Ylva Hall
| Ylva Hall | |
| Concept: | Blind Crone Sorcerer and Teacher |
|---|---|
| Clan: | Nosferatu •• |
| Covenant: | Circle of the Crone ••• |
| City: | Geelong • |
| Title: | Mother of Heathens, Keeper of History |
| Sire: | Fremmend (NPC) |
| Bloodline: | Pure Clan |
| Group: | Ormrrsen |
| Embraced: | 07/12/1020 |
| Player: | Katherine Atkins |
| Storyteller: | Geelong VST |
Personal Information
Appearance
She is quite tall and strikingly thin, when she was human it would be easy to imagine she would have been quite striking maybe even beautiful but such things are now a distant memory. Her eyes are milk white and shimmer like pearls, her skin is pale and translucent. Her hair is long, reach past her shoulders and pale blonde almost white, sometimes it will be braided back, often this indicates that she is preparing for a ritual.
She wears a delicate white dress made from fine linen a small black pouch hangs at her throat this contains a number of items of mystical significance, small bones,candle stubs,a vial of blood and another of ash. She is often seen wearing a black and white cloak clasped with a bronze Norse style broach and a second leather bag hangs from a belt at her waist it contains the runes she often works with. She wears simple slip on shoes when she must or none at all if she is familiar with her surroundings and can get away with it. She almost always bears markings in vitae somewhere on her body the bindings for the mothers rituals.
Personality
A Child and a mother she walks the line between the two worlds. To the world at large she is a mystic and mysterious figure dressed like a ghost she moves with fine grace and brings uncertainty and suspicion in her wake. She enjoys the company of the young and freshly embraced she treats them all like her own children and their presence always brings her great joy, she does not however often engage them in conversation on important matters as she does the older court members, with whom discussions of faith and arguments on feeding practices flow freely. She does not particularly like those of the Lancea et Sanctum and interactions with those who openly profess their membership are often far more stiff and uncomfortable.
She enjoys a good story and friendship can be kindled easily if one can weave a good tale, whilst sometimes crude the general kindred of court only ever really see the wise and motherly parts of her nature.
Those who take the time to befriend and assist her, who prove their loyalty and steadfastness are greeted to interaction with a very different kindred away from the court. A child like soul who revels in practical jokes and childish tricks. Who will laughs freely and dances and sings for fun a kind soul who adores animals and is always amazed by the creation of new life. The tender love between her and her family is a sight to behold and there is a quiet fierceness and protectiveness in her actions which bespeaks an individual who would unflinchingly wade through the fire to ensure the safety of those she cares for.
Mortal World
Little is known of her by the mortal world, the price she pays for the mothers blessing is that she can not interact with those who do not and can not know. Still in every town she lives in eventually rumours begin to arise a women in white who walks the grounds of the local cemetery, a ghost or apparition the rumours do not elaborate. some say that if you leave a gift of oil and blood she will favour you and watch over the loved ones you leave behind in the bone yard and their will always be fresh flowers on their graves. Still others paint a far darker tale of a vengeful spirit who descends upon the unwary and rips them apart draining their blood to feed to the worms and the hungry dead. The legends agree on one thing, benevolent of vengeful you will always know when she arrives you will feel her gaze even before you see her and if you do... Run.
Time Line
1000 - 1018 (Mortal Life)
1002
- Born in Hjoring to Astrid (20) and Gisl(52) Hall.
1013 - An accomplished rider she is out on her own when something spooks her horse, she over corrects and the horse reared panicked and not thinking she tugs on the reigns unbalancing the horse and sending it over backwards on top of her. She hits her head against a rock as she falls and when she is found hours latter she is unresponsive. Her mother prays to God her father to Hel, months pass and whilst the wounds on her body heal she doesn't wake her parents start to despair until one day she opens her eyes, but they are milky white and blind. Her mother tries to be positive at first but views her daughter now as an invalid her father views it differently to Ylva and her mother he quotes the Edda, "The lame can ride horse, the handless drive cattle,the deaf one can fight and prevail,'tis happier for the blind than for him on the bale-fire,but no man hath care for a corpse.
1014 - though blind she shows great insight and her parents come to the realisation that she has the sight, her father believes more strongly then her mother and they both disagree on where her sight comes from but still words spreads people begin to travel to meet with her, her father never fores her to meet or talk with others but her mother trades coin for audience with her child keeping her dealings quiet from Gisl and threatening harm to Ylva if she ever tells him.
