Marina Domek

In this universe, there are 3 kinds of gods. The old gods are Gro-goroth, the god of human sacrifice and blood magic, Sylvian, the goddes of fertility and health, Vinushka, the offspring of the previous two and god of nature. The new gods are humans or creatures that ascended their mortality to fill the absence of the old gods. The ascended gods are the only mortals who managed to achieve the level of the old gods, the All-mer (think of him like who jesus christ is fabled to be) and the god of Fear and Hunger (the drive for humanity to survive and thrive), the offspring of a new god and human who was born human but ascended from the corpse of the old god of the depths. In the year 1932, Marina was born in the Church of Alll-mer within Prehevil, where her lineage had been practicing archaic, but brutal and cruel rites and rituals in order to appease the old god Gro-goroth. Her father was the leading Dark Priest. Her mother was not an active participant of these rituals, and so wanted Marina not to follow in the footsteps of her father. The life of a Dark Priest was cruel and a lifetime of servitude to gods of old was not what her mother wanted for her child. She was born male, but her mother disguised her as a girl to save her from sacrifice as the first born son. She would grow up in a church of Prehevil, and would go off into an orthodox path different from that of the male dark priests. From here, her skills of being a talented occultist would be noticed by the Vatican and their Ministry of Darkness. They even offered her to come and study over there, a scholarship of sorts to learn more about her dark arts. She would take this chance to leave Prehevil, wanting to leave her father's piercing and watchful gaze of scrutiny and jealousy and freely express herself, unlike that of being near by family. Her mother would be proud of her, as she always was. From there in the Vatican, she would learn and continue to refine her art of occultism for some time before coming back to Prehevil. She had to go back to that forsaken place somewhere in the Eastern Union because she was sent a letter by her father, informing her of her mother's death in an uncaring manner. Not only was it suspicious, as the two didn't have any sort of connection since Marina left for the Vatican, but also that he was not acting so worried for his wife. Marina did think something was wrong because her father was obsessed with blood magic and some blood magic techniques often demanded the blood of loved ones. She would go back, preparing herself to find out what has happened to her family in Prehevil. When she arrived in Prehevil, she had a dream that served as a warning for the trauma to come. The moon god Rher had chosen the city of Prehevil to enact a ritual called the Festival of Termina, a battle royale where each resident was encouraged to slaughter their neighbors and be the only survivor just to entertain the moon. It was not successful, as many of the residents refused to kill eachother, so the moon cast its pale green light onto them, mutating their bodies into grotesque abominations of their former self. Marina and the other 13 travelers had unknowingly shown up to the aftermath, but they were not spared. Rher gave them 3 days to finish what the Prehevillians could not, forcing Marina to do whatever it took to survive lest she be turned into some monster like the rest, including the slaughter of the failed contestants, among them her father. Following the events of the Festival of Termina, Marina left Prehevil, her ties to it severed. She would settle down in Valland, in the red lights district of the capital. She would find kindred spirits there. Now 19, she found success in using her occult skills for a living at her own magic shop. Constantly performing rituals and rites at her job takes a toll on her sanity, one that she offsets with incenses or rarely alcohol to calm her mind again.