Lots of great info there! Clears a lot up for me. And I think it would work great for Mirabelle and her troupe to be hired as entertainment, then get pulled into whatever's going on. Or maybe the discussions held there stir a subconscious motivation she didn't know she had, and give her something to stand for for the first time in a long time.
I'm thinking through her origin story a bit more and how her curse works. Does it make sense for her to call upon one of the primordials, or are they more like ancient gods from long ago? Either way, she calls upon something to grant her talent if she makes her own sacrifice. It's a one-time thing, but the price is an illness or disorder or collection of symptoms that saps her strength and energy and immune system if she doesn't continually consume something-or-other as medicine.
I've changed a little bit about how the curse works, and most of it I'll leave up to discovery. But in short, it's more of a one-time sacrifice where she gained her talent but sacrificed her health to get it, in a way. She has to create a special medicine from certain ingredients to keep her body going, or else her immune system and her strength take a huge downturn. Maybe what she has to do to maintain her health isn't necessarily taboo in Denhart, but she still mostly keeps it a secret in order to maintain her reputation in other nations. She's also pretty ashamed of what she's done, even if it's not considered that bad in Denhart, because she regrets it strongly. She harbors a love-hate relationship with dark magic because it gave her everything and took everything away in the same breath. She isn't in servitude to a specific deity, but rather made a one-time sacrifice that will cost her for the rest of her life.
I'll add that to my character sheet then post it. I'm loving how in-depth the lore is so far.
I'm thinking through her origin story a bit more and how her curse works. Does it make sense for her to call upon one of the primordials, or are they more like ancient gods from long ago? Either way, she calls upon something to grant her talent if she makes her own sacrifice. It's a one-time thing, but the price is an illness or disorder or collection of symptoms that saps her strength and energy and immune system if she doesn't continually consume something-or-other as medicine.
I've changed a little bit about how the curse works, and most of it I'll leave up to discovery. But in short, it's more of a one-time sacrifice where she gained her talent but sacrificed her health to get it, in a way. She has to create a special medicine from certain ingredients to keep her body going, or else her immune system and her strength take a huge downturn. Maybe what she has to do to maintain her health isn't necessarily taboo in Denhart, but she still mostly keeps it a secret in order to maintain her reputation in other nations. She's also pretty ashamed of what she's done, even if it's not considered that bad in Denhart, because she regrets it strongly. She harbors a love-hate relationship with dark magic because it gave her everything and took everything away in the same breath. She isn't in servitude to a specific deity, but rather made a one-time sacrifice that will cost her for the rest of her life.
I'll add that to my character sheet then post it. I'm loving how in-depth the lore is so far.