Post by Mala on Jun 12, 2009 14:04:12 GMT -5
Name:
Maea
Nickname:
Mala
When Doubar was a toddler he has not been able to pronounce Maea's name properly. Instead he always said something that sounded like "Mala". Later Doubar used this one on purpose as a nickname for his mother.
Outer appearance:
Mala’s image is the one of a young woman in her early thirties. She’s wearing a dark blue dress that reaches to her feet and which, in her eyes, represents the skies. Part of her light blonde hair is being interlaced and tied back to form sort of a bun, while the rest is worn freely and thus covers her delicate shoulders.
Her outfit is being completed by an ancient Roman coin – a symbol for the bright sun that arises every day and which she got as a wedding gift from her mother to let her always have part of her home with her - and one broad golden bracelet on each wrist.
Strengths and skills:
When talking about Mala one easily figures that her greatest strength is her pure heart. She values life and honesty and believes in the good forces. In her lifetime the young woman had shown no special skills as she and her husband had lead a calm life and her main focus had been her sons who meant everything to her.
After Scratch had attacked the little family, however, and had sent the parents to rest in a watery grave, Mala found herself being caught in the depths of the ocean where her soul - still clinging to this world in which her sons lived in - could not escape from. Through many years then her own loving spirit slowly melted into the element that held it captive and adopted its nature in the process. In the end, Mala’s ghost found the strength to free itself from the chains that Scratch had set on her and leave the depths of the sea whenever her sons are in need of her help. Returning to the world of the living, as the image of the one she had once been, she is able to control the waters to a certain extent and turn it against the fiery forces of evil. Other than that, Mala possesses great wisdom and is able to understand the ways of life and magic.
Character:
Mala’s nature is of a calm but self-confident kind.
In her living days the young woman had been rather shy; her sweet and caring way of treating others had added to her innocent soul and gave her a certain aura of purity. When meeting strangers she had always been kind and respectful and having grown up in a loving home, she lived up to the ideal of always being helpful and good.
Then, with leaving her home and becoming a mother a new trait added to her personality: the one of determination and devotion. Maea has been a mother with all her heart and she taught her elder son all what she, herself, found to be important in life. Trust, honesty and good have always been the attributes that the young Roman worshiped most and she believed that eventually it were them that would guide a good man’s heart through all the obstacles that life could throw at them. Having had to raise her child almost alone for her husband had often been away for days, she later developed a sense of self-confidence which is most essential now that her status of existence has changed.
As a ghost, Maea is still the lovely and loving woman she had been before, but having learned much about magic and the ways of this world through being caught in the void between life and death, she became an enemy to the devil who still chases after her younger child. She knows her limits and her strengths; is aware of the things the devil can and cannot do. Her vow to protect her sons at any costs lives on and binds her to the living world.
Bio:
Maea was born to a family of wealthy tradesmen who lived in the city of Gaeta. Being the only child her parents had, she got taught not only the values that were regarded as important for a woman of her rank, but also what was important in a business like the one her family run.
Her father traded with merchants from all over the known world – his contacts to foreign salesmen making him a well-known and trusted man that often got purchase orders for only the best and most exquisite goods. There was nearly nothing he could not get for his customers - and the rich paid well for this. One of his most important contacts to ensure it would stay like this was a merchant in Baghdad. Both men had gotten to know each other decades ago, when Maea’s father had been sent on a journey to the empire’s former province. A quite profitable business relationship had come to life at that time which outlasted and evolved into a friendship that still connected the two tradesmen when their kids were old enough to marry.
It was the idea of her father’s friend to send his son on a journey to Gaeta and supervise the cargo that was to be shipped to Maea’s family. The young Salim – who was a talented merchant himself, but also had an all too obvious love for the seas – complied and made sure the goods arrived in time. He sold them to the Roman family, accepting their offer to stay a few days with grate.
