Significant Events
Human mother falls in love with the calm and logical Spirit father. They experiment procreating and become pregnant with Rivenar.
Mother grows old and dies of natural causes. Father and child don't have an emotional bond and naturally drift apart. Father's location is unknown, but Rivenar never likes to leave Lirae.
She stayed in the city. Everyone expected her to vanish or transcend. But she didn’t. She took up a post as a city advisor. A reader of patterns. She outlasted governments, watched borders shift, weathered rebellions and floods.
Voice of the Master: When Mulsae becomes Master, he doesn’t trust anyone—except this odd, ancient woman from Lirae who had always been there. Rivenar has no ambition. No loyalty to governments. Only a quiet commitment to balance and to this city. Mulsae offers her stewardship of Lirae —not to rule, but to protect.
Lineage & Body
Age: So old memory forgot, looks like mid 50’s
Skin: Almost translucent, moon pale
Build: Extra tall and willowy like she bends and flows with the wind
Hair: Bald
Eyes: Black
Sex: None. No reproductive organs, no primary or secondary sex characteristics.
Gender: Chooses to be perceived as feminine
Personality
Logical to a fault and feels no guilt for decisions made.
Doesn't do sarcasm. Doesn't get flustered. Not emotionless, just emotion-decoupled. She understands why people feel things, but not what it’s like.
Sees no contradiction between serving Mulsae and occasionally stopping him.
Body language: Extremely hard to read. When she moves, it’s smooth and efficient—like someone who’s optimized her gestures to conserve effort. Her presence feels displaced slightly, like she's not quite rooted in gravity.
Hairstyle: Bald
Clothes: Deep, layered hues of gray, navy, and river-stone green. Robes that drape like falling water, always neat but never decorative. Her garments carry symbols of the Master's Voice but they’re so subtle, it takes a trained eye to notice.
Gender presentation
“Womanhood is the clearest lens through which to observe power.”
Chooses feminine presentation.
She chooses to be read as a woman so she can explore the weight of what womanhood means in culture, politics, and power. That alone makes her dangerous, enigmatic, and deeply unsettling to those around her.
“I chose this presentation because it is questioned. Observed. Doubted. Dismissed. If I must walk among mortals, I prefer to do so in the form that has always revealed more about them than about me.”
Notes
When she supports Mulsae, it's not out of loyalty, but from a study of power in motion.
When she rebukes him, it's not moral objection—it’s analysis of imbalance. When she comforts someone, it's not maternal—it’s deliberate embodiment of a historically dismissed form offering insight.
It gives her a serene, alien grace—and sharpens her commentary on gender, culture, and power into a tool rather than a wound.
Magical Powers
- Displacement: She doesn’t fully exist in the same plane as everyone else. Her presence is displaced—just slightly. She can be unseen unless looking directly at her. She needs to anchor herself to be corporeal. She can unanchor to pass through barriers.
- Stillpoint: Sucks inertia from her vicinity to slow behavior of every one and thing effected. Forces the mind to think faster than act. Enables clearer thinking before action.
- Insight: She can push her ideas to another with perfect clarity, bypassing the need for communication.
Relationships
Mother: Human. A thoughtful temple keeper. Not powerful, not noble—just devoted, perceptive, and kind. She never tried to make her son human. She let him be what he was, loved him anyway.
Father: Spirit. A concept, a being of structure and reason, curious about the variability of humanity. Merged part of his essence with a mortal to observe the result.
Siblings: None
- Advisor and companion to Mulsae.