Background
Maeve was born to her two loving human parents in the small coastal village of Wallingsor. Her parents had prayed to their goddess Vlerolen for a child and she answered by giving them a baby with wings and a radiant glow, an aasimar.
Before her twelfth birthday Maeve went to school during the day with the rest of the kids in town. She learned the basics of math, reading and writing, history and such. She played and learned just like any other kid. The impromptu glowing wasn’t the best for hide and seek but it wasn’t a thought when she was younger. When she wasn’t at school or running around town with the other kids she was at the family shop. Stocking shelves, sweeping floors, or her favorite, counting coins. She was helping her parents and learning the business. Aside from the wings, everything was simple before her twelfth birthday.
As tradition with a youth apprenticeship at The Estrelles Forge, on her twelfth birthday Maeve was brought to the forge by who she was going to be learning under, her uncle and her mother. It was a wonderful day and nothing had ever felt more perfect than being at the forge. She was literally glowing with excitement the whole time, her wings on full display as she was leaning over the anvil for the first time.
That night and every night thereafter were filled with nightmares. Her simple life had turned into dreading the end of the day. A little twelve year old Maeve would make herself sick avoiding sleep, becoming irritable and abrasive instead of the always happy girl that would run through Wallingsor without cares.
As she got older she got mostly used to the dreams and she was usually able to sleep well enough to get what her body needed from it. When she became able to focus on the dreams instead of just being terrified by them, she began to understand what they were. People she had never met became familiar as she gained coming knowledge and pieced together what her older self was going to do in an unspecified amount of time. A future quest.
“So be it then” was Maeve’s point of view after realizing that trying to get closer to the people around her was futile. They didn’t want to be around her and she was just going to have to leave on some quest anyway.
When she turned sixteen her apprenticeship became everyday and school was in the past. Her days were filled with learning how to be a smith and a cleric. From learning how to make anything from pots to plate, weapons and tools, to training with the very weapons and armor she was working with, and to practicing wielding her clerical magic and forging with her divine gifts. Maeve liked her simple routine of working at the forge and her family shop and sitting on the beach in her freetime. She only really associated with her family, to her that was for the better. Beyond her family she would go along with her mother to book club sometimes, listening to the ladies gossip, or be present for town festivals and such but really she kept to herself. She was focused on the future.
Maeve knew what her purpose is and she was just waiting for it. No matter how much she wished she didn’t bear the curse she was blessed with. She couldn’t change her circumstances but the way she saw it, she could isolate in hopes of not having to leave behind relationships when her quest finally came.
Flung From the Gyre
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