Editing Fanon:Veila

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 |name       =  Veila
 |image      = [[File:IdentityQuest_Veila.png|center|290px]]
 |caption    = Veila holding the Book of Life
 |gender     = Female
 |orientation= {{Tooltip|mastertext=Polyromantic|tooltip=Attracted to many, but not necessarily all genders in a romantic way}} {{Tooltip|mastertext=Asexual|tooltip=Someone who does not experience sexual attraction.}}
 |age        = <p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=19|tooltip=Veila was equivalent to 13 years of age at creation.}}<small> (Whilst Alive)</small></p><br><p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=598|tooltip=Includes time trapped within Codex Perditus.}}<small> (Technical)</small></p>
 |birthday   = Spring 1, 4
 |species    = [[User:BakiDance/Raposa|Raposa]]

 |hair       = {{ColorDot|#532f02}}
 |fur        = {{ColorDot|#d29a54}}
 |skin       = {{ColorDot|#f4ce9d}}
 |eyes       = {{ColorDot|#5d2509}}
 |other      = <p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=Red soul|tooltip=Soul color determines what kind of magic is most natural to a Raposa.<br><br>Red souls are naturally best at performing spells which manipulate the location of matter.}}</p><br><p>{{Tooltip|mastertext=White soul|tooltip=White souls are incapable of performing any magic. This is not a natural soul color, and was instead given to Veila following her resurrection.}}<small> (Resurrected)</small></p>

 |home       = [[Raposa Village|Capital Village]] <br> [[Gearworks]] <br> Howland, ForestStream 
 |relationships = Kodir (Romantic interest)<br>Manere (Best friend)
 |role       = Genesis Raposa<br>First magician<br>Master magician
 |magic      = {{Tooltip|mastertext=Master|tooltip=This character possesses absurdly high levels of magical knowledge and experience.}}
 |status     = Alive
 |boxcolor   = #ff8682
}}
'''Veila''' <span id="pronounce" style="opacity:0.75; font-size: small;">(''pronounced <abbr title="As in V·an">V</abbr><abbr title="As in s·AY">ay</abbr>-<abbr title="As in LU·nge">luh</abbr>'')</span> is a 19-year-old female Genesis Raposa of [[Raposa Village|Capital]]. 

As a Genesis Raposa—the first generation of Raposa, drawn to life by the [[Creator]]—Veila was created bearing a unique gift and anointed in helping her species prosper. A natural expert of magic, Veila became recognized as the first Mage. Her eventual creation of the [[:Category:Gates|Warp Gates]] and research into levitation and healing spells made it possible for her village to expand at a rate otherwise impossible and greatly improved the quality of life of her fellow villagers. Despite being renowned, past and present, as the single best magician of all time, Veila considered herself a mere stepping stone to her peers' successes, convinced she had yet to achieve her ordained purpose to her full potential. Determined to refine her skills further to honor the reason for her creation, Veila worked tirelessly for years until her abrupt disappearance.

