Legends of Belariath

Eccada

Born to a clan who most fervently believed that destiny and fate were dictated at birth and that the omens both of the events surrounding ones birth and the patterns and colours of the individuals feathers directly indicated these two things believing that they were signs from the gods. In Eccada's case the omens were not kind to her at all, first she was born during a solar eclipse pulled screaming into this world while the gods turned their eyes from it. second her mother was to die from the complications of her birth the priests deeming this to indicate she was fated to bring death wherever she strode. third she was born with the dark feathers of black with crimson tips, indicating her destiny was a dark one with the crimson once more indicating her fate was to bring death and blood.

The clan was not so cruel as to kill a child at birth but whose traditions required it to banish the cursed one upon her 16th birth cycle, despite not killing her outright Eccada was far from accepted by the clan, her childhood filled with religious rhetoric, shunning, shaming and loneliness. in the end this was to make her stronger, though it is quite unlikely this was their intention. On her morning of her 16th cycle she was dragged to the temple and stripped to the waist, with twice blessed ink the flesh of her chest and shoulders was marked, branding her cursed and outcast before being taken to the edge of the clans lands and cast to the wilds alone.

Alone in a strange scary world, she was lucky not to have died in some bandit attack or enslaved by passing slavers, instead she was found curled up and shivering by a band of mercenaries, the Red Fists, falling under the protection of its leader the half elf Danzerath Sharpblade who was to become like a father to her. for the next eight years she would learn the craft of the warrior from the Red Fists and Danzerath before wonderlust and a will to make a name for herself based on her own merits and not those of the band, led her to leave what in infact had become her real family, to once more journey out into the world on her own though now better equipped in how to deal with it. The path she chose led to the closest town and its famous inn.....

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