Nevelle Lumina, Light-Infused Child of Twilight

Nevelle Lumina, Light-Infused Child of Twilight
Race: Twili.
Age: Apparent Early Twenties.
Gender: Female.
Power: **
Wisdom: ****
Courage: ****
Elemental Affinity:

Home
Nevelle was born in the Twilight Realm, but was somehow flung between dimensions and now lives in Lon Lon Ranch.

Light Magic
- Gift of Light: Nevelle has a unique mutation, curse, or other, unknown attribute to her that left her infused with Light from birth. Unlike most Twili, this renders her able to learn Light-based magic- and easily, at that.
- Wall of Hazards {Light Variant}: A simple spell that has Nevelle designate a line or circle, along which a wall of pure light springs up to protect her and anything with her.

Shadow Magic
- Heart of Darkness: What makes Nevelle even more unique is that her affinity towards Light exists in perfect unison with the normal Twili affinity towards Shadow, and she learns Shadow-based magic just as easily.
- Shadow Ball {No Instrument Required}: The simplest form of Shadow magic, which has Nevelle simply throw a projectile of pure darkness at her foe.

Miscellaneous
- Foreign Language {Twilit}: Born and raised in the Twilight Realm, Nevelle speaks Twilit as her native tongue. She has acquired a decent mastery of the Hylian Tongue, but it is obviously a foreign language to her.

Inventory
- Shield Ring: A magically enchanted ring that forms a shield for Nevelle to protect herself with on command. Though little more than a flimsy-looking disk of light, it is actually very sturdy.


Appearance
As a Twili woman, Nevelle looks both startlingly different from and uncannily similar to the average Hylian woman. Six feet tall and with a slender, frail build, she is elegant, and her facial features and sharply pointed ears are no different from a Hylian’s. Even her blazing ginger hair is among her more ‘normal’ features, with the only strange thing about it being its immense length as it trails down to her hips.

However, that is where all normalcy and similarity to a Hylian lady begins and ends, for Nevelle’s shadowy heritage is plain to see and impossible to hide. The majority of Nevelle’s skin is stark white, with bluish-green shadows, but certain patches are different. Notably, her forehead is black, leaving the white skin on her face in a heart shape. Complemented by her brightly coloured, orange eyes and her violet lips, this can make it unpleasant to look at for long. Similarly, her left arm is entirely black, as are the fingertips of her right hand and her legs from the knees down. The black skin on her left arm is broken up, however, by inorganic-seeming lines resembling runes, which are normally a dark greenish blue but glow brightly when she casts magic.

Nevelle wears a one-piece, sleeveless and strapless dress split up her right leg, reaching down to her ankles and bearing green-blue lines, much like those on her arm, along the hems and waist. Her white right arm is covered with a detached sleeve, black in colour as well and with the same lines along either hem. On her left hand, she wears a small golden ring inlaid with a kite shield-shaped sapphire. Finally, she often wears a completely black, hooded mantle that hides most of her form from sight.

Nevelle’s frail-looking form is not simply aesthetic in nature; the mutation that infused the Twili with the light they normally fear so has doomed her to a life of physical weakness and proneness to sickness. Exposure to Hyrule’s startlingly bright sunlight has not helped with this, as despite her aptitude for it, Nevelle remains sensitive to that which never existed in the Twilight Realm.


Personality
Once a weirdo among Twili, always a weirdo among Twili. That saying applies to Nevelle more than anything else; so different as she was from her kin in the Twilight Realm, so too is she different from her kin in Hyrule (to which she refers as the World of Light) in that she has absolutely no desire to return ‘home.’ She remembers too well the pressure and poor treatment she received from her neighbours, and prefers to be in Hyrule where her light is not feared. However, she knows this is no perfect world either; she may have only been here for a short while, but she has already learnt that a lot of Hylians can be terribly xenophobic. As such, she tends to keep her distance both physically and emotionally until she is certain that she is accepted in all her Twilit glory.

Once she knows herself to be in the company of those accepting of Twili, however, Nevelle shows herself to be an eloquent, intelligent, and confident young woman like any other. A studious sort, she’s often found in local and distant libraries researching magic and what little has been documented about her kin, hoping to one day understand her mutation and the powers it gives her. She knows that if she would allow scholars and researchers to examine her, they might be able to find something that could help her, but she politely brushes off all suggestions of it; having been traumatized by what happened in the Twilight Realm, Nevelle needs a lot of personal space and no excessive attention.

Generally speaking, Nevelle is a pacifist and hates violence. This is in part because of her frailty, which keeps her from enduring much in the way of physical abuse, but also in part because of her peaceful nature. She is much more interested in understanding her magic for the sake of understanding and using it to make lives easier, but if she is backed into a corner, she is perfectly capable of using it to fight and considers it the lesser of two evils.

Nevelle’s ideas of morality, right and wrong, and justice, appear to be a little skewed. When she first came to Hyrule, it was a criminal –a wanted thief- who had helped her survive, taught her the Hylian language, and took care of her. As a result, Nevelle believes that thievery is not bad by default and that criminals deserve a second chance. However, she does not apply the same logic to the Twili who pressured and bothered her in the Twilight Realm.


