The Wise Woman

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THIS CHARACTER IS NOT YET SANCTIONED FOR PLAY, THIS WIKI IS A PLACEHOLDER FOR MY CHARACTER CONCEPT AND TO GENERATE CHARACTER TIES FOR PLAY

Seeming Wizened Oracle
Court Autumn Court •••••
Freehold Unforgiving Sun
Player Tieshia Montgomery

Entitlement: House of Rhapsody

Born: 1953

Stolen: 1986

Escaped: 1992

Motley: The Blackguards

Membership:

Titles/Memberships: The Wise Woman, Marchioness of the House of Rhapsody, Eye of Thorns

Alias(es):The Wise Woman, Soothsayer, She who can see.
Real Name:Selene Brooks
Location:ThornHedge Apartments South Florida
Age:Apparent age - 30's Actual age - 75
Seeming:Wizened
Kith:Oracle
Court:Autumn
Virtue:Temperance
Vice:Pride
Concept:The Wise Woman knows what to "Look" for in finding the goblin markets and went there quite often for her master in Arcadia before she went blind. She still knows the where and when of these Goblin Markets in the South East - with connections all over - and now will go there in search of whatever someone is willing to pay her for but she also goes to collect contracts, slaves, trinkets and information.She will go to the market... for a price. She will tell your fortune... for a price. And she is more than willing to heal your ailments with some of her "special medicine"... for a price. Yet she seems to know exactly what she's talking about and if you go to her once you'll always come back.
Physical description: The wise woman wears all white and her clothes are somewhat disheveled. She speaks with a small soft deep voice, and has an unnerving yet safe presence. She appears to be in her thirties, short and somewhat stout and hard to notice unless you are looking for her.Her eyes are mostly clouded over from her blindness but they are grey and indicate that she might be older than her appearance. The eyes are a contrast to her dark skin and black hair and the traits she received from her Egyptian heritage.
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History of a Bitter Autumn

A Predictable Past

My birth was uneventful. Unextarodinary in every way. My brother's birth was even more simple. Less than a minute apart. He was the screamer; at least that's what I've heard. I loved him from the very beginning. We were born, we grew up. We had our secrets that only we knew about. Our older brother was in college, our younger sister too little to understand. My brother was gay; unheard of in our bible thumping christian family. I was wiccan. Also unheard of. Our dad left before I knew what a dad was, which was pretty young. I never heard what happened to him. So with no father and a gay brother and the other brother always gone I had no real male figure in the house. Until I met Max. He was my first boyfriend; my only boyfirend actually. Only kiss, only love, and eventually my better half. My mother died right after I got married and then my last two siblings dissapeared. It was like we were cursed or something. I was all that was left.

I loved my husband very much. He didn't judge me for my intense facination with the extraordinary and the unexplained. What did the stars mean? Is the Zodiac real? Are we really confined to our bodies? Are there supernatural beings out there? Aliens, vampires, ghosts? I never thought about the others; the ones talked about in fairytales. All that talk of sleeping beauties and dwarves and goblins and evil queens was for little girls. People like my brother believed in stuff like that. Goddess knew that this world was no fairytale. But that didn't mean it didn't have any magic or secrets. I was determined to find out what those secrets were. Max liked history. I figured if I was going to find out anything about what was going on behind the scenes I'd start with history. We loved each other very much, Max and I. There was a connection there I don't think I could have gotten anywhere else.

When Amelia came I was ecstatic. She had her father's blue eyes and my onyx hair, straight and lovely. She was a peaceful creature; graceful and quiet. Just like me. Her brother on the other hand was wild and crazy. They occupied themselves and I prided myself on having the girl first. She can calm down her brother easily enough and take some of the stress off of her dad and me. His name was Max, my son. Named after his dad.

My husband was taken when Max was two. I didn't realize it until Max was three. I still can't believe I didn't realize that the man in front of me was not him. For almost a year. And when I did realize, I was taken. It's not important anymore though. That part of me died a long time ago.


Where the Rules Don't Apply

I can't say I didn't try to fight it, that I was brave and faced whatever came my way. Who can say that? If you can you're a liar. I cried. I cried when I woke up to the face of a creature I did not could not understand. It wasn't ugly, just something my eyes didn't want to see. I screamed, I cried and then I fought. I fought against the chains that were secured around my ankle. I near fainted with the stress of it all. And then the creature shook it's strange little head as if making a decision and walked away. Pain in my head and stars. These I couldn't read though. I finally took a look around me.

You know, the Goblin Market near looks like something out of a musical when you first lay eyes on it. You think you've stepped out of reality and into a reenactment of some arabian play with firebreathers and exotic horses and whatnot. A circus might be more accurate. And I really thought for a moment that I must be going insane. The sign next to me was in English sure enough but I wasn't sure I understood what it said. 'Good Breeding. Egyptian Oracle for sale'. Was this what had happened to my husband? And if it was where was he now? All the tales of the Goblin Market I'd heard were true and then some. You could buy an eight legged horse for a dream and a lover. Or you could buy a lover for a dream and an eight legged horse. a pair of mismatched shoes could buy you a neverending flashlight or a contract allowing you to glow if you like.

I near forgot about them then. My family. My kids and my Max. But then I remembered. And the colors on the tents grew dimmer, the noise louder. I needed to escape. I would escape. And then I would find my husband and we'd go back to our children and everything would be alright.

But then she saw me. My keeper. The woman who became all I lived for; my lover my teacher my...

I found myself surrounded by sand. Multitudes of it stretching in every direction so thick , you could certainly drown in it if breathing was actually an issue. I found that it wasn't in this world. It took me a while and I certainly wasn't accepting that the rules in my world didn't apply.

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Places, People and Things

The Blackguards

The House of Rhapsody

The Thorns

The Velvet Underground



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Pre Arcadia Connections

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Arcadia Connections

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Post Arcadia Connections

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Goblin Market Connections

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Musings

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Character Inspirations

  • HBO's Rome
  • Scorpion King
  • Tithe - Holly Black
  • Stardust - Neil Gaiman
  • Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
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Soundtrack

  • Secret Letters - Hyde
  • Color Blind - Counting Crows
  • Your Mistake - Sister Hazel
  • Twilight - Vanessa Carlton
  • Secret Garden - Gackt
  • Hello - Evanescence
  • Blind - Lifehouse (dedication to Gaius Arctorus)
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Quotes

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Whispers

  • The Wise woman was one of the original Blackguards.
  • The Wise woman's entire family was taken through the hedge.
  • The Wise woman Knows where there be Goblin Markets and how to find them.
  • The Wise women has sold some of her emotions, to a goblin, for power over the future.
  • The Wise woman cannot lie.
  • The Wise woman uses the broken hearts of men to tell the future.
  • The Wise woman has no eyes but she sees you nonetheless.
  • The Wise woman has known only one other to treat her with love and kindness, but he is lost in Arcadia.
  • The Wise woman loves two male hearts one she still strives for and the other she will never tell.
  • The Wise woman is not truly a changeling, but something darker born of the hedge itself.
  • Every time she reads the future she goes a little more insane and eventually her mind will shatter entirely.

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