Diana's Tale

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The story of how Diana Cumpstook, an Elven cleric came to
 worship her gods- Hav'roth and Meraud.

It started in her childhood. Diana was found by the empath
 Elizzabeth Le'Poupre, who was also mother to the warrior mage
ElizziBiana DrikWalla. Apparently, Diana had wandered away
 from her home in the forest to the village that Elizzabeth
 lived in. No one else would take the child in due to
 prejudice against her Elven heritage, and the village was
 comprised of S'kra Murs and Gor'Togs.

Elizza raised both Diana and Eliz as her own, and they honored
Hav'roth who was the patron of the S'kra Race. Diana never
knew she was different from her loving family other than she
had no tail, the family had no mirrors and they never treated
her differently. Since Diana was about 5 years younger than
 Eliz, she did not understand at the time why Eliz was exiled
 from the village. All that she knew was that she missed her
 sister dearly and her mother was always so sad after Eliz
left.

Elizza raised Diana in the ways of the empath, since Diana
 seemed to have a knack for it that Eliz never did. One day
 Diana was out gathering some herbs for her mother when she
 stumbled across a very hurt young wolf. Diana was afraid of
 the wolf, but she felt so sorry for it. It slowly dragged
 itself towards her, whimpering from the pain of the arrow
 lodged deeply in its right shoulder. Diana overcame her fear
 and slowly walked to the young wolf. It  collapsed at her
 feet, and allowed her to tend to it.

As Diana removed the arrow from it shoulder, the wolf turned
 deep knowing eyes upon her. As she tended its wounds, the
 wolfling seemed to grow stronger till it was able to slowly
 back away from her. As Diana tried getting closer the wolf
 backed away until it was far enough from her that she could
 not close the gap quickly. Diana realized the wolfling did
 not want her close to it; so she stopped and watched. As she
 watched, it seemed to shift shape till it became a tall dark
 Human which had bandages wrapped around its right shoulder.
 Diana knew this was no ordinary being but was actually an
 Immortal, and she was not afraid nor shrank back when the
 being approached her.

The being stopped about a pace away from her and spoke
 softly. "Diana Cumpstook, you have a kindness within you, and
 while being a empath is a admirable job it is not what your
 life is meant to be spent as. You have within you a good
 gift, a gift better spent lifting others than taking their
 wounded bodies upon your own. I am known as Meraud amongst
 your people, which I see you have already figured out, for
 while your understanding of the Immortals is scarce you
 understand more than your years belie."

He reached out and gently touched her forehead, then quickly
 he was gone but his mark remained upon her. She felt a
 whisper in the wind that told her she should seek the lands
 her sister Eliz had fled too, and to find her future in those
 lands.

Diana grabbed her forgotten foraging bag and quickly headed
 back to her mothers' home, where she told her what had
 happened. Elizza scoffed and said that the heat had gotten to
 Diana, until Diana pulled her hair back to show Elizza the
 small wolf shaped scar upon her hairline. Elizza slowly
 sighed as she realized that she was losing another daughter,
 but knew within her heart that it was meant to be.

As Elizza helped Diana pack she told her all that she could
 of the family history since Elizza had never had the chance
 to pass it on to Eliz before she was banned. Elizza wanted to
 make sure even though Diana was not an S'kra, she was still a
 big part of the Le'Poupre lineage, and always would be a part
 of the family. And that Elizza was very proud of her.

Diana left after a very tearful goodbye and headed in the
 direction that Eliz was known to have taken those many years
 before, and she wandered many days never quite knowing if she
 was heading in the right direction or not. Till finally one
 day she stumbled across a severely hurt adventurer, and as
 Diana tried to tend to his wounds he died from vitality loss
 on her. Diana wailed for she did not know what to do or where
 to go for help, and the adventurers spirit stayed about his
 body begging for her to help him until a sigh on the wind and
 a quiet whisper in her ear spoke to her.

"Diana, these many days I have watched over you, my child,
 until now. This is the test I spoke of those many days ago
 when you helped my wolf, and now you will find the calling I
 spoke of then. So now it is up to you to help replace this
 poor lost spirit into his proper body. Place your hands upon
 his chest and offer your voice up to the gods to help his
 poor soul return to its rightful place."

Diana did as she was told and soon his body began to faintly
 glow as his spirit was returned. With one deep gasp of air he
 was alive again. Diana knew not how she did it and the young
 man was so grateful that he brought her to the Crossing
 clerical guild, and left her in the safe hands of the guild
 leader Tallis. As he left he made a solemn promise to Tallis
 he would never lose favor with the Immortals, and that if
 Diana ever needed him he would be there to help.

Diana slowly approached Tallis, who simply smiled when Diana
 spoke of joining the clerics guild. Tallis said a blessing
 over her, and then began to instruct her in the ways of the
 cleric. That day Diana knew she was where she belonged. That
 was the day that Diana took a vow of poverty, and a vow to
help others in need.

And while Diana has never seen her sister ElizziBiana face
to face, she knows their path will one day cross, and until
 then Eliz has given her a place to stay in the Crossing, food
 and drink to nourish herself upon, and coins left around for
 whatever Diana may need.

Meanwhile, Diana has never forgotten Hav'roth and still
 worships him she also pays homage to Meraud for showing her
 the way of her future.

So ends at this point the simple story of a young struggling
 Elven cleric named Diana Cumpstook as she works to learn more
 of her chosen guild, the Cleric's Guild.