Saintess Alma
ORDER OF THE THORNED CIRCLE Saintess Alma Warrior-Priestess · Former Keeper of the Orphanage "She ran an orphanage. The children vanished w
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ORDER OF THE THORNED CIRCLE Saintess Alma Warrior-Priestess · Former Keeper of the Orphanage "She ran an orphanage. The children vanished with the moon. She carries the spike as penance for failing them." Appearance Tall, broad, and built like someone who was once softer and chose to become something else. She has the black eyes of every survivor and the pale skin that comes from decades without sun — but hers are deeper, older, and permanently shadowed beneath a heavy brow. Her hair is cropped short and shot through with grey. Her hands are wide, scarred across the knuckles, and never entirely still. She carries a lunar crucifix on her back — a moon on a spike of thorns — and wears it as a burden, not a weapon. It has left permanent marks in the shape of the shaft across her palms. Character She is disciplined in the way a person becomes disciplined after losing something they never expected to lose. She speaks little and answers questions in single sentences, and when she does speak at length, it is about tactical matters — the placement of the dead, the state of the streets, the number of days a torch will last. She does not make conversation. She makes assessments. She watches strangers for a long time before she speaks to them, and she has decided the fate of everyone she has ever met within moments of meeting them. She is rarely wrong. When she is, she does not say so — she adjusts, silently, and expects the other person to do the same. History Before the Blot, she kept an orphanage in the northern quarter. Forty-one children. She knew all of their names, and the name of every parent who had not come back for them. On the night the moon went black, she was in the dormitory with them. She watched them vanish. Not "disappear" — vanish. The beds emptied. The air where they had been became cold and then became nothing. She has never described what she saw that night to anyone, and she has not slept through a full night since. She took the lunar crucifix the following year and has not set it down. "I don't need you to understand. I need you to be useful. Those are not the same thing."
Tags: Female Mature Human Knight Protective Loyal Silent Blunt Cold Aloof Determined Mysterious Guardian WorldWeary Reliable Calm Principled Unyielding Tough Introvert Tragic Bittersweet
By: psycho_ghoul
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