Revision as of 00:59, 29 April 2011

Character Stats

Level	2
Race	Human
Class	Druid
Armor	None
Weapon(s)	Bo
Hometown	East Arabelle/Birchview

Mahina is a human druid who is a descendant of the Moon Children and because of this believes she is a half-elf. She is 5'9", weighs approximately 170 lbs, and is 20 years old (though she claims she is ageless). Her birthday is recorded as 4-2 Heavenfall 932 FI. While physically attractive (and busty), she is socially inept to the highest degree: she has schizotypal personality disorder and Asperger syndrome. Due to these disabilities, she suffers from occasional hallucinations, bouts of anxiety and paranoia, clumsiness, and speaks only in rhyme (and often in iambic pentameter at that). Despite this, she has a great love for nature and believes every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name. She also believes she can paint with all the colors of the wind.

Mahina is played by HelenAngel.

History

Preconception: Lorelei's Story

Mahina is the daughter of Lorelei and Einar the Defender, Chief of the Tamerlane Tribe of The Ulan.

Lorelei was the youngest of four children to two skilled rangers, both descendents of the exiled Moon Children. Her mother's pregnancy was a difficult one and from a very early age her parents thought her behavior as odd. As Lorelei came into her teens, she became a burden to her parents and they gave her as a gift to a nearby barbarian tribal chief named Einar in exchange for protection from another Ulan tribe in the area.

Einar took her as a second wife and she bore him a son, Conall. This did not sit well with Einar's first wife, Gianna, who had miscarried numerous times and was never able to produce a child for Einar. Gianna also did not care for Lorelei because by adulthood, it was clear that Lorelei was "not right in the head" (disorganized schizophrenia) and while this did not bother Einar as he saw his wives entirely as sexual objects, Gianna did not care for having to carry more than her share of the duties as well as care for a child not her own (Conall). Gianna secretly arranged for another wife for Einar. Her plan backfired when all of the three tribes she contacted sent potential wives and Einar took them all as wives.

Gianna grew more and more stressed and frustrated as she had to manage a household with teenage brides, Conall, and the mentally ill Lorelei. Gianna snapped when Lorelei was pregnant with Mahina as there were now seven children in Einar's household under the age of 6. Unwilling to raise yet another child of Lorelei's (as she had the year before given birth to another son, Kendrew), she dumped Lorelei off on a trade route to Arabelle while Einar was away on a raid and hoped that Lorelei would be killed by bandits or lycanthropes. It is unknown what excuse Gianna gave Einar for Lorelei's disappearance though Einar did send out a search party for Lorelei when he returned. They did not find her and went to war with another tribe whom they believed was responsible for Lorelei's disappearance. Gianna was inadvertently killed in the conflict when she pushed Conall into battle and the rival tribesman, appalled at what he perceived to be Gianna's cowardice, spared the boy and speared her instead. Einar and his tribesmen eliminated the rival tribe entirely in revenge, though Gianna's death may have just been used as an excuse for the barbarians to eliminate the rival tribe.

Birth

A mere hour after Gianna left her, Lorelei was picked up by a group of gnomes who believed that she was a gifted Alexandrian priestess due to a vivid hallucination she was having at the time. They took her to East Arabelle and she gained reknown as the pregnant priestess who spoke in tongues and had amazing visions. The recent split of East Arabelle from Arabelle and the instability at the time allowed Lorelei to gain a cult-like following in this otherwise gnomish city. Five months after her arrival, Lorelei gave birth to a girl and gave her a name fitting as a descendant of the Moon Children (Mahina), the middle name of her father (Einar), and the last name of the tribe of her father (Tamerlane). Unable to care for her child sufficiently, Mahina was essentially raised by the gnomish cultists who revered her mother as a visionary Alexandrian priestess. (Though Lorelei may have had some minor clerical ability, it was really her schizophrenic hallucinations that gave her reknown.)

Squirt as a baby in Mahina's hand.

Mahina's primary caretakers were a pair of gnomish brothers who would often take the girl along as they went fishing. Mahina loved these outings and developed a fondness for the outdoors. Dre, the older of the gnomish brothers, was also a veterinarian and Mahina would often help him care for the animals in his practice. When Mahina was 11, Dre took her along on a house call to check on a client's livestock. While Dr. Dre went about his business, Mahina amused herself by tossing rocks in a pond. Under one of these rocks she spied a beautiful baby albino milk snake. Mahina showed it to Dre and he encouraged her to keep it as a pet. Mahina named it Squirt and it has been her constant companion ever since.

Young Adulthood

Right before Mahina's 15th birthday, Lorelei was discovered by a Tamerlane tribesman trader who recognized her and forcibly took her back to her the tribe. As Lorelei was in a hallucination at the time, she did not understand what was happening and left her daughter behind. Mahina's caretakers, fearing the tribesman would come back for Mahina, apprenticed her to an elderly alchemist/druid that was a close friend of Dre's. Mahina and Squirt relocated to Birchview, a tiny logging village on the opposite end of the Pinch from the Ulan and on the border of Fresia and Hakan. Gabriele Donat, the aforementioned druid, taught Mahina as a druid and an alchemist/herbalist. Gabriele, fascinated by Mahina's occasional visions and propensity to talk in rhyme, brought in a divination cleric to teach Mahina fortune telling. The cleric, Simon Stonewall, fell in love with Mahina and stayed to assist Gabriele and Mahina with the running of the store. When Gabriele passed, she left the store to Simon and Mahina.

After Gabriele's passing, Mahina struck up a friendship and later passionate relationship with a female halfling rogue, Allonia Zapadri. Simon seemed perfectly content to share Mahina with Allonia, though Allonia was not as keen with the arrangement. Mahina, taking after her biological father, saw absolutely nothing wrong with having multiple lovers simultaneously.

Trivia

• Mahina's continued exposure to formaldehyde while working with Gabriele's preserved specimens has rendered her infertile, though she is not acutely aware of it.

• As a milk snake, Squirt is extremely shy. He generally hides in Mahina's ample bosom. When handled by others, Squirt "musks" (i.e. defecates) on the stranger handling him. Squirt will eat live or killed prey as well as any meat Mahina drops into her cleavage. A bit of a runt, Squirt is only 14 inches long, and about the diameter of a silver dollar. As he is Mahina's familiar, they share an empathic bond.

• Mahina is only vaguely aware of her barbarian heritage and has never met her brothers or any of her half-siblings. Conall, now the leader of the Tamerlane tribe, has offered a reward for safe return of his missing sister.