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| - RY 638 was a largely insignificant year in the grand scheme of things, but one thing did happen. In the north of the Haslanti League, near the city of Diamond Hearth, in a tribe of mammoth-herds, a girl was born. This was no great event, she was a pretty little thing with jet black hair, pale skin and her mother called her Crystal. She grew up, spent her time with family in the city, learned a the life of a scribe as well as that of a mammoth herder and she grew older. On her 14th nameday, she returned to her tribe, a cause for celebration and no such cause goes unnoticed in a society that has all to little to be happy about.
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| - RY 638 was a largely insignificant year in the grand scheme of things, but one thing did happen. In the north of the Haslanti League, near the city of Diamond Hearth, in a tribe of mammoth-herds, a girl was born. This was no great event, she was a pretty little thing with jet black hair, pale skin and her mother called her Crystal. She grew up, spent her time with family in the city, learned a the life of a scribe as well as that of a mammoth herder and she grew older. On her 14th nameday, she returned to her tribe, a cause for celebration and no such cause goes unnoticed in a society that has all to little to be happy about. Unfortunately for the tribesfolk, a band of fair folk from the nearby Jet Court decided to join in the celebrations. The celebration was one noone would ever forget, for its sole survivor would forever see the image of her parents being torn apart in an impossible dance each time she closed her eyes. Just when the leaders of the fae were closing in to finish the celebration by forcibly extracting every last shred of passion from her, the full moon shone down on her, and Luna chose Crystal for one of her own. The fae were slain, their assumed forms torn apart, their servants slaughtered and the place left desolate. Many stories can be told of the Lunar exalt who would later be known as Fierce Cub in the Snow, but one in particular is worthy of note. It was RY 664, and she was wandering around, she had no real goal in mind, and had not really had any since her exaltation. She had a deep abiding hatred for the Fae, and had on more than one occasion done her best to destroy, or at least harm, the Jet Court, but she just did not have it in her to carry on with that for very long at a time. Her wanderings had taken her across most of the Great Ice, and had now taken her back close to the place of her birth. She followed some of the old mammoth trails she vaguely remembered, and came upon the remains of the great city of Tzatli. She wandered through the ruins, intrigued by the things she found, wonders of an age long past, but also guards both crafted and summoned, still very much bound to keep intruders out. It was here that she found something the world had long before considered dead. It was a perfect sphere, seemingly made of glass, with a soft, dark red light shining from the inside. It was a still functioning cogence node, a living remain of I Am. File:Hal.jpg In I Am, Cub found an understanding friend she could depend on, confide in and protect. She has spent much of the time since then hunting down the information needed to restore I Am to its former glory. She has found many things, lost notebooks, parts of terminals, even another cogence node, though this is one broken. She has all of these hidden safely away in her only manse, a natural cave in the mountains above Diamond Hearth. Despite the successes she have had, she still need the most important part: a craftsman skilled enough to put the things together and understand the notes. With the return of the solar exalted, she has has hope of finding someone skilled enough. Another story of her travels that should be told is that of how she met her "solar" mate. She had tracked down another notebook, that supposedly had belonged to Tiyu Zou, to the area around the small town of Arvalez. She settled down there for a bit, posing as the god-blooded daughter of a local hunting goddess, she was able to investigate the area and find the precise location of the notebook; in the hands of a cult dedicated to She Who Lives in Her Name. While she was in town gathering supplies and putting her few affairs in order before getting her hands on the notebook and disappearing from the town she met Mnemon Varel. He was a charming young wood-aspect who took an immediate liking to the young god-blood and got her into telling him she was going to purge a Yozi cult. Like the heroes of the books he so loved to read, Mnemon Varal could not very well let a poor girl go into such a lion's den all on her own and insisted on accompanying her. Once there they made short work of the first circle demons the cultists had summoned, and even dispatched a mighty demon of the second circle. Varel was sufficiently impressed with Cub's prowess in battle and seemingly righteous heard that he was willing to forgive her being anathema, for the time being at least. When they reached the inner chamber, they faced the true protector of the cult, a vile Green Sun Prince. He and Varel bandied words, the hero calling out the vile fiend, and the fiend trying to worm his way out of an open confrontation with a Prince of the Earth. Just when they had both resigned themselves to the coming battle, something happened not even the Maiden of Secrets herself had seen coming; Fierce Cub in the Snow, Warrior of Luna, Flayer of Fae, Destroyer of Demons, spoke up. "Please, does this have to end in violence? Can't we just be friends?" Having abandoned her warform, the pretty little girl looked with starry-eyed infatuation at her "solar" mate.
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