Sessy

Legend

“Never has anyone else shared her childhood talent as a focal point and embodiment of her female siblings studies and practice. When they were slain by the insane mob, their Spirits took shelter within her and infused her with tremendeous power.”

Skjald Sejrik

 

History

Fourth Age

Born as the 8th daughter of a Clerk in the Dawn Awakeners, she had plenty of time and reason to study the art of Healing even as a young child. And somehow, it was a far more easy and rapid thing for her than for all her elder sisters. The more they worked to stay ahead of her, the more she advanced ahead of them. It was almost as if she were the embodiment of their combined work, and they began to dislike her for it.

Her parents, on the other hand, were delighted as they advanced through society ranks in their order due to this wonder. As they climbed the social ladder, her sisters finally began to understand and appreciate exactly what the eight daughters of Stjernbjerg were. So they began to care about and work with their little sister, making the leaders of their order take special interest in the girls. It was a life of hard studies, but a joyous one, as progress paid itself with ever more attention and luxury.

Skjald Vinotis

 

In 1209, as her elder sister was preparing for the adulthood ritual, the Shaman noticed two small red dots at her neck. Seemingly a bite mark had infested, and he ordered an old Healer to examine it. The old crone saw the marks and stammered, “Vampires, Vampires has bitten this child.” A quick examination of a few other sisters revealed the same, yet almost healed, marks. Then all hell broke loose, and some malicious rascals, envious of the Stjernbjergs rise to power and glory, saw their chance to make room for new ones in the hall.

So, they rallied around the claim that the children had all been bitten by a vampire, and a hunt for all eight began. Rianna Their mother was with Sessy out of town that day. Upon returning home, as they climbed over the nearby hillcrest, they saw townsfolk assembled down outside the city. Seemingly about to burn people at the stake, as some fires were being lit.

And then pain struck Sessy as she could feel flames lick and tear at her sisters and father. Screaming in agony, she fainted. When she woke, she was among the cargo in a wagon. Pulled by her mother, she scrambled through some unknown wood. A faint whisper made her mother halt and attend to her: “Finally awaken my child!? All but you are dead, and we are in Etain now. I curse Allele, but our bane the more!”. With a faint “Allele?” Sessy fainted again.

Skjald El Mary

 

Recovery from the massive system shock was slow, so they stayed at an inn in the midsized trade town of Wienerburg. Sessy was mostly in her room, and her mother worked as a Dyer to hide their identity. But from time to time, the recovering Sessy was outside at the markets, enjoying the breath of life and the pulsing of people.

It was one of those days, sitting outside with her mother, studying some nearby young hotheads in wrestling. When one of the bystanders began to stare at them, he pulled his comrades sleeves, and they strode to the table, “Lady Rianna, and should I say Lady Sessy? So we finally found  you.” Rianna jumped up and threw her honey brew in the face of the speaker, screaming, “Murderer, you lot killed my children and my husband.” Then she silenced, staring down at her belly, where one of the other men had stabbed her with his rapier.

Sessy felt some bond disconnect from her as her mother looked at her and died smiling with a breathless whisper, “Take revenge, child, take…”. Then, suddenly, she felt the full force of her siblings within her, and in one single outburst of reversed healing, she took what was not hers. The four men closed on her to the screams of the nearby guests, witnessing Rianna’s murder. Weapons drawn and licking lips for the bounty in young flesh ahead, and eventually gold coins coming their way, withered moaning until they looked a thousand years old.

Then they exploded in a poof of dried dust, covering a muscular young warrior whose blade would have otherwise done the job of cutting them in half. “Oh, I see. You can handle things yourself. Well, I’m Amras. And sorry for your loss  there, he said, gesturing at Rianna’s corpse.
I’ve heard some claim that Amras visited Sessy often in the weeks that passed and that he travelled with her out the northern gate when she left for Khemâl. But I have no reports of them going there, unless they were involved in the rather large number of people becoming sick and dying in Khemâl in the winter of 1210.

Amras are first seen again in the summer of 1211 in Port Calbina in Snaw where he sailed to Ye Olde Zephyrs in Zapri.

Skjald Sejrik

 

She told me she fought down the urge to utterly destroy those ignorant and malicious people behind her family’s deaths. And that when she parted with Amras in the autumn of 2011, she left for Hokul up at Utari island. She did this due to some rumours she had heard in Khemâl regarding a Moss'ari tribe whose children seemingly had the same ability as her flocks.

But after 2 years of searching up there, she gave up and travelled to Ashenhall in Tornix. To spend some time with the one she had heard was the eldest among the living, if one could call Zizu that. She stayed there for 2 years, and residents say she became one of the most frequent users, if not the most used, of that of The Eight Mirrors Zizu owned. Some even said she fell in love with a God at the Astral and eventually bore fruit of their love.

In 1216, she left for Zapri to discuss something, and possibly study with Kanziganthir. She stayed there until 1218 and is known as one of the very few who studied under him, but her situation was also extraordinare. But in 1219 Polski came by Ye Olde Zephyrs” to talk with her. He had heard that she once looked for a tribe of Moss'ari and wanted to know if she found it or what she knew. Seemingly, he knew something she didn’t, because the day after they left for Grebi. Leaving her most precious in Kanziganthir and Ye Olde Zephyrs trusted care.

