Azern is another character from Rage Like the Gods she is sort of an honorary main character. Not officially counted among the gods' chosen ones, Azern was chosen by a demigod instead and given the weighty task of making sure that the gods' chosen saves the world. Along with the roll she plays in RLtG, Azern is the main character in the prequel novella Between Gods and Demigods.
I want to learn every little thing there is
to learn about this world we live in. I want to finally be a part of it.
All my life I have read books about it, and
dreamed about it.
And now I am instrumental in the
continuation of the whole world.
Personality-wise Azern is somewhat difficult to explain because she suffers from a bit of a split-personality. This is due to the fact that her mind is fracturing under the weight of having glimpses of the future revealed to her. One one hand Azern is the loyal follower of The Lady of Dawn she has always been, she will do anything for the demigod she serves. She is dedicated to saving the world. Her people's culture was destroyed and she wants to make certain no one else ever has to live through that. She is loyal and caring and will go to great lengths to help people, even someone she has never met. On the other hand Azern feels like she is simply being used, she is impatient and has a hard time accepting leadership sometimes even from the Lady of Dawn. Oftentimes impulsive, Azern will make risky gambits instead of properly thinking through her actions. She can oftentimes seem like a madwoman as she will jump from subject to subject with no correlation and speak to perfect strangers as if she knows them. She will sometimes instigate situations because she finds it amusing, not caring for the consequences. This side of Azern has seen everything there is to see and is bored of simply waiting around for the future to play out, she thinks it's time to have some fun.
ISFP//Slytherine
“You will be back by morning?”
“If I’m not, tell everyone I got sick from
staying up too late reading or something magicker sounding like that.” I smirk
at the concern on Laellina’s face. One of these days she will learn to trust my
decisions, or maybe each of my decisions just makes her trust me less.
But I’m doing what I was made to do.
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Active practice of sorcery is illegal, but Azern believes herself beyond the rules due to her calling and the fact that the demigod she serves is not wholly evil. Due to Azern's gift from the Lady of Dawn that allows her to see glimpses into the future, she oftentimes has a distinct upper hand in most situations. Of course, this can lead to a certain level of arrogance. Azern believes that she knows exactly how every encounter and situation will go, forgetting that she has only seen a partial glimpse of the future.
Laellina pulls back, her eyes widening.
“You mean abandon the temple?”
“What was it more than just a sanctuary for
servants of Azern? Now we have a greater task at hand. I can make a difference.
We can make a difference. And maybe just maybe show the world that not all
sorcerers are evil. But I can’t do it without you. I won’t do it without you.”
Azern never knew her family. She was left on the doorstep of a temple to the Lady of Dawn as an infant. She was named after Azern, the Lady of Dawn, and has known no other life except for the one she spends in service to this demigod. Over the years, the priests who raised her began to die out. By the time that she received her gift of foreknowledge from the Lady of Dawn, the temple was almost empty and so she set out to find the chosen ones and save the world. At first, Azern was very naïve but after a year traveling across Ruskhazar, she has picked up on how things work. As a Higher Elf she is an outcast in society, with no real place that she belongs save for the temple she abandoned. She is so focused on doing her part to stop the doomed end of all mortals, she hasn't really allowed herself to have any hopes or dreams of the future. Saving the world takes precedence over anything she wants.
I’m no god. I’m not even a demigod. I’m just a mortal elf, cursed to see visions that she is powerless to change.
The darker side of Azern is that she can become quite calloused when it comes to the value of human life. Her visions are incapable of being altered and so if she sees someone die in the future, she will simply accept it and not try to do anything to change it. She tried to change fate once and it ended poorly for her, now she simply accepts things the way they are.
Her closest friend and companion, Laellina, a girl who was raised in the temple beside Azern, helps to temper some of Azern's wilder tendencies and acts as 99% of her impulse control. Then there's Magnar, the boy from the very first vision she had who she couldn't quite save all the way. He always seems to be interested in actively opposing her. She also ends up forming a close bond with Ragla, a hotheaded werewolf who loves to act on every bad idea that happens to cross either of their minds.
I’ve seen the future; I know I somehow find
myself in the arms of that handsome redheaded man. I don’t need to be able to
see the future to know that things could never work between Magnar and me.
Having a character with split personality, sounds difficult to write. But she sounds fascinating. I love that she's a bit morally grey too.
ReplyDeleteIt can indeed be quite difficult XD But it's fun too. Azern is in quite the dilemma, one side of her personality wants to help everyone and the other just wants to eat pizza while she cusses out the world.
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