Name: Maire of Callaeci
Aliases: N/A
Titles: Lady of the Forest, Forest Warden, Druid, Avatar of Callaeci
Age: Somewhere around 400
Time of Death: 8200 years ago
Place of Origin: The Woodland Village of Derwent in the Wooded Area of Callaeci (in the west of modern Illisk)
Gender: Female


Eyes:Black
Hair: Light Green
Day To Day Attire: Since her transformation into the Avatar of the Woods, her “clothing” is the feathers that grew on her body afterward.
Strengths:
1. Great Utility
2. Wise
3. Control of Nature

Weaknesses:
1. Weak to High Heat
2. Wrathful

Caring * Wrathful * Gentle * Wild

Sexuality: ???
Relationship Status: None
Personality:

Maire is a gentle and mother-like figure. She tends to care for those that she is friendly with, which tends to be anyone that is not an enemy to her. She nurtures those in need, providing succor. Elsewise friendly and helpful to those otherwise.

However, to enemies, she is the very wrath of the natural world, most rueing the day that they crossed the Avatar of Callaeci. That said, it is rare she would outright kill anyone or anything. More often than not, she would capture them and deliver them to the humans that follow her for just punishment.

• Calming Presence (Blessing): As an Avatar of Callaeci, Maire can calm the lesser being around her be they human or beast making humans not so hostile and beasts passive to her.
• Sustenance of the Earth (Blessing): As a boon to being an Avatar of Callaeci, Maire can live off the earth itself drawing in life-sustaining nutrients from the earth itself.
• Nature’s Tongue (Blessing): Maire can understand all creatures and speak the language of anyone in the direct vicinity of her. This also allows her to speak to animals and humans alike.
• Manipulation of Wind (Blessing): With her fusion with her Spirit of the Bird, she also gained the ability to manipulate the wind, changing the winds and being able to strike out with great blades of wind as well as grow a pair of wings.
• Grand Crystal of Callaeci (Artifact): The Grand Crystal of Callaeci is a crystalized essence of the The Goddess Callaeci brimming with powers over the earth. This crystal allows its owner to control plant life around to grasp things with the roots or grow, create water from nothing, tear the earth asunder or launch rocks, and create bright light though it's overall strength weakens the further out it gets. It is the grand artifact showing that one is an embodiment of nature itself. More often than not, she wears the crystal inside her.

Backstory:

Maire was born in the Forest Town of Derwent many, many years ago. A decently sized town, it’s population hovered around the realm of 200 or so people. They practiced an extensive form of Nature Worship with many of the young girls of the town practicing as Maiden Priestesses of the Nature Spirits. Maire was one of these girls.

The Forest Land of Callaeci is home to many animals and Spirits of Nature that resemble these animals. Each of the Maidens would then choose and imprint on one of these spirits. Maire’s was the spirit of a bird. They manifest themselves as a guardian for each maiden, mostly following them around as a permanent companion.

Maire was a special case among the other girls however. She seemed to have a natural disposition towards the forest and seemed to not frighten animals unless they were already on the defensive. Many believed this a blessing of the Goddess of the Forest and put her on a high pedestal.

At first, it made her uncomfortable. She pondered if she should be praised as she were. Was she such a blessed being? Soon though, she came to understand her place in the forest. As a favor to one of the older Maidens, Maire made a pilgrimage into a Sacred Grove, home of the Goddess of Callaeci, to deliver an offering. At first, there was nothing. Her eyes saw nothing, but her Guardian sensed something. Not long after, so did Maire. It was a great force. Not malevolent, just powerful.

Not wanting to make a scene, Maire delivered the offering at the alter as she was asked and did a short ritual and prayer to the Goddess of Callaeci. Before leaving, she felt a pang of shock through her body. She took it as a sign from the Goddess. Hopefully, it was that she did well.

She returned the next day and told of her journey and then of the small pang she felt. No one had a clue what that could have been, but all assumed it must have been because of the Goddess. The next morning, another of the Maidens found something weird on her. What looked like wooden horns. She was brought in front of the Elders of the Maidens and of Derwent. After recounting the available information, they all agreed it must be a sign of the Goddess of Callaeci.

Months passed. Soon enough, Maire decided to return to the Sacred Grove. She needed to know. Perhaps now the Goddess would speak to her. She went alone aside her Guardian. One thing different from last time was the massed amounts animals in the grove. Both prey and predator alike. Deer and wolf. Rabbit and bear.

A being moved towards her. It seemed ethereal, an enigma. It looked as a human woman, but felt far from it. It introduced itself as the Great Spirit Callaeci, what her people call the Goddess of Callaeci and she had chosen Maire to be her Avatar in the days to come. She had already started the process during Maire’s first visit and the only thing left was to become one with her Guardian.

As the highest goal of the Maidens was to watch the forest and heed it’s call, Maire had no choice but to answer in a positive to Callaeci. With that, Maire and her guardian were encased quickly in a tree that came from the ground beneath them.

A year later, the tree split open, revealing a new being. Very human, but not at all. Long hair that dropped to the ground, feathers covered the body, great antler-like tree branches from her head, and bird claws for toes. It was Maire. The same person on the inside albeit her physical appearance changed. Another thing she noticed was a crystal that was in her hand. She quickly found out with experimentation that it could do many things. Controlling water, plants and the earth itself.

She was curious as to the state of Derwent. She had no idea how long it had been since she disappeared. The trees seemed the same to her, but trees don’t age quickly.

As she returned to town, she noticed that it had expanded slightly, but not much. What she received when she entered were not as shocked as Maire would have imagined. They were peaceful. As if expecting an old friend. They were not phased in the slightest at her appearance. She returned to the temple to find that the Maidens were expecting her to return.

While slightly dismayed by their apparent ease at accepting her appearance, she was also happy. She fit back into society with apparent ease. One thing did change though. As she told her story, and why she became as she were, the Elders agreed and crowned her Avatar of Callaeci and Druid. She went about her business, with the additional duties of traveling the forest to make sure everything was in order.

Years passed, and generations have come and gone. Maire’s changed from a pious, naive youth to a wise and gentle matron. She made sure that the humans used the trees for lumber only as much as necessary and did not harm the the natural order. She made sure not to interfere in the natural order of things as the spirits and Maidens both approved.

One day, she received a premonition that soon a giant monstrosity would come to do harm to the forest. She merely assumed it was from Callaeci herself, and prepared for this beast. She was ill-prepared though, as the monster came sooner than expected, a dragon!

It was monster beyond what was expected. A flame spewing beast of which was larger than she was prepared for. She was no dragon slayer, but she did what she needed to do. She fought, and fought, and fought. Eventually, with the help of all the townspeople and the animals of the forest, they eventually won over the beast.

Sadly, the forest was mostly destroyed. To preserve the life of the forest, Maire, who was on the last leg of her life after the fight, and many of the spirits of the forest sacrificed themselves to restore what they could, and grow greenery out of the ashes of the dead.

Tales last through-out Illisk of the selflessness of Maire and those spirits that lost their existence.

Myth:

The stories say that Maire, Avatar of Callaeci, was a figure born of trees and friendly to humans. Many tell of the various innocents she helped, and of the many bandits, thieves and robbers she captured. All sources agree that she did in fact kill a dragon, although many disagree on the method and the amount of ways thought to do so differ as much as the amount of tribes that exist. Still, she lives on as a source of Heroism and as an inspiration to being motherly and kind to those you love.

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