Welcome to Gaia! ::

Opal is a homunculus. The heart shaped gem in her chest that looks like a big opal is her life source. She looks to be around 20 something years old, but is actually much older. She takes care of an alchemy atelier that is built into the trunk of large tree deep in the forest she calls home. She has been waiting for her master to return home from an adventure. But he has been gone a loooong time. She can cook, clean, sew, and provide alchemy assistance to the townsfolk that seek her out.

One day on a trip out for alchemy ingredient gathering, Opal stumbled across a portal that led her to the Lantern Orphanage.

She will end up taking home a starry kitsune child.

Irun, a daughter of Anubis who lives in ancient Egypt, fell through a portal while wandering the afterlife. She found herself at the Lantern Orphange where she meets Malik, a hellhound that for some reason reminds her of a certain someone. She decides to take him in. How hard can taking care of him possibly be???

































Irun spent most of her life learning to judge souls, much like her father Anubis did. She would spend her days studying. But most of the time, much to her joy, she was asked to just safely guide people in the Afterlife. Her nights she spent giving tours and roaming about looking for adventure. She was never one to really sit still after all. But one evening, while out with friends, she found a glowing portal. This magic she did not recognize, and pretty soon it was pulling her inside. There was the sensation of falling, floating, and falling again before her feet found the ground beneath her once more. She felt dizzy. When she looked around she had no idea where she was either. All her friends were gone. And everything looked so vastly different. Pretty soon she found she was getting all kinds of strange looks from the people that were in the area. Scared, she quickly took off, hiding in the trees and examining her surroundings. What was this place? It was so different…

After months of trying to figure out where she was, and how to get home, she found it seemed impossible. So she did her best to find a place to belong here in town in the meantime. It took a lot of work on her part. She had to find a new job and a place to stay. Eventually she was able to get hired by an elderly couple to watch over their book store. She could live upstairs with them in the apartment above it in exchange for working at the store below.

She was finally settling in. And reading the books in the store was an interesting pastime. There were still no hints on how she could get home, but she did learn more about modern day living. She even updated her wardrobe and learned to better speak the language around here. She was very bright though, and it didn’t take her long to absorb most of it.

Now it’s been a full year. The elderly couple is moving closer to their family in the city. They are leaving the apartment and book store to Irun. She is getting along well and enjoying her life. Though she still misses her home.
~~~
One day she took a detour and somehow ended up at the Lost Lantern Orphanage. Curious about the building, she ventured inside. It was almost magical. It seemed like fate had brought her here.