Lavinia, the Stars Exarch

Lavinia Joseinovich (a.k.a. The Stars Oracle)

Divine Domains

• Stars
• Darkness
• Travel
• Beastfolks
• Portals

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Lavinia have a rather athletic body, above the average of the regular beastfolk from kitsune ancestry. As all beastfolks, she also have the ability to choose a human-like appearance, but also a more hybrid one. After years to develop her self-acceptance, she started to use her second and more natural form more often in public. While under stress, however, her hybrid form can manifest some kind of black necrosis in some parts of her body, but more visible on her arms, which sometimes loses skin and muscle to show bones, a sequela of her plague curse. It usually regenerates after some hours normally or when she revert to a human appearance.

Identifying Characteristics

As a kitsune beastfolk, Lavinia developped large extra tails during her empowering adventure. She is one of the handful to have reached the number of nine-tails. Some rumors have her having a tenth tail when she reached the rank of Exarch, but it never had been officially reckognised.

Special abilities

While under stress of combat, her cursed necrotic claws starts to produce secretions, an anesthetic component which if applied through injury can paralyse most living matter.
If forced to, she can also channel enough magic to invoke the power of the moon and transform into a large werewolf-like beast, capable of speech and having a supernatural aura of dread.

Apparel & Accessories

Most of Lavinia's attire, if needing to wear protective gear, are a regal mix of royal blue and gold, with some brown and white. Hues of aquamarine are also prominent in her attire, especially on magically-infused equipment. A regular part of her attire is a crystal cube. The style is mixed with some recent fine tailored traveling outfit with more regal ancient style of prometheans and aquatic race style, which she got inspired from during her journeys.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

An unexpected birth and a grand journey
Lavinia is the daughter of Josef Joseinovitch and Wahiko Eri. Her father fell in love with her mother when Pinecrest was having better days, and the fey were not at odds with the humans. She was honest with her nature pretty early, and it didn't changed Josef's love for her. They manage to have two children: one boy, Seth, and a daugher, Lavinia. However, lavinia was born with black fur, a sign of ill omen. both the parents tought it may have been to the blackscourge taint, a sickness that afflicted Wahiko and forced Josef to a life of adventure to find a cure. Nonetheless, they tried to raise her the best they could, but it wasn't easy... Soon after her birth, ill events arrived in Pinecrest, putting the wood consortium in open war with the nearby fey after an ill-fated event during winter, where many villagers died. Playing safe by telling her family to avoid taking their true form in front of unwanted eyes,and having himself a nice reputation for having safe the village multiple times, both child were trained in secret by night, without massive repercussions. Josef told them the secrets of spirits, lore, alchemy and funeral rites. Seth decided to venture further in Andoran to find his own answer to enlightment, trying to follow his father traditions of protecting past and present.
Lavinia was more of an hyperactive child than her brother, and quickly became loved by the village despite her heritage, blessed by the townfolks's ignorance. She however had a better connection than her brother's to the fey world, her dreams sometimes haunted by visions of dark feys. She also decided at coming of age to venture and spread the importance of respect to the spirits and otherwordly beings to other humans building communities, trying to spread a message of community and respect of nature and the past. Having heard of secret Promethean lore hidden and that a new colony was setting place at Westdawn, she was more than interested to help the colonists build themselves on favorable grounds, and discover the promethean secrets of the isle. it was a perfect opportunity for her to make her parents proud of her achievements, them who helped her so much comforting her after the strange dreams. One particular nightmare seems to stand out more; A civilization coming to a violent end, cause by the arrival of eldritch beings that came from the sea.

Fixing and learning from the past for the future to come
Westdawn was quite a journey for the settlers, but even more for the adventuring troupe which Lavinia was in. Through their scouting, they started to discover ancient settlements abandonned by older civilisation, including the prometheans. Many ancient relics of old, but also signs of an invisible enemy that destroyed them from within. The adventure spanned across the nearby islands and even underwater, which ancient aquatic species that also had their share of struggle during the apocalyptic times of old. The awakening of an ancient legendary sea beast and long forgotten antediluvians races came to a climax as Lavinia and her companions vanquished the mastermind that tried to re-use a long forgotten weapon to drown the lands. This was a victory, but a grim discovery: something was still alive behind the veil of mortals lives, and it wasn't alone, waiting for another opportunity. As she retired and had a family, Lavinia remained near Westdawn and became along with her friends a national legend. But she was still worried of things that were still behind the curtain. She spent the rest of her life investigating the old research books of promethean libraries, astrology connected to those events with the astrolab, and ancient structures that served as portals to other worlds. She discovered quite a few things beyond the stars that she kept under a secret society to avoid the information to fall in bad hands.
Among the stars
When time came for her, her death was mourned by a lot, so much that the legacy she left manifested enough anima to ascend her soul through apotheosis. Her goddess chose her as an exarch for her remarquable efforts and achievements. Now an outsider capable of shifting through dimensions and planes, she continues her epic quest to protect Arcamunda from the menace hidden behind the stars. Her ascension made her become some of a niche minor goddess, in term of power and presence. Her following remains strong in her native land but also among beastfolks, as her story was a beacon of hope towards acceptance with other races.

