Player Name: Famine E-mail: gentiana.clusii@gmail.com Preferred Contact:novatierrie, timeskips#3493 on Discord Timezone: Central Current Characters in Victory Road: Just let go of Estinien Wyrmblood (stardiving)
Character Name: Cylva Series: Final Fantasy XIV Timeline: Post patch 5.4 Canon Resource Links:Here
Personality: Cylva's story began not so differently from the other heroes of the other shards. A Warrior of Light, using her sword and shield to fight for her world, the Thirteenth. However, where the heroes of the Source and the First came together to fight the threats facing their world, gathering allies to aid their cause, the Warriors of the Thirteenth were divided, using the power of auracite to fight primals and other threats to their world. Auracite gave them great power, but at a cost--wielders of auracite were corrupted by its power, becoming aether starved and eventually driving their world to the brink of destruction. Darkness flooded the entire shard, turning it into what the denizens of the Source and First know as the Void. Cylva was one of the only two survivors--at least, after a fashion--rescued from the end of the world by the Ascians Loghrif and Mitron.
You could ask her how long ago that was--but she doesn't remember. She was brought across the expanse between worlds, leaving her body behind, and eventually to the First, where she took up the mantle of Shadowkeeper in service to the Rejoining. This meant that she, over decades, brought plans to fruition that tore apart lives and killed untold numbers of people--she may not have conceptualized and masterminded every dark turn that the heroes lives took, but she definitely took advantage of what wasn't planned.
As she's been around for at least a few thousand years, even taking into account the time dilation that exists between the Shards, and during that time positioning herself as the villain to prime the world for a rejoining, she keeps a lot of secrets to herself--Cylva isn't even her real name, but when asked she says it doesn't matter. There's no one left that would have known it. Even having lost her whole world and all of her family and friends, even the Ascians that saved her from her world have died and reincarnated, and do not know her anymore. She was driven to become a villain to save her world--and she did it for years, until finally a group was primed to start the Rejoining--Ardbert, Lamitt, Renda-Rae, Branden, and Nyelbert. Her previous attempts not having been successful, she joined their traveling group to ensure that their plan was a success.
Of course, that ended badly--she revealed herself as the mastermind behind all their troubles and spurred them to fight her, as the plan was to die at the hands of those she had been traveling with as friends, pushing the shard to the brink to be ready for a Rejoining. After her life was spared, though, quickly came the Flood of Light and the death of her friends, followed by a hundred years of living through another active apocalypse. Regretful, weakened, and not knowing what to do, she withdrew for a time, reemerging after the first of the Scions were dragged to the First. The bodies of the fallen Warriors of Light, her friends, had been exhumed and turned into Sin Eaters in response to their arrival. She knew that soon a hero would follow that would be capable of putting her friends' souls back to rest, so she began gathering heroes again to prepare. This is how she really comes into the orbit of the Warrior of Darkness (player character) and ends up telling her story, the story of 'the devil more deserving of death than any that yet linger in this world'. She refers to the sixth adventurer in Ardbert's party as a traitor and betrayer, treacherous and deceitful. She carries immense guilt for what she did, and makes it abundantly clear throughout the journey, along with her regret that she can't die. She asks for death, the only possible recompense she can think of for what she did, and is denied.
After her life is spared, Cylva goes back to the Crystarium and begins instead to tell the story of the Warriors of Light, working to redeem their reputations after their death. She is continuing to work for atonement, and now has renewed hope for saving her own world without all the subterfuge and betrayal that she had to do a hundred years ago.
