As of 12/8/97
Neutral Good Fighter/Magic-User
Created by
Ben Pung
Maia was born in the forests of Jahhne, the young-
est of four children. She was a well-behaved and
happy child, and was known as Maia of the White Oak.
When she was eight years old, her parents were
killed when their treetop home was struck by lightning
during a bad storm. She and her three brothers were
not home at the time, and soon took up residence
by themselves. The next year, the youngest of her
brothers died of a summer fever and two years later
the other two were killed on a boar hunt.
Maia had by this point begun studying with a prominent
local mage, and he took her in at the age of twelve
as an apprentice and foster daughter. She showed great
promise as a student, and pursued her studies with
great vigor. Her childhood demeanor had darkened a
great deal with the loss of her family, but slowly
she became less despondent as she grew closer to her
mentor.
When she was sixteen years old and a successful if
inexperienced mage in her own right, she watched as
her master miscast a powerful spell that consumed his
body in blue fire. Maia watched helplessly as her second
family was taken from her.
A week passed during which she closeted herself away
in her master's home and appealed to the gods to
explain to her their cruelty. From their utter silence
she deduced that the gods had forsaken her, and so
she turned her back on them as well. From her mentor's
home she took the spellbook from which he had taught her
and the enchanted sword which had been his masterwork.
The spellbook she packed at the very bottom of a large
backpack the sword she slung at her hip. On the seventh
night Maia left her home behind, never to return.
Maia had no goal when she left her forest home, and
would have welcomed death had it sought her out. As
fate would have it, however, her base survival instinct
and natural talent served to keep her alive. The mage-
worked sword was her only weapon, and for fifteen years
she never opened the spellbook she had kept under her
spare shirts. Taking to the lonely wilderness, Maia
largely avoided others, though she aided those she
met who were in need: lost travelers, victims of
orcish raids, wounded hunters. Over the years she
gradually increased her contact with civilization,
always careful to keep her associations businesslike
and short. She adopted the name Maia of the Moonless
Night soon after her rejection of her gods.
In the past several years, Maia has finally buried
her memories far enough to once again study the mage's
craft, and her old talents have returned and increased
with practice.
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