Slivens Crystalisis McDuff

Slivens Crystalisis McDuff, a spicy young Gelfling maiden living in the land of RhyDin in the Castle of Eternal Darkness. Recently turning 17 seasons of age, she is finally happy in her life. As a small girl she was raised by her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. McDuff, in a small castle in Glasgow, Scotland. Raised up happily as a tom boy, she was taught to shoot by her mother, and fight by her father. At the age of 4, a band of skeksis overtook the castle, taking her parents from her as she watched, hiding in a kitchen cupbord. The castle was destroyed, burnt down, and narrowly she escaped through a secret passage, barely missing a lag behind skeksis. Having only the clothes on her back, a small parcel of food, her bow and arrows, and her loving pet rat, Yuki, she set off to free her parents. She followed the skeksis for over two years watching in horror as they set fire to vilage after village. In each village she stole from the dead, and took spells of magic and sorcery. The skeksis had her parents on display. She couldn't understand why people would pay to see a Gelfling, little did she know that they were the last three alive. In a swift move she broke into the camp while the skeksis slept, quietly she unlocked the gate to her parents cage and motioned them to hide. Gently she crept out of the camp, but before out of safety, she accidentally stepped on a twig. One of the guards awoke and sounded the alarm, and soon the entire band was after them. Being seperated from her parents she fled into the woods and hid in a tree. She watched nervously as one by one they passed the tree not noting the small girl high in the branches. She waited there for two days before venturing to the forest floor. She fled to the nearest town, to warn them of the coming of the skeksis army. The town took up in arms and defense and waited for the attack. As night fell the skeksis stormed into the town with lights ablaze. Little did they know the elves had them surrounded. In a hasty word each skeksis was shot dead through the heart with an arrow. The town cheered, and the little girl was praised. She was very upset to see that her parents were not with the skeksis, fearing only the worst, but hoping and praying that they had escaped. The small band of elves adopted the little girl. She lived with the Crystalisis Family, made up of a gypsy, Freetrant, the mother, and a hunter, Brunswick, the father. Through the two elves she learned to fight, heal, preistess, and enertain, and she soon forgot of her heritage, believing herself to be a winged Elf. As time progressed she had totally forgotton of her race, and her parents, and apon turning 14, she was prounounced an Elven Princess. Living happily in the small town, she heard little of trouble of skeksis, and had no desire to leave the happy abode. One day, a messenger ran into town screaming and ranting, Miss Slivens Miss Slivens, two Gelflings were spotted in the forest! Her heart flew and all of the memories of her past fled into her system. She grabbed her things, apologized to the locals, and sped out of the town without another word. She ran through the forest until coming on the couple. She was overjoyed, but slowly her smile dropped as she saw her mother, dead, on the forest floor, an arrow in her heart. Her father had arrows in his wide shoulders, and his shirt was soaked in blood. She realized now, that her subjects, had hunted the couple down, for money, her parents. She crouched besides her father and touched her mother's face. It was cold, and tears run down her cheeks. Her father slumped against the rock, his long dark hair sticking to his face, a long gash running over his forehead. He wrapped her into his arms and whispered.. " Do not forget your heritage... you are Gelfling... you are not the last... there is.... another.. ." Quietly he coughed and kissed her forehead and as she closed her eyes, her heart sank as his breathing stopped, his arms still wrapped about her. Waiting until nightfall she layed with her parents, deep in thought, deep in regret. She knew she could not kill herself, her father would be dissappointed, and so, she set to work, burying both of her parents under a mossy knoll, placing a small Celtic cross on the rock she placed above their tombs. With tears in her eyes she took one last look and fled, she fled until she could not run anymore, where she collapsed on the streets of Rhydin. The next thing she knew, she awoke to a kind smile of a band of women, wiping her forehead with warm clothes. She looked at them in fear, and the seemingly leader of the women spoke to her, her voice soft, and fae warm. "You are in the company of The Ladies Of Eternal Darkness, welcome to our clan, have no worry, for you are in good hands." She smiled weakly and nodded as best she could. Over the next couple weeks, she was nursed back to health, and had come to enjoy the ladies company. She was presented with a badge of ownership and she beamed with pride. Today, the Ladies Of Eternal Darkness (click here to go to guild website) is a strong, and proud ladies guild. She holds the titles of: LoED: Guild Loud Mouth, High Court Of Magistrates, Guild Priestess, Guild Crest Designer, & Commander of Ladies of Misery. She is a veteren at the age of 17, highly respected, and one of the best known people in RhyDin. She never has forgotton her parents, a small tattoo on her temple resembles the cross that lays apon her kindreds grave. A dragon tattoo is on the small of her back, below her irresdescent green and pink wings, a symbol of her slavery during the years she was following the Skeksis. A band of flames wraps around her bicep, the LoED crest magnificently shown surrrounded in flames, a tribute to the best guild in Rhydin. Still today, she is a bit strange, dresses oddly, and tries to conceal her past. But late at night even now she still thinks, who is the other... and where....

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