== {{Icon|Tower}} Appearance ==
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Veila was a young-adult female [[Raposa]] of slightly below average height and build. She stood at <abbr title="1.75 meters">5ft 9in</abbr> including ear height, and <abbr title="1.6 meters">5ft 3in</abbr> without. 
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 |-|Antiquity=
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Veila had red-brown eyes, orange fur, and long dark-brown hair with unkempt bangs. She often styled her hair in a messy low ponytail which she kept over her right shoulder. When not working or attending village events, she would wear her hair down.
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Veila's go-to outfit consisted of a red button-up long sleeve shirt with a white collar and cuffs, a white undershirt with an angular cut, rolled-up dark-grey cuffed slacks, and brown boots.
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 |-|Shadow=
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As a Shadow construct within the Codex Perditus, Veila appeared as a [[Shadow Walker]] with Raposa ears. As such, her physical form was entirely composed of black Shadow goo which constantly emanated pieces of Shadow. Overall, she stood upright, retaining anthropomorphic qualities.
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The only defining features of her form were two solid white eyes, a wide, partially smiling, mouth, and claw-like hands. 
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 |-|Modern=
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Veila has red-brown eyes, orange fur, and long dark-brown hair with lifted bangs. Unlike her past life, she prefers to wear her down, such that it rests on her shoulders, and styles it with loose.
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Her go-to outfit consists of a red over-sized sweater, dark-gray palazzo pants, and open-toed flats. During cold weather, she may wear a beige scarf.
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== {{Icon|Book}} Story ==
=== Creation ===
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Veila is a Genesis Raposa created (age 13) alongside the rest of her kind on the dawn of the fourth year. As a Genesis Raposa, Veila was created for the purpose of furthering her species and was bestowed with a unique gift to aid her. Within the first week of creation, most of Veila's peers had discovered their purpose and abilities. Yet Veila, among the few who had yet to determine their gifts, worked as a laborer, assisting in the construction of what would soon become [[Raposa Village|Capital Village]].
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As seasons passed, the number of Raposa who had yet to discover their ordained purpose diminished until only Veila and her closest friend, Kodir, remained without. Though her village was kind, Veila thought herself inadequate compared to those around her with abilities she yet lacked.
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Unwilling to become a burden to her village, she embraced a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, living alongside her best friend. However, a year later, Kodir discovered their purpose to Veila's greatest delight and melancholy. Though she was ecstatic for her best friend, the heavy burden of purposelessness now laid solely upon her shoulders.
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=== Warp Gates ===
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Fearful of failing her creation mandate and full of self-doubt, Veila adopted meditation to cope. This habit led to a surprising outcome for the young Raposa when she accidentally conjured a ball of light whilst meditating one night. Having discovered magic, Veila finally found her purpose: to master the art and mentor her village.
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Veila spent the remainder of her free time studying the art. She learned quickly: Having been created to become an expert magician, understanding came naturally to Veila. After a short year, Veila—now 17—was a master and began tutoring her proud village. Determined to find new ways of assisting her species, she worked tirelessly inventing new spells and magic-powered devices.
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A prominent example, and one leading to her notoriety, were the [[:Category:Gates|Warp Gates]]. Warp Gates, the evolution of her first basic levitation spell, allowed Raposa to traverse long distances instantly between other linked Gates. Treks that would take teams of Raposa days to cross now could be complete in mere seconds without need for bulky supplies. Naturally, this enabled her village to expand far beyond its original borders. 
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In her lifetime, Veila created four gates within [[Raposa Village|Capital Village]], each leading to newly discovered region: The [[Snow Gate]], [[Forest Gate]], [[Beach Gate]], and the [[City Gate]] (so named as it would later become the main area of expansion for her village). Though the Gates had limitations (such that they could not transport cargo en mass), they were a boon to the growing village and would continue to see heavy usage centuries into the future.
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=== The Book of Life ===
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With her abilities as a magician realized, Veila was entrusted by the village leader with the [[Fanon:Book_of_Life/Two_Books_Theory|Book of Life*]]. This book, which was found by the village leader shortly after her creation, contained boundless information pertaining to their [[Fanon:Neve|world]] and basic doctrine for the Raposa, but otherwise served no known use. Accepting the gift, Veila took the Book in for study, understanding it as a creation artifact.
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It wasn't long until Veila noted the reality altering properties of the Book of Life. By manipulating the magic of the pages in the Book, Veila was able to modify aspects of the respective creations contained within. With this new found use, Veila was further able to assist her village by manipulating the world—particularly atmospheric conditions—through the Book: During dry seasons, Veila learned to summon rain by manipulating the page for clouds, or mildly raise or lower the temperature and tides by manipulating the Sun and Moon pages. 
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Beginning to understand the importance of the Book of Life, the village leader instructed everyone to begin construction of [[Creation Hall]] based schematics found within new pages of the Book. This building, once complete, became the sanctuary of the Book of Life and a holy spot of worship for the Raposa settlement. Over time, more pages began to fill the Book, and the Raposa followed the new doctrine understanding it as the holy word of the Creator. 
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As the village expanded with new landmarks, Veila and her peers became perplexed by the schematics of a final creation: a wood and iron pedestal the Raposa had constructed at the center of their village. Though the schematics portrayed the box alight with flame, all attempts to kindle a fire within it failed as powerful gusts of wind would soon after extinguish all efforts. With the village exhausted of ideas, Veila trepidatiously tore the page for fire from the Book of Life and rested it within the pedestal. To the astonishment of everyone, the page suddenly ignited and burned as a brilliant white flame that soon thereafter shot into the heavens as a beacon of fire.

