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| name                = Tarina Autio
| name                = Tarina Autio
| image                = [[File:taru_tinypaca.jpg|350px|center]](By [https://www.instagram.com/tiny.paca/ tinypaca])
| aliases              = Taru
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| class                = Bard
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| height              = 1.98m
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| relatives            = [[Taso Autio]] (sister)
| relatives            = [[Taso Autio]] (sister)
| partner              = [[Melfyra]]
| status              = ?
| status              = Alive
| player              = [[User:Unseelie|Unseelie]]
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Tarina Autio, or Taru as she prefers, is an [[Associates|Associate]] of [[the Round Table]], wishing to tell the tales of both heroics she witnesses and those she performs herself.
Tarina Autio was an [[Associates|Associate]] of [[the Round Table]].
 
== Description ==
=== Original ===
Taru is a [[Established Lore|fetchling]] ganzi, the latter granting her a frame taller and more muscular than what is typical for fetchlings. This heritage is further expressed in a line of blue scales over her left eye, mirroring a scar over her right eye she earned in her childhood, as well as a pair of bright orange, fairly small, and not fully material wings, resembling those of a [https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=1262 peri]. Her skin is of a middling grey tone, and her hair a bluish grey. Like most fetchlings, she has glowing eyes.
 
Her usual adventuring outfit consists of a quilted armour, any sturdy pairs of pants and boots she could get hold of, a longsword, a whip, a sling, a dagger, and a lute. However, the last she only carries for merrymaking, relying on speeches and spells to support her allies in combat. She also wears several piercings in both ears, preferring small rings or studs that do not pose too great a hazard in melee fights.
 
Due to usually travelling light, she tends to wear the same things outside of adventuring, only storing part of her weaponry somewhere should she have the option. This may change now that she has a semi-permanent dwelling. She dislikes people staring at her scar and scales, so when not among adventurers she also often dons a half-mask hiding these features.
 
[[File:taru_mask.png|thumb|355px|alt=A blue and gold upper half face mask. It is partially decorated with black-on-white musical notes. | The mask Taru used to wear among people she is not familiar with, especially those who are not adventurers.]]
 
Taru's shadow, while mostly sticking to the same shape as Taru, never stays still, always exploring anything around itself, and completely lacking any concept of personal space. It is very outgoing and usually tries to greet the shadows of other living beings, often leading to disappointment when they do no react. It quickly gets over any such distress, but Taru still tries to avoid it by matching the timing her own greetings of non-fetchlings to those of her shadow.
 
[[File:taru_flattering_portrait.jpg|thumb|355px|alt=A portrait of Taru, mostly as in her original description, but perhaps a bit intentionally flattering. | A very flattering portrait of Taru. Painted by a travelling artist she and her sister saved before arriving in Onadbyr.<br>(By [https://www.reddit.com/user/Roujin_/ Roujin_])]]
 
=== Changes while living in Onadbyr ===
Some months into living in Onadbyr, Taru replaced her old half-mask with a full face mask capable of changing shapes and enhancing her performances.
She also upgraded from her quilted armour to first a custom hide armour, and now full plate, both featuring the emblems of [[Cayden Cailean]] on the front and of [[Desna]] on the sleeves.
Recently she expanded her arsenal, removing the longsword and sling, but instead adding a bastard sword, a kusarigama, a tekko-kagi, and a composite shortbow, with runes applied to the first two. (For a short time she had a greatsword instead of the bastard sword, but it didn't take her long to switch that out.)
 
Taru's shadow is slowly gaining a sort of ethereal substance. As of summer 225, it is able to touch objects enough to interact with them.
 
== Background ==
Taru, together with her fraternal twin sister [[Taso Autio|Taso]], was born in a small village on the material plane mostly populated by fetchlings that had to flee the shadow plane during [[The Collapse]].
 
Some lingering fragment of chaos came into contact with her mother during her pregnancy, apparently only affecting Taru and leaving her sister a normal fetchling.
While Taru's unusual appearance certainly drew glances and whispers, she was generally accepted in her village, staying there until she finished an apprenticeship as a bard and decided to experience adventuring herself rather than just telling stories about it. (An anecdote she loves to tell is that she earned herself the nickname of "Butcher of Legends" at that time—occasionally she will also reveal that it was for her absolutely atrocious first attempt at retelling legends before an audience.)
 
