Seimora Kei

> "To fight, you must have the intent to harm behind each of your blows." ~ Seimora to Adaleth during their sparring session.
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**Seimora Nedavir Prevad Kei** is a young elven exile once in service to Taimez Vetaa, being one of her inner circle, a personal adjutant and an invoker of the Temple of Seiraba. He was aligned with the Doubters closely after the supposed death of his former superior and played a pivotal role in the organization's shadow war against Saego Vetaa and the second awakening during the Dark Year, ultimately marrying the kelaani Adaleth - a close companion of his during the shadow war.

## Appearance

Seimora, like all marked by the High Guard is of lanky form, ginger hair and green eyes. He is short in height and has an almost child-like rounded face. Seimora used to wear his hair at an ankle-length, as per Temple tradition, but upon his banishment by Taimez Vetaa, his hair was cut shorter, now reaching to his neck. He is fond of form-fitting clothing in the order's whites when not in combat and dons a full-body suit of armor powered by arcane elven technology when fighting, a lacquered black and seemingly too heavy for his diminutive frame, alongside with a snout-like helmet that protects his head and face from both trauma and noxious gases. When he was younger, he wore a standard-issue Seiraban captain suit as evidenced by his younger self. He wields a two-handed longsword in combat, that he named Mors.

## Personality

Seimora often projects a dutiful facade, being terse, polite and to the point when fulfilling his duties and representing the interests of the any faction he belongs to, being before everything else an official. Beyond that he is however fairly lively and emotional, bursting out in violent anger at those he considers enemies, or making sardonic and sarcastic remarks in casual conversation. He tends to be fond of mildly sardonic humour in general. Despite his seemingly prickly persona, he can be deeply affectionate to those who have earned his trust, trying to be understanding, if a little awkward.

Seimora can be impulsive and prone to violence, if convinced he is facing a truly monstrous enemy. He is analytical and very quick to contradict and scrutinize things and point out flaws, and also can be tenacious and determined to almost a suicidal degree, when convinced his goal is reasonable, yet tends to give up easily on plans or goals that don't live up to his scrutiny. He is known as the "Memories of Taimez" for his willingness to criticize his sovereign, as much as for his general advisory role. This quality of his however can express itself as misdirected ramblings, which can grate on the nerves of more collected and self-assured individuals.

His personality to an extent is colored by his devotion to both Taimez Vetaa, whom he sees as his true sovereign and to Seiraba himself and the legacy the god has bequeathed upon his followers. He enjoys fighting and killing what he perceives to be enemies, not only of him, but of justice itself, taking pride in his victory. It is insinuated by him, however that this love for violence of his is a coping mechanism for something deeper within.

Upon Taimez' supposed death at Erwent, Seimora turned at first despondent, seeking redemption-in-death as was his temple custom for his failure, but gradually with both Adaleth's support and the weight of responsibility for continuing Taimez' war against the end of the world falling mainly on him, he slowly internalized the qualities he admired about his Shroud Priestess. This showed his strategic acumen and drive and eventually helped him mature significantly during the Dark Year.

## Powers and Abilities

Seimora is a trained, but not seasoned warrior, wielding powerful divine invocations and an array of devastating weaponry. He often relies on conventional drills and the superiority of his weaponry to carry him in battle.

### Divine Invocations

As a cleric he is capable of channeling the power and will of his god into reality, bending the Reflection. He mainly uses this power to empower his weaponry and bring down divine fire from the skies onto his enemies, but can also rejoin wounds and remove curses. He can also channel Seiraba's celerity in battle to deflect blows and turn attacks against him into perfect openings for him to strike back.

### Formal Training

Seimora has spent twenty or so years of his life preparing for his service to Seiraba and as so is learned in both applying first aid, leading men in battle as well as fencing and shooting.

### Prophetic Dreams

Seimora was gifted with glimpses of the future, provided in strange dreams, which often were cryptic or uncertain, but were different than regular dreams. It is surmised that this was a unique gift, bestowed to him, by either Seiraba or another one of the elven gods.

### Weaponry and armor

Seimora is in possession of the following advanced articles of arms and armor

##### **Elven Arcane Armor**

Armor powered by magic that allows the user to wield weaponry much heavier than they normally can, as well as resist much graver injury. It can also retain certain empowering blessings within itself, removing the need for the user to concentrate on them. It comes with a helmet that can protect the wearer from poisons and other gaseous hazards. While originally white, as per the tradition of his order, it was lacquered black by Adaleth Makela, which coincidentally later aligned with the inverted color scheme the Doubters used.

