Raíz

Mortal Years

Martina was born in Argentina under Spanish colonial rule until all hell broke loose after the May Revolution, when she was 18 at the time where she was determined to fight the Spanish. Her father worked as a local printer's assistant where she goes during the night with his keys to make seditious pamphlets. This leaving large stacks of them on street corners with rocks on top to not be blown in the winds.

After a few were passed around with one of her flyers was tacked on a wall, "Who is the Author?" scrawled in heavy ink over the words very carefully. She switched her spot while no one was watching, however she was pulled into a doorway to find out it was, Joaquin, a member of the patriotic factions with a small contraband printing press. She didn't know how helpful her writing was very inspiring morale to people and places to read her sheets. Considering herself to not as fancy as a writer or poet, but she did struck a chord with everyday workers and fighters her city as the cause want her to do more.

Joaquin, at first, was skeptical of Martina being the author where she soon prove herself to begin make trips to and from his hidden press several times a week under a disguise as a village girl going to the market. She was a little in love with him during the long hours as both spent devising the wording for the new redistribution, but he was engaged to a beautiful, gentile woman as for Martina having no chance.

Once the war was over, both parted ways as Martina took a job as travelling companion with a Spanish widow for reasons of propriety. The widow preferred to be left in her own devices in her own social class while Martina hat time continuing her writing in a cramped corner. She sent things off to magazine and newspaper publications under a pseudonym, but with instructions if were to be published.

The money should go to her family because of her father and brother who were both injured in the war. When she did show her writing, mostly being fiction, to anyone asked if there were always a comment made about her work described as "striking," "inspired," or "unusual." She was never quite sure to understand from what they meant, by putting words on the page came somehow easily to her. As she did it for fun because it was her main hobby after the war.

Kindred Nights

In 1824, after returning from home, Joaquin found Martina at night where in another time where he would have set her heart racing but he was changed by something differently. He didn't have a pleasant exchange or even ask about where she was at for the last few years, he merely ask needed her help. She agreed as she followed him to familiar streets to the room of the once house where his hidden press. It now contained only a strange white woman, Joaquin mouthed at Martina, "I'm sorry" he afterward bolted out was her last time she saw of him.

She would later discovered about the strange woman after being ghouled and Embraced. The strange woman's name, Dora the Lamia, who got the information from Joaquin by threats of torture on his family; which he gave very quickly much to Martina would like. She forgave him, however, she deeply down swore to never trust another man with her life as she had Joaquin.

From reading the books, tracts, and even talked with her employers, she began to see connections where she had never thought before until she was embraced in 1933. It exploded clearly in perfect webs and spokes of radiating from everything out. The world in both too bright and too dark with the people struggling, scheming, and flawed individuals. Through things of beauty and terror, she realized how wrong Joaquin did to her.

She would leave soon afterward, she went to pursue a philosophical goal that sounded when nonsense spoken out loud; which Dora just merely nods with a Cheshire smile.

As she arrived in the city on her own for the first time, it was magical to experience even though her sire explained Kindred existence since she never had been truly on her own for over a century. She meet new Kindred and would wrote about them in a glowing prose but vaguely abstract enough to not break the Masquerade if it got out.

Martina began going by "Raíz" as the only thing that brought out of her state of wonder was hearing a woman being beaten by her partner in the shabby apartment next to hers.

After a bloodbath she barely remembers, Raíz went back to her flat to write how beautiful the body of a crushed man on her wall in marker. As the wall were covered, she fled in fears of the local Prince would call a Blood Hunt for her head. In time, it happened again as she started travelling to a domain to another to follow crime reports of men who were released too soon with a burgeoning new interest: The Bahari.