Basic Information
Level: |
4
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Race: |
Abandoned
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Nationality: |
Outlander
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Citizenship: |
Torchline
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Profession |
Smuggler
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Organisation(s) |
Smuggler's Guild |
Character Information
Face Claim: |
Alexa Davalos
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Strength: |
16
/30 |
Age: |
24 (Flowerbirth 288 PC) |
Dexterity: |
16
/30 |
Height: |
5'7"
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Endurance: |
20
/30 |
Weight: |
132 lbs.
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Luck: |
18
/30 |
Gender: |
Female
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Intuition: |
0 /3 |
Orientation: |
Bisexual
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Deity Alignment: |
None
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Relationship Status: |
with Milo
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Appearance
A woman of fine stature; Aurelia is tall without being lanky and athletic without being built like a brick shit-house. She's made for adventure; for the fight and the flight - and she knows it. She makes an effort to keep her body in its peak condition, avoiding unhealthy habits or laziness. Morning runs and spars are the 'secret'. She's not one to sit still for very long... unless it's to sleep. She is an avid believer in the power of cat-naps.
As far as appearances go, she'll usually wear clothes geared toward exploration or work, while still offering her plenty of mobility. Her mess of curls will likely be pulled lazily out of her way. Aurelia feels no shame in hard work, or reflecting it in her outer appearance. Her hands are calloused, nails are often broken, and her skin is likely to be blemished by the odd bruise or scratch. Speaking of blemishes, she has many scars from her previous life and she wields all of them like badges of honor. Her lighter green eyes and softer facial features stand out against this rough-and-tumble look.
(4th image depicts Aurelia's main scars, though it's by no means all of them)
Personality
Aurelia has a tough attitude paired with the heart of a survivor... and she's bound to find some way to prove it. Trouble has no problem finding its way into Aurelia's life, oftentimes bringing it upon herself. But she is not a bystander to her own destiny; she will grab the horns of any bull that dares to rear its head at her. Figuratively or literally. Though a healthy fear of death, above all else, keeps her from being just too reckless.
She has grit and spirit but, within her strength, there are soft spots. She knows what it's like to live a hard life, for things to never quite go the way they should. She empathizes with those who are less fortunate, who struggle, or who're simply underdogs by nature. Privileged assholes don't garner much respect from her. She'd rather attach herself to those who are worth their salt. Beneath all of that, too, she can be childish, mischievous. Growing up, her life didn't have much room for the lighter things in life. Now that everything is different and she doesn't have to live that way anymore, she tends to soak up the moment and opportunities. She wants to make a better life.
Aurelia has a dog-like loyalty to those she calls friends or family, forming strong attachments if she opens herself up to them. She doesn't give up easily on those who matter to her. There is even the small hope that someday she'll reunite with her sisters. Some way, somehow.
History
Before Caido
Her home world was one of darkness, chaos, and magic. Monsters of horrible nature rampaged the lands, which bore conditions just as hostile. Most of society lived safely in underground cities, connected by tunnel systems. Only those who knew how to survive were allowed to the surface, and the death rates were still high. All magic was deemed illegal and any active magic users would be arrested on sight. There was a huge stigma against it because of the criminal activity and 'evil' that often surrounded it. So, even though anyone in her home world was capable of using magic, most chose not to. If they did, they either kept it a secret or were outcast to the surface, where they were left for dead or else skilled bounty hunters would track them down and finish the job.
Aurelia's mother and father met and worked together as armorers, crafting armor and weapons in the safety of the underground cities. They made enough coin to provide for their three daughters, though they were still middle-lower class. Her father often took the odd side job to make extra. He was rarely home, but when he was he had tireless energy to spend quality time with his girls. He was a family man through and through, and his marriage was a happy one.
Aurelia was seven when a strange man knocked on their door and handed her mother half of her father's coat. It looked as though someone had thrown it into a firepit and barely managed to salvage it.
The story goes that a thief broke into her father's armory. He defended his wares at the price of his life. The criminal had been a fire mage. They burned her father's shop with him trapped in it. Her father's body was so bad off that the policeman told her mother, "the children shouldn't see." Before he left, he mentioned that "there may have been motives behind the killing, a deal gone wrong, but we don't know." "We're truly sorry, ma'am." The door to that part of her life closed, and she received little in the way of justice or answers.
