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aurelia mercar 🐍

@theveiledserpent.bsky.social

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Be quick, please, I have spirits to attend to. ( #darp account for OC Rook, 21+, casual to semi-serious, check tags for info.) Rules: #aureliarules Summary: #aureliastory Headcanons: #aureliahc General: #aureliamercar

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 6

⇀ ooc. Basic guidelines:

- MV / MS ✔️
- 21+ preferred – mun is 30+, muse is in 30’s
- Rook or Companion
- Casual to semi-serious, laidback posting/replies
- Memes & shitposting will occur
- Default = Minrathous saved, but flexible
- DMs open to following & moots, pls be cool ✌️

( 🧵 #aureliarules )

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Feb 17

They’re spirits, not ghosts. And it’s less “trying to summon one” and more “this spirit is already here and just wants to feel included”.

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Feb 15

As do you, Vanya. That green compliments you and your companion both very well.

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Feb 14

Mm, might as well look nice for Tarquin and Ashur’s big day.

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Feb 4

Very pretty. And some food for thought…

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 27

I met a spirit the other night who’d heard the two of you from the other side of the Veil. Funnily enough, it *had* been a Spirit of Innocence.

Trust me, everyone knows.

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 26

*takes a long drag from the hookah*

The cycle was not broken. It was just a matter of time.

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 23

It’s well past midnight when Aurelia slips into the Sanctum from a back entrance, hood up and eyes averted. She heads straight to the lounge, seats herself, and starts preparing the hookah with only slightly shaky hands.

It’s going to be a very long night…

#darp

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 14

The spirits quiet at last. Compassion spreads its warmth, fear and desire have transcended into love, and those split are finding wholeness once more.

Now I can finally finish these tinctures in peace. Next demon to go off the deep end is getting bound into an Orlesian sex toy.

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 14

No. There are already too many voices trying to be heard, and I’m not in the mood to shout over them.

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 14

Desire turns to Fear, for the root of all desires is fear. Fear of loss, fear of rejection, fear of denial.

Fear feeds Desire with the need to claim, fulfills belong. Desire feeds Fear with desperation, craving, longing. A self-consuming serpent, bleeding as it chews.

How will you stop the cycle?

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- no one else knows why she’s so connected to spirits and demons
- she figured out her whole soul thing a long time ago—if it bothers others, that’s their problem
- Dorian was her intro to the Shadow Dragons; she’s their personal apothecary now

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- she’s become known as a “spirit talker” in Minrathous
- she can see spirits even when they’re invisible to other mortals, & is good at communicating their needs between them and mortals
- demons are harder, but she’s also good at banishing them

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- but she didn’t cause trouble on purpose, so the Mercars raised and cared for her in their own way
- she learned from a spirit that she was related to the Pavus family, & when she was old enough she sought out Dorian to get to know him better

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- she knew things she shouldn’t know (like how both her parents had died, tho she remembered it in fragments that made no sense to anyone else)
- talked to spirits like normal people (learned lots of secrets from them)
- and she spoke like an adult

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- Aurelia’s birth parents succeeded in making a child with unusual magical skills, but it was due to Aurelia having the soul of a Fade spirit instead of a human
- so Aurelia was a strange kid from the start: weirdly quiet & observant, unsettling

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- Halward Pavus was the only one who pieced together what had happened & he took the secret to the grave
- he arranged for the child to be taken in by the Mercar family—removed from the scandal but easy to keep an eye on; they named her Aurelia

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- since Laenia & Romilian hadn’t told anyone their plans, no one knew the full story that led to the child’s birth but could guess enough—blood magic + demons = two dead altus mages & a mystery baby, aka A Scandal™

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- Laenia was severely & permanently weakened by the ritual, & was bedridden over the next 9 months
- she was kept alive by family & slaves until she died giving birth Aurelia, a baby girl with mismatched eyes who started fires within an hour of birth

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- by that point, they were too far into the ritual for it to be stopped, so Laenia could only hang on for dear life as her abomination-husband impregnated her
- once complete, Laenia was able to send the demons back to the Fade & kill the abomination

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- when they went to do the ritual, the power they used from the demons was too much & made everything extremely unstable
- this instability frayed at the binding on Romilian’s demon, & it broke out mid-ritual, turning him into an abomination

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- they eventually bound several demons in their home to use as power conduits for their ritual
- Romilian was paranoid that it wouldn’t be enough, so he secretly summoned and bound a demon into himself as an extra layer of insurance

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory (cont.):

- her parents couldn’t produce a mage child despite years of trying; only other child didn’t show magical talent fast enough and died in a “tragic accident”
- desperate, they turned to blood magic/spirit binding to ensure a powerful mage child

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

((Egg on my face trying to post Aurelia’s long-ass backstory right as I’m finishing lunch and trying to get back to work 🤦 okay let’s try that again with the right tags and also actually finish it))

aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

⇀ ooc. Backstory summary:

(CW: child death mention, ritual sex, sexual assault)

- Aurelia’s mother Laenia was a cousin of Halward Pavus who married Romilian Elerius, from another altus family
- this makes Aurelia Dorian’s third cousin or something like that

( 🧵 #aureliastory )

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aurelia mercar 🐍 @theveiledserpent.bsky.social · Jan 13

*wakes up*

*looks outside*

*sighs*

More people need to learn how to talk to spirits properly…