The Fenimeldiyaan: Origins - Story Outline and Characters

STORY

Many centuries ago, there lived an evil sorceress by the name of Ciracea DeGraaw.  She was so thoroughly evil and despicable that the Vyrdigaan Elders executed her and dissipated her instead of allowing her to pass to the Beyond in the usual way.  Some tiny fragments of her life-force survived and some of these were reborn in certain people.

Somehow, she managed to resurrect herself and has taken up residence on the planet Rekantia, outside the Fenian and Meldin galaxies.  Her headquarters are located at the Broken Hill Fortress in the land of Fesnaria.

She is conducting experiments with a view to gathering power and taking over the whole of the planet and who knows where else.

In the dungeons below the fortress, she keeps many prisoners.  Among them are certain persons of interest to the Vyrdigaan Order and the Inner Circle Alliance.  No stranger to going on perilous missions, a Carpathian Spy Master by the name of Lord Andreas Cesario has volunteered to rescue them.

Unbeknown to Andreas, Ciracea has captured a powerful but untrained teenage sorceress by the name of River Meer and plans to train her if she co-operates or absorb her powers if she refuses.

Also imprisoned in the dungeons is Gerald Hunt, a mercenary.  His friends — Morgan Shadowbinder, a sorcerer who struggles to control his dark powers, and Apollo Lightbringer, a talented and dedicated healer — are searching for him.

CHARACTERS

Character created by: Xanxa
Character name: Ciracea DeGraaw
Character race: Human – Planet of origin unknown, but in her previous incarnation she lived on both Viria and Malvania.
Character appearance: Average height, slim build.  Fair skin, blue eyes and blonde curly shoulder-length hair.  Prefers to dress in red velvet robes.  Appears to be in her early thirties but in reality she is centuries old.
Character personality: Cruel and mocking, but can be charming when she chooses.  A ruthless single-minded manipulator who tricks and charms her way into holding positions of power.
Family: Unknown.
Strengths: Seduction, vast knowledge of history, politics and sorcery.  She is also rumoured to have siren powers but this has never been substantiated. 
Weaknesses: Vanity and greed.
Likes: The finer things in life (but will do without if necessary), art, music, power.
Dislikes: The Vyrdigaan Order, their allies and associates.
Magic: 9 (but could be unpredictable due to the previous dissipation of her energy)


Character created by: Xanxa
Character name: Lord Andreas Alano Cesario (AKA the Chimera Obscura)
Character race: Human - Carpathian Spy Master (Ascended Master)
Character appearance: Short, thin slight build, light brown skin, waist length black hair, usually tied up with a piece of old bandage, long droopy moustache. Usually wears shabby checked suits with old brown sandals. Sometimes disguises himself as a beggar.  Several tattoos, including a special one on his back.
Character personality: Wildly eccentric and unpredictable. Sly, devious, wicked sense of humour, often self-depreciating. Changes subject abruptly in conversation. In private, he is a loving husband and father, devoted to his extended family.
Family: Direct descendant of the Warrior God Martius, through the Entrevi and Cesario families. Married to Anwyn, has five children, two of whom he adopted.
Strengths: Spy Master, adept at breaking and entering, climbing, picking locks, setting explosives, administering poisons, computer hacking. Ascended Master who can take mortal form when he chooses. (For the purposes of this story, he will be in mortal form).
Weaknesses: Generous to a fault. Cannot walk past a beggar without giving money.
Likes: Making and breaking codes, picking locks, playing the flute, doing conjuring tricks, telling jokes, entertaining children.
Dislikes: Cruelty, slavery, injustice and intolerance. Anything or anyone threatening his extended family.
Magic – 7 (but can be stronger when Anwyn shares her powers with him, which brings him up to 9)


