When I say I haven’t written anything for years, that’s a bit stretching the facts. I did write something indeed – however it’s just a bio for one of my Guild Wars characters, Carnivore Cassie, the Necromancer. I’ve only posted it on the [PB] guild forums, now let me copy it here as well. It’s not really good, but it would do as a small bio story. (The story contains Guild Wars lore related elements…)
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Cassandra was always a gloomy little girl. The other children never liked her, except for Tome, who always protected everyone, so she always tried to hang out with him, and his best friend, Murdoc – but Murdoc was really annoyed by her. One day he dared her to get the knucklebones of Old Mad Gareth from the catacombs, and she ran off sulking. Murdoc thought she’ll leave them alone at last – but she went right off to the deepest dungeons. She was eight years old.
Of course she got lost. After six hours of wandering she already gave up on the knucklebone, and she just tried to get out. She was hungry, she was tired. But afraid she wasn’t. Somehow she felt safe. She felt as if she’d been at home. And then she felt she’s not alone. And she wasn’t. When she turned in at the next corner, she met two suspicious men. Surprisingly, her first reaction wasn’t to run away, but to ask what the men are doing there.
Apparently, the two men was a man and a woman: Oberan the Reviled and Mistress Munne, who was scolding him for his suspicious experiments. She immediately saw Cassie’s natural talent, her mystic attunement to the dead. She took her home, and had a long night’s talk with her parents.
When she started her studies in the Necropolis (a small and avoided wing of Ascalon’s Old Library And School), the other children felt more distant, and their loathing were now accompanied by mistrust, fear and envy. She changed her name to Carnivore Cassie (one of the common nicknames other were calling her), so she wouldn’t bring shame on her family’s name.
Ten years later she felt she learned everything she could from the library, and she seeked Munne’s audience to take the Test of the Necromancers. Munne was proud: not only Cassie was one of her best students, but (despite how the others always taunted and hurt her) she never turned to the dark path of the necromancers. Through her studies with the dead she learned to respect life. After passing her exams (with perfect score) Munne was sure she’ll also seek Mhenlo’s teachings as well – but instead she headed off to Althea. Later she explained: she spent so many time with corpses of the deceassed, she wanted to study how the living people think. She wanted to know what lead the others to fear her knowledge.
To fund her new studies, she accepted a job at the local cemetary. There she also talked a lot with Mhenlo too. He was quite impressed – even though he thought they both look at the life from the opposite way, their ideas and views wasn’t that much different. Her studies beneath Althea were prosperous too – though she never could be as good as those who chose Mesmerizing their primary path, and her lack of experience with living people and social life made her enchanting skills a bit slower, she was quick to learn and she began to notice how her own spells can benefit from what she learned.
Though their ways has separated, she never forgot who started her on her journey, and when she heard about Tome and Murdoc joining the Vanguard, she also seeked audience with the royal guard. Unfortunately, she never met them again. Tome and Murdoc sacrificed themselves against the Charr, when the fire came down from the skies.
Countless were the deceased, and limitless was her anger and hatred against the Charr. After her parents’ funeral, she immediately joined Ascalon’s remaining forces to try to drive the Charr out of the country – but despite of the small victories they achieved, she had to see Ascalon is hopeless. When King Adelbern cast away his son, she joined him – and the rest is history.
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Friday, August 31st, 2007 
