At last, a pale sun emerges after a season of bleak darkness and troubled skies. For the majority of Caido, this is a time where trees begin to bud and blossom, where the days are crisp and cool, but promise brightness and jubilance to come. The same might be said for the Greatwood and the Hollowed Grounds, but as things begin to heat up, be careful of swollen rivers, of the risk of flooding. For Halo, too, the harshest of the ice begins to melt to slush, but of course things are never truly thawed, and as for Torchline? Beware the calm before the monsoons in the second half of the season.
Character of the Season
It has taken a lot of adapting from when Aurelia arrived, but she’s managed to get herself into the middle of a lot of things! From annoying Jack and joining the Ark, to finding a new family within the smugglers of Torchline, and having to come to terms with the type of person she had been before arriving to Caido, Aurelia has made the most out of it all. We can’t wait to see where she goes from here! Congratulations Aurelia!
Credits
Court of the Fallen was created in October of 2018 by Odd, Honey, and Crooked.
Skinning and hosting by the epically talented Kaons, and functionality fanciness by the coding magic of Neowulf. If you ever see either of them around, make sure to show them some love!
Born as a mix between her father and her mother, Kiada was born a fighter. She’s tall enough, and relatively muscular for her size; a sure sign of her father. She’s also light on her feet, lean along her legs and lower arms, and moves with a succulent grace. She has bright icy eyes that devour everything in it’s path, her face set mostly in a frown that’s unlikely to change, and dark hair with hints of waves in them. Her voice is light, deceivingly so, where you think nothing of her until she stabs you in the back. Her body is flecked with the scars of a survivor, though the most notable one being the “X” that’s etched into the side of her neck – a courtesy from her entry to the Rift.
then her skins
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you spend so many nights
dreaming of spilling your blood —
Personality
PERSONALITY
what is a battlefield,
but a body?
under the surface
She carries the ease with words from her mother, the quick wit and strength of her father. Her twin Kianzo and herself are two sides of the same coin – where Kianzo’s brute force and fight now ask questions later responses are equally matched by her thoughtfulness and poise. She’s graceful, not just with her steps but with moving pieces. A warrior of sorts, having spent all her life fighting for everything. She has known love and lost it twice – and guards it carefully now. She’s a firm believer in fighting for what is owed, and has a strong blood lust for revenge for everything that has been taken from her.
you spend so many nights
dreaming of spilling your blood —
History
HISTORY
what is a battlefield,
but a body?
before Caido
Born in a beautiful spring day, Kiada and her twin were born a bit premature. Her mother had suffered an attack from an ex-husband, causing the early birth. It didn’t matter much when it came to her growth – she and Kianzo grew at normal rates, experienced enough of life through the brutal harsh winters of the northern mountains. She had also been a young girl when she met her companion, Khairi, a bearded vulture who’s loyalty and duty lied with making sure Kiada remained safe. Soon into her teenage years, she even began to fall in love. She was willing, having put the blood lust aside, the need to conquer everything in her path, to spend the rest of her life with the strange man – the inventor.
Things never worked out as planned, however. Her twin was stolen, her mother choosing to move in with her father, leaving behind the only home she knew. She had done everything she could to please the leaders of the previous land, to prove her worth despite her adolescence, but it hadn’t been enough. Her mother whisked her away to a strange land, her father the leader of the land and her a simple creature of the night. She spent most of her time searching for her brother – seeing as the attempts made by her parents remained fruitless. Soon enough, however, her brother returned right in the midst of her and the inventor’s relationship growing.
Her brother, grown jealous despite his absence, caused a rift to grow between them. Kiada had pledged herself to the god of chaos, and had hoped to bring her brother along in an attempt to repair the friendship between the both of them – but before she could, the god ripped the land apart, murdered the inventor while she looked on, before shoving them through to a strange land. Upon entering the land, a necklace she wore burst along her neck, leaving that gruesome “X” marking. Heartbroken and pained, Kiada moved through the other land with little purpose until she came across a meeting with the god. The girl obviously had a death wish, as she chose to step to the front and yell at him, to call him out on his lies of all the things he promised her should she follow him – all she knew was pain.
