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Character Name: Rita Mordio Character Series: Tales of Vesperia Character Age: 15
Background: Rita couldn’t remember their faces. They were never anything more in her memory than two blurs standing over her. There the first minute, gone the next. At three years old she had already been robbed any promise of a “normal life.” As such, a normal life wasn’t what she got. She got something much more interesting and eccentric than that. Growing up in an orphanage without anyone doing a particularly swell job in watching over her, she detached from most people and developed a brash, unfaltering personality, forgoing any social skills because she was always the only one she had to worry about. There were no family or friends with which to develop those conventions. But by the age of ten, Rita had found something she thought was much better than any friend—the Blastia. They were incredible pieces of technology that once belonged to an ancient civilization. The Blastia can be written to perform just about any purpose. Whether it be simply pumping water or holding up a barrier that keeps monsters at bay, society revolved around the Blastias. They quickly encapsulated her entire imagination and researching and studying them became her entire life. A mage was what she became, and a prodigy at that. The Blastia, they were the only friends she needed, and she began to see them as people and anthropomorphize them. Blastia could never betray her in the way that people could, she could devote herself to them like nothing else.
“…it was my faith in Blastia that mattered. …Actually, it was more like love.”
As a mage employed by the Empire for research, she lived out most of her days in Aspio. Though her brilliance, brash and eccentric behavior, as well the way she treated blastia had the rest of the mages of Aspio regard her as “a weirdo.” But that same brilliance also created a name for herself, often referred to as “The Famed Genius Mage of Aspio.”
Rita continued her research, accomplishing many ridiculous feats for her age in regards to blastia research and excavation. But one fine day, while buried in pile of books and research, a former night from Zaphias, the Empire capital comes accusing her of stealing an Aque Blastia from the lower quarter. The former knight in question, Yuri Lowell came along with a noblewoman named Estelle as well as a young member of the Hunter’s Guild, Karol. Apparently the person who stole the Aque Blastia from the Lower Quarter in Zaphias called himself “Mordio” which just happened to be Rita’s last name. Upon hearing this, Rita makes the connection between stolen blastia and a group of thieves thought to be plundering a nearby ruin. In order to clear her name as well as investigate the ruins, Rita agrees to go along with the trio to check out the ruins.
Though they couldn’t catch the thieves, Rita had cemented herself as not too bad of a person, and while Yuri wasn’t ready to believe her yet, Estelle had gotten quite attached to the young mage. Rita insists to continue traveling with them, not only to completely convince Yuri of her innocence, but to investigate the Barrier Blastia in the town of Halure that Estelle had recently mysteriously reinvigorated. Seeing Estelle as a major clue to figuring out a formula she was working on, Rita continued on with the other three. After finding out a little about the supposed actual Blastia thief Yuri was looking for, the group needed to find a way to cross the ocean to Torim harbor, and on the way Rita discovered a path of wrecked Blastia, supposedly being destroyed by some man in armor riding a dragon. Compassionate as ever towards the Blastia, Rita slowly became more and more infuriated the more destroyed Blastia she found.
Later, upon being arrested and taken to the town Heliord along with Yuri and Karol, Rita noticed that the Barrier Blastia in the town was starting to malfunction. Thankfully the heir to the Imperial Throne, his highness Ioder (Whom the group had saved from a burning ship earlier) along with the newly revealed Princess Estellise pardoned their “crimes”. The aer from the blastia was spilling out at incredible speeds and density, which would poison everyone in the town to death if it had gotten any more out of control. It looked as though the blastia would either explode, or envelope the city with the dense aer. Desperate to save “him”, Rita refused to leave it alone even though it looked like it was about to explode. When the Blastia finally did, Rita managed to keep the blast as small as possible, though it still left her severely injured. While recovering from her injuries, Estelle refuses to leave Rita’s bedside and continues treating her with healing artes until she passes out from exhaustion. It’s here that Rita’s first bond of true friendship starts to form.
“…What do you think Estellise thinks of me?” “Funny, I didn’t think you were the type to care what people think, Rita.” “…Forget it.”
