kore

chapter one

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Many turns ago an elezen woodcutter walked the woods on his way home to his wife and young daughter when he heard the cries of a babe. He followed the echoing wails of the child and found a bundle of rags in a hollow tree stump. The woodcutter, Feoneux Meadows, unraveled the rags around the infant a bit and found these brilliant emerald eyes staring back at him.And so, he couldn't leave it out in the wilds of Bentbranch, he took it to his home. His wife, Ephone, shocked and curious at the sight of her husband coming through the door with a child, she took the bundle from him. She unwrapped the babe and out popped the long lavender colored ears, they had never seen anything like her. Bronze skinned, green eyes, purple hair, and dark red in the face from crying.

Knowing they couldn't possibly take her back from wherever it was she came from, they raised her as their own alongside their own daughter, Coreux. They had no one idea where she was from or what her name was. Ephone called her “Little Lavender” until she was 3 when her daughter wanted to name her after herself, a very prideful child.So thus, the babe was named Kore. She and Coreaux grew up playing in the forest and fought like many children do, Coreaux usually bullying Kore into submission. In their teens, both girls were exceptional archers, training nearly every day and part of the guild in New Gridania. But Kore could never quite reach the level of elite that her older sister had, always one step behind her sibling. Nonetheless a peaceful and happy existence was lived.

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chapter two

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The calamity came faster than anyone could expect, fires and terror reigned through the lands, her home burned down with her parents still inside. Heartbroken and angry, Coreaux stayed behind, joining armies to fight for her city state of Gridania, sadly also losing her life to the war. Alone and scared, She heard of a far land of a sea of grass called Azim where things were peaceful and untouched by the devastation.The young woman journeyed over and found many tribes to converse with, some friendly and some not. Eventually, Kore found herself gravitating towards a Xaela, Esug, she had met in the stalls that was an excellent marksman.Wowed by his ability she begged day and night to train with him, unwavering as he was he finally gave in to cease the young Viera’s constant questions. Esug took her as his pupil with a few special others, including his own son, Usen who had taken quite the fascination with his father's latest student.

Spending a few months with Esug and his family, the eager young woman became a quick learner and while hunting her speed was unmatched by any others of the tribe in her drawing skills, earning her the name The Violet Arrow to the Dotharl. As a clan, they would often visit Reunion for trade and other goods.A Viera in a strange land would attract attention, the attention from dangerous tribes. One quiet night a group of wild Budugas kidnapped Kore, killing a few of the dotharl who stood in their way. Once at their camp she'd be put through a grueling night of threats, physical assaults and other unsavory things done to her person.Esug, Usen, and warriors of the Dotharl rode all night asking allied tribes if they had seen the girl, soon they managed to locate the camp in the caves hidden from the moonlight. There they would bleed every man of the Badugas out of the rocky setup. Kore was barely alive.

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chapter three

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With many moons passing she soon recovered, but was no longer the same, her eyes not shining as bright Watching the pain of his now surrogate daughter, Esug and his wife, Dera urged their son to follow his heart that lead to her. To make her his own and give her a full life to outshine her horrific night. Usun was furious with what they had done to the only love he had ever known.But there was nothing more he could do but offer safety in his arms and home. Her heart was healing as he showered her with silks, affections, and sweet fruits. Under the stars of the each passing night they swam in the ponds and laid with one another til dawn each night. Kore had fallen for the tribesman and would be his wife.Spending years with her bowmaster and his tribe, happy and content with her new life and along side a new family, it didn't last long for the young woman. A sudden death to her treasured mentor and soon to be husband shook her to her soul, so much she still will not speak of it to this day. The only comfort she found was in Dera, who was withering away from a broken heart.

There was nothing she could do for her new mother and through Dera's last breath she told the young Viera to leave, nothing was here for the girl any longer only the sting of hurt and terror, that she should return home and heal the wounds with time, with this she knew Dera was right and had to return to her city-state. Staying in The Steppe was no longer in Kore's view as the pain was too much.Everything seemed so peaceful and calm once she returned back to Gridania, although not much coin to her name, She searched for odd jobs and eventually landed in a brothel run by a small Auri named, Nami Rin. Kore had a talent for talking to people with the basics of charisma in her manner, also a bit of a showoff herself, she was hired and became a natural at the escort business.Starting out as a mere low-rung whore, there was more to the brothel life than just letting someone lay her out. Her mannerisms had to be amicable, submissive when wanted, as well as seductive and entertaining.

