Levi was a simple girl. Having been left at the nunnery as a baby like so many other baby girls, she had never known her parents. This was a fact that never bothered Levi, in fact she felt it was fate that she was to be given to the arms of God so she could serve her purpose on earth with no attachments or distractions. She was a faithful student of the revered mother Dimitte, who looked upon Levi as her favourite pupil, spotting true potential deep within the young girl. By her 18th birthday, Levi would be well and ready to accept her vows and ultimately pledge herself unto God and God alone, so she would continue the path of righteousness and good.
However, little more than a year before her vows were to be taken, young Levi was taking a stroll through the village, offering scraps to the hungry as she had done countless days before. Today would be the day that would change her life, however. As she passed a darkened alleyway, she heard a shriek. Her curiosity spurned her forward and she dashed forward, picking up a plank of wood should she require it. Out of the darkness flew a woman, dressed so peculiarly Levi wondered if she had lost all sense of her femininity. The woman ploughed straight into Levi, and without so much as a passing apology scrambled to her feet and darted away, yelling "Catch me if you can!" over her shoulder. Back on her own feet, Levi brushed the dust from her simple tunic - void of the belt she had been wearing that held the small purse of leftover food.
Cursing her clumsiness and that girl, Levi started her hour-long walk back to the nunnery to explain to Mother Dimitte what had happened, hoping she could handle the disappointment that would flow from Mother Dimitte's eyes into Levi's Soul, as always happened when she deviated even slightly form Divinity's work. Deep in thought and feeling sorry for herself, Levi didn't notice the stealthy intruder. She felt she jumped a mile into the sky when the deviant tapped her shoulder. Spinning around she held her arms up to defend herself from the would-be attacker.
She recognised the woman from a few moments ago. She was younger than she had looked in her haste, and much more beautiful. Levi was entranced with her all-encompassing radiance. Her skin was pale, clashing with her mahogany hair, but what really caught her attention was her eyes. They were a striking green, the kind you could lose all sense of time and space in. Though she did not know it, Levi would do anything to have those eyes gaze into the innermost depths of her Self.
Levi could barely pay attention as the woman introduced herself as Ennin, and offered Levi's belt back. Snatching it back, Levi broke herself from her trance and demanded of the woman a reason why she took it.
"It's my trade" Ennin stated abruptly. Taken aback, Levi questioned her. The two women sat for many hours that day conversing about their lives, that were so opposite, Levi was fascinated, almost amused by it. The girls became close friend in the months that followed, but after one too many a bicker over who's beliefs were the right ones, Ennin demanded that Levi step away from her God just once to experience something different. Levi looked into those emerald green eyes and knew she would do as asked, and knew there would be no going back to her old life afterwards.
Levi became somewhat of an apprentice of Ennin's, leaving an apologetic note for Mother Dimitte so as to avoid her disappointment and to travel alongside her beautiful companion. They grew to be women together, and Levi found herself falling in love with Ennin. Despite their strikingly similar appearances, Levi doubted that Ennin could return the love of someone so comparatively insignificant as herself. As such it came entirely as surprise when, on the night of her twenty-second birthday, Ennin wrapped her in an embrace so loving and warm that Levi never wanted to leave Ennin's sweet grasp. They confessed to one another on this night, and the next morning continued their path not only as companions, but as lovers.
Levi became yet more besotted with Ennin than she had ever been. Her love made her blind to all of the harsher things that Ennin had been getting involved in, blind to Ennin's manipulation of facts, blind to her direct manipulation of Levi herself. It never occurred to Levi that her love could be anything other than a paragon. Two years later, on a bright summer’s evening, Ennin seemed very focussed on her thoughts, as if something were troubling her. Worried for her beloved, Levi questioned her. Ennin broke down in tears, confessing that she had done something horribly wrong, and someone had seen her. When pressed, she admitted she had murdered a man but insisted he had attacked her first. She convinced Levi that she needed to "dispose of" the woman who had seen her. Determined that her beloved would come to no harm by the law, she agreed. Ennin led her to a town that seemed vaguely familiar to Levi, it had a scent of a memory about it she could not place in her mind.
They approached a large church building with a wide courtyard, that again stirred memories deeply suppressed in her mind. Ennin advised Levi to wait outside till she had apprehended the woman, but she could not be the one to land the blow in case the Gods looked upon her too dimly for having the blood of two on her hands. Levi entered the building as signalled, and it was not until she had walked almost fully the way up the aisle that she recognised it's towering columns and wide pews. Blinking twice as memories flooded back into her mind she tried to focus on Ennin, who was holding a female figure down at the foot of the stairs leading up to the pedestal Mother Dimitte once preached behind...
Faltering, Levi caught sight of her to-be victim. It was indeed Mother Dimitte. With a gasp, Levi froze, unable to take another step as Mother Dimitte's eye's penetrated her.
"What are you waiting for!?" Ennin called, impatiently.
Stuttering, Levi almost whispered "I...can't kill her..."
A worried expression immediately flooded Ennin's face, and she manipulated her voice, making her sound hurt and meek. "If you don't, they'll get me. They'll hurt me!" The called, allowing her voice to tremble with fear.
Mother Dimitte saw Levi's hesitation, and began to call out to her, pleading for her life, praying for Levi's own soul. Torn, tears poured silently from Levi's eyes as she approached Ennin. Kneeling before her victim, she knew she could not falter, Ennin depended on it. Closing her eyes firmly, the last words she heard as she plunged her knife into Mother Dimitte's heart were "I forgive you."
These words alone broke Levi, and she collapsed in tears over her revered mother's lifeless body, almost in disbelief at what she had done.
It was not until she heard an almost alien cackle that Levi dared to rise from the body, guilt coursing through her veins, thicker than her blood. Looking up she saw Ennin, but it was not Ennin. Her once beautiful eyes had begun to glow an evil luminous green as she showed her true colours. Ennin had finally completed the ritual that she had been pursuing for years, to have the last true revered mother sent to the earth at the hands of the last true innocent. In no uncertain terms, she pointed all this out to Levi, delighting in the heartbreak that was clearly visible in Levi's eyes as she was bombarded with guilt, betrayal and the loss of a deep, deep love. Ennin abruptly disappeared, the only remnant of her presence being the leftover echo of that hideous cackle.
Dumbfounded, Levi could do nothing but shake violently, her breathing becoming sharp and fast as she realised she couldn't handle all of these feelings at once. As if popping a balloon to relieve it of air, she thrust the knife through her own heart, in that second all of the feelings of love, guilt, loss and betrayal spilling out onto her hands. Screaming to the heavens she swore she would have her revenge as her own body fell over her dead friend's. Despite severing her major bloodlines to her heart, and killing her body clearly, her soul clung intensely to the hatred and betrayal that now encompassed her soul, trapping her in a limbo between life and death, her body taking the form of the only being that can survive in such a limbo - a Vampire.
Opening her eyes, Levi could not understand why she had not died. Her hands were still covered in her own blood, and her wound was still clear just above her left breast, however she felt no pain. It was then she realised what she had become.
Lifting the body of Mother Dimitte, she took it out into the back of the church building. That night she buried the body, burying with it her past naivety and blindness. That night, she swore an oath never to be controlled by anyone again, and swore she would have her vengeance, not stopping until she had tracked Ennin down and inflicted pain on her comparable to her own.
Yes, that's how much thought I've put into the back story of my D&D character. Though to be fair, it's only 12 paragraphs long because I've actually turned this into like a short story. Wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't embellished it.
So there you have it, the ultimate form of geekery.
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