##### **Mors**

A two-handed elvensteel greatsword laid with enchantments. Its blade is black and slightly curved, making the weapon more suited for cleaving than for thrusting.

##### **Scavenger-Sage Repeating Rifle**

A rifle retrieved from Verde's Scavenger-Sages, which is many centuries more advanced than even what the Empire can offer and can be quickly reloaded and fired up to a great range. It is loaded from the back and cycled with the help of a knob extending from the side, that maneuvers the firing mechanism.

## History

### Before the events of the story

Seimora was born in an unremarkable family in Moravel - a small elven city by the shore of the Inner Northern Sea. Having been born marked by Seiraba he was sent to serve at the temple of the god from an early age. He did not get well along with his fellows, finding their ways too mellow and them finding his demeanor too grave in turn. Despite his grave focus he often fell behind in exercises and barely covered the feats of agility and strength asked of him. However he did manage to graduate his training courses and acquire a lower commanding rank. He persisted like so, until the arrival of Taimez Vetaa for a routine inspection, during which she challenged any and all members of his temple to sparring matches. Not wishing to see himself outdone by his peers he refused to yield when fighting the Shroud Priestess, even when it was evident he would lose, dragging their fight over the course of almost a day. Impressed with his tenacity and resolve Taimez Vetaa spoke with him extensively after their bout, and upon establishing his mental acuity and propensity for strategy offered him a post as her adjutant and counselor, which he accepted, travelling with her to her seat of Olhed and forsaking his old life.

### "Tannavet" Arc

Seimora was tasked with the overseeing of the preparations of Tannavet's defence against the advancing Imperial army, knowing that Moravel had already fallen to the humans. He had in essence been made the city's military governor for the few days in which Taimez Vetaa had to be absent from the city. During this time he was informed of the apprehension of a group of suspicious travellers at the city gates and arranged to meet them in front of the local Seiraban temple. One of them, a half-elf introduced himself as Ezra-a spy sent by Taimez Vetaa to interdict an attempt by Imperial mercenaries to carry out a spy mission within the city. Seimora was both disgusted by the spy, and more annoyed that he had not managed to properly interdict the Imperials, but instead had seemingly befriended them and brought them to the city. As so Seimora decided to task Ezra with a task that would in his eyes wash away his guilt, which was to capture the pereptrator of a series of mysterious killings that had occured in the last month in the city, extending the same courtesy to his companions. He however marked them with a curse that would kill them, if they wandered too far away from Tannavet.

Seimora later led the charge against the advancing Imperial forces in the plains before Tannavet and took a series of heavy wounds, being evacutated to the city of Lezi-Dana, as he failed to defend Tannavet and it fell.

### "Andria...and What They found There" Arc

After beginning to recover from his wounds, Seimora began experiencing recurring dreams, which he could identify as visions. During one such vision he woke up in another person's body on a mountain pass in the Mountains of Lesser Foundation. He tried to cover up his identity in front of the strangers, whom seemed to be companions of a traitor to the elven government - Kaus Teilantirv, who was also present. Seimora grasped at the opportunity to execute the traitor, but was overpowered, captured and tortured by Evan Derwent, Luther Redgaze and Kaus, but did not divulge any information, and then drugged.

He later awoke on the world of Verde where he came into contact with Millennial Unity officials, alongside Herghaz and claims to have communicated with a person who he identified as the god Seiraba himself, before his deification.

Later on, Seimora appeared again, after establishing the presence of a naturally-formed Lorica Lucida in the consumed Elpian town of Pavdala and under his own initiative decided to retrieve the powerful artifact for Taimez, to try and redeem his self-admitted failure and capture. With a small troop of warriors he infiltrated the Elpian outpost and was about to claim the Lorica, when he encountered Derwent, Teilantirv and Redgaze, alongside a woman unknown to him, but which he surmised to be the Imperial's sister. He engaged them in battle, seeing them as a threat to Taimez' vision, but was convinced that they seemed to also be working towards it by Adaleth Makela. He conceded that both he and the opposing party were seeking the same end, sent his men away and led the Derwent group into the building, where he observed the Lorica attach itself to Luther. He also shared some tea with the Derwent group, begrudgingly.

