Fayde

[KyokoMatsukata]

Character: Fayde
Account: Mithrodel

Her life began as the daughter of an elven woman, a foreigner in the land of Kara-Tur, and widdowed before Fayde's birth. Her mother suffered from Schizophrenia and delusions, often going back and forth between stages of dementia. As soon as Fayde was old enough to eat on her own, the woman kept her daughter locked away in a room below their home. Some days she dropped table scraps down for her, other days not. With barely enough food and water to stay alive, she didn't have the energy to even try to climb out on her own. Trapped for decades alone and shut off from the world, she was a prisoner to her own birth mother.

After seventy-two years of Fayde's imprisonment, her mother snapped, attacking some of the locals and was killed in defense. Soon after, the house was taken by the local Kara-Turan government for the region, and sold off cheap to a foreign merchant. After looking the house over, he discovered the trap door to the basement, and soon found the near-dead adolescent elf.

Carrying the near weightless girl to the local cleric's, they managed to save her from death's grasp, but were saddened to find out she couldn't even speak a word. As weak as she was, she smiled as she took her first look at the outside world. Being a child, and mentally an infant, she couldn't be let to go alone, and was soon taken in by a young Kara-Turan monk. He helped her learn to take care of herself, and how to defend herself, teaching her the ways he had been taught, but there was one thing he couldn't teach her. He had taken a vow of silence, following his religion closely, and nor had he learned to read or write.

OVer the years, they learned to communicate unspokenly, often using drawings, gestures, and facial expressions to communicate their ideas and thoughts. She enjoyed every minute of it, only hearing people talk when someone would come to visit the monk, picking up a little of the oriental country's language here and there as the years went by. She still used her silent methods for communicating with her guardian, and stayed by his side as a friend and assistant until his death at the age of 68.

When he passed, the other villagers shunned her for her 'stupidity' as she couldn't read, write, and she couldn't even string sentances together correctly, and for her being an 'outsider' of elvan blood. Soon they grew tired of her presence, and took her, paying a merchant to take her away on his ship, which was bound for Peltarch…

[Celandine]

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