Maru (PC)

Maru is modri woman who has been living with the twin witches Virgo and Margo in the Lavorne Mansion since its founding together with Eli. Maru possesses an incredible intellect and a keen ambition and talent for the arts, though the latter are often somewhat forgotten due to her incredible persistence in working to keep the mansion clean and proper and its members in good health.

Appearance
Maru is a peculiar visage in the Lavorne Mansion, as she was born as a modri, a small ethnic group of blue-skinned humanoids with slight horns native to the Dorenese archipelago. She has piercing light-brown eyes, big black hair worn in a large bun atop her head, and exquisite purple, furred robes befitting the finest of wizards and scholars in Toussaint. Maru is always impeccably groomed.

Personality
Maru has a strong motherly aura. She concerns herself greatly with her chosen family being in good health and continuously bettering themselves and their home, as well as the mansion being clean and well-organised. In this sense, she is sometimes seen as the counterbalance to Ruddy, who insists on relaxation and freedom of tasks and order. Both Maru and Ruddy tutor the young Jessica Gale, the youngest member of the Lavorne family.

However, Maru also has great ambition and talent for many of the expressive arts, such as musical composition and poetry, seeing great beauty in the order that pervade these arts.

Biography
Before the Mansion In the immense, 'machine city' of Orzon, the capital of Doren, lies one of the most renowned institutes of learning in Toussaint. This academy, the Palinchrome, is a large keep made from a pale white stone that appears to have an opal-like veneer over it when it with sunlight. Embedded in the rocks of the ancient Dorenese keep are gemstones of all shades of blue, found in the by the Dredger mining companies of west-Doren. The Palinchrome, more commonly referred to as 'the Pale Academy', is an academic institute which focusses on the research-fields of history, geology, and the languages. Though the Dorenese peoples are generally relatively 'down-to-earth' and culturally resilient, they have always looked with great esteem to the famed researchers that are deemed talented enough to study in the Pale Halls.

Maru was one such student. But even among the bright-minds of the academy, she was a star-student unlike any. It was here that the famous scholar and historic artificer, Duretta Bosque, saw the spark in Maru and took her under her wing.

In Episode 5, it was revealed that Maru went into hiding for years at the Pale Academy during the Great War, when the hate-group Ratio was appointed as military stewards of Orzon during it. She was hidden away behind a bookcase for two years by Duretta Bosque, who tried desperately to protect her star-student. Only on the verge of discovery did Maru escape the Pale Academy and headed to Lovidia, where she met Eli, Virgo-, and Margo Lavorne.

In the same episode, it was also revealed that Maru had been abandoned by her modri parents as a baby, who sought a better future for her than their wretched life in downtrodden Risaltrov, south of the capital. She was given into the guardianship of Valrich Müller, an alberean silk-trader who promised to find a good home for her.