Guiding Light

By Castoro Chiaro

• February 13, 2013




Age: Young adult

Gender: Female

Species: Unicorn

Appearance: Guiding Light has a rather muscular build and a thick coat due to her long years traversing the Northern mountains. There is a noticeable milky film over her eyes, which she was born with.

Personality: Guiding Light, in spite of her strong body, is a very soft-spoken, gentle soul, always willing to lend an ear even if she doesn't have the answers. She's not especially intelligent, but she does have a sort of learned wisdom about her, from the years she's spent listening to the stories of travelers and in living so close to nature. Being the eldest of a rather large family, she was forced to mature far too quickly, and she tends to want to take on a maternal role in a group setting. She will come to the defense of someone, even if they're in the wrong, when it seems like they're being ganged up on or bullied, and her overwhelming sense of compassion often blinds her to when she is being manipulated or lied to.

Backstory: Born blind, Guiding Light has always had something of a dependence on others in order to make her way. She was raised alongside five other siblings on the outskirts of Vanhoover, the long stretch of snowy forests and looming mountain paths being all she knew for the longest time. When her father passed away due to illness, she took on the role as head of the family as well as the main provider of finances even though she herself was still a teenager, as her mother had toiled long as a snow plower to keep the roads clear and was then too weak to continue working. <br /><br />Given her knowledge of pathfinding magic, Guiding Light took up the task of both plowing the roads and guiding travelers through the mountains where it's simply too tumult to lay down railroad tracks.