Cinnabar Murrey

"*When I was younger, I used to be so afraid of the nighttime, because I associated it with the things that scared me. I've hidden from the night sky so much I've forgotten how beautiful it was.*"
—Cinna to Kane Solace[src]

**Cinnabar Murrey**, often known simply as **Cinna**, is a lycanthropic ranger and a founding member of the Red Rites. An attack on Cinna's family by Malus Solus at a young age left her orphaned and lycanthropic. She found love and had children, but was forced to flee Silverbreak when walls were set up to oppress the werewolves. After living in the woods for years, she re-entered the world and joined the Red Rites. Now, having founded the underground werewolf colony of Redhaven, she can live with her husband and children in peace until the next great threat to her happiness emerges.

## Description

### Appearance

Cinna is forty years old, and has dark brown hair. She has a pallid complexions and bags under her eyes from an inconsistent sleep schedule. Her hair has begun to grey in certain areas due to stress, age, or werewolfhood.

She is rarely seen not donning her cloak which is dyed a deep scarlet red. The cloak drapes around the shoulders and falls down to just below her midriff, as well as bearing a hood to cover her face. Beneath that, she commonly wears a brown woollen tunic, which, having been her entire wardrobe for the last twelve years, is ragged and full of holes. She has leather boots.

In her werewolf form, Cinna very much resembles Malus Solace. She is large and muscular, with red eyes and darkened grey fur. A streak of red occasionally blends into the spine of her fur, as a result of the magic from her cloak. Despite taking on Malus Solace's appearance, she is still biologically female.

### Personality

"*Selfless, steadfast and intelligent friend who fought her afflictions with courage and persistence.*"
—Skoria describing Cinna in a short-lived eulogy[src]
Cinna is not a social creature, in part due to her anxiety over her condition, and in part due to a naturally reserved character. She cares deeply about the people she loves, but love has not always been an easy thing for her to express. She can lack a filter in conversation, which sometimes offend people.

She's enormously practical, preferring responses that solve complications efficiently and with few negative consequences. She also has a rigid sense of justice, thinking that crimes should definitely be punished unless the perpetrator had no control over their actions.

Despite a general lack of trust due to her condition, she is far too quick to trust those in positions of power. When it was discovered that Babo had been withholding a Blight Seed, Cinna argued that the seed should be given to Galian Pridestone. The rest of the party thought the idea laughable, as she was suggesting giving a weapon of mass destruction to the leader of an army.

Although Cinna has only ever been intimate with Ty, she is attracted to both men and women.

### Abilities

Cinna is proficient with the longbow, a skill she learnt from Ty. This and her time living in the woods has granted her a lot of experience with hunting, and that time also led her to develop the spell Hunter's Mark, and Speak with Animals. Her magical abilities are limited, but she can cast Cure Wounds, a spell she learnt from her grandmother, who worked as a nurse before retirement.

## Biography

### Childhood

Cinnabar was born to Gamlon and Teylor Murrey in the city of Silverbreak in 4529 PF, during the Hundred Year War. Her father was the captain of the Silverbreak Guard, and her mother was a baker. When she was six or seven, Malus Solace bypassed the city's defenses (the walls of Silverbreak had not yet been constructed) and entered the Murrey household, where he killed Cinna's parents. He bit the young and terrified Cinna instead of killing her, leaving her with lycanthropy. Malus Solace left, and Cinna was raised by her grandmother, Evelyn Murrey. Evelyn was a nurse and was trained in rudimentary healing magic, which is how Cinna learnt the spell Cure Wounds.

When she was 14 (4543 PF), she had her first transformation. It was triggered by the full moon. Evelyn sewed a cloak for her, which was altered magically with blood so it would prevent rage-induced transformation. It did not work to prevent moon-induced transformations.

### Early Adulthood

At age 16 (4545 PF), Cinna met Tyber Huddson. He was a hunter's apprentice, and offered to share his knowledge of archery with her. Cinna didn't take to it too quickly, but Tyber was patient and would come to her every day to help her figure it out. Eventually the friendship became romantic.

Cinna had a natural affinity for learning languages, and she didn't feel comfortable talking to much people except Ty, so she got a job as a translator of foreign documents at the local library. It was a quiet job, At 25 (4554 PF), when they were financially stable, Cinna and Ty were married. As a wedding gift, Cinna gave Ty a magpie, which he named Mrs Lovett, and in turn Ty gave Cinna her own bow. Not long after that, she fell pregnant. After nine months, she gave birth to fraternal twins, Rheo and Silvia Huddson.

### Reclusion

Two years after the birth of her children (4557 PF), it was announced that the walls of Silverbreak would be silvered in order to keep out the werewolf population. Fearing for the safety of her and her family from werewolf hunters, Cinna fled from Silverbreak to the Clasps. She set up a den for herself. It was a sad life, but there could be no consequences to her transformations. There were weeks where she'd spend days in wolf form. Other wolves in the Clasps respected her territory. Her diet consisted mostly of deer and berries. She kept notebooks, one filled with her daily activities, and another filled with poems. She is very self-conscious about the poetry, and has not shared it with anyone. Taking lives became commonplace, which she justified to herself. For one of the years, she tried staying vegetarian, but by the end she was seriously malnourished. Every few years, she'd migrate further west. Eventually, she was approached by a stranger who gave her a ticket to the Everfall Festival. As someone without a fixed address, it was a confusing surprise. She had been driven near insane by her isolation, and it would be good to talk to a person again. It had been twelve years. It was now 4569 PF.

