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Thalia/Indigo (Minoan)

• Assassin Martial Arts
• Necromancer Curses
• Special Skill Choice: Whirlwind
• Special Skill Choice:  Evade
• Merc/Familiar: The Red Bull (mediation/vigor combined aura/switchable with fanaticism)(stealth)
• Weapon/Focus:  Belt
• Weapon/Focus:  Chain and Blade (a sacred Kamasugari-like weapon dedicated to Ceres).
• For more details see ianthe001.htm

Her story:

I was amazed to wake up and find myself facing giants.  I feared them not, after all, I was armed and in the midst of a great temple.

Well,  I had been.  Armed and in the midst of a great temple. We had gone to Thalia from Minos to investigate magical rumors of danger and deadly fire.  My parents and I had travelled as those of the blue lodge often do, under the cover of our other skills, my mother as a priestess, my father as a scholar and I as a bull rider for the festival.

I was in the temple of Ceres, waiting on my mother when a great magic broke (the volcanic explosion that destroyed Thera).  My mother cast a spell of safety around me and time stopped in a bubble.  I had no idea that the spell would last for over three thousand years ...

The things I've learned.  Now, instead of thinking of myself as tall, and those taller than me as giants, I've learned that I am considered slender and relatively short by these people.  They no longer ride the bulls (except in something called "rodeo" -- which is definitely not sacred to Ceres!), and the secret of planting and harvesting grain is wide spread.

My tale includes how I found the sacred chain and sickle that I use in combat, how I pulled the fiery red bull from the sea, gaining my rank and my belt as a master bull rider and the history of the blue lodge which spans the worlds.

My belt absorbs physical damage and turns it into healing power and magical energy, and it resists magical attacks of all kinds.  It gives me great strength and power and supports my leaping.  The chain and sickle are strong weapons at both long and short range and the red bull is a friend I can ride and an ally who fights by my side at need.

I miss my parents and people, but am glad to know that they made it safely back to the blue lodge in spite of world rending catastrophe and that my mother's blessing is why the Rukh and the Lightwalker found me and brought me in.  They care for me as a ward, and in their house I find peace with my memories.

cf A Continental Visit and City of Glass