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'''Leafiara Autumnwind''', or '''Leafi''' to her friends, born on Tilamaires the 6th, Jastatos 5092, is a half-[[sylvan]] [[cleric]] of [[Tilamaire]] and citizen of [[Wehnimer's Landing]]. Though typically cheerful, she becomes ferociously defensive if her friends or her home are at risk and will use absolutely anything at her disposal--[[warding]] magic, [[bolt spell]]s, [[two handed weapons]], [[::brawling|her own hands and feet]], [[::Invisibility_(916)|spying]] with the [[::Imbue_(614)|help]] of [[::Magic_Item_Creation_(420)|friends]], skills learned at the [[Order of Voln]], or simply distributing information as a snooping [[::The_TownCrier|TownCrier]] reporter--to protect her loved ones.



In her spare time she is a master [[::cobbling|cobbler]], master of [[forging]] [[::Polearm_Weapons|pole arms]], has developed the greatest talent with various instruments that one can without being a [[bard]], became a Guild Master of the [[Cleric Guild]] as nominated by Guild Masters [[Rohese Bayvel-Timsh%27l]] and [[Mikalmas]], and bakes top quality [[::Manna_(203)|manna bread]] after being inspired by [[Cruxophim]].

'''Leafiara Autumnwind''', or '''Leafi''' to her friends, born on a Tilamaires on Jastatos 6, 5092, is a half-[[sylvan]] [[cleric]] of [[Tilamaire]]. Though typically cheerful, she can become ferocious in battle and will use anything at her disposal--[[warding]] magic, [[bolt spell]]s, [[Edged Weapons|edged weapons]], [[brawling|her own hands and feet]], [[Invisibility_(916)|spying]] with the [[Imbue_(614)|help]] of [[Magic_Item_Creation_(420)|friends]], or skills learned at the [[Order of Voln]].

Despite her youth, she possesses incredible abilities both on the battlefield and as an artisan. In her spare time she's a master [[cobbling|cobbler]], master [[Artist%27s_Easel|painter]], master with [[darts]], master of [[forging]] [[Brawling_weapons|brawling weapons]], [[Edged_Weapons|edged weapons]], and [[Polearm_Weapons|polearms]], has developed the greatest talent with various instruments that one can without being a [[bard]], became a Guild Master of the [[Cleric Guild]] as nominated by Guild Masters [[Rohese Bayvel-Timsh%27l]] and [[Mikalmas (prime)|Mikalmas]], and bakes top quality [[Manna_(203)|manna bread]] after being inspired by [[Cruxophim]].


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|race=Half-elf
|culture=Half-[[sylvan]]
|culture=Sylvankind
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|profession=[[Cleric]]
|religion=Follower of [[Tilamaire]], Admirer of [[Cholen]]
|religion=Follows [[Tilamaire]], also admires [[Cholen]], and greatly respects [[Gosaena]], [[The Huntress]], and [[Onar]]
|word=Energetic
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|disposition=Adventurous, cheerful, lively
|disposition=Adventurous, cheerful, lively
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|strength=Fearlessness
|strength=Fearlessness
|weakness=Impatience, recklessness
|weakness=Impatience, recklessness
|habits=Ringing bells, shooting friends with her water cannon, throwing [[::Snowball_satchel|snowballs]]
|habits=Ringing bells, shooting friends with her water cannon, throwing [[Snowball_satchel|snowballs]]
|hobbies=[[Cobbling]], composing, singing, snuggling, tickling
|hobbies=[[Cobbling]], singing, snuggling, tickling
|soft=Chocolate, sweets
|soft=Chocolate, sweets
|loyalties=Conscience
|loyalties=Conscience
|friend=[[Severine]] Veneuve
|friend=[[Severine (prime)|Severine]] Veneuve
|spouse=[[Saraphenia (prime)|Saraphenia]]
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|loved=[[Lyrna (prime)|Lyrna]], [[Eyona (prime)|Eyona]], [[Saranja (prime)|Saranja]], [[Ghianna (prime)|Ghianna]]
|loved=[[Etanah]]
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==Appearance==
=Appearance=


You see Maiden Leafiara Autumnwind the Scion of Shaundara.
You see Whimweaver Leafiara Autumnwind the Holy Flame of Tilamaire.
She appears to be a Half-Sylvan.
She is bathed in a golden sheen of sunlight that mutes the light of Tilaok, causing her aura to shimmer with orange light.
She is moderately tall and has a well-toned frame. She appears to be youthful. She has sparkling green eyes and soft, smooth honey-hued skin. She has shoulder length, tousled cherry red hair framing her face in a disheveled, carefree style. She has a well-defined, heart-shaped face and slightly pointed ears. She has alternating cherry and vanilla polish brushed onto her neatly rounded fingernails.
A myriad of leaf-shaped sweets and treats appear to be following her every move.
Miniature yellow treble clefs spiral outward from her before fading away.
She is in good shape.
Her hands are covered in a light dusting of sugar.
There is a small ruby red sprite flying above her shoulder.
Colorful, wispy threads shimmer in and out of existence, twining and dancing freely around a white imflass manacle encircling her left wrist. Its empty keyway is outlined in a bold red glow that pulsates rhythmically.
She is wearing a shimmering cherry red cloak, a leaf-spangled imflass scabbard, a radiant red zelnorn tunic accented by a shining white leaf flourish with a pure white elesine sundress showcasing a skirt-spanning red music staff underneath, some pure white fingerless gloves reinforced with ghezyte banding, a polished knotwork platinum wedding band, a silk-lined imflass thigh-sheath, a cherry red leaf-clasped anklet, and a pair of pure white sandals reinforced with ghezyte straps and soles.
Sparkling musical notes spring around her feet, dissipating into colorful mist as she moves.


Her "Adventurer Casual" outfit, everyday attire suitable for flipping between battle and chatter on a whim. I'm in the camp of picturing torso chain mail as just chain mail, so most of her body is unprotected by armor as I envision her, but I write it off as immaterial since she's a cleric well defended by spells, including [[Soul Ward (319)|a magical barrier that deflects attacks entirely]]. Her wearing heavier armor isn't a practicality thing, but more a symbolic gesture about having a powerful core or something like that. Speaking of symbolic, her manacle is a mysterious item whose backstory I haven't delved into yet, but it notably lacks a chain or even anywhere to attach one.
She appears to be a Half-Sylvan.


The shimmering cherry red cloak has a script that makes it unalterable, so to make it not stand out as the only thing she's wearing with a short description, I included her FancySheaths (which can't even have long descriptions and are normally hidden in other trinket sets), wedding band, and [[Resist Nature (620)|ranger anklet]]. I think it's an interesting contrast to her far more showy armor, sundress, gloves, and sandals.
She is tall and has a slender build. She appears to be very young. She has sparkling green eyes and soft, fair skin. She has shoulder length, tousled bright red hair framing her face in a disheveled, carefree style. She has a well-defined, heart-shaped face and slightly pointed ears. She has ebon-marbled kelyn green lacquer brushed onto her smooth oval fingernails.


[[Leafiara (prime)/Shimmer Trinket Sets|See other outfits on the subpage here!]]
She is wearing a lustrous azure blazestar diadem, a gold-edged fox-shaped locket, a bold red musical note-shaped locket, a white-edged red silk cape fastened with an emerald music note pin, a platinum and emerald ivy leaf, a honey beryl note symbol inset with tiny water sapphires, a sleeveless white silk shirt with a red leaf-printed collar, a pair of fingerless eonake-studded sylvan gloves emblazoned with leaves, a pure white silk gem pouch embroidered with a bold red musical note, a perfect maoral-handled imflass forging-hammer, a pure white silk instrument case with a bold red leaf-shaped latch, a high-slit knee-length red silk skirt adorned with a dozen white bells, and a pair of eonake-soled sylvan sandals with leaf-patterned toe straps.


==Background==


===Florania's Plea===


=History=
Florania, a [[sylvan]] [[bard]], had always known she wanted her daughter to be raised in the sylvan forests--and Florania's husband Azuryn, a [[human]] [[ranger]], agreed. Although non-sylvans are almost never permitted in sylvan communities, the pregnant Florania traveled to her old home and made her case to the village leaders, supported by her Azuryn's [[::Animal_Companion_(630)|animal companion]], a forest wolf. The leaders eventually agreed with two conditions: he would only be allowed in a limited area of the forest and could only stay until their daughter was twenty years old--a pittance to a sylvan lifespan, but a fully grown lady by human standards.


Please see each individual subpage for more detail! Subpages marked with a * are official Landing storylines while those without are the more laid-back pace of occasional events between big stories.
And so, several months later, Fiara was born in the sylvan forests, rare enough to be there as a half-sylvan and rarer still that her human father was with her.


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Background|Background]]''' (prior to moving to the Landing)
Florania lived with guilt, however, that her family would have to leave the forest in what seemed to a sylvan as no time at all. She mused to her daughter one day, thinking she was alone in the room: "Our little leaf, Fiara, who must one day fall from these trees..."


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Eyes of the Dawn|Eyes of the Dawn]]*''' (mid-late 5116)
Azuryn, who had walked in without her noticing, tried to lighten the mood: "What's this, not even two weeks old and you're renaming her Leafiara without me? 'Cause I do like it," he added, flashing a grin.


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Keeping Up with the Kestrels|Keeping Up with the Kestrels]]*''' (all 5117)
Florania returned a smile to him. "So do I."


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Rise of Rone|Rise of Rone]]*''' (early 5118)
===Smiling Face of Salvation===


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/A Period of Tenuous Peace|A Period of Tenuous Peace]]''' (mid-5118)
Naturally very energetic, Leafi grew up as a mischievous handful unlike anything the pure sylvans were prepared for. But thinking herself invincible, and largely actually ''being'' stronger and faster than sylvan children her age, also set her up for a near-tragedy. At seven years old she had run off to pick herbs on her own when ''something'' put a large hole through her midsection, killing her instantly and unexpectedly.


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/The Rone Resurgence|The Rone Resurgence]]*''' (mid-late 5118)
There were no known witnesses to the event and to this day Leafi doesn't know what happened; it might have been a wild boar goring her on its tusk, an unusually prejudiced sylvan firing an arrow and clearing away the evidence, or a practicing mage's spell gone astray. She only knew she lay there dead in a still and helpless panic, an eternity of terror to a child even though only a few minutes in reality, before a cleric arrived to save her, soothing the girl with a gentle smile and a warm, almost motherly voice that would never leave her memory.


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Autumnwind of Change|Autumnwind of Change]]''' (late 5118 to early 5119)
And so Leafiara, whose stamina and energy could easily have led her to take after her parents and become a ranger or a bard, knew that she must one day became a cleric--with the hope that she could one day to be to others that smiling face of salvation.


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Witchful Thinking|Witchful Thinking]]*''' (mid-late 5119)
===Actress of Many Masks===


(maybe will update one day, maybe won't: All That Remains, Blood Son, A Knight to Remember, Ashes to Ashes, North by Northwest)
Although she was clearly different from others throughout her time in the sylvan forests, Leafi established her place in the community starting in her early teenage years after her parents encouraged her to join a theater troupe, where she began discovering her love of music, dance, and whimsical outfits.


Her mother helped her develop a strong and clear singing voice for her age, which got her foot in the door, but being the only half-sylvan of the troupe eventually led her to become one of its cornerstones. Sometimes told that she was a blessing from both [[Tilamaire]] and [[Cholen]], Leafiara's distinct appearance led to her being frequently asked to play a variety of human characters simply to look more believable, giving the girl leeway to expand her acting range and avoid being typecast. There was never any predicting what personality, profession, race, or even gender Leafi would portray next time she stepped on the stage.


=Publications=
Leafiara was not ''quite'' as unlimited an actress as audiences came to think. In her troupe's eyes she was never able to convincingly play a romantic role even in practice, and thus never asked to play one publicly, though they found her acting ''slightly'' more credible if her love interest was female. She could also never master the portrayal of a villain unless the character was comedic, over-the-top, or covert. In an infamous incident Leafiara also literally "broke a leg"--''and'' an arm--mere seconds after putting on a pair of heels for a princess costume, after which she swore it was the one and only time she would ever wear them.


