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gemma
nobody of morrowind
About
NAME GEMMA AGE 80ish ORIGINS EBONHEART, STONEFALLS, MORROWIND CURRENT HOME ALL OVER TAMRIEL OCCUPATION ADVENTURER
Gemma is a Nightblade, former member of the Thieves' Guild, current member of the Psijic Order. She is mainly a mage, but can use either a staff or two daggers.
Personality
Gemma is genuinely good at heart and wants to make the right choices that keep people around her safe and happy. In Tamriel, however, there are sometimes choices that will benefit one while harming another, or choices where nobody wins but it's the lesser of two evils. Gemma has been around long enough to not wear a pair of rose-colored glasses. She hopes for a good solution to problems that arise, but recognizes that in truth not everything can turn out well. She's mainly a realist; understanding that the world is cruel but at least trying to push things in the right direction. She has little patience for whiners, slackers, or the pompous. If she finds herself in the presence of one, they had best have a damn good reason for needing help and she'll take verbal potshots at them along the way (unfortunately they're sometimes too full of themselves to even realize she's insulting them).

Her background makes her wary of her fellow Dunmer as she expects insults or arrogance from them. She prefers traveling outside of Morrowind to other lands and helping people there. Through her travels she's helped change minds about her people based on her willingness to help and in turn she's found that people aren't always so different either. Her people are in an alliance with the Nords of Skyrim and the Argonians of Black Marsh. This is a pretty unusual arrangement, as many Dunmer have kept Argonians enslaved and even do to this day though part of the alliance's arrangement stated that Dunmer had to free their slaves. Despite this, Gemma has offered aid to plenty of Argonians who have accepted and found her to not be what they expected. This Ebonheart Pact has been a rocky road, but Gemma has played a role in helping to smooth out relations when the three races have joined together in conference or in battle. Her desire to help has helped bring people together and change minds, but she's not a miracle worker and these are only part of the population.
Appearance
Gemma is a Dark Elf with gray skin, raven black hair, dusky purple-gray eyes with large irises, and pointed ears. She stands around 5'7" and is naturally thin. Elves live longer than humans so she's around 80 years old but appears to humans to be in her mid-thirties.
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History
Gemma was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage in Morrowind. As Dunmer society is heavily influenced by its five Great Houses, it's a hard climb socially if one doesn't know what House they belong to. This shaped Gemma's early years as she felt like an outsider in her own land and even some of the other orphans knew who their ancestors were and mocked her for being a nobody. While still considered young in Dunmer terms, Gemma ran away from the orphanage and joined the Thieves' Guild, commiting petty crimes and honing her skills as a Nightblade. She began traveling more to commit crimes farther afield than Morrowind and always preferred her theft to be of the rich and powerful — especially Dunmer who held high positions and represented their Houses. Eventually she began to tire of living in the shadows and found that on her journeys she could offer aid to the poor and downtrodden. With gold coming in from taking these odd jobs, she saw an opportunity to pull back from the Thieves' Guild and forge her own path. It was then, however, that she was tricked into a meeting where she was kidnapped, drugged, and taken as a sacrifice to Molag Bal. When she returned to life without her soul is when her new journey began. She joined forces with the Fighters' Guild and Mages' Guild and with the aid of the Daedric Prince Meridia, she defeated Molag Bal and regained her soul. But her work wasn't over. She continued on across Tamriel, aiding those in need across nations.
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