PureEspresso

PureEspresso, or Hotaru/Mitsuru, is a rogue shadow created by a curse upon Hotaru when they were alive making their shadow sentient.



PureEspresso's Background Excluding Lore
Previously known as Amori Nokogiri, When they first joined rathnir in August, they spawned somewhere in the nation of Tortuga. As PureEspresso got familiar with the commands, plugins, and lore, PureEspresso traveled north. One day while exploring they saw a message in chat advertising a tavern in the small town of Fairavon. Having not seen any players so far they decided to check it out, inadvertently making one of the biggest decisions of their life.

Fairavon
At the time, they hadn't seen anybody on their excursion, and seeing this many people kind of made them quiet most of their time at the tavern. While at the tavern they learned more about the game and met Darklight. A soon-to-be important character in Amori's make-shift lore. After walking around the town for awhile Amori makes the decision to move there going through the process of citizenship for Yimmu-Audal. Soon after having a falling out with the city after they tried to move Espresso to a neighboring city, causing Espresso to leave and start a search for a new place to live.

Auszan
After leaving Fairavon Espresso decides to move somewhere in Tortuga, To commemorate where their adventure has begun. eventually landing on a city by the name of Auszan because it had teleports enabled, and the cool sounding name. After a bit of drama between another visitor of the city Espresso made acquaintances with the right hand of the mayor, soon gaining trust permissions into the town, building a house atop the manmade mountain. One important thing that happened during their time in the city was a sexual encounter with Darklight, causing a ton of lore-related things to happen stemming from it. (will be referenced in more detail during lore section.)After deciding to finally leave Auszan because the majority of its citizens were inactive, Espresso finally decided to make their own town. Starting from a money making scheme they came up with by growing seeds outside Home_Depot and selling them for a profit, it flopped and they moved slightly south planning to setup an underground town just by Home_Depot, soon realizing they couldn't claim it due to being to close to the store.

TheSandCastle
After the fail of Archentine, the unclaimable base under the ground, Espresso decided to head south, finding a small island with a sand castle built atop it, rowing up to it, Espresso realizes it is completely unclaimed and free to the taking, doing exactly that. Claiming it and fixing it up as it was a bit run down. Living there for the longest of the bunch, by the time Espresso left, they had built an emotional attachment to it do to lore and other reasons. like planning a revolution there and almost being married there. And soon it would be one of the only landmarks Espresso consistantly came back to after they quit.

Maqburg Manor
After the Auction House and /la spawn was removed, Espresso left TheSandCastle fearing nobody would be willing to walk all the way to Aldovir to speak to them, Espresso began travelling to 0, 0 to find a more populated place to live, stumbling across an unclaimed inn and taking it for themselves, right before quitting the server for almost 6 months.

Present Day
After scowering the wiki and the discord for nostalgia purposes, Espresso decides to hop back on the server and have a fresh start (lore and otherwise). Logging into Rathnir Espresso spawns in a place unfamiliar to them. Heading to the waypoint set at the manor, Espresso becomes worried realizing there is a city built around the manor and it had been claimed by them. Later realizing claims can be lost via being inactive for an extended period of time. Now not knowing where to go with only the items in their inventory as the rest had been taken, Espresso heads to a bar, Dalounge, in Vraelea. When they played it was one of Espresso's favorite places to go under any mood, happy, sad, anything. Espresso decided to setup camp near it (around 50 blocks) and claimed 2 chunks, naming the tent-base, "CampsiteMatsui". A few days later Espresso invites their friend r_spyder onto the server and he gets banned almost instantly for 3 days for saying he's a girl and attempting to sell his virginity, then evading ban and getting a perma-ban, then having to open a ticket to not get ip banned for when his main gets unbanned. Once r_spyder gets unbanned. they both move to a place not far from CampsiteMatsui, almost 300 blocks, with r_spyder claiming a land, naming it SpyderFarms. And Espresso claiming a land by the name of Postwick, intending for it to be a town where violence isn't an answer for problems, while also opening 2 stores in wilderness lands. The Player Head lottery, at 86, 63, 44, and a coffee shop reselling renamed strong coffee right by The Player Head Lottery.

Modern Lore (Hotaru/Mitsuru)
PureEspresso's lore isn't their first attempt at making lore, back in august, they didn't really have a set lore. They mostly made up lore to get the bandit tag, though now they have a set in store lore that will be described here.

Before Shadow
Hotaru Mitsuru was an 18 year old female explorer that was famous for finding cursed buildings and hideouts. One day she stumbled across one of these such buildings, though there was a difference. There was a faint screeching noise like that of ear ringing coming from inside the house. Hotaru's curiosity took control and she entered the building, instantly being frightened by a shadow-like hand levitating towards her. As she tried to escape through the front exit she realized the door was completely gone, like it had never been there. This is when the hand began to grab ahold of her, soon after making her faint. Waking up she asked herself what happened, almost immediately noticing something in perfect sync repeating what she says, it sounds exactly like her, but as it slowly faded out of sync she was able to tell it had a, to best describe it, more "dead" sounding voice than her.

