Alina Stillgaze
Alina knew from a young age that she was different. Born to the best hunter in her village as her father, and a mother who was a mid-wife for all the surrounding area. She had a unique power born into her that at the time no one seemed to understand and few knew of it's existence. She could use blood magic. And not that hokey stuff in faerie tales parents use to scare their kids into behaving. Real magic she could use to manipulate blood, to heal, protect and many other things.
Inherited from her mother's side of the family it was largely unknown to even her mother because the family had tried to bury their misunderstood secret in shadows so no one would learn of it. While it doesn't only pass onto females it does seem to prefer them, which is why Alina's grandmother dying before she could pass on the secret to Alina's mother was a very unsettling problem for the family one the powers began to manifest. They also had no way of knowing what would come next had nothing to do with those powers.
At the age of 4 Alina had her first "nightmare" it was of her father falling from a tree while hunting and being injured. No one thought anything of the inconsolable young girl who kept trying about "da being hurt" but when the event happened they had a hard time shaking it off. These strange visions while rare eventually convinced her family that something was up with their daughter. Once word got out to the rest of the village she would forever been known as "the crazy girl". That was her existence for a long time shunned by the village as a addled young girl who spouted nonsense about dreams.
Two years is a long time for a young girl and by the time those passed, everything changed. Her younger brother was a little daft int he head and some of the local kids were bullying him. Being a good big sister she shielded him with her body when she couldn't get them to stop. The older kids only reveled in this even more, they got two for one on the freak Stillgaze kids. Until one of them drew blood from her brother. No amount of cleaning would ever erase the site from the townsfolk mind as the torrent of blood that exploded from the children permanently stained the surrounding buildings of the village and the cries of children injured from the incident would never forget.
Not much has been passed down through history about the mock trial of an obscure family in the rural village that followed. The town convinced themselves they weren't monsters if they just sold the six year old, she had to be possessed or something right? That wasn't her fault they couldn't kill her but she would be someone else's problem then. She would never see the events but from all the evidence that was passed down, after the two kids left in the slaver carts, both parents were burned at the stake to cleanse the village.
Slavery is a hard life for a young girl, the town had told the slaver her crimes were thieving and blackmail of the other children. It didn't matter that it wasn't true the slaver wouldn't care either way. But young girls can't provide much manual labor and she hadn't blossomed yet to be sold to a young noble or rich merchant. So she stayed with the slaver for years him hoping she would blossom into something worth his investment of time and food. Cooking cleaning and other demeaning mundane chores were given to her until one day she predicted the death of the slaver and begged him not to go into a town. She was scared of what would happen if his meaner second in command took control of the little slaver band. The next few years would not be kind to the then nine year old, she would mature in many ways she wished she didn't.
Her life changed a lot in those years, having mothered two children by the new slave leader by the age of fifteen. This is also when a chance meeting with a wandering group of gypsy's changed her life forever. One of the mothers appalled by the situation took the young girl under her wing as the two very different groups traveled side by side for many days. This is where she learned the craft that would help her through the next phase of her life. The older woman taught the younger how to add theatrics to predict peoples futures, how to read the emotions of the person they were playing to, to establish her own power with her own cunning. The difference between the two women was that one of them actually did get some visions and the theatrics only worked more in her favor. This is how she was sold for a very large amount of money within the next year to a pack of orcs after she completely convinced the Chief that she was a real seer, which she was to a point.
Her children though, they were not sold and this is when she first experience true heartbreak, she had learned how to endure her previous master, then later manipulate him but no amount of beatings or embarrassments could prepare her for this moment. The next four years she was pampered or beaten depending on the accuracy of her visions. Depending on if the orc attacks were successful or not successful. Until one fateful day she had a vision, one of the most powerful she had had in years. Rushing into the Chief's tent she all but begged him to mobilize his truths, the fool humans were moving enough gold that they the entire clan could bath in it at once. Victory was assured she had no doubt this was the day the Chief would lead his people to their greatest day of glory.
Except that's not what she saw. She saw a young dark haired human man cutting down the chief with his relatively small platoon that was out numbered slaughtered the rest of orcs. Such mastery and command for one so young, this is the one her vision had lead her to. And despite the vision he was not what she expected at all. Not much is known about her life after meeting the young human male other than they were nearly inseparable for a number of years before he became king, then Alina seems to have faded into history only popping up in the history books with brief mentions of her attending his royal court many years later.
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Year of Birth
951 PR
-905 Years old
Circumstances of Death
Unknown
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Eyes
Intense blue
Hair
Pale Blonde