Mnemosyne Background
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===1195-1199, Early Childhood=== | ===1195-1199, Early Childhood=== | ||
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| + | Born to a distant branch of a very minor noble family, Melisende spent her formative childhood in the Kentish countryside. Her parents served the local lord and lived - perhaps even still do - in his manor and she was raised with the other children. However, even at at a tender age she had a tendency to see strange things which others could not. | ||
===1200-1203, Later Life=== | ===1200-1203, Later Life=== | ||
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| + | While her parents imaged her life to be one in which she might hopefully make a good marriage or become a lady-in-waiting and set about instilling in her the right skills, Melisende proved to be a somewhat wild child. Prefering to go swimming in the local river and to steal cakes from the kitchen, she became skilled at getting around the adults and a dab hand at lieing and bullying the other children into doing what she wanted. However, as she got older her magical nature started to become more pronounced than simply strange visions or seeing ghosts. As her gifted nature started to become more and more apparent, her ability to manipulate others started to fail her. The locals started to see her less as a cute little girl and more as something unnatural and fey. Fortunately for Melisande though, before things could get more than unpleasant for her, a passing mage spotted her and realised her potential as an apprentice. | ||
===1204-1218, Apprenticeship=== | ===1204-1218, Apprenticeship=== | ||
===1219, Covenant Corvus=== | ===1219, Covenant Corvus=== | ||
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1195-1199, Early Childhood
Born to a distant branch of a very minor noble family, Melisende spent her formative childhood in the Kentish countryside. Her parents served the local lord and lived - perhaps even still do - in his manor and she was raised with the other children. However, even at at a tender age she had a tendency to see strange things which others could not.
1200-1203, Later Life
While her parents imaged her life to be one in which she might hopefully make a good marriage or become a lady-in-waiting and set about instilling in her the right skills, Melisende proved to be a somewhat wild child. Prefering to go swimming in the local river and to steal cakes from the kitchen, she became skilled at getting around the adults and a dab hand at lieing and bullying the other children into doing what she wanted. However, as she got older her magical nature started to become more pronounced than simply strange visions or seeing ghosts. As her gifted nature started to become more and more apparent, her ability to manipulate others started to fail her. The locals started to see her less as a cute little girl and more as something unnatural and fey. Fortunately for Melisande though, before things could get more than unpleasant for her, a passing mage spotted her and realised her potential as an apprentice.