The god rewarded her, perhaps for her bravery or sorrow for how everything happened, Kiada never found out. A few months later and Kiada stumbled across the god again, trying to rectify the wrongs he’d done. He worked to rise the dead to live again, stumbling into the river without resurfacing. Kiada couldn’t let this go, realizing that should the god die, the land would die with him and plunged into the water as well. She watched herself die, suffocated by fire before she managed to find the god and help to save him. When all was said and done, she and a few others helped to heal the land, and worked on creating a settlement. During this time, Kiada began to spend more time with a man that hadn’t come from the first land, one of few words but an appreciation for art that Kiada enjoyed immensely.
Their relationship grew slowly, and it was beautiful in its slow beginning. Neither knew how the other felt, they didn’t have a chance to say it aside from enjoying each other’s company. Not long after, the god threw them from the land and she found herself in another place – without Khairi, a section of her soul missing. Heartbroken again and again, Kiada stumbled through the land numb and broken, thirsty for blood and revenge for a series of worlds that continued to steal everything from her until she fell into Caido.
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Deepfrost
She arrives in Caido without her beloved companion or anyone she knows. She lashes out on the first person she sees in the Temple, named Cassius, before she attends a meeting in the Temple about events she doesn’t know about. But she soon meets Remi and Devrum after at the Spire where they fly around it to try and discover any weaknesses in the air around it.
Kiada finds Ru’in not long after flying around the Spire, a boy from her childhood. She spends time proving to him that she’s herself, and finds that she falls in love with him all over again. She then heads to the Rathskeller where she quickly befriends Seiji. She’s arrived in Caido at a rough time, however, as Longnight soon takes control over the world she finds herself in.
And she finds herself locked in the Rathskeller with everyone else to wait it out. But when the Luxere begin to leave, she grows antsy, and she leaves the Rathskeller to face the demons out and about. She finds the lone Luxere here, and watches Isla perish as a demon rips its way out of the Luxere and kills her. Despite it, she tries to help the creature when it bonds to her. She names him Auni.
Her and Caiside return to the Rathskeller, where Kiada finds a note from Ru’in telling her how much he loves her, before she realizes he’s been killed by the monsters. She finds Melita and Seiji who have let her back in the Rathskeller despite the dangers outside, and she immediately heads to the Infirmary with Auni to get some alone time, to cope with the loss of Ru’in again.
This is where she meets Amalia for the first time, and the leopardess-turned-baker, comforts her as she weeps. Remi is also there with Isla who has become his companion, a unicorn. Not long after, she heads to a Shrine for added comfort from the silence of everything around her. She receives no response, yet the winds try to comfort her.
After this, the Sparkbird comes to give light to the Sanctuary, and Kiada heads home to grieve.
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Flowerbirth
Leafchange begins with Seiji trying to help console her over her loss, but Kiada doesn’t take to it well. She suffers for a good amount in silence. She meets Maea after, to help with the Fiat Lux celebrations just to try and get out and do something. This is also when she meets Melita again, and she apologizes for lashing out at the girl over Longnight. She learns that Melita and her came from Helovia, and that Kiada had a hand in the death of Melita’s family. Kiada becomes somewhat of an enemy to Melita.
She’s still grieving when she meets Deimos, but he manages to change her life. Also another being from her previous life and world, despite being different, she immediately adopts him as a father figure, and begins to move on with her life. Seiji then helps her set up a lantern for Ru’in to be sure that Ludo can get his soul and guide him to Mort.
She meets Amalia when she follows Deimos to her bakery and helps bake bread for the gathering and celebrations, where she meets Jigano for the first time, and they make an absolute mess of the kitchen. Deimos tells her Rexanna is there, which she promptly either ignores or doesn’t believe. Kiada meets Caiside again not long after, in the Domiciles, where they help clean up the rubble left behind from Longnight.
The Spire falls soon after, and her and Deimos investigate it by traveling to the top of the stairs to see what the Voice really is, with everyone else. Then, it’s the Fiat Lux celebration, and Kiada puts all of the worlds problems behind her to focus on having fun in the celebrations. Later in the fields, she meets Killian, another attuned briefly before parting ways.
Now, with the Greatwood up for exploring, Kiada and Deimos try their hand at venturing into it, only to come across terrible will o wisps that bring them both painful memories and thoughts, and she manages to drag Deimos out of it before they both get too carried away, lost in their memories.
