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Her name is Maya, and she’s what’s known as a müra (a very short race of cat-people).
Maya’s world is one with no major religion, exactly, but they hold spiritual beliefs based on speculation and the presence of magic in the setting. Some people are very gifted in how they’re able to use the mysterious magic fluid that flows through the continent they live on, and are known as wizards or witches.
Maya is not talented with magic in the slightest. She’s not smart, she’s not special, she’s just kind of run-of-the-mill as far as a person goes. She is basically only good at writing quickly but neatly, and being a good listener - so she became a Lore Keeper.
In a world with no conceptualized afterlife, where death is otherwise the absolute end of an individual, cultures put a heavy emphasis on storytelling to remember the lives of those that came before them. For the Müra, this means writing the story down as if it were a novel into a book, and passing the family stories down each generation and adding to the family’s personal library. It’s a dramatically important job, and Maya is just one of hundreds of thousands that fulfill this duty.
She only became special on the day she died. She was traveling with a man that claimed to be in the middle of an adventure, looking for the fountain of youth. They found it - it was a large pond separated by a thin ring of rocks from the ocean - and before Maya could drink from it like the man intended to, he grabbed her and drowned her in it. He didn’t want the competition, you see. He drank from the waters as she sank to the bottom, lungs filling entirely with water.
Drinking the water did nothing for the man, but Maya crawled out of the water the next day, shivering but otherwise completely unharmed.
Since then, she’s been immortal - no better with magic, no more or less talented than she’d been before, but she could not die. Suddenly she was much more interesting to the world around her, because if they told her their story, they would be effectively immortal as well because she would remember it forever.

Description

Her name is Maya, and she’s what’s known as a müra (a very short race of cat-people).
Maya’s world is one with no major religion, exactly, but they hold spiritual beliefs based on speculation and the presence of magic in the setting. Some people are very gifted in how they’re able to use the mysterious magic fluid that flows through the continent they live on, and are known as wizards or witches.
Maya is not talented with magic in the slightest. She’s not smart, she’s not special, she’s just kind of run-of-the-mill as far as a person goes. She is basically only good at writing quickly but neatly, and being a good listener - so she became a Lore Keeper.
In a world with no conceptualized afterlife, where death is otherwise the absolute end of an individual, cultures put a heavy emphasis on storytelling to remember the lives of those that came before them. For the Müra, this means writing the story down as if it were a novel into a book, and passing the family stories down each generation and adding to the family’s personal library. It’s a dramatically important job, and Maya is just one of hundreds of thousands that fulfill this duty.
She only became special on the day she died. She was traveling with a man that claimed to be in the middle of an adventure, looking for the fountain of youth. They found it - it was a large pond separated by a thin ring of rocks from the ocean - and before Maya could drink from it like the man intended to, he grabbed her and drowned her in it. He didn’t want the competition, you see. He drank from the waters as she sank to the bottom, lungs filling entirely with water.
Drinking the water did nothing for the man, but Maya crawled out of the water the next day, shivering but otherwise completely unharmed.
Since then, she’s been immortal - no better with magic, no more or less talented than she’d been before, but she could not die. Suddenly she was much more interesting to the world around her, because if they told her their story, they would be effectively immortal as well because she would remember it forever.