Eventide

**Eventide** was a Dremirian villager from the planet Halita in the Dreamer Worlds. She was one of the sole, free survivors of the attack on her settlement by imperial Praeliorian Elites Jazzilia and Jazzula Bornitas. Eventide gathered her fellow townsfolk to fight off the Bornitas twins and their imperial hunting party.

## Biography

### Early Life

Eventide was born on the planet Halita, which was located in the northern reaches of the Dreamer Worlds and covered in salt flats and mountains. She spent her entire life in a small village of just a little over a hundred, whom she all cared for deeply. Living during the Era of Diamond Dust, Eventide knew that Halita would one day be the target of an attack carried out by the Praeliorian Empire.

### Attack of the Bornitas Twins

In the latter half of the year 5957 ASA, two young elite officers of the Praeliorian Empire, a pair of twins named Jazzilia and Jazzula Bornitas, led their first hunt in the Dreamer Worlds without the guidance of their adoptive uncle Gris Véridémi, who was also an elite imperial officer like them. Accompanying the twins were their own troop of Praeliorian soldiers, as well as a band of Walrakian warriors.

The people of Halita saw the imperial warship from the distance and prepared accordingly, as best they could. Eventide led the Halitan resistance against the imperial Praeliorian hunters. Eventide, along with other brave villagers, helped fight off the Praeliorians at their small settlement's front lines. When the imperial transport shuttles were close enough to the settlement's outer walls, Eventide and the other villagers use their magic to pierce the transports with crystal and put them to a halt, temporarily. While only a little over a hundred in numbers, Eventide and the other Halitan villagers put up quite the fight against their hunters. This led to a rather messy, blood-filled battle between the two parties that left Jazzula Bornitas mentally scarred and Jazzilia Bornitas more cold and murderous.

Eventide managed to entrap Elite Jazzula Bornitas in crystal, long enough to threaten her with a knife in hand. With pure fury and anger, the Halitan woman demanded that Bornitas call off her forces. Before the young elite officer could do anything in response, Eventide was interrupted by a Praeliorian soldier who struck her with a spear. Luckily, a fellow villager and friend named Sandalwood managed to kill the soldier who pierced Eventide, which gave Eventide the opportunity to further chastise Jazzula Bornitas. Eventide wanted the young girl to see the reality of the chaos brought upon by her and her imperial soldiers.

The victories were short-lived, however, as it wasn't long before the young elite's Walrakian bodyguard came and collided into the Dremirians, knocking Eventide down and completely shattering Sandalwood's head, killing him instantly. Mesa, the adoptive Human son of Sandalwood, began to through balls of salt at the Walrakian in his grief and frustration, having no other outlets to vent out his distraughtness. While the Praeliorians decided on what to do with young Human boy, with Jazzilia Bornitas even considering to send him off for Algathan experimentation, the twins' Walrakian bodyguard intervened and allowed for the boy to be let go, much to Eventide's relief.

While many Halitan Dremirians were killed, a good number of the twins' own soldiers were killed as well. The remaining Halitans who surrendered were taken by the Praeliorian Empire to be servants on their capital of Praelior. As the human boy Mesa was let go by the Praeliorians, Eventide begged to be sparred so that she could stay with Mesa, as she believed that the boy would not survive on his own. The elite twins dismissively decided to let Eventide go, both because neither of the young women cared anymore for the hunt, in a decision that would anger some Praeliorian soldiers.

The only ones who remained at the Halitan settlement were Eventide and Mesa, with the Praeliorian hunting party returning to the Praeliorian Remnants. Eventide and Mesa were left entirely alone, with their village and home in shambles and many of their friends, loved ones, and neighbors either dead or captured for servitude.

## Personality and Traits

Eventide was a Dremirian woman with marigold-colored skin and hair and eyes colored a shimmering, burnt, sunset orange. She often kept her hair in twin tails and, like the other Halitan villagers, dressed in light clothing.

In the small Halitan settlement where she lived, Eventide was loved and cared for by the other villagers, and this feeling was reciprocated. She knew the inevitability of facing the Praeliorian Empire and likely losing, but she also knew that it was to her duty and strength to try and fight against this oppression. She knew how to inspire others in spite of all odds, even when all seemed dire. Many remarked Eventide as a selfless and resolute individual, willing to get in the way to save others before herself. That being said, she did not hesitate to fight against the cruelty of the Praeliorian Empire, even if it meant spilling blood.

## Skills and Abilities

As a Dremirian, Eventide knew how to manipulate crystal magic to an intense degree. It was assumed that she helped other villagers who were willing to defend the Halitan settlement develop their offensive and defensive skills in crystal magic, should the day come that an attack was made on their town.