(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/ec/Avatar_Dyrianna.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Dyrianna of House Avenstar</span></span>(played by vin26m)<br/>Female Half-Elf<br/><br/>A beautiful half-elf lady stepped onto the pedestal, holding a wooden rod in her hand, carved to resemble a phallus.<br/><br/><strong>"Before I begin, I simply must state that this group of initiates is more beautiful and alluring than those of the years' past."</strong><br/><br/>The prostitutes seated in the outer circle reacted with eyebrows followed by nods of agreement.<br/><br/><strong>"As you can observe, this is indeed high praise.  Clearly, our goddess Calistria is pleased by our deeds in her name, and favors our homage to her by having such fetching and comely maidens enter and join our holy temple to continue her work.</strong><br/><br/>She turned to the priestess who spoke of her.<br/><br/><strong>"Satinder Morne, thank you for that most lovely introduction.  Your pretty painted lips and skillful tongue utter words that bring pleasure to my ears and mind, just as they have previously created unrivaled bliss in... other parts of me.</strong><br/><br/>The other prostitutes shared a nice laugh as Satinder ran the tip of her tongue across her upper lip and winked.  Dyrianna turned back to the group of initiates, stepping off the pedestal and slowly walking around<br/><br/><strong>"I have the honor of already knowing some of you well."</strong><br/><br/>She looked at Ember.<br/><br/><strong>"For others, I know a relative of yours who has walked these halls."</strong><br/><br/>She looked at Tyira.<br/><br/><strong>"For the rest, I know you not at all except by the exceptional reputation that precedes you."</strong><br/><br/>Dyrianna looked at each of the other initiates.<br/><br/><strong>"All of you, I hope to get to know better, as each and every one of you shares great potential.  Calistria's graces have smiled upon you.  You were flowers growing in the wild, and here you will have the opportunity to find roots, grow, develop, bloom, and entice others to inhale your scent, drink your nectar, and feel the softness of your petals.  With greater service to our goddess, greater fortune will come upon you.<br/><br/>"As Satinder said, my name is Dyrianna.  As ranking sacred prostitute and manager of this temple, it is my duty and honor to serve Calistria by helping others serve her as well.  <br/><br/>"Twenty years ago, I sat my bottom on one of the very pillows you are right now resting your ripe round rumps upon, and I told this tale of where I came from to my fellow initiates of Calistria back then.  I will do the same for you now."</strong><br/><br/>She stepped back upon the pedestal.<br/><br/><strong>"As a young, untouched blossom of a girl becoming a woman, my parents were slain during a caravan raid by bandits and I was kidnapped.  I, too, would have been killed, but my captors found purpose in my beauty and grace, and saw profit by keeping me alive.  <br/><br/>"They had their way with me more than any female should bear, and they relished in the way my body betrayed my desire to be unmolested.  I quickly learned that by giving them what they wanted, I would be spared at least some suffering, and given at least some sustenance that was not produced from the sacks between their legs.<br/><br/>"Eventually they tired of me, and instead of killing me and leaving my broken body to rot, I was to be sold as a slave in a sin pit of the Coins district here in Absalom, one of the only areas in the city where slavery was, and still is, legal.  <br/><br/>"While buyers and bidders appraised me with their eyes and hands, I felt at the time that my future would be even darker than my present and recent past.  I was godless, but prayed to any deity who would listen that they mercifully end my existence then and there, and to punish those who put me in that position.<br/><br/>"It was fate and Calistria's will that a priest of this very temple had a vision that drew him to the sin pits.  He found me and spoke with me, treating me as a person instead of an object for the first time since that caravan raid.  He asked me three questions:<br/><br/>"'Is it your wish to avenge the family you have lost against those who have taken them from you?<br/><br/>"'Are you willing to make such vengeance happen by using your beauty to create lust and intellect to use trickery?<br/><br/>"'Will you accept the aid of the goddess Calistria in exchange for service in her name?'"[/i]<br/><br/>"With three passionate affirmative responses and promises of how would serve him and his goddess with my heart, mind, body and soul, he paid for me.  What happened between then and now... will be told another time."</strong><br/><br/>Dyrianna smiled with a naughty glint in her eye.  It was a classic lesson - give a little and promise so much more.<br/><br/><strong>"Now it is your turn, my new sisters.  This phallus in my hand has been in the hands of every initiate as they told their story of how they came to be here.  Now, I invite you to do the same.  Let's start with you..."</strong><br/><br/>Dyrianna lavished the party with praise and told the story of how she was kidnapped and nearly sold into slavery, but was saved by a priest of Calistria.