Imoren Xipris Zinyra

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Imoren lacks physical strength and looks delicate, safe for the sneer she often wears. Her skin is a lighter tone than many of her family members and can look sickly pale when she has overused her magic. Her dark brown hair is often worn loose, sometimes adorned with golden accessories, and her eyes are of such a dark brown they appear black when shaded.

Despite her feeble physique and lack of height, Imoren carries herself with purpose, having an excellent posture and radiating an air of importance. Her wardrobe is very elaborate, as the heir of an important family. She sometimes compares herself to a doll, being dressed up to the whims of her parents.

Imoren's life has lacked a proper childhood and interaction with those her age, creating her problems with connecting to others. While incredibly smart, and wise beyond her years, social events often make her uncomfortable, as she cannot control the living like the dead if a situation steers in a direction she does not like. She is prone to lashing out and can come across as cold and mean.

She is book smart and a master at solving riddles, tackling her studies and responsibility with precision and care. Imoren's ambitions stretch further than many would dare to dream, and she rarely lets anything knock her down in trying to get to her goals.

Behind the whole facade hides a girl who has never had many friends and never knew the unconditional love one should expect from their parents. There is a certain insecurity behind her obsession with her magic, an unspoken fear that maybe she will let her parents down someday, and they would want to get rid of her like they did the rest. Alongside it, is a deep desire to prove herself worthy of the sacrifice her parents made, to proudly represent the siblings she never met and cannot remember.

Necromancy is the art of reanimating the bodies of the deceased as empty shells, ready to do your bidding, and Imoren is very proficient in this type of magic. Over the years of being taught everything the Zinyra family had to offer on the subject, putting in extra work for more praise, necromancy became somewhat of an obsession for Imoren. All her life, her worth has been linked to her gift, so naturally, to remain the perfect daughter, she would have to become the perfect necromancer.

Imoren can raise an impressive amount of bodies for an impressive amount of time. The drawback to this is that she has paid for her magic with her physical strength and health. The girl looks puny, and if she had been testing her limits particularly hard, she can fall sick for days before recovering to try again. Regular nosebleeds and fainting are no stranger to her. Necromancy does not involve a reciting of words or drawing ancient symbols. To Imoren, it is a power drawn from within, as if she can attach an invisible string to a body, making it a puppet in her play.

To Imoren, the perfect necromancer is not limited to flesh. Her goal involves being able to raise skeletons, something which no one in the family records has done before.

Imoren Xipris Zinyra is the ninth daughter of Damura and Nivras Zinyra. The ninth, but the only surviving. As heads of their family, Imoren's parents had one important task above all other responsibilities: producing an heir inheriting their sorcery. While the couple did not have trouble conceiving children, none of them turned out to be necromancers. With every newborn child turning out to be a disappointment, despite their desperate attempts in prayer and usage of magical potions, something eventually snapped in Damura after having her sixth magicless child. Fabricating a tragic story about an illness, together with her husband and her closest sun elf confidant, she took all of her children into the desert to end their lives in the hope that their sacrifice might finally bring her the luck she sought. It took two more before they got what they wanted.

Imoren Xipris earned her name at five years of age—her parents had stopped naming their children at birth to avoid attachment too soon—when she displayed her first knack for necromancy by accidentally reanimating her beloved pet cat. Speckle had died a few hours prior and had already been as stiff as a brick when she made it move the slightest. It was only a reassuring blink of the eyes and a flick of the ear, but that was enough for Imoren's parents to know their sacrifice had finally paid off. Ridden with relief and unspoken guilt, they spoiled the child as if she represented all nine children in one. But they also pushed her just as hard to hone her skills as if she had to compensate for all the disappointment they had already faced.

Imoren was forced to pay for her parents lasting favour by sacrificing her childhood and her physical health. Practising her magic gift like no other, left her with a puny body and a feeble physique, the strength of her magic leeching on her energy throughout her adolescence and after. With the responsibility of being the heiress of the main branch of the Zinyra family, Imoren's upbringing has always lacked playtime and carelessness. Due to her fragile state and title, she was rarely allowed to leave the estate grounds, let alone hang around with other children. Instead, she was brought tutors to properly educate her on subjects other than necromancy when she was not studying her magic. This solitary and demanding upbringing left her with a difficulty connecting with others and a stoic, sometimes flat-out mean demeanour.  

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