by wyrdwurm » Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:11 pm
Username: lunamoth19
Name: Ran (Scandinavian "Norse god of the sea")
Element: Water
Gender: Male
Atoniform: albatross (inspired by the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Personality: Shy indeed he is but shyness does not wither away his other personality traits. Though he may have the shyness of his kind he has learned how to communicate with seagoing vessels by shifting into its atoniform and flying over the great waters leading lost ships back to shore. So along with shy our friend here is also a helpful and caring fellow even if he only gets praised as a bird. His heart is kind even if he lives so near the harsh uncaring sea and that can be explained better with a story.
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Really his life has never been all that exciting. Ran found himself upon the empty rocky shores of a great sea and that is where he stayed. Taking up an abandoned lighthouse a couple miles into the sea he made his home. The rocks and violent waves keeping any man from ever returning to their lost lighthouse. At night and dusk he hunts returning to the mainland to find what igniscervos may be about though he makes sure to check his diet so as not to eliminate them from the area. By day he lives as an albatross flying across the seas for lost ships
One day though things became a little different. Finding a ship lost at sea he began to follow it. Now here is an interesting fact about the great seabird that Ran so resembles. The albatross can be seen as both a symbol of good or bad luck. For an unrecorded amount of time this bird was a sign of good luck until a great poet wrote forth a story where this majestic bird was killed and its death laid a curse upon the crew of the ship, the word albatross can even be a metaphor meaning to burden.
"Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung."
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now by time Ran came along this poem was already ancient history but its results lived on. Upon the ship was a young girl and the crew where all mighty ship men but very superstitious. For this crew a woman, be it even a little girl, was bad luck and now to have an Albatross following them was like a sign of death. So to appease luck the crew threw the girl overboard! Now Ran was in no way expecting that and so the great bird flew down across the crew causing them to scatter and quickly sail away. Circling back Ran moved to land in the turning sea, his feat touching the water sent a almost mystic calm through its surface and there treading water was the little girl her face already streaked with salt and tears. Now Ran could never leave a person to die in his sea, especially a little girl. And so for the first time he showed a human his true form and with her climbing onto his back he swam back to shore the water staying calm all the way there. Now the little girl hugged him and thanked him and of curse she had to leave. But every now and then when Ran comes to shore he will find a pile of shells with micilanious trinkets and gifts that only a little child could call treasure.