The Murlow children's lives went downhill from there. Their mother could not afford to keep their home. They spent the following years on the streets between tiny shacks for housing with slumlords that usually harassed her mother.
Kids her age began to ostracize her; she was the girl whose father was killed by a mage. It scared them, it added a heavy weight to her name. As if, should they befriend her, they might get burned alive too. Aurelia would get into fist-fights with the other kids for whispering about it behind her back and, soon, that fear was for her alone. She got into trouble many times in high school for bullying, fights, smoking, ditching, sneaking out to the surface with other kids her age.
Her mother struggled to juggle work and family, especially in dealing with the emotional turmoil of her three daughters. After a huge fight, Aurelia ended up dropping out of school. She left to find work to help support her mother and sisters. She found a crap job down in the mines, and stayed there for several months. She rarely went home since her work was far, but she sent as much of her pay as she could back to her family. Her boss had halved her pay because of her young age and inexperience, thinking he could take advantage of it. When she found that out she stormed off the job.
It was after that when she met a man by the name of Seren. He took an instant liking to her attitude, barbed as it was, and through word of mouth he discovered that she was looking for work. He saw potential in her as an apprentice of sorts, but she knew what his line of work involved. She was resistant to the idea of it, and brushed his offer off.
She went through a few different jobs after that, but her mother had grown sick. It was some sort of cancer and the doctors wouldn't cure it. Medicine was not advanced enough to be able to afford such treatments to someone who couldn't even hope to pay for them. Her mother wilted away rather quickly once the cancer spread.
Aurelia was 18 at the time of her mother's death so she was allowed responsibility of her sisters, but if she failed to care for them, they would be put into an orphanage until they were old enough to legally work for themselves. Times became tough and Aurelia couldn't manage to make enough to pay rent to her landlord, even though he unjustly raised the prices on her.
Desperation drove her to seeking out the bounty hunter named Seren, knowing that they could make a lot of coin in a short amount of time - which was exactly what she needed. He agreed to let her work for him, but her pay would be based off of commission.
After their first successful hunt, as Seren liked to call them, Aurelia was committed to it. She was able to make enough off of one hunt to pay two months' worth of rent and buy anything she needed - and then some. She trained under Seren for years, honing her skills to stalk and capture any kind of target. Seren eventually dubbed her his equal, no longer an apprentice but a partner. They were but shadows until it was too late for their targets, but sometimes they would be tasked with the capture of a mage. Aurelia especially liked those cases. Most of the time it didn't matter if they brought the mage back alive or not. Aurelia would always bring them back dead, showing no mercy to any cursed asshole that chose to wield such darkness against another person.
Hunting mages was a difficult and risky task, though. Seren, contrarily, disliked it; he had lost many crew members and partners to their deadly magic before, and he did not want to see the same fate befall Aurelia.
There was one mage in particular that resulted in a lifechanging event for Aurelia and Seren. He was a renowned magic user who was very powerful; an archmage. When the bounty for him was assigned to Seren and Aurelia, they departed immediately. The archmage, however, knew they were coming. He'd seen them in a vision and knew they would kill him. He saw fit to change his future, intending to trap the bounty hunters.
The hunters were ambushed by cult mages and their tamed beasts, barely managing to get through with their lives. Seren was afflicted with some kind of poisonous magic, draining his life force alarmingly fast. Aurelia could do little for him since they were so far from medical help. He insisted she leave him behind to save herself. Instead, she pushed on without him, in spite of his cries for her to stop. Knowing the archmage expected them dead, she knew she had to act fast in order to get the drop on him.
Even though she was able to sneak up on the archmage, he was ready for a fight. They both struggled to gain the upper hand, missing most of their major attacks until Aurelia was finally able to hit him in the eye with a throwing knife. Thinking she had him, she let down her guard and approached his writhing body. In a flash of light, she was completely paralyzed. She had no control over her body, not even to blink an eye. She could hear Seren's voice from somewhere behind them and, for a moment, she thought she was saved.
