{"id":1837,"date":"2020-03-05T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/?page_id=1837"},"modified":"2021-12-02T03:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:24:53","slug":"sephrenia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/characters\/the-adventurers-characters\/sephrenia","title":{"rendered":"Sephrenia Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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As a\nHigh Elf, Sephrenia grew up in the glorious walled city of Quan\u2019rath, on the\ncontinent of Tawaim. Quan\u2019rath was surrounded by an immense forest known as\nSkytree Forest, said to have been blessed by Nifika, the goddess of Magic and\nElves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside\nthe glorious beauty that was Quan\u2019rath was the very forest that the High Elves\nbelieved to have been blessed; but closed their doors to. The High Elves, who\nwere generally arrogant and called themselves \u201cThe Children of the Goddess\u201d had\ngrown tired of dealing with marauding orcs, goblins and even humans, who would\nattack their tree homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nHigh Elves used their magic that Nifika had infused them with and built\ntowering walls to keep everyone and everything else, outside. Realizing that this\nwould also cut themselves from observing the beauty of the woods, the High\nElves took to making everything inside the city walls elaborate and eloquent. In\nthe center of Quan\u2019rath, a magnificent temple to Nifika rose above it all, like\nan arrow piercing the land, to ensure the goddess that she remained the city\u2019s\nprime focus; no matter where you were in the city, no building obstructed the\nview to Nifika\u2019s temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Sephrenia,\nthough as a Cleric, she followed Nifika, and paid her homage and donations to\nthe exuberant temple of Nifika; there was something about the walls of Quan\u2019rath\nthat had made her feel like a prisoner when she was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also\nlearned that there\u2019d been Elves, who long ago, did not agree with the idea of\nsecluding themselves behind a wall and turned their back on their own kin.\nThose Elves simply learned to continue living in the woods and became known as\nThe Wood Elves (though the High Elves often slandered that by calling them Wild\nElves). Tension between the High Elves and Wood Elves escalated, mostly due to\nthe High Elves looking down at the Wood Elves. The High Elves believed that the\ntemple of Nifika in the center of Quan\u2019rath brought them closer to their goddess\nthan living in the woods, supposedly blessed by her. The Wood Elves meanwhile,\nbelieved that because the High Elves had cut themselves off from the very woods\nNifika blessed, that the High Elves had lost focus on appreciating true concept\nof nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sephrenia\nfelt the pull to explore the world outside. Her mother and father were aghast\nat the notion, but when she told that it felt as if it was Nifika\u2019s calling to\ndo so, they quickly hushed and accepted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if\nit had all been planned, news of a newly discovered continent reached Quan\u2019rath.\nThere\u2019d been discussions of going to explore it; but it was quickly shot down\nas no one seemed to think this was a good idea. Sephrenia stood and spoke, \u201cI\nwill go.\u201d Her voice could have shattered the halls of the great temple, because\nthey broke the chilling silence. All turned in shock to face one of the\nyoungest members of the Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\nis great danger beyond our walls,\u201d one of the elders said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\nare also those who may not know of Nifika and her greatness,\u201d Sephrenia\nreplied. \u201cI will be her arrow that strikes the new land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None\nopposed her; her words cut into them, as if Nifika herself was daring them to\nspeak up against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Sephrenia\nstepped outside of the great wall of Quan\u2019rath into the world beyond was the first\ntime her heart was gripped with fear. She\u2019d never seen what the woods looked\nlike; and the trees were tall, almost as tall as Quan\u2019rath\u2019s walls, and invoked\nsuch darkness and shadow, unlike the brilliance of Quan\u2019rath where shadows dare\nnot tread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas a day of traveling in the Skytree Woods, where Sephrenia first met the Wood\nElves, and made sure to call them as such, and not the slanderous term her\npeople often referred to them. She explained her mission to them, and though\nthey sneered and spit at her feet, they escorted her through the woods, where\nshe was able to book a wagon to Moontide Port. From there, she successfully\nbooked passage aboard the Minotaur ship, The Eagle\u2019s Talon.<\/em> Within ten\ndays of travel in the open seas, another experience she did not care to repeat\ntoo soon, she arrived at the Ivory Coast and was soon caught in the bustling,\ngrowing town, that was full of Elves, Gnomes, Humans, Dwarves, Half-Orcs, and\nraces she\u2019d never seen or heard of before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nhad heard that Ridgecrest, a major city, was where she could find out more\nabout the new continent \u2013 but there was something about Spire\u2019s Edge was felt\nin her heart she would need to investigate first\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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