In the wake of the crisis, Commandant Alexei states that he’ll be taking Estelle back to the capital with him, and out of the blue Rita insists that she go with Estelle. However, Commandant Alexei instructs Rita that she must go research the strange plant life in the forest of Keiv Moc. Estelle speaks out that she would like to accompany Rita, as it would be no different than if Rita came with her to the Capital. Alexei isn’t quick to allow her, but once Yuri says he’ll come along to keep her safe he reluctantly agrees. The group set out for the Guild city, Dahngrest, and then to the forest of Keiv Moc.
What was mutating the plant life in Keiv Moc turned out to be something known as an “aer krene,” a natural spring of aer that floods the world with the incredible amount of aer that makes up the atmosphere. It was out of control and spewing out absurd amounts of extremely dense aer. Just when the aer becomes too dense for the group to continue fighting off the mutated monsters of the forest, a long white haired man stepped in. With his mysterious, glinting sword he eliminated all the swords in one fell swoop, as well as quelling the runaway aer krene. To say Rita was amazed at this display would be an enormous understatement. Unfortunately for her the man wasn’t interested in conversing with the young mage, or any of the group for that matter, and quickly disappeared as mysteriously as he had arrived. Eventually, Yuri and the gang were able to defeat Barbos of the Blood Alliance guild. He was not only responsible for the stolen Aque Blastia core from the lower quarter of Zaphias, but was also a major catalyst of a war that almost broke out between the guilds and the Empire (Knight and friend of Yuri, Flynn Scifo managed to take care of that mess on his own). With Barbos out of the picture, the Aque Blastia in safe hands, and Estelle now directionless and heading back to the capital, Rita decided it would be best for her to part ways with the group and to study certain curiosities such as the aer krene hidden throughout the world.
“When I finish my analysis, I’ll…um…pay a visit to the capital, too.”
The next time the group ran into Rita, she was beating the hell out of just about every night in Heliord (And Karol, who was disguised as a knight at the time). If one thing was made all too clear, it was that Rita Mordio doesn’t take too kindly to being arrested. The reason the knights had been doing so was because she had been sneaking around restricted areas of the city at night. Rita refuted the charges as she thought it was perfectly reasonable to be looking into such shady events as sneaking Blastia into labor camps. In the meantime, Rita got acquainted with the new member of their group. Curiously, she wielded the same weapon as “That dragon freak” but Rita decided it must only be a coincidence. Reunited with the group, (And quite visibly pleased to see Estelle was still with them) Rita looked into the shady occurrences at the labor camp. It turned out that a man named Cumore was scheming with Yeager of the guild “Leviathan’s Claw” in order to create a number of Hoplon Blastia (Destructive, like cannons) with which to subdue the Union of Guilds. Needless to say, Rita was infuriated as usual by the abuse of Blastia and the group promptly put an end to the operations with the help of Flynn and his brigade. While the knights liberated the camp, Rita, Yuri and the rest gave chase to Cumore and Yeager but to no avail.
The group took refuge at Torim Harbor, where Rita decided to continue traveling them as she researched the aer krene. She insisted it was only because it would be safer than going alone, but it was more than obvious their little group began growing on her, especially Estelle. Managing to procure a ship from the leader of the guild “Fortune’s Market,” they set out to cross the sea towards Nordopolica, where they might seek council with the Duce, Belius, about Estelle’s run in with a mysterious being after Rita had left Dahngrest. During the trip, the boat broke down and left them stranded next to a mysterious ghost-like ship. Uncharacteristic of her, Rita seemed absolutely horrified of the thing, urging the group to get out of there as soon as possible. Unfortunately for her, Yuri dragged her in anyway. Things like this; the unexplained were the chink in her armor. Her logic and her research were powerless against something she couldn’t explain. It isn’t supposed to exist, damn it! It can’t!
