Complexity: 3

Summary & Strategy: 

TBD

Bio

Ji-Yun should not exist. Ji-Yun should not be alive. Ji-Yun should not have bore witness to the Tapestry of Fate, nor traversed its threaded strands. Yet, all of these notions lay false, disproved across a thousand thousand possibilities in defiance of all odds. Ji-Yun's very existence itself was a defiance of fate of the first order - a being whose conception was highly improbable, a confluence of forces and influences multitudinous.

Her mother, Soon-Ja, is none other than the high sorceress known as Esper - one of the senior-most members of the Society of Sorceries and considered by many to be one of, if not the most, powerful wielders of arcane magic living in this era. Whomever or whatever might be or have been considered her father surfaces nowhere across the whole of the Tapestry - as if having ceased to exist, a schism of uncertainty, and for those few able to observe it: highly disconcerting.

Ji-Yun's birth was marked by the specter of death, whose clutches, too, were defied. Esper's fervorous pursuit and practicing of potent and elaborate arcane rites bore a strain upon her being which, through pride and stubbornness, drove her to over-exertion late into her pregnancy. It had not been a frivolous convocation, for Esper sought to bolster the lattice of ley energies which suffuse the Arcane Sanctum - but it was nevertheless reckless, and the consequences were dire.

In Esper's faltering, the rite failed, and in its failing the flow of all manner of arcane energies became a chaotic admixture, attracting the further attentions of beings from beyond. More importantly, however, was the duress impressed upon her daughter - by every measure, it would have been a miscarriage, and Ji-Yun would have perished.

That chaotic disruption left an absence within Ji-Yun's soul, an incomplete spirit on the precipice of oblivion. However, Ji-Yun survived - by virtue of selfless intervention. Through the familiar bond she shared with Esper, Cantrip forfeited a portion of her own fey spirit and immortality, with which to make Ji-Yun whole, that she may live.

So live Ji-Yun did - for a life that should not have been, across countless lives that could be or might be - and anything but conventional. Neither wholly human nor fae, Ji-Yun inherited the staggering sorcerous potential of Esper coupled with the breadth of fae magic - a connection forged with Cantrip in kind. Ji-Yun possessed a keen intellect from an alarmingly early age, but her knack for shaping arcane energies was only passingly rooted in studies.

Ji-Yun separated from Esper, and having resisted and shirked efforts to raise her at the Arcane Sanctum, she was instead taken to Tir Tairngire - realm of the fae. There, she matured quickly - for the ebb and flow of time perceived was a far different matter for immortal beings than those not accustomed to such things.

Ji-Yun learned many things from her caretakers - but by her late teenage years, she spoke of visions, glimpses of the fabric between realms, fate and reality itself. Insisting there were things which must be done, Ji-Yun departed from Tir Tairngire under her own power and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth and realms beyond.

Older, she returned to this world six years before she had left for Tir Tairngire - to impart crucial information to a strategic prodigy named Song Chae-Yeong - a woman who would later be known by the moniker Rook.