Minoen

Minoen Megela
Status	Active
Race	Elothean
Gender	Female
Guild	Necromancer
Instance	Prime

Appearance

You see Mistress of Eyes Minoen Megela, Spider of Elanthia, an Elothean.
Minoen has an angular face with a generous mouth, slightly pointed ears, tilted almond-shaped cat-slitted amber eyes and an aquiline nose. Her silver-streaked black hair is shoulder length and straight, and is worn in a simple, pulled-back style held in place by some elaborately interwoven web-like platinum strands strung with tiny crystal beads. She has pale skin stained with labyrinthine spirals in dusky dewberry glitter and a svelte figure.
She appears to be middle-aged.
A champagne-hued eldring artlessly faceted in an upside-down teardrop sits between her eyes. It is attached to a slender wire of icesteel that holds more of the tiny gems as they arch gracefully over her eyebrows.
She is in good shape.

She is wearing a twisted darkstone necklace adorned with dark gemstone flowers, a sweeping thornweave greatcloak clasped with a double chain of darkstone, an elegant black dress shirt of smooth shadesatin, a pearlescent abalone pick shaped like an eye, an intricate darkstone shesegri ring interspersed with sardonyx beads, a blackened silver hip-chain set with several small dragonvein agates, some black thornweave breeches secured with darkstone buttons and a pair of knee-high demonscale boots with square kertig buckles.

Early Youth

Young Minoen Watching a Spider Spin Its Web

Little is known of Minoen's heritage as she was found cast aside and abandoned as a baby in a backalley off Market Road near the Singing Raven Inn in Hibarnhvidar. It was the 1st month of Akroeg the Ram in the year of the Bronze Wyvern, 351 years after the victory of Lanival the Redeemer. She was taken to the Orphanage in Hibarnhvidar.

The only things Minoen cared to remember from her days in the orphanage were the street mercantile skills she picked up from the Gor'Togs, along with ways of defending herself and her merchandise. Reinforcing these skills were her dwarven allies that help fine tune her eyes to spot precious stones and metals.

As a young child, Minoen became fascinated with spiders as she would watch a large translucent spider spin its web in the window of her dormitory room at night. Every night it would make its web; every morning it was gone - no where to be found. She often wondered what it would be like to have so many legs and eyes.

Nikla Megela, a prominent Elothean trader from the House of the Silken Strings, was conducting business in Hibarnhvidar one rainy autumn day. His cart had broken down outside of the city and all the rooms were taken at his usual spot, so Nikla stayed the night at the Three Turnips Inn.

While his cart was being rescued and repaired, Nikla decided to explore the Tog dominant area and came upon the orphanage. He watched bittersweetly as the children played in front of the building. Nikla and his wife, Ana, had a son who had died from an unknown illness many years prior.

Amongst the tall green-skinned Tog children and shorter young Dwarves, he noticed a pale lanky black haired Elothean girl. It was Minoen. When she looked up from her game of marbles with her fellow orphans, Nikla gasped when saw her eyes - amber cat-slitted eyes! She was a Savant! A savant - here? In the Tog District of Hibarnhvidar? "No - that won't do," Nikla thought. He entered the ramshackled Headmaster's Office and adopted Minoen on the spot!

The ten year old girl was bewildered as she was being led away from all that she had ever known - the orphanage.

Spurned by a Sworn

AI Rendition of Spidersworn

The Megela family estate was north of Shard, close to Fayrin's Rest. During the trip from Forfedhdar to Ilithi, Nikla bonded with his new ward. He was impressed with her knowledge of mineralogy. Nikla wrote off her fascination with spiders and their webs as a child's hobby.

When Nikla's caravan arrived in Shard, a grand Faire was being held on one the streets. Eager to impress his daughter, Nikla told her Minoen that she could pick out anything she wanted. Filled with awe, Minoen marveled at the wonders she had never seen when she was trapped inside the Orphanage.

As Minoen skipped down the street, she suddenly felt like she was being watched. When she spun around to look behind her, she found three humans, wearing elaborate laced robes, gazing at her. Their eyes were black and across their forehead, there were three false eyes.

Intimidated by their gaze at first, Minoen reached up to hold her new father's hand. However, fear didn't last long as she noticed the lace of trio's robes was unique in that no pattern of the lace was ever the same. At each joint in the pattern of the lace, there were a small crystalline droplets. It reminded her of a spiderweb.

"Is that made from a spider?" Minoen asked in a strange Haakish Tog accent.

"This is not for you - Oh Poisoner of the Web", the three said flatly in unison. They then simultaneous turned in the opposite direction, and began to walk away.

Realizing that not only has his new daughter been spurned but also insulted, Nikla began to chase after them shouting about gold is gold and wares are meant to be sold. But it was too late - the trio had disappeared into the crowd.