{Lands of the Linnorm Kings}
Who am I?

If I could say in a simple answer, I'm just a regular girl. For the most part, I believe the story of my life is not that impressive.

I came from a place called Icemark. If you don't know where it is, I will believe you. It was a place in where I was born. My parents said they also came from that place, although they usually moved around. It just so happened when I was born, they were currently in Icemark. If you really need to know, it's a rather cold place. Being a Varki, you get used to it.

I lived there, I think, for the most part of my life. We didn't have a permanent place for us. We moved around every 3-4 months, looking for our catch. That's right, we were fishers.

For the most part, there was nothing really special about my life. I lived with my parents, helping them to fish in the sea most of the time. They taught me what they could, be it from surviving in the wilderness, how to read and write, how to cook your own meal, mostly stuff you would need to survive here. They were the nicest person I know in the entire world, although sometimes I felt like they kind of hid something from me. Even though we never really loaded with coins, but I honestly can say that we lived a good life.

Until that time.

{High Seas}
It was supposed to be our regular fishing time. We set out from the shore with our simple boat, hoping to catch plenty of fishes. As we moved around at the sea, we somehow were too caught up in catching the fishes, and we didn't notice that our boat drifted further into the sea. By the time we looked around, we didn't the see the shore or land anymore. My parents started to argue whose fault it was, but thankfully they slowly started to think what to do. We never really ventured this far, since we considered this to be a dangerous place.

When we were busy thinking and considering on what to do, suddenly the water around us seemingly began to move, and in no time the waves seemed to bigger and harsher. My parents struggled to keep our boat steady and intact, while I did my best not to panic. Suddenly, a very huge wave showed up, seemingly out of nowhere, and from that point I didn't know or can't remember what happened. I think I heard my mother screamed something to someone, but I didn't know what or to whom.

{Vyre, Cheliax}
All I remember, was that I woke up in a place I didn't know.

From what I felt, I can roughly tell I was on the shore. Where? Again, I didn't know. As I came into, I was instantly overwhelmed by the sense of dread and helplessness. It felt someone or something was looking at me, although at that time I was alone. My parents were nowhere to be seen, and there was no sign of them.

As I made my way around, I again forced to realized that I was in a place that I didn't know at all. The building, the people, even the atmosphere felt and looked different. Thankfully, I can still read and listen to their words, at least some of it. The place was a big one. Bigger than anything I ever saw. Back then, we didn't have a place like this. In the middle of my confusion, I tried not to say much, and instead carefully made my way around.

It was very very hard to be in a place you weren't supposed to be. I learned a bit later on that this place was called Vyre. It was a small island, but bustling with life. It was quite a peculiar place, as most people here wore masks on their face. I followed suit, and hid my face behind the mask I found lying around. I did anything that I could do, mostly helping in the harbor, since apparently what I learned from fishing with my parents kind of worked here. I have nowhere else to go. I gradually doubted my parents were still alive, and even if I returned to Icemark, there was really no one there waiting for me. And I also learned, it was around 2-3 months since I went to the sea with my parents. Actually I can't really tell for sure, since I kind of lost track of times, but I knew it's been a while.

It was then, that I started to feel there was something strange inside me.

I gradually felt it. I gradually noticed it. It was there, inside me, but I can't quite make it of. It seemed it was waiting. Waiting for the right time to be unleashed. And it did. Accidentally, but it did. I still remembered it clearly. It was one of the nights, where I was rather exhausted and the weather was very cold, and I couldn't find a decent place to stay for the night. As I was lying somewhere dark, and thinking this might be the time I will die, I accidentally touched something near me and to my surprise it got warm almost immediately. Confused for a moment, I did it again, and true enough, it got warm almost immediately. At that time, I felt something surging through me, and I heard something on the back of my head.

"Use it."

It was a voice I never heard before. But I listened to it.

For a while after that, I learned that there were more things running through me. I could do things that I never imagined I would be able to do. Before, I only saw some people who could do this. I gradually learned how to control and channel... whatever it was inside me. I had no idea what it was, but somehow... I understood. Some things that I never learned myself, I also knew them somehow. Along with some abilities that I definitely can't do before. Some were useful, but some were dangerous, as I experienced it myself. But I got careless.

{Vyre, Cheliax | Kintargo}
During the roughest time I faced in Vyre, I ran into trouble with some people there. After running from them for a while, I ended up getting cornered by one of them. In panic, I used one of my... abilities to him. He didn't move after what I did. Blood started to rush into my head, as I remember clearly one of the rules in this place.

"I May Wound Yet Shall Not Kill"

He didn't move even for a bit. I killed this man. So I ran, I ran away from the place. I ran away from Vyre. My time here was over. I boarded a small ship heading towards the mainland, to somewhere. Anywhere but here. I heard enough rumors about Dunrock that I knew I must not ended up in that place. Still catching my breath, I heard someone spoke behind me.

"Would you like to go to Arcadia? Away from here?"

I turned back and I saw someone standing behind me. I cannot see their face, but I knew they were looking at me.

"... What?"
"Go to Kintargo. Join Arcadia Recon Charter. Live free."

As I was still trying to comprehend what this person said, they walked away from me and seemingly disappeared among the crowd. I tried to look for them, but they were nowhere to be found. I felt this could be a trap. But I had no other place to go.

So, I headed to Kintargo. It was there later on I found out that this Arcadia Recon Charter, was actually a Pathfinder Society charter. Part of me was still doubting, but eventually I decided to sign up.

To... live free. Maybe.

So, who am I? My name is Lily, and this, is my life story.