Wisp

* Regular Form
* Mermaid Form
* Mortal Form

> "Rue cya, uon tioshi, ka haeron."
>
> —**Wisp**

**Will O' Wisp** (or **Wisp**) is the main protagonist in In The Forgotten Era. They are a Vampire Dryad Mermaid Harpy, they live in **Wyseri** and is **the God of Natural Disasters.**

## Appearance

Wisp has pale ivory skin, bright purple eyes, and feathery ears. They have messy purple hair, with two matching roots protruding through it. She has purple wings, with a light undercoat of feathers under them, including another pair of arms. He also has a lighter coat of feathers, protruding from their neck to their chest.

In their Mermaid form, their feathers are turned into smooth scales. Her neck feathers disappear, and their wings become wavy fins, having a gradient to a purple to a darker purple. Their tail also includes a similarly wavy fins, with a similar purple-to-darker purple gradient.

In their Mortal form, their skin slightly darkens, his hair becomes a dull-black color, with greyish feathers similarly to an owl's. Their torso is still a light purple color, and she still has purple eyes. She also wears a black choker with a blue flower pendant.

## Personality

A young adult by god standards. Wisp is a normally kind hearted individual who believes in doing the right thing. Despite being neglected by their mother in their childhood and losing their father at age 5, they have become a hopeful and powerful individual. In their time they have learned many secrets and truths about the world they live in... Things aren't what they seem and they want to set things right. Such ideals could endanger their very life in this unforgiving world... They best be careful where they tread, lest they take a wrong turn and death comes knocking.

Already they are frowned upon by other gods... Their eccentric nature and refusal to follow formalities and tradition has branded them as a sort of outcast among the other gods... Only their siblings and a select few others seem to respect them and know their true colors beyond just the "Family Disappointment."

## Skills and abilities

Wisp is highly powerful in magic though they're untrained and too impulsive to use their strength correctly it is still there. As the god of natural disasters they have the ability to summon earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, cause landslides and erupt volcanos. Overall their attacks are better for massive damage than one on one combat or fighting alongside others.

But that's not to say they can't, as they can summon soul fire at will as well as control plants thanks to their phoenix and dryad blood, they can fly and change into a mortal form to disguise themself or turn into a mermaid to travel the ocean. Their divine weapon is a whip that's thorned like that of a rose bush, though it is purple in color. They also have the ability to teleport.

## Character connections

Cherri: Cherri is Wisp's older brother, they were very close when they were young, but the fateful night their father died Cherri ran away from home never to return again. Wisp misses him, but holds resentment for him due to him leaving them when they needed him most.

Umbra: Wisp's younger sister, they try to ignore her existence and pretend she's not constantly ruining everything and following them. They find her annoying and unworthy of being related to their father, Umbra is a terrible person and Wisp holds no sympathy for her.

Denera: Denera is Wisp's mother, Denera has neglected Wisp since their father died, abandoning them in a forest where she thought they'd die. They didn't and became dedicated to being a thorn in her side whenever possible.

Akulan: Akulan is Wisp's late father, they didn't get to know him very well as he died when they were only 5 years old but they do remember what few memories they have with him fondly.

Nomio: After Akulan's death Wisp began to look up to Nomio as a father figure, though very distant and they don't talk often there's still a bond.

Kanzu: Kanzu is Wisp's aunt, they like her a lot, as she's very loving and a much better person then their mother.

Ni'kana: Ni'kana is Wisp's uncle, they find him extremely unusual and odd.

Revera: Revera is Wisp's aunt and their fathers late twin sister. Wisp strongly dislikes her.

Dawn: Wisp's niece- and cousin. Wisp adores her and sneaks her out of Revera's watchful eye to have fun, which little Dawn severely lacks.

Hyacinth: Wisp's maternal grandmother, Wisp likes Hyacinth's cooking, they think she's pretty nice compared to most of the pantheon, but has to admit she's a little weird, still that won't stop them from asking for more food.

Aionisos: Wisp's maternal grandfather, Wisp absolutely hates him with every fiber of their being, he's judgmental, he's the reason dragons are illegal and why they can't follow their heart, he's the reason why everything is wrong with the world. They think it's about time the king of gods gets dethroned.

Syiafa: Wisp's late paternal grandmother, they never met her, but have been told by their father that they reminded him of her, they can't help but wonder what she as like.

Imagus: Wisp's paternal grandfather, they never met him, and only know that he was heavily depressed and abandoned their father and aunt when they were young. They don't really have an opinion on him.

Kiro: Kiro is Wisp's divine attendant and best friend, they've never treated him as other gods treat their attendants and actually see them as another person rather then someone beneath them. The two get into all kind of silly antics and wear the title of family disappointments with pride.

Rem: Wisp's significant other, the two are basically inseparable and deeply in love with each other, and Wisp makes no attempt at hiding their adoration for the dragon, constantly flustering them and giving them affection. The only thing stopping them from getting married is the fact that they could be killed for loving a dragon, so they tie their lips. But they don't hide that they're in love, they just won't say with who.

## Background/story

### Early Life

Wisp was born 408000 years ago on Baith 25th as the God of Natural Disasters, the first child of the Goddess Denera and the second of the God Akulan. They were welcomed into the world by the whole divine court. The first 5 years of their life was happy, they grew up with their 4 years older brother Cherri and eventually a younger sister Umbra. They were a joyful child, always running around with their brother playing and causing mischief, and snuggling themself in their fathers warm feathers. However things would quickly darken and turn bleak, in one night they lost their loving father perished, the news caused their older brother to run away from home never to be seen again and as if things could not get worse their sister even went missing.