Her past has given her a bit of a penchant for secrecy in that she doesn't speak a lot about herself--she does make herself indispensable to the owner of the Wandering Stairs, for example, being praised for her wisdom and good sense, and they seem friendly with each other. After a short time traveling together with Ardbert and the rest of their party--and the whole time continuing to manipulate and cause chaos outside of their view--she was well liked enough to have her life spared when she revealed herself as the villain behind so much of their suffering. That familiarity and knowledge is with the persona that she lets people see--in the case of Ardbert, that of a fellow adventurer. Glynard, a fellow citizen and simple bar maid. Her past and her self isn't important.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Absol Password: Atomic Fireball
Cylva | FFXIV
Name: Famine
E-mail: gentiana.clusii@gmail.com
Preferred Contact:
Timezone: Central
Current Characters in Victory Road: Just let go of Estinien Wyrmblood (
Character
Name: Cylva
Series: Final Fantasy XIV
Timeline: Post patch 5.4
Canon Resource Links: Here
Personality:
Cylva's story began not so differently from the other heroes of the other shards. A Warrior of Light, using her sword and shield to fight for her world, the Thirteenth. However, where the heroes of the Source and the First came together to fight the threats facing their world, gathering allies to aid their cause, the Warriors of the Thirteenth were divided, using the power of auracite to fight primals and other threats to their world. Auracite gave them great power, but at a cost--wielders of auracite were corrupted by its power, becoming aether starved and eventually driving their world to the brink of destruction. Darkness flooded the entire shard, turning it into what the denizens of the Source and First know as the Void. Cylva was one of the only two survivors--at least, after a fashion--rescued from the end of the world by the Ascians Loghrif and Mitron.
You could ask her how long ago that was--but she doesn't remember. She was brought across the expanse between worlds, leaving her body behind, and eventually to the First, where she took up the mantle of Shadowkeeper in service to the Rejoining. This meant that she, over decades, brought plans to fruition that tore apart lives and killed untold numbers of people--she may not have conceptualized and masterminded every dark turn that the heroes lives took, but she definitely took advantage of what wasn't planned.
As she's been around for at least a few thousand years, even taking into account the time dilation that exists between the Shards, and during that time positioning herself as the villain to prime the world for a rejoining, she keeps a lot of secrets to herself--Cylva isn't even her real name, but when asked she says it doesn't matter. There's no one left that would have known it. Even having lost her whole world and all of her family and friends, even the Ascians that saved her from her world have died and reincarnated, and do not know her anymore. She was driven to become a villain to save her world--and she did it for years, until finally a group was primed to start the Rejoining--Ardbert, Lamitt, Renda-Rae, Branden, and Nyelbert. Her previous attempts not having been successful, she joined their traveling group to ensure that their plan was a success.
Of course, that ended badly--she revealed herself as the mastermind behind all their troubles and spurred them to fight her, as the plan was to die at the hands of those she had been traveling with as friends, pushing the shard to the brink to be ready for a Rejoining. After her life was spared, though, quickly came the Flood of Light and the death of her friends, followed by a hundred years of living through another active apocalypse. Regretful, weakened, and not knowing what to do, she withdrew for a time, reemerging after the first of the Scions were dragged to the First. The bodies of the fallen Warriors of Light, her friends, had been exhumed and turned into Sin Eaters in response to their arrival. She knew that soon a hero would follow that would be capable of putting her friends' souls back to rest, so she began gathering heroes again to prepare. This is how she really comes into the orbit of the Warrior of Darkness (player character) and ends up telling her story, the story of 'the devil more deserving of death than any that yet linger in this world'. She refers to the sixth adventurer in Ardbert's party as a traitor and betrayer, treacherous and deceitful. She carries immense guilt for what she did, and makes it abundantly clear throughout the journey, along with her regret that she can't die. She asks for death, the only possible recompense she can think of for what she did, and is denied.
After her life is spared, Cylva goes back to the Crystarium and begins instead to tell the story of the Warriors of Light, working to redeem their reputations after their death. She is continuing to work for atonement, and now has renewed hope for saving her own world without all the subterfuge and betrayal that she had to do a hundred years ago.
Her past has given her a bit of a penchant for secrecy in that she doesn't speak a lot about herself--she does make herself indispensable to the owner of the Wandering Stairs, for example, being praised for her wisdom and good sense, and they seem friendly with each other. After a short time traveling together with Ardbert and the rest of their party--and the whole time continuing to manipulate and cause chaos outside of their view--she was well liked enough to have her life spared when she revealed herself as the villain behind so much of their suffering. That familiarity and knowledge is with the persona that she lets people see--in the case of Ardbert, that of a fellow adventurer. Glynard, a fellow citizen and simple bar maid. Her past and her self isn't important.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Absol
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Test drive
Victory Road Sample: 4th Wall Post