The story for my character. this is my work do not re blog or use in any way with out my permission.
At the age of fourteen Impile was taken under the wing of the Khoisan shaman. She had to travel several days to arrive at the Shaman’s home so that she could study.
When Impile reached seventeen (her current age) she received news that her mother was deathly ill and her family requested that the Shaman arrive, so that she can perform the dance to fight and banish the evil spirit possessing Impile’s mother. Impile and the shaman planned to leave the next morning, but that night Impile felt a growing sense of doom, resulting in her sneaking out and performing the ritual alone that night.
As she performed the ritual, something went wrong and her soul was sucked into the spirit realm. leaving her body in a state of unconsciousness.
In the spirit realm she met an eland who pointed her to the supreme God Cagn. The eland warned her that she would have to travel across the spirit realm facing many dangers and that she might die. Impile insisted that she must meet Cagn, and so she was sent on her way. The eland gave her tribal body paintings that, when needed, would guide her.
Several days later she was in a dense wood. This is where she met a louse that begged for her help. The louse explained that someone was taking all the wood they eat and live in, killing many of the louse people. The louse asked that Impile help in any way she could. Impile found the ones responsible (termites) and negotiated with them, only to have them attack her. They took her eye before she cut down a tree that crushed them all to death. She went back to the louse, victorious. In return, the lice community gave her her eye back in the form of a flower.
She continued forth noticing that her new eye allows her to see the properties of other plants and their possible uses. As she was gathering food, she met a snake. The snake asked her to help it get its home back, as a group of meerkats had invaded its home. Impile come to the conclusion that instead of trying to get rid of all the meerkats, she should just make the snake a new home. She dug under a tree, being careful of its roots and created a new home for the snake: one with a small entrance and living space in the tree roots, with many twists and turns, effectively creating a home that no animal bigger than the snake can live in. To thak her the snake gives her a mambele sword, which is made out of spirit realm metals that make it light, strong, unbreakable, so that it is easy to wield. Her warrior skills have prepared her well to use it.
After that, she met a caterpillar, who needed her help to go to the baobab tree. This tree is the special place that its species turn into butterflies at. She reached the tree only to find that it was protected by a monitor lizard that would not let her pass. She tried to reason with it. telling it that she had one of the caterpillars that it was supposed to guard. But it refused to listen. Determined to help the caterpillar, she ran past the lizard and placed the caterpillar in the tree only to have the lizard slash at her leg, effectively disabling her, and also infecting her. She spent days under the tree too afraid to try and leave for fear of the lizard would kill her. However, this resulted in her leg becoming infected. On the 14th day she decided to cut off her leg so that it would not infect the rest of her. As she cut off her leg, the butterflies broke from their cocoons. The caterpillar she helped, convinced the others to help her and so she is given a vine (the South African mistletoe) in place of her leg. The vine replaces her tendons and muscles, giving her a functioning leg. Her new leg gives her speed and strength.
The lizard had seen the butterflies helping her and apologised, promising to always guard her.
She eventually reached the end of the realm only to find Cagn’s home empty, except for a prying mantis. She demanded to know where Cagn is. The praying mantis told her that Cagn has been missing for months and that no one knows where he is. It also asked her if she had looked into the human world recently. Sensing something was amiss, she looked down to see her mother at death’s door. Making a split second decision she decided to go back to the human realm to be with her mother for her last few moments.
When her mother died Impile travelled back to the spirt realm and entered Cagns home. She saw him sitting on his throne and ran to him ready to give him a piece of her mind. She saw him change into an Eland, a louse, a caterpillar and a praying mantis. As she stood speechless in front of him he told her that he had been testing her.
As an eland he tested he will to do what she believed to be true. As a louse he tested if she would stand up for those oppressed. As a snake he tested her ability to creatively solve a problem. As a caterpillar he tested if she was willing to give her life to help or save another. And as a praying mantis he was testing her with her mother’s death.
Slowly she comes to terms with the fact that everyone dies and even though she is not happy about it is not her place to place one’s life higher than any other. She realises that even though her mother is gone she is still alive in her memory. Thus she passes the final test: acceptance of the inability to change the unchangeable. Cagn tells her that even shaman before her has gone through this test in their own right. Because she has passed, she is now a true shaman. Cagn gives her an amber bracelet, embedded in which there is a praying mantis. The bracelet bridges the gap between the spirit realm and real world, allowing her to travel between the two freely.
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