Megale Amastan
Megale Amastan
Megale is one of the young people who was pushed into defending her tribe at an early age, and since has become focused on protecting those she cares about to the point of recklessness herself.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Very buff, arms and stomach toned with muscles, horse body lean and strong.
Body Features
Various battle scars and burns from battles protecting the tribe. Horse body is a black horse, with white around the hooves.
Facial Features
A notable scar running down one cheek.
Identifying Characteristics
Her blonde to blue hair, the black horse body, the scar on her face
Apparel & Accessories
Has her greataxe on hand whenever she can.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Very devoted to protecting the tribe, has lead to her becoming a staunch protector of her friends, to the point of endangering herself.
Education
Has learned the primordial language through sheer stubborness and exploring all the possible ways to make it happen.
Taking History & Tactics of Battle & Warfare
Health: 15
Stress: 10
Mental Trauma
Being forced into being a defender due to her natural physicality has warped her sense of how to interact with others, and her sense of her own worth.
Morality & Philosophy
Leaves people who arent interacting with her alone, stands up for, protects, and watches over her friends and loved ones, and will confront those who have wronged someone she cares about.
Thinks that people should help if they can, but understands that not everyone has the physical, mental, emotional, or other capabilities to help.
Thinks that people should help if they can, but understands that not everyone has the physical, mental, emotional, or other capabilities to help.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
To protect those she cares about, to become stronger to better defend her tribe.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes people who help the group.
Dislikes people who take advantage of others generosity.
Dislikes people who take advantage of others generosity.
Vices & Personality flaws
More strength is always alluring to her, because her goal at the academy is to become strong enough to defend her tribe completely.
Very reckless, especially when it comes to her own safety.
Feels some guilt that she has left her tribe, and gone to the academy.
Very reckless, especially when it comes to her own safety.
Feels some guilt that she has left her tribe, and gone to the academy.
Hygiene
Keeps herself washed regularly, hair can be messy but always done up in a ponytail.
Social
Family Ties
Very very close to her tribe, cares immensely for all of them, who she views with the same love as her family.
Social Aptitude
Average social aptitude, can be a bit blunt.
Hobbies & Pets
Kisjan, Competitive Dueling
One of the young warriors of the Dune Riders, wants to protect everyone she calls a friend, but plagued by the person she couldn't.
Character Location
Alignment
Neutral Good
Children
Gender
Female
Eyes
Green
Hair
Blonde, turning to blue at the end
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Tanned
Height
7 ft
Weight
1350 lbs.
Loss
Same story different day. Buta, I couldn't do enough, in the end. You were so strong, always there, always helping however you can, and now, we will never see your smile again. We will never converse again, or share a meal or adventure for the kisjan. Reading your note that Hilde found, seeing how awful the hands were that life gave you, time and time again, makes my heart grow cold. Being abandoned by your family, and then exiled from the people who took you in, left with no options but to seek the patronage of a presumed infernal, how do the masters accept this world. How do the kingdoms and armies sit there, hands under their asses, while good innocent people are dying, suffering, left to their own devices against the massive sweeping influence of the infernals. Worst of all, how did I not learn, I should have done more, I should have supported him better. One would think, after seeing a close friend subjected to the horrors of the infernal influence, they would be more vigilant than this, they would try to be there for others, be more aware, know the signs. I failed Sholeth then, and I failed Buta now, not strong enough, not aware enough.
What can I offer, standing so high above my classmates, when I cannot help Buta. I need to do more, I need to be able to provide something, Hilde has said, find yourself. What self, what am I? Sure I can help people, or, thought I could, but that apparently both isn't enough, and I can't do it anyway. People like Kilgore, Hilde, Ohva, they bring joy to peoples lives, they make them smile, they make people feel included, they come up with amazing ideas for things to contribute. I just stand there, and look big. Maybe I spend more time in the trees, the groves in the ring, they calm me, fewer people to let down too.
I certainly cannot return to my tribe like this, a failure of the goals I set out to achieve, the number of people who I would lead to their deaths, miss some important sign, not do enough. They would be better off with someone else, someone better. Perhaps I enlist into a rebel force, then at least I die trying to make a change, as opposed to living and doing nothing.
I hope Untermauler pulls his head out of his ass, either here, or somewhere else, because as much as I failed Buta, he did too, and he needs to atone for it.
