(( This next part is her history which I will give an quick, not so much, yet detailed, definitely, overview of and maybe edit a bit from what I have on paper about her… Coming eventually… ))
Momiji started her life off as a simple alchemist, really simple alchemist that is when she was quite young, living in a time and place in her world where magic is frowned upon. Alchemy was different from magic as long as you did things right, it was like botany in the way she was doing it, with actual alchemy she would be creating various helpful potions, soil fertility potions for aiding in growing plants, healing potions, even the occasional transmutation potion for changing the properties of certain items and reagents... She wasn't that great of an alchemist, but she would by accident unlock something that she really enjoys... When working with stones and little side contraptions she was making and dealing with alchemy at the same time, she had a little accident, the potion reacted very negatively and well she quickly went to contain and move away from it, locking it inside the contraption she made, and well when it exploded after she got a good distance away she found magical properties on the contraption and the stones... but sheer dumb luck the nearby stone was edged into a partial weak golem core and imbued with magic from whatever happened with the potion. The magic caught her attention, but she also knew that well magic was thought of as dangerous so she quickly hid and stored it away... continuing to work on seeing what it was in secret.
She would continue her work as an alchemist for her village, still working with the core she had created, she was analyzing it and well over time she constructed a small body it could use after reading some books she managed to get from travelers... one such being a disguised witch who gave her the book which had the most perfect definition of what she had analyzed... What she had was a tiny weak stone golem that aided in holding and moving things around, not much larger then a little girls doll, it took the combined efforts of her alchemy, some craftswomanship, and some informational books to construct it, but she kept it hidden in her shop, now no longer a little girl, she was a woman now and had a sum of money and property in her town, and well still she had to keep it secret, magical constructs like what she had didn't look or seem that dangerous but it was still magic and well magic was hated in her land... More time would pass and well she started seeing if she could replicate the golem core, she hadn't had much success in the pass but well she was getting closer, a few small fires but her secret was kept safe under the assumption she had just not kept her alchemy ingredients properly secured as to what has caused the fires, cleaning up after them herself.
After a while she has a breakthrough but well someone got a bit curious as to what she does in her shop all day when she has it closed every so often and well started to look into her home/shop to see what was going on, at first they didn't notice anything and well she caught them watching and well started to be more careful, which in term as to how she went about made them more curious and they started to be more secretive themselves, stalker much really to her is what was going through her mind... After a while she decided to report it, however she was unaware that they saw her little golem and what she was working on at some point... and well when she got to the village chief she saw the other and then well what she heard from the chief was something that made her heart skip a bit from sudden fright, it was about how she was using magic and creating golems... she thought the worse was to come but well the chief told her to calm immediately before she could further react, saying next for her to stop and rid of all her golems and never deal with magic again. She didn't know what to do but well try to explain herself, talking to the chief for an hour, after moving in private, the thing that came in the end was a agreement, since she had been helping them so long with their wounds, crops, and other problems since she was a young girl and the alchemist of the village, she would be allowed to keep the golems, but with mandatory watch of what she is doing, and should any problems arise, she will be held accountable for them, she agreed.
In the next few months she would continue her work in her magic and golems, not delving too far into them but enough so to learn more, constructing seven of them in total, and having extra golem cores locked up in her shop, most the village knowing what she was doing, and suspicious eyes laid upon her. She continued her work as an alchemist as well and well started to advance some more with it, but things got a bit tougher, everyone wanted proof of her potions working due to their distrust of her and her magical constructs, only a few in the village and the chief still had some trust in her. Eventually she thought about regaining it, maybe advancing her knowledge a bit as well about other things, so she decided to try and join the gathering group, it would let them be able to watch her more as well as taking her out of her home so they could watch her better as well. It would be rewarding in a number of ways to her.