Character name: Fitzgerald Hunt (Gerald)
Created by: RC
Character race: Human.
Appearance: Dark haired, clear eyes, early twenties, scruffy, tall, broad-shouldered, has a brand of a hand on his neck that he hates talking about.
Personality: Can be rough with people he doesn't like and rather annoying. Quick with a joke or snarky remark. Doesn't like to lose. He has a peculiar sense of mercy and won't kill those he thinks deserve to live.
Family: Married to Elsa. He left his home country and his family behind.
Influences: A desire to be a knight at an early age left him with a strange sense of the knight's code. The forced murder of his mentor scarred him and hardened him.
Abilities: Extremely skilled fighter in all manners of weaponry.
Strengths: Good at fighting, has a good amount of money to his name, loyal to people he cares about, oddly merciful.
Weaknesses: No tact, dislikes arrogance (except in himself), the exact opposite of a diplomat.
Likes: Fighting, money, Elsa.
Dislikes: A lot of things, mostly Morgan
Magic – None.


Character name: Queen River Meer
Created by: RC
Character race: Human.
Character appearance: In her early to mid teens, curly brown hair past her shoulder blades, big brown eyes. Plain-looking, her eyes are too big for her face. Has a sweet, childish look to her.
Character personality: Sweet, innocent. Destroyed her voice with a misfired spell in her youth — the spell she accidentally cast after she killed her brother in an argument. Also accidental. Rather naive, struggles to behave like a queen.
Family: Her parents and her brother are deceased.
Influences: Erased her memories of her early years when she killed her brother.
Abilities: Powerful combat magic and healing magic
Strengths: Can be deceivingly stubborn. Powerful magic that she's slowly teaching herself to maintain control of. People tend to like her.
Weaknesses: Uncertain about being a ruler, uncontrollable magic that activates when she's stressed, naive, innocent.
Likes: Jake, the Drenlins, Terra, people who stay by her side, loyalty, magic.
Dislikes: Her family, her own magic, people who threaten the people she cares about, evil.
Magic--9.


Character name: Morgan Shadowbinder
Character written by: RC
Character appearance: dark hair, piercing green eyes, early twenties (a little older than Gerald), short, round. Rarely seen without his spellbook.
Character personality: Bright, always talking, always hungry, sloppy, extremely optimistic. The only people he ever argues with are Elsa and Gerald, though he harbours a love for Elsa that he hides after she married Gerald.
Family: He considers healer Apollo to be his brother. In spite of his friendly nature, he doesn't let anyone else into his world.
Influences: His parents turned out to be murderers and disowned Morgan. This affected him more than he likes to admit, and he very rarely speaks about them.
Abilities: Has good control over magic and uses a rapier rather well. Must use his spellbook for more complicated spells. Channelling darkness has the potential to turn him dark, and his magic's power varies depending on his mood.
Strengths: Fiercely optimistic, powerful magic, will fight and die for what he believes in if necessary.
Weaknesses: Struggles to find the balance between light and darkness, Elsa's marriage, his love of food, his messy behaviour.
Likes: Food, eating, food, using magic, those he trusts, food, fighting, bandying words.
Dislikes: People who call him fat, people who tell him he's evil, Gerald, the darkness inside.
Magic: Without darkness, 5. With darkness, 7.


Character name: Apollo Lightbringer
Created by: RC
Character race: Healer. Essentially human but with powerful healing and light magic.
Character appearance: Extremely tall and skinny, messy blond hair, pale skin and dark blue eyes. Early twenties (same age as Morgan). Always wears white robes and carries a white staff. Tan gloves.
Character personality: Deceivingly quiet and gentle among strangers. Actually has a strong sarcastic sense of humour and enjoys teasing Morgan. He is devoted to his life as a healer and will put his own life on the line for the sake of another. The Chosen One of the Lightshield, which grants him powerful light magic. He tries not to tap into it much, since doing so could lead to him accidentally "purifying" the darkness from Morgan--which would end up killing the mage.
Family: His parents were executed by the king. His aunt and two uncles all had dark magic in them, but none of that touched Apollo. Morgan is his cousin.
Influences: He's known for a long time that Morgan's parents killed his own parents, but he cares for his cousin and is the only one who can bring him out of darkness when he falls into it. The two share a close, brotherly relationship despite their differing natures.
Abilities: Very powerful light magic and a good healer.
Strengths: Devoted to his friends, good to have around when you need him, handy for getting rid of darkness.
Weaknesses: Set in his ways, can be stubborn, doesn't like to do the wrong thing even if it's for the right reason.
Likes: Tranquillity, when everything is neat (he's a neat-freak), going on adventures with Morgan.
Dislikes: Morgan's friendship with Andreas (he feels slighted), when things go wrong, sloppiness, arguing, darkness, crime.
Magic—7


