[hider=The Questor][center][COLOR=b8b8b8][sub][h1][sub]QUESTOR LEVIA GERLINDE[/sub][/h1][/sub][/COLOR][/center]

[color=a8a8a8][center][sub][i]"Cherish this moment of bleak anguish. 
These dark times are but all of ruth the adversary shall ever know. 
Hold pity and relish in your heart for those who will know no further the ineffable grace of their own veracity, come the time of the infinite."[/i][/sub][/center][/color]

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[color=a8a8a8][h3][i]Prior Life[/i][/h3][/color]
[color=a8a8a8][i]The precise date of Levia's birth has been forgotten by her, in the jumble of lives and deaths she has since experienced, though she remembers well enough the day where, amongst a crowd of thousands, she witnessed the burning of Joan d' Arc during the year of our lord 1431 - still a young and budding maiden, recently arrived in Normandy from Carthage where she had been born of a missionary who had forsaken his vow of celibacy. Levia's following life was ordinary and uninspiring - she was married off to a tanner in 1940, dutifully bearing him children and tending to his home until the great calamity that was purgatory came upon the land. Levia was amongst the first ream of victims to fall before its horrors, suffering rapine and anguish before being cast to the dark.

And so it followed; again and again, the memories that were Levia striving to lead an ordinary life even amidst the horror, made all the more trying as with each life spent she would shuffle her mortal coil earlier and earlier each time, and almost always by violent means whilst having suffered indignities. After several such times, Levia broke, and in her fugue did she discover her virtue. Her mind sundered to match the impossible darkness of purgatory, the impossible was branded into her being with hallowed clarity, the fractured and riven tears in her being woven into a new whole that would become the fabled maiden questor, Levia Gerlinde.

She would go on and, though beset by trial and many deaths, she did overcome many terrors and anathema, amongst them the dread Chalarensis,  Hyperion, and Belphagor. Arising from common obscurity and achieving great success across time despite many setbacks, Levia briefly became a beacon of hope and inspiration amongst the masses...

Until the servitors of the adversary arrayed themselves against her, fearful of her prowess and burgeoning following. Seeking to forever curb her ability to lead and inspire others, the mortal agents of the enemy did weave the most insidious rumor of ridicule and doubt amongst the lands - that Levia herself claimed to be the Herald of Light. Scarcely over the course of a fortnight, Levia found herself jeered and set upon by those who might once have arrayed themselves under her command, and in her ignominy she was eventually slain by another Seeker who had followed the rumors and found her to be wanting.

Reborn in time, Levia did her utmost to trail without the vast shadow of her now besmirched repute. Now, her name is forgotten by many but known to some - and it is remembered as the name of a charlatan and a harlot, a false prophet and a pretender. A memory not abetted by her unfortunately traditional mores and behavior...[/i][/color]

[COLOR=b8b8b8][i][h3]The Questor's Sins[/h3][/i][/color]
[color=a8a8a8][i]Levia, in her life prior to purgatory and even during many of her initial lives in purgatory, lived in the traditional sense as a woman of her caste and upbringing was expected to have lived. She would labor and toil as a caretaker, bearing her mates many children, rarely speaking defiantly or acting without leave. Even the harsh and brutal revelations of purgatory itself have been unable to dissuade her from this manner of living; the habits and conditioning of her first life having ingrained themselves somehow irreparably from her. Her meekness was what led to her permitting her own upbraiding and destruction at the hands of a fellow Seeker, and in failing to speak out against the false rumors set against her by the adversary's servitors. Her past beliefs, forged upon her mind with callous fists and rods, taught her that as a woman, she was slippery, weak, untrustworthy, devious, deceitful and stubborn - and so, unconsciously and in her efforts to adopt the habits of strength, she strives to be as 'unwomanlike' as possible by being forthright, wholly truthful, straightforward, and accepting - disastrous and inadvisable qualities for one such as she in the lands of purgatory, and all come upon in a manner failing to dissuade her own self-internalized sense of inferiority and submissiveness. Levia is the servant of man - literally, figuratively, and much to her own misfortune - and that of those she intends to save from damnation. Thusly, Levia's cardinal sin is that of Sloth, her own willful and self-imposed indolence and stagnant moral character depriving her of the fullness of her own virtue.[/i][/color]

[COLOR=b8b8b8][i][h3]The Questor's Failings[/h3][/i][/color]
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[*]The Meek - Levia lacks agency, and left to her own devices will usually seek help or else do nothing. In particular, she will endeavor to attach herself to a reliable male authority figure for guidance, and is dismissive of her own judgment as well as that of other women.
[*]False Light - The adversary's servitors wove a plot most wicked in their efforts to destroy Levia's fame amongst the peoples of purgatory. Those few who remember her, remember her poorly, as a charlatan and conceited pretender not worthy of the aid afforded to most seekers - and occasionally, sometimes even meriting punitive action.
[*]What Strength, Veracity - In her own, perhaps inadvisable efforts to attain greater virtue and strength, Levia will know no deceit. It extends further than refusing to lie on her own behalf; Levia will actively out the existence of any lie she is aware of. She will permit omissions of truth and white lies, except when directly confronted or confused of doing so, which can lead to the equivalent of a full avowed confession from her.
[*]Burdensome Lunacy - Levia, despite having been awakened to certain aspects of her own virtue, is still bound by many of the more unfortunate aspects of her strict, traditional religious upbringing. One of the more prominent aspects of her original life and the new ways of living in purgatory that have overlapped is the notion that mankind is to propagate and spread across the earth, and therefore even before her duty to find the Herald of Light and serve as Seeker, it is her duty to bear children upon the world. Thus giving way to the nearly intolerable and nigh-impracticable efforts by her to find willing suitors by whom to become pregnant, and then to carry and bear children - whilst simultaneously waging a horrid and eternal battle with the malevolent forces of the void itself.
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[COLOR=b8b8b8][i][h3]The Questor's Strengths[/h3][/i][/color]
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[*]No Man Wields Such Power - By some twist of providence, Levia is profoundly adept not only with the Partisan and Estoc, but is perhaps one of the finest mortal warriors in purgatory. If she is not the most adept with the blade, she is certainly amongst the most balanced and able-bodied of fighters not only in skill and talent, but also in ingenuity and experience brought on through many lifes - and deaths - worth of battling the forces of the adversary, great and small.
[*]Such Impossible Reserves - Levia's intolerable and backwards mental state has the noteworthy advantage of making her mind and soul nearly unassailable by most methods of corruption and temptation, as well as making her nearly immune to efforts of intimidation and coercion (with the notable exception of those who prove low enough to exploit her deferential mindset), which is what allowed her to garner her initial fame during her early tenure as a Seeker - she knows not any despair or suffering, and there is no enemy so great that might cause her to balk. She is certitude manifest. To her, victory is not only inevitable and certain, but preordained, and these dark times are but a passing moment of concession to the forces of darkness to permit them some small token of solace. Almost nothing could change her outlook in this way, and as such she can act as a beacon of invigorating confidence, bolstering others and steadying the nerves in trying times simply by existing.
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[COLOR=b8b8b8][i][h3]The Questor's Virtues[/h3][/i][/color]
[color=a8a8a8][i][list][*]Violence: VII
[*]Fortitude: VII
[*]Soul: III
[*]Passion: V (+I)
[*]Perception: II
[*]Command: II[/list][/i][/color][/hider]