Initial Lore

Harumi Caelamor grew up in the Selesnya Conclave of Ravnica, surrounded by the legacy of her mother, Kazumi. As a Virtue of Peace, she took her mother’s lessons of mercy and redemption to heart. Where others saw an enemy, Harumi looked for someone who might still be reached. She wanted to understand people, to ease their suffering, and to give them the chance to become something better.

Yet being Kazumi’s daughter came with expectations Harumi struggled to bear. Her mother’s heroics were celebrated, her name known, and Harumi found herself growing up beneath the weight of that reputation. Kazumi’s fierce protectiveness only made it harder. Harumi knew her mother loved her, but that love left her little room to discover who she was or what she wanted.

When she met Maeda, an arachnid woman whose charms captivated her, Harumi finally saw a life she could choose for herself. She fell in love, married her, and began to venture beyond the boundaries her mother had drawn. Through Maeda, Harumi was introduced to the Moxen, a brothel in Ravnica. What started as an exploration of her newfound freedom became a dependence on drugs and sex that she struggled to escape. Among the substances she consumed was one infused with demon soul essence. Its consequences were devastating: Harumi miscarried her first children.

Desperate to save them, she made a bargain with the demon Tyrael. Her children would live, and in return, she would serve him. Before she could fulfill that bargain, an eldritch calamity struck Ravnica. In her final act, Kazumi cast Harumi and the realm’s heroes five years into the future. Harumi survived, but those five years passed without her. To Tyrael, her disappearance was a broken promise.

While she was gone, he raised her children to hate her. Harumi returned to a world ravaged by calamity and a family she could no longer simply come home to. Reconciling with her children would take years. Eventually, she resolved to strike down Tyrael, determined to free her family from the bargain she had made in grief. Meanwhile, Maeda’s fear for Harumi grew into paranoia. With the plane in turmoil, she became convinced that keeping her wife safe justified imposing her will upon the Selesnya Conclave. She acted in Harumi’s name, using the authority of a Virtue of Peace to enforce her own demands.

Harumi tried to make her stop. She pleaded with her wife, but Maeda would not relent. The woman Harumi had once turned to for freedom was now taking it from others, and Harumi could no longer allow her name to lend that cruelty legitimacy. The Virtue of Peace struck down her own wife. In the sorrow that followed, Harumi pleaded with Sune to take away her divinity. She believed she was no longer worthy of it. What she did not understand was that her conviction was enough: through her own belief, Harumi self actualized her own mortalty.

The now mortal Harumi’s life continued after the death of her wife, and she met an elf named Xandor, having three more children: Kazumi II, named in remembrance of her mother’s sacrifice; Masumi, named for purity of beauty; and Hikari, whose bright passionate nature brought light into her world.

For much of her thousand-year life, Harumi led the Selesnya Conclave through the devastation of the Eldritch Calamity. She raised her family, carried the responsibilities of leadership, and lived with the consequences of choices she could never undo, holding onto grief like a wound she could not bear to let heal. One of those consequences had followed her into mortality.

Harumi had stopped using drugs shortly after her miscarriage, but her divine nature had sheltered her from their lasting effects. Once that protection was gone, the damage began to take its toll. It progressed slowly, until the final two hundred years of her life became years of agony. When she finally died, Kazumi II carried her soul home to Arborea. After a thousand years of love, loss, and suffering, Harumi could finally rest. Yet fate had other plans…

Resurrected in Luyarnha, Harumi found herself facing a world steeped in horrors she knew all too well. She had already spent a lifetime trying to repair what she had lost. Now she had another life before her, in a city with suffering enough of its own. Her mother’s lessons of mercy and redemption had guided her since childhood.

With this second chance, could she finally offer that same mercy to herself and finally let go of her own guilt?