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{{CharacterBio | color = #FF00FF | picture = aura.jpg | name = Aura Kirie Sermons | age = Late Twenties | race = Human(?) | affiliation = None | status = Alive(?) | caption = Who Am I?}}  
{{CharacterBio | color = #FF00FF | picture = Aura_new.png | name = Aura Kirie Sermons | age = Thirties | race = Human(?) | affiliation = Mana Tribe | status = Alive | caption = As the Goddess commands}}  


'''Active: Year 323 - ??'''
==Origins==
Born Aura Kirie Sermons to a Middle Realm scientist and a woman from the Mana Holyland, much of Aura's past is shrouded in mystery due to multiple instances of wiped memories, as well as having no currently-surviving parents. It is suggested that Aura had a relatively normal childhood upbringing up until the age of nine, when her mother was selected to become the next Tree of Mana, as her family's bloodline coincided with that of the Goddess. Stricken with grief, Aura's father took her from the Holyland and returned to the Middle Realm; at some point, and for unknown reasons, Aura was forcibly converted into a reploid under the guidance of her father and fellow scientists. In the midst of an apparent breakdown, Aura's father saw the error of his ways and destroyed the facility along with all of their research, himself, and probably other employees. Aura was ejected from the facility and later found in the nearby woodlands by a Matango named Kirono, who nursed her back to health. Aura would spend the next seven years under the watchful eye of her new 'brother,' lacking any memories of her past up to that point and gradually becoming more aware of the world around her, up to the point where it became time to seek out her own destiny.


==History==
Aura's affiliation with the Mana Tribe has proven a boon and a bane throughout her life, directly impacting many incidents both involving her and those around her. After leaving Kirono to find her own way, she become involved in a series of events involving the reploids [[Seikou]] and [[Variance]], becoming smitten with the former. She would go on to discover the nature of her reploid conversion and eventual de-conversion upon her return to the Mana Holyland, and after a wild series of events involving her heritage and the reploids' own internal struggles, she eventually would produce an offspring named [[Ambience]] while under the effects of a strange dream; while the child would have various physical traits belonging to his father, Seikou was not physically involved in the child's creation in the traditional way. At this time, the stage had been set for imminent danger involving the Tree of Mana, and in an attempt to combat this threat, Aura brought Variance to the Mana Holyland such that he would remove the Sword of Mana and defend against this threat. Unable to prevent the Tree's demise, however, Aura realized that this made her the next in line to become the Tree, and she gave up her child to Seikou. Upon her return to the Holyland, Aura discovered that another had willingly taken her place to become the Tree so that she would be spared the heartbreak of her loss of family; unfortunately, with the Tree's destruction, the Holyland's ability to grant passage to the other Realms was lost, and Aura could only watch from the Holyland as her son and Seikou carried on without her.


Originally a reploid, Aura was found badly injured by the Matango named Kirono after an explosion from a nearby industrial facility, and nursed back to health; Aura was discovered to have amnesia during this time.  The two bonded quickly despite this setback, and after helping to develop her latent abilities as a reploid, Aura insisted on leaping headfirst into the world to find her own destiny.  This would prove an eye-opening chapter in Aura's life, as despite her best efforts, she could not seem to make and keep any friends.  Those she grew close to either perished in gruesome ways or simply disappeared, never to return. Disheartened and depressed, she deemed herself an outcast, keeping herself relatively confined to what used to be the Mana Sanctuary at the northern end of Truce.  Her self-proclaimed symbol became that of a black rose, of which she was given by an unseen entity one night in the same Sanctuary.


As time passed, her despair became converted into confusion and uncertainty, taking hints from fortune tellers and those around her that she was not like other reploids; her need for sustenance and capacity for empathy and emotion were unlike anything those reploids she came into contact with had ever seen.  Two reploids, [[Seikou]] and [[Variance]], would be the only exceptions; for whatever reason, they were supportive and considerate to her plight, and feelings were first hinted at and then later established between herself and [[Seikou]].  In fact, it would be her unrelenting grasp on hope and faith that would save [[Seikou]] from his Maverick tendencies on at least one occasion.  Nevertheless, she began to doubt her mechanical heritage, especially when voices began speaking to her in times of stress; these voices would later appear to her in the form of tiny tree maidens, Dryads, who took it upon themselves to reinfuse Aura with memories of her past.  Though they had little effect at first, Aura was eventually whisked away entirely and put into a magical sleep within a temporal chamber the Dryads would dub a "Mana Egg"; in this space between spaces, she would learn through a series of vivid dreams that she was the daughter of a human scientist and a woman of the Mana Tribe, and that her father had an apparent eccentric streak where his duties were concerned.
Seven years passed in that time.


