I am SORRY but I have missed something. How does Ellis's mother end up looking like that if she looks so young and pretty in the first picture?
// No need to be sorry, it’s in my backstory on my page. If you’re on mobile and wanna read it, it’s here—> Backstory
Here’s the “cliffnotes” version though:
About 19 years after she was actually born (over 220 years ago) she found out Alastair, who she’d fallen in love with, was bound to an Odd Keystone and stuck as a Spiritomb, and she only found this information out when he actually transformed back into the Spiritomb. He can’t talk about his curse, and he couldn’t figure out a non-verbal way to tell her sooner.
So when shit hit the fan, her mother revealed that they didn’t tell her because they tried their best to stop her from seeing him in the first place, so it would have been irrelevant if she’d stayed away from him like she was supposed to.
Because she’s a defiant girl who does wtf her heart wants, always, and would do boundless things for Alastair because she loves him, she tried to immortalize herself to wait for him, so she could see him again.
She used a recipe that calls for the Dragon Force from the old Vale, but whoops, you’re not supposed to do that ever. So she ended up getting sent to another dimension for messing with it. She saw and experienced some pretty messed up shit while there but anyway
Her parents got her out and while she gained immortality, her vocal chords were taken (she used to sing to weave her spells, it did this to stop her from continuing her best magic) and the Dragon Force tainted her soul because she was willing to sacrifice it to see him again (so it granted her wish? just in a REALLY sick way).
So that’s why she’s all fucked up now.