Edelweiss

### Appearance

Edelweiss is a male Anubi at the very young age of 21. His fur is stark white, as he was not formed from clay, as is traditional, but rather sculpted from limestone. He is 6ft 6 inches and weighs 260 pounds

### History

Edelweiss was created from limestone, but his special birth seemed to affect him little beyond the color of his fur. As a yearling he was shown the standard care of most any anubi. When he turned a year old and was turned to the custody of his Mentor-Guardians, Marin and Kestrel. Marin and Kestrel did not want to be Mentor-Guardians, but took the role to be free of other Temple obligations. Edelweiss was often left at his room and not allowed to leave. He was fed and kept healthy, what else was there to do for him? Marin and Kestrel spent their long hours practicing their craft at oil painting, Edelweiss only served as a distraction when he cried, and only as a delay from their aspirations when he needed to be taken care of. When he was 3, Edelweiss was left alone in his room when a melting candle tipped over and ignited the rug. Trapped behind a locked door with no where to run, Edelweiss was forced to back up into his room while the curtains and then the furniture caught fire. As he huddled in his bathtub, weak from smoke inhalation, Marin and Kestrel ignored his crying until they could see the smoke rise from his door. Keeping the whole affair quiet, Maris and Kestrel managed to end the fire in the stone room easily. The weakened Edelweiss was then quickly checked to make sure he was alive before being chastised and spanked for starting the fire.

Edelweiss could only learn from what he saw in the world around him and his meager interactions with his Mentor-Gaurdians prevented him from learning either Egyptian or English. He developed a small idioglossia with Marin and Kestrel but communicated mostly non-verbally with his Mentor-Guardians

Edelweiss never saw another Anubi outside of Marin and Kestrel until he was 4. Members of the temple remarked to Marin and Kestrel that they had not seen Edelweiss in the longest of time. Fearing they might lose custody and thus be forced to find another occupation inside or outside the temple, they began to bring Edelweiss to public education within the temple. His lack of instinctual learning from his Mentor-Guardians meant he suffered in schooling and was left behind by ordinary classes. Marin and Kestrel were advised to bring him to a special education tutor inside the temple, but they feared doing so would reveal their neglect. He was never left long outside Marin and Kestrel's view and he was always brought back to his now charred room soon after class. Despite the abuse he suffered at his home, he knew no better and feared the strange nature of When he turned 6, Marin and Kestrel brought him to a swimming lesson. They proceeded to ignore him and lounge and read on the other side of the room while Edelweiss learned. Unused to such close contact with strangers, Edelweiss tried to swim back to his Mentor-Guardians. He began to struggle once he reached the deep end and as he called out to Marin and Kestrel, he began to drown. His Mentor Guardians did naught to help him, too distracted in their books. The swimming instructor was then forced to save him, before once again turning him back over to Marin and Kestrel. Embarrassed by the affair Marin and Kestrel promptly returned Edelweiss to his room but not before beating him, using a rope as a whip. They hoped the harsh physical reminder would prevent Edelweiss from being so "foolish" in the future. From that point further, Edelweiss never bathed in water higher than a foot.

Many further months passed and Edelweiss showed no growth in any of his classes. On March 17th, 2439, Edelweiss simply left his mathematics class before it was over. To him it had no purpose. No member of the class took notice. He began to wander the halls of the temple. As he walked around the perimeter of the building he encountered his swim instructor. Recognizing the stark white child he saved from the water, he tried to intercede and get the boy the help he needed. Marin and Kestrel were nowhere around and as thus could not step in to stop the instructor Edelweiss could not recognize the assistance the instructor was trying to provide and was frightened when he tried to bring him to temple authorities. Being lead struggling by the arm, Edelweiss drew the instructor's belt knife and proceeded to stab him 17 times in the abdomen. The wounds were intense and Edelweiss dropped the blade as the instructor crumpled. Edelweiss returned to class and was picked up by Marin and Kestrel long before the body was discovered. Such a crime inside the temple was unthinkable. Investigations and lock-downs were placed on the temple...but no culprit was found.

Edelwiess began to speak less and less as the months wore on. The event of March kept replaying in his mind over and over again. All he knew in his life were stone walls....and then more walls behind those. The only ones who made sense to him were Marin and Kestrel....it was a cruel sense but he always was treated horribly by a set of rules. There was something so new and foreign about the day he killed his instructor....as much as it traumatized him and confirmed that he was not safe outside of his room, Edelweiss felt alive for the first time in his life when he did so.

Thus he silently crept at night out of his room for the first time in his life to feel alive once more

In 2446, Edelweiss disappeared from the Anubi Temple.