Jin’a’loquaris of the Winter Court never quite fit in with the high unseelie fey. She was never serious enough for the Queen’s guard. He didn’t have the attention span for the scout’s corp. And while they could play a fairly decent Birdpipe, they weren’t good enough to accompany the Chorus.
It’s not that she didn’t try, she really did. He could race and climb and hide just as well as the other fey children, but it was the discipline to follow a single path that was lacking. It was that extra special Something that got everyone else chosen before them. And her relationship with the Fates was even more fickle than most Fey. Bad luck followed him everywhere, and though he usually managed to escape mostly unscathed, his companions did not. Even their magic was late in coming, or at least their control of it, and the other fey children teased them for being a weak half-breed.
So, she would quit one thing and move onto the next. Over and over again. Until he found his way to the goblin caves. They didn’t judge them as lesser. They accepted her strangeness, her chaos and distraction. And they taught him things. Things their mother would rather they not know.
Five Big Events
- Jin’a’loquaris was born of a human father (James) and changeling mother (Cin’da’loquaris). Her mother, after giving birth and confirming the child took after her, went back home to the Feywild. Leaving Jin’s father to wonder if it had all just been a dream.
- As a teen, Jin finally confronted his mother about who his father was. Everyone else seemed to know, but Mother had never told Jin. After some lengthy dissembling, avoiding, and sideways answers, she finally admitted that their father was a human from the Ten Towns region, and was called James Brewer. And promptly forbid her from going there or seeking him out, saying James wanted nothing to do with his child. Jin had no idea what “Ten Towns” meant, or how to even begin to get there, so the command did not matter and was quickly forgotten. Her mother had never actually admitted that Father was not fey before, and that was what mattered to him – he really was the weak halfbreed the others called him.
- As a young adult, Jinna was on a scouting mission and accidentally manifested psionic powers that caused the tree the group was hiding behind to explode. Giving away the scouts’ position, and injuring everyone else, two quite badly, though Jinna was unhurt.
- After failing at so many things, though none quite as spectacularly as the scouting mission, Jinx began spending a lot of time down in the Goblin caves, and picking up some “despicable behavior.” Mother grew tired of arguing, scolding, confining them to their room, and dragging them almost bodily to court functions. Mother contacted friends of friends of friends and got Jinx a contract on a Spelljammer ship. It will teach you about duty and following orders, she told him. Jinx didn’t argue, spelljamming sounded like an excellent way to escape the stuffy court. Secretly, they snuck off to the caves get Doc to come with. Fortunately, he was equally amenable to an adventure outside the Feywild.
- Wildspace was just as amazing as Jin had hoped, even if the work was boring. Unfortunately, her bad luck followed Jin out into the Astral Sea. It wasn’t his fault, never his fault. They were just looking at the helm, trying to figure it out. Doc came looking for her, and she turned a little too quickly, her hand on something a little too important, a little too startled to keep a lid on her powers. It started to overload, to melt, to explode, or whatever it is those things do. He ran, grabbing Doc on the way, too late to alert anyone, too late to stop it. But not too late to save Doc. They both made it out, just barely, and with just enough luck left to be picked up by a passing ship before they ran into something truly dangerous. A smaller ship, but with far more interesting characters than the last one. At least, until that one crashed too, this time into Torril.
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