Post by Antigone nó Gentian on Oct 25, 2009 23:02:55 GMT -5
Name: Antigone Petrides nó Gentian
Age: 25
Race (Lineage Origin): Hellene/D'Angeline
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4"
Home Provice/Country: Terre D'Ange
Appearance:
Antigone is a petite woman, but has a presence that makes her appear taller than she is. She is slim, with small perky breasts and a thin waist and hips. She has an oval face, full pink lips, and intense blue eyes that appear to see right through you. She walks tall and gracefully, and when you are near her, you can smell the incense that she works with.
History:
Antigone's mother, Pythia, was the oracle of Delphi in Hellas. According to the practices of the Hellenes, the oracle must be a woman of good standing, who once she assumed the duties of the oracle gave up her husband and family to devote herself to Apollo's service. Pythia, who never intended to marry, became the oracle at 20. She was the child of a previous oracle, and was extremely good at what she did, predicting marriages and births and good fortune, as well as disasters, wars and pestilence. She never expected to fall in love, until she did, with Antigone's father, Jean-Luc de Regarde. Jean-Luc was a trader and merchant, who had traveled to Hellas seeking to trade D'Angeline wine for Hellene olives. They met in the marketplace, and that fateful day changed Pythia's life.
Pythia and Jean-Luc began meeting in secret, and in time, Antigone was conceived. Pythia tried to keep her romance and pregnancy a secret, but time began to reveal her belly, and she was cast out of the priestess-hood, having betrayed her vows to give up family for Apollo. Jean-Luc and Pythia decided to travel back to Terre D'Ange together. Pythia went into labor on the high seas, and Antigone was born. Unfortunately, Pythia died en route to Marsilikos, and Jean-Luc was left to raise his daughter alone. They lived happily in Marsilikos for a time, until Jean-Luc noticed something strange about his daughter. For time to time, she would inexplicably go into a trance and say things that came true soon after. For example, she predicted the birth of a two-headed goat at a farm on the Siovalese border, and three days later, news arrived of this strange event. Another time, she predicted a fire at the docks, and soon after that, a Carthaginian ship was burned by a careless sailor. Jean-Luc decided that his daughter would be better able to hone and control her talent if she were fostered at gentian House, so when she was ten, he brought her there.
Antigone learned quickly, and by the time she was 19 she had earned her marque. Now she is a very successful diviner, able to read cards, tea leaves, and water. It is through divination by wine and incense, however, that her most powerful prophecies come. At 23, she was made Second of Gentian House. She is a generous spirit, kind to the fosterlings, but has no patience for lazy or careless adepts.