A few months after word begins to spread a stranger comes to the hall and ylva instantly knows he is wrong she refuses to see him until her mother forces her, locked in the room with him he asks her what she knows of him and she tells him he is a dead man a corpse given breath. He laughs complementing her insight and praising her honesty he stays only a few minutes with her before he leaves he gives her a strange coin with the promise that she need never fear him and that he will return.
1015 - Her father is old and so his passing is not a surprise they bury him in the fields behind the Hall beneath a large tree. Both Ylva and her mother morn his death but his loss also hardens her mother makes her cruel. In this time the stranger Fremmend visits them many times and Ylva comes to enjoy his company he buys no food or drink but always wishes to speak with Ylva, her mother stops allowing people to see her unless they pay and after one night and an unpleasant man who offers extra to have his way with Ylva her mother begins taking coin for those services as well. Ylva is sworn not to tell but begs the stranger to take her with him every time he comes every time he refuses always having some excuse.
1016 - Fremmend visits one last time he tells her he is leaving and can not say when he will return, she pleads with him to stay and then to take her with him even offering him the coin as payment and when that isn't enough she offers herself. she clings to him pleading but he pushes her away becoming angry. For the first time Ylva fears him he leaves and she is alone. not long after her mother marries one of the frequent visitors to the pub, he is a drunk and an unpleasant man and so it is purhapse no surprise that not long after the hall begins to fail loosing money fast then it could gain it.
1017 - there is no money left in the busness her stepfather convinces her mother to leave and to abandon Ylva behind. Ylva wakes late one night to the sound of horses in harness and thinks nothing of it till she wakes the next morning alone.She sells what she has begs for food to stay alive and at night she shelters in the Hall
1018 - She sells the last of her possessions, she cannot bring herself to spend the coin Fremmed gave her, begging gives only a little food, she begins to waist away and grow ill. The wood begins to grow hard to find as winter draws on.
1019 - 1023 (Embrace and Fledgling Years)
1019 -Fremmed returns to find her delirious from fever and near death. In her delirious fevered state she talks to him about Hel and how the goddess is waiting and that she is not afraid to meet the mother again that she has promised she can sit at her side when the last night comes, she clutches the coin he gave her on their first meeting in weak fingers. He nurses her back to health and feeds her his blood to strengthen her he tells her about kindred their roll in society, where he has been the last year and when she has recovered enough to travel he finally takes her with him to Bronderslev where they stay for a time before they are forced out by the Lance prince the travel makes her sick and he decides it is time
1020 - He embraces her and they travel to Korsor, it is a long trip her sire uses the time to begin teaching her more about his beliefs and the rules of her existence now she is kindred when they they arrive in Korsor and he presents her with a horse telling her they are riding for Copenhagan it is the first time she has been around or ridden a horse since her accident, when they stop to rest for the day on the outskirts of Roskilde, A boy tries to steal her horse, her sire deals with it and Egil is embraced.
Ylva and egil are introduced to the haven in Copenhagan and begin to make it their home, Ylva takes a liking to the plants and animals and her sire teaches her how to ghoul them and how to cultivate lacrima and blood wine.
1021 - Their sire leaves on business he tells them that he will not be back for at least a year. He gifts Ylva with a puppy saying he will keep her safe she ghouls him on and off for the next few years and names him Gharm
1023 - The blood sympathy tells them that Fremmed has been placed into torpor Egil sets out to locate and recover him leaving Ylva alone aside from Gharm, with his aid she begins to attend the local court.
1024 - 1350 (Neonate to First Torpor)
1024 - Egil returns with Fremmend but neither he nor Ylva know how to wake him Egil decides to try sleeping to gain a better understanding of what they face whilst Ylva waits for the next court, she discovers she does not have the BP to wake either of them and is forced to wait. Egil eventually wakes on his own Fremmend does not.
1099 - They wake Fremmend
1100 - Egil and Femmend leave the city and Ylva is alone again. she takes on the role of nos primagin in this time but gives it up as it really doesn't interest her. Egil sends news of his exploits back via ghouls and letters which Ylva takes to court to have read to her.
1119 - Embraces her first child Orn
1298 - Releases Orn and sends him off with the task of locating and bringing back the family
1325 - Embraces her second child
1350 - Falls into torpor
1531 - 1758 (Ancilla)
1531 - She awakens from torpor
1540 - 1549
Travels to Poland
1550 - 1559
Travels to Greece
Meets Aris’s sire Learns Touch of the Morrigan
1560 - 1569
Travels through Germany to France
1576 -Egil falls into torpor and Ylva recovers his body
1580 - 1589
Travels to Bulgaria
1590 - 1599 Egil awakens
Travels to Russia
1604 -Her brother catches wind of the De la Gardie Campaign and comes to find her before she can get caught in the middle of trouble.
