Mere Dur

## Personality [Neutral Good]

Mere is self righteous, due to her upbringing surrounded by life clerics, and *always thinks they have the best judgement.* They tended to see their world in black and whites before meeting Skelli. Now they see the world in very very dark greys and off whites. They find that their action aren't reprehensible, as their end goal of helping people is noble, and technically no one living gets hurt in the process (at least not physically hurt). *Integrity and competency are highly valued by Mere.*

## Backstory

Mere Dur comes from a family of wealthy life clerics. From childhood, they were always raised to think that the greatest accomplishment was to become a healer and find a job tending to those who needed help. Mere Dur believed this and eventually enrolled at (i don't know the name for the academy). They were often bored during their classes, with the exception of biology, but they believed that the issue was that they weren't trying hard enough to engage with the material. However, the first time Mer was made to tend to an actual patient during practical training, they despised it. The patient screamed and moaned in pain and never stopped begging the doctors and nurses to fix them. Mere knew they couldn't do this for the rest of their life, but also knew they needed to find a new career path soon if they didn't want to waste away their years in a field they resented. Her parents were disappointed that Mere was switching out of being a cleric, but agreed to continue to fund her education as long as she promised to use her eventual power for good. The only spellcasting school that the one class she enjoyed, biology, would actually transfer credits was necromancy. When Mere switched into necromancy, their loud and righteous personality made it very hard for them to find any friends. Due to this, Mere was paired up with the only other friendless student during a year long group project, a short and unsociable tabaxi by the name of Skelli Jones. Mere's first impressions of the tabaxi was that she was an unsociable, unlikable, unethical, and only at the school for a decent paying job that could be waiting down the line. They were not unwilling to share these opinions straight to Skelli's face either. Mere would be met with retorts from Skelli that Mere was a naive, uppity, trust fund bird, who's never actually worked a day in their life. When Mere began to work on their project with Skelli though, they learned they had one thing in common with Skelli: a passion for necromancy. Mere began to develop at respect for her classmates genuine skill at the craft. Mere and Skelli had several discussions about necromancy, which slowly began to converge about two specific topics, necromancies reputation and its ethics. They both found the negative reputation of necromancy to be unfounded considering its many potential uses. Mere suggested that maybe if necromancers had a set of rules to follow, that people wouldn't be so wary of them. That is how many late nights began consumed by discussions of ethics between Mere and Skelli. Through the formation of the rules, the two found a middle ground between their differences. When Mere wanted to be able to pay in advance for bodies, Skelli pointed out how this could cause those who fall in financial trouble to be pushed to take their own lives to get the money to their families. When Skelli wanted valuables on dug up bodies to be fair game like the bodies themselves, Mere argued that graverobbing is only allowable due to the lack of available bodies and taking the valuables had nothing to do with scarcity and only leads to personal financial gain, where the bodies can be used to help other people. These discussions helped develop a deep friendship between Mere and Skelli. When Mere eventually graduated, they and Skelli departed ways, but they both agreed to always follow the set of rules they had developed.. Mere was able to obtain their trust fund upon completing their education and used it to "illegally but morally" obtain bodies from the morgue of a city they had settled down in. They took on whatever jobs they deemed could help those in the most need. Mere was able to avoid being drafted into the war, but she found out that their friend had not been so lucky. During the wartime, Skelli often sent letters to Mere. Mere was happy that their friend seemed to both thrive and survive on the battle field. Mere continued to hone their skills within the town. Mere had paid the embalmer to learn about their trade and was now able to resurrect bodies that could pass as normal people[until the smell started]. When the war ended, Mere had Skelli occasionally running into them during her vagabond ways. However, one day the visits from Skelli completely stopped, along with any letters. [diabolical dm this is were the assasin stuff is up to you]

## Fun Facts

* Skelli's original nickname for Mere Dur was Doctor Lakenstein
* Mere Dur's nickname for Skelli was Nuisance
* The nicknames started off either derogatory or insulting but eventual became a sign a companionship
* They both eventually switched to using eachother's actual names because the nicknames were way too long
* Mere prefers fresh bodies
* if its italicized I may change it later/ the wording isn't quite right yet