Upon her awakening back in the Sanctuary, Aura gained a new sense of determination, and informed [[Variance]] and [[Seikou]] of her desire to learn the truth, establishing the fact that she would be gone for some time therefore.  At the Dryads' request, Aura visited the ruins of the factory that had been destroyed some time ago, and after an incident involving a phantom who seemed to know too much, Aura was pulled back into the "Mana Egg" for a time, and would reawaken this time in the [[Mana Holyland]].  However, she would not regain consciousness as the person she knew; her reploid augments and armor were no longer a part of her, and save a few places on her body that still bore metallic plates, she was of flesh and blood.  In the coming weeks, those in her new surroundings would give her every piece of knowledge she wanted: her history, her home, and her destiny.  She was a member of the Mana Tribe, and not only that, but in the immediate bloodline descended from the Goddess of Mana herself.  Her mother was the current incarnation of the Mana Tree, whose ascension drove Aura's father to insanity; it was during this time that Aura's conversion to reploidkind took place.  Given all she needed to know and thankful for everything she was given, Aura settled to return to Truce and see the world for what it was, now that she knew who SHE was.


On her return, Aura found that things weren't quite as optimistic as she had hoped for.  Her newfound power was a danger to [[Seikou]] at first, as the simple aspect of her closeness seemed to cause him pain.  Additionally, plans had apparently been set in motion by one or more of the gods, and though she didn't realize it at the time, her destiny was intertwined within these events.  Though fearful of herself as a monster at first and choosing to lock herself away in the Sanctuary, she quickly came to grips with reality, and with the help of a "limiter" charm her grandfather had given her, learned to suppress her powers to a subtle degree. This only solved one problem, however; Mana's power began to wane even as the current Tree's incarnation held strong, and in desperation, Aura sought an audience with one of the gods involved in the current affairs.  [[Lilly|Lillian]] further explained the situation (to some cryptic degree, at least), and divulged a legend passed down by those of the Mana Tribe without speaking about how she knew of it.  Nevertheless, Aura took it upon herself to find a potential "Hero" who would inevitably take up the [[Mana Sword|Sword of Mana]] against this incoming threat.  After deliberation between the two of them, Aura saw this hero in [[Variance]], whom the Dryads also were fond of, and it was not long after that [[Variance]] did indeed retrieve the sword from its resting place in the [[Mana Holyland]]. While [[Variance]] returned to [[Seikou]], Aura felt compelled to remain in the [[Mana Holyland|Holyland]] and get a better sense of things from her home's perspective.
Aura has taken up the mantle of 'Oracle' within the Mana Tribe's village, akin to the highest position in the Holy Sanctuary that provides the closest physical link between the tribe and the Goddess of Mana. From the Holyland, Aura watched as Seikou gradually fell apart without her, but held on enough to provide a fatherage to Ambience so that he would not grow up an orphan. In the year that followed, she watched as Ambience's lost heritage and unique biology gradually wore on him, to the point where he become enthralled by a [[Witches_(Wishborn)|Witch]] and set out to destroy the city of [[Truce]] and any of his friends that happened to block his path. Going against the wishes of her elders and calling upon considerable power to do so, Aura broke through the Holyland's barrier and reached out to the Middle Realm, stealing Ambience away before he had the chance to cause any major harm and holding him captive in a magical prison within the Mana Tribe's village. Eventually the Witch that held sway over Ambience was destroyed by other [[Wishborn]], but Ambience was spiritually-ravaged by the events of the last year and required that his memory be wiped of the events of that past year in order to be made stable.


