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The Sundering of the Two Moons
| Name: Camara Thera Age: N/A Species: Vassal First Appearance: The History of Ilmgral: Book One. The Sundering of the Two Moons | Power: Camara is the child of Thera, not a soul touched in the hall of Agraldin. Therefore her power supersedes that of the other vassals. She can control all waters and in time became guardian of the northern oceans. Controlling the Camara stream that brings the weather to the northern continents. Her power is mutated though and often she brings harsh winters and unforgiving summers. Appearance: Camara looks like one of the ilma but her eyes are crystal blue and her scales seem to carry a shimmer like fish scales. Her hair is a mix of silver, green and blue, like the plant life of the oceans. |
| Backstory: Camara was born to an Ilma mother, who had wed and slept with the God Thera. She developed powers quickly and was wise for her age. When the wicked Graul of the great continent came for her people. She fled across the ocean with her Thera-ilma until she settled in the north. | Story Excerpt: “Come.” Camara cried, “Our only hope is the sea, where Thera lives, and our peace may be found.” Her people hurried to the beach while their homes were destroyed, and that beacon of fire was like a signal to Thera. The sea’s rose in a violent tumult and the ships that were now boarded by the wicked Graul, were cast in ruin and the bodies of the Thera-ilma were saved and found rest at the oceans floor. Yet upon that storm a bitterness came to Camara and wind from the far north brought an icy chill and her powers of the sea became powers of storm and ice. At her feet the sea froze, and she stepped nimbly upon the wave crest, now frozen in time, “Come, come, we must flee.” Dubiously her people stared at her but as the wicked Graul came to hack and slay, they stepped upon the frozen sea and Camara charged further from the coast, the sea turning to ice on command and her people followed her. The Graul that touched that ice fell and went to the hall of Agraldin and faced punishment for all of time. So came the greatest toil of the Therailma in the early years and they marched across the wide sea in search for a place of sanctuary. Water she pulled, clean and fresh from the sea and fish presented themselves for their food but they ate only what they needed and what the sea could provide. For nearly a whole year, the people of Camara crossed the vast ocean and some were lost upon the path, killed by disease, cold or hopelessness. These went to the sea to join Thera. As summer came to this region, they began to see lands, but Camara feared this place and they marched between two continents, like dangers set to either side and as they passed, the ground to their east rumbled and the sea shook in answer, but she ploughed her people onwards. At one place she stopped, and she stared down to great depths. Thera seemed to speak to her, and she saw the things that were to come and the pain that would follow for the Thera-ilma. For they were new, created by his weakness in the hall of sanctuary and now they were sundered from the chosen Ilma. Tears she shed into the sea, to the despair of her people, “Sweet maiden of the sea.” Her handmaid asked, “Why do you cry?” “Passing this point I see things to come. Our new home draws near but beneath our feet a mountain stands and soon the seas will part, and it will rise and in time it will become our home, our citadel, our sanctuary. My grandsire, Orna, shall fashion it as he fashioned the moons, and the waters of my father will protect it.” “Such a glorious place it shall be.” The handmaiden cried but her voice became stern, “Still I see no need for tears.” Camara smiled at her, “Long shall be that path and it will be full of tragedy, for it is clear in my mind that the tragedy in our village was not all that would befall us and some that will come will be our fault. We will be few when we come to this chosen kingdom, a place to wait for our kind to die out from the tapestry, that is ever woven in Agraldin.” |
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