Annalise Gray - that screeching druid lady on the Bronze

[TsunamiWombat]

Background: The orphan child of a pair of gardeners killed during the Ponds massacre. Annalisse was more or less raised by the Ponds community without any real guardian. She grew up playing among reeds and scavenging for mushrooms and berries. Always a quiet and isolated child, she grew closer with nature than with people, and preferred quiet study and isolation to discourse. She would not have any actual interaction with the druids of the ponds however until a chance meeting with then Autumnmask Crookjaw, then grounds keeper and head the the circle of the students of the lost oath. Despite being initially suspicious of the old man who claimed to have known her parents, she resisted his attempts to dissuade her from a Druids life due to her immense curiosity and desire to learn.
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Faith: Her mother (or possibly grandmother) was an awoken, and her only remaining link with her parents is her partial memories and recollections of 'The Night Mother', a syncretic heresy of Selune and Shar held by her ancestor distorted by their time in the City of Rings. This is a goddess of secrets and keeping things secret, one who conceals, the knower of all that is forgotten and the helper of those who care to forget things. She is worshipped by whispering secrets at night and making offerings at certain lunar phases.

Annalisse approaches her as a goddess of knowledge, one who knows all forgotten things and can reveal them. And also a goddess of protection, one who can keep her hidden from her enemies. A childhood isolated on the fringes of society has made her deeply suspicious of others, and she prefers to avoid confrontation than engage it head on as a result.
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THE NIGHT MOTHER Alignment: TN Portfolio: The Moon, The Stars, Darkness, Night, navigation, Wanderers , Loss, Forgetfulness, Secrets Domains: Cavern, Darkness, Knowledge, Chaos, Travel, Protection, Illusion

It would be evident to any sufficiently learned Awakened from Faerun that the Night Mother is a syncretic heresy of Selune and Shar, combining both of their features through the lens of local belief. Concerning itself primarily with secrets and secretiveness, it offers protection to those who wish to remain hidden, though in contrast to the Hidden One who asks for pieces of the soul the Night Mother asks for secrets.

It is slightly feminist in leaning, positioning itself as a rival to the worship of The Lady which it posits is nothing more than a pastiche of the Night Mother filtered through a patriarchally favored peerage. It is not a large faith, and in fact may be endemic to a single individual born of a 'native' father and awakened mother...
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She has taken to using the pen-name NightEye to voice, via annonymous graffiti, the things she muses to herself but is fearful of saying out loud due to her caution:

They can be found here: https://www.efupw.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=20812

Most poignantly they outline her belief in the Nightmother and how to worship her, as well as her belief that the Lady in Waiting is a manufactured diety that is essentially a mockery of the Night Mother bereft of 'feminine agency'.

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Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/xEVdsRU

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Front Shot - Ironically I don't think I have any of her without her hood/helmet. She never took either off. Her hair was white and it was that one human female headset with the wavey hair and the long bangs


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Initially, she was meant to be a very low-key and cautious druid who would absolutely not draw attention to herself. Eventually that went out the window as she vented her rage and frustration with the people of the city, who she increasingly began to view as an invasive and overpopulated species.


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[TNDG]

Great character. We didn't play together all that often, but we went out together with a bang. Mecha pilot homies 4 lyfe. See you in Velstra.

[human egg]

I've always loved Annalisse, it pains me we didn't get to RP more. She was wonderful, and I'll miss her so much :(

[Axioein]

Very well done. Bravo.