At its source, the flow of mana grew wild and untamed as the dark threat loomed, and at one point, Aura found herself returned to her "Mana Egg"; however, she would emerge from this slumber with a child on the way, a strange twist of fate and the Goddess' will in the time of uncertainty.  Informed by the Mana Tree of what was to happen, Aura left immediately to clue [[Seikou]] and [[Variance]] in on what would transpire, as well as sheepishly introduce her new [[Ambience|offspring]], hesitantly claiming (and hoping) [[Seikou]] as the father.  She explained what she could of the incident, and was relieved at his acceptance.  She briefed [[Variance]], in turn, on what was now expected of him.  The following morning, Aura was nowhere to be seen, having left the child that she had named '[[Ambience]]' behind in [[Seikou]]'s care, along with a small-stemmed black rose.  Though a potential act of abandonment on the outside, Aura had no choice; she was the next in line to become the new Mana Tree after this series of events destroyed the old one, and could not care for the child herself.  However, on her return to the Holyland, she was shocked to discover that another member of the bloodline had taken her place while she was gone, with the intent to spare her the sorrow of creating and then leaving her family.  Aura's guilty elation at the news was cut heartbreakingly short, however, when she found that the flow of mana was no longer strong enough to allow for her travel to the outside realms.  She remained in the [[Mana Holyland|Holyland]], watching the two and subconsciously wondering what had happened to [[Variance]] during these last events.


With her son effectively in subconscious stasis for the year that followed, Aura watched further events unfold in the Middle Realm below, and as the barrier had been broken through by her act, occasionally made visits there, herself. Recognizing events that were taking place, Aura returned to the village and eventually woke her son from his slumber, giving him a limiter that would allow him to have a better grasp of his own power and affording him knowledge on his own heritage and lineage. Aura would remain in the Holyland at this time while Ambience came and went, returning to some small fraction of his past life with minimal knowledge about anyone there except for a few people who he still seemed to recognize despite his forced memory loss. In the span of events that followed, it became clear that the Sinistrals were about to awaken, and Aura would disdainfully admonish [[Gforte|Haut]], the one responsible for their allowed return, before taking Ambience and returning to the Holyland to await the Middle Realm's fate without their intervention. However, in their attempted search for Doom Island, the Sinistrals instead succeeded in awakening the Fortress of Mana, forcing Aura and the Holyland to become involved because of the potential danger that the Fortress would prove to the Tree of Mana if not dealt with. As Haut was unable to enter the Fortress without it, Ambience was chosen to withdraw the Sword of Mana and enter the Fortress alongside Haut to deal with the Sinistrals, with Aura only able to stay behind and hope for her son's safe return. The Sinistrals were eventually defeated and the Fortress destroyed, but Ambience did not return, leaving Aura heartbroken once more at the loss of her family. During the course of these events, Seikou also disappeared and had not been seen since.


-


Five years passed in that time.


Aura is a member of the Mana Tribe, servants of the Mana Goddess, who reside within the [[Mana Holyland]] as tenants and caretakers of the Mana Tree and, alongside the elementals and faeries, guardians of the [[Mana Sword|Sword of Mana]].  She is of average build, if only a little on the frail side, with short, midnight-blue hair and violet irises.  Her actual age is questionable, given the events that have transpired since her birth, but for appearance's sake, she seems to be around her early twenties.  Her trademark is that of a black rose that she keeps woven through her hair, and she wears a magical choker that keeps her power from surpassing that which she is able to contain, as she is seen as something of special case even among the Mana Tribe.  As her son, [[Ambience]], grew older, she became able to establish a subtle telepathic link across the realms, and is able to speak with him on few occasions by channeling what she can of mana's regrowing power.  She is saddened that this link cannot be established with [[Seikou]] under the same means, and only hopes for the day when she can be reunited with the two of them.


Suspicious activity in the Underworld and the Middle Realm has raised the alarm for the Holyland, and until they are able to assess and determine the nature of the threat as it could be posed to the Holyland itself, a barrier has again been erected that prevents travel to and from the Holyland and other Realms. Aura continues her duties as the Oracle of the Mana Tribe, having moved on after the destruction of the Fortress and the loss of her son and mate from five years prior. Unlike her abilities half a decade prior, the current strength of the newly-formed barrier prevents outside vigilance unto the Middle Realm, preventing her from witnessing any events unfolding there.