Story
Like any other Twili, Nevelle was born in a realm separated from Hyrule by means unknown, as a descendant of those banished from the world of light in the ancient past. However, she is different from her kin in one very notable and crucial way: whereas all Twili are sensitive to light and shy away from it, Nevelle was born with a strong aptitude for it. This became apparent when she was a child, as in addition to the normal shadowy magic of her people, she seemed to spontaneously develop spells based in light.

With no other known Twili who had it, responses to Nevelle’s strange condition were varied. While most of her kin shied away from her for fear of being hurt by her light, there were those scholars who seized every opportunity to examine her and research her condition. As a child, Nevelle was so curious herself that she allowed it and did not mind this at all. However, as growing girls tend to do, she became more and more irritable as she grew up, and as a teenager she started refusing tests and examinations; for most of her life had she been subjected to them, with no substantial results or findings, and she was done with it.

Most of the scholars and researchers, who had become her friends, respected this decision and ceased their research, although many either lamented this or hoped that she would turn around after a bit of rest. However, a handful insisted that she was being selfish, that they could be this close to a breakthrough, and that it was in her own best interest to let them continue to try and find a cure for her condition. Despite her physical weakness being theorized to be a direct consequence of her light, Nevelle maintained that it was not something that needed to be ‘cured’ as she experienced no life-threatening side effects from it, accusing those who insisted of fear that she would one day turn it against them.

As she grew further and became less and less patient with her ‘stalkers,’ as she would come to call them, she learned that they were not the only ones looking to ‘cure’ her affinity for light. Her neighbours, relatives, and even friends started asking why she didn’t want to be rid of it and started to push her, first gently and later more roughly, towards getting back into the program. The more they pushed, however, the more Nevelle pushed back. It came to a head one day when she was sixteen, when her neighbours tried to strong-arm her into meeting with one of the old scholars and, driven into a corner as she was, she resorted to using her light-based magic to fend them off and create an opening through which she could escape.

Now considered an active threat to her surroundings, there was no turning back for Nevelle as she was cast out from the civilized parts of the Twilight Realm. Over the course of the next few weeks, which she spent alone in the wilderness, her physical health deteriorated, and her body grew weaker as she had very little food and warmth to sustain herself with. Finally, she ended up sensing a disturbance in the twilit air of her home. She investigated…

And found herself flung through something by an undetectable force, landing hard in a world that was the polar opposite to her own. Combined with the light that suddenly struck her, her weak physique would have doomed her had it not been for a young male who found her. He was completely different from her- fair-skinned with brown hair, slightly shorter than her, and entirely unaffected by the light. Still, for all their differences he didn’t seem afraid of her, giving her his mantle so she could cover herself from what he called the sunlight, and gently carried her into the shadow of the nearby trees.

His friends would not be as understanding as he was, so she had to remain hidden in the forest while he brought her food and spent time with her, but as time passed the two grew close. He told her where she was, explained to her how Hyrule and its society worked, and taught her how to take care of herself should anything happen to him and render him incapable of taking care of her. Eager to be prepared and enter this foreign society where people did not fear her light, Nevelle took in all the information like a sponge once she got a handle on the Hylian language. She owes this man everything she knows about living in Hyrule and her moderate success in it, but she never even managed to get his name.

He often missed a day of visiting her because of prior engagements, but never two. So when he didn’t show up for three days on end, Nevelle became worried and investigated. What she found as she followed his track was a ransacked camp, where one survivor could tell her what had happened.

Her savior was a member of a band of thieves who had used the forest as their base of operations for as long as they could remember. Three days ago, however, the guard had finally caught up with them, burning their camp to the ground and taking prisoner everyone who could still walk. The survivor had not been in when it had happened, watching it from afar, and lived off of what the camp had provided until then. He set out for the larger headquarters deeper into the forest, but Nevelle did not follow him. Not only was it obvious that unlike her savior, he was afraid of her, but she could not leave him to rot. Not after everything he had done for her.

So she left the forest, using her saviour’s thick black mantle to cover her Twilit features and shield herself from the sun, and wandered the fields until she happened across Lon Lon Ranch. Here, she found a small home with the emergency money her savior had given her. Using her new home as a base of operations, she started to study both Light and Shadow magic in more detail; Hyrule was a society built upon magical knowledge, and both types of magic were better documented than in the Twilight Realm.

Today, she is comfortable in Lon Lon Ranch, but has not yet found any good leads on what happened to her savior after he was captured. She has not given up however, and keeps an ear out for any useful information that might come along. In the meantime, she has revealed her race to a select few open-minded people in town, her skill with both kinds of magic winning their admiration over their discomfort of someone so fundamentally different from them.

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Rupee/Treasure history (open) Rupee/Treasure history (close)

Character Creation:

Character Creation +100 r.
Foreign Language: Twilit -0 r.
Unusual Background: Gift of Light -0 r.
Heart of Darkness -35 r.
Wall of Hazards: Light -40 r.
Shadow Ball+ no Instrument Required -15 r.
Shield Ring -10 r.​

Roleplaying spoils:

Current Balance: 0 r.​

Currently ongoing threads:
* Wing Dungeon: Nevelle explores an old tomb that exudes Shadow power in excesses unnatural for this realm, accompanied by the priestess Judith Vilcaron.