Lazarus
The Phoenix of Pilea
Lady Lazarus (a.k.a. Phoenix Goddess)
In 1506 she was set free from her physical insanity as a deity, transferring her celestial status and it's power over to Leon Mureiy and returning to the human state she was in when she found the celestial shard that made her into the goddess she was. Leon took on the potential insanity as well as the godly power and title, leaving Lazarus with a life completely her own again, allowing her to do whatever she'd wanted to do before she ascended. She is currently simply travelling and experiencing parts of Areya she hadn't seen through her own eyes in many, many years.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Lady Lazarus was reborn. As such a being of extreme power she could choose any form she so pleased– and eventually upon giving her new self a purpose, she chose that of the great phoenix; rising from the ashes of war and strife to blaze the country anew. What started as an attempt at winning peace grew like a wildfire into an undying hunger for vengeance and, in her mind, justice. She became a massively powerful and feared force against those who dare attack Areya, but in doing so she became more and more bloodthirsty, furious, and chaotic. Fire can be used as a great weapon against evil as well as good, but no matter what it is used for it will spread and destroy all in sight if it is not controlled. This is what happened to most of what Lazarus touched, and eventually her very hometown of Pilea was scorched to ash by her own doing.
As a last resort she was contained. A priest within the town, surrounded in the ashes of all that he knew, entrapped her into a single feather in order to prevent mass destruction to spread farther than what had already been sacrificed in Pilea. He managed to do this and placed her essence within a box, not knowing what else to do with it but knowing that leaving was the only choice now that the entire town was simply no more. The last thing known to have happened in Pilea was said priest finding three young strangers in the town’s center, curiously wandering in awe of the extreme destruction around them. He had nothing left to give and nothing left to lose, so in simply wanting to rid himself of the enormous burden, he gave the box to the strangers hoping that they would abide by his words to never open it. A foreign young man took it from his hands with curious intent and no words other than a quiet, “why?” upon being told to not open the box. Explaining it’s power and it’s great burden, connecting it to the destruction around them, the priest left, comfortable enough in knowing that even if the box was opened and the feather exposed, that Lazarus’ pride and great judgement would prevent her from ever finding a host that she considers worthy of her power and worth compromising with to become one entity within the host.
Relationships
History
Leon was given the feather entrapping Lazarus' soul in 1505 in the town square of the scorched, ashen village of Pilea. Upon touching the feather in a field nearby out of feeling drawn to it, Leon met Lazarus and spoke with her, agreeing to function together as a symbiotic relationship with Leon as a host in exchange for Lazarus giving him assistance and power. The toll for this power was Leon's ability to feel pain, which he lost completely after the agreement. The two worked together for about a year and a half, becoming very close and Lazarus being within his headspace and hearing his thoughts all the time making it hard not to get to know him very, very well.
In 1506 after the One Day War on Annabell of Stezan, as Leon was granted a Wish spell from Sylvester's Deck of Many Things, the two were posed with a tough decision. Lazarus didn't even have to say the words for him to know she would wish to be reverted to a normal human like she once was. Leon ended up doing this, in a cleverly worded statement wishing for her separation from him in a human vessel while maintaining her celestial power and status in his own body. For the first time Leon met Lazarus in person at his wedding, hugging her instantly and still feeling as if she knows him better than anyone with their shared experiences and body in the past years.
An unintended loophole makes it so the two of them still maintain a soul connection– their souls being intertwined and inseparable by nearly any known means. The two can still communicate telepathically no matter the distance and somehow feel a certain amount of awareness as to where the other is at any given time.
Shared Secrets
Lazarus is more than fully aware of the danger Leon put himself in in taking on her power, and knows that he likely will encounter madness as the celestial, divine power is more realized. She is completely aware of his odds of madness being very much not in his favor and nearly, if not totally, inevitable.
Lazarus is also aware, being able to read his thoughts for so long and especially in the moment of the Wish, that Leon's choice to take on divine status was not solely out of honorable means– though a good portion was honorable or for Lazarus' sake, a dash of his reasoning was of an increasing want and affinity for power.
Lazarus would know many of Leon's secrets being in his headspace for so long. Though this makes them very close and predicting of one another's actions and thoughts, she probably knows more than she'd want to know about his life.
Shared Acquaintances
- Reeza Szanto
- Clementine
- Legault Mureiy
- Kyle
- Sprout
- Caligo Apricol
- etc.
Legal Status
Close Allies
"Well... Seven out of seven have gone insane taking on the powers of a god, so... I'd say your chances are pretty good."
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