My fellows, warbrother Wolf, I present her Imperial Waifuness.
I mean Imperial Majesty.
Spoiler: It takes more courage to suffer than to die
Name: Anissa Valkenschild von Sonnengard
Titles or Ranks: Kaiserin-in-Waiting and Princess of Sonnengard
Race: Human
Nationality: Sonnengard
Age: 20
Appearance: A petite young woman of noticeable beauty and obvious innocence. She is a short for her age and heritage at 5’6”, and her form is slender but fairly fit after years of sword training, her pale skin, while flawless, showing tell tale signs of muscles on her abdomen and limbs. Piercing blue eyes set on a thin face; pointed chin, thin pink lips, and flowing blonde hair often tied into a long braid with a golden hoop adorning the end.
The regal attire she wears often bears motifs of her father’s elite warriors, who she looks up to with great reverence. They are simple in form but extravagant in make, silk white gowns with a black fur mantle draped around her shoulders and held in place with the same silver brooch of the Iron Lions. A baldric made with soft black leather adorns her torso, used to hold the slender dagger she carries. The blade, while well made, is purely ceremonial.
Upon her insistence, the palace forgemaster and key members of the Iron Lions have prepared for her a set of steel armor. A white military blouse and midnight blue slacks form the basis, with a steel cuirass with a bevor collar on. The bevor is quite pronounced, reaching up and out to cover her cheeks and nose. Worn in tandem with the cuirass is a lobster pot helm that comes attach with a gated visor to guard her eyes and a plume of blue feathers adorning the top. Attached to the cuirass are steel pauldrons, fashioned with a lion face for embellishment on each one. Black leather gauntlets protect her arms and hands up the elbow.The legs of her slacks are tucked under a pair of black thigh boots and her thighs are protected with a pair of steel faulds that held by a belt around her waist. Finally, topping off this attire is a velvet capelet, attached to her cuirass by two silver brooches.
Weapons:
With the popularity of more agile and finesse oriented weapons on the rise, Anissa was quick to choose a contemporary fighting art.
Basket-hilt sword: A one handed sword with black leather grip and gold leafed basket guard, it is light for quick parrying but weighty enough for deep cutting. Though admittedly, this weapon is more fit for dueling than all out combat…
Buckler: Basically a small steel round shield. It’s purpose is almost strictly deflecting and parrying blows, using it to take blows is out of the question.
Creed: “Honor, Tradition, Faith, and Love. These are what has carried mankind through the ages, and they will be the tenets in which I will reign!”
Personality: An innocent soul by even the shortest stretch of the imagination. Whatever horrors and inconsistencies of the world her parents have so meticulously guarded her and her siblings against have come through as only the barest of hints and glances. She knows there are things worse than what she could imagine, but as stated before she can not imagine them. Innocence aside, she is a kind, generous, energetic girl with a near-indomitable will. Honor, tradition, and some ideals of the Chivalric code are held dearly in her heart and she will adhere to those concepts when she ascends the throne.
That said, Anissa is a hopeless romantic and naive. Too many times has she gazed upon on the Iron Lions and and companies of the Imperial Army parading across the palace grounds in their crisp uniforms, seeing them as living symbol of Sonnenmensh valor and virtue. She saw them like the knights in her books and painting, never knowing how grim their work can be. There is also slivers of self-doubt in her heart; Anissa knows that she will inherit the mightiest empire in the world, but the sheer scope of it is beyond her comprehension. The prospect of it wears down on her, making Anissa ponder if she will be the Kaiserin her people deserve.
Skills and Talents:
As Kaiserin-in-Waiting, the Royal Family has taken great lengths to see that Anissa is well tutored. Her skills in academic subjects like mathematics and writing are on par with senior students of the Gleaming Tower, but these are ancillary to the skills she has learned in the court. The “Great Game” as her aunt, Her Imperial Majesty of Eresia, puts it is something that Anissa is well acquainted with.
As well, the Princess shows promise with her sword and buckler. Her finesse and reflexes are refined to a great degree and she is always willing to learn more in the ways of combat.
