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Zhien
The
Ayonae Ro Aggie
What
would one day become Zhien was at first nothing but a figment of the imagination,
a short-lived and absentminded afterthought by one of Innouruuk's most
powerful minions : Lanys T'Vyl. When she was still young, not having
fully mastered her abilities, Lanys saw a Tier'Dal man of impressive beauty
and immediately, if only for a second, felt the pangs of a romantic crush
on him. Her natural self-discipline quickly kicked in reworking the
love into hatred, but not before Erollisi Marr, goddess of Love, detected
her feelings and hoped to nurture them into a potential force of good.
Before the thoughts dissipated, Erollisi grabbed what remained of them,
which was actually the dream-child of a union between Lanys and the man.
Thus, if only in an abstract sense, Zhien came into being existing in a
make-shift dreamworld of Erollisi's making, where she was raised and grew
into adulthood by the goddess and her family. Mithaniel taught her
honor and valor, Erollisi taught her compassion and the tenets of goodness,
and Tarrew channelled power into her, making her a righteous and powerful force.
All this time, Zhien was raised in the dreamworld, a warped psuedo-reality
of Erollisi's dreams where there was no hatred in the world, where all
races had always worked hand-in-hand with one-another; it was for this
reason that Zhien had become a shadowknight, for in this false world while
dark elves could still not become paladins, they could use their dark arts
for good. Zhien studied much of her skills at this false reality's
Neriak A&M University (Agriculture and Magik) and, in honor of her
alma mater, decided that any armor she wore in the future would adopt the
maroon colors of her school.
Twenty-five
years after she had first been created, Zhien was discovered by the Nameless,
who disapproved of what it felt was the Marr's "pet" and expunged Zhien
into the real world, where she found a much harsher reality than she had
ever been exposed to before. Thinking to rewrite the world into a
vision like that she had been raised in, Zhien was shortly-after contacted
by other guardians of reality, including Kriggan, who taught her that a
balance was necessary for the world to work properly and that she would
have to limit her efforts to convincing through example and not through
force. So Zhien, begrudgingly, took it upon herself to police the
world in a mediator capacity, only using her incredible powers when all
other venues failed or were not viable. |