User:Aliceandsven/Heart of Ultimecia

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Affiliation	Not specified
Type	Human (boss)
Profession	Ritualist
Level(s)	20
Campaign	Core

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You ought to be happy and live every moment you have left with joy, for I hear the wails of those you ended; they are not ever going to be appeased, and when Grenth comes for you, you will never be happy again. They will not let you be. In fact, one of them is beside me right now, and it makes her more happy than anything to see you so frightened.

— Name Unknown

An extraordinarily powerful and ancient ritualist who's body has been raised and granted half-immortality (free of aging) by the extra-dimensional deity Aliceandsven. The only information of her origins come from what she's spoken of herself. She claims to be from Elona, born in an age nearing the start of all written history. She has served her gracious master in the affairs of Nightfall and the rising of the Destroyers, but in between and afterwords she follows her own path, seeking only one thing; the burial site of her lost love.

History[edit]

A mad war sparked by a lunatic queen in the earliest ages of Elonian history tore apart her village and the settlements around it. She was captured by the queen's servants and painfully separated from her husband after a desperate struggle to escape. Dragged away in rope and chains, she watched her birth-land burn to ashes behind her.

In imprisonment, she met a blind old sage who kept a secret magic, and claimed it was the key to rebuilding the shattered pieces of a broken life. It was the primal origin of Elonian Ritualism. The power to peer into the after-plane, barter with spirits and call them to perform miraculous - or devastating - tasks.

The girl and the sage managed to stay together and wound up working as slaves in the Queen's empire. Quietly, the sage taught her ritualism at every opportunity. The maelstrom of her emotions fueled her growth as a sorceress, and it was not long before she mastered her Third Sight. The sage had one final gift to bestow upon the girl, but it came with a heavy price. A crystal that held intense power, channeled into it by the sage after countless days of meditation. The crystal would return vitality to anyone, or immediately expel all of it from someone and held just one use, but the sage demanded that the girl offer her eyesight in exchange. Feeling confident in her Third Sight, she blinded herself and took the crystal, escaping from her slave quarters on the night of a new moon and making it out of the empire safely.

But now she had no where to go. In a foreign land, she had no hope of finding her way back to her own lands. She had no hope of reuniting with her husband. She had all the power she could imagine, but no hope. She wandered for days, recalling happy memories of her life before the war, for she knew she would die. Her Third Sight was fading due to exhaustion, leaving her fully blind. Finally, she succumbed to dehydration, collapsed and expired. Her anguished soul guarded her body, protecting the gift she had died for, until the day she was raised, ages later.

Since her revitalizing, she's become calculating, thoughtful and ever more powerful in the ritualistic arts. Her Third Sight is now crystal clear, even greater than eye-sight. She has an army of souls who have gravitated to her and follow her, acting as guardians or watchmen. Aside from this and her sorcery, she has other terrifying abilities that she employs to strike fear into her enemies.

After meeting the Sin Harvester, the ritualist found great happiness on the cold mountains, surrounded by the spirits of nature pure and beautiful. When her endless search for her husband becomes too much to bear, she retreats into the mountains to allow her emotions to flow freely so that she may regain spiritual composure.