While Estelle was wrestling with her identity as the supposed “Insipid Poison of this world,” Yuri was wrestling with the morality over his murders of the corrupt Ragou and Cumore, Rita was merely trying to understand what was going on with the world. The aer krene all seemed to be going out of control, and every time it happened a strange creature would appear and make it dissipate just like the man in Keiv Moc did. It turned out that these creatures were intelligent beings known as Entelexia. One of the Entelexia, Pharaoh, was responsible for labeling Estelle as an “Insipid Poison” and was the object of her quest to find out what he had meant. The Duce of Nordopolica, Belius, turned out to be one of these Entelexia. While conversing with her, Yeager set up a trap that allowed the Hunting Blades (A monster killing guild) to break into Nordopolica after informing them that it had been taken over by a “monster” (Belius). Wounded, Estelle attempted to heal Belius with her healing artes, and that’s when the truth came it. It drove her insane, causing her to beg for them to kill her, and eventually they had to.
Stricken with regret, Estelle and the group continued to look into her identity. The truth was that she is a “Child of the Full Moon”. These children are able to use healing artes without the aid of a Blastia, but they take in enormous amounts of aer to do so, and the formula involved makes her poisonous to the Entelexia and the world itself. Estelle was bringing the world’s aer out of balance, and killing it in the process. Rita was blown away by this revelation and seethed at the prospect of Estelle’s death being the only way to save the world. Both Estelle as well as the Blastia were pushing the world towards its tipping point, and the world had to either change or die. With the aer being viciously pumped out of Terca Lumeries to make up for Estelle and the Blastia, it was becoming more and more poisonous every day. While researching the ancient civilization that created the Blastia, Rita learned of a catastrophe that unfolded because of the Children of the Full Moon as well as their Blastia. This catastrophe was called the Adephagos, and the only way to seal it away involved the sacrifice of the Children of the Full Moon. Therefore, the only solution was to kill Estelle. Horrified, Estelle ran from the room in tears.
And they couldn’t find her afterwards. Both Estelle and the ever enigmatic member of their party, Raven, were both gone. Immediately questioning where his loyalty lies, Rita and the group immediately set out to find their missing friend. Rita in particular was guilty and shaken up by the tragedy. If Estelle was hurt…She couldn’t bear to think about it. Never had Rita been as close to someone as she was with Estelle, and the thought of losing her bore holes in her stomach.
“I should never have left Estelle alone… Maybe I couldn’t have done anything, but I should’ve at least stayed with her. She was so depressed…”
Rita Mordio|Tales of Vesperia|Reserved|Part 1
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Character Name: Rita Mordio
Character Series: Tales of Vesperia
Character Age: 15
Background: Rita couldn’t remember their faces. They were never anything more in her memory than two blurs standing over her. There the first minute, gone the next. At three years old she had already been robbed any promise of a “normal life.” As such, a normal life wasn’t what she got. She got something much more interesting and eccentric than that. Growing up in an orphanage without anyone doing a particularly swell job in watching over her, she detached from most people and developed a brash, unfaltering personality, forgoing any social skills because she was always the only one she had to worry about. There were no family or friends with which to develop those conventions. But by the age of ten, Rita had found something she thought was much better than any friend—the Blastia. They were incredible pieces of technology that once belonged to an ancient civilization. The Blastia can be written to perform just about any purpose. Whether it be simply pumping water or holding up a barrier that keeps monsters at bay, society revolved around the Blastias. They quickly encapsulated her entire imagination and researching and studying them became her entire life. A mage was what she became, and a prodigy at that. The Blastia, they were the only friends she needed, and she began to see them as people and anthropomorphize them. Blastia could never betray her in the way that people could, she could devote herself to them like nothing else.
As a mage employed by the Empire for research, she lived out most of her days in Aspio. Though her brilliance, brash and eccentric behavior, as well the way she treated blastia had the rest of the mages of Aspio regard her as “a weirdo.” But that same brilliance also created a name for herself, often referred to as “The Famed Genius Mage of Aspio.”
Rita continued her research, accomplishing many ridiculous feats for her age in regards to blastia research and excavation. But one fine day, while buried in pile of books and research, a former night from Zaphias, the Empire capital comes accusing her of stealing an Aque Blastia from the lower quarter. The former knight in question, Yuri Lowell came along with a noblewoman named Estelle as well as a young member of the Hunter’s Guild, Karol. Apparently the person who stole the Aque Blastia from the Lower Quarter in Zaphias called himself “Mordio” which just happened to be Rita’s last name. Upon hearing this, Rita makes the connection between stolen blastia and a group of thieves thought to be plundering a nearby ruin. In order to clear her name as well as investigate the ruins, Rita agrees to go along with the trio to check out the ruins.