And it was, she started to regain more trust from being in their sight near constantly and helping in the gathering of the things around the village, but the big thing would come later, her proving to be quite good still even with the 'evil' magic she had to construct her golems. The thing was her saving two of the gatherers from a ferocious beast that suddenly attacked them on one of their gatherings, she would save them from certain death by taking the beasts attention and leading it away and into a trap, running for her life while making sure she had it following her, leading it to a hidden cliff when she turned to see if it was still on her tail, evading it when she saw it pounce at her and well to its certain death as she watched it tear throw the bushes and down into the dropoff of a cliffside. She would move back to help the wounded back to the village and regain a lot of trust back, content with it, but not with how little she actually managed to learn, sure she learned some things, but mostly just what she already could have thought of...
Anyway she would go back into her alchemy again, wanting to further it, and well she would try out a few more things with botany as well with it, learning some more herbal alchemic potions, but eventually her mind went to wanting to learn more, to go on an adventure and get some experience with the outside world even more, further from the nearby forest or gardens of the village, she wanted to delve deeper and get better. There was a problem with that however, she couldn't just leave without letting the village know, and even then doing so could bring suspicion back to her, and well she also couldn't bring much of anything odd or out of place with her either, so she'll have to wait for something.
Eventually, in a few weeks something came up that would give her the opening she needed to get such experiences, a witch turned up nearby in the dense forest, taking residence there and well placing a threat in the land, Momiji would take this chance to speak with the chief to see if she could join the group heading over to rid of her, and well he said no at first, and she would try to talk him into letting her join them by saying how she could help with the magic the witch may be using and may have means of countering a number of it, at this point he would think on it and then allow her after a bit. She would nod, holding in he glee to being able to see magic firsthand of a witch and head to her home to get her gloves which turned into battle gauntlets, having them turn into the gauntlets first to keep their magic a secret before heading over to the group, the chief already talking to them and telling them how Momiji could be of use, after introductions, the group, a total of eight with Momiji included headed out to hunt the witch...
This adventure would be more then Momiji and them bargained for, as they were heading deeper into the darkened dense woods, days of travel where they would talk to pass some time they came across a miasmic fog that darkened and sickened the forest near their destination, around the witches domain... The effects of this magic sickened Momiji, she was thinking the entire time as she looked about at the deathly forest, this is what evil magic can do, she felt ill just thinking about it, and the rest of the group looked at her expression, and well thought they were too hard on her with her magical constructs, especially when compared to this... They would continue on deeper into the miasmic fog to meet the witch, but this was a horrible mistake...
They met the witch outside her lair, ambushed her two, but well she evaded the ambush and countered... that witch, she was far beyond their power, and beat them down, killing two of them from the very get go and imprisoning the rest, Momiji included, they were battered and bruised, hurt badly and bound, dragged by the witch kicking and beaten into her lair in the roots of a giant miasmic tree, tossing them into her dungeon deep within the underground. Momiji was turly frightened, she didn't want to die, she didn't want any of them to die, it couldn't be the end, no, no, she wanted to live! She wanted to get out of it, she wanted them all to get out of it alive, the witch she didn't want to wait for her to finish them off in whatever manner she had in mind, no.
And well she wouldn't, her very will to live, her fear of dying here, it brought out a strength within her, it reached to her very inner core of her soul, and touched her magic, her power, her way to saving herself, empowered by it and in a constant state of survival she used magic, magic to break free of her binds and break the prisons of her allies, and with her knowledge as well and the nearby room she managed to gather things from the witch's lair to create minor healing potions to heal their wounds a bit before the witch noticed their escape. When she did, the witch attacked without mercy, and well Momiji defended herself and her allies by diverting the explosive blast to the side catching the witch off guard and in surprise as she paused a bit and the battle started in full... It would take a while, but eventually the witch lay dead at their feet and them victorious, but at a price, they were battered and bruised again and three of their eight now dead, but well the price would have been greater without Momiji, they all may have died...
They would rest a bit before heading back, collecting the dead and bringing them with them to the village to talk about the defeat of the witch and price it took, along with Momiji's magical feats as well, it would be a shock and well Momiji wasn't too happy about the looks she kept getting, turning her face away and well constantly thinking about those three lives lost, she knew two of them more personally as they came to her alchemy shop a lot... She would aide in their burial... but even then she was looked at just like a witch, even with how they talked about all of them being dead without what she had used to save them, she would just shrug them off and go back to her shop, not doing much with magic anymore for a while, the thing with the witch and the three dead stuck in her head for a bit and the mixed feelings about magic she had now... She would stare at her golems with these feelings every time they came up to her during her alchemy work... The village itself was quiet a bit as well around her, until eventually the chief decided to talk to her.
