Tori

### Description

A short, bird-like figure with large wings folded on his back, this naive condor watches the people of this world with wide, warped-wood teal eyes peering through a mask of a bird’s skull from the shadows.

## Relations

### Affiliations

Member of **The Rose Society**Honorary Member of the Tree Family

### Family

Love (partner) - deceased, revived onceUnnamed eggs - deceasedRed-Speckled Egg - deceased (from Unnamed Eggs)Teal-Speckled Eggs - deceased

### Enemies

Echo, Vice Thornberry (it's complicated), Space

## Backstory

A simple soul condor born into the violent Nether as all of Tori’s kind had before, he learned to scavenge for food and survive through any means necessary.

When he came of age, Tori presented the best bone he could scavenge to another soul condor, and the two became mates. The two birds were happy with each other for some time, but of course, all good things must come to an end in this vicious realm.

Tori returned to his nest with food for his mate, only to find another soul condor standing over their dead body and cracked eggs. After fending his family’s murderer off, Tori found a single untouched egg being protected by his mate’s body. In a fit of grief and anger, Tori took his lover’s body and the single egg and hid in a deep cave in the Nether.

Refusing to leave his family again, Tori grew weak from hunger before eventually giving in and tearing a piece of flesh away from his mate to eat. The soul condor is unsure how long he spent in that cave, fending off those drawn to the smell of rotting meat and barely surviving off the last thing his lover gave to him until all that was left was their skull. Unwilling to take the last piece he had of his mate, Tori tucked their skull under his wing, picked up his egg, and left the cave to find food.

It wasn’t long before Tori found himself trapped in a fortress, drawn in by the smell of rotting flesh that lingered in the area. As seen as an omen of death and decay, the soul condor quickly found himself surrounded by hostile beings, only looking to do what comes as natural to them as breathing: kill.

Tori managed to get past a hoard of wither skeletons within a few inches of his life as he ran into a blaze spawner. Desperate and dying, the condor ran through a strange, eroding purple portal leading to the overworld, seeing the sun for the first time as his way home crumbled behind him.

Tori hid underground in caves and abandoned villages as he adjusted to this strange new world. During this time, he learned how to survive in the overworld, but not the customs of those inhabiting it. Afraid of being chased from another home, Tori hides behind a mask made from his mate’s skull, still waiting for his egg to hatch as he studies the beings of this realm from a distance.

## Goals/Ambitions

Find a place in this new world where he can live peacefully.

## Lore Updates

* LU 28 - Tori 1
* LU 32 - Tori 2
* LU 37 - Tori 3
* LU 38 - Tori 4
* LU 40 - Tori 5
* LU 43 - Tori 6
* LU 56 - Tori 7
* LU 65 - Tori 8
* LU 73 - Tori 9
* LU 74 - Tori 10
* LU 84 - Tori 11
* LU 117 - Tori 12
* LU 122 - Tori 13
* LU 174 - Tori 14
* LU 196 - Tori 15
* LU 207 - Tori 16
* LU 214 - Tori 17
* LU 236 - Tori 18

### Deaths

Killed by Echo

Mauled by Mira

Slain by Mira, unwillingly/Stabbed himself

## Fun Facts

* One of Tori's favorite foods is fish, second only to rotten flesh
* The bone Tori gave his mate was a rib
* Tori hates being cold. Whenever it snows he hides in a cave by a fire until it passes
* Tori loves the rain, though he still hasn't figured out where it comes from
* Sometime after he learned about the concept the names, Tori began referring to his partner as "Love," making it their unofficial name
* After Love was revived, she and Tori had seven teal-speckled eggs. In their nest amongst these eggs is the egg Tori brought to the overworld from their first clutch. Though he has been told that this egg died, Tori refuses to believe this and takes care of this egg with its siblings.