"PUSH!" The mid wife said as the Barovian woman bore down one last time then slumped back exhausted from the efforts. The mother to be had been kidnapped by bandits many months ago. Unspeakable things had happened to her that were better left unsaid. Dark witch magics had been spun around the woman when she was raped for no one knew what. But those bandits now rotted or were burned like any true foul thing should have been.
With the final push the child bore inside her was born. It was slightly larger then usual, its hair though and the eyes made the mid-wife gasp in surprise. The eyes shown with a deep icy blue. The hair shown similarly with a dark icy blue. The stranger part of it though was the wispy movements it had, as if it was moving in the breeze yet there was none. Finally the girls skin was a rasped green. "...Caliban..." She said softly recalling the term Barovians used for 'freaks' as they called them, muttering a prayer to the Earth Mother against evil.
The mid-wife stood wrapping the child in a bundle of cloth hiding its nature from others, the mother was currently at rest from the exhaustion of the birth and would be for some time.
The mid wife stood then near the forests of Barovia village at the first rays of the sun still holding the baby girl in her arms. She had been ready to feed it to the wolves but something inside her stayed her hands and actions. Instead she made hasty plans to secure passage out of the village to the city of Valiki to the west. She kept the girl hidden during this time, telling the mother that the child had been still born and deformed as a caliban, and that she had disposed of it. The mother had been relived and accepted the partial lie.
And so the midwife took the bundle of the baby in her arms and left on the traveling caravan keeping to herself for the three day trip to Valiki. "..Now what to call you?" The woman, said. She seemed at a lose for words currently so she glanced about in thought then smiled idly. "Lentell" She said. "Lentell Ylevis" The woman said, she in truth was an out lander herself, a warrior priest of the Earth Mother specificly the Sun sect. There virtues were in many ways like that of the morning lord here yet different in others.
Over the coming years Lentell grew fast and strong, except for her skin, eyes and hair she was mostly 'normal' as most would say. The years taught the girl much about discipline and fighting, about the virtues of doing right and aiding others, as well as respecting the laws that were made in Barovia here.
Eventually though the time passed on and Lentell was about twenty years in human, though her innocents and in many ways thoughts were that of a girl much younger. The woman she considered and belived to be her mother, or Mother Sunya as she called herself to the girl had vanished one night, only leaving a simple note for the girl to find the following morning.
Be safe my child, hold the teachings I've taught you close, the rest you shall learn on your own.
And with that Lentell was alone in the harsh unforgiving land that was Barovia, she had been born into darkness and hatred and misery, but out of that she held an innocent purity to her, a holy warrior like her mother yet also beneath a fiery anger which her mother had taught her to channel during times of need. Lentell wasnt sure what life had in store for her, but she wanted to find out and try to help others along the way.