Though they couldn’t catch the thieves, Rita had cemented herself as not too bad of a person, and while Yuri wasn’t ready to believe her yet, Estelle had gotten quite attached to the young mage. Rita insists to continue traveling with them, not only to completely convince Yuri of her innocence, but to investigate the Barrier Blastia in the town of Halure that Estelle had recently mysteriously reinvigorated. Seeing Estelle as a major clue to figuring out a formula she was working on, Rita continued on with the other three. After finding out a little about the supposed actual Blastia thief Yuri was looking for, the group needed to find a way to cross the ocean to Torim harbor, and on the way Rita discovered a path of wrecked Blastia, supposedly being destroyed by some man in armor riding a dragon. Compassionate as ever towards the Blastia, Rita slowly became more and more infuriated the more destroyed Blastia she found.
Later, upon being arrested and taken to the town Heliord along with Yuri and Karol, Rita noticed that the Barrier Blastia in the town was starting to malfunction. Thankfully the heir to the Imperial Throne, his highness Ioder (Whom the group had saved from a burning ship earlier) along with the newly revealed Princess Estellise pardoned their “crimes”. The aer from the blastia was spilling out at incredible speeds and density, which would poison everyone in the town to death if it had gotten any more out of control. It looked as though the blastia would either explode, or envelope the city with the dense aer. Desperate to save “him”, Rita refused to leave it alone even though it looked like it was about to explode. When the Blastia finally did, Rita managed to keep the blast as small as possible, though it still left her severely injured. While recovering from her injuries, Estelle refuses to leave Rita’s bedside and continues treating her with healing artes until she passes out from exhaustion. It’s here that Rita’s first bond of true friendship starts to form.
“Funny, I didn’t think you were the type to care what people think, Rita.”
“…Forget it.”
In the wake of the crisis, Commandant Alexei states that he’ll be taking Estelle back to the capital with him, and out of the blue Rita insists that she go with Estelle. However, Commandant Alexei instructs Rita that she must go research the strange plant life in the forest of Keiv Moc. Estelle speaks out that she would like to accompany Rita, as it would be no different than if Rita came with her to the Capital. Alexei isn’t quick to allow her, but once Yuri says he’ll come along to keep her safe he reluctantly agrees. The group set out for the Guild city, Dahngrest, and then to the forest of Keiv Moc.
What was mutating the plant life in Keiv Moc turned out to be something known as an “aer krene,” a natural spring of aer that floods the world with the incredible amount of aer that makes up the atmosphere. It was out of control and spewing out absurd amounts of extremely dense aer. Just when the aer becomes too dense for the group to continue fighting off the mutated monsters of the forest, a long white haired man stepped in. With his mysterious, glinting sword he eliminated all the swords in one fell swoop, as well as quelling the runaway aer krene. To say Rita was amazed at this display would be an enormous understatement. Unfortunately for her the man wasn’t interested in conversing with the young mage, or any of the group for that matter, and quickly disappeared as mysteriously as he had arrived.
Eventually, Yuri and the gang were able to defeat Barbos of the Blood Alliance guild. He was not only responsible for the stolen Aque Blastia core from the lower quarter of Zaphias, but was also a major catalyst of a war that almost broke out between the guilds and the Empire (Knight and friend of Yuri, Flynn Scifo managed to take care of that mess on his own). With Barbos out of the picture, the Aque Blastia in safe hands, and Estelle now directionless and heading back to the capital, Rita decided it would be best for her to part ways with the group and to study certain curiosities such as the aer krene hidden throughout the world.
