Eucalyphis

> ***"Your strangeness is not my strangeness. Our metric of measuring strangeness is unique."***
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## Eucalyphis

### Affiliation

Formerly Tavern TownBrotherhood of the Kraken

The Circle

Mircea Rhuu

## Biographical information

### Date of birth

Sowing, 644MR

 **Date of Death**  Goldyn, 651 MR

## Physical description

### Gender

Genderless, although she uses female pronouns

### Eye color

Blue-green

Eucalyphis was an undead Elementari of Life born from a cherry blossom tree at the heart of the Liu Lan Monastery within Lo'Quai. While her original intention upon entering the Vale was simply escaping her past, she has found something far more sustaining that knowledge: a family, and a purpose.

## Overview

Having been 'brought up' around scholars and priests, messengers and diplomats, she quickly developed a love of reading and writing, rapidly devouring the contents of much of, if not all of the monastery's books. Her upbringing has also seen her become aware of the delicate nature of power, particularly the power conveyed though words and actions. Although brought up in the strictly hierarchical and civilized Lo'Quain society, Eucalyphis is beginning to understand that the world, and more specifically the Weft is not as structured and organised as her life in the monastery once was.

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## Personality

Having shed much of her naiveté and inexperience with the world, Eucalyphis has grown from her time in the Vale. Warped by certain monumental events, she has grown darker and a little crueler than she once was, now more willing to shed blood in the name of her cause. Her time in the Vale, combined with her early life has led Eucalyphis to take on a diplomatic role in many situations, often negotiating for her own safety or benefit before that of her allies or friends. After her corruption at the hands of her 'sire', Eucalyphis reached her lowest point, believing herself to be an abherration and an affront to all she once stood for, and it was during that period that she made a crucial decision, discarding Voy'himloc as her patron and eschewing the Gods in favour of taking up Phlemortis as her patron and guide. However, slowly but surely, Eucalyphis is slowly returning to where she once was, re-learning the simple truth that Life and Death are not seperate entities, but parts of the same cycle.

> "***What has been lost waits to be found."***
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## History

#### Early Life

Eucalyphis' birth was a slow process, taking several days for her to fully and absolute form - splintering and breaking her birth tree in the process. Seen as a gift from Voy'himloc, the monks within the monastery tasked themselves with training and educating her in the ways of Voy'himloc, intending to have her become a figurehead of sorts.

#### Leaving Lo'Quai

In the four and a half years spent confined within the walls of the monastery, she quickly grew bored and restless, and she felt pulled to go and explore the world outside of the home she had always known.

Her exit from the monastery was swift, and she spent the next six months wandering from Lo'Quai exploring the world around her as well as getting to know herself. She got as far as the edge of Arkhos before turning around to head for the Vale.

#### Current Time

Having settled fairly solidly in the Vale, Eucalyphis spent much of her time and energy devoting herself to the Brotherhood of the Kraken's cause as a member, but as the crew slowly dispersed and Eucalyphis was left on her own. Driven by the want to keep herself safe, Eucalyphis took interest in the Circle, first as an associate, but then as a member, after a chance event during the last Weftward adventure left her changed. Bitten by an ancient Vampire, Eucalyphis was corrupted, saved from the curse of Vampirism due to her unique nature, but not spared the consequences, becoming an 'Undead' Elementari. After being brought back to herself, Eucalyphis was 'adopted' by the Mircea Rhuu, and now remains with them as a member of the family. The curse spread and took hold, exacerbated by her turning away from Voy'himloc to follow Phlemortis, the Narga of Decay. It did not take her long to realise the error of her ways, but the further the decay spread, the clearer it was that the Corpse King was the only thing keeping her 'alive'. After a race against time on a Forming near the end of Goldyn, Eucalyphis, with the combined help of some mages, The Arcanist, several members of Shadow and The Sentinel, was able to be released from the curse. Her soul now able to return to the stream, she was granted a swift and merciful death by Galanth Duskbringer.

> "***Go out, go out I beg of you, and taste the beauty of the wild, behold the miracle of the earth with all the wonder of a child."***
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## Relationships

*Saylin Fishwitch* - Saylin was the first person Eucalyphis met and befriended after leaving Lo'Quai. She considers the other elementari to be close family, although she will not ever admit as much, but Eucalyphis often doubts Saylin, and quietly thinks of Saylin as lesser than herself. Even after her focus shifted away from a mutual purpose in the Kraken, Eucalyphis still held Saylin close, and learnt to respect the other elementari in time.

*Charybdis* - Her first friend and often enemy, Charybdis had been a figure in Eucalyphis' life since her 'birth'. Their relationship at times was strained, but always remained cordial, with the younger Elementari quietly growing to almost revere Chary. Shaken by her sacrifice and descent into Ruin, Eucalyphis has quietly mourned her loss, and now looks upon Shadow with more favour than once before. In the depths of her despair after having been corrupted, Eucalyphis looked to almost model herself after her friend, turning to dark magics and the Narga in the quest for purpose and power.

*Neyrin Dove* - Initially cowed by Neyrin's sheer precense, Eucalyphis' respect and admiration for the High Captain only grew the longer she spent with the Kraken. Although now a former member of the Brotherhood, Eucalyphis' friendship with Neyrin has only grown, now able to flourish as direct allies. As Eucalyphis stepped away from the Kraken and into the Circle, it was easier to see Neyrin as less of her leader and more of an equal, which only saw Eucalyphis' fondness grow.

*Aodhan Codona* - Siblings through unlikely means, Eucalyphis and Aodhan met out of chance after the Mircea Rhuu's brief incursion into the Vale, both drawn in by the comfort of familie. Having been through much in such a short time, Aodhan was one of the few there for Eucalyphis through her darkest hours, and the only one she could truly confide in about the agony of her condition.

*Correlius Adkarus* - What began as merely allies turned into something almost resembling friendship, with Eucalyphis coming to rely on and trust Correlius for his even head and cool judgements. However, while their working partnership was great, there seemed to be a quiet tension between the two, even to the point of wariness.

*Sir Galanath Duskbringer* - While not a connection Eucalyphis actively sort to cultivate, it was one she found occuring anyway. Their mutual worship of the Corpse King insured a relationship built on mutual respect, and at least for Eucalyphis, some small amount of fear. Although they both knew the next natural step for Eucalyphis - to abandon her familie in the Circle and wholly embrace Shadow and Phlemortis, and fight at Galanath's side, it was a step Eucalyphis fought bitterly to the end. When her time came, it was Galanath that granted Eucalyphis a mericful death.

## Rumors

* Voy'himloc, not Ashkhet, is her patron deity.
* She is far older than she pretends to be
* Eucalyphis left Lo'Quai, not to explore, but because she murdered someone
* She will stop at nothing to gather information, and has done terrible things in the past under the guise of gathering knowledge.