Kameria Shula Fairmont is a member of Verbena and a shapeshifter.
Initiation[]
Kameria was born in Africa, but because she was disabled, her birth parents surrendered her to Christian missionaries who eventually sent her to the United States. Kameria grew up with a hunchback that made her deeply self-conscious, and felt alienated from her adoptive family, who seemed more interested in saving her soul than raising a child. On Halloween 1993, Kameria went swimming and prayed to Luna for healing; she was approached by a strange, shape-shifting white person who offered her "perfection."[1] He was later brought to a chantry along with Teague O'Connel, Aileen Wilkinson, Deborah Gray, Jon Fairmont, and Takoda Walking-Bear to be initiated into the Tradition.
On Imbolc, while learning the history of the Tradition, Kameria had a vision of a past life as a shape-shifter, which only made her more self-conscious about her body.[2] Several months later, she was accosted at Beltaine by a stag-headed stranger; when she panicked and called for help, Jon and Deborah fought the stranger off. The stranger turned out to be Lindara in disguise. That evening, Jon and Kameria made love for the first time, enacting the Wiccan Great Rite.[3]
Before the coven's Lammas celebration, Kameria and the other initiates were subjected to a mock kidnapping and the illusion of being tortured in order to Awaken them fully.[4] The following Beltaine, Jon and Kameria were married, and along with their coven-mates, founded a chantry of their own called New Hope Farm.[5]
The end of the Ascension War affected Jon badly. By 2003, he confided in Kameria that he felt the Earth was doomed, and there no longer any point in fighting for magic or the Old Ways. However, the appearance of a dying cu sith at the coven's Beltaine festival seemed to rouse something within him.[6]
At Midsummer, the coven offered instruction to a circle of new initiates. During the ritual afterwards, Kameria sacrificed Jon to revive the Node beneath the farm.[7] Aferward, Kameria comforted Tom, one of the initiates, who couldn't understand how she'd killed her own husband, the father of her unborn child. She assured him that Jon had freely chosen to give his life for the farm, and that this was part of the way of Verbena, however much it hurt.[8]
Name[]
In Verbena Tradition Book, her name is spelled "Kamaria," but this is changed to "Kameria" in Tradition Book: Verbena. Her name is a Swahili form of Qamar, which means "moon."
References[]
- ↑ MTAs: Verbena Tradition Book, p. 7-9
- ↑ MTAs: Verbena Tradition Book, p. 18
- ↑ MTAs: Verbena Tradition Book, p. 32-33
- ↑ MTAs: Verbena Tradition Book, p. 45-47
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 87
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 13-18
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 34-35
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Verbena, p. 99-100