Pythia the Corrupted

*"I have seen the key to VISION, I am the oracle to her higher purpose. I see all. I KNOW ALL!" - Corrupted Pythia's words to the Seekers of the Forgotten in Mitera's Silver Era Temple of Vision*

 Pythia was a poor girl who brought her brother Whitaker to the Rift Island of VIsion, also known as Mushroom Isle. On this island she somehow separated from her older brother, and was called deeper and depper into the Island's forest. Towards the forest's epicenter where the rift itself was present, underneath a giant stone monolith. Under this monolith, was a Silver Era Temple to the goddess Mitera; known as the Temple of Vision. There Pythia was present, breathing in a strange pink vapor from the rift itself; and she attacked the Seekers on sight. Phythia is a sad story, about a girl who was corrupted by the powerful call of mus and the enthrallment of rifts and the knowledge they inevitably hold.

## Twisted Beauty - Appearance

Pythia was once a beautiful woman as suggested by the silver locket engraved with her name found by the Seekers. It depicted a small portrait of a rather handsome looking young woman with blonde hair smiling with her arm around a man wearing fancy clothes and a nervous grin. But the unnatural properties of mus deprave and pervert all things beautiful that it comes in contact with. Pythia was found by the Seekers in a cave substructure underneath the Temple of Vision, the floor filled with a half an inch of pink hazy water. Pythia was reduced to a small female figure crouched in this water. Her face pressed up against a fissure in the wall that released a pinkish vapor that she was scrambling to breath in. Mus had warped her into a strange mure, covered in rippeded rags that barely
covered any of her now naked body.  Her hair and parts of her scalp were matted and peeling off, and her eyes emitting a mysterious pink light. Pythia's once smiling face was contorted into an unhuman grin, her hands and fingers twice as long as they should be; ending in pointed claws.

## Whitaker's Letters - A Brother's worry

The information about these siblings is known do to a number of unsent letters addressed to Whitaker and Pythia's mother found across Mushroom Island by the Seekers. This letters were obviously never sent, but most likely were a sense of comfort to the scared and alone Whitaker who was just looking for his sister.

### Dear Mother - Letter One

This handwritten note was found by the Seekers of the Forgotten in the tattered tent of an abandoned campsite on the pink sands of the Rift Isle's beaches along with some other supplies. It reads:

> *"Dear Mother,*
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> *Pythia is certainly unwell, she has led me to a strange island that doesn't even appear on the map of the Isles.  She was jabbering on about how it was calling to her in her dreams.  You know that I worry for her, ever since she lost the baby.  Now she is begging me to go with her into a forest made out of bloody mushrooms because something is wants her to be here. She cannot keep dragging me about the realm, I'm going to get killed out here.*
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> *-Whitaker"*
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### Some sort of Trance - Letter Two

This leather-bound journal was found by the Seekers of the Forgotten right outside of the large stone tower at the center of the island. It was on a stone next to a small fire pit with a pot of spoiled stew. It reads:

> "*Dear Mother,*
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> *I don’t know why I'm even addressing these to you anymore because we've been stranded here for who knows how long. This island seems to be home to a powerful magic that looks to be leaking from a large stone monolith.  I pity Pythia who has been eating bloody fungus (I detest mushrooms), but the peculiar thing about the mushrooms is that they seem to have a calming effect on her.  Like she is in some sort of trance, I think they are psychoactive as well because she keeps seeing things that don’t seem to really be there.  We are by the monolith that she has been dying to get to and I can confirm it's bloody rock solid. Pythia says we can go inside if I join her on "the other side". She's crazy and we are going to die on a rock, I hope you're happy mother.*
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> *-Whitaker"*
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### She Would See All - Letter Three

This scrap of paper was found by the Seekers of the Forgotten, behind a pew on The Temple of Vision clutched in the hands of a curled up skeleton in fine clothes. It reads:

> "Dear mother,
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> Pythia is gone, I knew I promised to keep her safe but I couldn't she went completely mad in the forest and I chased her all the way into some sort of crypt. I tried my best mother, but she just kept going she said that she was a vessel for a greater power; that she would know all - that she would see all. And then she went down deeper and I couldn't follow. I don’t know where she could've gone from here.
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> -Whitaker"
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