Iska

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Iska Ondor was once a simple girl, from a simple village. Her father was the general for the country's army, her mother a renown mage, and both loved her very much. She was happy for the little time it would last.

Then, when she was only nine, her village was burned to the ground by beings who no longer considered themselves mortal. Elves, angels, devils, rogues from myths and legends who fell from their graces and banned together. She watched everything she knew, and everyone she loved, burn to the ground around her. The attackers were, regrettably, stronger than the mortals they separated themselves from. She prayed to the heavens, but no answer would come.

Poor little Iska was kept alive, with a few other people from her village, and abducted by these immortals, as toys, slaves, and general amusement for their tastes. She was their captive for ten more years... spat upon, called a lower being, and treated like less than an animal. Despite all this, she kept her head high, and showed the utmost kindness and compassion to her fellow captives. However, she had developed a burning hatred for things like deities and aristocratic creatures who did such things to humans.

On one fateful day, someone had brought a prisoner into their camp again, a young man with silver hair, who constantly insisted that he wasn't human, and that they would pay severely for their actions. He was thrown into the hovel they kept her in as well, and she quickly treated his wounds the best she could.

He addressed himself as Valmanway Latrios Bashkar, and told Iska that he saw the look in her eyes he knew too well... one that had abandoned God. He gave her an offer to become something more than human like him... he called himself "Beyond death, a lich who lives yet". She identified this as being the very immortals she hated, and quickly declined his offer, until he showed that his thoughts and ideals were very close to her own, and won her over with simple words:

"God does not exist in this world. Some people are chosen by deities to become greater than they are born, or are even born great. But for us lowly humans, shunned by their eyes, we have only two options: We can carve our own road out from under their thumbs, or we can die beneath it."

That was the day Iska was no longer human. That was the day she became free.

There was a camp of "immortals" left in flames and rubble, and decidedly mortal corpses that served as a reminder to the world that some mortals could overcome their tyranny. Iska was awed by this man's power, in the things he carved along the camp in their escape, the runes he called them. In the swiftest of actions through one day, this man had delivered her from her suffering and given her the choice to live her live as she deserved.

She left her soul behind in a box, among buried memories, so that her body could be born again. She would no longer be a mortal girl.

She would be a living lich, walking flesh with no soul. A Baelnorn, the saint of the walking dead.

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Iska takes on many of Val_kun's abilities as a character, including her resistance to things like death and transformation, and memory of her own deaths. However, unlike Val, she is very new to her body, and is far more impressionable to emotions and her own pain, her own deaths. She has a limited scope of Runology, taught to her by Valmanway, but unlike the master lich, she can use magic of healing, due to her own alignment being different than his own.

She is quite flexible as a character as far as vore goes, but is mostly used for storyline sequences.

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