She then goes with Amalia and Jigano to explore the Greatwood when they come across Caiside and a man named Ianto who’s to guide them. Jigano suggests splitting up, and Kiada loses sight of Amalia when she swoops back to look. She tries to alert her friends, but is then captured by the Fae.
Kiada is brought to their Pit, and this is where she finds Amalia and meets Adam for the first time. She spends most of her time in the caves underneath the Pit, hidden away. But one of those nights she spends with Adam to try and keep her mind off of what they could want. Before she is released (rescued?) She is sacrificed to the Tulminhar, where she gives it her memories of her other worlds.
Longheat
She returns from being a captive and a prisoner, to find that Zariah Launceleyn has taken control of the Hollowed Grounds as Queen, and has started a mandatory enlistment for an army. She finds Deimos’ name on the list and grows incredibly frustrated and angry. She withdraws into herself as she joins a rebellion to try and fight against the monarchy.
Not long after, she has a heart to heart with Deimos about her feelings and her reasoning for being upset. She also meets Jigano who teaches her how to play the flute before gifting her, her own to practice with.
Leafchange
After this, she finds a sign up sheet for the Cloister of Trials hosted by the Fae, and she signs up for it without really knowing what it all entails.
She trains after with Melita, and leaves her bruised and broken. She seeks out Amalia after who helps her soothe her wounds and she tells her history to Amalia. She adopts Amalia as a motherly figure. She then finds Deimos at the Shrine, injured and trying to summon Safrin. The Goddess doesn’t come, but they find a Landshark that has begun to attack an unsuspecting unicorn. They help fight it off. The unicorn bonds to Deimos.
She meets Amalia and Jigano with Deimos after in the Settlement at Amalia’s bakery where she gets extremely drunk. Then, she finds Jigano and Amalia, and they set out to explore the storms to the west of the Greatwood to see if there’s an end in sight. They are unsuccessful. She returns to find a Siren in pain and infected by the Blight. They help cure her before Kiada heads home.
She returns home to attend a meeting where they can all meet their new Queen. The meeting doesn’t go well, and Kiada leaves angrier than she arrived. She takes out this anger with a training session with Jigano. She then meets Feral for the first time in the Fields and the two of them begin to hunt a deer. She returns from it to attend another rebellion meeting, where they cast votes to choose their leader.
Then, under the helpful hand of Deimos, the two of them begin to train novices and pros alike with fighting with swords. After this, she meets Ezra in the Rathskeller. They flirt, and she takes him home.
She then finds Deimos soon after at the Shrine again, and she tells him all about her time in the Rift. She returns, having swiped a small knife to meet Ashetta, a woman whom was rescued from the storms they had previously explored. The two become quick friends, causing havoc and destruction around the Settlement in their animal forms after having gotten incredibly drunk.
News spreads that Jigano has become King despite the choices the Rebellion has made, and she meets with him in the rebellion’s meeting place, angry and frustrated by the recent turn of events. Trying to lose her thoughts, she heads toward the Greatwood again where she meets a Fae named Nephele.
you spend so many nights
dreaming of spilling your blood —
Other
OTHER
what is a battlefield,
but a body?
all her scars
✴ Has a deep, gnarled scar on the side of her neck in the shape of an X.
✴ Scarred skin on her shoulder blades.
✴ Burn scars that line her entire spine.
✴ A few scars also fleck her hands.
Living in Halo means at some point you've digested a small amount of mageglass. As long as you live in Halo, you can increase one of your magics to a higher level, once per PQ/PQ+/KQ/Drop. (In order to use this ability, you must specify the magic to be increased at the bottom of the post in which it will be used.)
Items
Type: Light
Bipedal Air Upgrade | Air shoots from her feet allowing her to move with bursts of speed
Type: Grey
Magic Storing Amulet | An amulet capable of storing one Abandoned magic cast at it, allowing the user to cast and control the enchantments contained within. Will break after one use. (Made by Deimos)
Type: Grey
Bionic Armor Upgrade | Lightweight but hard armour extends from her spine, wrapping around her upper body in a defensive sheet of armour.
Kiada has a large X scar on the right side of her neck.
No permission needed for power play!
Feel free to use magic/force on Kiada, without killing her <3
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