The chief first off thanked her about having saved the lives of those who survived and then tried to get her back to normal, saying if she stays the way she is acting, she may very well turn into either a witch or become really depressed, that she shouldn't hold back any feelings, to let them out... At first this really, really confused her and she blinked before finally talking to someone through everything she had seen and been through, and well it helped her a bit, the chief was also relieved a bit by what she talked about, she had a deep fear of darker magics, but well her magic, it felt quite dangerous but was needed to actually defeat that witch and save their lives... That she wasn't going to do much more with that kind of magic at all, that really, she had forgotten how she actually used it in reality, and she had, somewhat, mostly...
In the next few weeks she returned back to normal, and actually a bit more talkative then usual as well, working in her alchemy shop and tending to the village gardens as well, the village had somewhat mixed feelings about her still, but the chief had talked to each one of them individually and well they didn't bother Momiji much, instead watched her, and well saw her not doing much with magic for quite a while, her golems now helping her with gardening and alchemy as well now, ten of them in total now. It was a common sight to see her and a golem doing work together, the days seemed a bit brighter then usual to her after all that had happened, but well she was still someone with magical properties.
And in the end in her land, if you had magic, you were a threat, always, even if you were the nicest person in the world... A group of knights entered the village hearing about her and her feats from the empire that resides over the land her village rested upon, the knights were looking for her, and despite what the chief said, it did nothing to advert them, they would eventually march into her shop and destroy any and all magic constructs, and even more, and beat her as well, the words that he chief thought didn't get through did, they let her off after that with a warning, leaving her hurt within her shop, it torn and damaged, and all her work destroyed and everything else... A knight would be left in the village to watch over it from that point on as well, constantly watching her, it just wasn't fair, she did nothing, why was she punished so harshly...
With her shop so damaged she wasn't able to get back up to helping the village much, some of the more important things being irreplaceable in short notice in her shop, she just turned and frowned to the village and the chief who didn't stop them, she just didn't listen to him either when he tried explaining there was nothing he could do, and well she wanted retribution for what had happened, she wanted those knights and who sent them to pay, and quite badly... and well then something came up...
In about three days the knights, even the one stationed in her village had died, what's more is that there was a sighting of a type of golem that had killed them ad others as well from the Empire itself, members of its magic guard killed... and well eyes turned to Momiji at first and she was caught and bound before well, a few thought about it, she was in sight most the time, in fact nearly all the time, but well the Empire wouldn't care, she had the capability to make golems so she was a prime suspect. She was once again in a situation where she feared for her life again and well she was crying out that she wasn't the one who did it, that she wasn't to blame, most the village just ignored her, throwing things at her as she was held bound, calling her witch, she just couldn't believe it... Everything was going downhill and quickly, she didn't like this, she didn't want this, she wanted none of it, she wanted, she wanted to be free and out of this mess...
Late at night after a few days before those new knights would come by someone who still believed her entered where she was bound, calling to her silently and shushing her immediately as they freed her, telling her to run, and not stop, not look back, she blinked, she was genuinely confused but well blinked again and well hugged the person before quickly running, fleeing the area as the other vanished theirself. She kept going and going through the forest, and eventually past the plains and into the mountains, stopping only to rest a little bit, eventually she stopped running and took to hiding there, but well she knew she couldn't hide forever, she needed a plan, but first well, she needed to nourish herself, she didn't look so good... She took up home for a bit here and created a little work site for herself, eventually constructing a few scout golems to keep a lookout, she managed to get back on her toes, somewhat, ti was hard living by oneself all alone in the wilderness of the mountains, but her will to live kept her going...