Sexuality

Heterosexual

Education

Lavinia received homeschooling in different field of shaman-related skills by her father and mother, notably the practice of magic, which she developed a quick learning. The rest of her teaching was done at the village's school, and she also received some basic fighting techniques from her godfather, Danan, a old dwarf berserker and great friend of her dad.
During her adventure on uncharted lands, she self-learned a lot of academical subjects, especially toward science and arcane knowledge, thanks to the forgotten libraries of the prometheans she found and took interest. Most of her learning went into religion, science, planes, and general arcane lore and techniques. She became an honoris causa graduate of the biggest university in her country for all the researches she helped on thanks to years of training and experimentation shared with many academic figures.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Encourage people to travel, try new things and learn from others.
Proselytize people into finding mutual beneficials ways to interacts with natives when settling yourself on new grounds, and avoid exploiting on their detriment.
Offer education of the magic and unknown to help people pass on their fear.
Protect Arcamunda from ancient beings plotting on enslaving the intelligent races.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies: Knack to talk with people and defuse disputes. Reference in astronomy and planar magic. Capacity to bring back people from the dead.

Ineptitudes: Hardly controls on her alcohol intake if challenged (influenced by her swashbuckler pirate friend). Heavily second-guesses herself because of past mistakes. Feels responsible of things she didn't had full control of. Holds heavily her personal thoughts and even her natural form out of fear to be judged badly or being a victim of segregation due to her beastfolk heritage. (this trait changed through character development over the course of life as she gained more confidence.)

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Gatherings, Outdoors, traveling, her family, drinking with friends, discovering fey influences,
Dislikes: Military affair and heavy expansionism, the undead, political games, monetary negotations

Social

Family Ties

• Josef Joseinovitch - Father
• Wahiko Eri - Mother
• Seth Joseinovich - Brother
• Hiro Steelcut - Son
• Ihrefi Steelcut - Daughter

Religious Views

Lavinia was a follower of the Moon Goddess (deity), had she developed fitting attunement of magic related to her domains since she was very young. She maintained this religious view all her life, but also viewed the moon and stars as something of a guide to traveling, a benevolent light. Also, her family history with feys made her think adventuring would help her discover more than her small village, and spread a word of peace with what we discover. This motivated her to follow settler's through new lands to protect them and help them connect with the nature and denizens they would discover.
After her retirement from adventure, she developed new theology interest such as ancient civilisation, to try and understand the past more to teach the future better. She had been a stable for the country in term of diplomacy with other races and natives that were sharing their new charted lands.
Her services to the goddess were deemed extraordinary in influence enough to ascend the rank of an outsider exarch once her soul left her mortal shell, having done enough influence towards her to gain her own anima and become a divine being. She remains loyal to the moon goddess and her allies.

Social Aptitude

Trying to look moderated and polite, she still has glimpses of curiosity and interested about the secret the world has to offer. she is always eager to learn more about things she doesn't know, seeing knowledge as a way to understand her visions more. Her biggest interests are things related the First World, spiritualism, deities and ancient lore, especially the azlanti. Generous of her time, she is often eager to share her own knowledge and help those in need, as she was well raised by her family to help people in dire needs in the limits of her capacities, and offer her services for a fair price to those that doesn't try to abuse of her. She however dislikes talking about military and grand plans of civilisation, as she remembers the greed of the wood consortium brought misery to both the feys and citizens of Pinecrest. For her, a population's growth must take the time it needs and not overstep the original natives, especially if they are intelligent and prone to discuss. She also has a talent to befriend children.

Hobbies & Pets

More than a pet per se, she always was living with her animal companion Porosso, a fey-touched boar that she found on the uncharted islands. She always considered him a member of the family and treated her with care. Her family later on kept this boon with the boars she had given birth ever since, as they were regularly coming nearby their housing.
As personnal hobbies, she does enjoy an occasional ale, singing (which she has been know to be excellent at) and sharing stories. She likes to take the initiative into making people gatherings. She also regulars walks and travels to her leisure, enjoying to discover new things while hitting the road.

Wealth & Financial state

After her retirement, she and her husband along with her traveling companions gathered a faraminous amount of wealth, from various curios, technologies and magic discovered in ancient civilisations lost to time. A part of her share was invested directly as donations to the colony at the time, which helped it prosper greatly.
Outside of great valuables, she also owns a patch of land on (location) where she restored an ancient astrolab for her own researches.
After her apotheosis, she also created an altar on Mistetlys where she is rumored to being most of the time she is resting.

Divine Classification

Exarch

Alignment

Neutral Good

Current Location

Mistetlys

Species

Beastfolk

Circumstances of Birth

Partial Necromantic eldritch lineage due to plague sequela while in mother's womb.

Birthplace

Pinecrest

Current Residence

Mistetlys

Gender

Female

Eyes

Aquamarine (any form)

Hair

Dark Brown, Starry Sky (Exarch

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Tanned (Avatar), Starry Sky (Exarch)

Height

5'9''