1 [[!template id=character name=Tanis house=Merinita job= rank="Junior Maga" appage=24 born=1187/05/12 updated=1216/10/13 covenant="Schola Pythagoranis" parens="Elly ex Merinita" origin="The Crimea" ethnicity="Graeco-Russian" religion="Orthodox" age=29 image="""
2 [[!img Tanis.jpg size="200x" alt="Tanis"]]
6 (aka Tanishka, Tanya, …)
8 Tanis was born in a small village of greek colonist/expatriots in the
9 Crimea. Her actual birthdate is unknown and she has no memories of
10 her father (who died before she was born), and only limited memories
11 of her mother. Much later the investigations of the covenent of
12 Animus Silvae concluded:
14 * Both her mother and father were human.
15 * Her father had probably had an encounter with a wood nymph (probably
17 * She is named after her father.
18 * Her mother died while she was an infant.
19 * Following the death of her mother the other villagers were relieved
20 when a prosperous-looking gentleman with an
21 [[aged nursemaid|Covenfolk/Dunya]] arrived,
22 claimed to be a relative, and took her away.
23 * She was approximately 10 years old when they discovered her on
24 approximately 12^th^ May 1197.
26 Members of Animus Silvae discovered Tanis in the court of a powerful
27 faerie during Spring 1197 and by a combinations of threats, force, and
28 trickery extracted both her and the nursemaid. Upon returning to the
29 covenant Elly took her as an apprentice.
31 Tanis' captor continued to harass Animus for the next 15 years and she
32 had another encounter with him during her gauntlet. A couple of
33 seasons after gauntlet Tanis' parens, Elly, departed into a faerie
34 regio and has not been seen since.
36 Animus Silvae is preparing for impending cataclysms; and they hoped
37 that distance would at least reduce the amount of time Tanis had to
38 spend dealing with the overattentive faerie; so the senior magi were
39 delighted when they heard that Edward was looking for new juniors…
41 Tanis is a Follower of Pendule, and has completed the initiation of
44 ### Moderate-term goals
46 * Find another master Follower of Pendule to study from
47 * Get out from under the eye of the annoying faerie
48 * Find a suitable familiar
49 * Consider thinking about considering apprentices
55 * Please interpret the above as a write-out of Elly. Whilst I have
56 "borrowed" her as a parens I think it might be a bit odd having
57 someone else's PC I can barely remember actually intrude on the
59 * Likewise Animus was destroyed/killed/disappeared in the 1230s by the
60 Mongols (after mostly defeating their own faerie menace).
61 * Note Tanis' sympathy traits of Trees (positive) and Confinement