Manaia (Anathema)

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  • Manaia

  • 65713083_0X9nfJknRs6j5jI.pngArt by silverfang 
  • pronouns she/her
  • species equine
  • background order mage
  • age 69
  • height 17hh

Let me be your Addiction

“How do you stay so youthful?” With a wink at you, she raises her head to the sky and simply says, “I worship our Lady Moon.”

Bronze Hunter


Personality

  • Ethereal - In her new lease on life, Manaia sees herself as nothing less than a Goddess and certainly holds herself that way.
  • Protective - those who help Manaia gains her protection in turn
  • Nurturing - Manaia is probably one of the best people to tell your woes too, in many ways. She’ll let you cry on her shoulder, your secrets are safe with her and there’s a high possibility you won’t feel the same way when you leave as when you first began.
  • Wrathful - Now that she has freedom on her side, Manaia has no plans on letting that slip from her fingers. So it’s suggested you don’t even try. 
  • Manipulative - negative emotions are what work for her magic and she’s pretty darn good at conjuring them out of people when she wants it. 
  • WC: 137

History

  • 1166 - born to young non-mages & had a 2 year old sister
  • 1182 - 16 - she started feeling big feelings especially when her sister died for a cause and her magic took a little too much and parents brought in a ‘tutor’ when they felt something wasn’t right and they weren’t emotionally there to deal with it (plus who would want to let it slip they had a emotional manipulator in the family) - she was sent away for a time and that only made her more negative and let her magic take over and to force her to feel good. It was then that the ‘tutor’ felt at a loss and gave her magic suppressing bonds (realising they were out of their depth). Her wings disappeared. 
  • Secretly her parents had some control over her magic with the bridle and used that to take customer’s negative emotions away so they linked it with the store and kept Manaia in a quick working manor with her energy bursts. Manaia honestly just thought she loved working. 
  • 1191 - 25 She was fully suppressed and feeling rather emotionless thanks to her extra bonds and just worked with her parents in their wellness shop (v successful thanks to her)
  • 1205 - 39 -  it was suggested by someone to go to the Order and learn real control of her magic after they felt the affects of her mood when shopping at the store and invited Manaia out to drinks to convince her of a better life instead of the miserable one she was clearly living. Dwelled on the idea for a year but one day her magic grew restless and she came close to breaking through the bonds and that terrified her (thanks to her parent’s being a little more careless than usual)
  • 1206 - 40 - In Namarast learning true control with Enn getting some mild therapy sessions too. Began training using her body and learning how to use her wings again. Truly began to despise her parents at this point as it all began to sink in.
  • 1210 - 44 - Didn’t have a desire to graduate so she left once she felt she had a hold on things. Went back to Siregal to confront her parents, wanted to show them her level of control and let them know she knew what they did for all those years using her.
  • 1215 - 50 - She happily joined Enn’s side in the Siregalese civil war, felt it was the least she could do. 
  • 1225 - 60 - Enn went to Ivras permanently and the civil war was officially over - told Enn she wanted to stay in Siregal to help out with the politics (not just cause she was in love okay, definitely wasn’t her first time feeling that) did not enjoy the politics whatsoever. Learned she hated fighting a losing battle and they didn’t agree about the way forward for Siregal so they broke up with her which is when she felt big feelings took their life on accident. Got shipped to Ivras prison as they didn’t have the resources amongst the political unrest to hold her potential catastrophic powers.
  • She went willingly back to her childhood-ness of suppressing her magic and fell deeper still when her rapidly ageing parent’s gave the escorting guards her bridle of magic suppression and a look of disgust crossed their faces as they watched them place it on her. Wings disappeared once more. 
  • 1234 - 68 - Saw some shiny armour on the guards one day and caught a glimpse of herself and what the self-pity had done to her for all of those years.
  • Fortune found a way to release the bridle and then she let her magic take the lead. She would be pitied no more. Fortune scoffed about how many times they’d nudged and been ignored.
  • Got broken out of prison and she lay low for a short while. Still felt confined so she went to find herself a place she would know all the comings and goings and she happened upon an island. She thought there was no chance of getting it when she was handed a note and butt load of gold from a courier. Turns out her parents were disgusted with themselves the last time they’d seen each other and left everything to her before they passed. Manaia grinned at the full moon and made the shrine to fortune, beginning the resort. Parent’s business was well known and that brought in some faces too especially those who wanted to pay their respects to family.
  • WC: 766

Moon Tides

Power 24
Discipline26
Cost 08
Corruption08

What was once a balanced back and forth has now developed into a power hungry need to stay youthful, gaining back all of the years she lost shackled. 

Manaia’s magic allows her to take negative emotions which she can replace with euphoric feelings. In return she can convert that negative emotion into energy for herself. 

Corruption gifted by Fortune has twisted Manaia’s magic and allows her to take other’s life force and use it to fuel her immortality, this can occur on a large scale under the power and worshipping of the full moon, but she can take small amounts on a regular day-to-day basis if she needs to. This can easily be replaced by the user with a hearty meal and a full night’s rest. They still get the euphoric replacement too. 


  • With her turning into a Lich mage Manaia’s magic has over doubled which has far extended her abilities overnight 
    • She can now flip the emotional exchange by choosing to take positive emotions and replace with negative ones.
    • Excess energy that she’s taken can be used on others to rejuvenate their appearances (temporarily)
    • When desperate Manaia can take energy from the earth itself - it’s very obvious when she does.
     Costs - New Magic Surge = New Costs
    •  Appearance frightens others - her black markings have an oozy oily sheen in the day and deep starlight in low lights (3)
    • Magic permanently replaces her body’s essential functions - she will simply stop working from the inside out if she doesn’t take (3)
    • Magic only works under specific circumstances - magic is locked entirely to the night time (2)


  • At this level of power, Manaia can take from a medium-large crowd under a full moon and keep the look of someone in their 30’s. She can also consciously take majority of someone’s negative feelings they’re experiencing and replace it with euphoria. With more power she’ll be able to take from larger crowds and under phases either side of the full moon and become more replenished with energy when taking less emotion. 
  • This level of discipline gives her control over most of her magic. If she’s feeling exhausted her magic will still take any form of negative emotion around her to regain her energy. With more discipline she’ll have more control over that and be able to take emotions other than negative ones and replace it with any emotion of her choice too.


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