Aveline

The Crimson Remnant

26 Renown worn

home: Lysanthir
taken since 4 September
Played by: Calleta16

Aveline's Origin

Aveline The Crimson Remnant takes their place in the story. A life can be lost twice, once to the world and once to self and I lost between both. I lived among mines, surrounded by redstone, until my body could no longer tell the difference between dust and blood. When all of that disappeared, I didn't have much left to lose. All that was left was me... and this illness that decided to stay with me. Somehow, I survived that, too.

Aveline's Life So Far

Aveline carried two names before she carried this one: the name the mining village gave her, which no record kept, and the name the illness left her when everything else was stripped away. She grew up where redstone veins ran deeper than the wells and the air smelled of burnt metal and sulfur, and she watched those who knew the work prosper while the rest shared nothing of it. The mines went silent, the town emptied, and what had been a narrow life became ruins that few dare name aloud. She survived that, and an illness besides, and came to Lysanthir with little more than the habit of endurance. There she found Hecalyth, a High Reverend whose patience she studied the way a miner studies stone, looking for the seam. A nightmare returned her once to the village, the reddish fog and the deafening pressure, but a sweet song cut through it and she noted the difference between those two kinds of waking and said nothing about it.

Hecalyth showed her blueprints, or drawings, Aveline was not sure which, and said she had built it before. Aveline traveled west across a vast ocean, past savanna and frozen waters, past a floating island of snow, past fir forests and volcanic ground and a reddish forest she lingered in for Hecalyth's sake, until she found towering mountains, massive waterfalls, giant trees and mushrooms bathed in a strange bluish hue, and beyond them a small region of badlands gone gray and blue where no badlands had any business being that color. Out over the ocean beside those grayish mountains floated an island, and from it a waterfall ran upward. She followed it, finished her blueprints, and named the work Project Crimson Forge. She returned to find Lysanthir changed, a church now on the horizon, and was introduced to Lathrienne, the Keeper of Memory of Lysanthir, though exhaustion kept that meeting brief.

What the Forge is for, the record cannot say with certainty. The pages Aveline keeps are partial things: two resource designations corrupted beyond reading, a column whose materials must be combined in precise sequence lest the consequences prove fatal, and the section describing the Heart torn entirely from the original document. What survives describes four Core sections, Brain, Column, Heart and Cap, and four exterior Containment Towers rising some one hundred fifty-five blocks, their floor counts likewise obscured by damage. The Cap, called the Hat in Aveline's own notes, includes rest quarters, storage, and a cafeteria on the second floor, practical concessions to whoever will be authorized to work inside. The facility spans roughly fifty by one hundred fifty-five by fifty blocks. Whether the project is construction, engine, or something the record has no good word for, Aveline has not said, and the blueprints, as recovered, do not answer the question clearly.

Aveline's Recent Lore

Entry 17.5 22/22 VII. FINAL OBSERVATION The combination of U#GVWR()#, VR%@ #()#UJB, FRR@!()J systems, catalysts, enormous numbers of #()W!W!HV, and an infrastructure designed to contain the result far exceeds the requirements of a conventional facility. For security reasons, this document must not be distributed outside of authorized personnel. — End of report —