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 > //“letter entry”// > //“letter entry”//
 >>''- excerpt from a letter''  >>''- excerpt from a letter'' 
-Born Petra Atoel, one of a total of six children, Petra was raised in a small Viera village on the island of Cape Mete. She is the fourth daughter of a wood warder and village leader, and is one half of a set of twins. Unlike most Vieran childhoods where seeing a non-Viera was a rarity, the (relatively) small size of the island was conducive to her community interacting with the other settlements- including the bustling port - albeit reluctantly. Thus she was exposed to other peoples and mindsets from a relatively young age. However, this still did not mean a break from the Green Word, no matter how modified. Going into the town was only to happen when it was a necessity and not for fun, and even then her parents hated it. +Born Petra Atoel, one of a total of six children, Petra was raised in a small Viera village on the island of Cape Mete. She is the fourth daughter of a wood warder and village leader, and is one half of a set of twins. Unlike most Vieran childhoods where seeing a non-Viera was a rarity, the (relatively) small size of the island was conducive to her community interacting with the other settlements - including the bustling port - albeit reluctantly. Thus she was exposed to other peoples and mindsets that made her very well-rounded from a relatively young age. However, this still did not mean a break from the Green Word, no matter how modified. Going into the town was only to happen when it was a necessity and not for fun, and even then her parents hated it. 
  
 Her upbringing was both strict and detached - a mother who was a village leader and thus an example, and a wood warder father who, while they spent time together, was always distant. Petra was for all intents and purposes raised by her eldest sisters Ysera and Fidona alongside her twin Mydia and younger siblings Siat and Rena. She received a standard Viera education; survival and combat skills, domestic skills, everything that she’d need to protect the village and be a productive member of it. Despite this, Petra had become enamored with the port town and what she believed to be the interesting lives of the townspeople and the sailors, free to do whatever and go anywhere they wished. Both she and her sister were notorious for being found at the inns that they were just a little too young to be in flirting with the sailors and travelers that had stopped to rest. Her upbringing was both strict and detached - a mother who was a village leader and thus an example, and a wood warder father who, while they spent time together, was always distant. Petra was for all intents and purposes raised by her eldest sisters Ysera and Fidona alongside her twin Mydia and younger siblings Siat and Rena. She received a standard Viera education; survival and combat skills, domestic skills, everything that she’d need to protect the village and be a productive member of it. Despite this, Petra had become enamored with the port town and what she believed to be the interesting lives of the townspeople and the sailors, free to do whatever and go anywhere they wished. Both she and her sister were notorious for being found at the inns that they were just a little too young to be in flirting with the sailors and travelers that had stopped to rest.
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 However as she grew older, Petra became more and more restless and adventurous. The bustle nearby port town - and by extension the allure and false promises  of the sailors who would come and go - fueled her desire to leave her village, and that decision would put her at odds with the rest of her family. The night that she decided to leave Petra found herself in a heated argument with her parents, especially her mother. It ended with her being thrown out of her family’s home, and effectively disowned. Now truly free of the Green Word, her village, and most of her family, Petra at the age of twenty left for Eorzea with only Mydia coming to the docks to tearfully see her off.  However as she grew older, Petra became more and more restless and adventurous. The bustle nearby port town - and by extension the allure and false promises  of the sailors who would come and go - fueled her desire to leave her village, and that decision would put her at odds with the rest of her family. The night that she decided to leave Petra found herself in a heated argument with her parents, especially her mother. It ended with her being thrown out of her family’s home, and effectively disowned. Now truly free of the Green Word, her village, and most of her family, Petra at the age of twenty left for Eorzea with only Mydia coming to the docks to tearfully see her off. 
  
-After sailing for the better part of a week, Petra landed in Limsa Lominsa. Tired and now totally out of her depth after being abandoned at the docks by the sailor she’d been enamored with, she was lost in a new and unfamiliar city.  Luckily she had been spotted by a kind Miqo’te girl who helped her get set up with an inn room, and introduced her to Baderon at the Drowning Wench. Grateful, and in Viera city name fashion, Petra took the girl’s name Lanbattal as her own. +After sailing for nearly two weeks, Petra landed in Limsa Lominsa. Tired and now totally out of her depth after being abandoned at the docks by the sailor she’d been enamored with, she was lost in a new and unfamiliar city.  Luckily she had been spotted by a kind Miqo’te girl who helped her get set up with an inn room, and introduced her to Baderon at the Drowning Wench. Grateful, and in Viera city name fashion, Petra took the girl’s name Lanbattal as her own. 
  
