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Spectral Fade

Everfree Roleplay

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    Starforce

About Spectral Fade

  • The Absorber

  • Species

    Unicorn Pony

  • Age

    40 (Physical Age), Centuries (Actual Age)

  • Gender

    Female

  • Residence

    Nomadic

  • Hometown

    Wormwood, Aracadia

  • Occupation

    Spell Thief

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  • Physical Description

    Spectral Fade is a relatively well kept and healthy mare who looks younger than her actual age is. She is able to use her seductive looks for her own purposes. 

  • Backstory

    Thousands of years ago there was a unicorn wanderer by the name of Spectral Fade. She hailed from a land known as Arcadia, a distant kingdom of Unicorns far beyond the borders of Equestria. Spectra was a common nickname for her, being from Wormwood - a town that had developed nicknames as part of a cultural norm. Due to a rare genetic defect, Spectra was born with the ability to steal magic from other ponies but was not able to cast spells or learn magic through normal means. 

    While her family and upbringing was relatively normal, everyone failed to find a cure for Spectra's condition. In the early days she was relatively unsure of herself and her standing in the world. She was relatively quiet and introspective. Spectra would strike it out on her own and depart her family after a recent family death.

    With her supplies, Spectra would travel throughout the various kingdoms and principalities that bordered the land between Arcadia and what was the borders of Equestria at the time, but the three tribes had not come together at that time, and so Equestria didn't exist yet. Spectra traveled into the lands of the Unicorns, and soon assimilated into their society by the age of 25. Throughout her travels, Spectra had developed a keen social ability, and remarkable wit, as a way to outsmart and outplay nefarious travelers that crossed her way.

    Spectra became involved with the upper class after proving herself able to negotiate peace between various fighting factions. She became known as a great peacemaker, and these negotiating skills impressed the stallion known as Starswirl the Bearded. He took her in as his first student, and Spectra revealed her condition to him. This was something that Starswirl had not encountered to date, and for years he attempted to find a cure.

    By this point, Spectra had amassed knowledge of various spells and studied in the guidance of Starswirl but was growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of a discovery for a cure. She would regularly plead Starswirl to research something, and would spend countless hours in an attempt to uncover something so she could finally cast spells herself. She understood everything about magic, but lacked the ability to cast it like any other unicorn would. This made her increasingly resentful for those who were able to cast spells - she was so close, yet so far away from what she wanted. 

    As her frustration grew, the three tribes would have unified in a powerful show against the monstrous forces of the Windigoes. This would give Spectra what she needed. After the various battles occurred, Starswirl had captured some of the remains of the Windigoes. When Windigoes die, their bodies shrivel up into crystalline husks called Windigo hearts. They contained a dangerous amount of chaotic magic within them, and the effects of exposure were unknown as of yet. Starswirl and Spectra researched them with safety precautions, but as time grew on, Spectra's frustration with her condition and morbid curiosity lead her to tamper with the Windigo hearts.

    When she tampered with them, she was overcome with a chaotic energy that poisoned her mind. It corrupted her from the inside out, shifting her intentions and morality to a very dark alignment. Starswirl had came in after hearing something in his study, and to his horror, his student had been overcome with chaotic energy. He tried to subdue her so he could cure her condition, but could not reason with her further. He found that Spectra had absorbed the ability that the Windigoes innately had within themselves - Frost Magic, and a deadly amount of it.

    With this magic, she battled against her former teacher. Eventually, she was driven away from her former home. Out in the expanse of the North, she was overcame with greed and bitter lust for power and control. The chaotic infection spread into her mind, and pulled at the inner strings of frustration within her mind. She came to the conclusion that she was going to steal magic to increase her own ability to cast Frost Magic, and would come to the idea that she could eventually force the Mages of the land to give them what she wanted - a cure, so that she may finally be whole.

    Like that, she went out and perfected her Frost Magic. Developing a dangerous Stasis spell that could entrap and steal a pony's magic so she could use their raw magic as a battery for her own. This did not make it to where she can cast their spells as their own, but she would use this stasis spell on herself throughout the years as a way to become 'immortal', while stealing magic from ponies. She has many many ponies in orbs inside various caves across Equestria which she uses for her nefarious deeds.

  • Personality

    Spectral Fade is a wily and insidious sort. Eager to gain the upper hand in any situation. She is a mare with careful words and well thought out plans. She has developed a merciless hunger for magic and power over others. She is not one to demonstrate overt control over others in most cases, and prefers to manipulate them to where she can get the drop on them. She has absolutely no remorse or care for how many she hurts - she only is after herself, but can appear very sociable all the same. 

  • Likes

    Magic, Power, Knowledge, Control, Manipulating

  • Dislikes

    Good ponies, Losing, Alicorns, Nobles, Establishment

  • Magic Spells

    Stasis, Frost Magic, and the ability to absorb magic.

  • Friends

    None

  • Rivals

    Celestia, Luna, Starswirl
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