Emelyn H

Emelyn H. was the 4:th Grand Priestess of Lux. She had long, blonde hair that she let above her shoulder and turquoise eyes, and she wore a white robe with a motif of the sun and crescent moon overlapped, and a headpiece resembling that of a sun. She was often seen carrying books such as diaries, or journals around.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
She woke up one stormy day, ears ringing, vision blurry, and body thrown out of balance. Around her was the wreckage of a ship, pieces of wood extinguished by the unapologetic rain. She would have thought more about it if it wasn't for the piercing headache that killed her every train of thought.
Not wanting to catch a cold, she gathered what she could from the wreckage and sought shelter in a nearby underground lake where she would go through what she had manage to scavenge and gather her thoughts. But as she did, she realised that she couldn't remember much - or anything before the crash for that matter; who she was, where she was. She couldn't remember who her parents were or where she came from, all she had to guide her was her clothing and what she had managed to fetch before the storm began to pour over her - the heavy rain pounding against the thin earthen roof above her.
Amongst her belongings, she found a book that she hastily began to read—desperate for any sort of information to fill the vacuous void in her memory. It was a journal, a Captain's Log, but large pieces of it was seared to ashes by the fire or destroyed by the rain. The entries that were readable, however, were written in a very cute and elegant hand-style, and after some tracing with her hands she recognized it as her own! Excitedly, she rummaged through the pages to find some kind of mention of a name, and after a while she found it - the ink that read her family name smudged out by the rain.
"Captain's Log – Property of Emelyn H..."
=== Life in Alokhrad ===
Emelyn would be found aimlessly wandering the desert of Alokhrad by Yusef Razim who was surveying the land. After being discovered, she collapsed from exhaustion and was brought to the city of the South Sands, where she was given food and tools as well as a plot to rent and live. 
Using her diary, she would record her daily observations and the answers the citizens gave to her questions. As there was no formal record of the history of the kingdom yet, she attracted the attention of the King Al-Surii of Alokhrad who appointed her the role as "Lore Keeper".
As she counted as a citizen of Alokhrad, she was permitted to and voted in the election. She had voted for Yusef and felt remorse when he claimed sovereignty. As Yusef proclaimed himself King of Alokhrad, Emelyn wanted no part in it and when the rebellion led by Yusef announced their intentions, Emelyn was quick to announce her neutrality. Since she still considered herself a foreigner, she wanted no part of the conflict. Eventually, she had to move out of the South Sands when the King of Alokhrad and the rest of the citizenry were expelled from the rebel territory and placed the first blocks of the new capital Eraqat together with King Al-Surii.
=== Journey through Eldham ===
Emelyn was a part of the exploration squad assembled by Sel Leyla-Earcala for the purpose of exploring the newly discovered world of Eldham, which at the time was called "New Rathnir". With the airship she built, she was responsible for transporting the group to the novel continent. During her expedition, she met a fellow squad member named Shah Prajuri "The Beast" Cahya, who gave her the offer to move to the capital of his nation once they would return home.
=== Life in Solisios ===
After two more rebellions and coup attempts on the Alokhradian government, Emelyn's patience finally grew thin and she decided to take up on the offer she was given almost a month before. She decided to move to Luxios, the capital of Solisios. Before she gathered all of her equipment and materials, she had the opportunity to say goodbye to Al-Surii, who was the one person that she had known for the longest. Together with him they would wander the desert of the nation and reminisce about what has been, and how much the nation had changed. Closing the little library in Eraqat, she moved north and was greeted by and given help to find a household by the Shah of Solisios, Prajuri Cahya.
Incidentally, this household was located close to the local University of Luxios where she would find herself spending most of her new time, reading everything the scholarly institution had to offer to her heart's content.
While reading and writing on her own, she realised that there were important pieces of Solisean literature that were missing from the University library—most importantly a translation of the Solisean Constitution in Common Tongue. Finding a dictionary for the Mata language, the language the constitution was initially written in, Emelyn got to work and stayed up an entire night translating the document. Once the sun rose the next morning, she had the book completed—but left it unsigned as she intended to let Sepbo Reza Lofti Fardin, the original author of the constitution, or the Shah, Prajuri Cahya, sign it. 
After having slept through the entire day, she would wake up to the voices of Shah Prajuri Cahya and Head General Peter on the northern bridge. There she presented her translation of the constitution to the Shah, who complimented Emelyn on her efforts and promised to show it to Reza.
