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| rei-azalia | Jan 22 2016, 05:29 PM Post #1 |
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![]() Name: Tai'ly'po Phonetic or Nickname: Tail-ee-poh Alignment: Lawful Evil Personality: Tai'ly'po is a crafty, wicked little creature. She is clever, to the point that her trickery has overtaken the small village of Raykenn and outmatched all the humans and aershaa living there. She is incredibly vindictive and will take revenge on any and all who wrong her, just as she always has. She is smart too, smart enough to hide in the the day and only work in the shadows of night that match her dark pelt and disposition. She is also egotistical and greedy, thinking there are very few who match her intelligence. After all, how many lekkir own their own human village and have every person in it living in unfound fear? She is humorous but its a sick humor. She finds joy in the fact that her act of unending vengeance is costing all the humans their livelihood and sanity. Lore/ Local Story: There is a town in the woods called Raykenn. The town is a farming town, built on the backs of cattle and trappers and traders. Among them was a young hunter who owned three strong aershaa. One summer, drought had over taken the forest and the young man wandered from the village to find food. He caught a small lappir but hungered after feeding it to his three hounds. Starving, he wandered into the garden of a dark, nameless goddess. The garden was made of stone and black vines that seemed hideous in the light of day but burst to life at night. But he only saw it in the sun and thought it like any other grove. In the middle of the clearing, on a stone pedestal, slept the Tailypo, the goddess's favourite pet. It was black and shiny with large ears and a magnificent tail. In fact, its tail was so alluring that the hunter chopped it off with an axe and ate it in one swallow. He then headed for home, ignoring the yowling of the creature. That night, he was plagued with nightmares. The goddess came to him in stark white clothing, clutching the black creature in her arms. In a fury, she struck his house with a white branch and demanding payment for the removal of her favourite pet's tail, before the morrow's moon set. Startling awake, the man thought of her as nothing more than a dream. He gathered his aershaa a bit closer and went back to sleep. The next day, nothing much was amiss, but a white branch laid on his door step. Kicking it aside, he thought nothing of it for all the day and went about his work as usual. He hunted a fine, large plaited deer and let it hang in his smoke shack. Had he appeased the goddess's wrath with it, he may still be alive. Instead, he fed himself and his aershaa and retired to bed. In the night came an unfamiliar scratching across the floor. There was a rattled breathing and black paws dragged themselves up onto his bed. The hunter felt a warmth and a weight by his feet and lifted, thinking it one of his pets. Instead, the beast from the grove sat, staring with huge yellow eyes. It drew its mouth back into hideously sharp fangs and gave a sharp snarl. "I want my Tailypo!" The terrified man sicced his aershaa on the beast, chasing it from the house in a few seconds. An hour passed and only two aershaa returned. The man worried but felt the black beast was gone. Not a quarter later, he felt its horrible claws rip the linens of his bed and a weight on his feet. "YOU have my Tailypo!" For a second time, the man set his aershaa on the creature. He pulled the blankets up to his chin and when only one aershaa came back after another tense hour, he pulled the beast onto the bed with him for safety. Sleep did not come easily. Before the clock struck two, the clatter of claws came again and the monstrous demon sat on the end of the bed. "Give me back my Tailypo!" It demanded once more. The man sent his last aershaa on the creature and they fled out the door. He swung from the covers and locked the entrances, closed the windows and grated the fireplace. He took his loyal axe from the wall and brought it to bed, clutching to it and praying for the dawn, hoping the beast would vanish with the sun rise. When claws scratched the floor an hour passed, he almost demanded that it was his pet. When he dared to peek, he only saw a line of bloody paw marks and felt the familiar weight of the demon beast on his feet. For a tense circle, the clock ticked and neither said a word. As the room began to lighten, the clock chimed 5. The weight shifted. The beast was walking up his legs like a spry feline coming to wake its master. "Give me back my Tailypo!" "I DON'T HAVE YOUR DAMNED TAILYPO!" The hunter sprung up and knocked the beast to the floor, throwing the sheets over it and slamming into the squirming, yowling bundle with his axe, chopping away until the linens were stained red and had stopped struggling. He dropped his cutter and let go, collapsing on the floor and leaning against the bed. As the sun cracked, the blankets fell open. Nothing was inside. A sharp voice whispered in his ear. "I know you have my Tailypo." The man knew no more, his eyes popped, his neck rend from his body, his belly pulled open. Melting into twilight, the creature skipped back with the man's head in his teeth to the grove. It met its goddess, chanting; "Now I've got my Tailypo!" From then on, the legend of the Dark Goddess and her Tailypo haunts the town and region. They cannot escape her or her beast's wrath. It is a fool's errand to ignore the weekly selection. The one who receives a white branch on their house in the night must leave the goddess of the grove an apologetic offering of food, furs, wine, their finest livestock, clothes or money to repay eternally for what cannot be replaced; her Tailypo's tail. If the goddess is ignored or if she feels the offering is not enough, she sends her dark pet to visit in the night. The individual has until the morning to improve their offering. If they don't, the Tailypo will make them the sacrifice. It doesn't discriminate against men, women, elders or children either. Backstory: In the real world, Tai'ly'po is a lekkir. She did have her own grove, though, and minded it very well. She kept birds from it and kept her night flowers neat and tidy. But one day, a man entered her grove and threw an axe at her. Trying to take her life, he was, but he missed and chopped off her tail instead. She was in great pain and only her knowledge of healing herbs saved her. The man took her tail and its fate was unknown to her: he either ate it in a stew or sold it. After healing, she followed the human to his village. She visited him in the dead of night and spoke to him through a window in his sleep. She demanded he leave a sacrifice by the white branched tree or she, Tai'ly'po, would come for him. To remind him, she left a white branch on his door step. But she was ignored. In the dead of night, she broke into his house and was indeed chased off by his dogs, through no order of the man's. But she killed all three in one go- one she ripped the throat out of. The other she tricked off a cliff. And the third got hopelessly lost as she wove through the trees. So she returned to the man and demanded he pay for what was done to her. But her english was so broken that when she tried to explain what she wanted, he only heard; "Give...back...Tailypo." Terrified, he gave her all the food in his house, begging for her not to kill him. She killed him much later in his life, when he had lost all his friends and neighbours, trying to convince them of his personal haunting by the evil creature Tailypo. She killed him when he finally snapped and went after her with an axe. The legend expanded after evidence pointed to his throat being ripped out by a small animal. Now, the next generation of humans has occurred in the village, growing up and scaring themselves on the story of the horrible dark goddess and her Tailless Tailypo. She plays the role of both the dark goddess and the Tailypo. Once a week, she slinks into town at night and places a white branch on the house of the sacrifice. Then she waits for them in her hidden caverns under the white tree at the edge of the grove. If they deliver a good meal or offering before the next sunrise, she leaves the town alone for another week. But if the offering is not enough, she pays a visit to the humans as the vengeful Tailypo, sent by the angry goddess to take her own sacrifice. People have started to believe that sacrificing a baby to the Tailypo is instant freedom from her selection process forever. All because a hunter chopped off her tail half a lifetime ago. Voice actor: The Olden Pony Theme song: Painful Memories Tidbit: Like Joker, no-one in the village is sure what gender Tai'ly'po is. Plots: Nothing yet ![]() [AI=http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/Rei-Azalia/tp_zps3bf9c003.jpg] |
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