Regarding Fhiaskko
One of my tiny, lovely shark rats! She has a lot more lore than I'd shared originally so I'm glad to be able to talk about her now without spoiling AoTH!
Under the cut to save your dash!
She is one of Mhonde's siblings, the second to youngest (so kid number 5). Fhia wasn't actively born cursed, it came much later. Being Priory, you can imagine the type of interesting artifacts and scrolls that one can find.
Her team were devoted to the research and study of newly made 'island' that Kralks body formed and the pieces of the Mists that it drug with it. Where else are you going to find chunks of the Godrealms that you can study? But we all know that Asuran curiosity often gets the better of them.
Already being doused in death magic, she'd had a knack for it since she was tottling around (a horrifying discovery for her parents, finding their then youngest with a crudely put together flesh wurm). So naturally she decided to explore the area devoted to Grenth.
The good news! Being Asura made her very much unafraid to delve into the deeper parts of the gods mechanisms and systems.
The bad news! Being Asura made her have absolutely no sense of reverence and a willingness to do extreme things for the sake of discovery.
Fhiaskko actually played a part in Riag/Ruby/Sigilis/Galla's story! I didn't get around to sharing it while the story was public but she was the one half way responsible for what set off the story's main driving point of Why is Trahearne Back and then What Do We Do Now.
The reason for why he is actually back is from an artifact discovered actually in Melandru's area that Fhia had the wise idea 'hey what if we take something that deals with life and nature magic and use it in the death and decay area - for science'. To which everyone in her team (also Krewe several joined the Priory with her) said:
"FHIA NO."
To which she said "FHIA YES."
She had studied some of Trahearne's magical workings in healing Orr and working with Undeath dragon magic and thought they could be extrapolated on to fit Death magic from God sources. While it had similar elements the Dragon magic has been studied more since people were trying to defeat Zhaitan and the magic of Grenth was seen as more of a 'this is holy/not something you go fiddling with/important to humans'.
Taking a step back for a moment, in my mythos - after the healing of Orr in Melandru's temple, whatever lingering influence of Melandru saw what the Commander the Marshal did and went 'oh cool thanks, i'll remember that'. The Gods aren't just like a singular entity but sort of a force. Kinda like a central figure but their energy is a slime mold that operates under a set of criteria (which is why humans can still invoke/call on the Gods even though they've dipped out because the god residue is left).
So when the same form of magic gets used in a place of death and influences of nature - that sort of ambient presence which only knows to create/influence life does the best it can.
However, since Melandru is more tied with humans than anything really Sylvari - it affects how he is brought back. This is why his pod is alarmingly 'not plant' when he emerges again. Also since it was used in a place of Death magic and he was so strongly associated with it - it like applies a filter for which energy to try and plop into a form.
Nutshell is something like this:
Fhia modifies some of the magic that Trahearne had employed in Orr, in a place of Death magic to activate a Life Magic based artifact ->
Lingering god residue recognizes the magic used but not the person so seeks out the original user ->
Original user wasn't Human so Life magic tries to create it as best as it can ->
The Dream is a collective library of experiences and personalities that sometimes get ladled out and mixed into new people ->
Given the filter being BIG DEATH MAGIC IMPORTANT HELPED IN ORR applied it really sorts out the pot and lets the right energy be picked, which happens to actually be Trahearne.
Meanwhile! Back to Fhia!
She done did a huge NO-NO! As a result of the life magic she activated, she is shielded from immediately being killed but the death magic has to go somewhere. So it's just around her in like an invisible shroud.
Her team went 'what in the actual fuck did you do' because they didn't see any like catastrophic results, it seemed to just fizzle out. The real workings of it were taking place back in the Grove, using the building blocks from the gods creation process of humans. So she just assumed it didn't work. Until hm wait why aren't the team following me back to the base camp they were right behind me - aaaaand they're all dead. That's unfortunate.
She was saddened but wrote it off as a 'well we are in the death gods slice of things it happens I guess!'
Naturally the rest of the Priory gave her the boot after finding out she did what she did and that her team had all suddenly died. So she goes back to Rata Sum to find a new Krewe to work on necro-technolgical studies and woops they all die in strange ways. Accidentally fell off of things, crushed by machinery, heart attack, attacked by animals, killed by bandits, you name it.
She just went 'wow weird coincidences'
But it kept happening and she just is in adamant denial that it has anything to do with her because 'superstitions' like being cursed are illogical. It's all a statistical improbability that is fascinating.
So as a person she is sharp witted, talkative, and exceedingly stubborn. She's not afraid to do things that others won't. She does care for her family but they've basically made it clear that since something about her Kills People they will only have dealings with her from afar. Fhia is a little hurt by this but hey if her family doesn't appreciate innovation then she can just be superficial and polite with them via letter.
Fhia is the positive side (well less negative) of her families drive for innovation. It's seen negatively in the eldest child who joined the Inquest. It's what burnt out Bhruizz to not give a shit about things or try very hard. It's what made Mhunizz seek shady means of fame/esteem rather than relying on achievement. And it's what makes Mhonde try to perfect his designs of golems and why he's not all that upset about making weapons that are um slightly unethical if used wrongly.
Thanks for reading this far about my Cursed Rat!
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