#and I've yet to actually use ranger powers whoops

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for the secrets ask game--mira, for all six, if you want? :D @kerra-and-company

Congrats on nailing exactly which one of my characters would be full of secrets! Mira Silvertail is a goddamn mess of a cat.

(Before we start, I'm gonna add some Actual Backstory things for Mira, since I'm pretty sure my character page is lacking - She's a ranger, and the legionnaire of the Silver warband, and part of Iron. There are also three versions of her that I've thought about and developed in relation to the other members of her warband - each in different timelines, two of which have died in pretty traumatic ways - so I'm gonna focus on the third, surviving one, but all versions of her struggle with the warring loyalties between her warband and her legion.)

(Here, she was kidnapped in LWS1 by aetherblades and sold/given to the inquest as a test subject. Or that was the intention, had the airship not crashed in the Sandswept Isles.)

(There's also a decent bit of charr politics/circumstances in the background affecting this mentality majorly, and intersecting with other charr of mine, namely Ryker, which I'm gonna write up eventually but haven't quite gotten around to yet - I may touch on some of that in here but not go into detail)

(...also slipped into more prose rather than listing. whoops. enjoy!)

1- An Open Secret Charr don't have parents. They have sires, and dams, and they're not supposed to be something that matters.

Except in all of the ways that it does. Charr are also hypocrites. There are few charr who don't know the identities of at least one of their parents, whether from old memories, from their own digging, or from other charr bringing it up, whether to commend, or threaten, or compare. Socially, they're not supposed to admit it, and so Mira never has. But if she happens to be at the Junker's Scrapyard more often than she has proper excuses for, only ever talking to one of the many charr working there, both of them with an uncanny resemblance to one another - Well, that's her business, isn't it?

2 - A secret the people close to your character know Of her warband, she was the first one to learn magic.

She didn't end up the most powerful, or the one who used it most often - That would go to Cadira (though she'd never admit it to his already big head) and Vachel (even if he won't say so, but most of his movement is, quite frankly, physically impossible), respectively. But she was the first to discover it, first to realise it, little feet so drawn to the river and feeding the birds hovering around it, when they would've scattered for anyone else, and one day, gently coaxing health into an eagle's tattered wing with motes of soft green.

She might not be the strongest ranger, but she opened the gate for her warband to explore their own magics - and what she can do is enough. Just enough.

3 - A secret that your character wouldn't really care about getting out She wasn't supposed to be legionnaire.

On paper, that would've, and should've, gone to Nasius - Nasius was by far the better engineer, the better tactician, the better people person. They would've been the perfect choice, if not for the fact that they never wanted to lead. Nevermind that their warband wasn't anywhere near high enough rank to be doing anything important. Nasius actually gathered the warband together at one point and admitted that she didn't want to be in charge. Inexplicably, she nominated Mira. The rest followed.

Looking back, it made sense - of them all, who was the most used to pressure? Who was the one least wrapped up in their own head? She was certainly bossy enough. They all trusted each other - they had to - but especially in this, they trusted Nasius, and trusted in Mira.

Hasn't failed them yet, here.

4 - A secret exactly one person knows anything about. She has nightmares, after being kidnapped.

Not of the actual kidnapping - that would've been understandable, even if she was unconscious for the majority of it - but something about the near-death experience made her drown in dark, deathly detailed dreams, and each morning felt like breaching the surface again.

Awful dreams, sometimes about sending her family warband to their deaths. Awful dreams, sometimes about alternate paths and missions gone awry, about events that had never happened and never would. Sometimes, only memories. Dreams of the Citadel. Dreams of the fahrar.

Relken, the healer who found and hosted her after the crash, is the only one witness to her mumbled sleeptalking, and the brief moments upon waking before she pulls herself together. Sometimes, they can coax her into sharing them. It's a slow process.

5 - A secret nobody knows about, but they desperately want to tell. Mira claims she wants to go back. But she doesn't know whether she actually wants to go back or not. The Olmakhan are... peaceful, and that's nice, for the most part, but it's just nice. She just can't stand the mundanity.

(But the more time she spends away, the more she sees how much she was suffering. She won't, can't, ever hate Iron, but burn her, did it suck sometimes.)

6 - A secret nobody knows about, but they desperately want to hide. Mira's met one of the human gods. In a sense. Maybe two. Depends how she cares to be depicted. Mira knows the Six exist, even if she'll never believe in them like humans do. She can't and won't ever tell anyone.

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5-8 for Hazel and 15, 19, and 36 for Yariss 👀

Hazel (halfling, sorcerer):

5) do they follow a higher power? what are their thoughts on divinity?

Not super closely. She values nature pretty highly and likely would have been a druid if it weren't for the wild magic incident. Divinity is cool and all, but she wasn't raised to follow any specific being.

6) which party member do they relate to the most?

Well since the parties kinda shift in this campaign she hasn't gotten to know anyone super well yet. So far I'd say Layda since she's a druid and is in touch with nature like her

7)which party member do they understand the least?

Uhhh maybe Ru? I can't remember if I was using Hazel in that session but academia??? can't relate

8) what are three songs that suit them?

Oh hey I've actually got a whole ass playlist for ya whoops. Not made specifically for her, but definitely same vibes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3iQi9ozaIX128gdcb6jOfC?si=201ab1e9dbb748f1

Yariss (tiefling, barbarian):

15) do they trust their party? why or why not?

Look she doesn't trust anyone, don't take it personally. Hard no, but sometimes it's necessary to work together to get the job done, and well. save the world i guess. also recent acquaintances and finding out that sav's related to a literal goddess have moved things from "i don't care" to "fuck all of you"

19) what haunts them? what doesn’t?

AHAHAHAHAHA oh man this girl needs some THERAPY um let's just say family, her home, and someone she's lost

What doesn't haunt her? uh her job. which was basically killing people. But they weren't people she knew so it's fine

36) what’s a secret they’ve kept?

Literally everything,,, she grew up in a secret tribe so um.

Oh! Here's something that wouldn't come up unless the situation specifically requested it...

both of her parents are spellcasters, and had she stayed home, probably would have become a ranger, druid or monk