i know this post will be at odds with my other two posts, as this isn't an observation of the world i have made. rather, this is about a roleplaying character i'd sunk a great deal of time, virtual money, and effort into. the place where i had been going is shutting down to be rebuilt as something else, so i thought i'd like to share with you the story of my character, and where she was in the kingdom of eelry on second life. oh, and eelry was and always be amazing to me.
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coyote was a tall elf with pale skin, raven hair, and long pointed ears. her eyes were a beguiling shade of purple mixed with blue and touches of pink, and her smile was infectious. she had come to eelry after being stricken with wanderlust, though she couldn't remember why she was traveling in the first place. she had vague memories of a family that was no longer around, but that was all she had other than her first name. eelry had been a dark place as she entered the village, and her bare feet made no sound on the cobblestones as she explored the place that would ultimately become her new home. it wasn't too long before she encountered other people, making friends and enemies as she adjusted to her life as a citizen, and even attending the coronation of the new king and queen. it had been a joyous occasion to behold, and she was suitably impressed.
she felt safest in the forest, the only light place in a dark kingdom and so made her home there. she met a man named rhage krolmskull there, and soon found a calling to the druids who also made their home amongst the trees. she was happy here, and while she journeyed throughout the lands became quite good friends with clara johnstone, the mayor of eelry and frequent antagonizer of the royal couple who ruled with an iron fist and plotted in secret. she found out how clara had been brutally tortured to death then summarily revived by the evil king and queen, and decided she would find out just how they would bring eelry into a new future as a peaceful, unified kingdom.
the queen herself was a black dragon shaman, walking in darkness like her husband, a black paladin demon from another dimension who had come to the human plane to do the dirty work of his dark goddess. they did everything in their power to make clara seem like the crazy one, even swaying people over to their evil cause. coyote wasn't fooled though, and often put her foot in her mouth sassing the royals as they manipulated the people to their whims. she felt in her heart that clara was right about how bad they actually were, especially since they had set a plague upon the village, killing over half of the people in it, then summoning the bodies in an undead army so they could swoop in and save the day.
coyote found her new abilities as a fire druid in this time, and began toying with how to control the flames that lived in her soul while battling an insane forest guardian with the help of other druids who had come to the farm to talk to her about the fate of their missing druid king. ever since rhage had called himself king of the forest he had invoked the wrath of the king and queen, so obsidian had taken it upon herself to curse the forest in an attempt to bring him to heel; especially since the druids looked to him instead of her and her king parzival. unbeknownst to her rhage had used his lifeblood to tie himself to the forest, so her curse also affected him.
coyote and clara worked to undo the curse set on their home, and with the help of others at great cost managed to free rhage from obsidian's clutches and bring the forest back to life. this was short-lived as the queen managed to put a stronger curse on the forest again, so coyote offered her allegiance to the lady of the wood and patron goddess of clara, then used up everything she had to aid the mayor to undo the curse once and for all. in the meantime coyote had battled an insane dragon who was trying to destroy the farm the villagers used for food, so it nearly took her life to save the forest of eelry. it was worth it though, even though rhage vanished without a trace and the druids were without a leader.
clara stepped up in the interim to guide the druids until a new person stepped forward to become the leader, head of the clan and working with the others to broker peace. coyote was proud for her friend, but this was short lived as she was shortly murdered by the king for being a traitor to the crown. the loss of the one person coyote felt close to caused her to go insane as she mourned before the burnt skeleton that lay limply on the sacred altar, and she lost her very soul to madness.
reborn as a druid with no control over her fire abilities, coyote renamed herself trickster and made her way through the village with a mask carved in the shape of her namesake on her head, which hid her brilliantly amber eyes and baby fangs, and caused her to strongly resemble loki, her bond animal of the same species as her name. her laughter was strained, with a ruined throat from screaming she made a new name for herself as a force to be reckoned with.
since the king had interrogated her before her subsequent insanity and then gone missing after killing clara, queen obsidian sought her out to see if she was responsible. of course, when the queen finally found the mad elf it was quite a funny moment, the queen was normally a bit of a bitch but was rendered speechless at the word salads that poured from coyote's mouth. she even wondered if the elf was okay, which prompted coyote to nearly drown herself laughing.
it wasn't too hard to make a simple potion that rendered coyote temporarily sane for obsidian to question her, and from there she learned that clara had met her end at the hands of the king, and that coyote felt responsible for her death. without mincing her words obsidian told coyote it wasn't her fault, clara had already betrayed the kingdom and she'd finally racked up enough charges to be put to death. since parzival had been alive last time coyote had seen him, she was let go. unfortunately her madness remained since she had killed an innocent animal in her grief, so once the potion wore off she was insane again.
many people found her both intimidating and amusing, so since coyote's mischief was harmless she was left alone for the most part. when the angel came to eelry, some saw her as clara reborn, but coyote saw her as a bitch with wings and tried to set her on fire. loki intervened and kept her from causing calamity, but the angel didn't care one way or the other and simply went around the kingdom pissing off everyone she encountered. coyote tried to find meaning in her madness, and had periods of lucidity where she made sense and was able to comprehend her environment. she even joined several people on a quest to elmandria, the ruins of an old kingdom that the king and queen had ruled over a thousand years prior.
after the return to eelry the queen was murdered by assassins sent by the angel, and since she had completed the dragon bond with her king, he too fell dead by their hand. the queen was reborn as a vengeful spirit, and while parzival was in hell made a new pact with his dark goddess and was granted return to the living. obsidian was reborn in her original body as an undead shaman, with greater powers than before and a shorter temper. a mage known as ilaria bane took over as regent as she was tasked with finding out who killed the king and queen, but the closest she had come was finding the charred bodies of the assassins. as she tried to find out the source of the attacks, more chaos fell upon the kingdom.
the great white dragon, burdened with a legion of souls and mad with pain and fear from her broken gem on her forehead, had burrowed into the mountain housing the mines and causing a great many small earthquakes to shake the kingdom of eelry. the quakes upset several items in obsidian's camp, shattering two bottles housing violent spirits and setting them lose to wreak havoc. since she was still known as dead to her people, obsidian decided to see how her regent would handle it while she sought out her reborn king and tried to figure out how to free her daughter from a powerful spell performed by an unknown entity at the moment of parzival's death.
coyote ran into the first one, a former jester who loved to entertain and grew angry when the baker teresa decided to try and hit him with a frying pan. she found it hysterically funny as the spirit ran off to hide in the out house, and hoped to run into him again and maybe unintentionally bring the spirit peace and allow it to cross over to the other side. she was not so lucky when she ran into the second one in front of the castle as she made her way towards the dark forest.
this one was a being filled with rage and quick to anger, and coyote accidentally pissed it off. as it screamed into the air with supernatural force beyond human reckoning, blood spilled from every orifice, her eardrums ruptured, and though she screamed in agony no one was near to help. as she staggered and fell down the castle steps, her heart exploded in her chest and coyote quietly died staring at the heavens with a smile on her face and a chuckle on her lips. she died as she was born in the kingdom, completely alone with no one who knew or cared for her.
the regent was informed of a mysterious death by the wife of a survivor who had gone deaf and also suffered the great quantity of bleeding, but none of them knew that within the pouch on coyote's body was a key to restoring the great white dragons sanity: a piece of the broken gem.