Eventually she found out about a nearby town and well created a cloak for herself and well hide herself mostly with it as she went into town to trade and gather some more materials, heading back and forth at irregular intervals, trying to come up with a plan as she found out the magic guard were looking for her still, a bounty on her head as she was labeled a witch and murderer for the deaths of which she didn't have any connection to. She kept hidden and low until well one of her golems got sight of the knights having tracked her back to the mountains already, she having to move and play cat and mouse with them in the mountains, just trying to stay undetected and alive... Her mind kept going to using magic to protect herself but then to the other witch she had seen and all that made her ill on the inside... She didn't want to use magic to kill, she just didn't want to kill, but she also didn't want to die, not to those knights or anyone...
She cut her traveling to the town down quite a bit, keeping eyes on those knights and using materials solely from what she could gather, creating more golems to help her do so, eventually she had thirty golems altogether, a number being scouts that could hide and disguise themselves, and everytime the knights were seen closing in on her location she would gather up everything and remove all trace of her being there and move to another location, constantly traveling east through the mountains, eventually she started to grow tired and well she stopped running and created a golem capable of burrowing down into the mountains and conceal her, the large golem looking just like the stone face of the mountain when acting as a door as she hide, coming out when the knights passed up her location... she just couldn't run anymore, she was tired, she needed some other way... she wanted some other way to be free of this... and well...
Something happened exactly that night, she heard some sound outside and went to investigate, watching as a fireball came falling through the sky and landing just a few hundred feet with a fiery explosion, some odd metallic object being held within a rocky meteor, she would go and examine it, it was well odd and imbued with magic, in fact it was so much so she took it with her to analyze it in her cave/worksite... It was practically indestructible, and the size of a two fists clumped together, well about three and a half inches in diameter really, near perfectly round as well, and well what this was was a rare metal she had heard about that came from space, one used to create highly enchanted gear, and powerful magical artifacts, the only thing capable of shaping them though is a specialized forge, one rumored only to exist, the metal was practically useless unless found perfectly round and used to create the orb of staffs by witches...
But well Momiji wasn't going to give up, she had a slight idea where to find the forge to shape it, she was going to make a specialized golem core, for you see this stone can act as a soul stone as well, she could if she does it right become like a lich, but well different, her soul would be tied to the indestructible core... she could see a light finally as she thought about it, the description of the forge's location was what she had thought she read about from another book she had gotten from another hidden witch in that one town, and well it was located atop a mountain, the Yuyoki Skyaltar as it was called by those further east in which it was located... She gathered up her materials and everything else and began moving again, heading east into the eastern higher mountains, her eyes looking for it, and along the way she trained her magic a bit as well, feeding mostly off of fruits such as berries and fish from the river she found and followed east...
It wasn't and easy journey and it was hard, more run ins and cat and mouse games with the knights but she wasn't caught yet, almost one time, and that scared the hell out of her, she had managed to use her magic to get away though at the very last second, having lost a dozen golems however... but well she could see it eventually, it was right in front of her yet, on a different mountain opposite hers... She was relieved a bit as she checked it and well it had to have the forge, it just had to, it matched perfectly, but well, she still had to reach it, so she would continue her journey some more, heading down and back up, taking a rest a bit but well, something would happen that night, she would wake up to a sound...
The sound was those knights surrounding her, and well she froze in terror at first as she saw them, her heartbeat felt in her very throat due to fear as she watched them, she didn't want to die, watching them hold their draw swords towards her... She was about to get up and run, fearing for her life when she caught a glimpse of something behind them in the shadows of the night, her eyes blinking as well it turned to even greater fear, a knight looking at her eyes and turning as they saw it too, a golem, and well not just any golem, this one was demonic and very humanoid looking, clad perfectly black with many interlocking plates, with some dark red glowing areas on it, the knight immediately commanding Momiji to call off the golem, but well she responded it wasn't hers, crawling backwards away from them and it, her eyes mostly on it as it drew two large serrated pitch black blades with a red hue along their edges and attacked them, and well half of them were dead in mere moments, the thing was like a reaper or something, a harbinger of death, they couldn't harm it at all... Momiji was just in complete shock but she didn't just want to leave the knights to their death, but they were just trying to kill her...