Her sister, wishing to learn more about crafting techniques around the world, decided to tag along. The two of them have a rather strange relationship, getting along famously in letters and occasional meetings, but mostly bickering whenever they spend more than a day or so together. Somehow they made travelling together work anyway.
 
They split up soon before Taru arrived in [[Onadbyr]], Taso staying a while in a workshop they came across to learn of their methods. The two still regularly exchanged letters and a few month later Taso joined her sister in the city.
 
== Life in Onadbyr ==
Taru greatly enjoys living in Onadbyr and being an Associate. She joins missions as often as she can, as long as she believes she will be more help than hindrance.
 
She spends most evenings in taverns telling tales of heroes and adventures, both for fun and as a secondary source of income.
 
=== Melfyra ===
In mid-225 [[Melfyra]], at the time freshly a vampire, faced persecution due to being undead. Refusing to let people be judged for what they are, Taru started to protect her and they soon moved in together to make this more convenient.
 
Melfyra quickly developed a crush on Taru, her almost literal knight in shining armour, but originally Taru only viewed her as a housemate she intends to protect. (The idea of any physical relation with an undead body also made her a bit queasy, no matter how much she appreciated the person inhabiting it.)<br />
This slowly changed over time, and in Summer 227 Taru translated and adapted an old song of her people to express her feelings for Melfyra. While the shock of her crush asking her out so boldly at first made Melfyra faint, they officially got together after.
 
Since then Taru sometimes sings the translated song that she calls "The Wild Maiden's Spell" in the taverns she performs in.
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! colspan="1" | The Wild Maiden's Spell
|-
|
(The song is a translation/adaption of the German song<br />[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlIjhUzZN0 Vom Zauber des Wildfräuleins] by [https://www.versengold.com/songtext/vom-zauber-des-wildfraeuleins Versengold]<br />and is sung to the same melody.)
|-
|
Once long ago as I wandered alone,<br />
in the deepest of woods I got lost.<br />
And as with hope gone, my fate I thought known,<br />
it all changed as a clearing I crossed.
 
There light and wind on the waving grass played<br />
and sat amidst blossoms and fern,<br />
a maiden against whom a spring day would fade.<br />
Entranced by the world in return.
 
 
And she spoke, hear the wind blow your sorrows away.<br />
All things flow, all things float, all things have their time.<br />
Never forget we're but a moment's byplay,<br />
yet a moment's enough for a life most sublime.
 
And if you're willing, so I will tell you:<br />
If you wish to leave, leave!<br />
If you wish to stay, stay!<br />
If you wish to dance, dance with me!
 
 
With eyes as lovely as belladonna berries,<br />
her bright smile a treasure of bliss.<br />
Her skin cold as snow smelled of lilac and cherries,<br />
and her hair the colour of night's kiss
 
Her elegant form clad with naught but a dress,<br />
finely woven from petals and leaves.<br />
And she pulled me down into her sweet caress,<br />
to kiss away all my tears and past griefs.
 
 
And she spoke, hear the wind blow your sorrows away.<br />
All things flow, all things float, all things have their time.<br />
Never forget we're but a moment's byplay,<br />
yet a moment's enough for a life most sublime.
 
And if you're willing, so I will tell you:<br />
If you wish to leave, leave!<br />
If you wish to stay, stay!<br />
If you wish to dance, dance with me!
 
 
Readily I followed the pull of her arms,<br />
sunk down into the wild maidens lap.<br />
My worries and sense lost to her soothing charms,<br />
as on the bed made from moss we'd nap.
 
I dreamt of summers and winters that fled,<br />
and reality faded away.<br />
And I dreamt without me the years moved ahead,<br />
as I lived with her love every day.
 
And when I opened my eyes and the dream dropped its veil,<br />
I was grey-haired, my death in the air.<br />
And the maiden that was recounting my tale,<br />
smiled gently and caressed my hair.
 
 
And she spoke, hear the wind blow your sorrows away<br />
All things flow, all things float, so be ready this day.<br />
Many a moment flies quick as a life could play,<br />
in the wild maiden's spell and the time in her sway.
 
And if you're willing, so I will tell you:<br />
If you wish to cry, cry!<br />
If you wish to scream, scream!<br />
If you wish to dance, dance one last time with me!
 
