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[Willow Smythe]

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Willow’s history starts at the shrine of Chaos, the place in which she was created. By a lucky or unlucky set of circumstances her ethereal essence formed from the grief of young Nightshade Strathmore. Melancholy over the loss of her lover, she froze herself at the shrine, however, those loyal to Nightshade wouldn’t let the young woman rest for long. Her sisters of the Cabal quickly retrieved her. As she left the altar the ethereal essence followed. Unbeknownst to Willow, Shade was aware she was not the only thing roused from her fellow Cabalists that day.

The essence followed Shade for a while through all the chaos that was caused. One night a sacrifice ceremony was held to give Willow physical form. Blood from a bride, groom, Nightshade herself and the effects of blackrock gave Willow her physical form. She was seemingly an exact copy of Nightshade when she was the age of twelve. All the physical features were identical, flowing green hair and eyes to match she was thought to be the echo of a childhood passed, a living memory of sorts. So she was bestowed with the name Willow De’Chambray, a name Nightshade had long sense forsaken. Having no motherly instincts even to raise the younger wayward child that she once herself was, Nightshade placed Willow in Umbra. Willow honed her fighting skills in the Umbran Military. A child by appearance but she was a fierce warrior at heart and reckless to boot. Willow quite enjoyed being under estimated by her enemies. For years she fought alongside with Umbra’s strongest warriors, taking in all she could from them. Gradually her skills began to differ from that of Nightshade. Willow was exceedingly strong, one of her favorite past times was to make windows from solid walls with nothing more than her kryss and a single charge at the wall. Willow also harnessed the ability to cast spells of light, this was most disconcerting of all to Shade as she herself could not being a necromancer.
Over time, these differences began to cast a doubt over Willow’s true existence, especially with the return of Toren Smythe the lover she lost all those years ago. It became evident that in physical appearance she looked like Shade, but in skill she mirrored that of Toren. When creating Willow, Nightshade had forgotten that when her blood was bonded with Toren’s. As a result the blood that ran through Willow’s veins was not only Shade’s but Toren’s blood as well, making her not a living memory but their daughter. The news was unsettling to all parties to say the least at first, though over time all adjusted. Despite the fact that both of her parents were in the Cabal, Willow chose to stay in Umbra but she, much to her father’s surprise, took on the name Smythe.
As Umbra’s population began to boom with young new additions she was appointed to train them. They thought it best if the children heard the harsh commands from Willow as she still looked not much older than they. Willow watched all the Umbran children grow at their accelerated rate surpassing Willow’s own age. Despite this she pushed her own desire to age aside and kept training.
Her existence however began to be noticed by her great Grandfather Jonathan Strathmore. She was not part of his plan for Nightshade so he quickly devised a plan to dispose of Willow. He only half succeeded. The shadow wraith he sent to kill her crushed her ethereal heart so she could not regenerate her blood to reform herself after battling. Willow indeed died but with the help of a time walker, her family went back in time not once but twice and Willow rose from the shrine of chaos once again. Only she was no longer a child. Since years had passed since Willow’s original creation, the blood that was originally used had aged and in turn it produced an older Willow. Still looking like Nightshade Willow now looks about seventeen and she is even stronger than before.
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