Travels to Denmark
1610 -1619
Travels to Neatherlands Travels to Belgium
1620 - 1629
Travels to Luxembourge Travels to Switzerland
1630 - 1639
Travels to Poland Travels through Romania Travels to Bulgaria Travels to Albania
1640 -
Settles in Naples Italy
Embraces Marcus and the sanctified and the invictus of the city hunt down her haven and have their servants set it on fire during the day she and Marcus escape but barely. Egil finds them and the sheriff about to deal the killing blow, he strikes down the sheriff
1665 -Despite the hardships she suffered in the area she is drawn back to area of Marcus’s birth they settle in Corsica much to the chagrin of her brother who is well aware of the war brewing in the area.
1685 -With the war becoming an issue again Ylva chooses to leave, Marcus begs to stay with the woman who has become his liege and ylva uncertainty agrees making her swear she would do her best to protect him
1693 - Returns to Denmark and establishes her house as a way house for travelling kindred
1730 -Her first child dies in an earthquake in La Serena , she recalls her remaining children to her she does not want them to leave her again, they reach out to her sire and brother who convince her to loosen her hold. leaves Copenhagen and travels to Stockholm with her brother, sire two children and grandchildren to witness Fremmends newest embrace.
1745 -Embraces her fourth childe
1798 - 1978 (Elder)
1798 -Wakes from torpor
1809 -Releases her fourth childe
1820 -Her sire returns to visit her and brings with him a book written in braille he begins to teach her how to read Skali is captured and tortured and Egil leaves to find and retrieve her 1833 -Her touch stone the copper toy maker dies of TB spiralling and struggling to find any connection to the world she is in a bad place when she us aproached by an envoy of the newly formed Circle of the Crone, starving desperate and not thinking straight she is not sure to this day whether she diablorised him or not. Skali and Egil returned and she falls into torpor unable to rid herself of the guilt and the voices in her head
1965 -She wakes from torpor and begins to travel with her brother again
Travels to Scotland
Embraces her 5th child
Travels to Ireland Travels to england
1973Her third childe dies and her second goes missing in the heart of the Vietnam war, she tries to go into the fighting desperate to find them, her newest child stakes her.
1986 - 2018 (ancient)
1986 - Wakes from torpor and goes into morning locking herself in her house in Denmark and refusing most visitors her family eventually talk her out with Egil convincing her in the end by telling her a story and promising to take her there if she comes out. Meets Aris
1990 - Visits Australia and embraces her most recent child Vulture
2010 -2019
relocates to Australia to be closer to her child
Lineage
- Fremmend - NPC
- Egil
- Sigvardr
- Childe 2
- Skadi
- Childe 4
- Dreadnought
- Childe 6
- Childe 7
- Ylva
Orn- Verildaine
Marcus- Grandchild 1
- Childe 4
- Childe 5
- Vulture
- Egil
Known Sire
- Fremmend- A consummate traveler he preferred to embrace childer in pairs when he reached very high BP and very low Humanity. Ylva is deeply in love with him but it is not recipricated
Known Siblings
- Egil- they share a deep familial love, she would walk through fire and into Hel to save him.
Known Childer
- Orn - her first childe, he was smart and quick witted he moved with great speed he was her ghoul for a decade before she embraced him. Her heart broke when he died she loved him like any mother loves their child
- Marcus - Her little riotous warrior, he was a ghoul of the Lancea et Sanctum before she embraced him and whilst he came to believe as she did he never quite lost that riotous fire. Even after he joined the Invictus under Delphi he had a passion for the mother. His death shocked her to her core and almost sent her running head long into a war zone.
- Verildaine - Ylva feels great guilt over Daine's embrace, she was left alone to soon and Ylva feels this as a great failure on her part. Verildaine is a shy but gentle woman she still struggles on and off with blood addiction.
- Vulture - So young so angry, Ylva worries about her but she also reminds her of Marcus fiery and passionate. She understands the cycle and maybe one day she will be a great kindred.
Known Grand-childer
Quotes
Quotes By
"Quote" - reference
Quotes About
"Quote" - reference
Conversations
"Quote" - reference
Rumours
- She is a true prophet for the Crone and Hel looks through our eyes
- She has broken everyone of the traditions during her requiem
Inspirations and Soundtrack
OOC Information
| Member Information | |
| Player: | Katherine Atkins |
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| Number: | 2013090005 |
| Domain: | Southern Cross |