Name: Asch’ya
Alias: Aristella Cremonesti
Apparent age: 31
Birthday: April 14th
Gender: Female
Species: Goddess
Category: Citizen
Career: Coroner
Appearance Description: At first glance, Aristella might be mistaken for an exotic dancer. Dressed in bright colours and shining baubles, it’s hard to miss her presence - whether due to her dress or the noise of a thousand tiny bells that accompanies her movements.
Under closer scrutiny, the style of the dress is similar to a greek toga, with ornamental pins holding the folds of fabric in place. The colourful, often subtly glittering fabric hugs and drapes over her slender curves, and cascades over her hips to brush lightly across the ground. Her wrists and ankles are adorned with dozens of metal bands, some engraved, others plain. A dangling pair of hoop earrings and multiple helix piercings decorate her ears.
Aristella herself is a tall, tan woman with hair so dark it’s almost black. She gives off a regal air, even when completely relaxed. To avoid seeming vain, Aristella doesn’t wear much makeup. A little eyeliner and a simple lipstick accentuate a natural beauty like that of the supernatural. Her slender fingers are well manicured and often decorated with a sparkling nail polish.
Beneath the glamour and polish, Aristella’s torso is marked with large scars. One spans across her front, from just below the left side of her ribcage to her right hip, nearly four inches wide at the center and tapered off at the ends. Another marks a jagged circle above her heart, hidden on her shoulder blade. She is very careful to never let these be seen.
Due to the nature of her work, Aristella’s grandiose appearance is exchanged at the lab for a plain white lab coat, blouse, and jeans. Her gold bands and earrings are all removed, and makeup cleaned off.
Personality Description: Aristella is a strong personality that will not give way to the pressure of time or culture, but instead molds the better changes into the old. Born from an ancient culture, tradition and ceremony are very important to her, yet she is not afraid to embrace the present culture for what it is. She values honesty and integrity over all else, even when it might hurt. Emotions are important, but they should not be invasive.
Aristella is something of a solitary creature, preferring to work and live alone, however she will not shun people who attempt to befriend her. Her family is important, precious, but they are not exempt from her preference for solitude. She will come when called, give advice to those who ask, but she does not feel the need to intervene in their lives.
Active Abilities: Casting Shadows: Aristella’s divine energy is kept contained, making it so that she can't be told apart from the humans. Only gods from within her own pantheon can identify her when her aura is hidden.
When needed, Aristella can reveal her true nature as a deity to others by releasing a large aura detectable by supernatural entities within a 10 m radius. The aura makes her shadow seem larger and darker to anyone non-supernatural while making her seem like a threat to any spirit or god who can see her. The aura doesn't give an exact location or any form of signalling beyond the sense that someone is nearby, making it easy to ignore.
Divine Blessing: Aristella can bestow a divine blessing upon a mortal’s soul, creating a small mark noticeable by other gods and deities. This mark does not grant special powers to the person the blessing was bestowed upon, however it allows Aristella to know if the person is in danger or in need of her assistance, and the fastest way to reach them. While considered a telepathic link, the connection between Aristella and the blessed is non-invasive. It won’t tell her what the other is thinking, only when the brain is signalling distress.
Familiar: Deities from Aristella’s pantheon all keep a familiar by their side, endowed with the same powers that their deity counterparts possess. Aristella’s takes the form of a eurasian lynx amongst humans. Aristella and her familiar are connected in a similar fashion to the way she connects to her blessed followers, though the connection is capable of transferring emotions beyond distress, such as happiness, boredom, and impatience.
Passive Abilities: Immortality: So long as Aristella remains connected to and believed in by her followers, she will have functional immortality. She can still catch communicable diseases, though she can’t pass them on to others and will eventually destroy them from her body. She cannot be killed from natural causes, but can still be murdered by other gods.
Aristella doesn’t need to rest or eat like mortals, however she can go into a state of stasis which will allow her to clear her body of toxic substances and energies, and heal wounds. This happens when her physical body is too far damaged to function, when her ethereal soul is endangered, or even when her body isn't recovering from a small injury. She can’t force herself to wake up from slumber nor control when she goes into it, and can’t be woken up by others. In this state, Aristella’s body is almost entirely ethereal energy, and cannot be harmed by the physical. The length of her sleep is determined by the amount of damage done to her body, ranging from a few hours to centuries.