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chapter four

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These were lessons she'd learn over time to master and serve properly to the Rin's business. Soon, this syndicate would find out there was more use of the Viera then just putting her on a stage to be fawned over. Kore had accidentally managed to get vital information from an allied yakuza family of the Rin's in Kugane that planned to betray her newest employer. Kore at once told her Lady Nami and soon the Madame saw potential in the violet woman. Putting her in the courtesan role to only the richest and potentially weak-spined aristocrats.With this the Rava became a popular attraction of the many bosses and travelers who would travel all over to see the beauties of the Hingashi manor. Under the guise of courtesan, Kore was to be sent as a gift to lonely sons of rival families so the lovely Viera could make her way into their hearts and extract valuable intel of the many syndicates for her beloved employers. These visits and meetings did not go unseen or unrewarded. The Lady Nami showered her favorite in jewels, expensive clothes, and even a hefty plot of land on her beloved Gridania. The Rava was finally having some semblance of happiness again.

However, the skills as a bow fighter grew weak and Kore felt she needed to sharpen them yet again. not letting her teachings in Gridania and Azim go to waste. Thus found her way to the Forbidden lands of Eureka, a sad lonely piece of earth riddled with dangers and riches still running deep through the lands along with the pelts of the beasts that would sell for top coin.Eureka would prove to be a long difficult road to glory, going so far as to take place in a massive fight in the Baldesion Arsenal where the once little aether sensitivity she had was snapped out of her after the grueling fight. But after finding many treasures that she knew some folk would sell their souls for, it all seemed worth losing the bit of aether sense she had.Bringing these things back to the Lady Nami who would see potential in the things the Rava brought back. As her friend and closest courtesan, Nami offered her a generous cut as the Rin's sold and moved the items.

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chapter five

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Watching how they moved the supplies fascinated her, asking her Madame if she could do so on her own. Stand on her own two feet and put that famous charm to work for an even more expensive price. Soon, she would get her chance to earn these skills from Dalmasca where she joined the Bozjan Resistance.Deep in the mud of the frontlines of the destroyed area of Bozja, the young woman saw how these people were fighting so hard for lands that were bitter-torn and in shreds, building blasted and melting into nothing. A smoking crater of once lush land. Saddened and moved by the efforts, she herself worked hard day and night, never leaving the devastated area for months at a time to become a high ranking Blade.There she earned herself the rank of The Emblazoned, where she commanded lines of soldiers and went into many a battle with them, watching many of them die. But late at night, with the sounds of far away bombings, she'd pack boxes of parts of the magiteks that were still in working order that had been slightly damaged for those in the west that would pay an arm and a leg for.

She'd get them to a safer area such as Gangos and here she'd have to figure out how to distribute and sell. Especially with the war coming towards its final chapter.Inquiries and poking around La Noscea would lead her to a particular man who had a lead a small guild of misfit adventures. He was a beautiful Veena. The most precious thing she had ever laid eyes on. With puppy-love clouding her mind she went to the lord, Rutos, and asked to join his house and align herself to protect and bring new life to his house. He obliged and let the woman set up office as a base of operations for her trading company.With lingering glances and soft smiles came budding a romance so sweet and gentle between them. Rutos, a well-versed warrior in his own right wasn't used to such feelings of tenderness, nor could Kore understanding the rise of such things after so long. Months of this attraction between the two, even having outings with only just the two of them, showing off skills or merely just eating together under the shade of trees.

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chapter six

Every moment the woman wasn't in business dealings or Rutos was not off dealing with hunting and overseeing his people, the two were together.Day and night by each other's side. Still only friends, who kissed, she moved into the lands he owned in the east where they would stay every so often. She even welcomed his presence into her beloved Gridanian home where they sipped tea on her patio.Even gifting her a meerkat that escaped off an island and hopped aboard a submarine as a stowaway that the Veena was piloting. Named Rupert as a small joke towards Rutos name, the meerkat was highly intelligent and communicated quite clearly in little chitters and gestures. More than a fancy pet, Rupert became a companion, almost a very chattery child, of the two. A year and some of this quiet love, Rutos asked for her hand to be only his alone. She agreed with no apprehension or hesitation.

Leaving the guardianship of her Lady Nami with the Auri's blessing, she was free to live under her own will, which was to be with him for eternity.Terror and harm were only distant memories for the Rava. In his arms she forgot every pain and every sadness. She had found everything she had be unknowingly searching for. Now as the Lady of Leaf, she does her business trades and deals with countless merchants, still very illegal, but her allies protect that.Even more, someone would probably recognize her from her days in Hingashi, or seen the purple flash of hair in the Steppe. She's done so much in such a short life, but there's much more to come with those soon to make her acquaintance.