It was during this stay that Maea and Salim got to know – and love – each other. Naturally being approved of by the parents, their relationship soon grew to be something lasting and only one year later, Salim asked Maea’s father for her hand in marriage.
The wedding then took place in Gaeta. It was the day Maea left her home. Amongst all the wedding gifts the young couple received, there was one that the Roman loved more than any other: It was a Golden Roman coin that had been in her mother’s family for several generations and which her mother gave to her right before the ceremony. And as Maea and Salim left for Baghdad it was her father who turned it into a necklace for her so that she might carry it wherever she would go.
It was only a year later that the young couple’s first son was born. Doubar – as they decided to name him – was a good boy and as Salim often was away for days, it was Maea who mainly raised him. She taught him the values that her mother had already taught her, and knowing he would follow his father in becoming a merchant, she also told Doubar bits of what was important in that business. Soon enough the young one accompanied his father on his ways to the port or to costumers, and he even seemed to show some talent in it all.
It was about half a year after Doubar’s eighth birthday that Maea’s and Salim’s second child was born. Sinbad was a lively newborn and the Roman woman was happy to see that his older brother seemed to love him deeply. Often enough he helped her take care for the wee one, and she taught him with pleasure how to tend to a baby.
When Sinbad was about a year old, the family settled to go on a journey to the Northern territories – planning to visit Maea’s parents along the way. The journey started out as a calm and normal one, but it was out on the open seas when suddenly a storm hit the ship and threatened to make it sink. The captain did all he could to make it out of the tempest, but in the end it was of no use. The waves claimed the vessel – and all lives on board. With all her might Maea tried to fight the power that was dragging her down; tried to hold on to her sons and not lose her husband. And all along the cruel howls of the winds there was a voice calling for her younger child, laughing menacingly and telling her to let go. As she refused to do as the voice demanded, she suddenly felt how something took a hold of her. A strangled gasp escaped her lips, before she felt an unknown might pull her down.
The last thing she sensed was that she let go off her baby, praying to her Gods that they would guide it towards his brother and have mercy with those two innocent young lives...
Played by:
Laura Steed
Photo:
Maea
Nickname:
Mala
When Doubar was a toddler he has not been able to pronounce Maea's name properly. Instead he always said something that sounded like "Mala". Later Doubar used this one on purpose as a nickname for his mother.
Outer appearance:
Mala’s image is the one of a young woman in her early thirties. She’s wearing a dark blue dress that reaches to her feet and which, in her eyes, represents the skies. Part of her light blonde hair is being interlaced and tied back to form sort of a bun, while the rest is worn freely and thus covers her delicate shoulders.
Her outfit is being completed by an ancient Roman coin – a symbol for the bright sun that arises every day and which she got as a wedding gift from her mother to let her always have part of her home with her - and one broad golden bracelet on each wrist.
Strengths and skills:
When talking about Mala one easily figures that her greatest strength is her pure heart. She values life and honesty and believes in the good forces. In her lifetime the young woman had shown no special skills as she and her husband had lead a calm life and her main focus had been her sons who meant everything to her.
After Scratch had attacked the little family, however, and had sent the parents to rest in a watery grave, Mala found herself being caught in the depths of the ocean where her soul - still clinging to this world in which her sons lived in - could not escape from. Through many years then her own loving spirit slowly melted into the element that held it captive and adopted its nature in the process. In the end, Mala’s ghost found the strength to free itself from the chains that Scratch had set on her and leave the depths of the sea whenever her sons are in need of her help. Returning to the world of the living, as the image of the one she had once been, she is able to control the waters to a certain extent and turn it against the fiery forces of evil. Other than that, Mala possesses great wisdom and is able to understand the ways of life and magic.
Character:
Mala’s nature is of a calm but self-confident kind.
In her living days the young woman had been rather shy; her sweet and caring way of treating others had added to her innocent soul and gave her a certain aura of purity. When meeting strangers she had always been kind and respectful and having grown up in a loving home, she lived up to the ideal of always being helpful and good.
