Adele Faa

Five years ago, Adele Faa was a meek, confused, and heavily brainwashed captive of The Flame. In the years since, she has continued to struggle with her faith, but has reaffirmed her dedication and loyalty to the once-commander of the rebel group. While still extremely quiet and often thought to be a mute, she is more likely to speak--softly--with her inner circle and occasionally in a louder, firmer voice. In these past five years she has become accustomed to life outside the cloister. Although she avoids it at all costs, she now possesses the calm of mind to quickly strike down with flame those who endanger the cause. She has become a firm, thoughtful, and careful leader--albeit a quiet and very private one. Her many years of loyalty to the old commander, growing prophetic ability, and dedication to rebuilding the rebel cause, have established her control over the heretics firmly.

The days in which she was once known as Sister Faa have shaped the focus of her Innate abilities. While naturally a Seeress, she is not nearly as powerful as The Seer. Instead, she has taken enthusiastically to the focus once forced on her. In the years since being taken from the Grand Temple, she has fine tuned her flameshaping abilities for combat. Occasionally, she receives somewhat muddled visions or makes attempts to focus on a particular person in the past or present. However, The Seer is still capable of affecting her visions against Adele's will. As such, Adele is reluctant to trust her own Sight.

Adele Faa was born a few miles from the walls of the city-state Seboet, in a hamlet called Thas. Huddled on a hillside against harsh valley winds, Thas was hardly the ideal living place. But her people, scattered across the valley and in Seboet slums, had few other options. To the east, the west, the south, and the north were hostile nations who had driven their people out or forced them into slavery. But here, under the protection of Seboet, they could eke out an existence.

Within the isolated monasteries of Innate mages, the cult of Seboet trained young women as priestesses and used them as living furnaces. And so it was that a tiny, wide eyed albino infant from what was little more than a hole in the ground caught the attention of The Oracle in the city, whose duties included finding new Innates in the region with her Sight. Before long, Thas was being ransacked by men in golden armor, searching for the rarest of prizes: a mage.

Little Adele was taken to the nearest cloister, though unlike most children her age she did not wail or fight. After she was placed in the care of the red-robed sisters on that hilltop temple, she grew awkwardly and slowly, and could not be coaxed to utter a word or communicate, though it was obvious she could hear and understand everything around her. The sisters simply shrugged their shoulders at it and blamed it on the oddities known to appear in ones like themselves.

Life in the cloister was heavily regulated and the beliefs of the cult pressed aggressively into the minds of the women there. Adele never questioned them, out loud or otherwise, for she was never alerted to any alternative. She simply learned to do Loegir's work and feed the fires to keep her god's feet warm, as she was told. And she became among the most devoted of his priestesses.

As she entered her pre-teens she began to have fractured, frighteningly real visions, first in her sleep then increasingly as she was awake. It was some time before she came to understand, alone, that these visions were of the past and present, and with practice and deep focus sometimes the future.

In her fifteenth year, after she had finished her training almost a year late due to her unwillingness to communicate, they began to train her to someday take the place of perhaps, they would whisper, the Oracle itself one day. There were a handful of Seers in the city and she was but one of them, and so it became the ambition of the women of the temple to make it their Seer. She began to be separated and treated differently from the other girls of the furnace, more harshly but also with more care and precision.  However, she remained awkward in her command of the Sight.

Nevertheless, outside the walls of the cloister, the heretics planned. Adele was among one of the many Seers they attempted to capture that year, but after many months she no longer sought to escape back home and began to--oh, so quietly--speak with the old commander of her doubts. Although she is known to linger by temples and some whisper that she is still unsure regarding her beliefs, Adele established herself as a useful and loyal asset. When most of the rebels were lost five years ago and their leader went missing, The Seeress began the slow process of picking the pieces back up and rebuilding the rebel movement.