Lore dump time!!!, this time it's about Mari and Mag's parents to set up the next post :3
Madaluza
A perfumer from the edge of Dominula that served under the Golden Order, she deserted during the Leyndell - Liurnia war. She descended from fishermen hailing from a coastal town in the elden ring equivalent of the Philippines that migrated and butchers from Dominula. Due to her family's differing customs from the majority of dominula, she was treated as an outcast and dreamt of the day she can finally leave her village behind, so with her ambition, hard work, aptitude for the perfumer medicines, and a lot of luck, she managed to land herself an apprenticeship in Leyndell and be able to become a fully fledged perfumer.
But despite her efforts to assimilate (she changed her birth name to Madaluza because of this) , she still faced abuse as someone who was a commoner and an outsider to Leyndell, planting in an early skepticism and resentment of Marika and the Order that wouldn't come into fruition until she deserted, shortly after seeing the farce the "war" is and seeing it for what it was; an invasion.
She fled the lands between and spent the rest of her days wandering as a fugitive in a foreign land, serving whatever community she temporarily settled herself into as repentance, surviving on the runes earned from her work. She met Okdo one day while she made camp in a forest and decided that both of them would have better chances of survival if they stuck together.
It was okay-ish, he came from similar backgrounds and facing similar problems, both found solace in knowing neither was alone in this. They both had few differences between them, personality wise, so they did not find themselves arguing too much with the other.
By the time she got pregnant with Marianna and Magdalena. Their goal was to find a place untouched by the Order, a task that grew harder as time went on, even after the twins were born, each time they settled into the fringes or outskirts of a village, it wasn't long before the Order came knocking.
The last years of her life, they ran out of places to go, forcing them to settle on the outskirts of an Order colony, the villagers there didn't know about her status as a deserter, but that didn't stop them from speculating about Okdo and her disguised children. In 3 years, someone would rat them out to the church, they would be ambushed by omen killers, and she would die creating a diversion for the rest of her family to flee...
Okdo
A wandering hunter that relied on odd jobs and game. He came from a lower class clan located in the equivalent of Bontoc in elden ring. He was expected to participate in a war he had no interest in, holding a curiosity for the rest of the world, so after he was certain his siblings were old enough to take care of themselves and each other he simply headed for the lowlands and never looked back.
He met Madaluza when they were after the same bear that day, after working together to kill it, they made an agreement to split the meat, and after a few repeat incidents, they decided to stick together. The rest was history.
He would die trying to flee with his two daughters.