Then, with leaving her home and becoming a mother a new trait added to her personality: the one of determination and devotion. Maea has been a mother with all her heart and she taught her elder son all what she, herself, found to be important in life. Trust, honesty and good have always been the attributes that the young Roman worshiped most and she believed that eventually it were them that would guide a good man’s heart through all the obstacles that life could throw at them. Having had to raise her child almost alone for her husband had often been away for days, she later developed a sense of self-confidence which is most essential now that her status of existence has changed.
As a ghost, Maea is still the lovely and loving woman she had been before, but having learned much about magic and the ways of this world through being caught in the void between life and death, she became an enemy to the devil who still chases after her younger child. She knows her limits and her strengths; is aware of the things the devil can and cannot do. Her vow to protect her sons at any costs lives on and binds her to the living world.
Bio:
Maea was born to a family of wealthy tradesmen who lived in the city of Gaeta. Being the only child her parents had, she got taught not only the values that were regarded as important for a woman of her rank, but also what was important in a business like the one her family run.
Her father traded with merchants from all over the known world – his contacts to foreign salesmen making him a well-known and trusted man that often got purchase orders for only the best and most exquisite goods. There was nearly nothing he could not get for his customers - and the rich paid well for this. One of his most important contacts to ensure it would stay like this was a merchant in Baghdad. Both men had gotten to know each other decades ago, when Maea’s father had been sent on a journey to the empire’s former province. A quite profitable business relationship had come to life at that time which outlasted and evolved into a friendship that still connected the two tradesmen when their kids were old enough to marry.
It was the idea of her father’s friend to send his son on a journey to Gaeta and supervise the cargo that was to be shipped to Maea’s family. The young Salim – who was a talented merchant himself, but also had an all too obvious love for the seas – complied and made sure the goods arrived in time. He sold them to the Roman family, accepting their offer to stay a few days with grate.
It was during this stay that Maea and Salim got to know – and love – each other. Naturally being approved of by the parents, their relationship soon grew to be something lasting and only one year later, Salim asked Maea’s father for her hand in marriage.
The wedding then took place in Gaeta. It was the day Maea left her home. Amongst all the wedding gifts the young couple received, there was one that the Roman loved more than any other: It was a Golden Roman coin that had been in her mother’s family for several generations and which her mother gave to her right before the ceremony. And as Maea and Salim left for Baghdad it was her father who turned it into a necklace for her so that she might carry it wherever she would go.
It was only a year later that the young couple’s first son was born. Doubar – as they decided to name him – was a good boy and as Salim often was away for days, it was Maea who mainly raised him. She taught him the values that her mother had already taught her, and knowing he would follow his father in becoming a merchant, she also told Doubar bits of what was important in that business. Soon enough the young one accompanied his father on his ways to the port or to costumers, and he even seemed to show some talent in it all.
It was about half a year after Doubar’s eighth birthday that Maea’s and Salim’s second child was born. Sinbad was a lively newborn and the Roman woman was happy to see that his older brother seemed to love him deeply. Often enough he helped her take care for the wee one, and she taught him with pleasure how to tend to a baby.
When Sinbad was about a year old, the family settled to go on a journey to the Northern territories – planning to visit Maea’s parents along the way. The journey started out as a calm and normal one, but it was out on the open seas when suddenly a storm hit the ship and threatened to make it sink. The captain did all he could to make it out of the tempest, but in the end it was of no use. The waves claimed the vessel – and all lives on board. With all her might Maea tried to fight the power that was dragging her down; tried to hold on to her sons and not lose her husband. And all along the cruel howls of the winds there was a voice calling for her younger child, laughing menacingly and telling her to let go. As she refused to do as the voice demanded, she suddenly felt how something took a hold of her. A strangled gasp escaped her lips, before she felt an unknown might pull her down.
The last thing she sensed was that she let go off her baby, praying to her Gods that they would guide it towards his brother and have mercy with those two innocent young lives...
Played by:
Laura Steed
Photo:
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