Despite these shortcomings, Leafi was believable enough in the roles she ''did'' play that she was sometimes teased with questions over which of her many faces was the real one. Some in the community also had concerns, largely unspoken, about whether she had become a proficient enough actress to raise doubt over her sincerity and openness in everyday life.


===Coverup and Fallout===
==Logs, Talks, and Interviews==


* [[Category:KST|Dozens of Landing story logs]]
Throughout her young life Leafiara's parents had withheld the truth of Florania's deal from her, pushing that they ''wanted'' to leave the forest as a family when she was of age instead of explaining that Azuryn ''had'' to leave. However, her parents' guilt grew as they saw their daughter become more entrenched with her theater troupe and, after realizing she might not want to go, they revealed the truth to her five months before her twentieth birthday.
* [[TownCrier Interview Sessions with Leafiara]] (interviewee: August 19, 2017)
* [[TownCrier Interview Sessions with Khylynnia]] (interviewer: September 17, 2017)
* [[Wehnimer's Landing 5118 Election Interviews with Leafiara]] (interviewee: March 1, 2018)
* [[Center_Stage_Interviews/Jastalyn_Dragorth|Center Stage Interview with Jastalyn]] (co-interviewer with Khylynnia: April 10, 2019)
* [[Lauding_the_Landing_-_5118-09-07_-_Frontier_Days|Lauding the Landing 5118]] (hosted event: September 7, 2018)
* [[Landing_Discussions_-_5119-10-06_-_The_Rooks_of_5116_to_5119|The Rooks of 5116 to 5119]] (public talk: October 6, 2019)
* [[Lauding_the_Landing_-_5119-11-04_-_Frontier_Days|Lauding the Landing 5119]] (hosted event: November 4, 2019)
* [[Post_Cap_Conversations_-_2020-09-24_-Ascension_and_Pirates_and_Naijin,_Oh_My_(log)|Ascension and Pirates and Naijin, Oh My]] (hosted event: September 24, 2020)
* [[Frontier_Days_-_2020-11-06_-_Lauding_the_Landing_(log)|Lauding the Landing 5120]] (Luxie's publication, but Leafi hosted: November 6, 2020)
* [[Twilight_Academy_-_5121-04-13_-_A_Lecture_and_Field_Trip_on_Open_Sea_Adventures_(log)|Twilight Academy: Open Sea Adventures]] (hosted event: April 13, 2021)
* [[Monthly_Mechanics_Mashup_-_5121-06-14_-_Damage_by_the_(Musical)_Numbers!|Monthly Mechanics Mashup: Damage by the (Musical) Numbers!]] (hosted OOC event: June 14, 2021)
* [[Leafiara_(prime)/5121_Wehnimer%27s_Landing_Town_Council_Campaign|5121 Wehnimer's Landing Town Council Campaign]] (June-July 2021)
* [[Silverwood_Manor_Events_-_2021-07-18_-_PSM3_Primer_Prep_Talk_(log)|PSM3 Primer Prep talk]] (hosted OOC event: July 18, 2021)
* [[Silverwood_Manor_Events_-_2023-01-29_-_Nothing_to_Fear_but_Gear_Itself_(log)|Nothing to Fear But Gear Itself]] (hosted OOC event: January 29, 2023)


After Leafi's initial angry outburst and an extensive heated argument, she calmed down and her parents discussed their options, leaving the choice in her hands: she and her mother had the option to remain if they wished. Ultimately Leafiara decided that leaving as a family was for the best, partly because that had already been the plan but mostly because of being upset with the village leaders for not allowing her father to stay.


==Leafiara's Tales (Character Vignettes)==
Between the coverup by her parents and the isolationism of the leaders, Leafi developed a distrust of figures in power, including well-intentioned ones, and lives with suspicion of conspiracies against her as well as insecurity that everything around her could be a house of cards that falls apart for reasons unknown to her until too late. To prevent either possibility, she aims to be a people pleaser in a broad sense, but also shows reluctance to get emotionally close to others in a way that leaves her vulnerable.


(These are stories, mostly posted to the official forums, surrounding events from Leafi's former life in the Landing.)
==Characteristics==


===Likes===
===During Eyes of the Dawn===


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* Adventure
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* Dance
* Fighting competitions such as the [[Festival of the Fallen]] or events held at the [[Icemule Trace]] [[Brawling Tavern]]
* Music
* Rescuing
* Shoes
* [[The Brotherhood of Rooks]] (at least in theory)
* Theater


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Crisis of Conscience and Clash of Character|Crisis of Conscience and Clash of Character]]''' (October 17, 2016)
===Dislikes===
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi, having recently learned of her friend Crux's past misdeeds, grapples with his history and its implications for her. She concludes that as long as the Landing is widely aware and hasn't exiled him, then perhaps he's changed and her conscience is clear.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/The Only Recognition...|The Only Recognition...]]''' (October 25, 2016)
* Alcohol
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* Bureaucracy
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* Cowardice
| <span style="font-size:120>Haunted by dreams of a deep-rooted desire to kill Chaston Griffin, Leafi fights to remember her friends and resist the urge of losing herself in being consumed by vengeance.</span>
* High heels
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* Prejudice
* Stuffy armor
* Stuffy clothing
* [[Ta'Vaalor]]


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Proudly_Introducing...|Proudly Introducing...]]''' (October 29, 2016)
===Hopes===
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| <span style="font-size:120>As she reaches a benchmark in her training, the overly optimistic Leafiara registers her High Lady title!</span>
|}


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Letter Forever Undelivered|A Letter Forever Undelivered]]''' (November 16, 2016)
* Acceptance despite being half-sylvan
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* Being a great resurrection-specializing cleric
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* Excitement in everyday life
| <span style="font-size:120>After having seen Landing defenders kill an army of children under Chaston's control during the final battle to prevent the activation of the obelisk, Leafi struggles with the question of what was right.</span>
* Recognition of heroic deeds
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* Staying young at heart--''and'' in body


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===Fears===


* Boredom
* Giving in to vengeful feelings
* Hurting loved ones
* Inability to save a life
* Learning of some great power that could tempt or corrupt her
* Maturing
* Mind control
* Normalcy
* Pain
* Rejection
* Stoics


===Other Quirks===


===During Keeping Up with the Kestrels===
* Can be as greedy with money as she is generous with time and energy
* Can't wear long sleeves, pants, or fully enclosed shoes (like boots) for long without feeling uncomfortable and out of harmony with nature
* Does not swear even mildly
* Extremely naive and ignorant about romance
* Has a somewhat limited vocabulary, despite her more eloquent mother's best efforts to teach her
* Romanticizes the heroism of knights as they're presented in plays, but pragmatically thinks spies are more important for protecting the innocent
* Too impatient and full of energy to study magic in a traditional academic way, but instead develops her talent in a passive and subconscious way that gives off the impression of a prodigy, growing stronger by hearing and adapting to the inner musical harmony of magic as [[Tilamaire]] allows her to hear it
* Willing to throw herself into nearly any dangerous plan that poses ''risk'' of her being seriously hurt, but straight-laced about refusing to do anything that will ''definitely'' hurt even slightly, like getting a piercing or tattoo


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==Affiliations==
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Trio of Letters|A Trio of Letters]]''' (March 29, 2017)
* Guildmaster of the [[Cleric Guild]]
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* Master in the [[Order of Voln]]
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* Contact for the [[Scions of Shaundara]]
| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi congratulates new Mayor Crux and thanks her own supporters from the recent campaign season with a message of unity and optimism.</span>
* [[Wehnimer's Landing]] correspondent for [[The TownCrier]]
|}
* Member of [[Anglers of Elanthia]]
* Member of [[Hand of the Arkati]]
* Member of [[Ord an Dragan]]
* Member of [[The Witching Hour]]
* Member of [[Twilight Hall]]
* Former advisor and public Relations liason for Mayor [[Cruxophim]]
* Former Landing Ambassador to [[Icemule Trace]] for Mayor Cruxophim


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/In Tilamaire's Sanctuary|In Tilamaire's Sanctuary]]''' (December 24, 2017)
==[[Eyes of the Dawn]]==
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| <span style="font-size:120>With most of the Kestrel family now dead, Leafi sorts through her feelings and fallout from their year near the Landing. Although her stance on Rysus had shifted when he threatened Reannah, as she had thought he should have focused his efforts on Dennet where they belonged, she can't shake a lingering feeling that the town would have been better off if an arrow had flown through Dennet's skull.</span>
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===Events===


Leafiara came to live in [[Wehnimer's Landing]] during the time of the war against [[Chaston Griffin]], who exerted mental control over the [[Blameless]] and even the general populace, turning them against [[::half-elf|half-elves]] as murderers and assassins. Though not a part of the [[::Wehnimer%27s_Landing_Militia/saved_posts|militia]], she made early efforts to patrol town and root out snipers using herself as bait.


===Between Rise of Rone and The Rone Resurgence===
The conflict escalated as Leafi and hundreds of other half-elves were afflicted by a curse, later discovered to be the work of [[Raznel]], which gave the appearance of black veins and caused debilitating outbreaks of sores and boils. Seeing the curse as a blood-related affliction, Leafi approached the blood expert [[Cruxophim]] with a proposal to find half-elven donors and supply samples of cursed and pure blood alike for his study in efforts to find a cure. She at first eagerly supplied donors and samples to Crux, amidst being fired up in more direct war efforts to repel Chaston's crusaders from the Landing and [[Vornavis]] as needed, but backed off from blood collection several weeks later after hearing certain reports about Crux's past, previously unknown to her.


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The situation worsened as Chaston's forces occupied the east side of the Landing and constructed cleansing camps, taking half-elven and [[half-krolvin]] prisoners to bleed and kill them. As with her earlier self-sacrificial plan to draw out snipers, Leafiara thought of infiltrating the camps under the guise of a prisoner in fake bonds, but before she could propose it to the militia she was [[::Eyes_of_the_Dawn_-_Emperor%27s_Denouncement_and_Chaston%27s_Attack#Leafiara.27s_Capture|captured and brought into a camp]] in real bonds. There some of her blood was taken and she might ultimately have died if not for the unexpected intervention of [[Disean]] setting her free, for which she still says she owes him a debt. Only a week later she was kidnapped again along with several other half-elven adventurers around the Landing and brought onto a ship by Raznel herself, where the witch took their blood to [[::Eyes_of_the_Dawn_-_Raznel%27s_Blood_Marble|complete her work]] with blood marble before releasing them.
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Morning Musings|Morning Musings]]''' (May 4, 2018)
Though shaken by these experiences and filled with an unfamiliar feeling of vulnerability that led her to become more physically affectionate, Leafi eventually seemed to rebound from her trauma with the support of [[Severine]] and other friends. She joined with dozens of Landing defenders aiding [[Rodnay]] in [[::Chaston%27s_Mindscape_During_Assault|hindering Chaston's mental control]] and then again in defeating [[Drangell]] and Chaston himself at [[Talador]]. Despite these victories, Chaston used his final moments to activate an obelisk, seemingly powered by Raznel's blood magic, which laid waste to Talador--and for that reason along with the black blood curse, Leafiara has her eyes set on taking Raznel's head one day and cannot be satisfied until then.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi considers whether to attempt to join the militia or the Rooks, but settles on neither and refocuses on finding her own path forward toward killing Raznel.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Coraesine Carol|A Coraesine Carol]]''' (May 11, 2018)
As peace settled in, [[Brieson]] from the [[Hall of Mages]] was able to use Cruxophim's research to produce and distribute a cure for the black blood curse, with Leafiara being the [[::Eyes_of_the_Dawn_-_Stability_for_Larsya_and_Salve_for_Half-Elves#Curing_Leafiara_-_Bubbly_Lass|second volunteer]] for early testing. She seems to be fully recovered--though several months later [[Dennet Kestrel]] would question whether this is truly the case.
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| <span style="font-size:120>After a night of singing to herself alone, Leafi in her dreams has visions of past conversations with friends about the meaning and philosophy behind heroism and justice--and a warning about being consumed by vengeance in her future.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Very Bloodriven Vacation|A Very Bloodriven Vacation]]''' (June 14, 2018)
===Aftermath===
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| <span style="font-size:120>While slaying bandits on a routine patrol, Leafi considers what, if anything, is the moral difference between her and the vigilante Rone, Malluch Burdos. Her concerns grow as she considers her love of the Duskruin Arena.</span>
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====Freedom Fighter====


For her efforts in the war and with the cure, Leafiara was recognized as one of a few trusted contacts in the Landing for the [[Scions of Shaundara]]. Although the Scions themselves are not recognized by the [[Turamzzyrian Empire]] in any positive light, it is just as well for Leafi, who distrusts authority and has said that the Hall of Mages, [[Church of Koar]], and the Emperor himself did not act quickly or forcefully enough against Chaston.


