Helena

"Helena!", the Adept sitting beside you says excitedly without being prompted, the following torrent of words at odds with her previous silence, her mouth never tiring as she begins to recount her entire history from where she was born to the moment she sat down beside you.

Helena is a cleric of Shining Lady Athra who was chosen to become a witch. Met Maria upon arriving at Mooncrest academy.

Appearance
Helena is a small girl with a relatively fit and healthy build from regular exercise, but she does not have any muscle definition. She has mousey blonde hair that goes down past her shoulders and is normally left loose and blue-green eyes.

Clothing
Cleric's habit: A navy blue habit with white trimming. Helena was first seen wearing this.

Sundress: A simple white sundress that Helena wears a wreath of flowers that are kept alive by her powers. Helena changed into this on the morning of the second day at Mooncrest academy.

Personality
Helena is a very hyperactive and cheery member of the cast because of this she prone to loud and explosive outbursts when she gets excited. Unfortunately, much of this enthusiasm is lost on her friends due to the effects of her Existential Deviance causing her to be very hard to focus on. This is most notable in Maria who will completely forget that she is there if something else grabs her attention. Luckily her Senra seems to resist this effect and has no trouble in paying attention to Helena.

Helena's is extremely devoted to her god like most clerics and she often utilizes the gifts she has been given to check on the people around her (sometimes to the bemusement of others). Her love for Athra does cause her to confuse and annoy other people at times though as she forgets to actually name her god when she talks about her. The connection she formed with her god has also given Helena quite the sweet tooth.

Helena is very innocent and inexperienced having been raised in relative isolation for much of her life at her temple. This has left Helena unprepared for the danger and violence that exists in her world and that many of her friends have already experienced.

Early Life
After Helena's parents could not be cured of a fatal disease they decided that it would be better to not leave her future up to chance when they returned to their village to die. After being taken in by White Fountain Temple, Helena was trained to become a cleric of the Shining Lady Athra.

Temple Life
During her training at the temple, Helena gained many skills and endowments through the bond that she formed with her god. Even meeting her in person at one point. Helena thought she was really nice.

Wedding Ceremony
Helena was selected to perform the dedication kiss at wedding once and worked alongside Radiant Knight Cyrus a cleric of Sharsee. He was an alright guy though his lectures were kind fo boring. The ceremony itself just involved her kissing the couple on the forehead and it was really embarrassing for her. But they both called her pretty and she got some cake afterward.

Becoming a Witch
Helena had to travel five days by chariot and train to reach Mooncrest academy.

Skills and Abilities
Helena's Character Sheet

Traits
Existential Deviant: The affected person has something "foreign" about the very way they exist on the mortal plane. Either they're removed from it, have some odd set of natural laws that only applies to them or a combination of the two. Perhaps even something even stranger. Most Existential Deviants tend to "feel" odd to others as the Truth of the World and the Truth of the ED clash. This manifests in Helena as an aura that causes most people around her to forget that she is there and completely ignore her unless she exerts a lot of efforts to gain their attention.

Living Flower: The affected person has one or more traits in common with the denizens of the plant kingdom. Common traits are: Ability to make use of light as an energy source, ability to synthesize a large amount of essential chemicals from water, light and ground, craving for sugar, and a rudimentary communication ability using scents, among others.

Contortionist: The person has a natural ability to bend and twist in ways that seem at best impossible and at worst nauseating to look at.

Divine Conduit: A person with this trait is able to channel their deity in some way, be that by doing miracles, knowing things prophetically or simply by having some type of aberrant physiology derived from the deity's influence.

Skills
Surgery Mastery (Via All-Communion): This skill is given to Helena by her connection to her god. Though it gives her intimate knowledge of how to perform most surgeries, it is limited in that she has no knowledge as to why these things need to be done only that they do.

Swimming basics: Helena has a basic understanding of how to swim.

Midwife Mastery (Via All-Communion): This skill is given to Helena by her connection to her god. Though it gives her the knowledge of how to perform the duties of a midwife, it is limited in that she has no knowledge as to why these things need to be done only that they do.

Cooking Basics: Helena has a basic understanding of cooking.

Singing Supremacy: Helena is a proficient singer.

Literacy Mastery: Helena has a high level of knowledge in literary skills. She also has knowledge of Celestial Script.

Endowments
Lifesense: The ability to sense the presence of others over long distances. This can even be used to pick out someone from a crowd simply from the way they "feel".

Lifesight: Lower-range sub-skill of Lifesense that allows for a fairly decent analysis of a person's general physical state.

Healing Touch: Restores vitality to a target through touch, one of the most often used skills among Clerics of Athra though it, too, has its limits.

Light of Sustenance: This skill allows the Cleric to provide all energy/matter requirements for an individual simply by being near them (Food, water, sunlight, air etc). Used in particular in patients too weak to be fed otherwise.

Dedication Kiss: Part of the marriage rite, this ability creates life force bond between the newlywed couple and later on them and their child, allowing them to -very weakly- sense each other and improve one another's health.

Plant Speaker: The ability to communicate with plant life and make simple inquiries or requests, as well as the ability to speak to another Athra cleric as plants do via a certain form of scent-based communication.

Mysteries
Mystery of All-Communion (Via Shining Lady Athra): The ability to become aware of and enter communication with (theoretically) all things, including inanimate objects and one's god. In practice this allows the cleric to always be in connection with their god, receiving information directly as if they had known it all along. Direct result of the Soulforge ritual that replaces part of a Cleric's soul.

Rotes
Trifold Restoration Barrier: A force bubble spell that, as its name suggests, has three interlocking layers of golden light that closely envelop the body. This spell is highly effective in that it allows to treat, sustain and transport a patient with the same basic construct.

Notable Possessions
Helena's Diary: Helena is a simple string bound book with a green paper cover and yellowed pages.
 * First Entry,

Trivia

 * Helena was first seen in thread 1.
 * Helena's alignment is Athra on the Path of Healing.
 * Helena's birthday is on the 4th day of the 3rd month (Her real birthday is unknown so this was chosen by the cleric looking after her).
 * Helena has a resting heart rate of about 89 BPM.