However he and the humans were all ambushed by the Order of Exorcists' Internal Redaction Unit, and he joined forces with them to defeat their common enemy. After turning the Exorcists and being joined by one of their allies, named Valerius, whom condemned the actions of the Internal Redaction Unit, he assisted the Derwent group in pursuing their enemy until the sudden appearance of Taimez Vetaa, alongside his fellow Retainers - Herghaz and Lahi. He kneeled before her and stripped himself of his armor and weaponry. In turn she reprimanded him for acting against orders in vainglorious self-obssession and severed his hair, expelling him from the Temple. Battle joined about him, but he remained in his kneeling position. Only when the air grew damper and the sounds of distant birds began to be heard he realized something was off. Upon seeing Taimez be nearly defeated in battle by Derwent and his companions he sprung into action, using a teleportation crystal to evacuate Taimez from the battle.

### "The Place beyond Time" Arc

Seimora managed to reconcile with Taimez at least partially and the both of them took over the major inland city of the Verde Fisherfolk-Ahavrel. During that time he assisted Taimez in finding the Derwent group as he was informed about the dangerous magical power that Adaleth carried.

In the palace of the Fisherfolk Sea-Priestess he and Taimez set an ambush for the Derwent group which had been conveyed to Ahavrel by an ally of theirs in the coastal city of Alvarad. He, Taimez and a group of clay warriors engaged in battle with the group, Taimez resolved at first to destroy Adaleth and end the danger she posed. However, upon Adaleth's attempt to convince Taimez in her innocence and synthesis of cause he assisted her. Taimez thus relented and allowed for talks to begin with the Imperials, with which Teilantirv no longer was.

Seimora was assigned by Taimez to travel with the Imperials on their way north to the valley of the Scavenger-Sages, to seek a device that could undo the dimensional displacement Adaleth's magic had placed the entire group under. During the preparation for the start of their journey northward he was approached by Adaleth and asked to train her in fencing, to which he once again begrudgingly agreed. In return the Imperial sorceress dyed the magical armor which Evan had returned to him a matte black.

He travelled with the Derwent group up the Lugur river, helping them fend off pirates and bypassing a river blockade, as well as tending to Rashvul-a trader they had rescued from the local government, after he had been tortured. He made it to the border wall on the Namhetta river that separated the Scavenger-Sages from the rest of Verde and was let to pass. He, alongside all other members of the group were tasked by brother Ramyan of the Scavenger-Sages to retrieve an artifact of great value from a ruin in the mountains further to the north, to which Seimora agreed. The Scavenger-Sages also equipped the group with bolt-action rifles that could be fired multiple times.

### "Antediluvians' Legacy" Arc

Seimora accompanied the Derwent group up the mountains and accessed the mysterious cave system inside , only to discover it to be made by some intelligent hand. Light came through the walls, yet the place seemed to not have any illuminating bodies. In a central chamber the group was attacked by floating metallic orbs, equipped with outlandish weaponry, and the trader Rashvul was thrown down into a pit of seemingly living red liquid which immediately swallowed up his body. This set the tone for what was to come.

Going further into the ruin, a disembodied voice taunted the group and sent more of the orbs after them. The group eventually pushed down into the chamber the voice claimed to occupy, seeing a grotesque abomination - half-malformed man, half-machine, sticking out of the wall. It assailed the group with mechanical tentacles, but was defeated. During the fight, Adaleth's magic summoned what seemed to Seimora like a younger version of himself. The younger Seimora was convinced to assist in the battle. Afterwards the newly bolstered group forced deeper and deeper into the ruin, each room yielding new and fresh horrors-half-human creatures fused to wall with needles for arms, brutish monsters in human shape that sought only to devour. Alien weapons pierced all of the group's bodies and countless days were spent inside of the seemingly living caves. Multiple reports to Taimez were made, with Seimora using his information crystal to contact her. During a rest inbetween prowling the depths, the group encountered Rashvul once again. Realizing that the trader wasn't only not dead, but a wizard, Seimora chased him, only to see the grisly sight of him being impaled by one of the living turrets and dropped into the same liquid that had swallowed him up before. With that resolved, he returned to the rest, informed them of this development and the group continued forwards.