Banes: As both warrior and politician, Anissa still has regrettably a long way to go. She can boast all she want about her skills, but the Lord-Captain Yarick can name several of the lowliest castle men-at-arms that can put her on her ass in less than five steps. And any member of the court can trump the young Princess in just about any argument, playing on her strong sense of honor.
The skill and proficiency are there, but the temperament and discipline are not.
Biography: Eldest of the Kaiser Valkenschild’s children and Heiress Apparent of Imperial Sonnengard, Anissa bears many expectations upon her shoulders. Her birth was marked with celebrations across the Empire and well wishes from her esteemed relatives. Though that will be the one thing that the people of Empire will remember of her. For after her birth, the Kaiser saw fit to seal her away from the world, insulating her from all the world’s troubles and shadows and letting her revel in the light of what glory he permitted her to see.
But Anissa grew up a smart girl, and knew what her life so far is one carefully built by her father. But in the gilded cage she could, even she could see the signs of a troubled world; through the whispers of her attendants and guards, the rumors among the court, and the foreign emissaries that storm across the palace praising or cursing her father’s name. She poked and prodded for more secrets in between practice and studies, trying to glimpse more in the world in which the Mother had breathed life into.
The more Anissa learned, the more yearned to be free of her father’s grip and see the world. She knew he believed he did what was best, but the more he tried to restrain her, the more she would resist.
Spoiler: RP Sample: A night with Nann
“Come now, Majesty, you mustn’t read such tales before bed. It will make you too excited.”
Her nanny, an old and wizened woman, tended to her golden hair with comb and cloth, preparing it for another night of rest. As her hair was straightened, Anissa had her eyes on the book that laid on her vanity. She turned the pages with an eagerness that seemed disquieting to her nan.
“I’m sorry Nann, but today Father had me in the library all day with my studies,” Anissa said apologetically. “Surrounded by hundreds of books full of fables and myths, and I only could read the ones full of equations…”
“If I may ask, m’lady, what is the book you are reading?”
“Oh… A tale from many years ago; the Legend of the Sage of Century’s End…”
“Goodness, that is a mouthful.”
Anissa giggled at her Nanny’s humble comment, but continued on.
“From the heartland of Ryujin, a man is betrayed and scarred by his brothers and his love stolen from him by his best friend. With naught but his bare fists and the wisdom of a hundred monks, the Man with Scars battled through the armies of his evil brothers and righting the wrongs they have wrought upon, all the while looking for the woman he loved….”
A long forlorn sigh passed through her lips as she turned the pages at a pace slower than the brush that ran through her hair. “Such fantastical tales… Such things could only happen in the past…” She said boredly.
“Come now Majesty,” Her nanny said with a knowing smile that Anissa saw in her vanity mirror. “Great things are happening in the present. Your father's armies are conquering our foes by the day. Soon peace will come. Peace my lady, peace in our time. It will a wonderful era, and you will be the Sovereign of it."
Anissa looked back at her nanny through the mirror, offering a weak smile. She knew her dear nann meant well, but her words were the words of every other attendee in her service. Such words rung hollow, but she said nothing to such an effect.
The second CS I have in the works will come later, Stormwolf. Not telling you who it is.
I would rather have a russet coated Captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than he who calls himself a gentleman and is but little else
-Oliver Cromwell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-Sun Tzu
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-Euripides
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-Thomas Jefferson
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy.
-Fabius Bile
Spoiler: Thoughts of the day
A broad mind lacks focus.
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant heretic
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon.
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem formidable, but an unshakable faith in the Immortal Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit shall eat at the Emperor's table
Innocence proves nothing
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Leniency is a sign of weakness!
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind
Purge those who are unclean.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed upon the altar of battle.
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and diplomas but by your scars.
Though silver in your palms weighs light
Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
I would rather have a russet coated Captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than he who calls himself a gentleman and is but little else
-Oliver Cromwell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-Sun Tzu
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-Euripides
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-Thomas Jefferson
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy.