Should start preparing for the rest of the exams, probably will fail those too.
I am sorry, both Buta, and Sholeth.
Year 5 Midterms
Oh great, the part of this that I don't get, I use the magic, why do I need to know how many points there are in a matrix, or what parts of my body I use to cast them....sigh
Numerology: I'm sorry Hilde, you tried so hard. I hate this course, and I failed the exam. That's all. (0/2 successes)
Spell Matrices: This one went better, being able to practice actually making the matrices helped a lot, also Hilde's wand of detect magic is helping, getting to pull the matrices apart and explore them helps me understand what I am supposed to do. (1/2 successes)
Feelings on Others
Aoife
Enjoyable to be around, a very nice roommate to have, I like how she chooses to decorate things.
Updated: Beginning of Year 5
Kilgore
A kindred spirit in many ways, her cooking reminds me of home.
Updated: Beginning of Year 5
Hilde
She seems capable, but I worry about what happened between her and Cuan. Her strides have been impressive.
Updated: Mid Year 5
Cuan
He seems very intelligent, and willing to help, but there's something unnerving about him, especially after he and Hilde seem to be more distant.
I struggle to forgive where you come from, but that's also not something you can control.
Updated: Early Year 5
Balvarax
You held yourself together so impressively during the interrogations.
Updated: Early Year 5
Terberisa
I want to give you the second chance I think you deserve, but if you don't make good on it, I will see your punishment myself.
Updated: Mid Year 5
Garnet
I question what is going on with the shadowy figure you fought with, but you seem honourable and capable.
Updated: Mid Year 5
Cora
I hate that damned vuvuzela.
Updated: Mid Year 5
Meeting the genasi
Terberisa is.... interesting. I get the impression her sense of self is in flux right now. Getting to talk with her, to meet her, and sit there and understand where she came from and what she wants, I felt some sense of kinship. She wants the people with power to be active, and actually do things, which, is commendable, but she isn't as interested if those things are benevolent or malevolent. She wants to get to be a better "person" person for, whatever reasons, I believe they mostly concern her roommate, who she values deeply. She also explained to me how Hilde has had a hand in both nurturing her growth, and impeding it, which, makes sense for Hilde. She shared some of her history and I the same, she seemed shocked at the concepts of war, battle, death, and killing. Sadly, those are the kind of things a person born to worse circumstances faces, along with many other horrors, Bebo can attest to that too.
Her first impressions were....subpar, I think she was used to the respect that being a noble of the Stone Abbey afforded her, and thus, didn't know how to treat Ned, who didn't have the equivalent nobility to meet those flawed standards. However, as I spoke with her, she showed a much better ability to value opinions, and to care, as I am certainly not anything close to nobility. Either, her ability to control her emotions has gotten much better, or, she is genuinely turning a new leaf. Only time will tell, I hope one day she too can achieve the social skills she says she desires, and I see no reason to chastise Hilde for her interactions with Terberisa, she knows her mistakes, I have confidence in that. The gift ideas are a good place to start for Terberisa, and her unprompted apology to Ned was also a step in the right direction, I guess we will see what happens from here on out, but I will try to guide her, as best I can.
The Nightmares
I thought I was past this, waking up, cold sweat, seeing your face in terror getting dragged away from me as the last vestiges of this nightmare haunt me.
What day is it today?
Oh, makes sense, 8 years to the day, since I last saw you, I saw the people come, from the city, and take you away. And I couldn't do anything. I was always the stronger of us, and I could do nothing. They said that you were coming with them, and that I should just stay out of the way. The design doesn't include me, they said.
I wonder which would be the better option, to know where you are, know your ok, know you survived. Or to not know, and live with hope that you have made it through.
I'm so sorry, that I couldn't do more, that I couldn't stop them, that I couldn't save you.
I wasn't strong enough to protect you.
Never again.
Finding a roommate
Moving into the ring resulted in a new way of working living arrangements. I now reside in a very large house, castle looking to me, that has rooms of one, or two. I ended up with a lovely hillfolk halfling named Aoife. She's very relaxed, and enjoyable to be around. She has a companion animal, that she tells me is a squirrel, and named Sir William, who she seems to get along with. I do have to be aware when walking around in our room, that he could be underfoot, as I do not want to harm him. She seems alright with my own sleeping arrangements, and lack of bed, as she doesn't have a typical bed either, hers is covered in blankets, and looks somewhat like a nest, or a burrow. She likes to bring in twigs and leaves to decorate the room, which are very cool to look at, there isn't anything like them in the dunes, and the leaves can smell really nice. She is a very nice roommate, and I think this will be an enjoyable experience.
