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About Venetia Medvyed

My story and My child

Born into a family that reveres nature, it would not have been odd for Venetia to become a druid or even a ranger, but instead, she became a Paladin, not of Erastil which might have been expected, but of Arshea, the Empyreal Lord of Freedom, Physical beauty and Sexuality. Why Arshea accepted the young Medvyed girl as a Paladin was a mystery, for at times it would seem that Venetia would only use her worship of Arshea as an excuse for her nymphomania. However, as Arshea’s influence guides mortals to experience love and sexuality in whatever manner they desire, provided the experience is harmless or mutually agreed upon, so long as Venetia upheld her Paladin oath, she seemingly kept in Arshea's good graces.

However, despite her families ties with the wild fey, Venetia knew that her family would not approve of her difference in morals. The fey would accept her, but her own family would not, and so Venetia became an adventurer in order to keep her habits secret from her family.

Shortly after becoming an adventurer however, Venetia found herself pregnant, at the age of seventeen. She had no idea who the father of her child was when she found out that she was pregnant, for she had had perhaps one too many trysts. For the first time in her life, she seriously prayed to Arshea, she wanted her child to be born strong enough to survive a life of adventuring, for she knew that if she took the child back to her family she would be dishonored and disowned, her family could not know of her heir, at least not yet.

In time, Venetia gave birth, to a beautiful baby girl, and to her surprise, the child was half elven. She named the child Tarina, and although she had a better idea of who the girl's father was now, she cared not, for this child was her's and Arshea's to raise. Despite having a small child, Venetia did not stop adventuring, she did her best to raise her daughter, but she couldn't stay in one place for very long, for fear that her family might found out about Tarina and possibly take the child away from her, for Tarina's beauty was something inhuman, perhaps it was her elfin blood.

But life would never be simple for Venetia and Tarina, for at the age of twenty-three, when her daughter was but six years old, the light faded from Tarina's eyes. Tarina had woken in the middle of the night, panicy and alarmed her mother, most of all because the child was speaking in Celestial. Tarina's eyes were now a clouded white where they had previously been a bit more of an emerald green, and she said something that disturbed Venetia, "Arshea visited me, she said she would take my vision and in times of duress my language, but in return I was destined for greatness.", luckily Venetia already knew the language of the Celestials at this time and was able to understand the child, even in times of duress, but she feared for her child.

For the first time in her life, Venetia was angered. Although Arshea had given her child the strength to survive a life of adventuring at such a young age, she had claimed the child's vision and forced her to speak and understand only Celestial in times of duress. This was Venetia's child, not Arshea's, but it seemed that Arshea would be a larger influence on the child's life then even Venetia could have guessed.

For Arshea had told Tarina even more then Tarina cared to share with her mother, Tarina was to become Arshea's herald. It would not be Venetia's family that would take her daughter from her, it would be her own 'god', in exchange for the strength to survive such a hectic life, Arshea wanted something from the child, Tarina was to help Arshea ascend to the ranks of godhood, no longer to be a mere Empyreal Lord. Tarina knew that she could not tell her mother or anyone this, and so for the rest of the child's life it has been her secret.

Venetia however could not accept that her child had lost her vision, she prayed for Arshea to return the child's vision to it's former strength. Arshea did not listen, and Venetia tried many different ways to restore the child's vision, until Tarina told her to stop. "I'm fine mother, don't worry, I can get through this." By the time Venetia would accept that there was nothing she could do to restore her child's vision, Venetia's hair had grown white, and she was thirty-five years of age, her daughter now eighteen.

However, at the age of eighteen, Arshea gave Tarina a new gift, she perverted the half elf's body, mixing traits of masculinity and femininity, giving the child more refined muscles and softer curves, her body was not unlike that of Arshea herself. Tarina would spend the next couple years as a man, wearing men's clothing even with her slightly feminine form, insisting that her mother call her Arrin instead of Tarina. Venetia accepted this change much more rapidly then the previous changes and agreed to calling her child Arrin for a time. Venetia understood that sometimes this was a part of growing up for someone who worshiped Arshea, Tarina/Arrin was exploring her/his gender identity, and in time she/he would pick the identity that suited her/him best.

Eventually, Tarina/Arrin decided on Tarina, being a woman suited the half elf more then being a man, but it was only after spending two years as Arrin that Tarina decided to be Tarina.