Introductory post of sorts
I meant to post something along these lines a while back, but got a bit busy and lost track of LJ for a while.
Althea is a character you're not likely to know, as she comes out of the continuity of a rather unusual campaign in the Eberron D&D setting. She has a few different guises she might show up as, but they are essentially the same person. She will probably start to show up unexpectedly, seeming oddly familiar with the nexus and perhaps some of its inhabitants, despite not having been seen before. There is a reason behind this unusual behavior...
Firstly, Althea Tamochi d'Jorasco is a rather unconventional scion of House Jorasco, the House which bears the Mark of Healing and controls virtually all sanctioned healing on Khorvaire through the Healers Guild; she turned her back on the study of healing at an early age and instead trained as a Seer. She now attends Morgrave University in Sharn, and performs her required service to the guild by way of a special arrangement with House Sivis performing research on topics of mutual interest.
However, beneath this mundane identity lies two secrets this young halfling hides even from her own house. Firstly, she herself is dragonmarked, bearing a least mark of healing; having received forewarning in a vision, she deliberately failed the Test of Siberys and continues to hide her mark, lest she be called upon to change the nature of her relationship to the guild. Secondly, she has a new and rare power her world has not before seen, something which has emerged in a few dragonmarked individuals very recently and seems to be tied to the outer planes; in her case Kythri, the Churning Chaos.
To allow her to utilize her abilities without jeopardizing her role with her House, she maintains an alternate identity under the moniker "Vision" complete with an altered appearance (Hat of Disguise, or in this case a hairpin). She also has a few other forms she uses for various purposes.
Because of her connection to Kythri, she can step outside of normal space at any manifest zone to Kythri simply by walking along an extra-spatial dimension; when venturing into Kythri she's been known to come out at unusual times or places, including sometimes before she even entered; she no doubt stumbled upon the Nexus in this way, and her visits don't quite occur in chronological order...
tl;dr version: She's a sort-of superhero seer named Vision with chaos-aligned powers, whose secret identity is a university student. Her visits to the Nexus are occurring in a random order.
Althea is a character you're not likely to know, as she comes out of the continuity of a rather unusual campaign in the Eberron D&D setting. She has a few different guises she might show up as, but they are essentially the same person. She will probably start to show up unexpectedly, seeming oddly familiar with the nexus and perhaps some of its inhabitants, despite not having been seen before. There is a reason behind this unusual behavior...
Firstly, Althea Tamochi d'Jorasco is a rather unconventional scion of House Jorasco, the House which bears the Mark of Healing and controls virtually all sanctioned healing on Khorvaire through the Healers Guild; she turned her back on the study of healing at an early age and instead trained as a Seer. She now attends Morgrave University in Sharn, and performs her required service to the guild by way of a special arrangement with House Sivis performing research on topics of mutual interest.
However, beneath this mundane identity lies two secrets this young halfling hides even from her own house. Firstly, she herself is dragonmarked, bearing a least mark of healing; having received forewarning in a vision, she deliberately failed the Test of Siberys and continues to hide her mark, lest she be called upon to change the nature of her relationship to the guild. Secondly, she has a new and rare power her world has not before seen, something which has emerged in a few dragonmarked individuals very recently and seems to be tied to the outer planes; in her case Kythri, the Churning Chaos.
To allow her to utilize her abilities without jeopardizing her role with her House, she maintains an alternate identity under the moniker "Vision" complete with an altered appearance (Hat of Disguise, or in this case a hairpin). She also has a few other forms she uses for various purposes.
Because of her connection to Kythri, she can step outside of normal space at any manifest zone to Kythri simply by walking along an extra-spatial dimension; when venturing into Kythri she's been known to come out at unusual times or places, including sometimes before she even entered; she no doubt stumbled upon the Nexus in this way, and her visits don't quite occur in chronological order...
tl;dr version: She's a sort-of superhero seer named Vision with chaos-aligned powers, whose secret identity is a university student. Her visits to the Nexus are occurring in a random order.