3. Delenn's story

Delenn's story

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    character: Delenn Kulenov
    player: mirrorpool

    Delenn is a woman of intense anger and burning intelligence. The study of diseases of mind and body is her life’s work which she accomplishes as a cleric of Talona.

    Delenn was born in a mining town in Vasaa. Her father died from a lung infection when she was a small child and left little in savings. The mother and daughter moved in with her brother’s family. Life was hard, but the many hands kept enough food on the table.

    Delenn’s mother suffered from a debilitating disease which made her emotionally distant and reclusive as the years went by. By the time Delenn was eleven, her mother no longer spoke to anyone but their cat and her dead husband. Not long before Delenn’s twelfth birthday, her mother passed away after weeks of painful seizures. Delenn took after her mother, which worried her aunt and uncle, and was often drawn into herself, seldom speaking to anyone unless out of necessity. Not wishing to stay in the mining town without her mother, the girl scavenged and stole what money she could and bought passage into Damara.

    Though quiet, Delenn was always inquisitive and very studious. Early, she was educated by the local cleric of Lathander. With a letter from him, she was able to get into a college in Heliogabalus where Delenn’s morbid obsession over her mother’s death quickly turned to research in disease. Not satisfied with the college’s collection, she first sought out the libraries of the Ilmaterians and finally the Talonions. Recognizing the goddess’s power and sharing much in philosophy as her follows, Delenn dedicated her life to the Lady of Poison.

    Delenn believes that Talona uses disease to test the worthiness of life. It is only in death that life finds meaning, and like a knife at the throat, disease can remind us of our own mortality and goad us to better ourselves. Talona’s tests show us our strengths and faults so that we might live more fully. Delenn herself is a scientist, a cataloguer. She does not actively cause death without reason, knowing that it comes to all in time, enemy or friend. Besides, a large experimental population is a useful thing…

    Finding a lack in her church’s histories, Delenn has journeyed to Narfell to catalog the strange diseases known to afflict the local population.


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