As the protector of souls, Asch'ya’s divine powers mostly center around the dead. She is capable of communicating with the dead, interacting with them much the same as she would interact with the living. It is not within her power to remove a soul from a body, only to guide and protect them along the path to the afterlife. Her powers revolve around the protection of souls, not the act of dying, preventing her from hastening, delaying, or otherwise interfering with the death of a mortal. Asch'ya's presence can relieve the pain of a dying soul. This won't heal any wounds, but can make it much easier for the mortal to accept that they have died. Asch'ya's touch doesn't affect the living, including the undead, and is designed only to aid in guiding the soul to safety in the afterlife.
Weaknesses: Aristella’s powers stem from the belief of followers, though ‘belief’ is simply the act of acknowledging and remembering Aristella’s existence. “Followers” are not limited to the humans, nor to mortal life - gods from other pantheons who remember her can also give her power. Without any acknowledgement from others, Asch’ya’s powers would falter until she herself faded from existence. Without followers, her power becomes a limited resource that drains the more she uses her power.
Common Magical Items: Aura Warning Bracelet for casting shadows.
Biography: Asch’ya was formed by the wishes and regrets of humans, many years longer in the past than anyone cares to remember. Now ancient history, her people were proud and fearless. They would craft with their hands, jewelry and decorative objects, dyes and clothes so fine, the whole world (or what was known to them) all sought to trade goods with this little country. They would sail the sea bordering their little kingdom, competing with each other to make the finest arts and trinkets. Asch’ya and her family, the rest of their pantheon - only a tiny thing compared to the many others they shared borders with, were just as proud of their people’s accomplishments.
When armies came from the north, demanding that the cities surrendered, the people fought back. They locked up their walls and refused to let the intruders take away their pride. It took many months, and when the walls finally fell under the constant assault, the soldiers murdered all that they could. Asch'ya’s people were severely injured, and so too was most of her pantheon. The foreigners had brought their own gods, who showed as much consideration for them as the soldiers had shown their people.
With the damage done, Asch’ya’s pantheon fell into ruin. Few remembered them, and as time went on, they were forgotten. The deities spent centuries in slumber, some fading away to nothing without the people to give them power. The gods who invaded took many of them as trophies, unknowingly keeping them alive through the decades until they themselves began to lose strength as their followers converted or died off.
In 1932, Asch'ya woke up to a new world, scarred and disoriented. She wandered alone, seeking for a familiar soul, or another from her pantheon. Finding nothing but new civilisation with strange tools and even stranger words, Asch'ya entered herself into the human world, in the city of Vienna. She struggled to learn their language and culture, but found that as she met and interacted with these humans, they would give her small amounts of power.
Skipping seven years to the future, Asch’ya entered the second world war as a nurse. Knowing the pain and heartache that it would cause, she knew it was important to remain a pillar of strength, something that the soldiers and other medical staff would trust in. She did her best to save whom she could, but there was no way to save them all. She could not aid their passage to the second life, nor help them move past their regrets as they did not know her as a goddess. It filled her heart with pain and sorrow, but Asch’ya knew that some sort of presence was still needed. She watched as others took her dead soldiers away, guiding them to the next world and beyond.
After the war, Asch’ya, still shell-shocked from the high death rates, stayed in France to rest. She lived with the doctor she had worked under in the war, with no other family to go to.
She was happy here, as short as it lasted. Now using the name Aristella, she married the man and lived 'happily ever after’ amongst the humans, but it didn’t take long for her loving husband to realise his bride wasn’t aging. Asch’ya didn’t hesitate to share the truth with him, trusting him with the truth of her soul, but her trust was misplaced. Her husband refused it. He told her she was insane, and chalked it down to psychological damage. That night, Aristella left him before she was to be admitted to an asylum by the man she had trusted most.
She stole away on a train headed east, stopping in Russia. She found solace there, temporarily, then joined back together with the Allied forces as a nurse once again as the world returned to violence. She was horrified by what she found, the death totals far exceeding that of the last war, in all manner of horrifying ways. Scarred and scared of what humanity was becoming, Asch’ya faded back into the forgotten goddess she had always been, alone and abandoned.
It wasn’t until many years later that she found a second goddess, just as forgotten as she was. The woman was always surrounded by a flock of small birds, each one with the soul of a human child. They stuck together for a decade before having been discovered by the outside world - the humans started to care about the vanishing children, and many others began to investigate it. Manta Carlos Island’s scouts weren’t the first to find the goddesses, but they were the first to really understand what they saw wasn’t a flock of birds. The two were brought to the Island, where the children Asch’ya’s friend had been rescuing were returned to their normal human selves.
Keeping to themselves, the goddesses adapted to the Manta Carlos culture for a few years, eventually rejoining the public discreetly. Asch’ya refused to make her deity status public, choosing to play out life as though she were human.
Resources: Aristella lives with her roommate, Kalyani, and works at the MCI morgue.
