Nikaia had only ever wanted simple things. She wanted to make her family proud, to defend her home, to live her life as it was supposed to be lived. But no. She'd gone on a simple mission to secure a shipment of copper so that they could make more bronze for their spears and their swords, and they ran into a number of monsters, and she'd been the only one to come back. She was demoted for her failure to die with them, and given a few lashings too. After that barbarians attacked her city. She fought well enough, but when she and another group of no more than ten were surrounded by pyromancers and elite fighters she and her unit had no choice but to retreat. That dishonor cost her her home.
She was given a smaller shield, a quiver of javelins and a red cloak, then sent off. If ever she came back, she'd be killed. And so with her heart rent like a deer under a dragon's claws she left. And her travels brought her to the dense forests of the Spine mountains. Maybe some tribe she found could take her in? Maybe the wilds would end her? She didn't know, but she had nowhere else to go, so why not go there?
She hadn't been in the woods more than two hours when she heard the roar of a beast. Looking around she spied the lion, goat and snake that made up the Chimera. An impossibly large lion with a goats head poking out of it's back, which could cast magic of certain kinds, and the venomous viper that made it's tail, it's head as big as hers. She wasted no time in drawing from the quiver a javelin, and preparing to throw it.
The first one struck the goat's eye, and in retaliation she was struck by the lion's paw, and thrown against a tree with a scream of pain, she couldn't feel her left leg.
Abbas
She was given a smaller shield, a quiver of javelins and a red cloak, then sent off. If ever she came back, she'd be killed. And so with her heart rent like a deer under a dragon's claws she left. And her travels brought her to the dense forests of the Spine mountains. Maybe some tribe she found could take her in? Maybe the wilds would end her? She didn't know, but she had nowhere else to go, so why not go there?
She hadn't been in the woods more than two hours when she heard the roar of a beast. Looking around she spied the lion, goat and snake that made up the Chimera. An impossibly large lion with a goats head poking out of it's back, which could cast magic of certain kinds, and the venomous viper that made it's tail, it's head as big as hers. She wasted no time in drawing from the quiver a javelin, and preparing to throw it.
The first one struck the goat's eye, and in retaliation she was struck by the lion's paw, and thrown against a tree with a scream of pain, she couldn't feel her left leg.
Abbas