Calia

shes a centaur!! she lives up around the Moorwarden and Kahmi and shes known omen legit all her life and is The Safehouse for omen, shes in her mid-late 70s now, but when she was about 19-20 she met Omen the winter after he got yeeted into a river and found the mask; omen was like. 17-18, and she found the poor bastard in her family's shed, she managed to convince her mom (Delder) to let him stay "at least for a little while"; he'd help with the ranch and they became close friends (don't do sadness/blue wind is a really good omen/calia song)

Delder was very rude and prudish until she was murdered by an over-envious man who wanted their ranch land and hired a magic-specific assassin (fireball!!!) to kill Delder and Calia; the assassin tried to kill Calia, managing to burn her face in the process, but omen intervened and killed the guy omen: ***I HAVE FIRE RESISTANCE BABEY***

Omen saves Calia from being burned to death. Calia's like "oh shit my moms dead" and so omen helps her out with it for a couple years. He finds another centaur named Dormin in town. He introduces Calia and Dormin and they hit it off. Eventually Omen gets restless and goes off to see Aerin. Eventually Calia gets pregnant. Omen comes back to assist with the labor.

Phidral gets born to and has a twin but their twin dies. omen buries the son because he didnt want to upset dormin and calia. Omen goes back to Aerin after it, missing out on bonding with Phidral. Phidral is scared of Omen.

**omen:** why are you afraid of me? you've known me your whole life

**phidral:** you've known me. i dont know a single thing about you besides your involvement with my mother, whatever that entails.

**omen:** in.... involvement?

**phidral:** why else would you come here every winter, you- you probably have some deal with her, taxes from the ranch or- or some *sexual* arrangement.

**omen:** i- phidral, your mother and i are not business-ly or sexually involved. i've known her since she was young, and her ranch is safe-

**phidral:** safe from what exactly? dont think you can hide those swords from my family, i know where you put them in the shed.

**omen:** calia doesnt like them in the house. not since you were born- not since the boys-

**phidral:** dont talk about emigar and dwirn.

**omen:** --

**omen:** ...... deep sigh

**phidral:**

**omen:** yes. i use those swords. i use them when i'm hired to kill people.

**phidral:** looks at him and shifts inward

**omen:** i've known your mother since before i owned those swords, however. i saved her life and helped her meet your father. since then she's let me visit and live here like family, i was even there when you were born.

**phidral, *softening her gaze just a smidge:*** ......

**omen:** when people threaten the ranch, i threaten them back, i dont want to see any of you guys hurt. it's why i... disappeared for a few years after dormin died.

**phidral:** i had noticed...

**phidral:** scary man in a mask

**omen:** stupid idiot in a mask more like.

**Balzu:** why is gair so hostile towards omen? He isnt as mean to the rest of us?

**Phidral:** mmmm theres always been a tension between the two of them that i havent been able to break in gair; their first introduction was when dwirn was 5 and omen came to visit and encountered dwirn along the fenceline. Gair saw a stranger in a mask talking to one of our boys when they were barely that old, and he would have trampled him if calia hadnt stepped in to explain that he was a friend of hers.

**Balzu:** ah..

**Phidral:** Gair isnt.... The most accustomed to twolegged folk, Omen mostly avoids gair when hes here alone, staying at calia's side mostly when not roughhousing with the boys. Hes nasty to Omen when hes here by himself, but with Klen and everyone else around, he tries to be... More tame... For their sake

**Balzu:** what a bully..

**Phidral:** it's not.. Gair's lived in the moorwarden most of his life, in the herds that are strewn about it. It's not like every twolegged folk they'd encounter in there had pure intentions. Many of the smaller herds have been tricked and bullied into giving up more and more territory for wooding and farmland. If its just one man, gair just wants to protect us and sizes them up easily, more on the offense; but if its a caravan.. He becomes more defensive..

gair is big meany but thats just bc he aint used to people