Additional Information:
Alias: Aristella Cremonesti
Apparent age: 31
Birthday: April 14th
Gender: Female
Species: Goddess
Category: Citizen
Career: Coroner
Appearance Description: At first glance, Aristella might be mistaken for an exotic dancer. Dressed in bright colours and shining baubles, it’s hard to miss her presence - whether due to her dress or the noise of a thousand tiny bells that accompanies her movements.
Under closer scrutiny, the style of the dress is similar to a greek toga, with ornamental pins holding the folds of fabric in place. The colourful, often subtly glittering fabric hugs and drapes over her slender curves, and cascades over her hips to brush lightly across the ground. Her wrists and ankles are adorned with dozens of metal bands, some engraved, others plain. A dangling pair of hoop earrings and multiple helix piercings decorate her ears.
Aristella herself is a tall, tan woman with hair so dark it’s almost black. She gives off a regal air, even when completely relaxed. To avoid seeming vain, Aristella doesn’t wear much makeup. A little eyeliner and a simple lipstick accentuate a natural beauty like that of the supernatural. Her slender fingers are well manicured and often decorated with a sparkling nail polish.
Beneath the glamour and polish, Aristella’s torso is marked with large scars. One spans across her front, from just below the left side of her ribcage to her right hip, nearly four inches wide at the center and tapered off at the ends. Another marks a jagged circle above her heart, hidden on her shoulder blade. She is very careful to never let these be seen.
Due to the nature of her work, Aristella’s grandiose appearance is exchanged at the lab for a plain white lab coat, blouse, and jeans. Her gold bands and earrings are all removed, and makeup cleaned off.
Personality Description: Aristella is a strong personality that will not give way to the pressure of time or culture, but instead molds the better changes into the old. Born from an ancient culture, tradition and ceremony are very important to her, yet she is not afraid to embrace the present culture for what it is. She values honesty and integrity over all else, even when it might hurt. Emotions are important, but they should not be invasive.
Aristella is something of a solitary creature, preferring to work and live alone, however she will not shun people who attempt to befriend her. Her family is important, precious, but they are not exempt from her preference for solitude. She will come when called, give advice to those who ask, but she does not feel the need to intervene in their lives.
Active Abilities: Casting Shadows: Aristella’s divine energy is kept contained, making it so that she can't be told apart from the humans. Only gods from within her own pantheon can identify her when her aura is hidden.
When needed, Aristella can reveal her true nature as a deity to others by releasing a large aura detectable by supernatural entities within a 10 m radius. The aura makes her shadow seem larger and darker to anyone non-supernatural while making her seem like a threat to any spirit or god who can see her. The aura doesn't give an exact location or any form of signalling beyond the sense that someone is nearby, making it easy to ignore.
Divine Blessing: Aristella can bestow a divine blessing upon a mortal’s soul, creating a small mark noticeable by other gods and deities. This mark does not grant special powers to the person the blessing was bestowed upon, however it allows Aristella to know if the person is in danger or in need of her assistance, and the fastest way to reach them. While considered a telepathic link, the connection between Aristella and the blessed is non-invasive. It won’t tell her what the other is thinking, only when the brain is signalling distress.
Familiar: Deities from Aristella’s pantheon all keep a familiar by their side, endowed with the same powers that their deity counterparts possess. Aristella’s takes the form of a eurasian lynx amongst humans. Aristella and her familiar are connected in a similar fashion to the way she connects to her blessed followers, though the connection is capable of transferring emotions beyond distress, such as happiness, boredom, and impatience.
Passive Abilities: Immortality: So long as Aristella remains connected to and believed in by her followers, she will have functional immortality. She can still catch communicable diseases, though she can’t pass them on to others and will eventually destroy them from her body. She cannot be killed from natural causes, but can still be murdered by other gods.
Aristella doesn’t need to rest or eat like mortals, however she can go into a state of stasis which will allow her to clear her body of toxic substances and energies, and heal wounds. This happens when her physical body is too far damaged to function, when her ethereal soul is endangered, or even when her body isn't recovering from a small injury. She can’t force herself to wake up from slumber nor control when she goes into it, and can’t be woken up by others. In this state, Aristella’s body is almost entirely ethereal energy, and cannot be harmed by the physical. The length of her sleep is determined by the amount of damage done to her body, ranging from a few hours to centuries.
