Monster Girl Quest verse

**Name**: Elena Carill

**Race**: Custodi

**Age**: Unknown (Probably about her late teens to early twenties)

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Elena is the runaway and incognito princess of the distant kingdom of Pallandia. She is the direct descendant of the lost sorceress queen Athene and her mysterious lover, the so called “dark hero”.. It is said that she was adopted by the current royal family against her will after an unspecified incident led to her rediscovery by the nation at large. It is said that this and many other factors made her decide to runaway from her new home.

It is said that her grandfather, a mage of incredible power and infamous for his mischievous tendencies and exploits took her in as his own student while also helping him run his ever unusual traveling store of the magical and mundane. However, Elena quickly proved way too much for the old man and she soon became a threat to his very way of life, so he abandoned her under the guise of having her running errands for his store.

Namely running a smaller satellite booth to sell products to passing travelers on the edge of town. When she returns to pick up more supplies, she finds the store had departed while she was working.

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Elena is a bit difficult to read. She’s intelligent, cautious, and cunning, but also entirely willing to throw herself right into danger if she feels like something must be done. She’s fascinatingly wise beyond her years and has experienced many things over such a short time… both in part due to her own journey and being forced into dangerous situations by her wily grandfather. There’s a subtle look in her eyes of someone that had been kicked and stabbed in the back one too many times by people she trusted.

Probably because she has.

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Having inherited talents from both of her famous parents, she not only is an incredibly experienced adventurer at such a young age, but she has already accumulated a vast arsenal of skills, abilities, talents, items, traits and more to complement her eternally evolving and expanding powers.

For the more perverted people here, she does know skills typically used by monsters and the like in this world, but she tends to not use them unless she’s in one of her more sadistically frisky moods. However, despite her more playful side, she has no actual interest in sex, but she is entirely willing to toy with someone until they break, so… I wouldn’t call that an improvement.

Admittedly, she feels more comfortable being out on her own than having to constantly wrangle her ever troublesome adoptive grandfather and his collection of dangerous items and artifacts. Unsurprisingly, being a “human” in a world full of perverts tends to make camping between towns an experience.

While she normally looks human outside of using her skills, she does have a hidden true form that is rather… difficult to process and has brought many misunderstandings. Although the angel, demon, dragony thing is an apt description of how it looks.

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**Notes (Need to sort out thoughts)**

* Elena Carill is an alias built from the first name of her adoptive sister and the surname of her grandfather. Her actual name is unknown.
* Elena’s hair used to be much longer, but she cut it all short like it was back in her adventuring days before she was forced to act like a princess.
* Elena was not born or raised on this planet. However, she is reluctant to share the story of how she ended up in this situation in the first place.
* She is not particularly a fan of the Carill’s traveling store employee uniform. It tends to emphasize her chest and curves and looks more like a waitress or maid uniform. However, it was pretty much all she had to wear when she was dumped here by her grandfather.
* Elena misses her modern life with electricity and running water, but magic and a good sturdy tent will have to do.

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**Pallandia**

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* While there are many paintings of the legendary queen of sorcery that was her mother, there are no actual paintings of her father despite being as significant to the nation’s history as her mother.
* I am not sure how Ilias felt about Pallandia’s attempts to make their own gods, but Elena’s father is the reason why they are dead. While the nation blames him for their decline, it’s the parasitic beings they created that were the true cause. In the end, the mysterious stranger was always painted as the villain or dark hero of the story who stole away the beloved queen and sent the country to ruin..
* Nobody knows who or what Queen Athene’s lover and Elena’s father was as none dared to record the entire truth out of fear of the drawing the wrath of the council. Some accounts say it was actually a woman, others say they were a monster, others say they were a foreigner, and so forth, all scattered fragments of a longer tale.
* Elena’s mother could be considered the one that invented modern magi-tech. However, most of her greatest creations were sealed away or forgotten during the rise of the Pallandian council and hidden away somewhere for her daughter to unlock and discover.
* It might also be important to know that Pallandia was extremely advanced during the days of Queen Athene. Evidence of this is quite blatant with the many vaults she left behind full of secrets and wonders, but they would only unlock for someone of her direct heritage.
* It should be noted that while she is aware of her bloodline, she is not aware of her true nature or potential. However, it’s more than enough to attract unwanted attention from those with ulterior motives.

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**Custodi**

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* Custodi are a common plot device in folk tales despite not being known by name and are typically mistaken for other races despite being something else entirely. However, outside of being meddlers capable of making fools into wise men and cowards into great heroes, their true nature and motives are unknown.
* Most random encounters with Custodi are typically from lost travelers and merchants that stumble upon them. Whether the “stranger” was waiting for them or just happens to be in a place where people get lost is a matter of discussion. What happens next really depends on how the traveler treats the stranger when they offer their help.
* Custodi are seen as system administrators to Apoptosis and typically contacted about anomalies if possible. Unfortunately, they are impossible to detect and attempts to make contact fail.
* It’s likely the Custodi are the ones that had a hand in creating the universe and setting the rules for the cosmos that set events in motion, but for most, such a thing is considered nothing more than theory or even blasphemy.
* I am not sure how Alice I and Ilias feel about their mysterious creators. They could see them as parents that simply let them loose upon the world and abandoned them from all that I know.
* To someone like Promestein, they are the missing piece of the puzzle in their quest for the ultimate truths of the universe. Whether they are willing to share these secrets is a mystery in of itself.
* When it comes to the whole light vs dark, order vs chaos, and so on, Custodi essentially exist outside of those restrictions and are unaffected by them.