PCs:Grace Dane-Unuldur
Pre-Mikona
Grace was born to Martin and Esme Dane, the second of their daughters, with first being Agatha. Martin was an M’Chekian soldier and an Equalizer. He was injured in the war and was left with a limp and some emotional damage that caused him to pull away from Grace when she was still small. Esme was a Romini tailor who left the nomadic life and settled down with Martin. She is quite beautiful and more like Grace in temperament. She plays music, sings, dances and still can laugh at the world around her. When Martin was injured, she tried her best to bring him out of his depression but has been unable to do so completely.
Agatha was Grace’s idol growing up and the two were as thick as thieves until their father returned from the war, a changed man. Agatha followed the path of her father and became an Equalizer and moved away to Mikona, leaving Grace back in Dunster Commons to finish growing up.
She was a pretty girl and always well liked. She was learning the tailoring trade from her mother and she had a gift of music and painting. She had a relatively normal upbringing despite the war raging to the north. It was always a part of her life, whether it was flirting with the soldiers that passed through to the keep or helping care for the neighbor’s children when their fathers and mothers would not return from the front.
She met a boy from Southill named Kip Gentry and was to marry him and likely settle into a life of mediocrity and oodles of babies. Advised by her father, she took a trip to Mikona to speak with Agatha before the wedding. She arrived in the big city still quite naïve, and poor Agatha had the task of informing her that her future husband was a two-timing dog and that there would be no wedding. Stunned and saddened, she stayed on with her sister in Mikona until she felt she could go home to face it.
Moving to the city
Of course, fate often changes the path that one has set out upon and Grace grew to enjoy Mikona and met a lot of wonderful people, some not so wonderful. She met a bard, Miirik Darastrix, who took a special interest in her. Agatha was obviously concerned, as the man was very forward and asked her friend Morran to watch over her little sister.
Morran was unlike any man she had met before and they became fast friends. Of course, she did not realize he was watching out for her or the feisty little redheaded Dane would likely have sent him packing. In time, they grew close and eventually fell in love. It was during this time that Grace learned much of Mikona. Morran would take her places, challenged her, and she would always handle whatever was asked of her with style. He would teach her a lot during this time before they married.
She met a few other friends during this time, Harbesh, Zacharia, Arc, Miette, Llyshra, Ayren, Nikki, Raen and more of Agatha’s friends soon became her friends. She learned a lot from her sister during this time about politics and the Balance of Mikon and about life in the city. It was also during this time that she was often attacked by the Malekites, especially Isamu, and her sister was often injured in the war and gone for weeks at a time, causing her great distress.
Things got darker for Grace when her sister left town, after a rather savage attack by the T’Nanshi in Mikona, followed shortly by her parents who also headed for Kurathene. She began to distrust many around her and also began to actively involve herself with politics and with groups like the Valokians and with Houseman Rose and his Golden Path. Her view of the city and the world had forever changed.
Realizing her gift
Her friend Miette helped her realize that she had been born with another gift. She had a gift for the arcane and Miette became her mentor, as well as a dear friend. As Grace grew in power, she met another who would become a guide in her studies, Damar Ogdem. At first, she thought he was rather stuffy, but Agatha always told Grace she could trust him, so Grace took it upon herself to learn what she could from him. Her power as a sorceress has grown and she joined the Gold Order of the Sand and was made the Senior Magus of Mikona and now holds a seat on the High Mage Council.