Perhaps she was, if you're looking at the big picture. The archmage was so powerful that he could've crushed her bones with but an utterance of a few words. Yet, what he did do was something neither her or Seren expected. He banished her from their realm. One moment, she was there; the next, she was gone. Still, she is far from dead... for now.
The Order of the Black Flame was a secret organization of people that believed magic shouldn't have been illegal in Aurelia's home world. They were a tight-knit community of mages and sorcerers who met in a vault, hidden deep under the city railways. They had collected ancient scrolls and spellbooks as well as written their own learnings of magic. This information was incredibly valuable to anyone that wished to learn the arts, but, remaining a secret came with high stakes. Information could not be leaked at any cost. If a person joined the Order of the Black Flame and learned their secrets, they could not simply leave it without consequence.
Aurelia's father, Silas, was involved in the order from the beginning. He helped found it and draw other like-minded individuals in, became apart of its councel, but he left most of the larger decisions up to the ones that wanted to make them. Even his smith logo was that of a flame which matched the order's insignia. He had a high standing among them. However, when the city's detectives began to close in on the Black Flame, capturing some of their members and torturing them for information, Silas wanted out. He wanted to keep his family protected, out of harm's way {that he could potentially have put them into just by being connected to him}. When he brought these concerns to the order and revealed that he wanted to leave, he was later assassinated. Meant to appear as an accident, the mage who killed him used a powerful fire to set his shop ablaze - with him and all of the documents inside.
Aurelia has no conscious knowledge of this, however, except for the bits and pieces she will eventually clue together as some of her deeper memories come to the light - and the mystery behind her father's death begins unraveling.
For a record of more recent events, visit Catalysta's tracker.
Other
When Aurelia was cast under the archmage's paralyzing spell, she was also significantly weakened by a curse. This was to reflect her stats as a new character, in spite of her prowess as a bounty hunter, but it will fade away over time (as she levels).
A hunter does well to know their prey. Aurelia has a basic understanding of the different types of magic.
Abilities
Fire Manipulation: Can create and control flames. Must be within a 30ft radius.
Type: Dark | Rank: Mastered
Air manipulation: Can manipulate the air. Must be within a 5ft radius, control is weak and unstable and requires concentration.
Type: Grey | Rank: Basic
Citizenship Ability
Torchline: Torchline has taught you to survive her weather and her terrain. Once per PQ/PQ+/KQ/Drop, you can 'shrug off' half the damage from ONE non-lethal attack. (In order to use this ability, you must put a clear note in the bottom of your post immediately following the attack you want to 'shrug off').
Items
Companion
HIS CROWN
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Halo
- The Citadel - Festival of Lights 311 PC
- Palace - No thread
- Snowcloak - No thread
- Tundra - No thread
- Sea of Glass - No thread
- The Fangs - No thread
- Whitebrim - No thread
Explored: 1/7
The Greatwood
- Sidhe Village - No thread
- Observatory - No thread
- The Bodega - No thread
- Undercroft - No thread
- The Stonesong - No thread
- Sea of Branches - No thread
- Whispershore - No thread
- The Drop - No thread
