Marina

ALIASES

The Occultist

Girl with Pigtails

RELATIVES

Father Domek (determinant)

Unnamed mother (deceased)

DATE OF BIRTH

1924 (determinant)

PLACE OF BIRTH

Prehevil, Eastern Union

DATE OF DEATH

1942 (determinant)

GENDER

Female

AGE

18

SPECIES

Human

Marina was born into a family line of Dark Priests that worshipped The Old Gods. Her paternal figure, Father Domek, serves as the current leader of the Dark Priests in Prehevil.

Her mother, not wanting her child to be forced into the Dark Priest lifestyle, wished for a chance for Marina to grow up divergent from her father's religion; which would have otherwise involved a lifetime of worship to The Old Gods. Despite Marina's birth gender being male, her mother decided to conceal her identity to all others, including Marina's father and label her child female. This spared her now-daughter from the Dark Priest line of succession that all eldest sons of Priests must follow.

In Prehevil, Marina’s life path diverted markedly from the orthodox path followed by her male precursors, a divergence that garnered the scrutiny of organizations such as The Vatican and the attached Ministry of Darkness. They extended an invitation, not dissimilar to an academic endowment, allowing her to deepen her mastery over her own idiosyncratic dark arts. Seizing this, she vacated the constraining purview of her father's ever-watchful ocular scrutiny, venturing towards a realm wherein her identity could unspool with greater fluidity. Her maternal figure would look on this pilgrimage with unbridled pride.

Her mother was not an active participant in these rituals and opposed the idea of Marina following in her father's footsteps. The life of a dark priest is cruel, entailing a lifetime of grueling servitude to old gods - A life which her mother wished to spare her from. Therefore, despite being born a boy, Marina would be raised as a woman, effectively shielding her from the obligation of priesthood.