#happy national lesbian necromancy day

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"i would know her by reformed body alone... i would know her in death"

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Meet my Characters: Persephone Zima

Requested by @tiarabigo

This will be a bit shorter as Persephone isn’t a part of the main cast

But she’s also a love interest soooo….

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Name: Alyona Rabinovich Dmitriev (real name)

Persephone Zima (mercenary name)

Age: around 22-24

Lesbian

Nationality: Russian

Human with the power of necromancy

Notes: 6 foot tall Russian Necromancer Lady

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The Candlestick Child

Born under the name Alyona, our little necromancer was born in a small town in Russia. She grew up with her grandfather, a candlemaker. They were poor, and due to her grandfather’s failing health, Alyona would wander the chilly streets from early morning to midnight, trying to sell candles.

This taught Alyona a couple things. One, was an appreciation of fire, yet weariness of what damage it could cause. She saw fire as a symbol of safety and hope due to its warmth and light, but would be reminded to be cautious whenever it burnt her fingers. She would walk the town streets with only a candle for company.

The other thing she learned was that she could not only hear the whispers of the dead, she could see them as well. There was many a night spent running home in fright from the spirits of those who had died in the cold. Yet Alyona was sworn to secrecy regarding this.

See, the reason she didn’t seem to have any parents was because necromancy is not a power that many people trust. The opportunity to communicate with, and even control, the dead is a highly controversial topic, and even using those powers in some places is deemed unethical. Alyona’s wasn’t sure what became of her parents, but she knew that she didn’t wish to end up like them.

Sadly, despite her efforts, Alyona’s grandfather would die in her arms, leaving her to fend for herself.

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Chance at a Different Fate

For the next few years, Alyona passed herself off as a fortune teller to hide her actual powers. This seemed to work, but there were whispers around the town. Many weren’t convinced that she hadn’t inherited her parents’ powers, and Alyona could sense the inevitable consequences coming.

But then, one day, she’d be suddenly approached by a young man in peculiar clothing, telling her to come with him if she would like to live. She went with him, not thinking much of it, but realized with horror that a mob had been organized to kill her, and she had just narrowly escaped death.

The man introduced himself as Chronos, a telekinetic with the ability to reverse time. He had witnessed Alyona’s execution, and felt compelled to help. Chronos was looking to start work as a mercenary, but needed to be registered in a group. He asked Alyona if she’d like to work together, and seek out the rest of their members. She agreed, and left with him to begin a new life.

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Welcome to the Plot

It’s been quite a bit of time since then, and Alyona now goes by the name Persephone Zima to avoid any links to her past.

Since leaving with Chronos, she not only amassed and became the leader of the mercenary group, she grew proficient in both her powers and in sword fighting. She’s known as an intimidating woman you do not want to cross under any circumstances, and has led her group to astounding success.

But then in comes the plot.

By which I mean in comes a couple of runaway Royal children from the kingdom of Dawnsview. And the older sibling, Phoenix, quickly rocks Persephone’s world in a way the necromancer could never expect.

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Persephone is the type of person who can command the respect of others by just walking into a room. Tall, composed, and intimidating, she’s not someone you’d want to disobey. She’s sharp, logical, and is quick to resolve inner group conflict whenever possible.

But when she’s not acting as a leader, Seph is a very warm and comforting presence that makes others feel safe and at ease. She’s happy to lend an ear to whoever needs it, and is realistic but understanding. When it comes to finding help, Persephone is one of the best people you can find.

Canonically, Persephone is the best sword fighter in the story. Her fighting style takes inspiration from Russian Sword Dancing, and she’s both graceful and precise in battle.

As mentioned throughout, Seph is a necromancer. She can not only communicate with the dead, she can raise skeletons to aid her in combat, human or otherwise. So yes, she could probably raise a dinosaur skeleton to fight.

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Relationships

Phoenix Dawnsview:

Persephone takes on the role of Phoenix’s mentor at the start of the story, but this quickly changes as it becomes apparent that Phoenix doesn’t exactly need help learning to fight. Instead, Seph becomes Phoenix’s go-to for advice in leading a mercenary group and handling inter-group conflicts.