=== Encounter with Athaz ===
One day she would find herself in the presence of Athaz the Traveler in his private library in Athazolant. Nervous, but eager to talk to the champion of Rathniri literature, she shared with him a copy of her first diary among other pieces of literature she happened to carry at that moment in time.
A few days later he appeared outside her home, and suggested that she should publish her work in his bookshop—a proposal she eagerly accepted. He would then teach her how the book writing business worked; where the value of books came from, how to sell them, and also how to protect her publishing rights as an author. Emelyn would be the second independent author to sell her work in the bookshop in Athazolant.
As a result of this fate encounter, Emelyn has made it a part of her routine to occasionally visit Athazolant to restock her section of the shop—thus ending up meeting Athaz every now and again.
== Literary achievements ==
Emelyn showcased her love for the literary arts through her own works, which consisted mainly out of personal notes and legal documents—a feat which would earn her the title of Lore Keeper of Alokhrad. Through her early to mid-late life in Rathnir, she had authored a trilogy of autobiographic journals collectively called Emelyn's Diaries, spanning 70 entries over roughly 260 pages in total. She was working on a fourth diary, but accidentally lost it while printing copies of other books. The first book of this series was the second book ever to be published in the Bookstore of Athazolant by an independent author.
When she was appointed Grand Priestess of Lux, she reformed Lux from a religion based on oral tradition to liturgical tradition by hiding the remaining Book of Lux and writing her own version of it, called the Codex of Lux, reformatting and adding additional content to the original document. She also encouraged the Luxite clergy to author books of their own to add to the Luxite canon. To her goal to spread Luxite literature, she founded the Librarian's Guild of Luxios, a voluntary organisation based on the maintenance and expansion of the collection of literature housed within the University of Lux.
As the national scholar of Alokhrad and Solisios, she also translated the First Constitution of Solisios into the Common Tongue, and authored the First Constitution of Alokhrad which was ratified on the 22nd of August, 2021.
Emelyn also became good friends with other scholars from all over Rathnir, including Athaz the Traveler, Trojan Luvire, and Kyle Riegler of the Hearthstone Library.
=== Governor ===
Impressed by Emelyn's scribesmanship and hard working spirit, Shah Prajuri Cahya offered her the position as Governor of Calador; a city that—although developed—was woefully empty with citizens. It was in other words a ghost town which she was given the duty to revitalize into a sprawling city. As she accepted the offer, taking over the duties of the previous Governor, Wialend, she was given ownership of the land, and was quietly bestowed the title of 'Sepbo'.
Dissatisfied with the architectural and logistical planning at the time, she and a civilian architect named Renya razed all the buildings except one in order to rebuild the city and planned a new logistical design for the new Calador. Emelyn then assembled a team of architects to provide her with plans as she alone have rebuilt the city.
As her responsibilities grew and spread, Emelyn eventually came to house two of the seats at the Sece Pemuwe, as the newly appointed High Priestess of Lux and as the Governor of Calador. Thus, she gave the administrative responsibilities of Calador to a Solisean mystic named Neptekh.
=== High Priestess of Lux ===
The 29th of September, she was chosen among three applicants by the sitting members of the Sece Pemuwe to be the new High Priestess of Lux. 
However, not soon after, the skies turned red, and instead of water—blood began to fall. Due to interference caused by Magma who used his cursed rituals to blight the holy site of Luxantia to blight the altar with a 'mark of shame'. 
Because of the unknown effects caused by this mark, the appointment required an extra month of planning, and was finally carried out the 25th of October with a procession around Solisios and a sacrifice at the peak of Luxantia. And so, in front of her fellow Luxites she received the Goddess' blessing to become her representative as the next High Priestess of Lux. 
=== Rise of Skotos ===
On the 30th of October, 2021, Skotos struck Rathnir and Eldham with his minions and assaulted many nations to spread his destruction and terror across the world. Naturally, Skotos' forces invaded Luxios where roughly a dozen Luxites had gathered to defend the religious capital. The Luxite forces managed to fight back and eventually defeat the minion, named "The Henchman", that Skotos had sent to oversee his forces. However, as the last undead soldier was turned to ash as dawn grew, Emelyn was met by a terrifying sight—even the sun had turned red.
Eventually she would be contacted by Mountainduke, a High Monk of the Cubist Clergy, who had obtained "the Heart of Lux". After a number of friendly letters, they arranged a meeting in Xaticz to send the Heart back to Lux through a sacrifice. Although the sacrifice were seemingly ineffective at first, the following day of the 13th of November, the sky was back to its beautiful blue self.