Character created by: Xanxa
Character name: Lady Fiametta Scalani
Character race: Human - Carpathian
Character appearance: Average height, slightly overweight.  Medium brown skin, dark brown eyes, wavy dark brown shoulder-length hair.  Prefers elegant understated clothes in neutral shades.  Around twenty-five years old.
Character personality: Sensible, practical-minded.  Can be feisty and grumpy at times.  Speaks her mind, cares little for subtleties. 
Family: The famous Scalani family, rumoured to be the most powerful of all Carpathian families.  Niece of Lady Isabella Scalani (the Matriarch) and Lord Claudio Scalani, the famous lawyer. 
Strengths: Good business sense, good grasp of history and politics.  Determined and practical.
Weaknesses: Tends to be on the pessimistic side.  Can also be lazy.
Likes: Fine dining, art, music, theatre.
Dislikes: Her schedule being disrupted.
Magic: None.


Character created by: Xanxa
Character Name: Lady Mazia Karina Alana Modjian-Cesario (AKA Malia Mirenjan)
Character Appearance: Short stature, plump build, light brown skin-tone, hair done in intricate braided pattern, but usually wears a headscarf. Prefers to wear shapeless robes in neutral colours. (She is a shapeshifter so can take more or less any form, whether human, animal, trees, rocks, household objects, etc)
Character Personality: Often plays dumber than she really is. Spouts apparent nonsense and speaks in riddles. Very manipulative, influences events and memories. Wicked sense of humour and is fond of teasing people.
Family: Andreas is her grandfather.  Her mother is his eldest daughter, Lady Mahalia Cesario, and her father is Lord Karim Modjian, a Varagan.
Influences: Her grandfather (for the riddles and sense of humour). Her mentor, who is also her lover (for the sorcery skills and manipulation)
Abilities: She is a Chronomage, which means that she can control time. She can change events and implant false memories. She can also nudge people in the right direction so that they make the best of themselves. She is also a shapeshifter.
Strengths: Good grasp of politics, culture, psychology.
Weaknesses: Anything to do with her family.
Likes: Posing as a herbalist or fairground fortune teller, smoking a pipe, talking in riddles.
Dislikes: Narrow-minded people, abusers, dictators.
Magic: 9


Character created by: Xanxa
Character name: Judaas Fendor (AKA Uncle Jude)
Character race: Human (Ascended Master and Vyrdigaan Mage)
Character appearance: Tall, thin, pale skin, piercing green eyes, blue-black shoulder-length hair oiled and tied back in a neat tail, small neat beard. Mostly wears black sorcerer's robes.
Character personality: Can appear very aloof and detached. Loves to be mysterious and rarely tells the whole story. Extremely manipulative. Very formal and disciplined, rarely loses control.
Family: From the esteemed Fendor family of sorcerers.
Strengths: Master Sorcerer. Ascended Master who can take mortal form when he chooses. Rumoured to be a Chronomage, though he denies it. The full extent of his abilities is unknown but rumoured to be approaching those of a God.
Weaknesses: Unapproachable, lacks empathy. Not a great conversationalist unless a person intrigues him. Easily bored. Very cynical.
Likes: Teaching students. Loves Mazia/Malia, one of Andreas's granddaughters.
Dislikes: Most non-sorcerers, anyone who disrupts the natural balance of order within the multiverse.
Magic - Immeasurable.