As the protector of souls, Asch'ya’s divine powers mostly center around the dead. She is capable of communicating with the dead, interacting with them much the same as she would interact with the living. It is not within her power to remove a soul from a body, only to guide and protect them along the path to the afterlife. Her powers revolve around the protection of souls, not the act of dying, preventing her from hastening, delaying, or otherwise interfering with the death of a mortal. Asch'ya's presence can relieve the pain of a dying soul. This won't heal any wounds, but can make it much easier for the mortal to accept that they have died. Asch'ya's touch doesn't affect the living, including the undead, and is designed only to aid in guiding the soul to safety in the afterlife.
Weaknesses: Aristella’s powers stem from the belief of followers, though ‘belief’ is simply the act of acknowledging and remembering Aristella’s existence. “Followers” are not limited to the humans, nor to mortal life - gods from other pantheons who remember her can also give her power. Without any acknowledgement from others, Asch’ya’s powers would falter until she herself faded from existence. Without followers, her power becomes a limited resource that drains the more she uses her power.
Common Magical Items: Aura Warning Bracelet for casting shadows.
Biography: Asch’ya was formed by the wishes and regrets of humans, many years longer in the past than anyone cares to remember. Now ancient history, her people were proud and fearless. They would craft with their hands, jewelry and decorative objects, dyes and clothes so fine, the whole world (or what was known to them) all sought to trade goods with this little country. They would sail the sea bordering their little kingdom, competing with each other to make the finest arts and trinkets. Asch’ya and her family, the rest of their pantheon - only a tiny thing compared to the many others they shared borders with, were just as proud of their people’s accomplishments.
When armies came from the north, demanding that the cities surrendered, the people fought back. They locked up their walls and refused to let the intruders take away their pride. It took many months, and when the walls finally fell under the constant assault, the soldiers murdered all that they could. Asch'ya’s people were severely injured, and so too was most of her pantheon. The foreigners had brought their own gods, who showed as much consideration for them as the soldiers had shown their people.
With the damage done, Asch’ya’s pantheon fell into ruin. Few remembered them, and as time went on, they were forgotten. The deities spent centuries in slumber, some fading away to nothing without the people to give them power. The gods who invaded took many of them as trophies, unknowingly keeping them alive through the decades until they themselves began to lose strength as their followers converted or died off.
In 1932, Asch'ya woke up to a new world, scarred and disoriented. She wandered alone, seeking for a familiar soul, or another from her pantheon. Finding nothing but new civilisation with strange tools and even stranger words, Asch'ya entered herself into the human world, in the city of Vienna. She struggled to learn their language and culture, but found that as she met and interacted with these humans, they would give her small amounts of power.
Skipping seven years to the future, Asch’ya entered the second world war as a nurse. Knowing the pain and heartache that it would cause, she knew it was important to remain a pillar of strength, something that the soldiers and other medical staff would trust in. She did her best to save whom she could, but there was no way to save them all. She could not aid their passage to the second life, nor help them move past their regrets as they did not know her as a goddess. It filled her heart with pain and sorrow, but Asch’ya knew that some sort of presence was still needed. She watched as others took her dead soldiers away, guiding them to the next world and beyond.
After the war, Asch’ya, still shell-shocked from the high death rates, stayed in France to rest. She lived with the doctor she had worked under in the war, with no other family to go to.
She was happy here, as short as it lasted. Now using the name Aristella, she married the man and lived 'happily ever after’ amongst the humans, but it didn’t take long for her loving husband to realise his bride wasn’t aging. Asch’ya didn’t hesitate to share the truth with him, trusting him with the truth of her soul, but her trust was misplaced. Her husband refused it. He told her she was insane, and chalked it down to psychological damage. That night, Aristella left him before she was to be admitted to an asylum by the man she had trusted most.
She stole away on a train headed east, stopping in Russia. She found solace there, temporarily, then joined back together with the Allied forces as a nurse once again as the world returned to violence. She was horrified by what she found, the death totals far exceeding that of the last war, in all manner of horrifying ways. Scarred and scared of what humanity was becoming, Asch’ya faded back into the forgotten goddess she had always been, alone and abandoned.
It wasn’t until many years later that she found a second goddess, just as forgotten as she was. The woman was always surrounded by a flock of small birds, each one with the soul of a human child. They stuck together for a decade before having been discovered by the outside world - the humans started to care about the vanishing children, and many others began to investigate it. Manta Carlos Island’s scouts weren’t the first to find the goddesses, but they were the first to really understand what they saw wasn’t a flock of birds. The two were brought to the Island, where the children Asch’ya’s friend had been rescuing were returned to their normal human selves.
Keeping to themselves, the goddesses adapted to the Manta Carlos culture for a few years, eventually rejoining the public discreetly. Asch’ya refused to make her deity status public, choosing to play out life as though she were human.
Resources: Aristella lives with her roommate, Kalyani, and works at the MCI morgue.
Additional Information:
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