Momiji would just decided to give a little hand, getting up and well unleashing a earthspell to launch the golem away as she turned and ran, the knights seeing this but well, their eyes turned back to that golem and they just retreated their own way... Momiji would be panting as she forced her legs to keep going, she heard a sound behind her, something metallic but not like the armor of the knights, yet she didn't look back, her legs moving as fast they could, her fear guiding her and giving her the necessary strength to run and climb... eventually she didn't hear anything following her, but well she was unsure of when she had actually got away, but another thing was that she was at the front gate to the skyaltar... And well she gave a little smile as she slumped to her legs and knees and laid against a pillar inside the grounds to rest a bit... Checking to make sure she still had the metal orb with her, and she did...
After about a hour of rest, but not sleeping, she didn't want to be caught off guard she moved into the alter and well examined around, finding a mechanism hidden within it that opened up a pathway deeper down, and well she was joyed to see the forge hidden within this area, heading over to it and examining it, she didn't know how to forge this metal with this but it couldn't be too hard right, she would mess around with it and see how it worked, finding a odd power within the forge allowing it to forge practically anything, something magical, but not quite so, but after a few days of examining it she was ready to create the ultimate golem core, and well went to work, delicately constructing and forming it, in the end she succeeded but well now she needed to do the other steps... she went to work constructing another body but in a manner similar to a golem for it, it resembled hers but was also different in a few ways, but int the end she managed to finish it, now well the final step was something she didn't know how to do, bind her soul to the core...
She would eventually have the body fuse with the core and become a permanent body it could reconstruct in time and took the core with her as it absorbed the body for memory, the power this metal possessed was great indeed... She needed to find another magic user, one that could bind her soul to it, or rather teach her how to do it, she wasn't too trusting of others anymore, and well that one black golem, who did it belong to... She would just focus on finding someone for now...
Months would pass but eventually she had found someone who could help her, and well she wasn't a witch either, more like an alchemist and spellsword, she actually listened to her and didn't think much of anything bad about her, in fact she could understand where Momiji was coming from and well helped her, despite not liking messing with others souls, she knew how t do it but refrained from ever doing so, but well after hearing the others story she couldn't just let her keep trying to find someone so gave her a gentle smile as she binded Momiji's soul to the golem core, and went on her way afterwards, leaving Momiji with only one last step, dying, but well that wasn't going to be easy, who would want to be killed anyway, even if they were going to be resurrected with a new form...
But eventually she had her golem body hidden away and she went on her way, she could feel the connection to it no matter how far away she went so it was working, eventually she would be at the empires capital, who knew when you were trying to be killed to move on it would prove difficult, the knights were descend upon and surround her near immediately, taking her in as she really just gave herself up, her mind racing a bit, was dying painful, would it be if you had another life as well, would it be quick as to how they were doing it... well she wouldn't find that out as well a a certain visitor decided to show up and go on a knight killing spree, that black golem, it attacked and without mercy, murdering at least a hundred knights and guards in mere minutes, it was a demon of battle... and well Momiji broke free of her binds again, she couldn't let this thing continue murdering knights, no matter how much hatred she had for them, she had resigned herself from getting revenge upon them, she went to face the golem herself, either she would stop it or she would die and go straight to her next life...
It was a gruesome battle, and well she didn't stand much of a chance, in fact it was probably her worst decision ever with how painful it was, she was trying not to die that quickly and actually damage it but well she would eventually just slump against it as one of its blades laid through her chest, her hand laid upon it, she had damaged the place herself with her own all out fighting against it but well she was really mostly defending... but it didn't matter now, her faint eyes laid upon the crimson eyes of the golem, and well she wouldn't accept dying without taking it with her, this was the damn thing that got her in the most serious of trouble, sure life would have been hell without it doing what it did but this thing was the thing that marked her to die... She raised her hand slowly and weakly at first before, a final ounce of power came to her and her hand swiped rather powerfully and tore the golem's head off and caused its body to crumble as she fell herself... Eventually she woke up in her golem body and her new life would begin...
Will write the other half eventually, have to summerize it, all from a story in one of my notebooks, very old...
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