Onyx' Parents

Mægan and Môlahs Arborye

Onyx’s parents were fawnfolk of the The Fianna living in the village of Waldon.

Mægan, Onyx’ mom, was the village story-teller. She secretly studied the stars in the evening while the villagers were asleep. She had a particular interest in the connections between the stars (constellations) and how their stories were analogous to live on Earth. It is rumoured that she was unable to conceive. Her curiosity worried the elders, who were cautious about staying within the Bulwark of Waldon. Her neckiscope for studying the stars is found by her good friend Naadra. Naadra gives the neckiscope to Onyx, and it becomes her arcane focus.

Onyx’s father was a doctor in the village talented in healing and maintaining health. Records indicate that he may have had some access to sources of magic. However, scholars still debate the possibility and nature of her father’s alleged magic. He controversially applied the guidance of the village stories with use of herbal medicine to his great success.

The Birth of Onyx

One night, Mægan noticed dim lights and what sounded like music outside the Bulwark. She beckoned her husband to join her in investigating the strange phenomena, believing them to be spirits of the forest (in reality, they had encountered The Faeries). While approaching the lights, Onyx's parents noticed something strange: one spirit was riding on the back of Skunkbat. The faeries guided them between the Anti-magic-infested forests (despite the warnings of the elders) to the Lifespring, drenched in magic and white light.

Enamoured by the marvelous sights, the couple is overtaken by beauty, and lay down, make love, and fall asleep in what amounts to a wondrous beautiful night.

The next morning, Mægan appears about nine months pregnant and is ready to give birth. The two rush back to the village, expecting their miracle to be embraced with open arms. However, while the midwives tend to the birth, the elders of the village meet--some of them panicking about the paranormal event. One prominent elder, Calder, suggests that since the couple was spotted emerging from the anti-magic forest, the sudden conception and child are interlinked with demonic forces. The village is called for a referendum, with Calder arguing they should execute the parents and their infant for both blasphemy and their safety. However, the popular notion among the villagers becomes that, yes, the parents should be executed for blasphemy, but the infant, who appears to be a normal fawnfolk child, should be spared and not suffer the sins of her parents.

And so, Onyx's parents are both executed, and Onyx is ultimately spared and allowed to enter into the FIanna society. However, instead of giving Onyx a traditional family and role-related tattoo, her blacks her neck out, symbolically severing her link with her parents.