#mystery childling

[kentuckycaverats]

it's been 6 months since kovac game went on hiatus but we're finally picking up again in january!! new kovac lore under the cut

we lost two motley members (troll grump lou and pookah childling sadbh) and gained two more (redcap grump gale and a mystery nocker) so our st gave each of us an individual session where the world started to end > there was a crazy powerful unleashing of chronos > time rewound a week to July 7, 1969 and only the motley remembers. but! some things are different than the first July 7, like the disappearances of lou and sadbh.

kovac was with kier when time rewound, and he remembers too. between omens + memories kovac experienced during the timefuck and their following convos with kier they've unlocked a few memories from their past lives:

before they were changelings, kier and kovac were odin/the morrigan's ravens: thought (kier) and memory (kovac)

kier asked odin/the morrigan if they could change forms so they could experience the world differently, and s/he loved them and made them shapeshifters

they were immortal fae for thousands of years until the shattering, when they took up the changeling way

in every lifetime they find each other. depending on time and circumstances and their seemings, they're sometimes lovers, sometimes not; but they're always the most important person to the other, and they always fly home

in one of their first lifetimes together there was a child they looked after, and the three of them were a family. kovac can't remember her name but the memory of her face makes their heart ache

kovac has the True Love merit re: kier and in every lifetime they swear the same oath to each other. (we homebrewed this one, based on a combination of oaths for lovers + friendship + fealty)

there have been many lifetimes where they've broken other oaths for each other; in one, oathbreaker kovac went blind for a year and a day, and kier was their eyes all that time. that was the first lifetime when kovac's hair grew long enough to obscure their eyes

there was an early lifetime where kovac was older and kier kept dying too young; 4 of his lifetimes to 1 of theirs. since then kier has always been reincarnated first

they have known each others' True Names, though not yet in this life. kovac is still a childling

in the lifetime where kovac went blind, they were squire to another sidhe knight who used Sovereign to compel kovac to reveal kier's True Name to her. kovac unleashed chronos to rewind time to warn kier, breaking their oath of fealty to their house in the process. kovac went blind and they were both exiled. their ex-knight still possesses a bracelet she took from kovac, that kier gifted them in the lifetime with the forgotten child

in that lifetime kovac was also able to climb in and out of kier's shadow like that girl from the ring :)

there was a lifetime where kovac was forced to near-Undoing by a king, and kier swore an oath of vengeance to kill him. kovac's soothsaying foresaw that the king's allies would retaliate with cold iron, destroying kier's soul and separating them for good. he broke that oath for kovac, paying the price of facial scarring and the reputation of a coward for the rest of that lifetime