After much tribulations Seimora helped with the acquisition of the key to the lower levels of the ruin. Forcing forwards yielded a corridor filled with undead monsters made of conjoined corpses and another voice-this time gurgling that taunted the group. After withdrawing, they were once again confronted by Rashvul, whom this time explained to them his plan to give what was inside the ruin to Luval-Shil,and that he had manipulated the group into helping him reach past the wall. Adaleth attempted to persuade the sorcerer, but nothing came of it. Upon seeing the sorcerer's might, Seimora was bidden to summon Taimez and Valerius, who had taken up a different task, chasing down a supposed Consumption Event on Verde. He did so and with the help of Taimez and Valerius, who had began using a large humanoid mechanical armor Rashvul was hunted down and shot.

Bolstered by Taimez and Valerius the group advanced further downwards, where in a large circular chamber they were subjected to the sight of a vast talking mass fo flesh attached to the ceiling, which summoned forth malformed undead monsters to oppose the group. Seimora and his younger clone fought bravely, but one of the creatures killed the younger Seimora brutally. Afterwards the group reclined on the glade in front of the ruin and Taimez and Seimora buried his younger clone's remains.

Afterwards Seimora was sent with the heavily battered mechanical armor to report of Rashvul's betrayal to the Scavenger-Sages at Uruda, where he performed admirably in convincing them of the dangers that had been unleashed and the presence of enemies in their ranks. He was then reuinted with Luther. He later challenged Evan to a duel to settle the score he felt the two still had over his indiscriminate torture of him. Despite losing the duel, the elf felt a sense of closure over the issue. At the closing of the duel he, Derwent and his companions were attacked by Ramyan, who had turned out to also be a spy. During the battle Adaleth Makela switched her consciousness with a knight from Maeror.

Afterwards, it is assumed that Seimora assisted the Scavenger-Sages with containing Voice-Of-Living-Star, and supposedly returned from Verde sometime later.

### "Tower of Twilight" Arc

Seimora appeared again, alongside Varik Vorda of the Doubters, having transported the latter with an appropriated Ksa'at pepelats back to Erwent, where Taimez Vetaa plotted an ambush on her mother - Saego Vetaa who was to give out a speech to the Maerorian lords in the holy city. Seimora mostly assisted in the planning.

Shortly before the speech, the cursed knight Angelbert was captured by Zaree and interrogated, which unsettled Seimora quite a bit. On the next day, as Angelbert was about to be executed, he escaped and was chased down by Zaree, Grey Ghost and Toumego, with Seimora joining them as the knight fled into the sewers. After Grey Ghost dispatched Angelbert, Seimora followed the group through the sewers and soon arrived in the amphitheatre that Saego Vetaa's speech would be held. In there he assisted in the battle, when Len Ozvadomi-the arch-priest of the Temple of Yazamora showed up, manifesting Moonshard abilities. Pushing through him, lead to another fight this time with Herghaz-who had betrayed Taimez during her absence and now assisted what seemed like an alternate version of Taimez from another dimension, who may have been summoned by Adaleth's magic.

With Herghaz defeated, the group moved out and down into the amphitheater where all hell had broken loose, with Taimez and her other allies already having attacked Saego. Seimora did his best to assist but he, alongside Taimez and his allies were sordidly outmatched by Saego. Taimez herself was killed and the rest were severely beaten. Only via the Ksa'at pepelats' timely arrival did Seimora and the rest manage to escape and head back to Zhinamir, utterly defeated.

### "Strangers in a Strange Land" Arc

Seimora was flown with Zaree ,Grey Ghost and Toumego back to Zhinamir, and after that was present for their briefing. He then flew the pepelats back to the Starry Isles in order to pick up stragglers from the failed attack on Saego Vetaa that had taken place previously. He was then convinced by Grey Ghost and the newly recued Yuliko and Vellyt to help them get to Burningland Island, where Jorga Tarx was presumably held. He agreed and then accompanied the group on their trek inland, braving the place's bizzare climate and entering a confrontation with the pyromantic vampire Valmun, and later with the Dragon-a highly humanoid Moonspawn in the dead city of Frostspire.

