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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3859484" data-attributes="member: 4936">Here's the backstory and concept. Still dinking on the sheet, but I can put what I have if you need to see it.Erin is the daughter of the widow Heskia, a fine weaver and seamstress of Cuirlen. Because Heskia owns a small flock of sheep, she primarily works in wools, though when presented with other threads and fabrics she's delighted to use them as well. The two women are seemingly studies of opposition though. Heskia quiet and patient, content to sit for hours at the loom...Erin is rambunctious and energetic, easily bored. She has some skill at weaving, but has yet to develop the appreciation of solitude and quiet that the art demands. She is also, oddly enough, rather a good cook.For over a year now, unhealthy rumors have bubbled around Erin. In the past, these were mainly the mutterings of parents who felt she was a bad influence. Now though...strange events seemed to follow the girl. Pots spilling over. Unexplainable lights hovering in the air. These rumors gained force when Heskia one day went to Phaidros, and returned to her hut with the wizard in tow. The feeling was one of relief. Surely the girl had been cursed by spirits...but old Phaidros would know, and refer her to one of the shamen...In fact, his reaction was quite different. Erin flabbergasted him. No apprenticeship, no books, no long nights poring over formulae. What Erin did, she claimed, just came to her. Fascinated, Phaidros made her his most recent apprentice. The weaver's daughter has proven to be a real test of even his patience though. There's something different about how she uses magic...she has plenty of power, yet can't seem to learn spells no matter how hard she tries. Yet, not too long ago, she cast a spell she'd never known before. Again, no spellbook, no study.By this time, the two are almost completely on each other's nerves. To Erin, Phaidros is a tyrant; full of unreasonable orders and punishments, and always griping that she's not applying herself just because she likes to go hide out around town or in the fields when she should be studying. To Phaidros, Erin is insubordinate, lazy, selfish and worse, may be a bad example to his other apprentices.What keeps them both going in spite of all that is magic. Erin wants more, Phaidros wants to find out how she does what she does. Their uneasy truce still holds; the one not quite daring to burn down the bridge with the other while each still think they have something to gain from it all.</blockquote>

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