===During The Rone Resurgence===
====Self-Improvement====


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Seeing the power of Chaston and Raznel at work led Leafiara to believe early in the war that her unfamiliarity with blood magic might be hindering her duty to save the fallen and protect her loved ones. She joined [[Twilight Hall]], a [[::Co-operative_Houses_of_Elanthia|Great House]] dedicated to studying magic, in hopes that someone could teach her. However, after being captured very shortly thereafter, she became self-conscious about being seen as physically weak and ultimately put off those studies to rededicate herself toward greater physical strength.
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/To the Brotherhood|To the Brotherhood]]''' (September 2, 2018)
====Trust and Reconciliation====
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi posts notice to the Rooks expressing sorrow that the second Rone vigilante has attacked them, but asks them to cease catching innocents in the crossfire of retaliation and leave the fight to others.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/The Second Rone Bounty|The Second Rone Bounty]]''' (September 7, 2018)
Despite learning about Cruxophim's past, Leafi eventually reconciled with him and expressed trust that he had changed after noticing that, when Chaston had thrown waves of mind-controlled children at adventurers in Talador to activate the obelisk, Crux had not been among those who slaughtered them.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi notices that the town council has issued a bounty on capturing the second Rone, but recalls their failure to pay her and others who aided with their bounty on capturing the first Rone.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Rook Remorse|Rook Remorse]]''' (October 6-7, 2018)
==[[Keeping up with the Kestrels]]==
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| <span style="font-size:120>After having been tricked by Praxopius into playing a role in Rysus' demise, Leafi attempts to get word to the Rooks that she won't rest easy until the Alchemist is dead.</span>
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===Events===


====Mission: Carenos' Death====


Leafiara maintained early distance from the Kestrels when they arrived at the Hendoran outpost, but took a more active interest after [[Carenos]] assassinated Leafi's best friend [[Severine]] in [[::Icemule Trace|Icemule]] for refusing to provide information about the Kestrels.


===Between The Rone Resurgence and Witchful Thinking===
Among various mysteries, murders, and disappearances over the next couple months, as well as campaigning for mayor, Leafiara offered occasional help to the Kestrels, hoping to glean information that might help her get vengeance on Carenos. Carenos' target was [[Cyph Kestrel]], who he claimed had killed his daughters, and he eventually shot Cyph with the Long Suffering poison, putting him in endless agony.


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Leafiara joined [[Elementz]], [[Ariond]], and many others as they searched for Carenos over two nights, getting information on his whereabouts from the [[::Brotherhood of Rooks|Rooks]] and then tracking him down. Though Carenos lived in the wilderness outside of Landing jurisdiction, [[Shinann]] fogged him into the Landing to escape pursuit by golems under [[Dennet Kestrel]]'s control. There Carenos, seemingly frantic and possibly having his mind invaded at the time, would murder [[Rowmi]]. Various adventurers attempted to take him into custody, but ultimately Leafiara fogged him to the North Dock, cornering him for the militia to arrest him.
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Money Money Money|Money Money Money]]''' (December 2, 2018)
Carenos was later put to trial, where Leafi and many others testified, but ironically an unknown assailant shot him with the Long Suffering before Judge [[Renpaw]] could render a verdict. Months later, [[::Ysharra_Nagorn|Ysharra]] would put him out of his misery with a mercy killing, to Leafiara's apparent delight.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi continues seeking money from Solhaven's Adventurer's Guild to fund her ongoing mission to grow stronger for the eventual battle against Raznel.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Mother and Mother|Mother and Mother]]''' (February 14, 2019)
====Self-Reliance====
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| <span style="font-size:120>By instinct, Leafi doubts new Rook leader Mother's words as too good to be true, but remembers her own mother's words of caution against oversimplifying the world as if it were one of the morality plays she acted in.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Ashes to Ashes|Ashes to Ashes]]''' (April 4, 2019)
Since early in the Kestrels' stay, Shinann had been visiting Dennet's wife [[Reannah Kestrel]] in efforts to cure her of a mysterious ailment, and eventually Dennet invited Leafiara and [[Sareyna]] to take care of her as well. Leafi agreed with the same hope of a cure, though many months later she would admit the ulterior motive of also wanting to keep a closer eye on the Outpost and suspicious behavior surrounding Dennet.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi passes by Goblyn's burned-down Pie Shop and ponders with a music shop apprentice, Kanona, what that might mean in the context of Ta'Vaalor building a nearby outpost.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Militia Surprise|Militia Surprise]]''' (April 9, 2019)
That suspicious behavior also attracted [[Osment]] the Augment, a member of the Red Brigade, who came to town to investigate and interviewed many people over several nights, including Leafiara. On one such night he disappeared, but he resurfaced a few nights later and claimed that the trail had gone cold and he would return home.
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| <span style="font-size:120>A surprised Leafi wonders why Marshal Thadston has accepted her militia application so quickly despite her history with the Rooks.</span>
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While adventurers discussed whether his memories had been altered by [[Quinshon]], a Tehir mentalist and former member of the [[Hall of Mages]] working with Dennet, Leafi agreed that something was wrong but argued that it didn't matter and the Landing should resolve its problems on its own.


====The Cyph Who Leafiara Could Have Been====


Cyph's father Dennet planned to seal him inside a bane coffin until a cure for the Long Suffering could be found. Leafiara reluctantly helped others build the wards on the coffin, acknowledging it as a viable plan but hoping to find a better alternative before needing to use it. However, she regretted her aid due to suspicious circumstances that night and later did not help with sealing Cyph away.


===During Witchful Thinking===
Dennet and Quinshon eventually conducted a ritual to transfer Cyph's soul into the donated corpse of a Landing citizen, leaving behind the poison and his magical abilities. Over several weeks Cyph recovered strength and began training with a sword, asking to become a Landing citizen and join the militia, but had trouble retaining memories. He also began to make romantic gestures toward Leafi, who didn't return his affections but also didn't reject him due to sympathy and not wanting to risk hindering his recovery.


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However, ultimately Quinshon revealed that the transference had been a failure and Cyph would die soon. Leafiara tried to reach out to Cyph with an offer to seek the [[Arkati]]'s intervention, but was not in time as the transference fell apart one night and she and other Landing adventurers watched him pass.
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/No Matter the Situation|No Matter the Situation]]''' (July 25, 2019)
In Cyph's final moments, he admitted to feeling pleasure over killing Carenos' daughters in an act of vengeance after Carenos had tortured him for two days. Leafi, who had carried vengeful feelings against the same man, did not blink at this and even snapped at those daughters' ghosts when they appeared to witness Cyph's death.
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| <span style="font-size:120>After noticing how others are losing their cool as struggles against the witch Raznel escalate, Leafi contemplates the importance of her many friends who can smile through troubled times and keep the town whole.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/In Noise, Melody; in Chaos, Choreography|In Noise, Melody; in Chaos, Choreography]]''' (August 22, 2019)
Afterward Leafiara retreated to her sanctuary and offered a silent bargaining prayer to [[Lorminstra]] to give more of her [[spirit]] to a [[::Raise_Dead_(318)|resurrection]] than ever before if Cyph could be saved, but to no avail other than the [[::Spirit_death|loss of her own life]]. Though Leafi was restored, she was left despondent and Severine, [[Chaoswynd]], [[Lylia]], Ysharra, and others arrived to comfort her in a moment of weakness and grief.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Wearing a memento gown and sandals of the Princess Mynalari who Raznel had slain, Leafi lures out bandits by presenting herself as a helpless noble. She attempts to find answers about Raznel's goals by drawing upon Tilamaire's power to attune to the connecting sounds of all things as her magic strikes them down.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Matter of Will|A Matter of Will]]''' (September 25, 2019)
====Dennet's Downfall====
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi registers a living will at Moot Hall to pass down her valuables in case she doesn't survive the ongoing battles with Raznel.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Cleric of Life, Angel of Death|Cleric of Life, Angel of Death]]''' (October 4, 2019)
Dennet's grand plan to rescue Reannah was having Quinshon transfer her into the body of a living person, for which his candidates were Shinann, Sareyna, and Leafiara. Dennet eventually selected and kidnapped Shinann, uniting dozens of Landing adventurers to find her with the help of the half-[[Ithzir]] [[Rodnay]]. They arrived at Dennet's underground chamber to see what appeared to be a successful transference--but was again a failure, leaving Shinann experiencing memories of Reannah's instead of being overtaken by her.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi continues to reflect on what Raznel's goals could be and how to get a step ahead of her, this time seeking answers in past patterns of Raznel and Naimorai among others. She lands on an unsettling conclusion that it's possible Raznel had been operating any number of machinations through others, potentially even using her to eliminate Rysus.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Change_of_Plans|Change of Plans]]''' (November 2, 2019)
Rodnay drove off Quinshon, who remains at large. Dennet, wanting to die alongside his wife, got his wish and was impaled by a falling rock as the chamber collapsed.
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| <span style="font-size:120>A tearful Leafi receives a timely reminder from her fiancee Saranja, convincing her not to lose herself in ugliness and the pursuit of vengeance against Raznel, but to save lives and protect as she's always done.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Anything_But_Neutral|Anything But Neutral]]''' (November 26, 2019)
===Aftermath===
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| <span style="font-size:120>Faced with Marshal Thadston's orders to evacuate Landing citizens, even the unwilling, in advance of a possible Raznel attack, Leafi finds herself unable to maintain neutrality as a TownCrier reporter and gives the task to her mother Florania for the night.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Who_Are_You_People?|Who Are You People?]]''' (November 26, 2019)
====Lingering Curse Concerns====
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| <span style="font-size:120>While evacuating townspeople, Leafi finds herself confronting stinging backlash, both physical and verbal, from those who don't wish to leave--and she will not tell them to go.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Balancing_Act|Balancing Act]]''' (November 27, 2019)
Having originally dismissed it as a poor attempt at sowing dissension when [[Dennet Kestrel]] questioned during the 5117 mayoral campaign whether traces of the black blood curse lingered within her, Leafiara took it more seriously in hindsight after scraps of [[Naimorai Kestrel]]'s journal revealed that, for unknown reasons, Leafi was ruled out as a host for Reannah's soul.
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| <span style="font-size:120>The day after Leafi, Maags, Puptilian, Wolfloner, the Rooks, and the citizens themselves had stopped Marshal Thadston from evacuating people against their will, Leafi quickly takes to training new recruits and at last feels her decision to join the militia was right.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Return_to_Form|Return to Form]]''' (November 29, 2019)
Even though Dennet selected [[Shinann]], who had been afflicted with the same curse and had shown a more similar reaction to Leafi than to others such as [[Bekke]] or [[Gavrien]] when the cure was applied, the possibility of it lingering led Leafiara to provide [[Cruxophim]] with another blood sample to compare against past blood she'd given while ''known'' to be cursed.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi talks with a new militia recruit on the importance of determination and the inner fire.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Awaiting_Orders|Awaiting Orders]]''' (December 2, 2019)
====Love and the Line Between Justice and Vengeance====
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| <span style="font-size:120>With Pylasar having taken his possible final trip into the past and Marshal Thadston now lost in the Bleaklands, Leafi reflects on who the two men were or are.</span>
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Leafiara's concerns in the wake of the Kestrels were not merely external threats, as her struggles against darker tendencies haunted her.


During the height of [[Chaston Griffin]]'s power she had dreamed of taking his life, not merely pragmatically but with a gleeful sense of vengeance, and had been talked down from becoming twisted with rage by [[Rubi]] and [[::Ysharra_Nagorn|Ysharra]]. Despite this, less than a year later she watched with great pleasure as that same Ysharra delivered a mercy killing to [[Carenos]], who Leafiara had never forgiven for assassinating [[Severine]].


