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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 7195569" data-attributes="member: 4936">Brief sequence of events for Aridha's involvement in this:Aridha's family lives in relative isolation in either the swamp or the woods nearby...probably dad and/or mom earns a living from that. Trapper, logger...something like that. At some point they are attacked by a beastie, which caused lots of mayhem...probably killed her parents...but in the end was hurt badly enough by silver that it was driven off. In the process of this, Aridha got bit.Aridha then makes her way, injured, to the local medicine woman (this is Rana) for help. She gets patched up, but at the next full moon, as she's recuperating, she changes. Rana survived, but mostly because Ari's young and she was able to keep away. Now realizing that something's wrong, Aridha gets sent to see the druids...farther into the wilds.The druids realize what's wrong, but she's past the golden hour; it's too late to just cure the affliction now. Aridha, as it happens, still has the silver knife that hurt the werewolf...and it has some of its blood on it. They use this as a component in a ritual that seals the werewolf's curse up within Aridha...imprisoning it so it cannot force her to change shape. They stress that over time, without more blood, the ritual will weaken and fade. The beast will emerge again.Aridha, having no other obvious place to go, stays with the druids and begins training to be one of them. Some of the Mysteries give a druid the power to change shape...she hopes that learning them might give her the power to resist the curse more permanently. During this time though, she begins having troubling visions and nightmares that interfere with her lessons. The druids aren't sure if they are because of the bound up curse...or if Aridha is getting visions from the spirits of nature. Either way, it seems clear that her time with the Circle is done for the moment.While Aridha was training with the druids, she was likely living with Rana. This would be when she made the acquaintance of Zanwoods and so on.</blockquote>

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