Eliza is a harmless well-adjusted human with zero tragic backstory BUT
LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT HER NECROMATIC FAMILIARS
• Lori, a flower-drake: a complete skeleton, but a few parts were from other specimens. • Isildur & Isolde, a pair of dragon-wolves: Isildur is all from one individual, but Isolde is a mix of multiple specimens— from the same site as Isildur's though, so probably packmates. • Tiberius, a Greater Coastal dragon: an incomplete skeleton from multiple individuals.
None of them have any memory of their past lives, because their souls were too degraded by age to have any solid attachment remaining beyond "this species soul goes to that species skeleton". Their souls are also hiveminded mishmashes of whatever fragments chose to answer the summoning and shuffle together to make a new dragon— This hodgepodge is normal for her necromancy! It's whatever soul(s) OPTS to coalesce rather than grabbing for one specific individual (trying to revive a known person/animal with memories and all intact is considered UNETHICAL BAD PRACTICE). Pieces of Eliza's own soul are used to hold the parts together, and as familiars that bond is permanent— they all share magic back-and-forth between them.
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LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT HER NECROMATIC FAMILIARS
• Lori, a flower-drake: a complete skeleton, but a few parts were from other specimens.
• Isildur & Isolde, a pair of dragon-wolves: Isildur is all from one individual, but Isolde is a mix of multiple specimens— from the same site as Isildur's though, so probably packmates.
• Tiberius, a Greater Coastal dragon: an incomplete skeleton from multiple individuals.
None of them have any memory of their past lives, because their souls were too degraded by age to have any solid attachment remaining beyond "this species soul goes to that species skeleton". Their souls are also hiveminded mishmashes of whatever fragments chose to answer the summoning and shuffle together to make a new dragon— This hodgepodge is normal for her necromancy! It's whatever soul(s) OPTS to coalesce rather than grabbing for one specific individual (trying to revive a known person/animal with memories and all intact is considered UNETHICAL BAD PRACTICE). Pieces of Eliza's own soul are used to hold the parts together, and as familiars that bond is permanent— they all share magic back-and-forth between them.