Navi

## Background

### Life

Navi was born during the Central European Iron Age to a barbaric people similar to the Vikings. Not much is known about Navi during this time, including their given name, except for the fact that they were born with albinism. When they grew old enough for it to become apparent, the uneducated, barbaric people around them were under the impression that ingesting their bones would bring them luck on the battlefield, and so they ripped their body apart, limb by limb. At some point during this mutilation, Navis body released a magical burst as a last resort to keeping them alive. This burst killed two men and the rest of the people backed off. After this incident, the people's beliefs regarding Navis magical properties shifted to them revering the apparent witch, and believing them to be a reincarnation of God. They patched them up and conducted a relatively successful amputation that made Navi into nothing but a sexless torso. Using their newfound magic and the support of their followers, Navi managed to get themselves back to living and thriving. They used their newfound magic to move around, to hunt and, most importantly, to fight.

Under their lead, Navi's people successfully plundered and raided villages across all across Europe. They were soon given the nickname "Natus Vincere", latin for born to win, and statues were made in their image.

### Death and resurrection

When they eventually died at the old age of 22, their people attempted several obscure resurrection rituals to try and bring their God back. Their attempts were poor and the people were eventually wiped out by the magic that was too strong for their human bodies, successfully erasing Navis history from anyones living memory. These poor, unpolished resurrection attempts managed to turn Navi into a low density ghost, able to watch everything, but unable to interact with or do anything.

Navi grew restless and angry as the centuries passed with them left helpless to watch history unfold, and their accumulated rage made them denser until they were finally able to plunder again, this time on their own. They would haunt the people that settled in the land they had been bound to upon death, chasing them away and making their name known and feared again. This would go on until the humans no longer were born with the genes to deal with the unique, desert climate that surrounded them and eventually make the whole land vacant and inhabitable.

### The witches' arrival

Navi was happy to have their own land back, when one day a young Lucinda Cllenburs arrived and made her way into one of the villages abandoned mineshaft. Because Navi had died on the surface of the land, Lucinda managed to build her bunker just beyond Navi's reach, far underground. The witch kept bringing more witches with her underground and Navi grew furious. Each time a witch tried to leave or enter the cave, they would seise the moment and attack them. These attacks weren't a problem to the settlers as they rarely left the bunker, however this would change when Alma took power and started the summoning, causing several kids to end up killed each year before they could enter the caves.

### The exorcism of Natus Vincere

One day Alma decided to assemble a huge team consisting of all exorcists she could find to try and take down the centuries old, violent ghost. After a long fight, Navi could sense their incoming loss and resorted to a final action to avoid being exorcised - they sought out the least repulsive vessel and forcibly entered their body to protect themselves. The body they chose belonged to a young Divination prodigy named Joshua Dahl.

Joshua's body was unfamiliar and had qualities Navi had never possessed in life nor death (i.e. limbs), rendering them impotent for years. Upon noticing this, Alma decided that Joshua were to be kept alive to serve as a flesh prison for the ghost. The both of them were sentenced to spend the rest of their lives within Cllenburs Academy, serving as divination teachers so that the headmistress in action could keep an eye on them and any changes in Navi's behavior at all times.

#### Life with Joshua Dahl

They've spent the last couple of years stuck in this predicament, serving as an unwilling assistant to Joshua. By sharing a body with an anxious, young witch, they eventually learnt to feel humility and compassion, and they now see this situation as their new chance to live a relatively normal, fulfilling life through him. They were eventually given the nickname "Navi" and has gone by it ever since.

## Trivia

* Navi's dismembered body is a nod to the statues people of the European Iron Age made of "gods". Most of them being limbless or deformed.
* Their name was originally supposed to be Redavni, the palindrome of Invader. This was changed to Navi after countless of typos.
* The first step to Navis path towards humility came in the form of an unknown witch who would cross paths with the ghost as they went to do surface tasks for Lucinda Cllenbur herself. Navi did not end up killing this witch and the reasons for that is unknown.