Cassiopeia

## Appearance and Character

Found on a small archipelago in between mainland Saerial and the Gilded Isles by Perseus on one of his far travels in the wings of a quite large dead swan. He picked up the small child rubbing the side of her head as she cried. Perseus instantly started sailing back to meet with Ash claiming that he has found another one of the Master's Chosen, Ash took the child with a slight smirk on her face as she laid a hot coal on the girls back of her hand and instead of burning and searing the skin, it remained perfectly smooth. When presented to the great flame, it burned bright gold and the name was spoken into Ash's head 'Cassiopeia'. Many believe her to be an Aeori bastard due to her hair and single eye but nobody quite knows where she would of came from.

As a younger woman, Cassiopeia was weak and in much frailer shape, her shorter stature accented by wider hips. As she became more and more skilled in the arcane arts she frequently seeks out word from her god. In the many years she has definitely known to of been around she has not aged past twenty and is never seen eating anything at all. She wears the fanciest crimson clothes that gold can buy, and always seems to wear whatever catches the eye the most. Her skin is marked by tattoos and markings that seem to carry some arcane purpose but nobody knows where they came from.

Cassiopeia likes to think of herself as a charitable person, but truth be told everything she does is in the name of prestige for her god. Cassiopeia is quick to laugh, quick to joke, and rarely shows anger, yet has a long memory and holds grudges longer than any sane person would. Most know that how a Red Priest appears to the eye is not to be trusted, and Cassiopeia is no exception. No woman makes it to the position she has without immoral deeds, and no woman makes it without hiding those deeds with expertise

Being born with no parents other then the Red Priests gave Cassiopeia an odd sense of belonging to the lower people of the world, she found herself walking among them when he could, and even made a few friends. Yet he did all of that with knowledge of her place in society in mind, and quickly began establishing connections with less savory aspects of Iarran and eventually Saerial.

Although she did plenty of sermons through perfectly legal and moral means, she also did things via underground preaching to slaves to uprise against their masters, and give themselves wholly to the Red God. She once took much interest in a specific ring of Slavers infiltrating it and burning the masters alive setting the slaves free and into the light of the Red God.

Upon Aquila's appearance in Iarran, Cassiopeia saw an opportunity and quickly befriended the likely bastard and chosen child. A dragon is a dragon regardless of the shade after all and dragons are always good friends to have even if that dragon is cleansed in the red light of the Master of Fire. She greeted her to the Red Temple with an extravagant feast, paid for her lessons in Vakriez, and all in all acted almost motherlike to her, and a councilor at times as well. The two may have been friends for far more religious reasons now, but they still dine and converse as if they were two commoners.