Afterwards he was lead by the group further north into the island, as a map containing the location of a base of the Temple of Seiraba had been found. An outpost was discovered and Seimora opted to stay back and use Yuliko's archaeorifle to provide fire support from afar, unwilling to fight his former fellows. He still ended up taking out several acolytes of Seiraba in the ensuing battle, which culminated in the defenders' mobile weapon platform being stolen and the manor being broken into-all twenty defenders being routed or killed, yet Jorga was found and rescued. Seimora advised against weathering a second wave of the Seiraban warriors, but was overruled, due to a presumed need to raid the outpost for any valuable information, including a complex Reflection attunement measuring machine, which would need to be dismantled and transported via aircraft. During the second attack-which came sooner than anticipated, Seimora manned one of the several magic catapults placed down around the manor, and barely survived the skirmish. While the group was barely saved by the timely arrival of support and the pepelats' devastating weaponry, Yuliko perished in the fighting, hit by a weapon platform's beam. This drove Grey Ghost into a rage, which led him to kill captives and antagonize the leftovers of the Seiraban reinforcements, which rushed into the outpost's yard and managed to kill Grey Ghost, before they were dispersed.

From there, an assault was lead into the depths of the island, where another base of the Temple of Seiraba was located, near one Moonshard. Convinced to try and appropriate the Moonshard with the little reinforcements that were brought in by air, Seimora lead the group (now in possession of two weapon platforms) to the outpost, and almost assaulted it frontally, only for the commander to agree to a parlay, which was resolved by Toumego(brought in as reinforcement) 's summoning of a Hound of Seiraba which revealed the defenders' foolishness in assiting the Temple of Yazamora with their project relating to the Moonshard. From there he began negotiation with Aliv - the warrior-priest in charge of the installation, while the priestesses of Yazamora and Vavvarav in charge of research were either captured or killed. He was present for the interrogation of Yuuval, which was the main perpetrator of the expriments with the Moonshard.

After Zaree, Jorga and Toumego got lost in the Zone of Induction during an excursion in the following days, as they sought to isolate and perhaps move the Moonshard present there, Seimora devised a plan for a rescue mission using a mobile weapons platform and the very Zone's tendency to draw sentient beings further into it, towards the center to track down the lost excursionary force. Before that an information crystal transmission, tainted by the Zone's malignant energies had almost killed him, as Toumego had tried to make contact with him. His plan succeeded and he and his allies were drawn to the Eye of Rhea, where he helped fight off the Wolves of Induction which had surrounded the others, which ironically had managed to escape the Zone of Induction and in turn tried to search for him and his rescue party. In the ensuing battle, the Wolves were defeated, with Seimora landing the final blow on the Wolf of Unity with the weapon platform's magic emitter. Seimora and the rest then returned to the Burningland installation and made their way back to Zhinamir.

In Zhinamir, he was queried along with Zaree ,Jorga and Vellyt, Toumego staying back on the installation to track down a Ksa'at data repository in the hills to the northeast of the fortress by Kalivigo. Travelling with the assistance of a salvaged Ksa'at land vehicle, the group made their way into the area, into which they had to trek on foot. From there it was slowly established that the cave system in which Zhinamir's manufactory computer had assured Kalivigo the device lay, was actually a hive of Ge-ge-laa-oom servitor creatures, which the group had to infiltrate to gain the storage device. Luckily, a strike team of Ksa'at landed nearby, clearly on a raiding mission, which allowed Zaree to comandeer their pepelats and have Seimora use it to fly to a postern exit of the hive. Inside, the group fought off various servitor forms, before finally getting to the chamber in which the device was, buried in piles of bones. A battle broke out, as several large servitor forms awoke. Things seemed dire, until Adaleth Makela, clad in strange alien armor appeared and offered her assitance, much to Seimora's surprise. As the creatures were defeated Seimora found the device and with it, the group returned to Zhinamir.

Seimora was also present to the interrogation of a captured survey party of Ksa'at, which admitted that an attack on Zhinamir to reclaim the fortress would come soon and to "beware the artsiv" - a warning to which no one paid any real heed. However, when one of the two pepelatses in use by the Doubters was shot down by a much faster, much better armed flying machine, which swooped closely over the fortress' roof, this warning became clear. A plan was devised, in which either Seimora or Varik Vorda would fly out in the remaining flying machine, to lure the artsiv into firing range of the elven magical catapults on the roof. However, while the two argued, they were interrupted by Adaleth, who claimed to have a spell, which would make it trivial for her to survive the pepelats crashing. With this convenient workaround present, the two reluctantly agreed to allow her to pilot the decoy. The plan itself worked out well, and the other flying machine was downed.

During the battle of Zhinamir, Seimora fought at the main gate, and assited in repulsing the Ksa'at from the fortress.