Eabha Temach

Eabha Temach (pronounced ey-VUH teh-mak) was the daughter of Bloodletter healer Devyn and veterinarian Murtagh Temach. She was a Bloodletter, as was her younger brother, Emrys. 
== Description ==
Eabha was a short girl often described as weak and scrawny. She was pale, and her frizzy red hair often lay untied on her drooped shoulders. She had dark circles under her brown eyes and freckles sparkled all over her face. 
She often wore a white dress with red overalls. She wore rings she used to fidged with when she was stressed, and the sleeves of her dress looked worn down by the amount of fidgeting. 
== Personality ==
Eabha was a rather quiet girl. She didn't like to talk more than she needed to, and her lack of verbal expression was strongly compensated by the way she thought too much about everything that could ever happen to her. She was extremely anxious all the time, would panic for the smallest of things and, after a while, developped long, detailed rituals to try and manage that anxiety. She was also extremely scared of catching sicknesses or diseases, so she struggled to touch her own face with "dirty" hands, and her hygiene was neat. 
Socially, she was as introverted as one could be, as being near a blood system made her feel sick most of the time. So, even though she strongly craved human touch, she kept to herself and didn't have many friends.
== Abilities ==
As a Bloodletter, Eabha could feel and control the blood in any living creature, but she could also "heal" any minor wound by forcing the blood to coagulate around the opening. She could perform blood transfusion or drain someone of their blood, as well as altering the blood pressure of someone the way she liked. She could make them pass out, or make their heart explode if she pleased. 
After fallig sick, Eabha developped an even stronger sense for people's bloodstream, and lost the ability to tone it down, making it so that she always felt the blood in people's body as long as they were a few metres around them. 
== Relationships ==
=== Oscar Wigheard ===
Despite knowing each other since they both joined the Order, Eabha and Oscar were only acquaintances until after the fall of the Manor in 1688 SBY, when they found themselves fleeing the gyregiest together in the same group. Oscar was already smitten over her, while Eabha was still focused on Wesley. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Eabha was born into a family of Bloodletters in Baimór, Akeeling. From her earliest years, she had always been a gifted child and a talented Bloodletter. Her healer mother started to take her to her surgery when Eabha was just six years old, and trained her to be a healer ever since. 
Eabha loved to watch all kinds of patients being treated, from a common cold to an amputated limb through deadly diseases, as well as learning all the theory her mother could teach her. She had learnt how to read by four years old, and knew how to write by five. She never had a lot of friends at school, but it didn't stop her from being the most intelligent child of her year. 
Despite being so good at school, Eabha despised it. She hated having to sit and do nothing for hours on end when she could be with her mother studying anatomy and medicine. She hated having to read stupid children's books when she could devour her mother's healing textbooks she had from her years at the University of Baimór to become the healer she was now. She was bored, and didn't learn anything for years, as her parents taught her everything she needed at home. 
=== Catching the Blood Pox ===
In 1684 SBY, Eabha caught the deadly Blood Pox while helping her mother treating a patient who was about to pass away. Eabha wanted to help them, as she already had abilities her mother lacked, but her lack of experience caused her to catch the disease. She fell gravely ill for several weeks, but was eventually saved by her mother who perfomed a highly risky blood transfusion with herself, which inevitaly weakened her, but saved Eabha from certain death. 
Eabha survived the Blood Pox, but not without sequelae. She developped severe OCD and hypochondria, she lost a lot of weight and became more distant to her mother's surgery, despite still wishing to become a blood surgeon. Her Bloodletter abilities were also changed, as she began to feel every being's blood system around her. She quickly felt overwhelmed by it, and therefore isolated herself. 
=== Joining the Order ===
Despite being at the lowest point of her life, Eabha chose to not let herself wither away in her home. She signed up to pass a competitive entrance examination at the University of Baimór. She passed the written exams with flying colours, but when it came to the interview and she had to present herself at the university to one of her potential future professors, she couldn't hide her mental quirks anymore, and was ultimately rejected from ever entering the University for "insanity". It heavily hit her, and for a while she was completely lost.
Even though she was only fourteen years old, she felt like she had no future, like she wouldn't be able to do anything because of her problems. That was until her father talked to her about one of his Potionmaker friend who seemed to have no future until he joined the Order of the Supreme Beings. Murtagh spent time explaining his daughter what she could learn if she took the opportunity to join the Order, as the selection was fairly simple and what she would learn was based on her existing skills. What really sold Eabha was the fact that the Manor formed healers in a more practical way than at the University. It was quite hard on her mental health, but she took all the courage she had and joined the Order.
She was gladly welcomed in the Order, and was even given an alone room, so she could sleep without someone else bothering her during the night.