Eidothea
| Eidothea | |||||||
| Female Duskborn | |||||||
| Player: Underlight | |||||||
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| General Information | ||||||||||
| Full Name: | Eidothea | |||||||||
| Nicknames: | The Spectre, Sillu, Little Crow | |||||||||
| Age: | 20 | |||||||||
| Deity: | Observes Nyx | |||||||||
| Alignment: |
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| Occupation: | The Spectre - Keeper of all Dark in Sigil and Proprietor of the Shadowed Bookworm | |||||||||
| Faction/Rank: | Indep | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Unknown | |||||||||
| Physical Attributes | ||||||||||
| Height: | 5'3 | |||||||||
| Weight: | 134 lbs | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Black Sclera | |||||||||
| Hair: | 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 is the proprietor of the Shadowed Bookworm in the Plane of Shadows. It is known that she was extremely close to the previous owner and rumor remains that the shadowy 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 and illusion shows within notoriously dark Butcher's Block tavern in the Hive ward. 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.
- As The Spectre, she is of growing reputation and considered one of the finest keepers of secrets, lore, and information within Sigil. The trade of information is rumored to have forged a network from the city Archives to the Shadowed Bookworm in Nyx and with many, many shadows flooding the city streets of Sigil it is not difficult to find Eidothea's influence.
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 irises that range from cerulean blue to a warm lavender. 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.
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.
Public or Known Associations
Eidothea is known for having very few affiliations but occasionally there are trending instances in which she can be seen conversing with several individuals within the City of Doors and elsewhere. This is of course excluding that strange, aforementioned shape that lingers at her shadow of whom she used to believe was far better company than anything Sigil had to offer. While certainly not a complete list or an exclusionary one, this does list some of the individuals she is seen talking to the most in alphabetical order:
- Alec - Eidothea has spoken of the hatted wizard as though he were a friend from a place that drew back beyond Sigil and beyond the cusp of her typical resignation in befriending those that frequent the city. She is often frustrated in trying to understand his patience and his rationale but rarely sees it necessary to press the man from being anything more than what he himself claims to be. It is assumed they met during a time in which Eidothea had considered joining the Bleak Cabal or perhaps when that candle-bearing gentleman saw to speak with either of them. Nonetheless, she is defensive and remains quick to see that he is kept well even in his neglecting to entertain a meal now and again with his head buried to tomes and endless scrying for things she knows better than to ask about.
- Apollyon - Eidothea met the Tanar'ri Herald and he requested of her upon the hour for introductions that he call her as she liked. Recalling the nihilistic paintings lining the halls of darkened rooms of a decaying manor, she called him as the world destroyer - Apollyon. Eidothea seems in their conversing to at least be inspired by the incubus in listening to his words on chaos as though they aroused a deeply wound nostalgia. Rarely in recent days is Eidothea seen about either the Herald or his three-eyed raven in public or within Sigil. With apparent fondness of the term, it is the Herald that bestowed her the title "Sillu".
- Aria - Aria is someone who has taken an interest for extending the casual conversations that remind Eidothea on a peaceful sort of daily routine in Sigil. The two are friendly enough but Eidothea remains otherwise detached. When it came to Aria, in particular, she rather liked to listen to the woman talk rather than counter her arguments.
- Balthazar De'Medici - The "Blue" gentleman is one she is seen speaking with on far more frequent terms since her return to Sigil. She harbors a strange (strange perhaps for her) consideration in enjoying his company and in listening to him speak. There are however times in which Eidothea appears to let her attention wander as though she were elsewhere all together in either conversation or in particular regard to this gentleman's concern. His shadow is fascinating to her.
- Emma Coronis - Initially very apprehensive of this tiefling due to her affiliations with the Order of the Planes Militant, Eidothea has since opened to conversing with her on occasion and could be seen more often in later days to prefer to speak with the woman over a cup of tea.
- Hafsa Sarah Shadiya Tabassum Alfarsi Twice-Bound Yet No More; A True Traveller of the Astral Plane; Daughter of the Third Cloud; Fulfilling Freedom's Niche; Traitor Sentinel of Ice and Steel; Crusader of Smoke and Mirrors; A Mortal's Last Breath; Queen of Cotyttia - ...During the final shadow weaving at the end of the Cotyttia Festival, the genie was seen leaving her throne and speaking with the girl in calling attention to her words. While Eidothea is interested in speaking with the genie and is shown to present recent familiarity with the company she keeps, she remains hesitant but considerably grateful toward her. Hafsa Sarah Shadiya Tabassum Alfarsi in return refers to Eidothea as "Spectre".
- Karsperus Blake - The "Red" gentleman is one of the first she had spoken to upon her return to Sigil. She often enjoys giving him cryptic messages that harbor little meaning but later grant insight as though she merely assumes he is inclined to enjoy riddles.
- Mean Joe - Much like her interactions with Emma, Eidothea retains loose association with the half-orc but is quick to extend the occasional conversation when time allows for it. Finding some mutual ground with the fellow given what Joe has described as a "concern" for the city dwellers in the Hive, it is too often ruffled by her eerie displacement and social ineptitude for Joe to tolerate for very long.
- Thilidar Villder - Eidothea wages a constant war between engaging this man in polite conversation, speaking to him in softer, dulcet whispers, or avoiding him all together. There is considerable conflict between these two shadow-clung mages. At his approach, Eidothea will become quite still and otherwise inclined to avoid or do away with her affiliation to him. And yet there is an obvious history beginning to be written by an unseen hand that believes the two knowing one another will prove an even greater merit to them both than they yet understand.