<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/WJK4IzA.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">Lily Nymphaea</span></strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Joie de Vivre</em></span></span><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft"><strong>Profile</strong></div><hr/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Gender:</strong>   Female</li><li><strong>Sexuality:</strong>   Bisexual</li><li><strong>Age:</strong>   29</li><li><strong>Height:</strong>   5'6"</li><li><strong>Weight:</strong>   100 lbs</li><li><strong>Eye Color:</strong>   Ice Blue</li><li><strong>Hair Color:</strong>   Blue</li><li><strong>Skin Tone:</strong>   Faintly tanned</li></ul><br/><div class="floatleft"><strong>Description</strong></div><hr/><br/>Blue hair and ice-blue eyes make her appear more like one of the rarer races, but she is at least mostly human.  Perhaps due to some otherworldly or elvish heritage far in her past she has a shapely form, though is slightly shorter than some.  Faintly pink, pouty lips; fair, but lightly tanned skin; firm and full bust; a narrow waist; and rounded hips made her a picture of beauty to behold.<br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft"><strong>Background</strong></div><hr/><br/>The foundling had no true family which may have truly doomed her from the start.  She was discovered as a small child in the forests around Edenia by a husband and wife who had not yet managed to have children of their own.  They were a pair of wealthy merchant-folk who controlled a decent share of the trade of more luxurious items between the various ports and cities that inevitably had to go through Edenia.  They had long wanted someone to pass the business to, but had not yet been able to have a child--though they were still reasonably young.  So, perhaps foolishly, they took the baby Lily into their home as their own child.<br/><br/>Soonafter the pair had a child of their own.  And then another.  And another.  While Lily was a marginally good--if rambunctious--child she was quite clearly not related by blood and so she was often kept off to the side.  Wealth and inattentive parents made for many opportunities for Lily to explore things that were perhaps best left alone.  Even in her teenage years her beauty was undeniable and was enough for her to get places, or use people, to get what she wanted.  Ultimately she simply wanted to enjoy life, which meant enjoying some of the less savory imports that went through Edenia.  Drugs of almost any variety were her pleasures of choice, and of course some other young merchant-children were happy to help her.<br/><br/>It soon became clear to her "parents" that she was beginning to cost them more and more with each passing day.  There was the money she would beg, borrow, or steal from them to pay for her habits; the various times she had gotten in trouble with the law-keepers of the city, though never for any significant crime; and the obviousness that she was never going to really do anything to help their business efforts--unlike their more dutiful and biological children.  With heavy hearts they ultimately cast her out of their household, disowning her entirely.  There was some fighting of course, but ultimately she left--perhaps thinking that it would give her more freedom--and went directionless into the world.<br/><br/>It became harder and harder to support herself as a handful of years went by.  The beautiful, directionless Lily floated down the river of life with nothing to tether to, and nothing to gain support from.  Perhaps the goddess took pity on her plight, or perhaps she saw in her something greater.  It's certainly unclear, but the hand of Delilah--goddess of Sun, Beauty, and Pleasure--scooped the flower from the river to care for it.  In a drugged haze Lily had found herself alongside a crystal-clear river.  She knelt by it and stared at her reflection, seeing the state that her recklessness had led her to.  Tearfully she asked for help, for guidance, and her prayers were answered with illumination.  She was infused with some measure of the power of the Divine, and the budding Oracle felt the subtle pull to the Sisterhood of the Ruby Maiden.  They took her in and helped her recover from her ordeals and learn the Dogma of their Goddess.<br/><br/>Ultimately Lily's place was never going to be a temple.  Instead she headed out into the wide world, fueled by an inner fire fueled by divine sunlight to express the Love and Pleasure of life, and the Beauty of the Sun.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft"><strong>Character Sheet</strong></div><hr/><br/>Mythweavers Link (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1118177)<br/><br/><div class="floatleft"><strong>Other Information</strong></div><hr/>