Echo

**Echo** (*Ἠχώ*) is a nymph cursed by Hera to only ever repeat the words of others.

## Titanomachy

**Echo** is a wild little thing, though not like some of the other feral gods. She is still in the beforetimes, before Echo became just an Echo, before she spent time distracting Hera so Zeus could play whatever games he liked. Just another nymph, dancing and singing and playing in the fields with her sisters. She is no hunter, more prey than predator, like a wild bird fluttering on a branch, ready to soar up into the sky.

## Giselle Sylvain

### Description

Giselle Sylvain is a maidservant to Lady Felicity.

**Giselle Sylvain** is a maidservant to Lady Felicity. She doesn't quite remember when she woke up as she was only her voice. It took her some time to find people, floating on the breeze, whispering around them, watching them and to listen and learn how they moved again. It came back to her slowly over the course of months. Finally, at the edge of a pond at daybreak, she took human form again.

She's learned much in these few months; enough that she knew how she wanted to find her place in mortal society. She's a mirror for others; she can't change her shape, but she can change her voice, her mannerisms, her motions. She remembers everything that she has heard -- and most of what she has seen -- and she can become her voice again, slipping through the air like it's nothing, hidden away and listening.

Versailles is the most interesting place to be, she quickly discovers, so she inserts herself into the courts there, finding a place as a scullery maid, making herself indispensable, leveraging her way up to being a lady's maid and finding little ways to make life better for her Lady -- and therefore better for her. She's met a few others in the same business, but they all take it so seriously. As a result, she really only moonlights -- theoretically for the King, theoretically with Baptiste, but with a pretty enough payment she's game to work for anyone.

## Dove Parlby

### Description

Dove Parlby is a former Inmate at **The Reformatory**.

**Dove Parlby** is a former Inmate at **The Reformatory**. She woke up in the wild world, a nymph among the trees and lakes and waterways. And she was happy. She ran and explored in the daytime, curled up in little hidden places at night, and knew where to find enough to eat and water to drink.

She didn't remember much, just hints and flutters, but eventually she remembered what she missed most -- the others. In time, she went to look for them. She found a kind family, who took her in. They had children, girls that felt just a little younger than her, and as they grew they were close, almost as close as the sisters she remembered and gave her a name -- Dove.

But times weren't always easy. The farm they owned never produced quite enough, and in time they had to sell back everything to the bank. They decided to go to the City, where there was work enough for the man she'd come to think of as her father. Things are harder there. She can't run off into the woods and leave her shoes behind when she wants. She has to keep her dress neat and there was nowhere for her joy. Her odd little songs, the way she'd pop up out of nowhere, unsettles her mother and their neighbors. It makes life hard for her family, the better things go for the family -- a good job for father, another job sewing for pin-money for mother, the girls helping in the house -- the harder things are for Dove.

Eventually, they send her to the Reformatory. There she became what they made her become.Quiet voice. Quiet hands. She reads in the silence, without even a clock to tick away the hours. Eventually, she is freed by Erin Hund, Peter, and meets Hecate in her numerous faces, working to free herself from the past.

## Echo's Curse

* In both Titanomachy and the 20s, she can only repeat words that have been said in the same scene as her. Phrases are easier and sound smoother; cobbling it together one word at a time makes her sound a little stilted and strange.
* In the Titanomachy she'll have scenes before and after the curse.
* In the 20s, the curse is on her because of the reformatory; if she breaks free or the place is destroyed, she'll find it easier to say other things, but it'll never be as easy as it is for most.
* In the Sun Court era, it's less a curse than a power; she can repeat back anything that's said to her, word for word, as well as become nothing but her voice, invisible and formless.

## Locations

### Titanomachy Locations

* **Forested Mountains** are across Ancient Greece. Such as those on the island of Crete where dense forestry hosts a plethora of mega fauna and flora, including the goat nurse Almalthea. There are whispers that terrible beasts reside in the mountains, as well.

### Sun Court Locations

* **Woods beyond the palace** are an expanse of greenery outside of the walls. If one can communicate with them, they will part to reveal a meadow, tall grass bending towards the wind, happy to see her, welcoming her. Somehow, the sun is warmer here, brighter, the air is clearer. And in the center of the meadow: a beautiful, ancient tree, trunk too wide to get most people's arms around, branches rising up to the sky so high it must be able to be seen from the palace... although it's not. The bottom half of the tree iss festooned with little trinkets, tied there with ribbons.

### Roaring 20s Locations

* **The Reformatory** is an all-women "Reform School" to make its occupants acceptable to society.

## References

1. ↑ Wikipedia - Echo [1]
2. ↑ Theoi - Nymphae Ekho [2]
3. ↑ Discord - Roaring 20s [3]