by LostGosling » Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:10 pm
Username: LostGosling
Name: Ἀχλύς – or Achlys - {(pronounced: "aa-h-l-EE-s" OR "ahk-LOOS")}
Type: Runner
Height: 106cm
Gender: Doe
Answer: Achlys, a name that I have to admit is a bear to find proper pronunciation for (and I’m still not even sure; so I included both of the ones I found. TuT), is a lovely Greek name with an eerie meaning, and a bit of mythology behind it as well.
A simpler search will reveal that it means "mist", which without explaining myself, the reason I picked it might not be too apparent. But if you delve deeper, the connection I made between the Nukitta and the name soon emerges. Achlys was known as The Eternal Night, and also a female personification of the "Death Mist" that was thought to fall over the eyes just before dying.
Not only do her lovely bengal markings seem to swirl with the same dark, intricate caress that you might come to expect of an eternal darkness, but the white mask over her face could also be symbolic of the same mist that which her name depicts. Perhaps it more closely resembles the harmless mist of the mortal world than it's more ominous counterpart, but nonetheless ties to yet another translation of the name that is simply: "mist over the eyes".
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