About the Writing Style

Echoes of Home is written as a collection of journal entries, and that's the format I plan to use for this challenge. As such, I took liberties with formatting in the book to highlight that this was stuff they were typing. In Tsu'na's first entry in Echoes of Home, she insisted that autocorrect be turned off, so most of it was in lower-case. Sometimes sentences end in the middle as the character goes on to say something else. One entry is only four words long.

Also, Tsu'na has idiosyncracies in her writing and speaking. She uses some words and phrases a lot (like "a lot"), and she's in the habit of talking about things "in Earth" because her husband talks about things "in Eorzea." So in some cases what might seem like odd or bad grammar might in fact be just her way of saying things.

About the Setting

My current limited research says Dublin was founded as a viking outpost in 795 AD. Since the prompt specifically says 794, I'm setting the story before then, when the vikings were doing raiding and slaving runs in Ireland but were still based elsewhere.

About the Character

Tsu'na Hyurcat, née Maliqua, is a "miqo'te" from the MMORPG Final Fatasy XIV. She is an original character, for all intents and purposes a "player character," created for the FFXIV fanfiction Echoes of Home. She's fully humanoid, with the exception of her catlike ears and tail.

She lived in a world that greatly resembled that in the game (referred to in the story as "Eorzea", though that is an alliance of nations, while the planet is actually named "Hydaelyn"), until she met Steve Osgood, a human ("hyur") from Earth. They knew each other for at least a year, eventually got romantically involved, and got married and took the name "Hyurcat" (her husband sometimes has a peculiar sense of humor).

Then they found a portal similar to the one that brought Steve to Eorzea. Steve told her it could take them to another world with new adventures. It in fact took them to the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they tried to live normal, under-the-radar lives, with mixed results.

So Tsu'na knows very little of Earth history or politics, other than what she specifically researched. Familiar with portals to other worlds, and unfamiliar with non-21st-century Earth, she is much more likely to think she's on another world than the same world in a different time period.

As an experienced FFXIV PC, her abilities include:

● Multi-class: FFXIV PCs can have multiple character classes that include crafting, gathering, melee combat, ranged combat, magic combat and healing, and can change between them at will. Each requires its own equipment, though, so one can't do more than one thing at the same time.

● Inventory: Temporally-locked extradimensional storage space -- pockets that are bigger on the inside, in which time doesn't pass. She can hold hundreds of identical items, or unusually large single items, without weight. She's the only one that can access her inventory.

● Significant strength: In the story, she and her husband together raised a pickup truck a foot off the ground.

● Mounts: She has a number of rideable things available on-call, including various creatures, vehicles and more esoteric objects. Her favorite is Boreas, an ice-white horse with glowing blue mane and tail that drips snow as it walks, which she hasn't used since leaving Eorzea because "we do not want to be around confused and upset hyur." In Echoes of Home the mounts can fly, but Tsu'na considers Oklahoma her "starting area;" she would need to study a new area to make that happen there.

● Rapid healing: Injuries she suffers will regenerate in a relatively short amount of time, as long as she isn't actively acquiring more.

● Teleporting: Tsu'na and her husband can Return to their "home point," which in Echoes of Home was a spot in forest outside Wyatt, Oklahoma. Whether she has a home point in this story remains to be seen.

● Journal: PCs in FFXIV have a journal that records everything about their experience -- a map of places visited, a list of recipes that can be crafted, locations of where materials can be gathered, etc. (Steve describes it as "a magical book-shaped fitbit.") It has an indefinite number of pages. The characters determined that a particular kind of ink works for writing in it.

● The Echo: A blessing from the goddess Hydaelyn, it bestows the ability to occasionally see visions of the past, and also understand and speak to others without knowing the language (this doesn't seem to apply to written work). The visions haven't happened in Echoes of Home, but the translation has. So Tsu'na can communicate with whatever people she encounters. (On a related note, my understanding is that "Dublin" translates directly to "Blackpool".)

● Linkpearl: A comm system that ingame relies on aetherial currents rather than radio-wave signals.  Tsu'na and Steve could use it on Earth to communicate with each other.