Information

Aurora Borealis has a minion!

Nighteye the Gelatinous Nightling

Aurora Borealis
Legacy Name: Aurora Borealis

The

Nightmare Sheeta
Owner:

Rorschach

Age: 54 years, 4 months, 5 days

Born: December 31st, 1969

Adopted: 12 years, 8 months, 1 day ago

Adopted: September 5th, 2011

Statistics

Level: 8
Strength: 16
Defense: 18
Speed: 10
Health: 14
HP: 0/14
Intelligence: 0
Books Read: 0
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Unemployed

aurora is probably getting a complete overhaul

Everyone knows of the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The beautiful light shows in the sky of the arctic and antarctic regions. Few know where they come from though. Of course, there is the scientific reason, but those who know the real cause of the lights know that behind the beauty of them is something that they both fear and hold in reverence.

ideas

maybe a creature who leads spirits of the deceased to heaven
has to make sure those who she leads are pure, can't let bad spirits through
maybe lights appear when someone is close to dying, aurora comes and takes their spirits away
OR in human form is an old witchy type of lady who everyone thinks is weird
transforms into animal form during certain times of the year

"It is thought that the early dragon legends of China and Europe originated from the aurora, as people imagined firey breath flashing across the sky."

"The phenomena of the Northern Lights were explained by different stories - the legend and myth of bygone days:
- The lights were God or Goddesses appearing to mortals
- The lights were spirits or souls dancing in the sky
- The red colour was associated with legend or myths relating to blood - murder, death, armies, wars and suicide"

"The ends of the land and sea are bounded by an immense abyss,over which a narrow and dangerous pathway leads to theheavenly regions. The sky is a great dome of hard materialarched over the Earth. There is a hole in it through which thespirits pass to the true heavens. Only the spirits of those whohave died a voluntary or violent death, and the Raven, have beenover this pathway. The spirits who live there light torches toguide the feet of new arrivals. This is the light of the aurora.They can be seen there feasting and playing football with awalrus skull.The whistling crackling noise which sometimes accompanies theaurora is the voices of these spirits trying to communicatewith the people of the Earth. They should always be answeredin a whispering voice. Youths dance to the aurora. Theheavenly spirits are called selamiut, "sky-dwellers," those wholive in the sky. "

"In Finnish, the name for the aurora borealis is "Revontulet", which literally translated means "Fox Fires." The name comes from an ancient Finnish myth, a beast fable, in which the lights were caused by a magical fox sweeping his tail across the snow spraying it up into the sky."

"When the fires blazed in the skies, people were to behave solemnly, and children were admonished to quiet down and be respectful of the fires. It was believed that whoever disrespected the fires incurred bad fortune, which could result in sickness and even death. "