### Red Rites

Cinna was a founding member of the adventuring party named the Red Rites. During the interrogation of Galian Pridestone, she, along with Leor, worked on decoding the note that Gale had written, using her linguistic prowess and Leor's high intelligence.

### Revelation

On a full moon's night while travelling from Wood's Bounty to Magicnun, Cinna forgot to leave the camp and transformed. The Red Rites were all forced awake and into combat, where Cinna was eventually defeated, with great difficulty. Entering as a participant in the Bone Queen's Fight Pit, she took a great risk and doffed her cloak. She transformed into her werewolf form, unaware that her opponent, Patchy, was a werewolf hunter. The combat was short-lived, and Patchy was easily slain, but this turned much of the audience against her, as well as the Bone Queen herself. In a chaotic flurry, a Blight Seed was activated and caused the fight pit's collapse, which most blamed on Cinna. In the Titan's Maw, Cinna was struck by the Bone Queen's axe and died.

### Resurrection

"*The beast inside won.*"
—Cinna's last words, on the verge of her death at the hands of the Bone Queen[src]

After Cinna's consciousness began fading, she felt a voice grab onto her and mutter "Not yet." She was restored to life, albeit permanently trapped inside her wolf form. The Warden informed Cinna that she was a wanted individual in Silverbreak, and that discretion was advised. The party traveled to Cinna's old home, where she was reunited with her grandmother and daughter. It was meant to be a joyous occasion, but she discovered that Ty had been arrested, presumably for his association with her, and that her son had joined a gang of troubled youths.

### Redhaven

Cinna decided to stay with her family and live in the caves near Silverbreak, so that she could found a city intended on the rehabilitation of werewolves. She named the city Redhaven, after the Red Rites who had helped her to open up and accept herself.

## Relationships

### Red Rites

* Babo
* Brimy
* Darcy
* Kane
* Leor
* Nym
* Skoria

"*Why did you lie to me?"
"I thought you were lying to us.*"
—A dialogue between Cinna and Babo about Kane's letters[src]
Cinna disapproves of Babo's impulsiveness and thinks of it as a detriment to the team, but appreciates her wit and light-hearted humour in times where such a demeanour is called for. Babo was mistrustful of Cinna due to the blotted out letter that Kane wrote for her.Darcy asked Cinna to help him learn to use the bow and arrow.

Kane and Cinna had a mutual dislike, caused by each's respective connection to Malus Solace, Kane being his estranged son and Cinna taking on the appearance of her childhood attacker. During Cinna's first transformation in front of the Red Rites, Kane had a nervous breakdown caused by the sight of his father. Cinna was adamant about Kane suffering for his crimes in Callstall. When writing his letters to the party, Kane wrote what is thought to be a long-winded apology to Cinna, but then blotted it out and simply wrote "I'm sorry".

Cinna sees herself in Leor, as they are both orphans who see themselves as active hazards to the people they love.

When Cinna was trapped in wolf form, Nym was patient with her as she used inked claws to tell Nym of her children and the complications of her altered form.

Skoria wrote Cinna's eulogy.

### Personal

* Gamlon
* Teylor
* Evelyn
* Tyber
* Rheo
* Silvia
Cinna always looked up to her father, and she ascribes her sense of justice to him. Gamlon's position as a high-ranking government official informed Cinna's naive trust of authority figures and his role in protecting the city informed her preference for protective people in romantic contexts. She fondly recalls a story of Gamlon taking her up to the top of Silverbreak's walls (which were made of stone at the time) and pointing out at the horizon to where the Clasps lay. Fiercely protective of his daughter, Gamlon gave his life to protect her. Cinna remains eternally grateful for that ultimate sacrifice.

## Paraphernalia

* Cinna's Cloak
* Cinna's Bow
* Lion Coin (formerly)
* Great Owl's Shroud (formerly)
* Grappling Arrows
* Net Arrows
* Poison Arrows

## Meta

Cinnabar is based on the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, particularly the adaptation of Ruby Lucas in the series Once Upon a Time, and also takes inspiration from Cassidy Sharp from the series This Is Us and Lupa from Roman mythology. Her name is centred around the colour red, with Cinnabar being a bright scarlet rock, a form of mercury sulfide, and Murrey is a dark reddish purple tincture used in heraldry, intended to be the colour of mulberries.

She was originally a half-elf, but was demoted to quarter-elf due to that race's aging screwing with the timeline. She retains half-elf abilities, but a human appearance.

## Gallery

Cinna in CallstallCinna in the Crystal KingdomCinna in FrostfordCinna in SilverbreakCinna at the first Gay Rites prideCinna at the second Gay Rites pride
## See also

* Cinnabar Murrey/Theories
* Category:Cinna-Centric
* Casting
* Character Sheet