It’s also blatantly obvious to everyone that Phoenix has a massive crush on Seph. Seph is very aware of this, and at first just treats it as something for Phoenix to grow out of. This changes as the story goes on. To Persephone, Phoenix reminds her of fire itself. Destructive, yes. Wild, yes. But also comforting, warming, and able to brighten a dark situation. She ends up becoming fascinated by the chaotic pyrokinetic, and this intrigue turns into a deep respect and adoration. The two eventually begin a long distance relationship, and go on dates whenever they happen to be in the same area.

As much as she loves Phoenix, though, Seph does wish she’d be a little less reckless… and prone to causing property damage.

Chronos Cendrillon:

Her former co-founder of her mercenary group, Seph and Chronos certainly go back. Their relationship has changed overtime, much like with all of Chronos’ relationships. Initially they were good friends, and Chronos was considered Seph’s second in command. The two would often consult each other on decisions, and felt a strong reliability towards each other.

But this would change after a certain event that led to Chronos erasing most of his memories and burning many bridges. He and Seph clashed far more due to Chronos constantly trying to micromanage. Seph would often have to reprimand him and remind him who is in charge. She still respects his abilities and ambition, but he’s definitely fallen out of her favour.

Athan Orlok And Siren:

The remaining members of her group after Chronos and Chess leave.

It’s a joke that Seph acts like an annoyed parent towards Athan. Between constantly reprehending them for speaking inappropriately, and getting them back on task, Seph is often nagging them. If they weren’t otherwise very good at their job, Seph would have lost her patience with them a while ago. The two often drink together after missions.

Siren gets on better with Seph and causes less issues. Seph does often have to juggle things to accommodate Siren due to her albinism and her regular visits back to her elven tribe, which the elf appreciates immensely. Siren likes to act like the girly “bestie” with Seph, who doesn’t mind it… but would prefer if Siren left talk of clothes shopping and whatnot for when the group isn’t working.

Chess Malisci:

Seph’s relationship with Chess has always been complicated. They were never particularly close, and Chess would always keep to herself without making much trouble. Seph still finds it hard to completely trust the former Queen of Thieves, but does her best to defend her should doubt or suspicion be cast her way.

Seph has recently become more sympathetic towards Chess following Chronos’ complete change in demeanour. Given how close Chess and Chronos used to be, Seph can tell how much the current situation has hurt Chess, and this furthers her irritation towards Chronos.

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I Hope You enjoyed!

Let me know if there’s any characters you’d like me to talk about next!

I apologize for wasting your time

- Spooky

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Since you all loved the Lich Queen and her ex-wife, here is their story!

Bonifatia

Born 13/4 10000 BT

Bonifatia was a potato farmer in Zarn that had nothing special in life. Her parents both died when she was a teenager, she had no siblings, no friends, no lover, no nothing. Until one day, Bonifatia was 127, her local knight became a Vampire and killed everyone who didn’t manage to escape. Bonifatia was turned into a Vampire Spawn. She served the evil vampire for many years.

Hildegard

Born 12/3 10000 BT

Hildegard was the daughter of the local knight of Oifacburg. In that time, Okery wasn’t a unified nation yet, and Oifacburg was simply the biggest town in the region. She and her brother both studied magic, and they were both amazing at it. Like, really amazing. Her brother was older than her so she didn’t expect to ever rule and went adventuring instead. She didn’t have a permanent party, but she did have some people that helped her from time to time. All of that would change on the fateful

08/27 9430 BT

Hildegard decided to slay the vampire that ruled the small village Zarn with an iron fist. She went into the castle and got attacked by Vampire Spawn. But they were no match for the powerful wizard. She got to the Vampire Lord who began to fear for his unlife. He hoped that maybe he could increase his odds of survival if he turned all of his spawn into proper vampires who have much more fighting power after all. So he let one of them drink from his blood. But these few seconds were enough for Hildegard to turn the helpless Vampire into dust. With him, all of the Vampire Spawn vanished. Except for the one that got to drink the blood of the Vampire seconds before. This new Vampire Lord looked at her liberator and fell in love instantly. “My name is Bonifatia. I am pleased to meet you” she said quietly, and also a bit scared. Hildegard knew that this woman wasn’t a ruthless tyrant, at least not yet, and so decided to spare her life. They talked for a while. Hildegard, who never knew love in her 369 years of walking the material plane, fell in love with this woman in one evening.