- The Wildwood - No thread
- Ludo's Woods - No thread
- Crimson Cataract - No thread
- Mathair - No thread
Explored: 0/12
Hollowed Ground
- Sanctuary - No thread
- Temple - No thread
- Domiciles - No thread
- Atheneum - No thread
- Ruins - No thread
- The Underground - No thread
- Bone Bridge - No thread
- The Labyrinth - No thread
- The Settlement - No thread
- The Outskirts - No thread
- Fields - No thread
- Woodland - No thread
- The Spire - No thread
Explored: 0/16
Stormbreak
- City Area - No thread
- The Celestine - No thread
- The Tower - No thread
- Judgement's Needle - No thread
- The Archive - No thread
- The Collegium - No thread
- Pacifist Plaza - No thread
- The Silk Houses - No thread
- The White Hart - No thread
- Mother Molly's - No thread
- Trinity Temple - No thread
- Sleeping Steps - No thread
- The Falling - No thread
- City Gates - No thread
- The Righteous Road - No thread
- The Dragon's Nest - No thread
Explored: 0/17
The Draig Cordillera
- The Draig Cordillera - No thread
- Amphitheatre - No thread
- Infinity Fields - No thread
- Caido's Lighthouse - No thread
- Weightless Waterfall - No thread
- Summit - No thread
Explored: 0/6
King's End
- King's End - No thread
- The Barrows - No thread
- The Last Step - No thread
- Meadowreach - No thread
- Queen's Gambit - No thread
- Mourn - No thread
- Boondocks - [OPEN] breach your rippling pool
Explored: 1/8
Hak Etme
- Hak Etme - No thread
- The Furnace - No thread
- Boneyard - No thread
- Sunshine Pools - No thread
- Sea of Dreams - No thread
Explored: 0/6
The Feverlands
- The Feverlands - No thread
- The Hanging Tree - No thread
- Tar Pits - No thread
- The Sallow Swamp - No thread
Explored: 0/4
The Climb
- The Climb - No thread
- The Crust - [split] (SE) heart of a lion
- Angel's End - No thread
- Lava Pits - No thread
- The Burrows - No thread
- The Mountain's Roar - No thread
- Soulfire Reach - No thread
- Obsidian Cathedral - No thread
- Frey's Breath - No thread
Explored: 1/9
Aurelia's Threadlog |
5 active ·
64 closed ·
5 need replies ·
69 total
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Thread |
Participants |
Posts |
Last Post |
music in your blood in The Maw on 04-02-2021 |
Jack, Melita, Milo |
7 |
Last post by Milo on 04-08-2021 |
[PQ] this ain't no pleasure cruise in Arclight Ocean on 04-01-2021 |
Jack, Milo, Melita |
17 |
Last post by Jack on 04-10-2021 |
the aftermath is secondary in Haulani on 03-30-2021 |
Milo, Rigby |
30 |
Last post by Rigby on 04-09-2021 |
raise what's left of the glass in Kraai on 03-30-2021 |
Wessex |
7 |
Last post by Wessex on 04-08-2021 |
there's diamonds on the surface in The Hanged Man on 03-22-2021 |
Sunjata |
25 |
Last post by Sunjata on 04-08-2021 |
[Training] dance in the ashes in Kaiholo Port on 03-19-2021 |
Melita |
12 |
Last post by Aurelia on 04-07-2021 |
[split] (SE) heart of a lion in The Crust on 03-12-2021 |
Random Event, Wessex |
10 |
Last post by Wessex on 03-25-2021 |
[Training] but hold your balance in Kuali'i Isles on 03-11-2021 |
Milo |
99 |
Last post by Aurelia on 04-06-2021 |
[SE] top of the world in Leap of Faith on 03-11-2021 |
Jack |
18 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-27-2021 |
[Mini Event] The Night Market in Haulani on 03-11-2021 |
Random Event, Maeve, Theo, Locke, Wessex, Jack, Sunjata, Ray, Nate, Melita, Rigby, Raza |
47 |
Last post by Random Event on 03-23-2021 |
street rat and knife bitch in Apopo on 03-10-2021 |
Rigby |
10 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-29-2021 |
[Training] fire and ice in The Rainbow Road on 03-08-2021 |
Deimos |
16 |
Last post by Deimos on 03-13-2021 |
(SE) i like your voice in The Halenani on 03-08-2021 |
