Cedar – Creative Writing

As stated in Aspen’s backstory tab, Aspen and her twin sister Cedar are formulating their own school of magic, experimental magic, otherwise known as “Dunamancy” at its core, Dunamancy is magic that commands the power of potentiality and actuality. Dunamancy also stems off into two different forms, “Chronurgy” which focuses on the manipulation of time, those who follow the Chronurgy tradition learn to alter the pace of reality to their liking. As well as, “Graviturgy” which focuses on bending and manipulating the violent energy of gravity to their benefit, and the terrible detriment of their enemies. The two twins got noticed back when they were very young as to having great expertise at a very young age, and showing signs of this new magic and got tipped off to the headmaster of Blackstaff Academy, the most influential wizard school in Waterdeep. From then, the headmaster Vajra took the two under her wing, being two of her direct pupils for the years leading up to and during their time at Blackstaff Academy.

Cedar (Twin Sister): Cedar is Aspen’s twin sister, specifically fraternal, and means the entire world to her. Unlike Aspen, Cedar is a lot more “free” is the best way I can put it. She’s very much is the type of person to go with the flow of things rather than stress about it, and try to solve the problem with brute force, which is a thing Aspen tends to do. While the two are both equally as smart, Cedar tends to find the solution after walking away, taking a break, and clearing her mind. Another thing I can equate her to in order to help visualize her is very much a hippie. Cedar also bears a scar on her lip, it was from an accident when the two were young. The two got momentarily separated, Cedar herself getting cornered by a thief trying to mug her; trying to fight back but also proximity it was harder for Cedar to deal with the thief, but it did alert Aspen. But by the time she got there, it was too late, in an attempt to stop Cedar from casting they cut her mouth and took the twins’ shock as a means of escape.

Kya (Mother): The twins’ mother is an interesting person to talk about. When she was younger, she was very smart and also wise, working as a sort of diviner to help her husband make ends meet, seeing that she had a strange knack for predicting the past, and the future accurately. While the twins don’t know and in Kya’s case, can’t remember, she had an incident with a type of aberration known as an “intellect devourer” which kept slowly eating away at her sanity as time went on. But Kya was strong-willed, so it didn’t affect her, that is, at least until her husband died. That’s when it truly started to affect her and her sanity and mental health plummeted, causing the twins at a very young age to need to watch their mom slowly deteriorate and grow up way too quickly.

Cyrus (Father): As great of a memory that Aspen has, she can’t really remember her father too much. Along with his wife/the twin’s mother, he too worked himself to the bone, but he worked for the town guard, add into the mix that the family didn’t have too much money, and focused everything on their kids, not having proper nourishment and self-care and well…his death was inevitable.