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− | : <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="2"> Insofar as anyone knows, Raemha is a victim of the slave trade. She was "discovered" by her now-adoptive father and his son, then later registered in Limsa where she could fade into the background with the many other victims of flesh trafficking. This is also more or less the extent of Raemha's own knowledge, as she suffers from amnesia regarding her true past. <br><br> In truth, Raemha is not Eorzean at all. She comes directly from the lines of ancient Meracydian Miqo'te, those who existed on the continent prior to the Allagan invasion in the Third Astral Era. She was found in suspended animation inside an old music box, which she still holds on her person to this day. Her mother, a proud Paladin, was part of the resistance effort against the Allagan — and, unbeknownst to Raemha, later became one of the tempered Demiurges whose life essence channels power into the Goddess, Sophia. Her father, however, was a consummate seeker of knowledge, and sought any way to keep his daughter from falling victim to the war descending all around them. Without Raemha's knowledge, she aided in her father's plans to lock her inside an inanimate object, to be opened only once the chaos had passed and the Allagan threat was thwarted. <br><br> Needless to say, that day never came. Meracydia fell to the Allagan empire, and Raemha was forced to helplessly watch as her home and her people were assimilated into the empire and their culture lost. The trauma of being a bystander to centuries of history proved too much for her mind to handle, and eventually she snapped and closed her eyes and ears to the world outside. She spent much of her imprisonment in perpetual slumber, slowly forgetting all the horror she'd had to see until nothing of her past remained to be recollected. <br><br> The music box itself was passed from collector to collector, merchant to merchant, until its origins were forgotten and it simply became an elegant, golden gift exchanged between lovers and spouses. It wasn't until near the end of the Sixth Astral Era that the box was again found, discovered in the ruins of an aged mansion by Frederick Carver and his son, Navarre. The pair of treasure hunters broke the already-worn seal on the box and out appeared a young Miqo'te, naive and unable to speak a word of Eorzean. </font></div><br> | + | : <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font size="2"> words </font></div><br> |