Ruthan o Paramythás Elven Human
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Personality: Her most prominent and wholly obvious trait is wanderlust. She cares not of her destination just as long as it holds mystery or opportunity. The wood thrown to the fire is the fact that her father, the Ice King Vasilias, strives to contain Ruthan. She escaped her chamber often enough that guards were stationed all around the room and she still manages to stroll out. Ruthan commonly wonders what adventures and people lie on the outside of her noble's prison. More often than not she wonders if she would be able to end her loneliness by leaving and never returning.
Ruthan's only companion in life is her servant Automaton named R3G1N-LD, or Reginald for Common Speech. Since he was delivered to her as a gift they were inseparable. Even still they chatter on as if friends since birth. Since Reginald is so helpful to her, she often finds herself asking him to help her escape and lie to her father when he asks if he did so. When she was little she would ask this constantly.
Another all too obvious trait is her abhorrence of her family, excluding only her mother. The sole ruler of this area of her hatred is her father, the product of most of her emotional turmoil. He believes that his only daughter should never be seen by others unless there is the occurrence of a feast or ball, where she must attend. There is also the fact that he will never let her nurture her talent for magic which presented itself at an early age. Vasilias thinks that only his sons may be able to serve the kingdom, one of the many reasons why Ruthan despises them as well. All she is allowed to do is sit in her room and comb her hair.
The severe and utter boredom that this produces is why she is always found outside her room attempting to steal a book from the royal library. A few bits of magical lore managed to enter her chambers where she hid them in the walls. She has memorized every paragraph from cover to cover, even learning bits and pieces of water magic from doing so. One of her favorites of her meek collection is a book on Volshebniyi Skazki, a piece of history and philosophy attempting to make a single dent in the explanation of this incredibly confusing people, one of the reasons why she can be a little off at times. She also has a few volumes of the History of the Elfennol, curious of her own foreign heritage. The last of her collection that is not a simple training regiment is about Amras Annare itself where she learned about the incredible institution of Akomikai. The first day she read on this she was interrupted by the many loud stomps of her four horrible brothers.
Ruthan's brothers are not hated by most of the the castle-members without good reason. Aside from their constant pranks when at home, they are the most insufferable bunch to have ever entered their walls. And the King simply ignores all of the charges and commends them for any halfway decent act they have done! And instead of wasting time by listing all of the tiny wrongdoings they have made, which are more than most scholars can attempt to count, I will say some of their worst acts to shed light on the situation. They once poisoned the castle's water supply with laxatives for a week before they were eventually caught, that being after Vasilias quarantined several areas of the castle attempting to quell a plague. They also combined their magic to to knock over a tower on the west wing of the manor, nearly killing many residents there. As well as a personal attack on their sister where they shaved her head, stripped and tarred her before tossing her into the mud pit with the hogs. They cursed at her, calling her a pig-loving hag more than once. Then they actually set her on fire in a crowd where luckily she was doused before she could obtain any scars that the court physician couldn't help with.
History: The happiest years of Ruthan's life was her early childhood. Those were the only years that she was able to see her mother, Xotchitl. Ruthan's earliest memories were of how sweet she was and apparently how just the Vasilias used to be. That was when everyone seemed partially kind. Her mother would always seem to bring out the best in people, no matter how low their spirits were. But then that all ended when Xotchitl left.
Ruthan's parents only married to seal a treaty between the Frost Duchy and the Crewr Dwar, back when Vasilias was a Prince and Xotchitl a Princess. There were many years of that before Ruthan was even born. Eventually, the constant lack of concern from the King sent the Queen into the arms of another man. Xotchitl was too brokenhearted about this one act to keep it secret and confessed, but the honesty was not much of a relief to the Ice King. He had the man executed and banished his wife to her lands, considering that recompense for her honesty. Ruthan was always told that her mother died, even when she had a half-repressed memory of Xotchitl being pushed away from her by the guards. It was a very little memory that she naively thought was untrue. However, she recently found evidence otherwise in the records held at the royal library.
The wanderlust had always driven her to leave, it was a singular desire that lingered in her mind and compelled her, gnawing at her will with every related thought. But this was the last straw for her. She was sixteen years of age, and she took what books she had and decided to perform one last escape act. Reginald took her to the exit of the castle and was told to leave and find a safe place and never return, and to never let anyone know that he was ever a royal servant or knew of anyone residing there. Then she took her last few steps through castle grounds to Akomikai with enough gold in pocket to take her six year attendance there under the name of
Lamia in Rigas.
Equipment: The equipment she carries in her picture is what she carries now in life. It was given to her by her teacher of Frost at Akomikai, who became her favorite and most helpful teacher as she was his favorite and most enlightened student. What is not seen in the photo is her long, metal waistcoat hanging from under her dress. She often uses a hood to hide the back of her head and sleeves to keep her unnoticed in a crowd.
Ruthan also caries a token given to her from her mother before she left. It is made of Ascentian crystals to amplify magic and placed in a brace to be wrapped around her wrist. It was the only thing that helped her when she first started learning real magic.
Theme Song: Everybody's Fool
Other: Ruthan has a crippling fear of rabbits. Being in the presence of one causes her to breathe rapidly and eventually faint. The trauma that causes this is unknown.
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