Maeve |
56 |
Last post by Maeve on 04-04-2021 |
{RQ} we all burn to the ground in Ahi Coast on 03-05-2021 |
Nate |
17 |
Last post by Nate on 03-24-2021 |
[Mini Event] this town has no room for you in Aumakua on 03-03-2021 |
Sunjata, Ronin, Adam, Ray, Maeve, Locke, Neos, Melita, Juniper, Theo, Hotaru, Wessex, Rigby, Vega, Raza, Jack, Shaju, Zephyr, Nate |
50 |
Last post by Vega on 03-07-2021 |
[PQ] she put whiskey in the water in The Hanged Man on 03-03-2021 |
Raza, Ray, Maeve |
18 |
Last post by Raza on 03-27-2021 |
[Training] (open) you hit like a girl in Slagveld on 03-03-2021 |
Neos |
12 |
Last post by Neos on 03-16-2021 |
(SE) heart of a lion in Undergrove on 03-03-2021 |
Random Event, Wessex |
12 |
Last post by Random Event on 03-12-2021 |
(SE) tame the wilds in Tanglefoot on 03-02-2021 |
Deimos |
16 |
Last post by Deimos on 03-08-2021 |
it's time to take some action, boys in Aumakua on 03-01-2021 |
NPC, Sunjata, Melita, Rigby, Neos, Jack |
22 |
Last post by Neos on 03-03-2021 |
[SE] shore up, hunker down in Haulani on 03-01-2021 |
Ronin |
15 |
Last post by Ronin on 03-11-2021 |
[SE] sifting the sands in Wishtide Waterways on 03-01-2021 |
Adam |
22 |
Last post by Aurelia on 04-06-2021 |
if only to say you're mine in Haulani on 02-28-2021 |
Milo |
27 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-08-2021 |
love is madness and lust is poison in Kaiholo Port on 02-27-2021 |
Maeve |
18 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-01-2021 |
beach chicken in IC Written Communications on 02-25-2021 |
N/A |
2 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-11-2021 |
(Open) For What it's Worth in Ahi Coast on 02-24-2021 |
Locke |
18 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-01-2021 |
the evening coals in Kaiholo Port on 02-22-2021 |
Melita |
12 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-27-2021 |
when the embers burn low in Ahi Coast on 02-21-2021 |
Ronin |
23 |
Last post by Ronin on 03-01-2021 |
plz sledgehammer my doubt in Aumakua on 02-20-2021 |
Hotaru |
14 |
Last post by Hotaru on 03-14-2021 |
(se) i'm a loser baby in The Hanged Man on 02-18-2021 |
Rigby |
18 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-26-2021 |
fall on me in Aumakua on 02-15-2021 |
Milo |
20 |
Last post by Milo on 02-18-2021 |
[PQ] [SE] we've got a ways to go in Kaiholo Port on 02-12-2021 |
Melita, Jack, Raza |
17 |
Last post by Jack on 02-22-2021 |
[PQ] it seems you've set it running free in Ahi Coast on 02-08-2021 |
Melita, Sunjata |
22 |
Last post by Melita on 02-16-2021 |
[DROP] [SE] twinkle, twinkle in IC Written Communications on 02-07-2021 |
Random Event, Ronin, Wessex, Melita, Peter, Nate, Sunjata, Jack, Raza, Arialla, Zephyr, Theo, Mabel, Henry, Rigby, Aamu, Cameron |
57 |
Last post by Random Event on 02-19-2021 |
[SE] Validated in Kaiholo Port on 02-09-2021 |
Melita |
15 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-20-2021 |
[Training] one foot before the other in Ahi Coast on 02-18-2021 |
Milo |
51 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-28-2021 |
like fire burn through in Shrine on 03-02-2021 |
Safrin |
9 |
Last post by Aurelia on 03-18-2021 |
[Training] careful what you're asking for in Slagveld on 01-30-2021 |
Melita |
14 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-16-2021 |
[KQ] a sky full of stars in Arclight Ocean on 01-14-2021 |
Court Official, Jack, Arialla, Gideon, Neos |
36 |
Last post by Court Official on 02-09-2021 |
[SE] Felt Like in Haulani on 01-14-2021 |
Milo |
43 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-05-2021 |
[SE] Lighten Up, Buttercup in Kaiholo Port on 01-11-2021 |
Jack |
