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Rayven
The first Daughter


Morghana was born into a wealthy old-school Italian
shipping household whose ships and caravans carried
exotic goods throughout the known world ... sometimes
they even did so legally. Their business acumen was
excelled only by their confusing and intricate family
tree (don't ask). So it was no suprise to anyone when
her mother claimed not too remember the name of her
lover - it suprised them even less that she told her
daughter only that he wore a great deal of purple and
handed her a scarf before sending her on her merry way
into the world (this being the family version of
higher education).

And so it was that Morghana made her way through city
and country, always looking for purple-clad men and
carrying the scarf at her side until she arrived in
Scotland. There she was taken in by a old man and his
many MANY children and offered a place among them if
she wished. For any other poor waif, it might have
been a tempting offer, but Morghana was bored. She
ran off to sea, calling herself Ravyn, and spent a
glorious year or two rampaging on the open waves and
in general indulging the wicked temper she'd inherited
from some un-named ancestor.

Just as she had decided to return home, her ship was
captured by the wicked and ill-reputed Connor MacKay
and his band of kilt-wearing cut-throat pirates. He
took her prisoner, sank her ship, and threatened to
ransom her to the Scottish clan with whom she had
recently stayed. In order to avoid such a vile fate,
Ravyn made a daring and equally bold move - she
married him.

Soon after returning to the mainland, she found a man
visiting at the Scottish homestead. He wore a purple
scarf on his head. He wore a purple shirt. He took
one look at the scarf she wore at her belt, and said -
"Where did you find that? I've been looking for that
scarf for ages ...". She had found her father.
Now Ravyn spends her time happily finding other
children her darling father, Vicol Cel Rau de
Stravnos, whose titles are too ...interesting...to
list here ...has left behind in his travels, keeping
her husband (and his kilt-wearing cut-throats)well-fed
and in line, dabbling in her merchanting heritage,
practicing her Romani skills, and making up for lost
time with her father.