<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fb/Topless_White_Hair.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Mephis<del>Daphoinos</del><br/><strong>Race:</strong><del>Ḩ̸̉å̴̱l̷̤͒f̷̺̎-̶̨̚E̴͖̾l̶̯̓f̷͓̒</del>Dhampir<br/><strong>Age:</strong>20<br/><strong>Class:</strong>Sorcerer<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Adventurer, Divine Mark, Harlot's Mark, Slave of Lord Victor Balebrook, Traitor to Atlantica,<em>Inspired</em><br/><hr/>"I don't mind telling it to you both," Mephis responded to Josephine's question, nodding. She slid a hand out to her shaft as she watched both women, pressing down on it a little to make sure that the head wasn't poking up out of the water as she spoke. "It's... not exactly a pleasant story, admittedly, but there's a part where things hit their absolute worst, and then they start getting better from there. Though, we can easily just find something else to talk about if it gets too intense."<br/><br/>She waited to see if Ionli had any objections to a more serious conversation, and if not, the dhampir began to speak, talking in more detail about her past...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mephis's Past</div><div class="spoiler_body">"I originally came from a small village called Whitebridge in the Atlantican countryside. It was a half-elven community, with small farms and plenty of livestock. There was nothing really noteworthy about the place, but it was home. But on the day of my 16th birthday, this showed up on my hand," And here she raised her left hand up to show off her Divine Brand. "And things changed. Mom and Dad took me out to the nearest city to have a priest at the big church examine me, and then I was declared a Reincarnated Hero and adopted into a noble family.<br/><br/>"That family was a prestigious one, House Daphoinos, one of the Dragon Houses." The dhampir's eyes moved over to Ionli as she spoke next, giving an explanation for the aasimar's benefit. "The Dragon Houses are a group of noble families in Atlantica that date back to the time of the nation's founding. Each one is named after a color in the ancient language spoken by the country's founders, and they're called the Dragon Houses because each family takes as its crest a dragon that bears the same color as their name, and that is said to have been an ancient patron to their line. Daphoinos is 'great bloody red', and their family crest bears the sign of an ancient and powerful red dragon.<br/><br/>"They're a martial household that has produced many great warriors, knights and even generals, and they're also very heavy believers in the... the 'glory and majesty of humanity', I think is the phrase their lord likes to use. I think it's part of a direct quote from the bible of the Three Heroes Church. Anyway, it had been a few generations since the last time a reincarnated hero was adopted into their family, so they were quite eager to have me, but they were also... disappointed by my elven blood.<br/><br/>"You see, the way the system works in Atlantica is that the Divine Brands identify anyone who bears one as the reincarnation of an ancient hero, and those reincarnated heroes are to be adopted into noble households, married off to the young scions of those households, and produce many children to help keep the bloodlines strong and contribute to Atlantica's overall military might. But of course, there was no way that the Lord Daphoinos was going to allow any elven blood to taint his pure human stock. So instead, they simply found other ways to make use of me. They treated me as little better than a servant... or considerably worse, since I don't think any of their other servants were ever put on 'bedroom duty'. And eventually, once every member of the family had used me to break their limits, they sent me off to an academy for knights in training to act as the squire and personal servant for their heir. Naturally, being his personal servant, I was expected to see to his every little need... including the carnal ones."<br/><br/>Mephis's attention would turn back to Josephine at that point, taking in the blonde's reaction, remembering the fury that had been displayed earlier when the woman first took notice of her Divine Brand. There was more to her story to tell, but this seemed like a good point to pause briefly, to offer the other two women both a chance to comment or to ask any questions they might have.</div></div>