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Gaian Name: Anglophilic Changeling

Character Name: Mara Alia Danes

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Height: 5'9"

Appearance: Mara

Element: Light

Weapon: The staff in the pic

Personality: Mara is sweet and motherly, the complete opposite of Alter. She's quiet, not out of shyness, but rather she doesn't say anything if she doesn't have anything meaningful to say. She is resolute and loyal, not afraid to speak her mind. Very brooding at times.

Strength: Mara is calm and reflective, level-headed and always ready to think things through. She's quick-witted and can almost always find a way out of a sticky situation. She's an adept healer and barrier-caster.

Weakness: Horrible at all sorts of combat. She is deathly afraid of the dark and has personal demons and memories plaguing her mind at almost anytime of day. Likely to zone out, even in times of battle.

History: Mara grew up with an abusive father. Her mother died when she was two years old in giving birth to her younger brother, Alter. At first, she was resentful that her mother was taken away so Alter could live, but eventually she came to love him like a mother. She was a mother for him, and tried to teach him to be calm. Her father became abusive after his wife died and took out his pain and anger on Mara. She took it, knowing that it would be put into more destructive use if she did not. She only asked that he didn't hit her when Alter was around. One day, Alter saw and flew into such a rage that their father was wounded. Mara was sent to a monastary and Alter to a school of magic. At the monastary, the nuns were also harsh. Mara was adept at Light magic, yet she did not believe in the same gods the nuns did. This angered them and they put her through horrible ordeals to make her believe. Mara learned to pretend and go along with them. Before two years had passed, Mara became head abbess. At that time, her brother made contact with her and told her of adventures outside the convent wall. Mara was sick of the convent and escaped. She wandered around the countryside till she found the Grove, the school her brother had told her about. She didn't know if he was still there since she hasn't gotten letters since she left the convent, but she hopes she can teach there. It will give her a home.