Eidothea
| Eidothea | |||||||
| Female Duskborn | |||||||
| Player: Underlight | |||||||
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| General Information | ||||||||||
| Full Name: | Eidothea | |||||||||
| Nicknames: | Spectre, Sillu, Little Crow | |||||||||
| Age: | Early 20's | |||||||||
| Deity: | Observes Nyx | |||||||||
| Alignment: |
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| Occupation: | Benefactress of the Shadowed Bookworm | |||||||||
| Faction/Rank: | Indep | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Unknown | |||||||||
| Physical Attributes | ||||||||||
| Height: | 5'3 | |||||||||
| Weight: | 134 lbs | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Black Sclera, Purple Iris | |||||||||
| Hair: | Wild, Curly and Dark Auburn | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Pale | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Supple, Curvaceous | |||||||||
| Physical Features: | Fingers, toes, and ears are tipped jet-black | |||||||||
| Skills | ||||||||||
| Illusionist and would-be shadowmancer, her talents name her as both a creature drawn in the realm of magic and as a woman with strong affinity towards shadows and darkness. | ||||||||||
| Equipment and Items | ||||||||||
| A simple satchel hangs over her shoulder containing an assortment of books, treats, and various other installments of personal pleasures. She is unarmed and favors clothing that fits comfortably over anything containing great weight or burden. | ||||||||||
"It does not matter how you came to be. It does not matter how it was you were born. To believe that there is not another of you, Eidothea, standing here before me in another layer of this strange maelstrom we walk, is foolishness. Perhaps that girl knows who she is and where she came from? She would not have any greater answer to give you. You recall that we are burdened always with an insufferable human trait. We are all burdened to believe that this is not all that there is. We can devour the very idea that we are but one slow, linear progression walking to oblivion's wake. But even I can reside within the shadows and listen to how they hum indefinitely with hope from beyond. What matters is what you will do with the knowledge that it may yet already have ended. It may already be over."
The Dark on Dothea
- The girl is considered a drinker of light. Often, upon her approach, city lights will seem to dim and shadows will disrupt their usual pattern that they may bend toward her as though being drawn to her core.
- She refers to herself as the Benefactress of the Shadowed Bookworm in the Plane of Shadows. It is known that she is extremely close to the owner and rumor remains that the silhouette on the wall of the bookstore is in fact her true shadow albeit his wit and sarcasm is largely considered impalpable and dry.
- It is said that Eidothea made her first standing in the City of Doors by making small light shows within The Butcher's Block in The Hive. These small, often undersold and overlooked performances earned her enough jink to eventually take up residence outside the Hive.
- Lightboys and other children in the city seem to know her as though she were someone there all along in their lives. In truth, it is because she has offered assistance to both The Gatehouse and the other children in the Hive in the absence of someone who was never entirely there to begin with.
- Eidothea left Sigil for what could have been a year's time. She was last seen walking away from a hatted wizard in taking the arm of a man who spoke softly and carried a candle with him wherever he went.
- Upon her return, however, she resolved to unleash a grand opposition in the face of the Planes Militant and has since begun orchestrating great, illusionary tapestries of shadow and magic to present the City of Doors as a canvas to her imagination and her recovery from the dark realities she bore witness to.
- She keeps the company of especially strange individuals and in spite of her solemn and eerily peaceful demeanor, her detachment has since resolved to opening herself to opportunities that she never once considered when having locked herself with the Shadow in the Bookworm.
At First Glance
Eidothea is a small, young woman appearing to be within her very early twenties. She is of relatively average height and is built with the gentle curvature of a woman having found the cusp of maturation. Her hair is worn down, long and full of wavy curls that spill haphazardly over her features and often cascade her line of sight. But for her regular attributes, there is something off that seems to be an affair of a "touched" bloodline. Her skin is translucently pale and harbors an inhuman, soft, lavender light to her visage when not entrenched in shadow. Each finger appears to have been dipped in jet black and the same could be said of her strange, pointed ears. Her skull is sylvan in shape otherwise, with a delicate but faintly elongated jawline giving her an eerily flawless set to both the drawing of her eyes and nose. Of her eyes, the sclera are a deep black that lends to the storm of two lavender irises. Closer inspection reveals that her pupils are fine, darkvision imbued slits.
Eidothea is prone to dressing herself in light, loose-fitting materials that are befitting the destination of her travels. Having lived a relatively nomadic existence in her short life, the shadowmancer prefers to carry her things by means of necessity alone but is rarely seen without a book, loose parchment, or other painting utensils. Around her throat, she wears a long silver chain with a pendant that is fitted under her garments and hidden away from the world. Discerning eyes tell that it is an ornate bauble depicting a knotted, crescent moon of thin, professionally wrought silver.
The Shadowed Bookworm and the Plane of Shadows
The Shadowed Bookworm in the City of Twilight accessible as a common destination for those seeking to scour the plane of shadows to unveil its secrets and mysteries is a place the girl once called home. Rumor holds however that she is always interested in escorting curious purveyors of rare texts and tomes there to speak with the Bookworm's enigmatic and shadow-slung owner. In recent times, however, this practice has ceased and the Bookworm is spoke of almost in nostalgia as though it were a home she had no intention of leaving but returning to the City of Doors was an inevitability.
Illusionist and Shadowmancer
Eidothea preferred her existence to have remained as an overlooked presence that would occasionally darken the streets of the city and be offered little further regard. But by force of her hand, three grandiose illusions were orchestrated by the girl's hands alone. These illusions were incapable of falling dispelled by any normal means and served as the paint with the City of Doors serving as her canvas. Because of this, she has gained both great notoriety as well as infamy in some circles for her affinity for weaving both shadow and illusion. Upon being questioned on how these great weavings were made, she offers no answer but since their coming the girl remains eternally changed as though deep sacrifices and scars were her gift in trying to speak out against the travesties she believe still haunt the players in the most recent installment of Sigil's usual calamitous events.