=== Rise of Segra Mortis Est ===
Natin Pidgeones of Luxendef, a nation in Eldham, came to Luxios to deliver a prophecy to the Luxite people. Standing in front of the Eternal Flame, he told the people about the instructions that were personally given to him by Lux—and then Lux spoke, telling the people once again about the coming of the Solar Shah, giving them wings and told the Luxites to go to the island of Tessel, where she had another prophecy prepared for them. There at the island where Lux had previously been sealed now stood a miniature sun, and on it another prophecy was inscribed. 
"Segra has pinned the Sun to the deepest depths of the Void. Darkness falls over the land, for she thinks she is Entropy.
Find the Blade that killed Entropy, for this will prove to all
that she is no continuation of this immortal god.
Segra is no Entropy, she wields not the power. Segra is a deciever and a liar. She has come to destroy.
If Segra were Entropy, the sword which killed Entropy would give her mortal pause, and would scare her away.
But she is no Entropy. Once all realize this, and Segra gives up the charade, she will have no reason to keep pinning the Sun.
The Sun will come back, the Moon will fall down again
and Lux will be pleased by the natural state of all things."
With this new knowledge given to them, Emelyn went to Athaz the Traveler to discuss the event that had transpired. With him and Urayami, who walked in on their meeting, Emelyn decided to forge a look-a-like of the "Achemkog", the sword that killed Entropy, by commissioning a Luxite smith to forge a blade to Athaz's specifications and then having Athaz enhance the sword with "the Essence of Entopy's Death", thus giving it the same energy—indistinguishable from the real Achemkog. Without needing to travel to Segra's realm where the real Achemkog was hidden and sealed away, Emelyn had managed to create an artefact which would have worked to fool Segra into revealing her non-Entropic nature.
=== Death ===
On the 15th of June, 2022, Emelyn was met by a large crowd of people led by Kyle Riegler. They had all been given the same prophecy and had gathered the shards of the real Achemkog which had appeared in Rathnir. Suddenly, time was of the essence. Riegler and his entourage had already gathered one shard, and had received information that there was another shard at the Temple of Lux in Luxios, and they needed Emelyn's help on what to do next. After a failed attempt to forge the sword, she inuited that there was not material yet to forge the sword, and that they needed more parts. It was at this moment that Emelyn remembered that, although she had no third shard, she had something that would function as a substitute. Informing Riegler about where to find this object, he divided his men into two and headed off to Athazolant to obtain the final "shard"—leaving Emelyn and half of his men to guard the shards that had already been collected.
However, as they waited for their return, discord and unrest began to spread among the group. This made them totally unprepared when the first warrior of the Champions of Segra, Howertt arrived. With honed focus, he ran past the guardsmen and slashed Emelyn with her sword, striking her down. Still managing to keep herself alive, however, she was evacuated to her apartment so that she would be able to recover for when Riegler returned with the look-a-like. However, while Emelyn was forced to wait, Luxios had begun to turn into a warzone. First Riegler's men were slaughtered by the Champion's of Segra, who were much more well equipped and experienced. For a time after which, Luxios was occupied by the Champions until the Harbingers of the Kokeodoshi arrived.
Meanwhile Emelyn was forced to listen to the cries of the helpless outside as she was forced to recover in safety, until an invisible person sneaked into her apartment and gave her a potion of invisibility along with a message; "Meet me at the Tenebras. We need to evacuate and regroup." As Emelyn hesitantly drank the potion however, she realised that this was the divine-given opportunity she needed. And so, before escaping to Tenebras, she snuck into the Temple of Lux, which was now guarded by the Champions, and took the Shards which were kept in the chest where she had left them before she was assaulted by Howertt. As the chest audibly closed with a loud creak, alerting the guards, she jumped from the second floor of the temple and broke her ankle trying to land. She was in so much pain, from the sword wound on her torso and now her broken ankle, she could feel her strength starting to slip away—however—would use the last of her willpower to make it to Tenebras in order to pass on the Shards to whoever saved her.
It was there she would rendezvous with Peter, who was waiting for her by the shrine. As he discussed the situation with her, Emelyn began to collapse. She had used the energy she should have used to recover her wounds to protect the shards, and the strenuous effort she put her body through pushed her over the edge, and now she had to pay the price. As she felt her strength leave her body, she told Peter to take the shards and to hurry to Athazolant where Riegler and his men hopefully still were. Although Emelyn told Peter to hurry, Peter stayed by Emelyn's side until she passed away—giving him the opportunity to hear Emelyn's last words.
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