That Leafiara should be concerned with her joy over Carenos' death did not occur to her until months later when grief over failure to save [[Cyph Kestrel]] led her to dream of ending Dennet's life in a fit of vengeance--and to again be talked down, this time by [[Chaoswynd]], [[Khylynnia]], and Severine.


===Between Witchful Thinking and All That Remains===
Though fearful of what she might become, Leafi hangs on to the memory of her horror over seeing her friends' concern and secretly relies on them to save her from herself if she loses sight of her better judgment again. Although she publicly revealed her past vindictiveness toward Chaston during the 5117 mayoral debates, she would only share her vindictiveness toward Dennet with very close friends until Fashanos 5118 when making a public statement regarding the vigilante Rone.


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====Blood Magic Musings====
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/The_Light_of_Hope,_Death,_and_Chaos|The Light of Hope, Death, and Chaos]]''' (January 17, 2020)
As she did during the war against Chaston, Leafi pondered whether she needed to gain experience with blood magic after disappointment with her inability to save not only Cyph, but also [[Lana]] and [[Reannah Kestrel]].
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafi considers the opposing views of Grishom Stone and Raznel and rejects both, making peace with death being intertwined as a part of life, but is interrupted by a mysterious figure appearing to be a Rook.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Last_Dream_Standing|Last Dream Standing]]''' (February 1, 2020)
However, she didn't yet inquire further with anyone since, despite looking up to known practitioners Cruxophim and [[Stormyrain]], blood magic is also the domain of her hated enemy [[Raznel]] and not to be taken lightly, especially considering newfound self-recognition of her emotional vulnerability.
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| <span style="font-size:120>The mysterious figure, now appearing to be a Rone and calling itself "Echo," confronts Leafi again and seems to know her inner thoughts as it even presents her with a memento of her past that shouldn't be in its possession. As she faces an existential crisis, she prepares for her return to Duskruin Arena and realizes its true significance to her.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/The_Chaos_Ahead|The Chaos Ahead]]''' (April 1, 2020)
====Rook Sympathizer====
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| <span style="font-size:120>Newly elected Mayor Leafi pens a letter to the Landing thanking everyone and laying out plans for the future.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A letter from Sir Cryheart|A letter from Sir Cryheart]]''' (April 18, 2020)
Despite turning against [[::Brotherhood_of_Rooks|Rook]] leader [[Rysus]] after he threatened Reannah's life in retribution for Dennet's suspected kidnappings, Leafiara still respected the Rooks' talent with gathering intel, including leading adventurers to Carenos.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi sends a letter from Sir Cryheart to Earl Jovery, formalizing town approval of its contents, which warn of the potential dangers of Grand Magister Octaven.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/An Exercise in Futility|An Exercise in Futility]]''' (April 22, 2020)
Though she admired [[::Wehnimer%27s_Landing_Militia/saved_posts|militia]] captains [[Stormyrain]] and [[Shinann]], Leafi had ongoing frustrations and impatience with the militia's inability to act on suspicions, such as an unwillingness to detain Dennet after his mother-in-law [[Drandea]] first accused him, or to act outside of Landing jurisdiction, such as an unwillingness to detain [[Stephos DeArchon]] when he spoke with adventurers at the Black Sands.
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| <span style="font-size:120>After a confrontation with the militia leads Grand Magister Octaven to finally make good on her overdue reparations for destroying the Landing's defense towers two and a half years earlier, Mayor Leafi attempts to pen a letter quelling townspeople's fears about the Hall of Mages, but soon learns that politicking isn't her style.</span>
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Her disdain for the limitations of the law, along with Rysus' eventual claim that his threat to Reannah hadn't been serious, ultimately led Leafi to continue considering the Rooks a valuable ally and a necessary option for protecting the town, with no viable alternatives, despite disagreement with some of the methods they've been known to use.


====Anti-Imperialist Leanings====


Leafiara has begun sympathizing with others such as [[Archales]], [[Chamorr]], [[Pukk]], and [[Wolfloner]] in anti-imperialist sentiments. Despite several notable Imperial allies like [[Brieson]], [[Malvernus]], [[Pylasar]], and Sir [[Thadston]], along with [[::Kingdom_of_Hendor|Hendor]]'s ongoing aid, she also sees many Imperial figures as either incompetent, malicious, or self-serving enough to be untrustworthy.


===During All That Remains===
The quick downfall of [[Osment]] was a turning point leading Leafi to say publicly that the Landing is better off not relying on external help.


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==[[Rise of Rone]]==
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Planning Essentials|Planning Essentials]]''' (May 5, 2020)
===Events===
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi considers whether to ally with the Rooks or Empire against the Fist, but dismisses both as unnecessary and supplies town defenders with information on their foes.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/For Your Consideration|For Your Consideration]]''' (May 11, 2020)
====Vigilante Ethics====
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi further rallies town defenders with possible moves against the Fist's forces.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Factions and Factors, Last Mission Standing|Factions and Factors: Last Mission Standing]]''' (May 15, 2020)
In early 5118 a white-cloaked vigilante began to make appearances around [[Wehnimer's Landing]]. Capable of travel through an ethereal mist, he was known to slay people for unknown reasons and leave their gutted corpses behind. [[Loresong]]s of the bodies would reveal deeds such as sexual harassment, wife abuse, embezzling, and selling children as slaves, all happening immediately before the attacks.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi writes to Marshal Thadston, Lady Vlashandra, and Mist Harbor's Administrator Ilsola with information on the efforts to rescue Aralyte and the identity of the Fist.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Series of Second Thoughts|A Series of Second Thoughts]]''' (May 16, 2020)
The loresongs, along with the vigilante telling [[Puptilian]] that he intended to cleanse the town of corruption, left Leafiara initially equal parts nonchalant and flippant about whether the vigilante should be pursued or left alone. She did, however, acknowledge curiosities about how--or if--he was gathering information on who to target and why he saw the [[::Brotherhood_of_Rooks|Rooks]] as part of the town's corruption.
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi questions her intuition about Vlashandra being evil, but concludes that even if she is, the one thing that must be honored is the people's free decisions to aid her.</span>
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Leafi began to take him more seriously after an attack on the Rook tunnels, in which the vigilante unleashed exploding prisms whose effects rocked the town even above ground. More importantly, at least in her eyes, loresongs of the slain Rooks did ''not'' reveal any fell deeds before they were attacked--only refusing to reveal the whereabouts of [[Rysus]], who the vigilante said was dying. Though still not condemning the vigilante, she grew determined to confront him.


====Dubious Decisions, Odd Opportunities====


For unknown reasons, [[Stephos DeArchon]] began to take an interest in capturing the vigilante and [[::Mayor%27s_Minutes_-_A_Proposal_by_Stephos|proposed releasing prisoners to bait him out]] in a meeting which Leafi refused to attend due to personal disdain for the man--though this led her to a crisis of conscience.


===Between All That Remains and Blood Son===
Thinking she might not be any better than Stephos, she confessed to [[Shinann]] and [[Stormyrain]] that during the Kestrels' time in the outpost she had released a series of anonymous pamphlets attempting to incite vigilantes to rise up among the townspeople and take action against [[Dennet Kestrel]] since she couldn't find an opening to do it herself. She made the information public at the suggestion of the militia captains, along with an apology for indicting the townspeople over not doing enough to stop Dennet.


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Afterward she took it as an opportunity. Mayor [[Cruxophim]] rejected Stephos' plan, but as the vigilante now going by the name Rone began to make increasing threats against Crux, Leafi privately offered her own proposal. She argued that while others' plans typically involved baiting Rone with figures who he would see as enemies, she--having called for vigilantism before--might be able to bait him as a figure who he would see as an ally or sympathizer.
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Shadows of the Past|Shadows of the Past]]''' (June 11, 2020)
====Treacherous, Traitorous Treason?!====
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| <span style="font-size:120>As Mayor Leafi rids herself of shadow energy from entering the shadow valence, she uses Crux's ritual to draw it out by focusing on dark thoughts--and her darkest go to the manipulator Vlashandra.</span>
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Stephos moved forward with a backup plan, using a yellow shard to create an anti-magic field throughout the Landing, disabling Rone's means of escape through the mist. Thereafter one of his hired mercenaries shot and injured Rone--who, in an act of desperation while surrounded, took [[Lylia]] hostage, set off a prism, and ran.


Leafiara would ultimately find the two of them in the forest, where Rone moved his dagger away from Lylia and asked for help with his wound, to which she agreed. [[Stonmel]] arrived to see and alert others, but before many could arrive, Leafi finished bandaging Rone, who thanked her, pushed Lylia away, and disappeared through the mist.


Stonmel would go on to raise accusations of treason, which Mayor Crux passed along to the courts, and Leafi made a public statement about the hostage negotiation. Ultimately Renpaw did not pursue an investigation.


====Bloody Finale====
===During Blood Son===


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Despite her help, Rone didn't allow Leafiara to get closer to him than anyone else over the next month. As she and Lylia campaigned to be the next mayor, the situation also escalated throughout the Landing with imitation vigilantes trying to bait him out, actors trying to frame Mayor Crux for kidnapping and torture, and a crowd of unidentified people taking up their own white cloaks and attempting to arrest Crux.
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Time and Opportunity|Time and Opportunity]]''' (July 8, 2020)
This culminated in Crux proposing to repurpose the bone pillars left behind by [[Grishom Stone]], nominally to draw upon their latent energy to shield the Landing against future attacks--but also with the covert second agenda, known to his advisors such as Leafi, to use that energy to capture Rone.
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| <span style="font-size:120>While Mayor Leafi is considering the motives of the Blood Son, Malluch Burdos, and whether he's truly aligned with Grishom Stone, a concerned citizen confronts her about the matter and urges preemptive action.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Everybody Dies and (Almost) Everybody Lies|Everybody Dies and (Almost) Everybody Lies]]''' (July 19, 2020)
The situation came to a head after Rone injected Cruxophim with an unknown substance that cut him off from the mana flows, claiming to intend to reveal the monster he is. One week later, the blood mages [[Stormyrain]], [[Kipara]], and [[Khylynnia]] would go on to enact Crux's plan, aided by Leafi and Mayor Elect Lylia helping to channel the energy, in a ritual that ultimately bound Rone and led to his capture.
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| <span style="font-size:120>After a caravan coming for Malluch's healing is burned by unknown attackers, Mayor Leafi searches for evidence on their identities and requests Guard Captain Khylon's aid.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Final considerations|Final considerations]]''' (August 3, 2020)
===Aftermath===
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| <span style="font-size:120>After Malluch asks for a pardon due to Praxopius' influence over his days as the vigilante Rone, hoping that it will deter Marshal Thadston from attacking his camp containing civilians, Mayor Leafi raises the idea that it could result in the Rooks or the new Rone pursuing him instead.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/To the Marshal|To the Marshal]]''' (August 6, 2020)
====What Could Have Been: Blood Maiden Leafiara====
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi attempts to dissuade Marshal Thadston from issuing a bounty on Malluch. Thadston refrains from the bounty, but persists in rejecting the camp and threatens insubordinate militia members with expulsion, leaving Leafi to sharpen her blades and prepare for the worst.</span>
|}


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Rendering Judgment|Rendering Judgment]]''' (August 7, 2020)
After wondering for almost two years what might be possible if she began to practice blood magic, Leafi at last approached [[Stormyrain]] during Rone's time with questions about what it entailed--partly driven by the plan to capture Rone and partly driven by Breshon Caulfield's urgency to find a way to restore [[Larsya Caulfield]]'s youth. After hearing her out, Leafi concluded that it would be counterproductive to learn about blood magic personally and is no longer pursuing the idea, but remains open to enlisting the help of other blood mages.
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>After a meeting with Thadston sees him exhibiting strange behavior and seizing Captain Stormyrain's arm, Mayor Leafi petitions Judge Renpaw for his removal until a magical phenomenon afflicting him can be resolved.</span>
|}


'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A two-fold matter of propriety|A two-fold matter of propriety]]''' (August 10, 2020)
====The Most Free People of the Landing====
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi writes Judge Renpaw once more, adding Thadston's Operation Stonewall and his secrecy from his own militia captains to the list of reasons to seek removal. However, in recognition of the conflict of interest in a mayor removing a council member whose seat she can then replace, she further writes to the town council, proposing amended laws for citizen voting to fill expelled seats instead.</span>
|}


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When Rone appeared at the Black Sands at the end of Charlatos, with Leafiara knowing well that he would likely be captured that night, she bid him a public farewell of sorts in full view of everyone, saying: "You're one of the most free men in the Landing, Rone, aren't you? You and the Rooks... bound by no laws. The most free people of the Landing. It's kind of admirable, if either of you didn't see fit to kill indiscriminately. Almost envious of you."


