Sylvie/History

== History ==
===Before magic===
Sylvie was hatched in the early mornings of Mid-2006 to a large flock of parrots. Much is known about Sylvie's early life, she has s tht she learned about magic and the art of Shape-shifting from a player who was walking near her forest home. The player died of fall damage in the forest and left the flock a book.
===Shape-shifting===
Afterwards, she decided to learn about whatever was in the book. When she was about 15, she and her flock awoke to the sound of rustling leaves. A search party and begun combing the forest floor. It was suspected that they were either looking for the book or the man who had it. It was here that Sylvie had her first memories of human language spoken aloud. The party then decided to ignite a controlled burn to clear out the forest in search of their target. This fire, predictably, got out of control, and it ended up setting the entire forest on fire. Sylvie was told to run away with the book by her parents, since it seemed to be important to the human race. She never saw her parents again. After getting about a mile away from the fire, she used the remaining breath she had to shape-shift into a human, where she crawled naked across the rest of the forest floor, clutching the book. It was around dawn when she got to the edge of the forest. By that time, it had all but survived. It is said that the pages of the book needed to change back into your natural form were damaged, but this wouldn't have been an issue, as long as Sylvie could envision a bird.
===Alone in the Woods===
Sylvie then spent a few more hours finding mud to build a shelter with. It wasn't until about two days after the fire that she realized that she had been naked the entire time up to that point. Quickly finding leaves and hollowed rock, she made some clothing. It rained on the third day, and a good portion of Sylvie's mud home began to fall apart. She then began to rush for some logs or sticks to use as a roof and reinforced walls, but it collapsed. Sylvie spent the rest of the night in a freezing mud puddle with barely any clothing. On the fourth day, Sylvie began developing a cold. It turns out that she had slept all through the night in the aforementioned freezing mud puddle, and her clothing had actually completely fallen apart during the night as well, so she easily got a cold. This went on for days, as Sylvie tried to find better shelter and protection. Sylvie's cold ended in the seventh day. Being a bird at heart, gathering food wasn't the main issue for her, but she did find out that she needed much more nutrients and food as a human than she did as a bird. She also was shocked to know that she had been a human for over seven days. Even Sylvie herself does not know why she didn't transform back into a bird, but she has said that she prefers the human strength, emotion, intelligence and pain tolerance over that of her avian ancestry.
=== The Smoking Creek ===
Sylvie moved in with Jester and Wall in their cottage near the forest, which was much more safe than Sylvie's previous living situation. Ever since, Sylvie has stayed there with Wall. Jester and Sylvie began a pseudo-relationship around a month after Sylvie met him, and it continued until Jester's demise during Bloody Saturday. Jester's ghost counterpart, Ghoster, has said that he mostly feels regret, as he never got to say goodbye to Sylvie before he died, and that he hopes she is doing well. A recent development has said that Sylvie is in fact a shape-shifter, explaining how she met Jester, who fell in love with her while she was a human. This could also explain how Jester and Sylvie were able to have a child. Sam was hatched in the early hours of February 13, 2021, meaning that he never got to meet his father while he was alive. Sam seems to have inherited his mother's ability to shape-shift, though he can do so without a book.