Mara the Meek

Description
Mara is an ice queen of The Meek. The power of mana courses through her veins, contributing a soft glow to her flesh.

Lineage

 * Roland Rumpus
 * Fion Ullr

History
As an unhappy and unfulfilled child, Mara ran away from the only home she ever knew, an orphanage. During her escape, she came across the strange leavings of mysterious scales in the Hasla Woods. Mara followed the scales, finding Mana Wyrms in the earth. Awestruck by the wyrms and unwilling to lose sight of their location, she knew she must return to the orphanage. She spent the next years of her youth revisiting the wyrms as often as possible. One day, she discovered that she could absorb mana from the wyrms, stirring a deep, mystical power lying dormant within her. Even though the act of her mana absorption left scorching burns on the wyrms, she did not stop taking in the mana, revealing that she was driven by a need to hold power no matter the cost. She gradually began to learn magic spells to accompany the mana coursing through her body. As she grew into a woman, her magic became her zealous faith. She used her newfound magic to improve the lives of the children and the caretakers in her community. Eventually, she became renowned for her magical prowess and her acclination to help the disadvantaged. She was appointed queen, with the noble title, Mara The Meek. From her position of power, she took on disciples to her magic faith, including Faris and Lilith.

With Hod
Since childhood and well into her adult years, Mara had a magic teacher in an old reclusive, forest-dwelling man, named Hod. One day, Hod broke their years-long tradition, and did not meet Mara in the woods to train with her. Mara used dark magic to investigate his disappearance, and learned a terrible truth. Hod is her father. She haunted him down in the Hasla Woods, frantically seeking to confront him. When she found Hod, she asked him why he left her to die as an infant, and why he had abandoned her now. Hod's replies were spiteful and shocking for Mara. In the moment that she learned of her father's true feelings toward her, she unleashed a efflux of ice streams from her fingertips, her rage and sorrow fueling the vicious ice torrents. The ice slammed into Hod's helmet, freezing it on contact, and rendering him unconscious. In a rage, Mara left; believing him to be dead. The confrontation scars Mara forever, and manifests a deep bitterness within her spirit.