Off to the ring (also summary of years past)
Well, here we are, time to leave the grove. I will miss this place, it's not home, but in many ways it was similar, the wind blowing through, the sun beating down. The trees were nice, if initially confusing, I certainly spent more time with them for the first year than with other people, just wandering through, lamenting to them how I wasn't home, defending the tribe, my family. I don't honestly remember much of those classes that year, but I remember when they talked about doing a craft of some kind, and the gems they had looked so pretty, I wanted to work with them. It turned out to be a really relaxing experience, and the gem I made actually apparently could hold magic, which was really nice.
Year 2 was much the same for most of the year, spending it with the wildlife and the trees, until Sventisko started the Kisjan, and she was, amazing, she cared about people like me, she wanted things to be better for us, for people who had to leave their homes. I was so inspired by her, that after not doing amazing on my end of year project, I had cut an impressive gem, but making it suitable for having fire energy stored within was harder than I realized, I decided that, with some help from a kind teacher, that if I'm here, and doing well enough, I can become stronger, to help my tribe when I get back, they survived without me before I was born and able to fight, they can sustain my absence while I'm here.
Year 3 went much better. I was able to get involved with the Kisjan, and Sventisko really is amazing. She is so outspoken about her desires to see people who have less be protected better, how those with power should help as much as they can. Also, a new student transferred into our year, a beastfolk named Kilgore, who has been another bright spot on this year. She started organizing family meals for the grove members, which also really helped with the homesickness and guilt, the making of the grove members into another family. She is also from the dunes, and an inspiration, she takes care of her 8 siblings, and has so much love to give, its really amazing to see. My end of year project went better too, learning the runes, to help make my gem more attuned to the properties of the elemental magic really helped a lot, I'm still not the best spellcaster, but, at least I can make these, and have them be ok.
The ring is going to be a big change, but.....I'm excited for it, its going to be a whole slew of new opportunities to help others.
Casting magic
Casting magic is an interesting feeling, Fire comes easiest, and casting it, I can feel the excitement in the magic, it flows up, and it wants to do things, it wants to have impact, it wants to warm and illuminate and burn and destroy. Tapping into it is easy enough, as the primordials I sought out taught me the fire dialect, and I remember my feelings of restlessness, of wanting to be on the move always, racing across the dunes, with the sun burning down from above. The warmth is comforting, it feels like home, the energy feels like the ability to do things, help others.
The next magic, surprisingly enough, is Earth, which according to the teachers, is very opposite Fire, very stubborn, very slow moving. I don't fully understand why its the next easiest for me to channel, but it is. It makes me feel the land beneath me, the sand of the dunes I have travelled so much, the land I stand on when I channel the magic. I feel that protective urge surge through me, the ability to stand there, take the brunt for the sake of others, the feeling of that care and protection, and, oddly enough, some of the time it feels like that protective desire is towards me. Which, makes no sense, I protect others, I don't get protected, why would it want to protect me?
Crafting the gem
My first attempts at making the gem itself, were a little rough. I didn't realize just how hard it would be to channel both a fire spell matrix, and an earth spell matrix in short time, but I needed to in order to not have the gem fully attune to one element. After a few attempts, and finding the same results, I decided to seek out some help, and found Cuan, who was a great help! He showed me some other techniques for channelling the matrices, and how to not exhaust myself on the first matrix, so the magic flowed much better! Now I have a very nice gem, with both fire magic and earth magic, that I cannot wait to present to the teachers!
My second home, the library
When I set out to make gems that would allow for multiple elements to be contained within, I did not expect that I would be spending so much time in the library, I thought there would be more actual making of gems, carving them properly, carefully crafting the runes. I have read so many books on gem properties, which gems attune well to both Fire and Earth magic, which gems have the capacity to hold both matrices within, and the results have been fantastic! I have my gem selected, and I've been able to replicate the cuts and shape super well. Runes were a little harder to find and make, but not terribly, in my findings runes that would work for both fire magic and earth were harder, most that I cam across would only accept one, and not both, but eventually I found some that worked well for what I wanted!
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