====A Week Too Late For Sabotage====


Despite aiding with binding Rone, Leafiara told him after his capture that "It's really a shame. I liked you a lot, actually. If this were a week ago, I would have tried to sabotage it. But that was then and this is now. It's nothing personal." What this implies and why is anyone's guess aside from her closest friends.


===During A Knight to Remember===
However, as Cruxophim revealed Rone as to be [[Malluch]] and told him to look at what he became, Leafi said she kind of liked what he became, but he picked the wrong targets. Crux warned her that Malluch had taken a road one couldn't turn back on, but she said maybe someone would prove that wrong.

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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A letter to Casiphia|A letter to Casiphia]]''' (September 7, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi writes to Lady Casiphia about the possibility of contacting the erithians who are curing Disean to work on curing the now-former Marshal Thadston of possession by the bleakwalker.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Echoes of Mayors Past|Echoes of Mayors Past]]''' (September 10, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>After new citizen Amos offers to fill in the now-vacant role of militia marshal, Mayor Leafi presents the idea to the militia captains and asks their opinion while arguing that he's not the right fit. Afterward, she reflects on parallels between her dilemmas and those of past mayors.</span>
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'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Rolling Rone Gathers No Moss, or, Re-Outmaneuvering Oneself|A Rolling Rone Gathers No Moss, or, Re-Outmaneuvering Oneself]]''' (September 10, 2020, later that day)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>After Judge Renpaw rules that Marshal Thadston was within his rights to exclude the militia captains from his Operation Stonewall and doesn't need to be transparent, Mayor Leafi wonders if Mother will try to seize on the opportunity. Leafi decides to preempt her by being transparent anyway in seeking an alliance... not with her, but with the vigilante Rone!</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A series of letters|A series of letters]]''' (September 19, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi writes to Judge Renpaw to delay the Steward of the Guilds appointment due to ongoing attacks against the candidates, to Guard Captain Khylon to tighten security until her militia marshal appointment is formalized, and to Mother about whether her recent attacks against Thadston and Amos are signs of the Rooks reverting to their old ways or if there's upheaval within the Brotherhood.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/A Second Second Chance|A Second Second Chance]]''' (September 23, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>At Captain Stormyrain's suggestion, Mayor Leafi writes to Mother seeking a meeting between her, town defenders, and militia leadership.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Notes on Thadston|Notes on Thadston]]''' (November 1, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi is surprised to discover that, during a sleep-induced burst of inspiration the night before, she'd written down countless theories on how to remove the bleakwalker from Thadston.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Problems and Profits|Problems and Profits]]''' (November 12, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>As Mayor Leafi's shop profits from chrisms while the Landing faces war, she chats with her shop clerk about the unexpectedly high number of citizens who seem to be Rooks.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Knavesayer|Knavesayer]]''' (November 21, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi inquires with Alendrial about the veracity of Amos' claims of working with the Scions of Shaundara.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Don't Again, Dunigan|Don't Again, Dunigan]]''' (November 22, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi requests that new Guard Captain Dunigan rescind the bounty on Rone in an effort to protect civilians.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Coreful Consideration|Coreful Consideration]]''' (December 4, 2020)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi considers whether Amos is leading town defenders into a trap to rescue Thrayzar.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Another trio of letters|Another trio of letters]]''' (January 22, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Mayor Leafi writes three letters to Councilwoman Alendrial, Judge Renpaw, and Guard Captain Dunigan in attempts to defuse a situation after Dunigan's armigers had arrested militia Captains Shinann and Stormyrain, then She reflects on her own role in attacking the armigers over said arrest--both why she did it and what it entails for her future.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Winter Chills|Winter Chills]]''' (January 23, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>As Mayor Leafi faces the mystery of the newly formed Darkstone Bay Consortium, she seeks a meeting with Lady Larsya, who's likely the richest of them and certainly the only one not a Landing citizen.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Offshore Banking, Offstore Flanking|Offshore Banking, Offstore Flanking]]''' (January 25, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Operating on the suspicion that Amos is behind the Knave and the Darkstone Bay Consortium, Mayor Leafi moves her silvers away from the Landing to distant towns.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Margin of Error|Margin of Error]]''' (January 30, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Faced with Mother having offered an unusually straightforward deal to retrieve the bleakstone statue for Thadston in exchange for help with an attack against the Knave, Mayor Leafi ponders the possibility of a trap.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/The Inner Fire|The Inner Fire]]''' (February 9, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>After the Darkstone Bay Consortium's replacement judge Manard removes Mayor Leafi from power and the Consortium votes among itself to suspend elections, she writes to the Scions of Shaundara for aid with intel and unraveling Amos' schemes.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/SNAP|*SNAP*]]''' (February 10, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Music shop apprentice Kanona visits her friend Leafi, acting undercover as a spy for the armigers, but Leafi puts on a show of going mad, having already assumed she was a spy, and counter-spies on her with a familiar.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Behind the Curtain|Behind the Curtain]]''' (February 18, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>An unknown, invisible messenger warns the Raging Thrak to protect Newsby as she operates out of his inn and calls for boycotts of the Consortium's shops.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Call to Action|Call to Action]]''' (February 19, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Leafiara, announcing herself as "Mayor of the People," says she'll honor the people's vote for a one year term and continue until the regularly scheduled end time, then calls the Landing to action in saving the town.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Don't Go Overboard Now|Don't Go Overboard Now]]''' (April 1, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>A mysterious man claiming to be a recent Rook recruit begins a dialogue with Leafi and urges her to listen to her instincts and temptations, stop holding back out of deference to the law, and become the dark hero the Landing needs. However, the longer she hears him out, the more she pushes back.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/To Serve and Reject "To Impose and Protect"|To Serve and Reject "To Impose and Protect"]]''' (May 3, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>After Cordarius appoints Amos the Steward of the Guilds and Dunigan the Steward of the Guard in order to convince the Consortium to unsuspend elections, Leafi considers the ramifications. She writes to Thadston and town defenders that it would be wrong for them to continue to defend the town after Amos said their help was unnecessary and the government has sided with him, and says that while she expects them to fight on anyway, she'll stand down to honor the people's choice.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Perception and Reality|Perception and Reality]]''' (May 6, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Having been unable to persuade Mother that the Rooks should forge a formal alliance with the militia, Leafi moves on to instead suggest that the Rooks unmask to prove that they're the Landing citizens they claim they are, changing perceptions and therefore the tide of battle.</span>
|}

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/Purity and Clarity|Purity and Clarity]]''' (May 14, 2021)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>As Leafi finds her body unable to recover from the battles against the Knave, the mysterious entity Echo appears before her again to elucidate her dilemma: turning away from the battlefield will betray her mission to save lives, but continuing to take the battlefield will perpetuate the people's mistaken notion that they've been saved by heroes who defeated the Knave, and she finds neither acceptable.</span>
|}

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===After A Knight to Remember===

'''[[Leafiara (prime)/Tales/It's a Wonderful Leafi|It's a Wonderful Leafi]]''' (January 11, 2022)
{| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#eee;" cellpadding="25" cellspacing="25"
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| <span style="font-size:120>Haunted by sleepless guilt over playing a role in approving the Darkstone Bay Consortium's bazaar, Leafi anticipates and prepares for assassins pursuing her from every corner of the Landing. However, she instead finds herself spiraling into dejected disappointment as everyone around her reacts to her expectations with confusion while they rationalize, disregard, or praise a decision she herself condemns. The timely re-appearance of the ethereal entity calling itself Echo voices Leafiara's discontent on her behalf, guiding her toward an epiphany one week of consideration later...</span>
|}





==Non-Canonical Vignettes==

[OOC note: These are vignettes I wrote (or, more often, ''started'' writing) that '''never happened''' and aren't in Leafi's canon, for reasons explained in the pages themselves. Even though they didn't happen, I'm sharing anyway just because... well, I wrote them, so I might as well, right?]

* [[Leafiara (prime)/Non-Canon/Worth of the Underground|Worth of the Underground]] (April 27, 2018)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Non-Canon/A Marked Maiden|A Marked Maiden]] (April 7, 2019)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Non-Canon/Rest for the Relentless|Rest for the Relentless]] (November 30, 2019)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Non-Canon/The Ambassador of Cold River|The Ambassador of Cold River]] (somewhere around May 2022)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Non-Canon/Trial of the Rooks Deleted Scenes|Trial of the Rooks Deleted Scenes]] (May 31, 2023)



==Creative Endeavors==

* [[Leafiara (prime)/Cobbling|Cobbled Shoes]]
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Custom Fatal Afflares|Fatal Afflares]]
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Paintings|Paintings]]



==Melodies==

===Originals===

* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/The Ballad of Reflection and Rooks|The Ballad of Reflection and Rooks]] (May 28, 2023; IC, performed in-game on request)

===IC Parodies===

* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/I'll Stand With You Forever|I'll Stand With You Forever (For the First Time in Forever)]] (January or February 2017; performed in-game)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Wehnimer's Way|Wehnimer's Way (You Can't Stop the Beat)]] (January 21, 2022; IC, performed in-game on request)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Shattered Shields|Shattered Shields (Let It Go)]] (November 18, 2022; technically IC, but not performed in-game)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Darkstone Baron|Darkstone Baron (Desperado)]] (April 15, 2023; guest contribution to [[Black_Thorn_Resistance/Free_North_News_Issue_3#Darkstone_Baron_-_by_Leafiara|Free North News Issue 3]])
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Plucky|Plucky (Lucky)]] (first draft June 18, 2021, finalized May 19, 2023; guest contribution to [[Black_Thorn_Resistance/Free_North_News_Issue_4#Plucky_-_by_Leafiara|Free North News Issue 4]])
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Everything You're Dreaming|Everything You're Dreaming (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)]] (June 27, 2023; guest contribution to [[Black_Thorn_Resistance/Free_North_News_Issue_5#Everything_You.27re_Dreaming|Free North News Issue 5]])
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Wild and Free|Wild and Free (Under the Sea)]] (first draft May 12, 2022, finalized July 8, 2023; performed at the third Revelia Carnivale)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Elidal|Elidal (Leafiara version) (Gaston)]] (April 6, 2024)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Not His Hero|Not His Hero (I Need a Hero)]] (April 13, 2024)

===OOC Parodies===

* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Freedom in the Underground|Freedom in the Underground (I Just Can't Wait to be King)]] (March 2018; covers ''non-canon'' events that didn't even happen)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Secret Agent Leafi|Secret Agent Leafi (Secret Agent Man)]] (April 25, 2019)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Come To Your Senses|Come To Your Senses (Desperado)]] (May 6, 2021)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/When the Wargs Howl|When the Wargs Howl (Shivers)]] (May 7, 2022)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Consorting with the Mother Rook|Consorting with the Mother Rook (It Wasn't Me)]] (May 9, 2023)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/And the Promises Keep Rolling In|And the Promises Keep Rolling In (And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out))]] (June 25, 2023; discarded as not being Leafi enough)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/The Barony of Darkstone|The Barony of Darkstone (The Phantom of the Opera)]] (June 27, 2023)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Wake Him Up Before You're Darkstoned|Wake Him Up Before You're Darkstoned (Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go)]] (December 30, 2023)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Landing (You're a Fine Town)|Landing (You're a Fine Town) (Brandy (You're a Fine Girl))]] (first draft November 26, 2023, finalized January 22, 2024)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/The Most Wonderful Time For Your Gear|The Most Wonderful Time For Your Gear (The Most Wonderful Time of the Year)]] (February 14, 2014)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/I'm Elidal|I'm Elidal]] (February 19, 2014; I can't write the name of the song it's parodying)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Yardie-Man|Yardie-Man (Spider-Man)]] (February 28, 2024)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/Elidal|Elidal (Samfelt version) (Gaston)]] (April 4, 2024)
* [[Leafiara (prime)/Melodies/XP in a Bottle|XP in a Bottle (Genie in a Bottle)]] (April 10, 2024)

