Rime
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To Essai, Transcendent Prism, color takes on a mysterious, almost religious fascination. It can be associated to every life, every emotion, every scene of every moment: it is the lens through which her story runs; it is her driving purpose. Even before her time, she only existed as Unshaped Ephemeral Chiaroscuro of Chromatic Beauty's Heart Emination. Ephemeral Chiaroscuro was a Wyld Storm that sought to claim all the color from Infinity- both the Wyld and Creation's concrete hues. Time passed, though, and it grew angry from not being able to understand what it so desperately collected: They were beautiful baubles all, but the substance to them eluded it. Ultimately, it resigned itself to crossing the Gateway of Sundraprisha- as much as it might have wished otherwise, if it wanted to enter into Creation, it would have to be in something more tolerable to the Medusa-gaze of Creation's static configuration.
And so Essai was born.
After spending countless time in the Wyld, sampling the ephemeral hues that run through its changing scenery, her interest turned inward, seeing some of her kin living at the Blessed Isle.While other Raksha were infuriated to the day at their so-called 'betrayal', citing Balor and demanding a successor, she took a fascination. These creatures had such possibility! Even in the infinite Wyld, she had never seen such vibrant shades of color through their emotion! Fourty years ago, some Wyld-born Raksha had staged a short-lived insurrection into Creation. The attempt- the Amber Charge, known to those of the Wyld. In the madness of the moment, she made her way inward from the East, eventually making it to the Isle.
And so, she worked her way into the Senate. The raksha she was used to; their poetic methodology was nothing new. As for their new allies, the Dragon-Blooded, they made for something...different. Such curious shades of emotion; fickler than one of the Unshaped, and yet so willing to alter or change what they would stand for...To her, such things were immensely fascinating. So she stayed, part of the Senate, earning a place of respect (at least in politics- her behavior struck some of the Terrestrials as too peculiar in a social scene). She took a small magistrate, mostly so she could satisfy her diet of dreams with the mortals there now and then...And, of course, so she could have a chance to study their emotions- their Color- as well.
Years passed, and she grew a little testy at how slow her research would go. The Senate would stage their discourses often enough, and someone almost always would get upset or flustered- those were quite satisfying evocations of color. But when their concept of 'honor' was thrown out on the line, and they would have to fight- oho, that was when the most vivid hues of color would eke ouf of their spirits! Such passionate, vivid reds!
Determined to evoke those emotions further, she herself broke into a phase where she would challenge anyone for anything, almost at a drop at a hat. Her 'duels of honor' were quite the skew on one: Never would she actually fight an opponent to death, or even to blood's spilling- a few blows would be traded, and she would simply turn and leave, contented with what 'data' she had collected.
Now, she is considered a bit eccentric, yes, but her loyalty to the Senate's prosperity is unquestionable- if anything, for her desire to continue her 'research'. That, and the other raksha out in the Wyld were just so dull.
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