
Thoughts? Questions?