=== The Eternal Flame ===
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The [[Eternal Flame]] established a closer connection with the [[Creator]] for the growing village as for the first time since their creation, the Raposa heard the voice of their Creator. Veila noticed how the new landmark took on the properties of the page the returned to it; the bonfire appeared unassuming, but it illuminated the village insurmountably more than its breadth would suggest, without radiating heat or spreading. However, with the loss of the page for fire, Veila was unable to manipulate the properties of fire within the world. Only the flames she conjured herself based on spells she had learned from the Book could be manipulated, but these spells were comparatively weaker than what the Book allowed.  
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This revelation lead Veila to conclude that it would be safer to entrust the pages of creation with the Creator rather than with Rapokind. Fearing that one day the Book of Life could fall to the wrong hands, Veila told the village leader of her intentions to return the Book of Life to the [[Eternal Flame]] as she had done with the flame page before it. Seeing the Book as the reason for the Raposas' continued survival, the leader resisted Veila's idea, but trusted her judgment. 
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Nevertheless, Attempting to ease her leader's concerns, Veila began work on her final project: The Codex Perditus. A complete document detailing all the spells Veila knew, based on the powers of the Book of Life, the Codex would have the ability to safely carry out spells for even the most inexperienced magicians while reducing the magic cost requirements considerably. In order for such a book to exist, pages from the Book of Life would need to be co-opted.
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=== The Codex Perditus ===
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Taking the Book of Life back to her home in [[Gearworks]], Veila begun the process of creating the spellbook. With the book bound, all that was left was to transfer the magic from the extracted pages into the empty Codex. Though she had taken precautions and started slow, the magic from the combined pages was far more powerful than she had estimated. Her soul was overpowered and she quickly lost control over the unstable enchantment as she tried desperately to halt the binding process. 
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The infusion spell backfired. Fueled by the excess magic of the [[Book of Life]], the effect of the binding was amplified. Rather than just absorbing the magic from the few pages, the Codex Perditus absorbed all that surrounded  it, including Veila's soul. By the time the spell concluded, the Codex became hyper-saturated. Composed of more magic than matter, the object became too unstable to remain fixed to the physical realm and vanished into the [[Fanon:Primordial Void|Void]], taking what little remained of Veila along with it.
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Days following the accident, a search party was launched by the village leader. The farthest reaches of the [[Forest Gate]] region were scoured. Although the Book of Life was found, fully intact among the ruble of Veila's home, no trace of Veila was ever identified. The search was eventually called off when [[Mecha Baki]]—one of Veila's experiments—in the area became increasingly more erratic without her guidance. Out of equal parts fear and respect, the villagers sealed off the Gearworks region where it would remain untouched until [[Fanon:Timeline|The Fall]]. 
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Seeing the fate that befell Veila as a sign, the village leader's hesitance toward returning the Book of Life was substantiated. Soon after, the village leader declare herself the first [[Mayor (Position)|Mayor]] and permanently re-homed the Book of Life in [[Village Hall]] where it would remain guarded by future generations of Mayors. Fearing the power of the Book after the loss of Veila, the first Mayor denied everyone access to it. Over time, the true purpose of the Book of Life was forgotten, as its power and abilities were never taught to future generations. 
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=== Shadow Construct ===
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Within the Codex, Veila's consciousness became fragmented and dreamlike. Without a proper body, she lost the ability to feel complex emotions and reason. She was left with only her fear and anger, with little control over her thoughts and actions. As long as the Codex were in the [[Fanon:Primordial Void|Void]], it was unable to interact with reality except during brief windows when the tome was able to maintain a physical form.
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While most of these events came and passed with no one discovering the ancient book, those who were unlucky enough to uncover the tome found it possessed by a hostile [[Shadow|Shadow construct]]. Though the soul-powered entity was sluggish and easily fooled, it was responsible for a small handful of disappearances and injuries over the centuries following. Yet, the rarity and random nature of these events made determining a cause difficult to prove. The disorganized accounts of dazed survivors meant that the Shadow being, and the book it guarded, entered public knowledge only as an obscure myth.
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600 years after its creation, the Codex Perditus happened across its final victim(s). The Codex materialized before the car of the Heinnen family on their way to a camp-out. The resulting collision led to the deaths of both parents in the front compartment, while [[Fanon:Marzell|Marzell]] and his younger brother survived with heavy injuries. Forcing his way out of the mangled vehicle, Marzell found themselves pursued by the Shadow construct. Desperate to protect his remaining family, Marzell fought his way to the Codex Perditus and destroyed it. The magic stored within the book flooded into the surrounding environment and a small portion—including Veila's soul—was absorbed by Marzell.
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== {{Icon|BigHeart}} Relationships ==
=== [[User:BakiDance/Marzell|Marzell Heinnen]] ===
Veila considers Marzell to be her closest friend. Despite the strenuous and bitter start of their relationship, the two have grown very close over time.

