<strong>Name:</strong>Cerridwyn<br/><br/><strong>Alternate Name(s):</strong>Dawn, the name she grew up with<br/><br/><strong>Title:</strong>Princess Cerridwyn NicAp Mathonwy<br/><br/><strong> Physical Description</strong><br/><em>Hair Color:</em>The color of newborn stars, a brilliant silver gold<br/><em>Eye Color</em>: Tricolor eyes, the outer edge the dark midnight blue, then the soft hazy silver of the glow around the full moon, and last, most inner, the color of the center of stars, pure, light, white silver.<br/><em>Skin Color</em>: Pale, pale gold<br/><em>Glow Color: </em>The color of stars at their center, a bright, blinding silver gold<br/><em> Age:</em>29<br/><em> Height:</em>5"9<br/><em>Ancestry:</em>Born of the King and Queen of the Seelie court<br/><em> Marks of Power:</em>None as of yet<br/><strong> Hand(s) of Power, if known:</strong><br/>1. Tidal Pull - As Cerridwen she has powers tied to the moon and the weather. She can call on powers from celestial bodies, alter seasons and summon storms at times.<br/>2. Regeneration of Life - Descendant from fertility lines and powers she has the ability to use her magic to heal, though her powers are boosted and often strongest during intercourse. She is not limited to just healing other 'living' beings, but can heal the earth, and plants, often it happens without her meaning it to.<br/><strong>Additional Power(s), if known</strong>: Prophetic powers (tied in with Cerridwen being the Goddess of Dark Prophecy), a sixth sense she has always had. Shape shifting, mostly into a Swan, but other birds as well, thanks to the powers of Caer. Along with her Tidal hand of power she also has a knack for 'seeing' things in the stars, able to read them without training, though this could fall under prophetic powers, which, are stronger at night accordingly.<br/><strong>Court:</strong>Seelie<br/><strong> Godhead, if known: </strong>Cerridwen, Moon Goddess, Great Mother, Grain Goddess, Goddess of Nature<br/><strong> Place in Story: </strong>Seelie Princess<br/><strong> Special Stuff: </strong><br/><em>Historical</em>The white-corpse eating sow representing the moon. Welsh bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen.) Had a magic cauldron of inspiration, the potion she made was called 'greal' from which the word Grail probably came from. She was also suppose to have brewed and given wisdom.<br/><em>Rebirth</em>Though her godhead is that of Cerridwen, a moon goddess and the creator and holder of the Grail she is the soul of Caer Ibormeith, the swan maiden who married the son of the Dagda. It is not widely known, outside of the dreams she herself has of a man she does not know but loves, who comes to her every night and her choice of the swan as her crest.<br/><em>Items</em>None as of now.<br/><br/><br/><strong>History within the last thirty years</strong><br/><br/>Cerridwyn was named for the Goddess who had once held the powers she one day would, according to her prophetic aunt. The first Cerridwen had chosen to fade and become a ghost of herself after her lovers death and ended up dying herself. Yet it was said that the tiny child would one day hold the same powers. She was born to the King of the Seelie Court, Gilfaethwy, to a Seelie Princess who's name she never learned. The name of the once Queen is now a guarded secret, none who know will speak of it and the girl herself never met her.<br/><br/>For with her birth, the same aunt who told of the powers she would one day wield also told her mother in confidence that her father would be the greatest threat to her child. So Cerridwyn was given to a mortal, a woman that the Queen felt close to and trusted. It was with Angela Baker and her husband Thomas that 'Dawn' grew up. She was a sweet child, pretty always, her pale blond hair a color that no dye seemed to ever match, and a mass of curls at that. Her eyes were a misty, faint gray and her skin never tanned. Much to Dawn's annoyance her hair would never take color and grew long and fast. She loved her mother though and her father, their simple life in Maine. She had a normal, mortal girls life, perhaps a touch charmed at times, with being so easily admired, so beautiful without every trying to. But that made her realize that she disliked people who liked her only for her looks. Dawn grew up with a firm moral cord, though Christianity never appealed to her. The girl loved to learn and excelled in her classes, yet from the age of sixteen on she had the same dream, night after night. Of a man, who's face she did not know and could not fully see, coming to her, talking to her, comforting her. He was her touchstone in a way and she never truly got involved with anyone else.<br/><br/>High school passed for her and she was accepted to every school she applied to, deciding to attend Columbia University in New York and getting her degrees in Political Journalism and History. Dawn moved to D.C., working at the nation's capital and making a name for herself. She became well known, success coming easily and early, a celebrated journalist in politics and world news at the age of twenty seven. Yet she was not happy, she still had not found the man in her dreams, the male who would whisper to her every night and the swans that flew when the dawn came and she woke. It made no sense to her mortal mind. Then strange things began to happen, someone was researching her, looking into her life and her parents. When she was approached about reporting on the sidhe she was curious but refused, something told her that going to the sithern's in St. Louis would change her life forever. The job offer kept on being placed on the table again and again, the Seelie Court wanted her to work for them. She went home for the fourth of July, to visit her parents. And then the fire happened, her mother died mysteriously and her father vanished. Her life was left in ruins when King Gilfaethwy suddenly appeared and informed her that she was his daughter. And the heir to the Seelie throne.<br/><br/>Dawn, now knowing her full name of Cerridwyn, refused to go to the Court at first, but a King's will is not an easy thing to fight and so she was taken, thrust into the courts at the age of twenty eight and with only the media's understanding of them. She became withdrawn, careful and talked to almost no one. Loathing her father and knowing, somehow that he was responsible for both of her mother's deaths.