So I have been doing journals for a huge chunk of my life, some I've discarded, others I've kept, and a few I even made profit on when I sold them to museums for a large chunk of gil. You know you're really old when a museum buys your artifact of a journal written by an alias you had several hundred years ago and gets all excited about it. Sorry, that was sort of a lengthy sentence. My point is that I've been around for awhile now, a few thousand years in fact. I have memories as early as the tail end of the Third Astral Era toward the beginning of the Fourth Umbral. I'm happy that I got a combination lock for this journal because I'd be fucked if anyone ever opened this. But yes... I'm roughly 5,000 years old, give or take and as far as I know.. I'm immortal, if I have been aging, it's been very slowly.
I have never been sick, I guess you could say I have a golden immune system, despite knowing that I just don't get sick, I visit the doctor anyways. However, I can get pregnant, I've had four children. My eldest, Lidata died of old age. She grew up to be a librarian and married a shipwright. She died surrounded by family and friends... she had a very happy ending and while I miss her, I'm happy that she left Hydaelyn the way she did.
My second child is Alaje and unfortunately for him, he had inherited my curse and had traveled with me for a couple thousand years before we were separated during the War of the Magi. Alaje had always been good at stealth and was skilled with daggers and knives. I feared the worst and believed that Alaje had been turned into a tonberry and was trapped in Wanderer's Palace for all of eternity, but recent news has told me otherwise. Alaje is alive and well, but in prison for rape. He was framed and I plan on breaking him out and clearing his name... why do I know that he was framed? Mother's intuition I guess. I hope that I'm right.
My third and fourth children were twins, Makotako and Makotoki... but I nicknamed them Mako 1 and 2 when they were infants. Mako 1 became a wealthy merchant, just like his father and was going to inherit his business, but Mako 1 and my husband at the time were murdered during an attack on their caravan, they died too soon. Mako 2 became a doctor, a lot like me and died in his bed surrounded by family and friends. The only person who's left from that family line is Mako 2's son, Rulujara who's a gladiator in Ul'dah. I come visit him and watch his matches every now and then. He knows me as grandma, but in public I act as his sister since we look about the same age.
Don't get me wrong, I've loved all of the families I've had, my friends, I've had amazing experiences that not many people would get. I've had a great life, but with great moments come the shit moments and there were a lot of lowlights in my history. I've constantly questioned the reason for my existence and why I am the way I am.. but I've never gotten a clear answer, just several questions that pile up each century. Even extensive research in magic, history, and medicine has not helped me... I'm worried that I'm doomed to wander this world.. and that could very well be my fate.
I've always survived, yet never lived. Because of my condition I've been constantly on the run, changing identities, faking my death, or simply just up and leaving one day like I was never there. I can never truly develop life long friendships because I have to always be on the move. I'm currently in a free company filled with very nice people but eventually I'll even have to leave them. The only person who's stayed constant in my life is my partner Jajaruka, who's been afflicted with the same curse as me.. he's also Alaje's father... which could be the reason as to why Alaje's never aged. I don't really know. I actually managed to open up to one of my free company mates, but as of right now I don't think she knows the extent of what I've been through or how long I've lived.. she just knows I've been around for a really long time.
As of right now though, I'm having fun making new friends and I'm finally with Jaja after being separated so many times. Aside from my condition, I'm a completely normal woman, I love flowers, romance, and dresses... I want to have an awesome wedding, and I want to live a life with the one I love and hopefully, that will all happen for me soon. I think I've written more than enough for a first entry so I think I'll end it here. - Liara
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