Narene Lidareva

Narene Lidareva is a clairvoyant mage, and a recurring character in the Unnamed Story.

History
Narene (then Narena) was born and raised in the Priyana Desert, which makes up more than half of the province of Fortana. A member of one of the traveling cities, transversing the desert in search of resources and living in tent camps, Narene has few memories of her childhood. She knows only that her powers came early, and the result was a life of torment. Being strictly Solerian, her clanmates saw her convulsions and soothsaying as proof of possession at best, and like all mages among them, she was soon cast out. Fellow exiles were helpless to comfort her as her powers continued to grow, more and more trapping her in a waking nightmare that often left her blind and screaming. She lived this way for years, until a Temple loreteller came across her in a gutter on the outliers of Kyravelle, wracked by convulsions, unable to tell prophesy from reality. She was brought in as a ward of the Temple, and was entered into study in order to suppress her powers. The undertaking was successful, limiting her visions and lessening in their effects, giving her the first chance of a normal life in all of hers.

Personality
Born in a place notorious for its hatred of magic, Narene is the product of her rearing. She has no self-esteem, no confidence, and everything she does is hampered by a crippling sense of doubt. Naturally shy and withdrawn, her mental state is further compromised by an overly-developed Gift of Sight. Narene is plagued by visions, from the mundane to the nightmareish, occurring dozens of times a day and up to a hundred at her worst. Even a breath on her face can trigger a vision. Her time at the Temple combined with full-body attire has helped her to limit the frequency of her visions to a handful a day, but when they strike, they are vivid and debilitating. When not wracked by convulsions and images of the future, Narene generally keeps to herself, her few interactions with others stilted and unsure. She has an understandable aversion to being touched, due to the tendancy of physical contact triggering her visions, and will suffer none but those she trusts most to lay hands on her.

The Unnamed Story
Narene appears in Creed's story, both at the outset and later on. As her only true friend, Narene is deeply attached to the loreteller, and reacts with fear at his sudden disappearance from the Temple. She later suffers a mysterious vision that somehow indicates his doom, a fact that sends her fleeing from the safety of the Temple in hopes of warning him. Narene is ill-prepared for the realities of the world, not having considered the dangers involved, her only focus finding him. And that becomes her goal, no matter what it costs her.