BACKGROUND

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Quincy was born in ████████, a modern city in the far western reaches of the ██████████ province of the Bürach Empire, to Essuriel Ollivier and Varis █████████.

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Quincy knew from a young age that he was special, and that there was a name for creatures like them: shadar-kai. Shadow fey. The secrets of their origin, however, were never explained to them by Essuriel, who promised she would tell the child once they were an adult. All Quincy knew was when they left the house for any reason, they were made to wear their mother’s █████████, a spiked armband made of cold iron that caused constant pain. Thankfully, there wasn’t need to leave the property often, and the neighbors’ disdain for the odd-looking child meant they had no childhood friends to play with outside. For the first decade and a half of Quincy’s life, they lived relatively happily with their family in their quaint little hometown, having plenty of imaginary friends to keep them company when their parents were at work.

Until, everything changed when the outlanders attacked. ███ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ ██████ ██████ █████ ███ ████████ ██████ ███████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ███ ██ ████████ ███████ ███ ████ █████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ █████████ ████████ █████ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ ██████████ ████ █████ ████████ ██ ████████ ███ ████ █████ ██████████ ████ █████ █████ ███ ██████ █████ ██ ████ █ █████ ███ ███ ████ ███ ███ ███████ ███████████ ██ ███ ████████ █████ ████ ███ ███ ████ █ ██ █████ █ ███ ███ ███ ████████

After weeks on the run traversing through the Ostoyan Empire, Quincy and their father finally settled in Nov Ostoya. Varis dedicated the rest of his life to fulfilling Essuriel’s wish: keeping their child safe. Which was much easier said than done when one wrong step down a flight of stairs could potentially dislodge a piece of the child’s soul. Traumatized by ██████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ██████ █████, and having never been told the whole truth of his wife’s past and their child’s inheritance, Varis reasoned the only way to protect Quincy’s soul was by sheltering them, restricting them to their cramped little home. Of course, this only left the now-adolescent Quincy even more restless.

The hardships of the Ostoyan feudal system and an inability to find steady work bore heavy on Varis, who eventually ███ ████████ ████ █████████ █████ in an effort to better support his only child. And for many years, it worked: Quincy and their father were able to live comfortably for a few decades, with Quincy sneaking out at night to explore the backstreets of Nov Ostoya. Eventually, ████████ █████ ███ ████████████ ██ █ █████ ████████ █████████████ and Quincy was forced to flee their home ██ █████ ████████ █████ ████ ██████.

Quincy was able to keep themself tethered to the material plane for some time by wearing their mother’s galarmband, until it and most of their remaining earthly possessions were one day confiscated by the city guard after the elf got caught stealing from a local merchant. Dejected and with nowhere safe to stay the night, the shadow fey decided to sleep in a local graveyard… only to wake up the next morning with unusual abilities.

No longer held back by neither fear nor the security of the █████████, Quin now tries to live their life as deliberately and hedonistically as possible. Their sheltered upbringing has left their soul far more intact than the average shadar-kai of their age, though they are still prone to bouts of melancholy and apathy, and will at times use pain (usually through body modifications like piercings or tattoos) or reckless behavior to cope, with their good friend-slash-“business partner” Levi to keep them in check.

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