Jade Curtiss 2/4ostiaSeptember 28 2008, 00:07:37 UTC
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Jade Curtiss was born Jade Balfour, and raised in the winter wonderland-esque city of Keterburg along with her sister Nephry, friend Peony, and her not really a friend more like lackey, Saphir (later called Dist).
When Jade and Saphir were both still considerably young, a woman named Gelda Nebilim came to Keterburg to teach. A retired Locrian Colonel and Seventh Fonist, Nebilim took both girls under her tutelage. Jade came to respect the woman greatly and was fascinated with her ability to use the Seventh Fonon. This fascination lead to the young woman turning away from her previous experiments of testing fonic artes out on nearby monsters, and to experiment instead with what would happen to one who attempted an arte with the Seventh Fonon without having been born with the ability to utilize it. The experiment, however, went haywire and wound up killing Nebilim. In the process, Nebilim's residence caught fire, leading all of Keterburg away from the truth of what had happened.
It was this incident that drove Jade to test out a new sort of science that she had begun developing and theorizing some time before- the science of replication. With the assistance of Saphir (who was more skilled with the use of fonmachines and all too willing to help) the young woman attempted to create a replica of her beloved teacher. Unfortunately for both children, the endeavor only resulted in failure- the copy created was a mad destroyer, and nothing at all like the woman it was meant to return to them. After causing some measure of destruction, the rampaging copy was finally sealed away from the city.
This first failure, however, was not enough to convince either child to leave fomicry behind. Not initially, anyway.
Not even a week after the failed Nebilim replica had been sealed away and while Jade was going through countless pages of research to find a solution to what had gone wrong, she overheard a conversation between some other of the townspeople and a visitor to the city. They were discussing the Score and how, only recently, a teacher's death in Keterburg had occurred exactly as the Score had said it would. Jade wondered: had she not caused that fire, would Nebilim have really died as the Score said, or could it have been avoided? The thought that her beloved teacher might have died some other way occurred to Jade, but it did little to quell the hatred and determination that ignited quietly in her.
She knew the Score, and she understand its importance to the people, but never before had it affected her as directly as this.
It was then that Jade's main focus in life changed. She set fomicry aside, vowing that she would return to it in due time, and took a different aim in life by throwing herself headfirst into studying the Score as well as finding a way to prove whether it's prophecies could be broken or not. She became a speaker on the subject and its possibilties, and was labeled a heretic in more than one city.
Not long from then, Jade was adopted into the Curtiss family, and found herself joining in to Malkuth's military. Her family was glad for this as it seemed to leave Jade far too busy to continue her 'blasphemous' lectures. During her earlier years of service, many rumors spread out from the young woman. They called her a devil for her skill and her power, and they called her 'the necromancer' in the belief that she would often take home the bodies of dead soldiers from the battlefield and experiment on them. Whether she actually did or not is up for debate although Jade herself has never confirmed or denied the rumor in any way.
It was because of these rumors that Jade and an old 'friend' of her's, Dist, met up again.
Jade Curtiss was born Jade Balfour, and raised in the winter wonderland-esque city of Keterburg along with her sister Nephry, friend Peony, and her not really a friend more like lackey, Saphir (later called Dist).
When Jade and Saphir were both still considerably young, a woman named Gelda Nebilim came to Keterburg to teach. A retired Locrian Colonel and Seventh Fonist, Nebilim took both girls under her tutelage. Jade came to respect the woman greatly and was fascinated with her ability to use the Seventh Fonon. This fascination lead to the young woman turning away from her previous experiments of testing fonic artes out on nearby monsters, and to experiment instead with what would happen to one who attempted an arte with the Seventh Fonon without having been born with the ability to utilize it. The experiment, however, went haywire and wound up killing Nebilim. In the process, Nebilim's residence caught fire, leading all of Keterburg away from the truth of what had happened.
It was this incident that drove Jade to test out a new sort of science that she had begun developing and theorizing some time before- the science of replication. With the assistance of Saphir (who was more skilled with the use of fonmachines and all too willing to help) the young woman attempted to create a replica of her beloved teacher. Unfortunately for both children, the endeavor only resulted in failure- the copy created was a mad destroyer, and nothing at all like the woman it was meant to return to them. After causing some measure of destruction, the rampaging copy was finally sealed away from the city.
This first failure, however, was not enough to convince either child to leave fomicry behind. Not initially, anyway.
Not even a week after the failed Nebilim replica had been sealed away and while Jade was going through countless pages of research to find a solution to what had gone wrong, she overheard a conversation between some other of the townspeople and a visitor to the city. They were discussing the Score and how, only recently, a teacher's death in Keterburg had occurred exactly as the Score had said it would. Jade wondered: had she not caused that fire, would Nebilim have really died as the Score said, or could it have been avoided? The thought that her beloved teacher might have died some other way occurred to Jade, but it did little to quell the hatred and determination that ignited quietly in her.
She knew the Score, and she understand its importance to the people, but never before had it affected her as directly as this.
It was then that Jade's main focus in life changed. She set fomicry aside, vowing that she would return to it in due time, and took a different aim in life by throwing herself headfirst into studying the Score as well as finding a way to prove whether it's prophecies could be broken or not. She became a speaker on the subject and its possibilties, and was labeled a heretic in more than one city.
Not long from then, Jade was adopted into the Curtiss family, and found herself joining in to Malkuth's military. Her family was glad for this as it seemed to leave Jade far too busy to continue her 'blasphemous' lectures. During her earlier years of service, many rumors spread out from the young woman. They called her a devil for her skill and her power, and they called her 'the necromancer' in the belief that she would often take home the bodies of dead soldiers from the battlefield and experiment on them. Whether she actually did or not is up for debate although Jade herself has never confirmed or denied the rumor in any way.
It was because of these rumors that Jade and an old 'friend' of her's, Dist, met up again.
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