take ur pick or all out offff sayen shahbanu vesper saevus kuranes serannian no some of these arent biased hush
bless you az ok let’s start
sayen
she’s from an isolated village on the snowsquall tundra.
she was… pretty violently abused in her childhood, and confined to a cage for most of her life.
she made friends with a snowy owl—when her pet was discovered, it was killed immediately.
no one knows how the hell she got to the castle and what happened in-between her time in the village and now.
her spine is all sorts of messed up and pokes out painfully. she won’t let anyone get close enough to figure out what’s wrong.
she’s sort of an all-purpose servant, but her specialty is raising birds. she manages to make herself moderately useful by raising them for eggs and meat, and training them to send messages and scavenge.
she’s survived this long in the hyper-competitive castle culture by keeping her head to the ground and minding her own damn business.
she’s a favourite servant among those with birds. kast and hakan like her.
shahbanu
shahbanu is among the oldest of the castle’s residents.
she tried to show her loyalty to queen decay by cutting out her own eyes, but rumours are that the lightweaver took offence to shahbanu’s betrayal—hence why light spots form all around shahbanu’s body.
they are very sensitive and burn painfully when they sense light, but in total darkness they multiply and grow even more sensitive.
shahbanu gave up on covering them as a result. it just made the pain worse, whereas exposing them desensitizes them slowly.
she wears less clothing than most as a result. oh, and her real eyes ended up regenerating, along with a really big light spot on her forehead.
she stills considers herself loyal to decay and decay alone.
her long time in plague has warped her body into a mutated mess, but not as much as vigdis and cynbel. she has quills growing everywhere, usually hidden under her feathers. when she gets riled up, they stick up. she’s also covered in varicose veins and presumably benign tumours.
cynbel, vigdis, and shahbanu form the trio of plaguewarped/plaguetouched skydancers called the castle’s ‘angels’.
vesper
sad girl, too good for this world, too pure.
born shadetouched, the shade was expelled from her body at a young age.
it lasted for a week before coming back, taking the form of a colony of black honeybees.
the bees burrowed into her skin, turning her into a living hive. they make honey. vesper used to sell it for money on purgare’s illegal goods exchange.
trelawney kept her as an experiment. why decay even allowed it… I’m still thinking about it, actually.
she was scorned by the castle and begged the gods that be for a friend. then a strange skydancer from arcane wandered into the castle and sort of stuck around. they had kids a few times, although Vesper always had an off feeling about her new friend.
turns out she still had a weak link to the shade, and it granted her wish by brainwashing a stranger from a different country and convincing them to find her.
oh, then her family died (you know about this!!!), severing the link between her and the shade. the only reason she wasn’t really affected by it up to that point was because of her link to it through her family, so when they died, the chains came loose.
the shade bees abruptly left her body and killed her friend/mate-not-mate—the only reason they didn’t kill anyone else was because of a certain slimy red spiral we all know and love.
vesper knew damn well that the tolerance she was just barely shown in the castle was out the fucking window that moment. she went from second-class citizen to fugitive, and ran as far as she damn could.
she’s still on the run. most of the castle will kill her if they find her.
saevus
saevus followed vesper because dammit, they were friends! and saevus wasn’t really well-liked in the castle either because of it.
saevus isn’t actually shadetouched. she’s very resistant to it. not decayspawn levels of resistance, but still, pretty high.
the shade did attack her as a child, and it did severe damage to her face and neck. she wears the wolf pelt to cover it. removing it is enough to throw her into a violent frenzy.
she’s super friendly and a good leader. very charismatic! vesper and sera, despite being older than saevus, are happy to defer to her. she’s pretty much the leader of the small group.
the markings on her body are tattoos. she got the idea in a dream, visited a sketchy tattoo parlour one day, and the rest is history. vesper chewed out kuranes later because damn it he had something to do with it. still no indication of being shadetouched, thankfully.
she hunts for vesper and sera and herself, but loves to splurge what little spending money she has on good food.
was mostly raised by vesper and serannian.
kuranes
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serannian
like vesper, she was kept by trelawney as another experiment.
since expelling the shade didn’t work as intended, trelawney tried to seal it inside serannian.
it mostly worked! she has some funky eyes going down her side now, though.
… if you look through the pupils of the eyes going down her side, you can see into the dreamscape. sometimes a flash of red and purple flies by.
good at sensing leylines.
very nervous. the anxiety to vesper’s depression.
likes pretty, shiny things. saevus gives her jewellery to cheer her up.
actually kuranes’ niece. he’s sort of protective over her. it would be more heartwarming if it wasn’t kuranes.
talks a lot about a dragon named celephais. vesper and saevus think celephais is some sort of imaginary friend serannian made up. kuranes says nothing.