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## History

Liora originates from a small village on the north-eastern edge of the [[Grand Forest]]. She lived there with her mother and father. The village housed a few other families with their children, who Liora played with in her childhood. When [[The Rot]] began to spread in the [[Grand Forest]] for the first time, she fell unconscious and her sick father brought her to the [[Grand Lake]] and ferried her across, where he got off and let her continue on towards the [[Waterfall Plateau]]. She remained unconscious for years in a strange interaction with [[The Rot]], until a year before [[Lauren]] and [[Vector]] arrived. 

At the time she woke up, she is 17 years old. Which makes her a year older than [[Tobias]].

## Personality

Liora is blind by nature, but has a rich imagination of the world around her. She believes in her own strengths. She tries to connect with living creatures, nature, through the sounds they make and through contact. Because she grew up surrounded by others that we're able to see, she became increasingly curious about the world. Her rich imagination, full of colors, makes even the most dull of areas seem like a beautiful place.

At times, when she is confronted with her inability to do something due to her blindness, she feels a bit insecure, but will try to hide it by overflowing with positivity. When her feelings reach a tipping point, she avoids all contact with anyone around her, and seeks an isolated place of nature around her. There she will gently cry, about how she can't see the sky or the colors of the flowers. However, on each of the occasions that this happened to her, she received a spark of inspiration from the mana flowing through the forest. All things around, living or dead, would whisper to her. The forest begins to play strands of music and she is carried by the sound, back to her home.

She has more energy than any of the other children in her home town, and this gives her a personality to put in more effort, and go beyond "normal" for anything she is asked to do.  She loves to sing and to use her voice to talk to the surroundings. Due to this natural ability to connect, she quickly befriended many animals of the forest. [[Kestrel]] quickly bonds with her because he can sense this relationship with her.

Liora enjoys to play and to puzzle. Because she can't see most things, she spends more time with them and as a result, understands them far better than anyone else. Because of this, she also enjoyed doing puzzles that require her to feel, touch and hear. In conversation, she loves to ask questions.
