StarHawk/NelStory
Nel - Night Caste
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Her life doesn't get interesting until she turned 14. That was the year she discovered boys and became slightly socialble. She was invited to a dance durring calibration. This was to be her first large gathering that she was attending, and she was excited. She was wearing her best dress, her mother's jewlery, and was going on the arm of a very influencial dragon blooded scion. Things could not have been better for her.
She, however, did not make it to the party. She and her date were attacked on the street, her date was not enough to fight them off and at the time Nel wasn't skilled at protecting herself. The attackers took her mother's jewlery, her purity, and their carelessness also took her eyesight. Though her wounds would heal, she was no longer worth marrage. She was damaged goods.
With her good name soiled, she took to exile. On the streets, or occasionally in a temple on cold nights, she adapted. After healing her phisical damage, she came to accept that she was blind, but she was far from useless. She found strength in a world she could no longer see. It took years but she came to rely upon her other senses to get around. Still living on the streets and slowly starving to death, she began to con people out of money or goods. She never became super at this. What she excelled at was not being seen. She learned how to sneak around, listen and keep out of the way. She never realized these were useful skills to be had.
Years passed and she only got better at it. She would steal only enough to survive, and everything else she got from being someone's ears. Or just being ears where there ought be none. It's amazing what people will say or do when they think no one is listening. That too, was her downfall. She overheard a most dangerous plot to kill someone important so their spouse could make good on their death. This trechery didn't especially surprize her, it happened all the time. But the person who was about to be killed was Miojuian, her doctor and friend that she had known for years now. She wasn't about to let it happen, so she snuck off to warn him. She was unfortunately noticed. This is when she exalted. They caught her while she was still dazed, she was an eazy target then. They interogated her, she played the pity card. Stating a poor blind girl is of no harm to them or their operations, they affirmed this and released her. She swiftly snuck off into the night, not needing her sight she could stick to shadows easily and go places where people needed light to see five feet ahead of them. She only barely made it to save her friend's life. But together they dispatched the assassins, and their bond only grew. She found it hard to explain what she had become. She wasn't sure how Miojuian would take it, so she kept quiet. The surpizing thing was Miojuian hired Nel to kill his greedy wife, something she was more than happy to do...
Just after exalting, she felt she must go north. She traveled pretty far on her onw. She eventually found what she came for. It was something she couldn't explain, something was burried, a timeless box lay just beneith the earth. Uncovering it she discovered a blindfold. She didn't feel is was anything special until she tried it out. It allowed her to see again! Nothing had decernable color, but she could see shape. Now she lives a comfortable life as she always had. She lives occasionally in the protection of Miojuian, especially when she is hurt. He uses his expert medicinal knowledge to bandage her up, and is amazed she heals so quickly.
After being healed relatively quickly she got herself into the business of stealing things for people. She was asked to get a statue from a musium and while in the process of stealing it she encountered someone else doing the exact same thing. They came to blows, in the process, she found the theif was another solar, a night caste even. So they helped each other get away and began casually seeing each other. A year later, all was going well with Nel and Still Owl. They were young and in love, and on the Run. They were hiding out up north when around Calibration, a commet fell from the sky and landed somewhere up north. While out for supplies Still Owl fell in with the wrong crowd and was wisked away to sea, since they all were being chased by a dragon blood. Owl valiantly came back for Nel and she too became part of the Pirate Crew aboard the ship The Underhanded Venture. The captain of the vessel was an Eclipse caste named Kye Anrai, his first mate a Dawn who went by the name Scin ("sin"). The crew of 4 quickly became friends as they were stuck at sea. Along the trip they ran into, quite literally another ship of Lunars. The three Lunars, one of which was bound to Kye on a spiritual level, joined the crew of The Underhanded Venture. The now 7 celestials picked up a terrestrial exalt who turned out to be alright. The 8 adventurers, the 4 solars, the 3 lunars, and the 1 dragon blooded, all sailed into the West in search of a Mytical City that they were instructed to find. The trip was not smooth sailing. Along the way they tangled with a small flock of sea creatures, who stopped the ship and sent Still Owl over board! He was unarmored and unarmed, leaving everything he held dear behind... Including Nel. Thuoughly depressed by this, she went into her own form of mourning. It was a few weeks before they hit shore again and could have a small funeral on the shore. After the funeral, Nel was left on the beach to mourn with Owl's daiklave. There she was visited by Owl. He wasn't dead, he came back! Or so she thought. His visit was short so she arranged to meet him again in a few months. Telling him that she and the others were continuing to the city of Luthe, and once there she would train a litte, and come visit him. After that she didn't morn any more.
The arrived at Luthe with little complications after that. They were given a place to stay, and room to train. Nel trained for half a year before she took off to visit Owl again. In visiting him, she was wearing her blindfold, and with it, she saw it wasn't Owl anymore. He was ... different. Darker... Something dark and sinister even though his words were soft and loving. She left him, again in morning and heartbroken. She went back home to Miojuan, mourned there for another month, helping him with money.
When she again returned to Luthe, things had changed with her friends. The gargoyle totem lunar, Eleria, was getting married to the ghost of Kye's former incarnation... This upset Kye greatly, and he was taking off. Nel stowed away on the ship and went with him. For weeks she remained invisable to him and helped around the ship, following him. Spending time with him, Nel became fond of Kye. When he eventually landed at his manse Nel made herself known to him, and Kye, drowning in his grief, took her in. They discovered their chemistry and began to take comfort from each other through their mourning for their respective former lovers. They spent many months at sea, after leaving Kye's Manse they traveled out to the East to speak with Ma-Ha-Suchi. That's where they discovered Ma-Ha-Suchi was... missing, believed dead. From there they passed the message on to Lookshy, and tryed to pass it on to the Realm, but they didn't want to speak. Nel and Kye by this point were in love and content. They returned to Luthe about 4 years after they left, and when they returned Nel found she was with child. Keeping it from Kye and the others she moved to the otherside of Luthe and had her baby in secret.
Before her son was born, Kye found out and became a regular part of the child's life. They named the child Liam after Kye's mentor. The child was to be reared in secrecy and both of the parents swore to it. Life continued smoothly for 5 years. All of the exalted at the city of luthe worked hard to raise the city. And ten years after their first arrival, they finally raised the city.
Appearance
Nel is a little girl, she is in her mid thirties now, but her frame is still that of a young adult. Her hair she keeps simple and long, letting it frame her face. Her eyes were once blue but have glossed over with obvious eerie white cataracts. She occasionally keeps them covered with a sash of silk that is white trimmed with gold.
Her attire is simple as in it's easy to work in. She wears comfortable clothes in dark shades of blue and often some white. She is in excellent shape and carries herself with an unseen confidence.
Motovations
The reason she keeps going is only because others have told her she can't. She refuses to let her handicap keep her down. She's a very stubborn person and will not be told if she can or can not do anything.
Her other motovator is her son, Liam
She is fiercely protective of the boy, and keeps him a secret from all who need not know about him. He still lives in Luthe with his nanny, a mortal woman who has been sworn to secrecy and is also a dear friend to Nel.