(still to find and post: Social Norms (Let It Go) from March 2020, Pure and True (Let It Go (yes, again)) from May 29 2021)



=Characteristics=

==Likes==

* Adventure
* Chocolate and all sweets
* [[:Category:Hinterwilds_creatures|Cold River]]
* Dance
* Fighting competitions such as the [[Festival of the Fallen]] or events held at the [[Icemule Trace]] [[Brawling Tavern]]
* Ladies, especially elven and half-elven ones (including sylvans and dark elves)
* Music
* Rescuing
* Shoes, especially sandals
* Theater
* Top three forms of good in her eyes: 1) self-sacrifice, 2) speaking truth to power, 3) giving the benefit of the doubt

==Dislikes==

* Bureaucracy
* Cowardice
* High heels
* Prejudice
* Slavers
* Stoics
* Stuffy clothing or stuff armor
* [[Ta'Vaalor]]
* The [[Turamzzyrian Empire]] (mostly)
* Top three forms of evil in her eyes: 1) taking away others' freedoms systemically, 2) lying, 3) stealing

==Hopes==

* Acceptance despite being half-sylvan
* Being a great resurrection-specializing cleric
* Excitement in everyday life
* Recognition of heroic deeds
* Staying young at heart--''and'' in body

==Fears==

* Boredom
* Giving in to vengeful feelings, in case her friends are right that there's no turning back on that road
* Hurting loved ones
* Inability to save a life
* Learning of some great power that could tempt or corrupt her
* Maturing
* Mind control
* Normalcy
* Pain
* Rejection
* Slavery

==Other Quirks==

<div class="mw-customtoggle-quirks" style="overflow:auto;color:#0000FF">...she has a lot of quirks. Click here.</div>
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* A natural auditory learner who can remember tones, cadences, and inflections well; between that and [[Tilamaire]]'s blessing (see further below), she can easily remember and transcribe conversations for [[The TownCrier]] after the fact
* Can be as greedy with money as she is generous with time and energy
* Can have a conspiracy theorist bent at times; a [[Deity_messaging#Divine_Wrath_.28335.29|Divine Wrath using Tilamaire's power]] gives her a brief window of hearing a "greater harmony" and connection between the sounds of all things ("CASTER begins to hum softly, a sweet, soft melody that somehow manages to harmonize with every random noise and tiny sound of your surroundings."), which she ordinarily can't hear on her own, so she assumes there must be other harmonies and connections normally imperceptible to her
* Dashes about in a hurry a lot of the time
* Doesn't ever lie consciously (though she might deflect)
* Doesn't ever swear even mildly
* Extremely naive about romance even ''after'' being engaged to five fiancees; did eventually get over it after marrying one
* Fairly desensitized to most death, since as a cleric she's surrounded by it all the time (but she can get very upset over a death she thinks she could have prevented; see fears)
* Feels uncomfortable and out of harmony with nature if she wears long sleeves, pants, or fully enclosed shoes (like boots) longer than a couple hours
* Places such an extreme value on freedom that she can border on seeking anarchy, but tends to be law-abiding anyway by happenstance since most of her moral compass lines up with the laws
* Rather detached about the Arkati and lesser spirits, as clerics go, except for Tilamaire and [[Cholen]] due to the [[Origins_of_Cholen_and_Tilamaire|story of how the former ascended by acquiring power from the latter]]; however, she has passing respect for [[Cholen]], [[Kai]], [[V'tull]], [[Onar]], [[Imaera]], [[Tonis]], and [[Leya]] just going by baseline knowledge that most anyone would have about them, along with an ongoing simultaneous fascination with [[The Huntress]] and a fear that one day she might follow that path
* Romanticizes the heroism of knights as they're presented in plays, but pragmatically thinks spies are more important for protecting the innocent
* Tends to brush off praise and criticism alike
* Too impatient and full of energy to study magic and magical items in a traditional academic way, but is blessed by Tilamaire with an ability to hear and adapt to the [[Tilamaire#Messaging|inner musical harmony]] of magic around her, essentially allowing her to develop her talent and magical strength in a passive and subconscious way; her always-ongoing learning has led her to great magical power for her young age, giving off the impression of a prodigy
* Willing and eager to throw herself into nearly any dangerous plan that poses ''risk'' of her being killed or seriously hurt, but straight-laced about refusing to do anything that will ''definitely'' hurt even slightly, like getting a piercing or tattoo

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=Affiliations=

* Contact for the [[Scions of Shaundara]]
* Member of the [[Brotherhood of Rooks]]
* Correspondent for [[The TownCrier]]
* Event Planner of [[Twilight Hall]]
* Mentor in the [[Order of Lorekeepers]]
* Guildmaster of the [[Cleric Guild]]
* Master in the [[Order of Voln]]
* Member of [[Fenog's Regulars]]
* Member of [[Ord an Dragan]]
* Member of [[Raise Your Stout Krew]]
* Member of [[The Drakes Vanguard]]
* Former Mayor of [[Wehnimer's Landing]]
* Former advisor and Public Relations liaison for Mayor [[Cruxophim]]
* Former Landing Ambassador to [[Icemule Trace]] for Mayor Cruxophim
* Former member of the Wehnimer's Landing militia
* Former member of [[Anglers of Elanthia]] (defunct organization)
* Former member of [[The Witching Hour]] (defunct organization)



==Assorted Tidbits==


===Mechanical Stuff===
=Mechanical Musings=


==Character and Gear Choices==
'''Current training goals'''
[[Magic Item Use]] from 108 to 202 in hopes that [[Bloodriven Village]] will offer desirable X/day buffs in Lumnea
At the annual [[fixskills]], drop all [[Shield Use]], 101 [[Perception]], and possibly other skills like [[Brawling]], [[Spell Aiming]], and some [[Trading]] to free up enough TPs for anywhere from 22 to all 101 ranks of [[Dodging]]


* '''[[Leafiara_(prime)/Mechanical_Musings/Ascension_Considerations|Ascension Considerations]]''': Various calculations and theorycrafting on optimizing gains through Ascension.
'''Project weapons'''
* '''[[Leafiara_(prime)/Mechanical_Musings/Ascension Progression|Ascension Progression]]''': How I've been progressing in Ascension with each of my characters and why.
an eonake-edged folded [[razern]] [[katana]]: enchant it up, remove sanctification to make it easier to work with
* '''[[Leafiara_(prime)/Mechanical_Musings/Combat_Maneuver_Choices|Combat Maneuver Choices]]''': What I selected as the combat maneuvers for each of my characters and why.
a perfect maple-hafted [[mithril]] [[maul]]: enchant it up, add [[::Knockout_flare|knockout flares]]
* '''[[Leafiara_(prime)/Mechanical_Musings/Pre-Ascension_Stopping_Points|Pre-Ascension Stopping Points]]''': What I settled on, and why I settled on it, as the right stopping point for each of my characters before committing to exp gain going 100% into Ascension without ever looking back. In most cases, these stopping points haven't been reached yet and are a long way off.
a perfect mithril-shafted [[white ora]] [[lance]]: enchant it up, add Ironwright flares
* '''[[Leafiara_(prime)/Mechanical_Musings/Project_Gear|Project Gear]]''': Wildly outdated information that I need to clean up and revisit at some point.
a perfect mithril-shafted mithril [[spear]]: enchant it up, add [[::Greater_elemental_flare|greater elemental flares]]
a perfect mithril-shafted mithril lance: enchant it up, add polearm flarers


'''Artisan skills'''
In the skill of [[forging]] - crafting, you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - [[::Edged_Weapons|one handed edged]], you are a highly skilled laborer with 496 ranks.
In the skill of forging - [[::Polearm_Weapons|pole arms]], you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - [[brawling weapons]], you are an apprentice with 500 ranks.
In the skill of [[cobbling]], you are a master with 500 ranks.


==Miscellaneous Topics==
'''Instruments'''
Your current skill level in [[::Instrument_messaging_woodwind|woodwind instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[::Instrument_messaging_necked_stringed|necked stringed instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[::Instrument_messaging_stringed|stringed instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[::Instrument_messaging_percussion|percussion instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[::Instrument_messaging_horn-type|horn-type instruments]] is Apprentice.


* '''[[Leafiara_(prime)/Mechanical_Musings/Unarmed_Combat:_The_Great_Debate|Unarmed Combat: The Great Debate]]''': Reflections on how we refer to unarmed combat.
'''Guild skills'''
You are Guild Master of the [[Cleric Guild]].
You are a Master of [[::Category:General_Alchemy|General Alchemy]].
You are a Master of [[::Category:Cleric_Potions|Alchemic Potions]].
You are a Master of [[::Category:Cleric_Trinkets|Alchemic Trinkets]].


===Publications===


==Artisan skills==
* [[TownCrier Interview Sessions with Leafiara]] (as interviewee)
* [[TownCrier Interview Sessions with Khylynnia]] (as interviewer)


In the skill of [[forging]] - crafting, you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - [[Edged_Weapons|one handed edged]], you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - [[Polearm_Weapons|pole arms]], you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - [[brawling weapons]], you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of [[cobbling]], you are a master with 500 ranks.


===Feedback===
==Instruments==


Your current skill level in [[Instrument_messaging_woodwind|woodwind instruments]] is Apprentice.
Ask me things about Leafiara on my [[::Talk:Leafiara|discussion page]] and maybe I'll answer!
Your current skill level in [[Instrument_messaging_necked_stringed|necked stringed instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[Instrument_messaging_stringed|stringed instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[Instrument_messaging_percussion|percussion instruments]] is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in [[Instrument_messaging_horn-type|horn-type instruments]] is Apprentice.


==Guild skills==


You are Guild Master of the [[Cleric Guild]].
[[Category: Adventurers]]
You are a Master of [[:Category:General_Alchemy|General Alchemy]].
[[Category: Wehnimer's Landing Player Characters]]
You are a Master of [[:Category:Cleric_Potions|Alchemic Potions]].
You are a Master of [[:Category:Cleric_Trinkets|Alchemic Trinkets]].

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Leafiara Autumnwind, or Leafi to her friends, born on a Tilamaires on Jastatos 6, 5092, is a half-sylvan cleric of Tilamaire. Though typically cheerful, she can become ferocious in battle and will use anything at her disposal--warding magic, bolt spells, edged weapons, her own hands and feet, spying with the help of friends, or skills learned at the Order of Voln.

Despite her youth, she possesses incredible abilities both on the battlefield and as an artisan. In her spare time she's a master cobbler, master painter, master with darts, master of forging brawling weapons, edged weapons, and polearms, has developed the greatest talent with various instruments that one can without being a bard, became a Guild Master of the Cleric Guild as nominated by Guild Masters Rohese Bayvel-Timsh'l and Mikalmas, and bakes top quality manna bread after being inspired by Cruxophim.

Leafiara Autumnwind
Race Half-elf
Culture Sylvankind
Profession Cleric
Religion Follows Tilamaire, also admires Cholen, and greatly respects Gosaena, The Huntress, and Onar
In-a-Word Energetic
Disposition Adventurous, cheerful, lively
Demeanor Friendly
Flaw Struggling with vengeful tendencies
Greatest Strength Fearlessness
Greatest Weakness Impatience, recklessness
Habits Ringing bells, shooting friends with her water cannon, throwing snowballs
Hobbies Cobbling, singing, snuggling, tickling
Soft Spots Chocolate, sweets
Loyalties Conscience
Best Friend Severine Veneuve
Spouse Saraphenia
Loved One Lyrna, Eyona, Saranja, Ghianna


Appearance

You see Whimweaver Leafiara Autumnwind the Holy Flame of Tilamaire.
She appears to be a Half-Sylvan.
She is bathed in a golden sheen of sunlight that mutes the light of Tilaok, causing her aura to shimmer with orange light.
She is moderately tall and has a well-toned frame.  She appears to be youthful.  She has sparkling green eyes and soft, smooth honey-hued skin.  She has shoulder length, tousled cherry red hair framing her face in a disheveled, carefree style.  She has a well-defined, heart-shaped face and slightly pointed ears.  She has alternating cherry and vanilla polish brushed onto her neatly rounded fingernails.
A myriad of leaf-shaped sweets and treats appear to be following her every move.
Miniature yellow treble clefs spiral outward from her before fading away.
She is in good shape.
Her hands are covered in a light dusting of sugar.
There is a small ruby red sprite flying above her shoulder.
Colorful, wispy threads shimmer in and out of existence, twining and dancing freely around a white imflass manacle encircling her left wrist.  Its empty keyway is outlined in a bold red glow that pulsates rhythmically.
She is wearing a shimmering cherry red cloak, a leaf-spangled imflass scabbard, a radiant red zelnorn tunic accented by a shining white leaf flourish with a pure white elesine sundress showcasing a skirt-spanning red music staff underneath, some pure white fingerless gloves reinforced with ghezyte banding, a polished knotwork platinum wedding band, a silk-lined imflass thigh-sheath, a cherry red leaf-clasped anklet, and a pair of pure white sandals reinforced with ghezyte straps and soles.
Sparkling musical notes spring around her feet, dissipating into colorful mist as she moves.