 
And I breathed: Why would I cry or scream?<br />
If I was back in the prime of my youth,<br />
I'd gladly for just this one moment anew,<br />
give my life all over again.<br />
 
|}
 
=== Pet ===
In autumn 225, Taru [[Samara Slitherslimes Shifting Slime Shop | received a frost ora]] as reward for… training said frost ora. She is still unsure what Samara got out of that deal.
 
The frost ora is named Aeve, after a legendary slime whose story Taru has heard. They are trained to orate tales backwards for an audience and to collect rewards after.
 
== Religion ==
While Taru is not deeply religious, she follows the teachings of both [[Cayden Cailean]] and [[Desna]]. One could argue that she respects the latter more as a divinity, but she looks up to Cayden as a person and even became one of his champions.
 
== Etymology ==
Taru's names are based on Finnish words. Her first name, [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tarina#Finnish Tarina], means "Story" or "Tale", aggrandised in her nickname [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taru#Finnish Taru], which means "Epic" or "Legend", symbolising her own aspirations.
 
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autio#Finnish Autio], her last name, translates to "Desolate" or "Uninhabited", referencing large parts of the Shadow Plane. It is a very common last name in her culture.
 
Aeve is named after a Magic: The Gathering card, the legendary slime [https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=522224 Aeve, Progenitor Ooze].
 
== Expeditions ==
=== Winter 227 (October 2024) ===
* [[Monster Mash II]]
* [[Monster Mash]]
* [[Rock and Stone#THE_REVENGEANCE|Rock and Stone 2: The Revengeance]]
 
=== Autumn 227 (September 2024) ===
* [[Rock and Stone]]<ref name="log"/>
* [[Alestorm]]
 
=== Summer 227 (August 2024) ===
* [[Termination Clause]]
* [[The Rusted Edge]]
* [[The Stoneblight's Peril]]
* [[Hellmouth Hysteria]]
 
=== Spring 227 (July 2024) ===
* [[Snakes in the Grass]]
* [[Crab Rave]]
 
=== Winter 226 (June 2024) ===
* [[The Second Hellmouth: Early Signs]]
* [[Bustin']]
 
=== Autumn 226 (May 2024) ===
* [[Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)]]<ref name="log taso"/>
* [[Clear Cut Rules]]
 
=== Summer 226 (April 2024) ===
* [[Karkalicious]]
 
=== Spring 226 (March 2024) ===
* [[Bring Your Brain]]
 
=== Winter 225 (February 2024) ===
* [[A Grave Danger Returns]]
* [[The Legendary Funeral]]
* [[Love-and-Loss Day]]<ref name="log"/>
* [[One Bad ___]]<ref name="log"/>
 
=== Autumn 225 (January 2024) ===
* [[Samara Slitherslimes Shifting Slime Shop]]
* [[The Weathered Slab]]<ref name="log"/>
 
=== Summer 225 (December 2023) ===
* [[Weird Wolves]]
 
=== Spring 225 (November 2023) ===
* [[It's Demons (Trainee)]]
* [[Welcome to the Star Pit | Welcome to The Star Pit]]
* [[Kelek, Remastered 1]]
 
=== Winter 224 (October 2023) ===
* [[Let the Music Move You]]
* [[The Statue Garden]]
* [[Eclipsing the Night]]
 
=== Autumn 224 (September 2023) ===
* [[Malicious Intent: In the Wind]]
* [[Onadbyr_Arson_Investigation#Second_Expedition_(Onadbyr_Arson_Investigation_Redux)|Onadbyr Arson Redux]]
 
=== Summer 224 (August 2023) ===
* [[Fall Into Rune]]<ref name="log taso">Log transcribed by Taso, as told by Taru.</ref>
* [[Spa Spies]]<ref name="log"/>
* [[Malicious Intent: The Search]]
* [[Buried Treasure 5]]<ref name="log">Log written by Taru.</ref>

Latest revision as of 15:38, 10 November 2024

Tarina Autio
ClassBard
OccupationStoryteller and aspiring Hero
TierExpert
AncestryFetchling
HeritageGanzi
Alias(es)Taru
PronounsShe/Her
Age33 (born 29th of Desnus 196)
Height1.98m
RelativesTaso Autio (sister)
Status?


Tarina Autio was an Associate of the Round Table.

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