History

Isobel was born the daughter of Conor and Katherine Byrne . Katherine was the daughter of Brand. Isobel was the eldest of three children, with younger siblings Mia and Michael. From a young age she showed a natural affinity with the air. She was tested and spent much of her youth at the Academy learning to expand her gift and control it. By time she was a teenager she was considered quite gifted and following neatly into the path set before her. The testing noted other gifts within her, but nothing near as strong as her gift with the Air. From her blood line she inherited the gift of pattern walking as well, such she was trained in its used, but it was always the air the called true to her heart. She also showed an affinity to the flute. Another way of mastering air.

Her Parents strong enough in their own magic as to be a threat to Brand. Rumours at the Academy that Isobel's father spoke of challenging Katherine's father. Few would speak to the truth of the rumour, but such was heard by the unstable Brand and that brought him into a rage. Isobel was 18 when her family was slaughtered before her eyes by Brand. A brutal killing that left their sitting room covered in the blood and bodies of her parents and her younger siblings. Isobel was made to watch as she was held captive by Brand's magic, unable to look away, unable to use her own gift to defend her family. She was left to live with the memories of blood and bodies torn apart. When finally the binds wore off Isobel was near hysterical as she went to her mother's massacred corpse and through her grief more destruction was wrought as a tempest seemed to tear through the room. It was only once she was drained and exhausted of her own magic could house servants come into the room and it was there that a servant did find her covered in the blood of her family, but alive. The servant took the shaken girl into hiding hoping to protect her from any future attacks or even accusation of her family's death.

She was eventually left in the care of another elemental mage who helped her control her gift gone rogue from the trauma of the massacre. She changed her surname to Gaeth, a name meaning the air itself. The nightmares of the night of her parents death still haunted her and she found herself losing herself more and more in her gift. Riding the winds in spirit leaving her body behind until one day she found herself becoming a creature of the air itself, a falcon. Such was even more freeing. To leave her human self and become a creature with no care of human pains. A way to explore the world from her hiding. A way to escape the nightmares of the past, though eventually she would have to sleep and the nightmares still came. For a couple years she managed to live as thus, her and her mentor constantly moving so she might stay hidden. Never to speak with people but her mentor and their servants. Always the fear resting in her mind that one day Brand would find her and finally kill her, even moments where she wanted it if only for the torment to end. Increasingly she found freedom in her falcon form, leaving behind the concerns of the human world until one day 'the falcon' was shot with a bolt from a hunter. She could feel her breath leaving her body, the shock of the wound, the wind rushing past as she felt to the earth. Only in the last moment did she change to human form to trying to protect herself from the fall...

And woke up in a forest surrounded by trees felled in a circle around her , felled by a blast of wind by the strength of that last moment of fear. She awoke in a silk night dress with not a single memory of her past life.

'+bg concept': What is your concept? Granddaughter of Brand. He killed her parents and siblings in a rage and left Isobel alive. She went into hiding with a fellow mage, he helped keep control of her magic during which time her lesser gifts of Animal empathy and Shapeshifting developed and came to the forefront. Both due to the trauma and solitude of hiding, needing a way to find some freedom and escape.

'+bg family': Where is your home? Who is your family? Pathi, my grandfather is Brand and my parents were Conor and Katherine Byrne. Brand was Katherine's father. Her siblings were Mia and Michael, both murdered along with her parents.

'+bg event': What just happened to you? What will you do now? During a shapeshift her bird form was shot by a crossbow bolt, as she fell to the earth she transfigured back to her human form. In the last instinct took over and she tried to soften her fall with a blast of wind. Instead she woke up in the forest outside Arden, the trees blasted away from her from that final spell with no memory of her life before. She is working to piece together her past and who she was, thought also being hesitant to do so. She feels a darkness to her past she is not sure she wants to see. This is a second chance to live a life she had been denied before. To live in the open and not in hiding. To live free and not in captivity.

'+bg plans': What are your long-term goals for your character? Regain her memories.Explore her magical abilities to their fullest. Get revenge or find peace with the murderer of her parents. As she has spent most of her adult life so far in hiding, dependent on her mentor and having few to speak with, this will be something she will have to learn. To learn independence and coping with people. Learning to trust and feel safe.I am rather open ended at the moment because I like to see where the road takes me without any preordained path. As to what she might misremember: That her mentor was her captor. Twisting the memories of being held safe in hiding as being held in captivity. The death of her parents caused by him or some faceless beast instead of Brand.

'+bg play': What are you looking for out of your MUSHing experience? Story telling! Roleplay as often as I can get it. Character development and growth. Things that will challenge my character to explore herself inside and out.

Gifts ideas:

ARC-DE

PAT-HB

PAT-BD

PAT-LS