23 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-08-2021 |
[Mini Event] I keep on falling back into you in Ahi Coast on 01-09-2021 |
Vervain, Neron, Bastien, Melita, Adam, Nate, Juniper, Sunjata, Raza, Morgan, Zephyr, Milo, Neos, Rigby, Shaju |
32 |
Last post by Sunjata on 01-30-2021 |
[PQ] (Open) Renovations are in order in Haulani on 01-08-2021 |
Nate, Milo, Ray |
21 |
Last post by Ray on 01-25-2021 |
[SE] King of the Jungle in Oerwoud on 01-05-2021 |
Ezra |
3 |
Last post by Aurelia on 01-08-2021 |
[SE] Evergreen (open) in Haulani on 01-03-2021 |
Theo |
16 |
Last post by Theo on 01-14-2021 |
rorschach the pieces that i lack in Hale Ka’aila on 12-28-2020 |
Milo |
28 |
Last post by Aurelia on 01-13-2021 |
Broken Open in Oerwoud on 12-25-2020 |
Sunjata |
48 |
Last post by Sunjata on 01-31-2021 |
it's how I lie, but no one told ya in Smuggler's Guild on 12-18-2020 |
Saiden, Melita, Jack, Zephyr, Nerissa, Milo, Ray |
13 |
Last post by Zephyr on 01-26-2021 |
[SWE] Festival of Lights 311 PC in The Citadel on 12-15-2020 |
Court Official, Edrei, Loren, Saiden, Isla, Ludo, Deimos, Wessex, Bastien, Melita, Kiada, the VOICE, Peter, Maea, Adam, Nate, Ezra, Sunjata, Amun, Noah, Aisha, Mabel, Gideon, Neos, Ray, Aamu |
40 |
Last post by Maea on 01-05-2021 |
heart for nobody to see in Haulani on 12-09-2020 |
Rigby |
12 |
Last post by Aurelia on 01-13-2021 |
[OPEN] breach your rippling pool in Boondocks on 12-09-2020 |
Mildew |
24 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-06-2021 |
life sucks, let's dance in Slagveld on 12-09-2020 |
Ray |
31 |
Last post by Aurelia on 02-23-2021 |
standing in the way of control in Haulani on 12-04-2020 |
Nate |
18 |
Last post by Aurelia on 01-20-2021 |
Fair Weather in Apopo on 12-01-2020 |
N/A |
1 |
Last post by Aurelia on 12-01-2020 |
Cooking Lessons in Haulani on 12-01-2020 |
Saiden |
13 |
Last post by Aurelia on 12-23-2020 |
[DROP] lock and key in IC Written Communications on 11-30-2020 |
Remi, Random Event, Delphine, Wessex, Samuel, Amun, Aisha, Delta, Zephyr, Hester, Lena, Belril, Ray |
32 |
Last post by Random Event on 12-11-2020 |
Empty Bottle in Ahi Coast on 11-29-2020 |
Milo |
101 |
Last post by Aurelia on 12-28-2020 |
[Training] break your own bones in Aumakua on 11-28-2020 |
Melita |
21 |
Last post by Melita on 12-14-2020 |
[Mini Event] show me your sweetness in Ahi Coast on 11-23-2020 |
Ludo, Sunjata, Saiden, Loren, Ray, Gideon, Bastien, Nate, Deimos, Iris, Melita, Aisha, Noah, Anden, Luciana, Amun, Zephyr |
20 |
Last post by Ludo on 11-27-2020 |
[SE] Carving Spirits from the Trees in Ahi Coast on 11-20-2020 |
Gideon |
23 |
Last post by Aurelia on 01-20-2021 |
[SE] Can't Do It Alone in Rae's Fingers on 11-20-2020 |
Melita |
19 |
Last post by Aurelia on 12-14-2020 |
flick of the wrist in Aumakua on 11-14-2020 |
Jack |
18 |
Last post by Aurelia on 12-01-2020 |
[Training] Don't Mind in Slagveld on 11-10-2020 |
Sunjata |
43 |
Last post by Aurelia on 11-23-2020 |
[SE] bonfire cries and fireflies in Ahi Coast on 11-07-2020 |
Saiden, Melita, Jack, Zephyr, Milo |
26 |
Last post by Aurelia on 11-28-2020 |
Flux and Flow in Miana Pool on 11-06-2020 |
Delta |
6 |
Last post by Delta on 02-25-2021 |
See in the World what you Carry in your Heart in Shrine on 10-23-2020 |
Gideon |
17 |
Last post by Aurelia on 11-17-2020 |
Lost Girl in Slagveld on 10-23-2020 |
Sunjata |
20 |
Last post by Sunjata on 11-06-2020 |
[PQ] one more for good luck in Kaiholo Port on 10-22-2020 |
Saiden, Melita, Jack, Zephyr |
24 |
Last post by Aurelia on 11-04-2020 |
The End of a Life in Kaiholo Port on 10-05-2020 |
Jack |
16 |
Last post by Jack on 10-22-2020 |
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