PCs:The Prophetess

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The Prophetess
(Lily)
Race: Human, Adomkuro
Classes: Cleric, Psion
Most active on server: Underdark
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Age: 29
Deity: Dead Dreamer
Birthplace: Verloghokbol
Residence: None
Affiliations:

Languages: Undercommon

Name

As is common among Adomkuro, the Prophetess has never used her birth name. She has offered several flower-based names when she first began introducing herself to those on the Surface, until she settled on calling herself "The Prophetess."

Prophet has two meanings. First, a prophet is an individual who claims to have been directly contacted by a deity, who speaks for that deity and serves as an intermediary to mortal races. This role is often served by an Avatar, but this carries with it its own risks, as the Avatar must bear a portion of the deity's power, and risks diminishing or weakening the deity should the Avatar be harmed or killed. With that risk is certainty, because the deity's followers can have no doubt that what the Avatar proclaims, is the unequivocal will and teaching of the deity. A prophet is a mortal agent, with mortal weakness and mortal fallibility, prone to misinterpreting the messages they receive from their god or goddess, or twisting that message for their own personal gain.

Second, is someone that foretells the future. Because of the religious connotation, it is often thought that a prophet foretells future events as a result of the divine revelation they receive, in contrast to other methods of foretelling such as Fatespinning or traditional Romini folk practices.

Appearance

The Prophetess has the pale skin and coal-black hair of her Adomkuro kin.

Origins: The Dark City

Origins: The Dead Dreamer

The Prophetess began experiencing the Dreams when she was in her teens, when her psionic talent was first blooming. Most followers of the Dreamer are psions, because their minds are more receptive to the Dreams. The Prophetess found that she could not make the Dreams stop, no matter what she tried. In those days, she was tormented by the Dreams, frightened and sickened by them. She would often wake so nauseated that she began to keep a bowl by the bed. At the same time, she was coming into her own as a psion, and learning what she was capable of and with the power it granted. She discovered that fasting before bed blunted the nausea. In time, the Dreams were a kind of night-time mentor, guiding her in her new power. When she woke, what seemed impossible before was suddenly easier. Problems thought insurmountable by day became obvious in the morning. She came to depend on the Dreams, and even commune with the Dreamer who sent them. She still fasts before sleep, but it is now a spiritual fast, a ritual for opening herself into a willing vessel. She has learned that the closer to the Surface she goes, the less the Dreams come. It is very unpleasant for her.