About one thousand years ago in year 1150, a child was born from a mixture of light and water. Due to the outcomes of his birth, a boy named Leonidas was seen as the gifted child and the son of the Holy One. One thousand years later, Leonidas is the Great Plains Kingdom's priest as well as doctor. His ancient wisdom of over a thousand years gave him access to the natural cures of the world. He carries a religious book wherever he goes and it is filled with ancient prayers, old languages, and the secrets of the healing arts. Using his cross, he can create a bright light, a light aiding the Kingdom's army by winning the First Great Plains War as he blinded the enemy army. Although being the highly religious figure as he is, he believes that medicine is one of the Holy One's many gifts and therefore should be used. During the First Great Plains War, he healed the wounded using old world herbs and healing techniques, however only succeeded is healing seventy-five percent of his patients. Though dabbling in the mystical arts of healing, he believes that there is the Holy One who has granted him with his special ability.
A troubled girl turned to the light. Maria was born in 1272, one year after the Second Great Plains War. Through the early years of her childhood, Maria's family suffered many calamities. Her father was a veteran of King Atlas' army, however due to traumatic and brutal experiences that Atlas has put his army through, such as pillage and murdering of civilians, Maria was beat and abused by her father, thinking that she was an enemies daughter. Maria's only place that she could turn to for peace was her old, weak, and sick mother as well as the one room in the house holding her three brothers and baby sister. After her mother passed in 1280 when Maria was 17, there was no other hope for the children as the father relied on the mother's wealth as the Kingdom's seamstress. With no money to support her family and no one to hire a peasant daughter, her only option was to roam the streets looking for clients. Though despising the only way she could raise money for her siblings, her off times in her room, she would read her religious books written by the ancient Leonidas. Through those books and her new found beliefs got her off the streets and work in the mission. Though she turned a new leaf to the Holy One, her street life tendencies tend to come out without her trying or even knowing.
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