==World Notes==
Her current status is unknown, but it is assumed that she still resides in the Holyland, unaware of the events taking place in the Realms below.
===- Year 323 -===
===[[A Reploid Girl's Diary 1]]===
===[[A Reploid Girl's Diary 2]]===
===[[Mountainside Training]]===
===[[A Reploid Girl's Diary 3]]===
===[[Nightmare and Realization]]===
===[[Analyzation: The Choice Has Been Made]]===
===[[A Nightly Stroll]]===
'''




===-[[The Forgotten Year]]-===
==Powers, Abilities, and Traits==
'''


Being directly descended from the bloodline of the Goddess of Mana, Aura's ability to manipulate and interact with the flow of mana at its source grants her significant dominion over magic as a whole. She is forced to wear a limiter, which appears as a simple black choker inset with a small emerald, in order to contain what would otherwise be an incredible amount of insurmountable power that could pose a danger to herself and others if unintentionally unleashed. It is said that her power is second only to her son, Ambience, due to the unique nature of his conception. Very little magic is averse to her beck and call, and she wields her powers with staunch conviction over her beliefs, preferring to mend and protect, but willing to go on the offense as necessary to protect the Holyland and its inhabitants. Aura takes a little-nonsense approach to most matters, and is vehement in her stance when faced with danger regarding her family or the Mana Holyland. The act of her de-conversion from Reploid to Human left her with minor physical impairments, such as residual metal plates on certain areas of her body, as well as an occasional loss of balance that requires her to carry a walking brand while mobile.
Like all members of the Mana Tribe, Aura is gifted with the ability to detect a person's 'Mana Signature,' which is effectively a second sight that allows her to determine the composition of mana within organic/living beings. By analyzing the makeup and structure of a person's signature in this way, as well as changes or shifts, Aura can detect subsurface traits such as intent, mood, internal health, and so on. She also has a limited psychic connection with Ambience, allowing her to broadcast messages into his thoughts; this is a one-way connection, however, as she cannot receive his thoughts in kind.


===- Year 325 -===
===[[Faith of the Blind]]===
===[[The Fleeting Heart]]===
===[[Voices From the Past 1]]===
===[[Voices From the Past 2]]===




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Latest revision as of 12:32, 8 May 2024

Aura Kirie Sermons
Aura new.png
As the Goddess commands
Age: Thirties
Race: Human(?)
Status: Alive
Affiliation: Mana Tribe

Origins

Born Aura Kirie Sermons to a Middle Realm scientist and a woman from the Mana Holyland, much of Aura's past is shrouded in mystery due to multiple instances of wiped memories, as well as having no currently-surviving parents. It is suggested that Aura had a relatively normal childhood upbringing up until the age of nine, when her mother was selected to become the next Tree of Mana, as her family's bloodline coincided with that of the Goddess. Stricken with grief, Aura's father took her from the Holyland and returned to the Middle Realm; at some point, and for unknown reasons, Aura was forcibly converted into a reploid under the guidance of her father and fellow scientists. In the midst of an apparent breakdown, Aura's father saw the error of his ways and destroyed the facility along with all of their research, himself, and probably other employees. Aura was ejected from the facility and later found in the nearby woodlands by a Matango named Kirono, who nursed her back to health. Aura would spend the next seven years under the watchful eye of her new 'brother,' lacking any memories of her past up to that point and gradually becoming more aware of the world around her, up to the point where it became time to seek out her own destiny.

History

Aura's affiliation with the Mana Tribe has proven a boon and a bane throughout her life, directly impacting many incidents both involving her and those around her. After leaving Kirono to find her own way, she become involved in a series of events involving the reploids Seikou and Variance, becoming smitten with the former. She would go on to discover the nature of her reploid conversion and eventual de-conversion upon her return to the Mana Holyland, and after a wild series of events involving her heritage and the reploids' own internal struggles, she eventually would produce an offspring named Ambience while under the effects of a strange dream; while the child would have various physical traits belonging to his father, Seikou was not physically involved in the child's creation in the traditional way. At this time, the stage had been set for imminent danger involving the Tree of Mana, and in an attempt to combat this threat, Aura brought Variance to the Mana Holyland such that he would remove the Sword of Mana and defend against this threat. Unable to prevent the Tree's demise, however, Aura realized that this made her the next in line to become the Tree, and she gave up her child to Seikou. Upon her return to the Holyland, Aura discovered that another had willingly taken her place to become the Tree so that she would be spared the heartbreak of her loss of family; unfortunately, with the Tree's destruction, the Holyland's ability to grant passage to the other Realms was lost, and Aura could only watch from the Holyland as her son and Seikou carried on without her.


Seven years passed in that time.


