Character background
(For an Exalted game)
There once was a family that took animals up and down the bright road to sell them. The bright road went through a land of death, so they were very careful not to leave it as they traveled.
One day, cruel dreams decided to play a game with this family. They made shadows that lured away the animals from the bright road. The animals were their livelihood, so the family went after them, but it was late and the sun soon left the sky. In the dark, death crept from its land and struck among them, feasting on such rich life.
One small girl was told to run, so she did. She was small enough to slip through the teeth of death as it gorged on the larger prey. She ran all the way to the bright road and was safe, but she was also alone.
Her heart overflowed and she cried.
At one end of the bright road is a white city. The faceless patrons of the city there loved life and hated death, and heard her crying. They sent a friend to bring her into the city where it was safe.
She was given a new family, and taught to care for different animals. She never forgot her first family, but there was so much life around her that she couldn't be scared of the death that ate them. Instead, she grew up lovely and clever, and told stories to little children and tended wounds wherever she found them.
She was a special woman, for she had a star in her heart. When one of the old stars fell to the earth, its blaze kindled the star in her heart. She left the white city and went to live in the sky with the other stars.
The people she had known forgot her, but the stories and kindness lingered on to mark where she had been.
There once was a family that took animals up and down the bright road to sell them. The bright road went through a land of death, so they were very careful not to leave it as they traveled.
One day, cruel dreams decided to play a game with this family. They made shadows that lured away the animals from the bright road. The animals were their livelihood, so the family went after them, but it was late and the sun soon left the sky. In the dark, death crept from its land and struck among them, feasting on such rich life.
One small girl was told to run, so she did. She was small enough to slip through the teeth of death as it gorged on the larger prey. She ran all the way to the bright road and was safe, but she was also alone.
Her heart overflowed and she cried.
At one end of the bright road is a white city. The faceless patrons of the city there loved life and hated death, and heard her crying. They sent a friend to bring her into the city where it was safe.
She was given a new family, and taught to care for different animals. She never forgot her first family, but there was so much life around her that she couldn't be scared of the death that ate them. Instead, she grew up lovely and clever, and told stories to little children and tended wounds wherever she found them.
She was a special woman, for she had a star in her heart. When one of the old stars fell to the earth, its blaze kindled the star in her heart. She left the white city and went to live in the sky with the other stars.
The people she had known forgot her, but the stories and kindness lingered on to mark where she had been.