Despair

Human / Sorcerer

Submitted character story

Despair is the part of the mind where you go to die. She pulls and tugs, sometimes gently, like a soothing tide or an insistent current, other times violently, like a raging storm or a tsunami. The thing is, she doesn't just pull at herself or you, she pulls at others too, she can be given through your actions. When your enemies are crushed before you, Despair calls to them with honeyed words, when your actions bring down your allies, she is there, pulling at the threads, sapping willpower and strength.

When Eldest's mind shattered, Despair had been resting in the depths, then the bonds went hollow. The space beside her in bed that should have been warm, full, was instead empty and cold, and for the first time in a long time Despair felt her namesake claw at herself. Reaching out through the threads, she found the bonds between her brothers and sisters hollow, her memories fading with the bonds to become an ache in her mind. Nearly succumbing, only the sight of the golden thread around her wrist, one made from the hair of someone she could no longer remember, pulled her on. Tugging at the thread in her mind that should have filled the space in her bed, she set out to find it. Despair was coming, and for once she had a reason beyond reason to be angry.