-Fabius Bile
Spoiler: Thoughts of the day
A broad mind lacks focus.
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant heretic
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon.
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem formidable, but an unshakable faith in the Immortal Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit shall eat at the Emperor's table
Innocence proves nothing
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Leniency is a sign of weakness!
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind
Purge those who are unclean.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed upon the altar of battle.
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and diplomas but by your scars.
Though silver in your palms weighs light
Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
you cn tell because it is a much different color and pattern
Spoiler: Things I like
Spoiler: Quotes
I would rather have a russet coated Captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than he who calls himself a gentleman and is but little else
-Oliver Cromwell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-Sun Tzu
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-Euripides
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-Thomas Jefferson
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy.
-Fabius Bile
Spoiler: Thoughts of the day
A broad mind lacks focus.
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant heretic
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon.
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem formidable, but an unshakable faith in the Immortal Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit shall eat at the Emperor's table
Innocence proves nothing
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Leniency is a sign of weakness!
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind
Purge those who are unclean.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed upon the altar of battle.
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and diplomas but by your scars.
Though silver in your palms weighs light
Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
I would rather have a russet coated Captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than he who calls himself a gentleman and is but little else
-Oliver Cromwell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-Sun Tzu
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-Euripides
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-Thomas Jefferson
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy.
-Fabius Bile
Spoiler: Thoughts of the day
A broad mind lacks focus.
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant heretic
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon.
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem formidable, but an unshakable faith in the Immortal Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit shall eat at the Emperor's table
Innocence proves nothing
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Leniency is a sign of weakness!
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind
Purge those who are unclean.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed upon the altar of battle.
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and diplomas but by your scars.
Though silver in your palms weighs light
Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
Cf, as someone who spent a great deal of his schooling beholding ladies in various forms of undress, I can tell. Volt, I don't much care, but the forum might. Though, I think I understand your character quite well, now.
I just like to give people the benefit of the dobt.
That's the only flaw I can see in playing Herr Doktor. All these lovely Ladies and they'd never give me one moment. Unless I paid them, maybe
Spoiler: Things I like
Spoiler: Quotes
I would rather have a russet coated Captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows, than he who calls himself a gentleman and is but little else
-Oliver Cromwell
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-John Stuart Mill
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
-Sun Tzu
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-Euripides
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-Thomas Jefferson
If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy.
-Fabius Bile
Spoiler: Thoughts of the day
A broad mind lacks focus.
A questioning servant is more dangerous than an ignorant heretic
A small mind is easily filled with faith.
A warrior's faith in his commander is his best armour and his strongest weapon.
Adamantium walls and plasteel bulkheads may seem formidable, but an unshakable faith in the Immortal Emperor of Man can overcome any barriers.
An Empty Mind Is A Loyal Mind
An open mind is like a fortress with its gate unbarred and unguarded.
Better crippled in body than corrupt in mind.
Consider the Predator. Let your soul be armoured with Faith, driven on the tracks of Obedience which overcome all obstacles, and armed with the three great guns of Zeal, Duty and Purity.
Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind.
Faith without deeds is worthless.
Happiness is a delusion of the weak
Forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
He who lives for nothing is nothing. He who dies for the Emperor is a hero.
If a man dies that another should live, that man's spirit shall eat at the Emperor's table
Innocence proves nothing
It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself.
Leniency is a sign of weakness!
Mercy is a sign of weakness.
No man that died in the Emperor's service died in vain.
Nobody is innocent, there are merely varying levels of guilt.
Only in death does duty end.
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind
Purge those who are unclean.
Sometimes the good must perish so that the rest survive. The lot of courage is to be sacrificed upon the altar of battle.
Survival is no birthright, but a prize wrested from an uncaring galaxy by forgotten heroes.
The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.
The Emperor will not judge you by your medals and diplomas but by your scars.
Though silver in your palms weighs light
Compared to death by blast and sword,
Do not shy the hopeless fight,
For endeavour is its own reward.
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