Veila "met" Marzell when he destroyed the artifact her soul was trapped within. Following this, he inadvertently absorbed her soul and gained the ability to speak to her in his mind space. Though happy to finally have been freed and consciousness restored, Veila became aware of the fact she was an intruder in Marzell's body and had caused him a great deal of suffering as a Shadow Construct. Anguished by this, Veila made her presence known to Marzell, who was enraged upon learning the truth, wishing she had never been created. 

As tensions cooled in time, Marzell began to understand that Veila had not meant any harm to him and had little say in their current situation. Eventually, he apologized for his remarks. Despite this, Veila couldn't yet forgive herself, but was comforted by his reprieve.

When Marzell began training with the Mages following his capture, Veila provided him magic instruction. Slowly, this led to his mastery of [[Shadow]]. By this time, the two had grown close as friends and Veila opened up more about her past.

<!--Following Marzell's untimely death, Veila pleaded to the Creator to resurrect Marzell, and to take her soul instead. However, Marzell fought her, arguing that she deserved a second chance at life just as much as he, considering the troubled life she first lived while trying to live up to their ideals. The Creator accepted, resorting both their lives and returning Veila's own body. -->

== {{IconSVG|Trivia}} Trivia ==
* Veila created the [[Mecha Baki]] as a means of protecting village crops from pests, however they failed to scare away living [[Baki]] as intended. After Veila's disappearance, Mecha Baki slowly spread from [[Gearworks]] to [[Star Forest]], becoming a threat of their own and evading extermination attempts.
** Following The Fall, the few Mecha Baki that remained in the Forest Gate died off once magic levels dropped world-wide.
* As a Genesis Raposa, Veila lacks a given last name.

== {{Icon|Gallery}} Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed-hover heights=200px>
IdentityQuest_Veila_Book.png|By: IdentityQuest
BakiDance_VeilaDeath.png|By: BakiDance
VeilaManere.png|By:BakiDance
VeilaTea.jpg|By: Fishoni
BRVeila.png|By: BoyRapo
CLVeila.png|By: Crystal Lugia
VeilaHoldingPerditus.png|By: BakiBot
VeilaHoldingPerditusGrumpy.png|By: BakiBot
BakiBot_Veila.png|By: BakiBot
Transextant.png|By: BakiDance
Transextant.gif|By: BakiDance (Animated - View full image)
Veila_Icon.gif|By: BreGee13
</gallery>

== {{Icon|Music}} Themes ==
#<span class="plainlinks">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVwt9vOKG5o lael - 300 nights] <sup>[''[https://genius.com/Lael-hansen-300-nights-lyrics Lyrics]'']</sup></span>

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