Who You Once Were

Nathalie Twenny was not always Nat. Once, not too long ago, she was Irene Loreheart, a well placed mage in Kurskian society. Having attained an education at the Grand Duchess Aetheneum, she graced the halls of the nobility of Kursk, making friends in particular with Johann von Kursk.

Eventually, she set out into the world to carve her own path. She travelled for a time, taking the long route from Kursk to Greffen, and finally down to Sevan's Folly. The road was both exciting and frightening, at one point some cutpurses threatened Irene in an alley in Greffen, to their own detriment, but still it was eye opening to see these new facets of the world outside of the nobility she was so used to.

What she saw began to trouble her, so much so that she began laying into the drink a little too hard. On the road from Thasili, Irene witnessed a brigand kill a naked traveler for nothing more than what turned out to be a few pieces of silver. That was the last straw, she didn't know how to rectify her own idealistic world view, that people were generally good, with what she saw around her.

When she arrived in Sevan's Folly, she fell into harder substances, eventually obtaining a dose of Purple Lotus Powder cut with Third Eye. The reaction caused her to split, in a physical sense in addition to the mental sense. Two Irenes awoke from that night, one detached from the world, numbing herself to the horror of life, the other impulsive and carefree. The numb one retained not only the name Irene, but also the vast majority of her magical prowess. She used this to bend the mind of the carefree Irene, reshaped her into Nat Twenny. In the following days Irene went and interviewed to become the Dean of Illusion at the refounding of Cognitus University. She reshaped Nat's mind once more, erasing their past and giving her a carefree life matching her new attitude as a bland halfling. Irene secured Nat a job at Cognitus as a member of the Circle Guard, and the rest as they say is history.

All would be well from here, save one fact: Irene is not entirely corporeal, Nat retained the majority of the flesh and blood while Irene retained majority of the power. Irene is incapable of change or growth, she is incomplete, her soul torn in two, the heart of it residing in Nat.