Her "Adventurer Casual" outfit, everyday attire suitable for flipping between battle and chatter on a whim. I'm in the camp of picturing torso chain mail as just chain mail, so most of her body is unprotected by armor as I envision her, but I write it off as immaterial since she's a cleric well defended by spells, including a magical barrier that deflects attacks entirely. Her wearing heavier armor isn't a practicality thing, but more a symbolic gesture about having a powerful core or something like that. Speaking of symbolic, her manacle is a mysterious item whose backstory I haven't delved into yet, but it notably lacks a chain or even anywhere to attach one.

The shimmering cherry red cloak has a script that makes it unalterable, so to make it not stand out as the only thing she's wearing with a short description, I included her FancySheaths (which can't even have long descriptions and are normally hidden in other trinket sets), wedding band, and ranger anklet. I think it's an interesting contrast to her far more showy armor, sundress, gloves, and sandals.

See other outfits on the subpage here!


History

Please see each individual subpage for more detail! Subpages marked with a * are official Landing storylines while those without are the more laid-back pace of occasional events between big stories.

Background (prior to moving to the Landing)

Eyes of the Dawn* (mid-late 5116)

Keeping Up with the Kestrels* (all 5117)

Rise of Rone* (early 5118)

A Period of Tenuous Peace (mid-5118)

The Rone Resurgence* (mid-late 5118)

Autumnwind of Change (late 5118 to early 5119)

Witchful Thinking* (mid-late 5119)

(maybe will update one day, maybe won't: All That Remains, Blood Son, A Knight to Remember, Ashes to Ashes, North by Northwest)


Publications

Logs, Talks, and Interviews


Leafiara's Tales (Character Vignettes)

(These are stories, mostly posted to the official forums, surrounding events from Leafi's former life in the Landing.)

During Eyes of the Dawn

4 vignettes!

Crisis of Conscience and Clash of Character (October 17, 2016)

Leafi, having recently learned of her friend Crux's past misdeeds, grapples with his history and its implications for her. She concludes that as long as the Landing is widely aware and hasn't exiled him, then perhaps he's changed and her conscience is clear.

The Only Recognition... (October 25, 2016)

Haunted by dreams of a deep-rooted desire to kill Chaston Griffin, Leafi fights to remember her friends and resist the urge of losing herself in being consumed by vengeance.

Proudly Introducing... (October 29, 2016)

As she reaches a benchmark in her training, the overly optimistic Leafiara registers her High Lady title!

A Letter Forever Undelivered (November 16, 2016)

After having seen Landing defenders kill an army of children under Chaston's control during the final battle to prevent the activation of the obelisk, Leafi struggles with the question of what was right.


During Keeping Up with the Kestrels

2 vignettes!

A Trio of Letters (March 29, 2017)

Leafi congratulates new Mayor Crux and thanks her own supporters from the recent campaign season with a message of unity and optimism.

In Tilamaire's Sanctuary (December 24, 2017)

With most of the Kestrel family now dead, Leafi sorts through her feelings and fallout from their year near the Landing. Although her stance on Rysus had shifted when he threatened Reannah, as she had thought he should have focused his efforts on Dennet where they belonged, she can't shake a lingering feeling that the town would have been better off if an arrow had flown through Dennet's skull.


Between Rise of Rone and The Rone Resurgence

3 vignettes!

Morning Musings (May 4, 2018)

Leafi considers whether to attempt to join the militia or the Rooks, but settles on neither and refocuses on finding her own path forward toward killing Raznel.

A Coraesine Carol (May 11, 2018)

After a night of singing to herself alone, Leafi in her dreams has visions of past conversations with friends about the meaning and philosophy behind heroism and justice--and a warning about being consumed by vengeance in her future.

A Very Bloodriven Vacation (June 14, 2018)

While slaying bandits on a routine patrol, Leafi considers what, if anything, is the moral difference between her and the vigilante Rone, Malluch Burdos. Her concerns grow as she considers her love of the Duskruin Arena.


During The Rone Resurgence

3 vignettes!

To the Brotherhood (September 2, 2018)

Leafi posts notice to the Rooks expressing sorrow that the second Rone vigilante has attacked them, but asks them to cease catching innocents in the crossfire of retaliation and leave the fight to others.

The Second Rone Bounty (September 7, 2018)

Leafi notices that the town council has issued a bounty on capturing the second Rone, but recalls their failure to pay her and others who aided with their bounty on capturing the first Rone.

Rook Remorse (October 6-7, 2018)

After having been tricked by Praxopius into playing a role in Rysus' demise, Leafi attempts to get word to the Rooks that she won't rest easy until the Alchemist is dead.


Between The Rone Resurgence and Witchful Thinking

4 vignettes!

Money Money Money (December 2, 2018)

Leafi continues seeking money from Solhaven's Adventurer's Guild to fund her ongoing mission to grow stronger for the eventual battle against Raznel.

Mother and Mother (February 14, 2019)

By instinct, Leafi doubts new Rook leader Mother's words as too good to be true, but remembers her own mother's words of caution against oversimplifying the world as if it were one of the morality plays she acted in.

Ashes to Ashes (April 4, 2019)

Leafi passes by Goblyn's burned-down Pie Shop and ponders with a music shop apprentice, Kanona, what that might mean in the context of Ta'Vaalor building a nearby outpost.

Militia Surprise (April 9, 2019)

A surprised Leafi wonders why Marshal Thadston has accepted her militia application so quickly despite her history with the Rooks.


During Witchful Thinking

10 vignettes!

No Matter the Situation (July 25, 2019)

After noticing how others are losing their cool as struggles against the witch Raznel escalate, Leafi contemplates the importance of her many friends who can smile through troubled times and keep the town whole.

In Noise, Melody; in Chaos, Choreography (August 22, 2019)

Wearing a memento gown and sandals of the Princess Mynalari who Raznel had slain, Leafi lures out bandits by presenting herself as a helpless noble. She attempts to find answers about Raznel's goals by drawing upon Tilamaire's power to attune to the connecting sounds of all things as her magic strikes them down.

A Matter of Will (September 25, 2019)

Leafi registers a living will at Moot Hall to pass down her valuables in case she doesn't survive the ongoing battles with Raznel.

Cleric of Life, Angel of Death (October 4, 2019)

Leafi continues to reflect on what Raznel's goals could be and how to get a step ahead of her, this time seeking answers in past patterns of Raznel and Naimorai among others. She lands on an unsettling conclusion that it's possible Raznel had been operating any number of machinations through others, potentially even using her to eliminate Rysus.

Change of Plans (November 2, 2019)

A tearful Leafi receives a timely reminder from her fiancee Saranja, convincing her not to lose herself in ugliness and the pursuit of vengeance against Raznel, but to save lives and protect as she's always done.

Anything But Neutral (November 26, 2019)

Faced with Marshal Thadston's orders to evacuate Landing citizens, even the unwilling, in advance of a possible Raznel attack, Leafi finds herself unable to maintain neutrality as a TownCrier reporter and gives the task to her mother Florania for the night.

Who Are You People? (November 26, 2019)

While evacuating townspeople, Leafi finds herself confronting stinging backlash, both physical and verbal, from those who don't wish to leave--and she will not tell them to go.

Balancing Act (November 27, 2019)

The day after Leafi, Maags, Puptilian, Wolfloner, the Rooks, and the citizens themselves had stopped Marshal Thadston from evacuating people against their will, Leafi quickly takes to training new recruits and at last feels her decision to join the militia was right.

Return to Form (November 29, 2019)

Leafi talks with a new militia recruit on the importance of determination and the inner fire.

Awaiting Orders (December 2, 2019)

With Pylasar having taken his possible final trip into the past and Marshal Thadston now lost in the Bleaklands, Leafi reflects on who the two men were or are.


Between Witchful Thinking and All That Remains

5 vignettes!

The Light of Hope, Death, and Chaos (January 17, 2020)

Leafi considers the opposing views of Grishom Stone and Raznel and rejects both, making peace with death being intertwined as a part of life, but is interrupted by a mysterious figure appearing to be a Rook.

Last Dream Standing (February 1, 2020)

The mysterious figure, now appearing to be a Rone and calling itself "Echo," confronts Leafi again and seems to know her inner thoughts as it even presents her with a memento of her past that shouldn't be in its possession. As she faces an existential crisis, she prepares for her return to Duskruin Arena and realizes its true significance to her.

The Chaos Ahead (April 1, 2020)

Newly elected Mayor Leafi pens a letter to the Landing thanking everyone and laying out plans for the future.

A letter from Sir Cryheart (April 18, 2020)

Mayor Leafi sends a letter from Sir Cryheart to Earl Jovery, formalizing town approval of its contents, which warn of the potential dangers of Grand Magister Octaven.

An Exercise in Futility (April 22, 2020)

After a confrontation with the militia leads Grand Magister Octaven to finally make good on her overdue reparations for destroying the Landing's defense towers two and a half years earlier, Mayor Leafi attempts to pen a letter quelling townspeople's fears about the Hall of Mages, but soon learns that politicking isn't her style.


During All That Remains

4 vignettes!

Planning Essentials (May 5, 2020)

Mayor Leafi considers whether to ally with the Rooks or Empire against the Fist, but dismisses both as unnecessary and supplies town defenders with information on their foes.

For Your Consideration (May 11, 2020)

Mayor Leafi further rallies town defenders with possible moves against the Fist's forces.

Factions and Factors: Last Mission Standing (May 15, 2020)

Mayor Leafi writes to Marshal Thadston, Lady Vlashandra, and Mist Harbor's Administrator Ilsola with information on the efforts to rescue Aralyte and the identity of the Fist.

A Series of Second Thoughts (May 16, 2020)

Mayor Leafi questions her intuition about Vlashandra being evil, but concludes that even if she is, the one thing that must be honored is the people's free decisions to aid her.


Between All That Remains and Blood Son

1 vignette!

Shadows of the Past (June 11, 2020)

As Mayor Leafi rids herself of shadow energy from entering the shadow valence, she uses Crux's ritual to draw it out by focusing on dark thoughts--and her darkest go to the manipulator Vlashandra.


During Blood Son

6 vignettes!

Time and Opportunity (July 8, 2020)

While Mayor Leafi is considering the motives of the Blood Son, Malluch Burdos, and whether he's truly aligned with Grishom Stone, a concerned citizen confronts her about the matter and urges preemptive action.

Everybody Dies and (Almost) Everybody Lies (July 19, 2020)

After a caravan coming for Malluch's healing is burned by unknown attackers, Mayor Leafi searches for evidence on their identities and requests Guard Captain Khylon's aid.

Final considerations (August 3, 2020)

After Malluch asks for a pardon due to Praxopius' influence over his days as the vigilante Rone, hoping that it will deter Marshal Thadston from attacking his camp containing civilians, Mayor Leafi raises the idea that it could result in the Rooks or the new Rone pursuing him instead.

To the Marshal (August 6, 2020)

Mayor Leafi attempts to dissuade Marshal Thadston from issuing a bounty on Malluch. Thadston refrains from the bounty, but persists in rejecting the camp and threatens insubordinate militia members with expulsion, leaving Leafi to sharpen her blades and prepare for the worst.