The next time the group ran into Rita, she was beating the hell out of just about every night in Heliord (And Karol, who was disguised as a knight at the time). If one thing was made all too clear, it was that Rita Mordio doesn’t take too kindly to being arrested. The reason the knights had been doing so was because she had been sneaking around restricted areas of the city at night. Rita refuted the charges as she thought it was perfectly reasonable to be looking into such shady events as sneaking Blastia into labor camps. In the meantime, Rita got acquainted with the new member of their group. Curiously, she wielded the same weapon as “That dragon freak” but Rita decided it must only be a coincidence. Reunited with the group, (And quite visibly pleased to see Estelle was still with them) Rita looked into the shady occurrences at the labor camp. It turned out that a man named Cumore was scheming with Yeager of the guild “Leviathan’s Claw” in order to create a number of Hoplon Blastia (Destructive, like cannons) with which to subdue the Union of Guilds. Needless to say, Rita was infuriated as usual by the abuse of Blastia and the group promptly put an end to the operations with the help of Flynn and his brigade. While the knights liberated the camp, Rita, Yuri and the rest gave chase to Cumore and Yeager but to no avail.
The group took refuge at Torim Harbor, where Rita decided to continue traveling them as she researched the aer krene. She insisted it was only because it would be safer than going alone, but it was more than obvious their little group began growing on her, especially Estelle. Managing to procure a ship from the leader of the guild “Fortune’s Market,” they set out to cross the sea towards Nordopolica, where they might seek council with the Duce, Belius, about Estelle’s run in with a mysterious being after Rita had left Dahngrest. During the trip, the boat broke down and left them stranded next to a mysterious ghost-like ship. Uncharacteristic of her, Rita seemed absolutely horrified of the thing, urging the group to get out of there as soon as possible. Unfortunately for her, Yuri dragged her in anyway. Things like this; the unexplained were the chink in her armor. Her logic and her research were powerless against something she couldn’t explain. It isn’t supposed to exist, damn it! It can’t!
While Estelle was wrestling with her identity as the supposed “Insipid Poison of this world,” Yuri was wrestling with the morality over his murders of the corrupt Ragou and Cumore, Rita was merely trying to understand what was going on with the world. The aer krene all seemed to be going out of control, and every time it happened a strange creature would appear and make it dissipate just like the man in Keiv Moc did. It turned out that these creatures were intelligent beings known as Entelexia. One of the Entelexia, Pharaoh, was responsible for labeling Estelle as an “Insipid Poison” and was the object of her quest to find out what he had meant. The Duce of Nordopolica, Belius, turned out to be one of these Entelexia. While conversing with her, Yeager set up a trap that allowed the Hunting Blades (A monster killing guild) to break into Nordopolica after informing them that it had been taken over by a “monster” (Belius). Wounded, Estelle attempted to heal Belius with her healing artes, and that’s when the truth came it. It drove her insane, causing her to beg for them to kill her, and eventually they had to.
Stricken with regret, Estelle and the group continued to look into her identity. The truth was that she is a “Child of the Full Moon”. These children are able to use healing artes without the aid of a Blastia, but they take in enormous amounts of aer to do so, and the formula involved makes her poisonous to the Entelexia and the world itself. Estelle was bringing the world’s aer out of balance, and killing it in the process. Rita was blown away by this revelation and seethed at the prospect of Estelle’s death being the only way to save the world. Both Estelle as well as the Blastia were pushing the world towards its tipping point, and the world had to either change or die. With the aer being viciously pumped out of Terca Lumeries to make up for Estelle and the Blastia, it was becoming more and more poisonous every day. While researching the ancient civilization that created the Blastia, Rita learned of a catastrophe that unfolded because of the Children of the Full Moon as well as their Blastia. This catastrophe was called the Adephagos, and the only way to seal it away involved the sacrifice of the Children of the Full Moon. Therefore, the only solution was to kill Estelle. Horrified, Estelle ran from the room in tears.
And they couldn’t find her afterwards. Both Estelle and the ever enigmatic member of their party, Raven, were both gone. Immediately questioning where his loyalty lies, Rita and the group immediately set out to find their missing friend. Rita in particular was guilty and shaken up by the tragedy. If Estelle was hurt…She couldn’t bear to think about it. Never had Rita been as close to someone as she was with Estelle, and the thought of losing her bore holes in her stomach.