Skjald Ulrich

 

I think not Sessy and Polski found their Moss’ari back in 1218, but in 1219 Sessy, Polski, and Wilson came to visit Nahita at the Oaina Temple. They had been searching for something for a while and had come across several interesting myths, legends, rumours, and stories regarding monsters and fallen beasts. And they wanted to do The Hunt together as they all liked to rid the world of those things and enjoyed the test of skill.

Polski left the group again in 1220, and in 1223, 2 years after they met Themac, Wilson and Nahita left The Rim. but Sessy stayed, as she wanted to find that creature.

Skjald Sigurd

 

Not even Themac has stayed 10 full years in a row at The Rim, but so did Sessy. She even met some Ye'Til when she was on her way back across The Rim. Yes, you heard me right, comrade; she has seemingly been south of that incredibly sharp edge. Beyond lay a world as large as ours, filled with Human variants and a myriad of other races.

She told me that the only reason—no,  in fact, there were two—was why the dozen or so Ye’Til didn’t kill her. Was the fact that she was on her way back, seemingly confusing them quite a lot. And she had an Aquerian egg, which she bartered passage with. Some of the things she told us about Aquerian and Ye’Til have been key to our victory.

Skjald Yell'a'Beard

 

1234, she travelled towards her old home. There was something about that old episode when a child had begun boiling in her head. It was about those two small stings; she remembers having them as well, and something in-a-haze about a beaked human leaning in over her, and then it stung. A search eventually led her to Academy of Ri where she studied until 1240.

Seemingly discovering something in their ancient scrolls and books, she left for Allumnata Towers in northern Fogwald. Reaching it, she met with her old friend Nahita, to whom she revealed that some Moss’ari supposedly lived in a mixed-population tribe at Lake Komla in Ladris. Nahita left the next morning.

Sessy spent only a month at the Allumnata Towers as she seemingly found what she searched for. Some of the Gyron Lords have told me that she had a long talk with Wilson. And that same evening they left together; they left in the evening? Unheard haste, even for rash people like those on the Hunt.

Some who went through the various materials she read there hinted that she might have come to the conclusion that it was Allele Diploid who was responsible for her family’s demise. And I wanted to find the one behind the order given.

Skjald Ulrich

 

Somehow I think she was unsuccessful, as no Skjald has any record of Allele Diploid losing any top figure or hiring a new one. But, after all, they are extremely secretive. What is known, though, is that since 1241, a larger than normal number of vampires and victims have been discovered and killed. But I honestly think it is more Vornir work than a single Healer—her power is not challenged at all.

In 1253, she was at the court of the king Krove Antu II to investigate secret whispers concerning the king’s son Imgal Mir. The king sadly died in a hunting accident, so she saw the child king Imgal Mir I being crowned and the former king’s counsellor Zyr 'O' Loth brutally removed from his position, and then the child was shielded off from outsiders. Thus unable to get close to the child, Sessy instead talked with Zyr ‘O’ Loth, and that evening, as he revealed plans to enter the Gyron Lords, he wanted to become one of the Monster Hunters. She revealed to him that she had been south of The Rim, where she saw what we call monsters act as societies and creatures beyond imagination—the most terrifying and brutal creatures she encountered. Eager to see those, Zyr ‘O’ Loth persuaded her to show him the passage beyond the Rim. So, she went with him to the Gyron Lords and later to the Rim.

Skjald Vinotis

 

Organisation

At the time of the The Great Invasion Sessy was at Pulvas in Esly. She was sitting outside an inn when suddenly a blood-soaked Lionel came running through the gates, yelling to the guards at duty, “The Realm are under attack, Kinoblin are killing and murdering everyone…” Then he stopped and looked up, stunned by the squeaking and flapping Aquerian flying into town, and was not in doubt. “Shoot them, shoot them, dammit,” he screamed at the guards who hesitated.

I saw him and had an idea of who he might be, as if fate had destined them both there. The first Aquerians to dive to the streets were the same clan she met and robbed so many years ago south of The Rim. Knowing doom and death when she saw it, she unleashed whatever she had of physical hostile Magic and reverse healing. Allowing Lionel to slash, cut, stab, crush, bash, gut, and bite the halfway surprised and stunned Ostrich like foes.

I heard the shouting and let Ale be Ale. I ran outside and saw Aquerians land and die or topple over due to their wounds. I joined the fray, and even though a Skjald shouldn’t take credit for worldly matters, I think it’s safe to say that the three of us saved the citizens of Pulvas. Making that town one of the first sites in The Realm that withstood the initial of The Great Invasion.

In a few months, so many had flocked to our banner that we even withstood later waves of invaders with towering Mammutan. And from there began the cleansing of West Fjella.

Skjald El Mary

 

Special

Such potential… almost a Contender… yet a mere mortal…

Known her ways… in The Realm…. across The Rim… and many a Astral Site/Gates…

Only Outlands… and a mans heart… are untrotten.

Skjald Kazumix