Rendering Judgment (August 7, 2020)

After a meeting with Thadston sees him exhibiting strange behavior and seizing Captain Stormyrain's arm, Mayor Leafi petitions Judge Renpaw for his removal until a magical phenomenon afflicting him can be resolved.

A two-fold matter of propriety (August 10, 2020)

Mayor Leafi writes Judge Renpaw once more, adding Thadston's Operation Stonewall and his secrecy from his own militia captains to the list of reasons to seek removal. However, in recognition of the conflict of interest in a mayor removing a council member whose seat she can then replace, she further writes to the town council, proposing amended laws for citizen voting to fill expelled seats instead.


During A Knight to Remember

22 vignettes!

A letter to Casiphia (September 7, 2020)

Mayor Leafi writes to Lady Casiphia about the possibility of contacting the erithians who are curing Disean to work on curing the now-former Marshal Thadston of possession by the bleakwalker.

Echoes of Mayors Past (September 10, 2020)

After new citizen Amos offers to fill in the now-vacant role of militia marshal, Mayor Leafi presents the idea to the militia captains and asks their opinion while arguing that he's not the right fit. Afterward, she reflects on parallels between her dilemmas and those of past mayors.

A Rolling Rone Gathers No Moss, or, Re-Outmaneuvering Oneself (September 10, 2020, later that day)

After Judge Renpaw rules that Marshal Thadston was within his rights to exclude the militia captains from his Operation Stonewall and doesn't need to be transparent, Mayor Leafi wonders if Mother will try to seize on the opportunity. Leafi decides to preempt her by being transparent anyway in seeking an alliance... not with her, but with the vigilante Rone!

A series of letters (September 19, 2020)

Mayor Leafi writes to Judge Renpaw to delay the Steward of the Guilds appointment due to ongoing attacks against the candidates, to Guard Captain Khylon to tighten security until her militia marshal appointment is formalized, and to Mother about whether her recent attacks against Thadston and Amos are signs of the Rooks reverting to their old ways or if there's upheaval within the Brotherhood.

A Second Second Chance (September 23, 2020)

At Captain Stormyrain's suggestion, Mayor Leafi writes to Mother seeking a meeting between her, town defenders, and militia leadership.

Notes on Thadston (November 1, 2020)

Mayor Leafi is surprised to discover that, during a sleep-induced burst of inspiration the night before, she'd written down countless theories on how to remove the bleakwalker from Thadston.

Problems and Profits (November 12, 2020)

As Mayor Leafi's shop profits from chrisms while the Landing faces war, she chats with her shop clerk about the unexpectedly high number of citizens who seem to be Rooks.

Knavesayer (November 21, 2020)

Mayor Leafi inquires with Alendrial about the veracity of Amos' claims of working with the Scions of Shaundara.

Don't Again, Dunigan (November 22, 2020)

Mayor Leafi requests that new Guard Captain Dunigan rescind the bounty on Rone in an effort to protect civilians.

Coreful Consideration (December 4, 2020)

Mayor Leafi considers whether Amos is leading town defenders into a trap to rescue Thrayzar.

Another trio of letters (January 22, 2021)

Mayor Leafi writes three letters to Councilwoman Alendrial, Judge Renpaw, and Guard Captain Dunigan in attempts to defuse a situation after Dunigan's armigers had arrested militia Captains Shinann and Stormyrain, then She reflects on her own role in attacking the armigers over said arrest--both why she did it and what it entails for her future.

Winter Chills (January 23, 2021)

As Mayor Leafi faces the mystery of the newly formed Darkstone Bay Consortium, she seeks a meeting with Lady Larsya, who's likely the richest of them and certainly the only one not a Landing citizen.

Offshore Banking, Offstore Flanking (January 25, 2021)

Operating on the suspicion that Amos is behind the Knave and the Darkstone Bay Consortium, Mayor Leafi moves her silvers away from the Landing to distant towns.

Margin of Error (January 30, 2021)

Faced with Mother having offered an unusually straightforward deal to retrieve the bleakstone statue for Thadston in exchange for help with an attack against the Knave, Mayor Leafi ponders the possibility of a trap.

The Inner Fire (February 9, 2021)

After the Darkstone Bay Consortium's replacement judge Manard removes Mayor Leafi from power and the Consortium votes among itself to suspend elections, she writes to the Scions of Shaundara for aid with intel and unraveling Amos' schemes.

*SNAP* (February 10, 2021)

Music shop apprentice Kanona visits her friend Leafi, acting undercover as a spy for the armigers, but Leafi puts on a show of going mad, having already assumed she was a spy, and counter-spies on her with a familiar.

Behind the Curtain (February 18, 2021)

An unknown, invisible messenger warns the Raging Thrak to protect Newsby as she operates out of his inn and calls for boycotts of the Consortium's shops.

Call to Action (February 19, 2021)

Leafiara, announcing herself as "Mayor of the People," says she'll honor the people's vote for a one year term and continue until the regularly scheduled end time, then calls the Landing to action in saving the town.

Don't Go Overboard Now (April 1, 2021)

A mysterious man claiming to be a recent Rook recruit begins a dialogue with Leafi and urges her to listen to her instincts and temptations, stop holding back out of deference to the law, and become the dark hero the Landing needs. However, the longer she hears him out, the more she pushes back.

To Serve and Reject "To Impose and Protect" (May 3, 2021)

After Cordarius appoints Amos the Steward of the Guilds and Dunigan the Steward of the Guard in order to convince the Consortium to unsuspend elections, Leafi considers the ramifications. She writes to Thadston and town defenders that it would be wrong for them to continue to defend the town after Amos said their help was unnecessary and the government has sided with him, and says that while she expects them to fight on anyway, she'll stand down to honor the people's choice.

Perception and Reality (May 6, 2021)

Having been unable to persuade Mother that the Rooks should forge a formal alliance with the militia, Leafi moves on to instead suggest that the Rooks unmask to prove that they're the Landing citizens they claim they are, changing perceptions and therefore the tide of battle.

Purity and Clarity (May 14, 2021)

As Leafi finds her body unable to recover from the battles against the Knave, the mysterious entity Echo appears before her again to elucidate her dilemma: turning away from the battlefield will betray her mission to save lives, but continuing to take the battlefield will perpetuate the people's mistaken notion that they've been saved by heroes who defeated the Knave, and she finds neither acceptable.


After A Knight to Remember

It's a Wonderful Leafi (January 11, 2022)

Haunted by sleepless guilt over playing a role in approving the Darkstone Bay Consortium's bazaar, Leafi anticipates and prepares for assassins pursuing her from every corner of the Landing. However, she instead finds herself spiraling into dejected disappointment as everyone around her reacts to her expectations with confusion while they rationalize, disregard, or praise a decision she herself condemns. The timely re-appearance of the ethereal entity calling itself Echo voices Leafiara's discontent on her behalf, guiding her toward an epiphany one week of consideration later...



Non-Canonical Vignettes

[OOC note: These are vignettes I wrote (or, more often, started writing) that never happened and aren't in Leafi's canon, for reasons explained in the pages themselves. Even though they didn't happen, I'm sharing anyway just because... well, I wrote them, so I might as well, right?]


Creative Endeavors


Melodies

Originals

IC Parodies

OOC Parodies

(still to find and post: Social Norms (Let It Go) from March 2020, Pure and True (Let It Go (yes, again)) from May 29 2021)


Characteristics

Likes

  • Adventure
  • Chocolate and all sweets
  • Cold River
  • Dance
  • Fighting competitions such as the Festival of the Fallen or events held at the Icemule Trace Brawling Tavern
  • Ladies, especially elven and half-elven ones (including sylvans and dark elves)
  • Music
  • Rescuing
  • Shoes, especially sandals
  • Theater
  • Top three forms of good in her eyes: 1) self-sacrifice, 2) speaking truth to power, 3) giving the benefit of the doubt

Dislikes

  • Bureaucracy
  • Cowardice
  • High heels
  • Prejudice
  • Slavers
  • Stoics
  • Stuffy clothing or stuff armor
  • Ta'Vaalor
  • The Turamzzyrian Empire (mostly)
  • Top three forms of evil in her eyes: 1) taking away others' freedoms systemically, 2) lying, 3) stealing

Hopes

  • Acceptance despite being half-sylvan
  • Being a great resurrection-specializing cleric
  • Excitement in everyday life
  • Recognition of heroic deeds
  • Staying young at heart--and in body

Fears

  • Boredom
  • Giving in to vengeful feelings, in case her friends are right that there's no turning back on that road
  • Hurting loved ones
  • Inability to save a life
  • Learning of some great power that could tempt or corrupt her
  • Maturing
  • Mind control
  • Normalcy
  • Pain
  • Rejection
  • Slavery

Other Quirks

...she has a lot of quirks. Click here.
  • A natural auditory learner who can remember tones, cadences, and inflections well; between that and Tilamaire's blessing (see further below), she can easily remember and transcribe conversations for The TownCrier after the fact
  • Can be as greedy with money as she is generous with time and energy
  • Can have a conspiracy theorist bent at times; a Divine Wrath using Tilamaire's power gives her a brief window of hearing a "greater harmony" and connection between the sounds of all things ("CASTER begins to hum softly, a sweet, soft melody that somehow manages to harmonize with every random noise and tiny sound of your surroundings."), which she ordinarily can't hear on her own, so she assumes there must be other harmonies and connections normally imperceptible to her
  • Dashes about in a hurry a lot of the time
  • Doesn't ever lie consciously (though she might deflect)
  • Doesn't ever swear even mildly
  • Extremely naive about romance even after being engaged to five fiancees; did eventually get over it after marrying one
  • Fairly desensitized to most death, since as a cleric she's surrounded by it all the time (but she can get very upset over a death she thinks she could have prevented; see fears)
  • Feels uncomfortable and out of harmony with nature if she wears long sleeves, pants, or fully enclosed shoes (like boots) longer than a couple hours
  • Places such an extreme value on freedom that she can border on seeking anarchy, but tends to be law-abiding anyway by happenstance since most of her moral compass lines up with the laws
  • Rather detached about the Arkati and lesser spirits, as clerics go, except for Tilamaire and Cholen due to the story of how the former ascended by acquiring power from the latter; however, she has passing respect for Cholen, Kai, V'tull, Onar, Imaera, Tonis, and Leya just going by baseline knowledge that most anyone would have about them, along with an ongoing simultaneous fascination with The Huntress and a fear that one day she might follow that path
  • Romanticizes the heroism of knights as they're presented in plays, but pragmatically thinks spies are more important for protecting the innocent
  • Tends to brush off praise and criticism alike
  • Too impatient and full of energy to study magic and magical items in a traditional academic way, but is blessed by Tilamaire with an ability to hear and adapt to the inner musical harmony of magic around her, essentially allowing her to develop her talent and magical strength in a passive and subconscious way; her always-ongoing learning has led her to great magical power for her young age, giving off the impression of a prodigy
  • Willing and eager to throw herself into nearly any dangerous plan that poses risk of her being killed or seriously hurt, but straight-laced about refusing to do anything that will definitely hurt even slightly, like getting a piercing or tattoo


Affiliations


Mechanical Musings

Character and Gear Choices

  • Ascension Considerations: Various calculations and theorycrafting on optimizing gains through Ascension.
  • Ascension Progression: How I've been progressing in Ascension with each of my characters and why.
  • Combat Maneuver Choices: What I selected as the combat maneuvers for each of my characters and why.
  • Pre-Ascension Stopping Points: What I settled on, and why I settled on it, as the right stopping point for each of my characters before committing to exp gain going 100% into Ascension without ever looking back. In most cases, these stopping points haven't been reached yet and are a long way off.
  • Project Gear: Wildly outdated information that I need to clean up and revisit at some point.


Miscellaneous Topics


Artisan skills

In the skill of forging - crafting, you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - one handed edged, you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - pole arms, you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of forging - brawling weapons, you are a master with 500 ranks.
In the skill of cobbling, you are a master with 500 ranks.

Instruments

Your current skill level in woodwind instruments is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in necked stringed instruments is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in stringed instruments is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in percussion instruments is Apprentice.
Your current skill level in horn-type instruments is Apprentice.

Guild skills

You are Guild Master of the Cleric Guild.
You are a Master of General Alchemy.
You are a Master of Alchemic Potions.
You are a Master of Alchemic Trinkets.
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