Aura has taken up the mantle of 'Oracle' within the Mana Tribe's village, akin to the highest position in the Holy Sanctuary that provides the closest physical link between the tribe and the Goddess of Mana. From the Holyland, Aura watched as Seikou gradually fell apart without her, but held on enough to provide a fatherage to Ambience so that he would not grow up an orphan. In the year that followed, she watched as Ambience's lost heritage and unique biology gradually wore on him, to the point where he become enthralled by a Witch and set out to destroy the city of Truce and any of his friends that happened to block his path. Going against the wishes of her elders and calling upon considerable power to do so, Aura broke through the Holyland's barrier and reached out to the Middle Realm, stealing Ambience away before he had the chance to cause any major harm and holding him captive in a magical prison within the Mana Tribe's village. Eventually the Witch that held sway over Ambience was destroyed by other Wishborn, but Ambience was spiritually-ravaged by the events of the last year and required that his memory be wiped of the events of that past year in order to be made stable.


With her son effectively in subconscious stasis for the year that followed, Aura watched further events unfold in the Middle Realm below, and as the barrier had been broken through by her act, occasionally made visits there, herself. Recognizing events that were taking place, Aura returned to the village and eventually woke her son from his slumber, giving him a limiter that would allow him to have a better grasp of his own power and affording him knowledge on his own heritage and lineage. Aura would remain in the Holyland at this time while Ambience came and went, returning to some small fraction of his past life with minimal knowledge about anyone there except for a few people who he still seemed to recognize despite his forced memory loss. In the span of events that followed, it became clear that the Sinistrals were about to awaken, and Aura would disdainfully admonish Haut, the one responsible for their allowed return, before taking Ambience and returning to the Holyland to await the Middle Realm's fate without their intervention. However, in their attempted search for Doom Island, the Sinistrals instead succeeded in awakening the Fortress of Mana, forcing Aura and the Holyland to become involved because of the potential danger that the Fortress would prove to the Tree of Mana if not dealt with. As Haut was unable to enter the Fortress without it, Ambience was chosen to withdraw the Sword of Mana and enter the Fortress alongside Haut to deal with the Sinistrals, with Aura only able to stay behind and hope for her son's safe return. The Sinistrals were eventually defeated and the Fortress destroyed, but Ambience did not return, leaving Aura heartbroken once more at the loss of her family. During the course of these events, Seikou also disappeared and had not been seen since.


Five years passed in that time.


Suspicious activity in the Underworld and the Middle Realm has raised the alarm for the Holyland, and until they are able to assess and determine the nature of the threat as it could be posed to the Holyland itself, a barrier has again been erected that prevents travel to and from the Holyland and other Realms. Aura continues her duties as the Oracle of the Mana Tribe, having moved on after the destruction of the Fortress and the loss of her son and mate from five years prior. Unlike her abilities half a decade prior, the current strength of the newly-formed barrier prevents outside vigilance unto the Middle Realm, preventing her from witnessing any events unfolding there.


Her current status is unknown, but it is assumed that she still resides in the Holyland, unaware of the events taking place in the Realms below.


Powers, Abilities, and Traits

Being directly descended from the bloodline of the Goddess of Mana, Aura's ability to manipulate and interact with the flow of mana at its source grants her significant dominion over magic as a whole. She is forced to wear a limiter, which appears as a simple black choker inset with a small emerald, in order to contain what would otherwise be an incredible amount of insurmountable power that could pose a danger to herself and others if unintentionally unleashed. It is said that her power is second only to her son, Ambience, due to the unique nature of his conception. Very little magic is averse to her beck and call, and she wields her powers with staunch conviction over her beliefs, preferring to mend and protect, but willing to go on the offense as necessary to protect the Holyland and its inhabitants. Aura takes a little-nonsense approach to most matters, and is vehement in her stance when faced with danger regarding her family or the Mana Holyland. The act of her de-conversion from Reploid to Human left her with minor physical impairments, such as residual metal plates on certain areas of her body, as well as an occasional loss of balance that requires her to carry a walking brand while mobile.

Like all members of the Mana Tribe, Aura is gifted with the ability to detect a person's 'Mana Signature,' which is effectively a second sight that allows her to determine the composition of mana within organic/living beings. By analyzing the makeup and structure of a person's signature in this way, as well as changes or shifts, Aura can detect subsurface traits such as intent, mood, internal health, and so on. She also has a limited psychic connection with Ambience, allowing her to broadcast messages into his thoughts; this is a one-way connection, however, as she cannot receive his thoughts in kind.

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