My new Hexblood Twilight Cleric to start off a new campaign āØ So excited to try out her abilities!! Her name is Celeste, a half elf raised by a Night Hag.
Many many years ago, the Night hag corrupted the mayor of a village. The hag fed his dreams with nightmarish images of horrendous monsters emerging from the adjacent forest, killing everyone with no exception if the mayor wouldn't find a solution soon. When offerings of their harvest or valuables didn't squelch the horrible visions, it wasn't long before humans were offered to the forest. Deep within the woods a ritual site was erected, and each month on a new moon a child was bound to the altar and left to the forests' mercy.
For the hag it was like window shopping. She would wait for the next sacrifice to be brought to the ritual site and examine the child for its abilities. Should she deem it worthy to become a hag and become part of her coven, she would take it. Should it not suffice, she would either leave the child there for the creatures of the forest, use it as fresh and valuable components. It took several years until the hag found a suitable child that fit her expectations ā and this one was a small, silver haired half-elf girl. She took her to her hut that was nearby, and raised Celeste by the way of a future hag.
Years passed and when the night came that Celeste ā or Aaromi, that's how the Night Hag had called her ā was to be transformed into a true hag, something happened. Celeste can't remember, but there had been just so much blood, so many ear-piercing screams crying out in agony. She only remembers somehow making it to the village, crying out for help, but when the villagers saw her covered in blood, clothes ripped to shreds and her Hexblood trait ā purple skin, crooked, sharp teeth, dark eyes and nails so long they could be wielded as a weapon ā alienating her, they attacked put of fear, calling her demon child or witch.
Celeste fled back into the forest, not knowing where to go or what just happened. She ran and ran and ran until she eventually collapsed due to fatigue. It was days of wandering between trees and over small creeks. That was how Selƻne, goddess of the moon, had found her; stumbling forwards mindlessly, the will to go further almost non-existent in her eyes. Selƻne stayed with her many nights after that, gave her food and warmth until Celeste's eyes lost the emptiness that had haunted them when they'd first met.
When their ways parted, Selƻne left her with a gift in the form of a blue diamond shaped like a tear. As gratitude, Celeste devoted her life and belief to Selƻne, and was later granted with the powers of a Twilight Cleric.
Later, she made friends with a few Fey creatures roaming the forest, and with their help she made a magic hairband from twigs and flowers that would suppress the influence of the hag and has her appear like the original race she was born as.
She never saw the hag again, and didn't dare to step foot into the village again.
Her purpose was then to keep people and curious adventurers out of the forest and away from the ritual site, in hopes that no one shall ever touch these grounds again.
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