Aimend



Aimend was a fine arts student in university, having considerable success with her artwork when she woke up to find herself a slave in Akashat. Heph rented her from the Market and decided to keep her. He eventually freed her and they married. Aimend settled into what appeared to be a quiet, comfortable life, drawing and painting in her home studio. When the city was threatened by the dragon Maelthra, Aimend and a few others went up into the mountains to the dragon’s lair. The drawings and paintings she made of the dragon were helpful to the city and the House of Lords as they prepared to defend Akashat from attack.

Aimend subsequently bought and remodelled what is now the Chiaroscuro Gallery, and continues to work in the Atelier (the studio space) there. Through a variety of circumstances, Aimend met the Dream Weaver in person. As a result of that meeting, and her own experiences, Aimend has come to recognize the Dream Weaver as the god of Akashat. She renovated a dilapidated chapel and began to encourage the city to know the Weaver's work and to dream strong dreams in order to feed the Weaver's creative and protective power. The chapel was successful in inspiring the people to dream powerful dreams and thereby to reject horrifying illusions of alien invasion and slaughter. When the Dream Weaver sent winter to Akashat for the first time in its history as part of a war between the Weaver and the evil lava god, Kult’ka. The city enjoyed the opportunity to play in the winter snow and ice. Those experiences, along with ritual offerings and an orgy in the Chapel, increased the Weaver’s strength and brought about a resolution of the war with Kult’ka. As a result, the city now has four seasons per year. Aimend was asked to build a new, larger temple devoted to the Dream Weaver in the heart of Akashat, and so she created the Loom. Aimend was elected Cardinal and launched a controversial census of magic users, culminating in the decision to make magic available only to those who had registered. A conflict with a number of the city vampires ensued. In the end, Aimend was attacked by a vampire who forced her to end the census and return magic to the whole city. Kult’ka’s strength increased once again. Through an error in a series of rituals in the Black Pyramid intended to contain him, Kult’ka was able to possess a slave and use her to destroy Throne of Bones. The Throne had been the focal point for magic in Akashat. Its destruction has resulted in the total collapse of the Tower of Sorcery and unpredictable surges of magic throughout the city. Aimend found a way to stabilize magic by tracing the ley lines in and around Akashat so that magic could be controlled without the Throne of Bones and ultimately rebuilt the Tower of Sorcery. Aimend withdrew from Akashat for a time, meditating in the Loom in the Weaver's care. She has recently re-awakened and is trying to re-establish herself in the city, primarily as the Priestess of the Loom.