The next morning, Bonifatia made herself the new knight of Zarn. The villagers first thought this wouldn’t change much, just one Vampire tyrant to the next, but she asked the villagers to her castle so they could draft a code of laws together. The villagers were surprised by this. They agreed that Bonifatia would protect the people of Zarn for a tenth of their monthly income, the usual knight stuff. They also agreed that Bonifatia could request up to 3 people every week to drink blood from, but she was not allowed to kill them in the process. This would allow her to keep living as a Vampire without having to kill anyone. She was also allowed to completely drain anyone she sentenced to death, making them her Spawn. Of course, the villagers would be extra careful about unnecessary death sentences.

Bonifatia and Hildegard decided to marry. This was probably a rushed decision, they hadn’t even known each other for a day yet. But so they traveled back to Oifacburg, to request the approval of Hildegard’s parents. When they arrived there, they found Hildegard’s parents to be very ill, on the verge of death. They thought it was weird their daughter wanted to marry a vampire, but they knew how smart she was so they gave her blessing. Before the two could actually marry, the parents died. Then, Hildegard’s brother surprised her: He didn’t want to become a knight, he wanted to open a school so he could teach magic to other people. Hildegard accepted to take the position instead of him, and so he could open the University of Oifacburg.  Too late, Hildegard realized that this could bring ruin to her town. She was married to a Vampire, and most people believed Vampires to be inherently evil. She wasn’t afraid of any individual, she, her brother and Hildegard together were (and still are) capable of killing almost anyone who would dare to oppose them. But in the south, two of the first nations of the world had recently formed. The Empire of Nar’Adsch and the Empire of Oozridge. They had armies, and these armies could kill Bonifatia. But Hildegard had a plan. She wanted to unite the villages of Okery to become a nation.

Hildegard didn’t want to create an Empire like the Basguri or the Dragon-Kaiser. She lived her whole life under a system where the people of a village swear their allegiance to a knight and get protection and governing in exchange for a percentage of their income. Hildegard wanted to implement this system on a higher scale. The knights should swear allegiance to her, their Queen, and get protection and governing in exchange for a percentage of their income. Also, they would have a large group of other knights they could rely on should an emergency arise.

It took them almost 20 years to convince all the knights of Okery to swear allegiance to Hildegard. Some of them saw the benefits of uniting under one banner, some of them refused, so she killed them and replaced them with people loyal to her. After Okery was united, Hildegard realized that she needed second-in-commands, ruling all of these knights at once would be too much for her. So she made two knights her “Major Knights”. These knights would each rule over all knights within their region while still serving Queen Hildegard. The first major knight was the knight of Magdfurt, the second one was supposed to be Bonifatia, but she declined. She was contempt with ruling her little village and helping her wife in ruling the nation. So the knight of Trar got the title instead.

And so Hildegard and Bonifatia ruled together for many happy years. When the King founded his Kingdom of Humans in the east, he modeled his governing system after Hildegard’s. He, Hildegard and Bonifatia talked a lot about government and other stuff and the three became friends. But after a few centuries, Hildegard became very sad. The King was made immortal by his people’s belief in him and Bonifatia was an immortal Vampire. It seemed as if she would die eventually, leaving her best friend and her wife behind.

But it should not come to this. Hildegard was still a very powerful wizard, and one day, a stranger knocked on her palace doors and said he could help her with her magical research. Intrigued, she let them in. The stranger revealed himself to be Micolo, god of Necromancy. He told her that he was deeply thankful, Hildegard and Bonifatia did a lot for the social acceptance of the Undead in Draxnor. For that, he would share the secrets of Lichdom with her. And so Hildegard became an immortal Lich. A few decades later, her brother discovered the Clone spell, essentially making him immortal as well. And so it came that Hildegard still rules Okery to this day, her brother leading the University, her wife leading Zarn, and her best friend leading the Kingdom. Nations around them came and went, but these four remained a staple in the history of Draxnor.

I can’t tell you how they broke up because that might be a spoiler for my campaign! Maybe you’ll find out eventually though! Hope you enjoyed reading this and remember:

It’s not 2 pages of lesbian fanfiction if it’s actually canon.