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Anathea

I was born in Perelinn to a lady of the night. Fortunately, she was the favored lover of a high diplomat to Emperor Delwen Kar-Thone and she was allowed and could afford to keep me.

Description Height: 5’3" Hair: Honey Brown Eyes: Midnight Blue Apparent Race: Human Thea wears simple clothing on adventure. Fitted black pants and a long-sleeved blue and black blouse are what most see as they pass briefly over her among her vividly noticeable companions. An interested party would notice her black leather gloves and the bracers that she wears over her wrists and possibly the slight bump that is produced by the ring she wears on her left hand beneath the gloves. On the now rare occasion that she is attending a function with the nobility, she wears a gown of deep blue satin with a fitted empire bodice, bell sleeves that drop to mid-hand and a flowing gathered skirt. She pairs this outfit with black leather shoes and simple jewelry. Standardly, Thea wears her hair parted down the middle with two braids holding the mass of hair down and back. These two braids split the dream-acquired white lock of hair, which weaves daintly through them. When in a more formal situation, she has begun to wear her hear completely up, rather than completely downas she formerly did, to weave the lock into a coronet braid and make it slightly less noticeable. Overall, no one really notices her amongst the group, because while she's pretty, she doesn't count as drop-dead gorgeous. In amongst normal folks, though, she can adjust her attire and attitude to make herself something beyond normal in attractiveness.

I didn't really understand what my mother did when I was little. I saw her frequently during the day, but rarely had supper with her and never did she tuck me in. My nurse, Alswytha, took care of that and watched me when mother was away. We had a beautiful garden and a lovely neat small home…small, at least, in comparison to the palatial homes that surrounded it. I later saw three families of eight or ten living in a house the size of ours and have seen much worse since I left home.

Perelinn is a gorgeous and fascinating city. Sleight-of-hand can be seen on every corner, performed by the young students of the University Magius. The lake of Ynis Glas shines like a diamond at one side of the city. I learned to swim there in the summer, when mother would take Alswytha and I on her trips to attend her paramour at his second home. My mother would not tell me then who my father was and, although Vespurion supported her entirely, he also shared her with important visitors and guests from the city.

When I was twelve and had reached my first Moon of the Great Mother, my mother took me aside and told me that she and I were going out to celebrate this wondrous event. I awaited eagerly all day my evening with my mother. It would be the first time she and I had gone anywhere together. We wandered about the city, my mother confiding in me the people whom she knew and knew of and what she had learned of them from Vespurion. We had dinner at Lusoth's, a restaurant with beautifully carved oak pillars and chairs, damask table linens, and everything that could possibly delight a girl of twelve. The food was divine and I was allowed that night my first sip of faywine or firewine that is served to all at Beltaine and to those who can afford it at other times. My mother told me that it was a tradition in our family that each daughter received their first sip on the night of their first Moon. Over dinner we discussed my future. Mother suggested that I might wish to seek a life in magic, the time of my Moon was fortuitous and the potential seemed to run in our family. I knew that she had entered the University at an early age, but when her withdrawal was requested by a diplomat to serve the corps as a hetaera, her parents readily agreed. When I heard of the devotion required, I thought deeply and told my mother that perhaps that life would not be right for me. We discussed several other options and for a brief period of time I considered becoming a gemcutter, simply to be able to spend my life near the beautiful stones that dripped from the ladies in that beautiful place.

Dinner was over all too soon for me and only my mother's announcement that I was to meet someone very dear to her kept me from wilting with disappointment as we left Lusoth's. We wandered toward the University Magius, as we approached the campus, we veered slightly toward the left and entered a sizable building. Our heels clicking quietly on the floor, we walked sedately down a flight of stairs. My mother rounded a corner in front of me and as I had fallen behind a bit, gaping at my surroundings, I didn't see her disappear. I panicked a bit then and hurried down the corridor to try to catch up. And then I heard her from behind me, "Would you like to learn to do that?" I turned and watched as she suddenly appeared from the darkness, a broad smile on her face. I was hooked. I followed her back to that corner, trying to walk as silently as she did. She touched the wall and it opened out under her hand. We passed through the opening and a dark-haired man picked me up and hugged me tightly. This was my father. Through that door, I had entered a new world, my parents' world.

And so I learned there of the history of the Empire and how diplomacy and knowledge had kept the Empire together after might and magic had joined the people. There I became a preserver of harmony as my parents had been before me, my father hiding silently in the background and noting the tides of the people and my mother hidden in the shadow of her bureaucratic lover, eyes open for trouble from within the government and outside the empire. I acquired many skills. I learned to walk silently and hide from prying eyes, to spot trouble and new ideas. Shortly after my fifteenth birthday, I was sent to Lyrenn to observe and report on their grand celebration of Deepnight.