Belilena

To hear how she tells it, she was once a ray of light from a distant star that had touched a sapphire over many nights. This charged the sapphire and it hatched, like an egg, and from that she was given physical form. She wasn't always in this specific form, as she changed it to fit in with whatever the most dominant species was at the time in order to blend in. It was during this time she learned to harness her celestial magics and use them to divine the future and heal others. When the magic of the land was sealed away and the magic of the stars were filtered by a strong barrier, Belilena took up the practice of alchemy and continued her job of healer.

She enjoyed her work; she saved lives and helped those she couldn't save have peaceful final moments. Yet she could feel something missing from her life. It took her a fateful encounter with a being born of flame to figure it out: a companion. She lived far longer than most beings who lived in this land, and often felt like she didn't belong when she was around mortals.

But surely... surely this being before her, born from the flames of the new year, would be different. She could feel upon them a magic like her own; one born of magic of the heavens, although they were also born of the faint magic that still remained in the land.



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Belilena is a well known large cave in Sri Lanka, located 8 km (5.0 mi) from the town of Kitulgala. Evidence of prehistoric human presence as early as 32,000 years ago was recorded at the site. Picked this name due to Sri Lanka being called Ceylon once and supposedly Marco Polo gave Ceylon sapphires to royalty during his travels. Belilena is xxy sapphire. You know how Wikipedia dives are.