Special Ability: Fire
Unknown to her, Illyn has the ability to manifest fire. Unfocused, it is limited to her touch and her skin becoming very hot. Any close by can feel the heat radiating off of her and to touch her or to have her touch someone's skin, it would cause a minor to major burn (depending on exposure time). If control is learn Illyn could produce a small to medium sized flame, enough to start a fire or light a torch.
Personality:
Quiet, intense and observant. Illyn watches everyone around her. She has said very little. It isn't fear that keeps her quiet although her fear is present. She prefers the quiet in order to keep a close eye on the slaver's and she has seen what they do to those who speak out of turn or otherwise draw their attention. Occasionally her brother will whisper to her and she to him. The short words spoken are enough to help keep their sanity. She was always a quiet child and that habit has persisted into her adulthood. She is diplomatic as often as is possible, choosing her words carefully in a situation. In her current situation, her silence has saved her on more than one occasion from being whipped, beaten or otherwise harassed. It doesn't mean she is unaware of what is happening. Illyn watches every move the slavers and other slaves make. It is an attempt to keep her wits as sharp as possible.
Illyn is in careful control of her emotions. She shows little in the way of anger or happiness. When they do come out they are as intense as her stare however they do last long. Smiles are brief, laughter full but short, tears heartfelt but dried quickly and a temper that flares hot but falls away quickly. Illyn's preference is for calm and impassiveness. She is capable of compassion but has learned from years in slavery that it isn't always a good idea to feel much for those around her. Each situation, each problem is weighed carefully and as logically as possible.
She cannont read, has had no education at all but is quite good with her hands. She learned to sew at a young age, put to work by her owners to mend whatever was put in front of her. Illyn is quick and quite nimble with a needle and thread. This ability has made her useful in her many years in captivity.
Dirty remnants of what was once a pale blue slip-like dress of light material. Once hanging to around her knees, it is torn, dirty and barely resembles a dress anymore. It is enough to keep her body covered but does not keep out the elements. As a slave she owns nothing else.
Illyn cannot really remember a time when she was not a slave in some caravan or another. A small family, three children and their parents, were poor and unable to keep everyone fed or clothed. When their mother died, their father decided that the two youngest children needed to sold in order to at least preserve himself and his eldest son. Neman, three years older and Illyn were sold to passing slaver.
She remember holding her brother's hand tightly as her father bartered with the rather odd man. Voices were raised and in the end their father took less money in order to keep his children together. Neman, his eyes full of hatred for his father, took his sister and led her to the waiting wagon. Illyn did not cry, did not get angry. She was staring at the others that waited there, chained together. She realized quickly that this was to be her life.
The pair were sold numerous times in their lives but managed to stay together. This task was only accomplished by Neman's quick thinking. Everytime someone wanted to purchase one of the siblings, Neman would speak up and with a smooth tongue would convince the purchaser that in fact the two of them were a better deal than just one. In the beginning he would occasionally get beaten for it, while Illyn watched but in the end the pair was always kept together. They both know it makes them luckier than most in the caravans.
This latest caravan had nothing to do with bartering or even words. They were stopped with their last group when in the night something happened. Neither are quite sure what occurred but there was screams in the night, fire and then silence. In the morning Illyn, Neman and a few other slaves remained alive but the rest including all but one of their owners were dead. The current band passed by and the only living slave driver convinced them to take him and his remaining slaves on board. The first afternoon Illyn watched them slit the man's throat and leave him by the side of the road, dead like his companions.
Now, like the rest she is chained and led into the ruins.