 Taking up her lyre and singing in inns to make enough gil to survive on, Petra was quickly scouted and recruited by the The Order of the Twin Adder as part of an initiative to revive their languishing ranks of Bards. This eventually sent her to the Cartenau Flats and the activation of her Echo as she witnessed the fall of Dalamud and the emergence of Bahamut. Wrestling with her suddenly newfound and, at the time, overwhelming new ability to master languages, Petra spent the next five years adventuring and further honing her skills.  Taking up her lyre and singing in inns to make enough gil to survive on, Petra was quickly scouted and recruited by the The Order of the Twin Adder as part of an initiative to revive their languishing ranks of Bards. This eventually sent her to the Cartenau Flats and the activation of her Echo as she witnessed the fall of Dalamud and the emergence of Bahamut. Wrestling with her suddenly newfound and, at the time, overwhelming new ability to master languages, Petra spent the next five years adventuring and further honing her skills. 
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 <tabbox Shadowbringers> <tabbox Shadowbringers>
-> //“I've thrown this letter away and started it over more times than I can count. There's something wrong with me. There has to be.  I've never seen Y'shtola look at me before the way she did a few days ago. Anger? Pity? I don't know,  and no one will tell me anything - Urianger will hardly look me in the eye! But I know there's something wrong. That ache in my chest I told you about before? It's worse. The pain is sharp now,  I feel like I'm going to burn alive from the inside, or that I'll just burst and unravel like a sheet of cloth.  I want this to be over. I want to be normal again. I want -”//+> //“I've thrown this letter away and started it over more times than I can count. There's something wrong with me. There has to be.  I've never seen Y'shtola look at me before the way she did a few days ago. Anger? Pity? I don't know,  and no one will tell me anything - Urianger will hardly look me in the eye! But I know there's something wrong. ...I dropped my bow the other day. You know as well as I that I do not do my weapon. It's like my hands,  my fingers, are no longer part of me.”//
 >>''- a short letter from the Warrior of Darkness to an unknown recipient. the paper is touched with a hint of fae magicks''  >>''- a short letter from the Warrior of Darkness to an unknown recipient. the paper is touched with a hint of fae magicks'' 
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   * Silvain de Borel (PLD)      * Silvain de Borel (PLD)   
-    * Petra's eldest son. Completely an accident and the reason she left Tural for an extended period of time. He spent a portion of his teenage years adventuring with Petra before ultimately deciding to stay in Ishgard and become a Paladin and Temple Knight. Taking after his father, Silvain is dutiful and . Unbeknownst to both of his parents (but not his brother), Silvain also possesses a Dark Knight job stone after blaming himself for failing to protect one of his fellow knight trainees during a training exercise.+    * Petra's eldest son. Completely an accident and the reason she left Tural for an extended period of time. He spent a portion of his teenage years adventuring with Petra before ultimately deciding to stay in Ishgard and become a Paladin and Temple Knight. Taking after his father, Silvain is dutiful and wishes to help create a better Ishgard for the future. Unbeknownst to both of his parents (but not his brother), Silvain also possesses a Dark Knight job stone after blaming himself for failing to protect one of his fellow knight trainees during what was supposed to be a routine training exercise.
   * Kieran de Borel (RDM)   * Kieran de Borel (RDM)
     * Petra's second son, and 5 years younger than Silvain. Adventurous like his mother, he trained in multiple classes and jobs before eventually settling on Red Mage - though he is also a talented Sage in the off chance a healer is needed. Once he's old enough to travel with his own adventurer's party, he chooses to do so and continues his mother's legacy of monster slaying and good deeds. Kieran doesn't visit home in Ishgard very often but when he does he's welcomed by his parents and brother with open arms.      * Petra's second son, and 5 years younger than Silvain. Adventurous like his mother, he trained in multiple classes and jobs before eventually settling on Red Mage - though he is also a talented Sage in the off chance a healer is needed. Once he's old enough to travel with his own adventurer's party, he chooses to do so and continues his mother's legacy of monster slaying and good deeds. Kieran doesn't visit home in Ishgard very often but when he does he's welcomed by his parents and brother with open arms. 
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     *  It absolutely shocked her not only to fight her guardian in Euphrosyne, but to also take Menphina and Halone on a short tour of Coerthas     *  It absolutely shocked her not only to fight her guardian in Euphrosyne, but to also take Menphina and Halone on a short tour of Coerthas
   * Petra's Echo grants her mastery over languages whether written or spoken.  She learns them in a much shorter time than the average person,  and is also fluent quicker   * Petra's Echo grants her mastery over languages whether written or spoken.  She learns them in a much shorter time than the average person,  and is also fluent quicker
-  * Her apartment (still a WIP) is located at Empyrium Ward 23, Apt 6 on Malboro server in the Crystal data center. Feel free to swing by!+  * Petra's home (currently WIP) is located at Empyrium Ward 23, Plot 28 on Malboro server in the Crystal data center. Feel free to drop by and check it out or gpose! 
 +    * (Her apartment is also located in Empyruim Ward 23, and is Apt 6. It is currently in the process of being converted into a Gpose studio after the acquisition of the house)
   * While being exceptionally skilled at performing arts including singing, dancing, and music, Petra is in her own words "abysmal" at fine arts   * While being exceptionally skilled at performing arts including singing, dancing, and music, Petra is in her own words "abysmal" at fine arts
  
 ==== OOC Trivia ==== ==== OOC Trivia ====
   * Petra first began as a Miqo'te named Pyha Lanbattal, and made to look like a siamese cat. Once the free trial was over, Pyha was Fantasia'd and name changed into Petra. She didn't change much physically. At this point Pyha and Petra became separate characters, and Pyha was kept in Petra's lore as the helpful girl she took her last name from in Limsa.    * Petra first began as a Miqo'te named Pyha Lanbattal, and made to look like a siamese cat. Once the free trial was over, Pyha was Fantasia'd and name changed into Petra. She didn't change much physically. At this point Pyha and Petra became separate characters, and Pyha was kept in Petra's lore as the helpful girl she took her last name from in Limsa. 
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 +  * Non-WoL!Petra AU in which rather than recruited by the Order of the Twin Adder, Petra is instead taken in and trained by an opera company in singing and (to a lesser extent) ballet. She makes her debut as an ingénue lead in the Ishgardian opera after the company diva falls ill - earning the intrigue and fascination of the Ishgardian nobles and commoners alike as a rarely seen Viera with exceptional talent. 
 +    *  In this AU, her singing voice claim is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T0ME2xrP2g|Sierra Boggess]]
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