Role

Chapter 1

Zera was born to a very wealthy family. Her father Eilrick, an extremely
successful merchant and her mother Ferrah, a kept beauty that tragically
passed away during childbirth.

Between the underlying resentment toward Zera for his wife's death and
his obsession with wealth and power, her father largely had little to do
with young Zera and allowed the 'help' to raise her. Despite how distant
her father was, she still desperately sought his affection, but always to
no avail.

Wealth was no longer enough to sate Eilrick, and his new bid for mayor
would bring him the power he so craved, as well as bring out the ghosts
of his past. Earning his wealth through shady dealings with very
dangerous folks was not something the public eye would take kindly to for
one seeking mayorship. Cutting these ties, however, was also not well
received by the dark underbelly that created him and whom would now see a
dramatic shift in their supply chain.

Abducting Zera for leverage, these foul bandits kept her hid away in an
isolated cabin, demanding of Eilrick that business return as usual or she
would be burned alive. These demands fell on deaf ears, as her father's
quest for power and suckling the teet of civilization far outweighed any
love he might have for his daughter.

True to their word, the bandits lit the cabin ablaze with young Zera
inside... Somehow, though, death would not find her that day. Escaping
with nearly her entire body burnt to a crisp, poor, mangled, Zera would
find the pain of her extensive injuries to pale in comparison to the
feeling of complete abandonment by her father, her only flesh and blood.

Nursing her injuries in the woods, Zera pondered the kind of monster that
civilization had created... For 'family' to abandon their offspring and
leave her to the demons of his own making was the act of a truly terrible
individual.

Desperate to obscure her deformities, she crafted a primitive mask from
the burnt remains of the cabin that she barely escaped with her life.
Lost and in chronic pain, she would wander the lands, aimlessly searching
for her place in it all.

Finding solace only in the cooling waters, the currents would eventually
deliver her to the Goddess Rarywey, where she would find a deep
appreciation of the death that she had so narrowly escaped.

Feeling in debt to death, Zera would come to find herself as a protector
of this cycle, knowing very intimately that true bliss comes AFTER the
fire... She would bring fire and destruction to civilization that breeds
such terrible monsters such as her father and exact her pain on those
like him.