Cherith Bowells (Eng)

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## Summary

Some centuries ago, before the events of the first saga, their ancestors were mostly witches and heretic pagans who were escaping an expansionist invasion of the Roman Empire on the Island of Britain at that time, they, as a last option of resistance and fidelity to their beliefs, performed a coven-like ritual with the intention of protecting later generations of their family with a blood seal that would appear in their descendants, but the mob of villagers living in the nearest town found their location and captured many of the clan members to burn them before the ritual was completed, so it could not be completed properly and the spell would only affect some descendants differently.

Some members fled to deeper wooded areas in the interior of Wales to hide and continue their lives in a peaceful manner. This story is presented so that the reader can learn more about the character's past but she is unaware of this aspect of her family entirely. Her brothers disappeared one night without a trace and she decides to go looking for them, as she has a hunch that they are still alive, she claims to have seen something she surely shouldn't have that night, but she can't remember clearly what happened and it seems that they altered her memories. She tells her parents that she wants to search the world for her sister, but they are still distraught over the loss of their other children and do not let her and overprotect her more than before, but she manages to escape anyway.

Cherith agrees to let herself be guided by the astral energies to reveal the answers in her book. These energies control her arm and she begins to write at hyper speed a large amount of information. Among this data, she reads a paragraph about the origin of this different universe in which she is trapped. That universe, the writing says, is as old as the gift of human thought, and that humans have always been fighting battles against malicious entities within themselves since the beginning of time.

Before the events of the series, Cherith worked as a supermarket cashier. It was a job that she found boring but that she could perform without much difficulty.

When Cherith arrives at the bridge that functions as a halfway point between one universe and another, an entity appears and reveals to her that it can see her soul, and that it knows the grudge that her ancestors inherited from her. The entity provokes her by telling her that she and her family are just a "bastard race" to increase her rancor and make her lose control.

### Absurd World:

Cherith and the group wake up and discover that they are in a place they do not recognize, after exploring a little they realize that they are locked in a kind of cage because of a thin, faceless, gelatinous entity that is able to communicate with them. This entity, which has an erratic and somewhat childish behavior, tells them that they have been transported there to be part of its entertainment, as it is very lonely. The group discovers that they have a kind of cable connected to their legs that prevents them from escaping from the place. And that they don't have long to live, as that cable is connected to the entity that is sucking the life out of them. Despite feeling uncomfortable because of the ridiculousness of the situation, Cherith sees this as an opportunity to show her skills as a writer and takes the subject and the creative process very seriously, so she demands twice as much from the group. Anton sees it all as torture and that they now had two bosses controlling them. But Yukiko realizes what Cherith is doing, she is stalling while the others create some plan to escape and decide to play along with the entity. When the entity is destroyed, a man appears from the rubble. This man tells them that the entity could be a materialization of his obsession with finishing his work and that he is usually very picky in how he creates his stories, so he regrets telling them that their stories were bad. Cherith seems to begin to feel an initial attraction to the writer, who seemed to have the same fondness and dedication as she does for creating stories. But it quickly disappears when he finishes his sentence by assuring her that he understood that not everyone could measure up to him and that not everyone could ever have the same capacity for appreciation and wit as he did. Realizing that he was too cocky, Cherith and the others leave him to his fate.

### Protective Memories:

When Cherith and the group got lost in the Mindverse, a mysterious entity appears before them in a friendly manner and eager to converse. The group doesn't trust him but the entity insists, offering explanations about how the world they are in works while telling them that he is able to produce energy thanks to a small moon he has inside a lantern. She tells him to excuse him but that she has reason to be suspicious of an entity. The entity then speaks to Yukiko and asks her if the necklace is very important to her, but Yukiko lies and tells him that it is just a decoration.

Despite this, Cherith falls into the trap and begins to lose herself in her own happy memories. This brings her extreme joy and a sense of extreme well-being. Without realizing it, her body begins to atrophy until she is enveloped in a kind of cubicle made of energy.

### **Crying Walls**:

Cherith and the others arrive at an old house tended by its owner in the countryside. Cherith and Yukiko are attacked by an entity that makes water gush from the walls during the night. Cherith is dragged to the bottom by the creature while trying to escape through the window. Upon reaching the bottom, thinking that she could no longer escape from that situation, she sees herself sleeping in bed being attacked by the entity that is interfering with both girls' dreams. Discovering that they might be victims of an illusion, she manages to rise to the surface using the sheets of her bed to tie the tentacles to the foot of the bed, fooling the monster, who was not looking at the time; since Yukiko was distracting it, Ella decides to use the pages of her book to seal the cracks that the monster is causing.

When they finally wake up, they start to think about the possibility that the entity was not created by them, it already existed in the walls of the room feeding on the anguish of the former guests who occupied that room. The entity was only attracted by the anguish they both feel about the loss of their loved ones and about the long road they must cross to finally heal.

After defeating it, they wake up drenched in the illusion. Then, Anton asks them what happened and they tell him that nothing happened.

## Personality:

During the series she proves to be a quiet and reserved girl with a penchant for fantasy and mystery stories, to the point of always writing her own stories and ideas in her book. She constantly has her mind in the clouds and is seen by others as abstracted and absent in conversations, but becomes very enthusiastic when it comes to explaining her ideas for her stories or talking about her country of origin. She is also a character who proves to be very fond of her ideals and sticking to what she sets out to do, even if it means making drastic decisions (such as running away from home)

## Skills:

She relies on her book of infinite blank pages that she carries throughout the series, every time she tears out one sheet of paper from place, another one reappears. In these, she can write some quality or intention and then tear off the page and attach it to an object or living being so that it acquires (or cancels) some of its original characteristics and is replaced by what is written on the page. At the beginning of the series he cannot perform major changes or effects on objects or people but as he gains experience, his mastery of this skill improves considerably.

His system works with signs instead of words, each sign he draws affects things differently.

During the fight with, he hurts his hand and makes a wound. This wound starts to bleed a little and stains the book she is holding with the injured hand. This makes her discover a new ability, when the blank pages come into contact with a small drop of blood, the ability to alter aspects of reality increases and the effects become more direct on living beings.