Born Klaudios Athanatos, the Ichor-Blessed Master of the Stellar Domain was once mere mortal, just like most. Klaudios was the younger of two brothers, the second son of a pair of merchants. His family was quite well-off, not to the extent of nobles and royals, no, but certainly a cut above peasants and laborers. As a result, he had a good childhood, with proper education and upbringing, something that was taken for granted by most. He had never been orphaned or subjected to any traumatic experience. Really, there was nothing to write home about his early years, but that in itself was notable in its own.

Naturally, his parents expected for him and his older brother to continue the family business once they came of age, however, unlike his economically talented and thrifty older brother, Klaudios' passions lie elsewhere. As far back as he could remember, Klaudios always had his gaze set above, toward the infinite stars dotting the boundless aether. While his parents and brother were busy counting coins, he engrossed himself in observing celestial bodies, while they tried to find the most profitable venture, Klaudios attempted to divine the meaning of each constellation. The rest of his family might be satisfied with earthly endeavors, but not Klaudios, the aether was where he belonged.

As a result, after his parents passed away peacefully in their old age, Klaudios' brother was the one who continued the family business, he and his own family now that he had a wife and children of his own. Meanwhile, the younger Athanatos still had his neck craned upwards. Ever the estranged uncle, his only companion was an orphan dragonkin girl named 'Frederika' that he hired as his assistant as his limited mortal body still required to be maintained. Due to the regular contact, they became a surrogate family of sorts.

Over the decades, now well into his 50s, Klaudios' ambition only grew, he was no longer satisfied with being a mere human, confined within a flesh vessel full of limitations, if only he could become one with the stars...

One day, in a stroke of fate, his prayers were answered as a piece of a falling meteor - no bigger than a gold coin - fell right into him. The celestial projectile smashed through the telescope Klaudios was using, then continued all the way through into his eye, embedded deep in his skull. By all logical explanations, he should be dead, severed from his mortal coil, and to be fair, it could be true depending on how one looked at what happened next. At that moment, Klaudios Athanatos was no more... and in his place, Almagest the Ichor-Blessed, Master of the Domain of the Stars. While the "newborn" entity shared Klaudios' memories, experience, and parts of his personality, it'd not be erroneous to say that they were an entirely new person.

As Almagest, he knew what must be done, the path to true divinity was possible, he must gather more ichor to one day ascend as the One and True God, and through this Divine Ascension, the very stars would be within his grasp...

But he couldn't do so alone, a journey must be made, trials and tribulations to conquer, allies to gather, and there was no better place to start than Oratorio, the Fortress-City That Watches the Abyss.

It was a star that once ended the Thousand-Faced God, thus twas' only fitting that a star would ascend as the next.

Unlike her employer - and eventually, surrogate father - Klaudios, Frederika had no parents, no childhood, and no education. As far back as the Black Dragonkin could remember, she was a street urchin who had to fend off hunger, cold, and rival kids all on her own, scavenging or stealing just to survive day to day. That was until she decided to infiltrate a random house to steal a basket of bread, only to find out that it was occupied by a single resident, a human man... and he was slumped over next to a telescope, barely even breathing.

Taken by morbid curiosity, Frederika went to check on the man, finding out that he was gravely ill. The dragonkin urchin was no doctor, but going from personal experience, she knew what a fever was. Curiosity turned to pity as she decided to take care of the man, while also making herself at home in his house of course, hey, take it as payment for her services.

Once he got better, the man introduced himself as Klaudios Athanatos, Astrologist, and much to Frederika's surprise, he decided to 'hire' her as his 'assistant', whatever that was, but if that meant free food and lodging? She'd be a fool to refuse.

Days turned to months, months to years, and years to decades as the once 8-year-old dragonkin blossomed into a bright young woman, and it was all thanks to Master Klaudios or Almagest as he called himself nowadays, but she wasn't surprised at the development, he was nothing but eccentric after all.

Nevertheless, whatever Master Almagest wished, Divine Ascension or whatever, she'd make it into a reality or die trying.

❖ Undying Loyalty - Incredibly resistant to mind-control effects that'll force her to attack her own allies.

STR - I | END - I | DEX - I | AGI - I | MAG - I

"Where I came from? My past? My, such a large question. Do you want the long or short of it -no, had you a tail like mine, I'm sure it would be wagging. You want the long version!

Short version it is then.

I hail from a place a long ways away, suffice it to say. A place of restless haunts and roiling elementals. It sounds awful, and truly it was -until I saved our wonderful city from its worst! There were others involved, of course, but I didn't earn my title of Goddess for paltry contributions, I'll have you know. Oh how they loved me. And I wouldn't have done otherwise. The greatest city one could know.

Our poor city was once subject to all manner of lowly creatures stalking the nights and throwing catastrophe about. A horrid mage had cursed the land in his dying breath, and it had attracted every distasteful thing from around the region. We suffered it for a time, but in the meanwhile, I and my fellow priests and priestesses hatched a plan to shelter the city. Removing the curse was beyond our abilities, unfortunately. That wretched mage was a powerful one, to be sure. No luck in that regard.

With our exceptional team, though, we managed to forge a shield that kept out the worst of the creepies outside. No more did we have to keep vigilant for murderous shadows and blazing spirits. The odd goblin snuck inside here and there, but our nightmarish days were behind us then! Due in no small part to yours truly, my dear. Heaps of praise were levied upon me, and I spent my hard-earned effort in the best way possible, then:

Doing nothing!

Even as do-nothing bum, my reputation persisted alongside the persistence of the shield. I cannot begin to describe the amount of free food I was privilege to. Ah, and all of the men who threw themselves at me! All gone now... Poor me, living now in this squalor... it's a tragedy you cannot imagine! But, it's what I have to live with if I'm to see my true potential be revealed.

You see, not long ago, a strange thing happened while I was resting in the gardens of our temple. This light... immaculate as can be, like the rays you see twinkling down within the break of a raincloud, rippled above the temple. I was mesmerized at its beauty. It truly is difficult to describe. I was charmed, and felt compelled to reach out when it had surged into a brightness that looked as if solid to the touch. And then... I felt it. The light was of a warmth alien to this world, and it touched me as much as I had touched it... No, more than that. It seeped into my very being.

...

I've blathered on, haven't I? I promised a short version, my bad! Anyways -after that day, I felt a singular compulsion to venture here, oh so far from my people. My staunchest supporter came with me -my daughter you see- and therein we have set upon making this divine spark in me shine. I'll be a goddess someday soon, just you wait. I already have the spirit for it, after all!"