The Chained One
Paladin of the Lode Octavia Spillbed
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.As the youngest daughter born into Naiiri's Lode, Octavia is a beam of light for her village. She is one of the most decorated martial artists of The Lodestone and has always been in tune with the magiks that rule her world. The always cheerful and free spirit that is Octavia also suffers a sad and devastating fate, only a select few are privy to.
Her Style
Octavia's favourite outfit consists of comfortable wide pants, a sporty top and a loosly fitted cloak that is worn either conventionally, or bound to her waist. Depending on the day and task, she puts on accessories like equipment belts, pouch-cloaks and the likes. When she has offical business to attend to however, she always accompanies her usual outfit with her armory, consisting of hidden daggers, a sharp sickle, a gourd, a herbalism kit and her "Journey's Mask".The Journey's Mask
Octavia's prized posession. It is said that this mask was bestowed upon her by Tezcatlipoca, the ruler of The Lodestone themselves. She wears it when she goes hunting, when she meets other nobles, when she walks to the local fisher's market to get todays dinner. It is her connection to the divine ruler, the one that gave her this life of bliss and prosperity. Octavia was once an aspiring warrior, already one of the best in her craft, but once she was recognized by the divine, she was said to have set herself apart of any competition, residing at the peak of warriorship alone.
The mask is a wooden carved artifact with two twisting horns on top. It has golden lines etched throughout the front. A single sigil is imprinted onto the forehead-section of the mask, its origin and translation unknown. What no one sees however, is the multitude of nonsensical runes placed all over the inside of the mask, glowing in various hues, situationally. The mask is sliced up from an altercations Octavia had when she received the artifact about a hundred years ago.
The Fate She Bears
In a scripture locked away far beneath the cliffs she lives above, the fate of the Paladin of the Lode has already been sealed, and it reads the following...The ruler's face is to be awarded to the most promising puppet of The Lodestone. It shall give them might. It shall give them resilience. It shall chain them.
It shall chain them to the fate of the ruler. For the ruler shall claim the puppet as a piece to use in their conquers. It shall stand beside the almighty, slay enemies, armies, gods even. And it shall rest only when the ruler rests, eternally so.
So know this, puppet. When your mask glows in the reflections of the sea that binds the master to these lands, you will answer.
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