Mialeigh

Mialeigh Arekher
Status
Race	Human
Gender	Female
Guild	Empath
Instance	Prime

Mialeigh Arekher is a member of the Empath Guild and the Order of the White Rose. She is married to Halcier Arekher, a member of the Lorenthew Mentor Society and the Order of the White Rose. They have two children, twins Bendiala and Kendiala. She spends most of her time wandering around the Crossing healing any who ask. She will accept tips but loves to heal for hugs.

She currently serves under her good friend Alexsei Krauser in the Order of the White Rose Triage Team. When not healing or in Triage, she spends her time with her friends and is often heard requesting tarts or teasing friends on the gweths.

Description

You are Triage Strategist Mialeigh Arekher, Medic of Elanthia, a Human. You have tilted crystal blue eyes. Your platinum-streaked silver hair is very long and curly, and is worn loosely piled atop your head. You have tanned skin. You are in good shape.

You are wearing some ruby flamerose drop earrings adorned with gold and emeralds, a flowing white gown belted with a thin cord of twisted silver satin, a scarlet brocade cloak with a line of jet-black wolves painted around the hem, an oval willow foraging basket, a black silk carryall clasped by a dainty ruby flamerose, a shield argent bearing seven suns gules, a pair of diaphanous frost fae wings adorned with moonsilk ribbons, a wide silver engagement band inlaid with green jade leaves, a narrow jade wedding band inlaid with a twining golden rose, an albredine crystal ring, a woven gold hip chain adorned with garnet rosebuds, a braided leather tip belt tooled with the Empath's Guild crest, a slender gold anklet adorned with flawless ruby teardrops and polished bells, some silvery sandals tied with thin spidersilk ribbons and a brass parry stick spiraled like a unicorn horn.

History

I. Life in the Wilds

Mialeigh was born in the Crossing to a trader father and a cleric mother. She does not remember her parents and their names escape her. She does remember, however, that her father would often take them with him on his routes. When she was about three years of age, she was found by a ravanged caravan in the outskirts of Leth by an old Elven herbalist. While no bodies were ever found, it was supposed that her parents had died in a bandit attack. Yet Mialeigh sometimes wishes that they would be out there, somewhere.

Galmollien, the Elven herbalist that found her, took her home and raised her as his own, training her in his craft. It was always expected that she would remain apprenticed to him and would take over as healer in their small village (to the east of Leth near the river) once she was skilled enough. This all changed around the time that Mialeigh hit puberty. As she began to go through the changes that would make her a woman, Galmollien was astonished to discover that she had a gift. Mialeigh could heal by touch.

II. A Journey

Galmollien attempted to assist Mialeigh in learning her gift, but by the time she was 16 years old he knew it was hopeless. Packing a small backpack full of a few meager belongs, he escorted Mialeigh to the gates of their village and advised her to see out K'annael Ebeshalek of the Crossing Empath Guild. After a tearful goodbye, Mialeigh put the backpack on her shoulders and began making her way to the ferry north of Leth. She was returning to her birthplace.

As the ferry made its way across the Segoltha River, Mialeigh's eyes grew big as saucers. She had never seen a town so large. Clutching the straps of her backpack tight, she made her way to the Empath Guild, asking for directions from townspeople whenever she got lost. She finally made it to the guild and the guild leader, joining quickly she sought out the Infirmary to begin to learn how to use her gift.

III. A Chance Meeting and Love at First Sight

Mialeigh had no control over her gift in the beginning and often struggled to understand what her teachers were trying to tell her. One busy day in the Infirmary, she overhealed and quickly learned the consequences. Her mind despaired as her life force began to fade and she felt herself die. An older Empath assisted her to the Cleric Guild and she was brought back to life. After this, that Empath took her under his wing and began to teach her the life of an Empath. This was how she met her, Mentor Kaskrim, who quickly became a father figure to her.

Kaskrim began to introduce her to his friends and Mialeigh began to feel a little less lonely. Then one day, Kaskrim introduced her to this young Warrior Mage. As she glanced up from beneath her lashes into his kind eyes, it was love at first sight. They began dating and eventually fell in love. They were married at Tamsine's Rest in Leth. Little more than a year later, the twins were born.

IV. A Pilgrammage of Pain and Sorrow

During this period, Zoluren was involved in the Outcast War. Halcier and Mialeigh joined the militia and ended up in the Phoenix. Mialeigh served within their Triage unit. The horrors that she saw during this war led her to believe that the Immortals wanted her to go on a pilgrammage of peace and healing. Saying goodbye to her husband, daughters and friends, Mialeigh made her way around the realms for several long years. After a brief visit back when the girls were toddlers, Mialeigh left again.

This time, she would be gone for a long time. Ambushed on the road, Mialeigh was captured and held captive by a bandit group (ooc: I had to take a break, the pilgrammage and captivity is to explain this absence from the game). Held in a cage, she was forced to heal for them every time they went on a raid. Only one person knows the whole truth of her captivity and that is her best friend Talliska. She is afraid of the reprecussions should it come out. (OOC: She was kept naked in an iron cage, repeatedly beaten and raped. A child was the result of one of these, a male. He was 13 and already joining the raids when she escaped {see below}. She is afraid that she cannot have any more children because the birth was difficult and painful and she is unsure if Halcier would like more, perhaps a male child to continue the Arekher line. Only Talliska knows about the beatings and rape, Mialeigh has kept everything but the basics from her husband and other close friends.)

V. A Vision and An Escape

Years passed and Mialeigh began to despair. She felt that she had been abandoned by the Immortals and sought to take her own life, permanently. The night that she chose to do this, she sat huddled in her cage, grasping the sliver of glass she had secreted away for this purpose, Mialeigh sent one last plea to the Immortals. Moonlight began to pour down into her cage and a dove flew down and rested at her feet. A loving voice spoke to her, "Be patient my child. Your freedom will come." Mialeigh tossed the sliver out of the cage into the bushes and began to hope once more. From then on, the dove could be seen in the trees just to the side of her cage and would often come close but never spoke again.

She continued to heal the men of the camp, but the women continued to avoid her. Until one day, a woman was having difficulty with a birth. She was bleeding badly and the midwife did not know what to do to staunch the blood flow. As the woman was one of the leader's concubines, the midwife was allowed to bring Mialeigh to the birthing room. Mialeigh healed the woman and her child was able to be born healthy and male.

Two nights later, the women came to her with Mialeigh's few belongings that had not been distributed amongst the bandits and a few scant supplies such as water and bread. Unlocking the cage, the woman quickly explained that she had drugged her husband and his men. They would sleep for two anlas. Mialeigh had that time to make her escape.

Mialeigh did not wait another moment, she quickly got dressed and headed out into the woods. The dove appeared again. It seemed to want her to follow it, so she did. The dove lead her out to the Trade Road and with what felt like a kiss upon her forehead disappeared into the heavens.