Ellinoora Taipale is a strange woman. She has always blabbered something about bugs in the walls and
disappeared at the oddest times. I mean, she's a great healer, but terribly unreliable. When she's at
her best even the worst patients get better. Well, not quite. She gives them time. A little bit more,
weeks, months, years. At her worst? The people rot in front of her. They decay. It's unnatural. It's
weird.
She needs to stay for now though. She can't disappear from here for good, not while this plague is
burning through the city like wildfire. There's more than enough work with the root-rot in
the streets and the Triage and their brutes pushing them into hiding. By the Primordials, when will
it ever end??
Overall Ellinoora appears to be a well-kept young woman. She mixes a lot of feminine clothes with masculine ones, but is the most often seen in her work-uniform.
Ellinoora is quiet and often lost in her thoughts. She tends to be skittish, sudden loud noises scare her easily and she occasionally disappears without saying anything.
She's the most comfortable either on her own or at her own place.
Once upon a time there was a child who found an itty bitty black centipede. The child confused it with one of those cute caterpillars and took it home to admire it. Its many legs were almost hypnotizing. The child would take a good care of it so one day it'll grow up into a beautiful butterfly. Perhaps one of those with iridescent colours, since the centipede seemed to have a slight shine to it. She would call the centipede The Caterpillar.
The child grew up and so did the centipede. In fact, the centipede learnt to think, to speak. It, no, she would only speak to the child and the child only. She would grant the young woman grand boons for taking care of her while she was still weak and powerless.
Ellinoora found her calling from treating the ill and studying the emerging field of alchemy. She excels at potion-making and eventually found her way to be a physician's assistant for a local healer in a town nearby.
The Caterpillar never abandoned her. She lives in Ellinoora's attic where she teaches Ellinoora more about the world, the living, and the ink. After all, this being of ink came with a great knowledge, so why not use it? At least Ellinoora would use it for good.
But she has always had this strange heavy feeling around The Caterpillar and she's not sure who's in whose house anymore...
Aimed to gather some fitting songs that invoke a heavy and ominous feeling. The entire Damnation-album could be thrown into the playlist but I held myself back from doing so.
Must listens are:
Old title for the playlist was Her Arms, My Hearse, in reference to Opeth's album My Arms, Your Hearse.