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Characters exclusive to story 2, more for background sake as Edina Sr is very much dead - although her daughter would be one of the main characters? I don’t know, still thinking about the whole world setup.

Her clan are supposed to be kind of… deity/elemental beast worshippers. They often sacrifice a body part to request the aid of said being - eyes are considered the ‘best’ (window of the soul and all that) but it doesn’t have to be. If the deity deems the sacrifice worthy then they will fuse with the person. If they don’t then often the deity/beast will at least attempt to eat that person instead. Other clan members are there to stop this from happening (it’s a whole big ritual).

Edina Sr is considered to be basically a very low value/nearly failed bonding attempt - she isn’t really able to ‘use’ her magic for the most part. What she doesn’t realise is that she basically bonded with her previous incarnation on ‘earth’ - Edina the Phoenix. She then pretty much passes that on completely to her child as opposed to keeping that herself.

She still has vestigial phoenix powers to herself though, being extremely adept at healing as well as aiding the healing of those around her. She has like… a constant proximity of healing that no one really catches on to ahah.

Guy on the left is, as of yet unnamed King/leader/warlord. (Idk I literally asked a character appearance generator to come up with him/his appearance, and this is what it came up with. I like the white/light blue hair. It’s giving very… male storm vibes.)

As per the clan rules, he’s not royalty by birth but by appointment as those with the most powerful deity bonds are elevated to the top of the pecking order as soon as they become an adult. Like Edina Sr, he gave up an eye for his deity bond.

His deity is basically a ginormous thunderbird that he is able to summon at will (and ride too, hehe). He’s able to rain down lightening/produce electricity and is actually just completely terrifying to anyone trying to oppose him.

Except Edina Sr, because you know - she may or may not be clinically insane. Unfortunately in this world, the infant mortality rate is really high, therefore this guy was expected to produce as MANY heirs as physically possible given his desirable deity bond. It’s not something he actively ‘enjoyed’, having a load of concubines/mistresses and I suspect he was actually kind of lonely.

Until he met Edina! They were probably running out of woman at this point, lol. Then they passed over her like ‘eh, I suppose you could have this one - bit feisty th-’, Edina Sr: I’m going to cut your penis off and make you blow yourself. ;D’ and this guy kind of just went… oh my gOD, yes ❤️

I haven’t totally figured out the rest, tbh I think their relationship was a… kind of toxic/complicated one. Like I think they did somewhat love each other but the duties to the clan kind of overrode a normal relationship. Edina Sr honestly wanted to just run away and not have to deal with clan bullshit - she actually basically runs the hell away whilst heavily pregnant. By herself, on an airship. She managed to get to a small ragtag/multi species village that helped her give birth and then hid herself/her baby away for a while there.

Honestly that was probably the happiest she ever got to be? Clan leader eventually finds her and they have a serious fight, where …. neither of them are playing a round anymore. Unfortunately she’s massively outgunned in power. The village gets involved, there’s literally near enough a full on battle but in the end the guy leaves. To his credit, he didn’t really mean the situation to get so out of hand, but Edina Sr basically gets launched off the side of an airship. He tries to search for her but after like 3 days he isn’t able to so he has to give up. Edina Jr is also smuggled out (as Edina Sr requested because she realised that the baby was going to be taken back into the clan, oh hell no!)

Edina Sr does survive like… barely, she gets picked up by a fishing boat and then when she manages to find a job, tries to start looking for her baby. She works as a ship inspector for exactly this reason, desperately looking for clues and whispers of where her child might be… whilst also staying undercover from the Warlord.

Unfortunately she never gets to reunite, while she gets close multiple times (probably unbeknownst to her). During her travels she gets caught up in war and all sorts of adventures, where she kind of sets aside her own want to find own child in order to help the people around her. She also discovers that she does have the resurrection powers of her predecessor.

Eventually, she dies as a direct result of this - but only after resurrecting a huge amount of people post-battle. (Maybe involving the warlord? Who knows?) Everyone who has been resurrected just kind of goes NOPE. NOT FIGHTING ANYMORE. Fuck this, fuck you! I’m out! I want to live! I’m done with this crap! Including the warlord I think, mostly because he probably did love Edina Sr.

Weh, it kinda sad.

So yeah, that leaves her daughter (Edina Jr) who gets kind of passed from person to person but is mostly helped by wild animals/beasts/monsters who kind of.. love her a lot! She also unintentionally attempted to make a deity bond when she is a toddler and… it doesn’t go well at all. With no one experienced enough to help her, she nearly blows herself up (hence the missing arm/burns). Although it’s more an uncontrolled venting of power that she just… doesn’t know how to control.

Eventually this actually starts get worse as she grows, she slowly is becoming less and less human over the years. In reality she’s basically the accumulated combination of the previous Edina’s (and her father!) and all that power is … way too much for a little kid. ;w; She essentially starts becoming a little goddess, lol.

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Sadness is realising you have the ability to bring back people from the dead and you can’t bring back the one person you really REALLY want to.

(Mostly because they’ve been dead for a while and/or there’s a literal tree on top of their grave. Lol.)

Eh this is another story but whatever, I imagine this poor kid manages to eventually find some kind of loving home as opposed to being a completely unwanted orphan. She wears ALL the colourful clothes because… eh she loves lots of colours? She deserves to be pampered a bit.

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Feel bad about killing character so basically reincarnate them I guess