The only one left they had was their mother Denera, but upon realizing how difficult raising a child without the father would be decided to abandon Wisp in her forest with a few switching caretakers to look after them under the promise that she'd be back. Denera never came back to pick the child up, and eventually the servants assigned to look after them left the job without Denera noticing or caring. The only one who would occasionally visit them was their step father Nomio to make sure they were alright, they grew fond of him as a father figure though his visits were so infrequent due to the war that had sprung due to their fathers murder by the hands of their aunt.

### Crimes Begin

Soon they would reach the magical age of 10, where new gods are expected to show up to the divine court and get their own Divine Attendant. Nomio took them as Denera couldn't be bothered, their first divine meeting was not a pleasant one as all of the gods seemed to be incredibly rude and self absorbed. But it was here Wisp got their attendant and met their future best friend Kiro, who would look after them from then on and teach them many things, and was mostly a bad influence in the eyes of the divine court, but to the two it was just reckless fun.

When they turned 105 years old they'd be taught by Nomio, something that should have happened when they were 15 but was delayed due to the 250000 years war. They were very advanced in their studies due to the time they've spent learning from living on their own. There Wisp would learn that they had twin younger siblings being the children of Denera and Nomio and Wisp was ecstatic, but not so much to see Denera was neglecting them as she did them and that she was already pregnant again to try to get Nomio jealous which he wasn't. Wisp made a vow to find all of Denera's neglected and abandoned children and raise them themself.

Wisp and Kiro soon began causing problems for the other gods out of their shared distain for them, such as destroying temples monuments, mocking and talking behind their backs. In turn the divine court began treating Wisp even worse, with Denera and Aionisos dubbing them the disappointment of the family however it only seemed to fuel their fire for trouble.

They specifically liked causing trouble for the mother who had abandoned them. Constantly bad mouthing her whenever they met, playing mean pranks on her, Wisp really hated their mother. But Wisp's family drama did not end there as one day her sister Umbra would resurface in their life. At first they were happy to see her, but not after seeing the cruelty unnecessary torment she caused to all she met, Wisp might've been in charge of sending natural disasters to people but what Umbra did was too much. To that Umbra laughed and began to stalk them in the shadows, always loving to ruin their day in whatever way possible. Umbra is the only sibling out of thousands Wisp actually hates.

### Facing Reality

On day Wisp was walking through the Naia forest when it became dark, and strange blue eyes began appearing on the trees watching them. They however decided to sit down and pick flowers rather than be fearful of the trees. It was then 5 eyes stared at them from the darkness and began talking to them, Wisp was intrigued and curious about the stranger and asked them who they were, to which they said something vague and teasing before revealing themself as the Dragon God of Reality Rem with a bow.

This was the start of a beautiful friendship, they became close and started causing mischief for the false gods together, Wisp was never raised by the gods and thus never was raised to hate dragons so when they seen Rem all they thought is that they could be a new friend. They were always in awe of what they could do, and despite how scary they were supposed to be how they were actually so gentle and fun they were.. And how beautiful as well. They had much in common despite Wisp not knowing much about the dragons past, but they would talk about things for hours and were comfortable with each other.

Eventually friendship turned into feelings and feelings to love. They became partners and Wisp created their own little island called Wyseri near the Isles of Reality and moved out of Sevgi. From then on Wisp would begin to take even more notice to the cruel state of the world and how it treats dragons, more specifically what their family has done to the species.

### Years Before the Main Events

It would eventually reach their ears of the rumor that Bellum herself killed their older brother Cherri, the news hit them incredibly hard, as now they were sure they could never see their older brother again.

Though years and years past and eventually the 250000s War would finally end, and with it they would gain a new little cousin/niece being child of their sibling Satria and aunt Revera. Said child was born weak with Masea syndrome, which made Revera be over protective and shelter her, not truly giving Dawn a childhood. Wisp decided to step in and take Dawn while nobody was watching to have fun with her and give her good memories, though it almost always ended in Revera screaming at them and Dawn.

Wisp then decided to go snooping around in some ruins in Ta'jian, where they found a book... They would take it back home to read it.

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and origin

* Their mermaid form is based on a Betta Fish.
* Their mortal form is based on a Great Horned Owl.

### Curiosities

* Wisp is also called *The Purple Flame* or *The Violet Flame.*
* Wisp is jokingly called *"The Avatar"* due to her being a Mermaid (Water), Dryad (Earth), Phoenix (Fire) Harpy (Air) mix.
* Wisp's real name is *Ke'nyra*, and the people who know are Rem and Denera.
* Their soul color is purple.

## References/Cites

1. ↑ Raven on Discord, referring to creating Wisp's mer form: **"catch me translating the wings into something fancy bc beta fish babey"** [October 22nd, 2020].
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Blue, Raven, and Woof on Discord **(Woof) "mortal form wisp is based off an owl, correct?" (Blue): "Yep!" (Raven) "Wisp in general is an owl harpy (...) Owl harpy, beta fish mer"** [November 1st, 2020].
3. ↑ Introduction Tumblr Post.[September 20th, 2020]
4. ↑ Home Page.
5. ↑ Blue on Discord: **"theyre a pheonix harpy dryad mermaid (...) air, earth, water, fire (...) it's a joke on that"** [August 30th, 2020]
6. ↑ Raven on Discord: "**Ke'nyra... Wisp's true name. Rem is like... Probably the only one who knows it aside from Denera. (...)"** [October 17th, 2020]