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Iolanthe Tanith

Is it by tea leaves, the forms of lead, or your own reflection, that you would have us sing of the veiled future?

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a character in “Seven Years of Bad Luck”, as played by Arinna

Description

Audrey Rayner

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Age: 24

Background Information: Audrey is a master's student in the Psychology department, who has been conducting research on people who play VRMMOs - she tries to observe group mechanics and group psychology, and the background reasons as to why people start or become addicted to these kinds of games. She has been collecting data since the beginning of her master's program, for a year and a half. While at first Aethia Online was only a project for her, she gradually came to enjoy the game.


Iolanthe Tanith

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Age: ??

Class: Shadow Warlock

Gear: She wears a long, airy robe with small inscriptions and exotic designs running all over a deep purple background. She uses a spell book that she herself fills out. Besides these, she carries a pack of oversized wooden cards with images vaguely reminiscent of Tarot, a small crystal ball, and strange-looking herbs. (None of these extra items are used in combat.)

Personality/Background Information: Iolanthe rarely speaks of herself - she isn't a particularly quiet person and might, from time to time, go overboard with her role, but she is almost never heard speaking of herself. Her life in Aethia could be divided into two parts: Times when she explores the world, and times when she sits in her small cabin in one of the busiest of cities, and works as a fortune teller. Although she isn't particularly skilled in fortune telling (who really can predict the future?), she is good at influencing her customers with her acts. During her explorations, she tends to go to ruins or abandoned libraries in order to collect as much lore as she can - and whatever spell she finds, she jots down in her spellbook.

So begins...

Iolanthe Tanith's Story

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Audrey stood in front of the nerve gear, staring at it blankly for a moment, before she began to flex her arms, doing a small warmup to get her blood circulation going. She had become slightly paranoid after having read cases of blood clotting resulting from long periods of inanimity, most commonly seen in people who engaged in VRMMOs for over ten hours. After pulling up and flexing her leg muscles as well, she lay down upon her bed, touched her nerve gear almost lovingly, and then sighed. It would be her last time on Aethia Online; she had resolved to concentrate with all her might on writing her thesis, so this was going to be a kind of farewell to the game and to Iolanthe. Closing her eyes and plunging her head into the nerve gear, she connected.

Everything was blurry at first - a soft bed beneath her, a shallow and dark ceiling above, and sweet smells with pungent whisps mingled into an odd mixture - all familiar sensations of her small cabin. Iolanthe blinked twice before her vision gained its accuracy, and slowly slid off her bed. She would miss her home, this cabin filled to the brim with odds and ends, strange artefacts, ancient books, vials of ink and monster blood, the clutter relaxing and refreshing when compared to Audrey's neatly-kept room. Well, since this would be her last day of existence, she would travel through Aethia, visiting her favourite places.

She walked out of her cabin and into a busy main street within the city. Having made sure that the sign on her door announced that the fortune-teller's den was closed, she began to walk in the direction of the main square. As she was slowly making her way to her destination, she noticed that the tower of a man ahead of her - was he taller than even 1,90 m? - who was walking briskly through the street, pause for a moment. Curious, she followed his gaze to see that several people were having some sort of fun, one of them jumping and grabbing people from the street. Distressed by the idea, she hid herself in the shadows of a nearby building and began to observe them. Watching the actions of others never gets old! she thought to herself as she smiled faintly and rested her chin on top of her upturned wrist.