It occured to me today that only a handful of people know the real Carnak's backstory. I draw her here in a modern way, with fanshionable attire and her hair up and makeup over her eyes..

Originaly, Carnak is from Roman to Post-Roman controlled Britain, about 50-400AD, I dont remember the exact dates anymore.

She is a high peistess and the orrical of Britain, a holy seeress who tells the fate of Britain to her native peoples at their yearly festivals and when the land is in need of guidance. The religion, land, and people are controlled by the preists of this faith, with the preistesses help. Carnak is at the head as a living representative of the Goddess, and her voice on Earth (as I beleive every woman in her own right is).

Carnak is the youngest Orical to date, and is rather new to her status when she realizes that something is out of place. At the festivals, she is set on a three-legged stool, in trance, and relates the fate of Britain, her body being overcome by holy powers and speaking with her voice. She has gone though the ritual a number of times when she realizes something is dead wrong. Without telling anybody, she meddles with the vision-enducing tonic she must take before each festival - she remakes it, so that is it not so pottent, and so that she is aware throughout the festivities.

It is then that she descovers the sin of the Preists. After she is drugged, they tell her what she must say at the festivies. This is blasphemy, as she is supposed to be speaking for the Goddess herself, not the preists. The preists have been forcing her to tell lies all this time, as with the Orricals before her, making her say their own will and not the will of the Goddess. The preisthood is currupt.

Again, sh takes matters into her own hands, preparing the tonic for herself prior to every Seeing. She makes the tonic as it was supposed to be made, not as the preists would have her take it, so that they may inforce their will on Britain. She acts as if nothing is diffrent, and the preists are not the wiser, as she actualy communicates with the Goddess before all of Britain, finaly speaking her voice and revealing the preists as frauds.

Their retrebutuion is swift. Carnak is cast out from her home, her status, and looses everything she knows and loves. The preists paint her as a heratical witch who went agaisnt their holy rules and lied to the people of Britain. She is shunned, hated, and despsised.

Having no where to go, she becomes a travler, in the guise of a harlot, and travels throughout the Roman Empire. That is when she takes the name Carnak (no, it is not her real name), after a large temple she sees in Egypt of the same name (Karnak).

I'm not sure what happens to her then. I've enver thought about it. In my mind, she is still traveling, doing good where she can and doing her best to forget her painfull past.

But now you know who she's supposed to be.