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General
History:
Not much is known about Evolith's past. She originally came from Aaeri and some how she managed to stay out of the systems of the faction, despite how gifted she was. Evolith told Nox she had been a "gutter rat". When she was fifteen she was accused of murdering Vor'Dayne who was a master within the city and a councilman. She admits to Nox that she did murder him and that she had stolen all the life force from his body. She referred to it as "quick" and said that she did not kill him out of maliciousness or thirst for power or position. After his murder, Evolith somehow was able to sneak out of the city through the sewer system and avoid capture. She tells Nox that she did so because she felt they might hang or and if they didn't hang her they'd surely force her into the system. To her that was just as much of a death sentence and that she was "done being controlled by others."
After she left Aaeri she traveled far from the Capitol. She stowed away on a ship to cross the sea and continued to move about. She had been staying in the old ruins that Nox found her in for almost a year which was the longest she'd ever remained in one place. She kept to herself and avoided all human contact. She had not seen another human in 10 months prior to Nox's arrival. The window sill she often sat in had strange markings carved into the stone; a series of vertical and horizontal cuts, like some sort of oddly patterned tally.
Evolith admits she does not sleep often; she usually only sleeps a couple of hours a night, and not for lack of want. While she may want to sleep, dreams plague her slumber and wake her in the night.
Evolith tells Nox that she was courted once by something that she had initially perceived as innocent. She mentions there was not a lot of touching; "He held my hand once or twice, but it wasn't what I thought it was."
Later she reveals that Vor'Dayne was her father, but she still doesn't seem to consider him or Icarus her family, and struggles with the concept or what family might be. She does mention that in killing him she was saving her own life; he'd buried a knife in her heart and she would have bled out, but also admits that she doesn't know who's anger and disgust she'd felt - his or her own. Evolith tells Nox that in her earlier years she always saw the walls of the order as a cage, and even if she had wanted to enter the order she would not have been allowed to. If her parentage had been revealed it would displease Vor'Dayne. In quiet thought, she had sometimes imagined what it might be like to have a family, perhaps from loneliness.
Evolith tells Nox that for a few years during her youth she was more or less a "puppet" or a "drone". She means it literally; her father specialized in generalized Iisha, and he would exert that will on her. He would make her do things she didn't want to; walk, speak, act - her body ceased to be her own. He would even use her to secretly kill competitors and those who might challenge him later.
“He tortured me – he and some of his friends. I imagine that many yet live; I wouldn’t be surprised if some had made it to positions of power and influence. He wanted to see just how much I could take. How many injuries I could heal; if I could tolerate the pain, can I regenerate my arm? Can I heal things done by blades or fire? Can I drown? Can I fall from great heights and live? And if he was feeling in the mood for it I couldn’t even scream.”
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The 'Noise':
“It’s not really a sound…There are so many people; so many
emotions, so many extremes of one or the other. They layer over one
another, like people shouting over one another to be heard. Joy,
despair, love, anger, hate, passion, desire, greed, disgust – Desire,
passion, and anger – those are more consuming. It’s exhausting.”
“Sex has a way to block everything else out; every care,
every worry, every noise.”
Compilations; "This was not then":
