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Almost immediately, the goodly Brother began to pay extra attention to these young women and the villagers so used to the excesses of attention provided all the children by the old village priest thought nothing of it. Within months all the girls were becoming ill, not eating, having nightmares and irregular courses. Frater Eadweard quickly diagnosed this as the influence of the devil, perhaps even witchcraft. It had never occurred to anyone in the village that one of their neighbors might be a witch, but the charge kept the villagers watching one another and not the Brother. Eadweard took each of the girls in hand and personally ''exercised'' the demons within them, but upon returning them to their families he demanded that they all come to him once a week for ''blessing'' to ensure the evil spirits did not return. The good Brother tracked the evil back to an old crone who lived at the edge of the village and she was exiled from her home never to be seen again. | Almost immediately, the goodly Brother began to pay extra attention to these young women and the villagers so used to the excesses of attention provided all the children by the old village priest thought nothing of it. Within months all the girls were becoming ill, not eating, having nightmares and irregular courses. Frater Eadweard quickly diagnosed this as the influence of the devil, perhaps even witchcraft. It had never occurred to anyone in the village that one of their neighbors might be a witch, but the charge kept the villagers watching one another and not the Brother. Eadweard took each of the girls in hand and personally ''exercised'' the demons within them, but upon returning them to their families he demanded that they all come to him once a week for ''blessing'' to ensure the evil spirits did not return. The good Brother tracked the evil back to an old crone who lived at the edge of the village and she was exiled from her home never to be seen again. | ||
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| + | For Sunniva, as for each of the other girls, this was a hellish time. Frater Eadweard often ''broke sweat'' ensuring the evil spirits did not return to possess the girls and when he smiled at them it was different than when he smiled for everyone else. It was during this time that Eadwulf, the huntsman's son began to take notice of her. They exchanged glaces in church, and on the village common or where ever they might chance to meet one another. Over the next year, Eadwulf brought her small gifts, leaving them where she would find them and sometimes they would meet in the woods while he hunted or swim in the nearby lake. Unlike the other villagers, Eadwulf did not seem to think there was something wrong with her and dismissed her ''possession'' as a fever of the church. | ||
Revision as of 07:08, 27 November 2018
Sobriquet: The Wolf-dancer, Sunniva - means gift if the sun in ancient German, ironic since she turns with the full moon.
Appearance: Sunniva is a Nordic beauty, although born to a Saxon family, there can be little doubt that one of her grandfathers was a Norseman who came to her village in the act of viking. Regardless, her flawless and milk pale skin tells the tale and none can have any doubt after looking into her arctic blue eyes. At first glance one would call Sunniva little more than a waif, for she stands just short of five feet tall and probably weighs one-hundred pounds soaking wet. Her face is faintly vulpine in shape and her small breasts accentuate a sinuous athletic body born to dance and to hunt. Although not originally trained to dance, Sunniva has found a novel and superior grace since her first turning and she now serves as the understudy of Salome, the Wife of the Serpent. As a dervish, Sunniva is quite popular and regularly receives gifts and offers of affection from admirers, allowing her to maintain the lifestyle of medieval merchants wife or one of the less nobility. Her clothing and jewelry reflect her opulent lifestyle as she possesses numerous dresses, fine cloaks, rings, necklaces, baldrics and jeweled daggers. Her prize piece of jewelry is masterfully worked wolf's head medallion that she prominently displays upon her bosom.
Behavior: Despite her air of frigid indifference, Sunniva has always been a woman of intense passion, even before her turning. Since her transformation her hungers have all grown in intensity, whether it be for food, sex or dance. The beast inside her ever seek for release and even in her dreams she transforms to hunt through surreal landscapes.
History: Born in Wifilisburg, of peasant stock in 1080 A.D., Sunniva grew up the youngest of seven children. She never knew her father for he died of a rotten gut the same year she was born. Sunniva's mother had her hands full raising seven children while trying to work a farm and not long after she remarried. Sunniva's stepfather was a much younger man than her mother, hard working, but inexperienced with children. Quick with discipline and light on love, Sunniva's stepfather wasn't what the family really needed, but her mother exhausted from carrying the load of two medieval parents did not really care.
As a young girl growing up without the love of a good father-figure, Sunniva never really knew what she was looking for as she searched for in the form of male affection. Like all the children of the village, she was required to spend some of her time learning the basics of her faith and found a sympathetic soul in the old village priest, father Sigiward. The kindly old priest spent an hour or two everyday with the village children teaching them about Christ and the Church of Rome. But as often as not, the old man was a glorified babysitter who saw the children of the village as his grandchildren and took good care of them all. But when Sunniva was nine, the old man died suddenly in the night and for a time the village was without spiritual leadership.
Then Frater Eadweard arrived from a distant village and took over Sunday sermons, catechism and confession. At first everything seemed fine, the monk was fatter than the old priest, but everyone liked him and he had a way with the people of the village. In the year of Sunniva's birth, several daughters had been born to the village and these girls quickly took to playing together when not performing chores. In the year following Frater Eadweard's arrival, a number of these young girls passed through their first menstrual cycle together -- becoming young women, at least in the medieval mind.
Almost immediately, the goodly Brother began to pay extra attention to these young women and the villagers so used to the excesses of attention provided all the children by the old village priest thought nothing of it. Within months all the girls were becoming ill, not eating, having nightmares and irregular courses. Frater Eadweard quickly diagnosed this as the influence of the devil, perhaps even witchcraft. It had never occurred to anyone in the village that one of their neighbors might be a witch, but the charge kept the villagers watching one another and not the Brother. Eadweard took each of the girls in hand and personally exercised the demons within them, but upon returning them to their families he demanded that they all come to him once a week for blessing to ensure the evil spirits did not return. The good Brother tracked the evil back to an old crone who lived at the edge of the village and she was exiled from her home never to be seen again.
For Sunniva, as for each of the other girls, this was a hellish time. Frater Eadweard often broke sweat ensuring the evil spirits did not return to possess the girls and when he smiled at them it was different than when he smiled for everyone else. It was during this time that Eadwulf, the huntsman's son began to take notice of her. They exchanged glaces in church, and on the village common or where ever they might chance to meet one another. Over the next year, Eadwulf brought her small gifts, leaving them where she would find them and sometimes they would meet in the woods while he hunted or swim in the nearby lake. Unlike the other villagers, Eadwulf did not seem to think there was something wrong with her and dismissed her possession as a fever of the church.
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