Astrid Proudmore

Alien/Elf / Astromancer

Submitted character story

You are the scholar who knows that every answer costs something, and you paid in nearly losing yourself to the questions. You chose Old Yost's Cart because patience and preparation matter more than spectacle, and you chose The Silver Tongue because words can rewrite reality when spoken with precision. The night you met your own hollowed reflection in the Void's dream, you learned that knowledge without connection is just another kind of emptiness. You still feel that twisted version of yourself lingering at the edges of your thoughts, whispering that she's waiting, that she's inevitable, that one day you'll choose the story over the people in it. Your table will remember you as the one who could chart the cosmos but never forgot which stars guided her home.

Defining moment: Astrid was the type who chased stories past the point of no return, until one night, she found herself trapped in a dream that wasn't entirely her own. There, she encountered a twisted variant of herself within the Void's multiverse that had already given in, consumed by knowlege, detached from everything she once loved. It tried to convince her to stay, to succumb.. Sometimes, she fears part of it succeeded. Her goddess, Miyako, and her fellow alien companions were the only ones that pulled her back to reality - the only ones that remind her she is still herself. 

She opens the cosmos like a book, knowing every star has a story to tell.