The Shadow
As it slowly faded out of sync with her she realized it wasn't just an echo of her own voice, it was somebody elses. As she quickly turned her head to look around she saw nobody else, she was in the middle of nowhere with no life to be seen around her other than plants. As she looked around she noticed something shocking, her shadow was waving at her. Freaking out she tried to run away only to have the shadow follow her movements exactly except mirrored on the ground. After calming down she realizes it responds to speech, talking to it and learning it's name(s) Hotaru, and Mitsuru. It explained that she was cursed to have a sentient shadow until the day she dies, as she has trouble comprehending this life changing information, it continues explaining it is a genderless shadow but has it's own emotions and can move things like its arms and head around freely, though it has to follow her everywhere she goes. At this point she is calm after taking deep breathes and starts asking questions like, "What if I go into the shade?", "What happens when I die?" and more. She is asking these questions at a pace that the shadow cannot understand and only answers the first two, explaining that if she were to go into the shade then it can move freely inside that shade up until it ends, and that it has no idea what'd happen if she died.

Death's Door
Little did Hotaru know, having a sentient shadow following you around that breaks every law of everything is hard to comprehend, making her go insane 2 years after The Shadow Incident . Soon after dying from Brain damage, purely caused by the inability to be able to understand how any of this is happening or how a sentient shadow is literally following her around. 3 minutes and 23 seconds after Hotaru's death, something unexpected happened. Hotaru/Mitsuru (for shortness sake called Hotaritsu) heard a voice, a deep voice. The voice said not but two things. "One sent to death's door may never return", and "A blade forged from Shadowspec may be wielded by an echo of what once was." almost straight after the last line was said, something appeared in front of Hotaritsu, it was a chest, and as the lock was unlatched, a glint could be seen from across the world, it was a sword, a rapier, to be more specific. "As Hotaritsu inspected the beautiful blade he saw a carving into the Handguard of the blade reading "Death's Door, One sent to death's door may never return." These words swirled through Hotaritsu's mind as they thought, until a wooshing sound began. There was a small tornado-like tempest engulfing Hotaritsu in wind, soon not being visible. Until the wooshing stopped, they looked at themselves, not a minute ago they looked like a female but it had changed, now they had changed forms to have features of a male. As Hotaritsu picked up the blade, like they had never done before, they heard one last message "But a shadow of yourself."

Hotaru/Mitsuru PreModern
As Hotaritsu was learning their new pro's and con's of being what they called a "Rogue Shadow" they realized these things;

•Hotaritsu is genderless but can take form to have features of either sex.

•Hotaritsu is no longer trapped to Hotaru's movements; Hotaritsu can move free.

•Hotaritsu can only hold things made from or infused with Shadowspec.

•If Hotaritsu speaks too much in a short period of time, they can "fade"

•One killed by death's door cannot respawn.

As a shadow even the most basic tasks like building houses and making food become a daily challenge, as Hotaritsu has to infuse small amounts of Shadowspec, a rare mineral, into everything they plan on holding. As a shadow Hotaritsu was almost always miserable, shadow's have reduced emotions so something normally tear-inducing would make Hotaritsu simply frown, also Hotaritsu has a worse sense of humor, not directly. But shadows are more serious species causing most jokes to be taken literally or disregarded. And finally, Shadows feeling of love is almost nil.

Cupid's Opposite
After given the Death's Door rapier, Hotaritsu searched for a long range alternative, coming across a myth, the legend of Cupid's Opposite, the bow that if struck by an arrow from it, the struck would feel eternal suffering even past death. It was perfect. After months of searching, Hotaritsu landed in the continents of Rathnir, a place of prosperity and where they believed Cupid's Opposite lay, waiting for Hotaritsu. Eventually, Hotaritsu landed in the wilderness, west of dalounge. Where they gave up, they found a beautiful lake, Lake Sollo, and created the town of postwick. One day when digging into the mountain, Hotaritsu found 'a buried treasure' per-say, it was what they'd been searching for all this time, Cupid's Opposite.

xeone_
PureEspresso is Hotaritsu's current username, though, when they met xeo, their username was MatsuiHotaru, meeting her as they were both priests in a wedding. Hotaritsu was instantly in love, as some people would call it 'It's love at first sight'. Sadly, soon after Hotaritsu changed their name she forgot all about them, never forgetting about her, Hotaritsu tried to get to meet her again, finally doing it in queue for rathnir, then getting a tour of where xeo lives. Effectively meeting her two times. And before she left at the end of the tour, Hotaritsu promises her to give her a tour of Postwick soon.

Hotaru/Mitsuru Modern
After making progress with Hotaritsu's town, they were sad, they were sad because of their colorless looks and almost emotionless feelings towards most things. Hotaritsu decided it was enough. They went to the deepest depths of rathnir, to a tavern. But no normal tavern, a tavern that sold potions. One of which was a human potion, giving Hotaritsu stronger emotions, able to hold things normally, and have color for a temporary amount of time. But that was enough for them. And with Hotaritsu's newfound courage of being a real human they decide to ask out xeone.