The Scribe


Name: Seraphina Trells

Age: 24

Birthday: May 18

Sex: Female

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Dark Brown

Height: 5’7’’

Figure: Delicate and slim

Scars/birthmarks: A large, irregularly shaped birthmark covers her shoulder and upper arm.

Attire: She wears the heavy white robes that cover her frame completely, a wide brown belt defines her waistline. She wears sandals that allow her to move silently through the library halls.

Accessories: She wears brown leather bracelets, with small gold beads.

Posture/gait: After spending years hunched over books in the library, she is almost always slouching.

Personality: She is reserved, practical, and organized. She keeps largely to herself, but she is also very compassionate and has a self-sacrificing nature. She can be a stickler for the rules, but will also bend and break them when she deems it necessary. She is wise beyond her years, cautious, with a quick-witted strategic mind.

Abilities: A self-taught scribe specializing in the use of spell scrolls, glyph work, ink weaving, and eidetic reading. Unlike other mages, she can’t cast spells without writing them first and she must have the means to write and inscribe or else she is left with only her wits to rely on.

Backstory: Abandoned on the steps of the library, she was taken in by the scribes as an infant not out of kindness but obligation -- the scribes believe it was her destiny to be raised among them. When she was ten, she discovered a spellbook tucked away in the restricted section and she copied down the symbols within to experiment in secret. This lasted until she mispronounced a single syllable and set fire to a shelf of books, exposing herself in the process. Magic is forbidden amongst scribes, all of whom are sworn to pursue knowledge and reject power.

Her folly cost her everything, she was cast out for defiling knowledge with sorcery. Left with nothing but the clothes on her back, a satchel of stolen scrolls, and a heart full of unanswered questions, she wanders the realm and travels from city to city as a scribe for hire. She earns a living transcribing texts for lords and scholars, but never stays in one place long enough to be noticed. Her true work lies in the margins - she searches for lost magic and carves out a place for herself in a world that never wanted her.
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