The Haelorin Saga [M]

[StormWolf]

How comes that RP sample, Volt?

[Queen]

Im taking a break atm (been working on this on/off all day) the biography is halfway done, but the personality and the backstory have yet to be added or worked on.

[Evening Rain]

Calling Su a courtesan isn't exactly fair.

She trained as one, but she left that life behind.

[StormWolf]

We're leaving the discussion of today at rest. If I cut out the idle chatter and shitposting in this thread, we'd be at five pages or less.

[AngelDellaNotte]

Okay, Here is my character. I'm spent so I'll work on the RP Sample tomorrow.

Spoiler: It takes more courage to suffer than to die 

Name: Ksenia Lutza formerly Thea Imogen
Titles or Ranks: Commander
Race: Human
Nationality: Sonnengard
Age: 28

Spoiler: Appearance: 

Ksenia is tall for a woman standing just under six feet, with a lean swimmer's build. She is well muscled on her arms and shoulders, her palms are also heavily callused from years of working on a ship. Her skin holds a slight tan to it but for the most part she has a lighter skin tone. Ksenia's thick black hair is worn short barely touching the edge of her collar in a bob, as it common for women in the military. Her eyes are a stark contrast to her hair appearing as a very pale grayish blue color. Despite her tall muscled stature Ksenia is still a pretty woman though she isn't one to flaunt it, preferring to blend in and not stand out.

She hasn't been on active duty in the Navy for several years but she still wears the gray coat of the uniform, it is old and worn from the sun and exposure to salt water. Under the coat she wears a blue tunic with a light shirt of chain mail. She is commonly seen wearing a pair of brown trousers and a pair of calf high boots.

She walks with a noticeable limp, tending to favor her right leg where there is a long scar that runs from her knee most of the way up her thigh. The injury was caused from a cannonball striking the mast of the ship she was aboard splintering it into pieces; one of those pieces struck Ksenia in the leg. The wound was enough to force her to have a constant limp but she has adapted quite well to it and it doesn't seem to slow her down much, aside from aching fiercely in the winter.

Spoiler: Weapons: 

Spoiler: Rapier and Dagger 

Standard issue Navel rapier and long dagger. She wears the rapier on her right hip allowing for a left handed cross draw and the dagger on the left hip.

Spoiler: Pistol 

Standard issue Navel pistol. She is rare to use it as ammo is hard for her to come by. More often than not she will use it as a bluff or show of force.

Creed: “Live and die for yourself, as no else will.”

Spoiler: Personality: 

Ksenia is a master of hiding who she is, she can easily become anyone she wants to be. This is all a facade hiding who she really is, a jaded and broken woman. Over the years she has been betrayed by and lost everyone she has ever known. Disowned by her family, and cast off by the Navy. It has taught her that people can't be trusted and no one will look out for you except you. When she isn't wearing one of her masks she is cold and blunt with people. She isn't one to make friends and you could say she doesn't have any more like a list of contacts. People who she can use to her advantage.

Spoiler: Skills and Talents: 

Spoiler: Weapons Training: 

Born to a life of privilege Ksenia was tutored from a young age in fencing and completed competitively for much of her youth making her a gifted swordsman. While in the Navy she was taught marksmanship but never really excelled at it. She can hit the target while on the shooting range but with moving targets shooting back she gets lucky from time to time, she much prefers a good old fashion sword fight to a shootout.

Spoiler: Social Training: 

Despite living the privileged life as a child and youth she has learned well how to blend in with the common person. Her mother insisted she take acting lessons as a child to balance out all the sword play her father allowed, helping her act more like a lady. These lessons have allowed Ksenia to take on whatever role she chooses most commonly to swindle or persuade others to her bidding.

Spoiler: Banes: 

Spoiler: Vanity: 

Ksenia is a good swordsman and very boastful of her skills. She is not one to back away from a sword fight and will often taunt her opponent. She also as a tendency of toying with less skilled fighters making them think they have the upper hand only to cut them down.

Spoiler: Untrusting: 

She doesn’t trust anyone and usually prefers to work alone even on jobs that would flow much more smoothly with a partner or two. She won’t rely on anyone to help her out and refuses to help others unless there is a benefit to her.

Spoiler: Melor Province 

A harbor region in the far north of Sonnengard known for its fishing and ship industry. It is a relatively new province to Sonnengard having formerly been part of Eresia at least until 30 years ago when the province fell. The nation of Eresia fought more to keep the province than the people did. They were so far north and such a small area that they didn’t really care which nation’s flag flew in their keeps. Being that they are a more remote province they are mostly left alone by whatever nation owns them and that is how the people like it. The province has a good relationship with Sonnengard mostly because they pay their taxes and give whatever required tributes while the capital leaves them be to live their lives.

Spoiler: Biography: 

Born as Thea Imogen to Lord Thane and Lady Adelisa in a northwestern province of Melor which close to the Eresian border. The province hasn’t been part of the Sonnengard Empire for long formerly belonging to Eresia before being absorbed. Her parents were born Eresia citizens but by the time Thea was born the province had accepted being part of the Sonnengard empire. Her father owned a trading company with a fair amount of ships that sell to many different places in the world. She is their only child due to Lady Adelisa having a very difficult child birth which she nearly didn’t survive. Lord Thane always want a boy but settled for a girl child, loving her just the same though he admits he may have pushed her to be the tomboy she has become by letting her train with swords and play on the ships.

She always had a close relationship with her father but her relationship with her mother has never been a good one. Her parents had an arranged marriage and from the start didn't get along though both believed they would grow to love each other that never happened. Thea takes after her father much to her mother's annoyance. As a child her father doted on her and often treated her as a son allowing her to play with the boys in the keep. Shortly after Thea turned fourteen her father was killed in an accident in the harbor, her mother didn't really morn his death but rather celebrated it. There were even some rumors that Lady Adelisa paid off several dock workers to stage the accident. The Lady Adelisa took control of the family business and planed on taking back her daughter. She refused to allow Thea to continue with her fencing and tried to force her to become more ladylike. She even arranged for Thea to be engaged to a man of her choosing, someone Thea couldn't stand. Thea tolerated her mother for two years until she was finally old enough and she signed on as a Ensign in the Navy, with Melor Province being so involved in the shipping industry and remote it was the only option.

She requested to be assigned far away from Melor Province and was placed aboard the HMS Regal a battle ship assigned to protect the shipping fleets loyal to Sonnengard. Having grown up around ships she quickly adapted to life on a ship. Had her Captain, a foul and bad tempered man not judged her by her gender rather than ability she would have rose quickly through the ranks. Still by the time she was twenty-four she had fought her way to the rank of commander and was the ship's Master Boatswain, responsible for the rigging and deck crews. She had been at her post for almost a year when the ship ran across a group of pirates, where a large sea battle took place. During the battle a cannonball struck one of the masts of the ship. A large piece of debris impaled Thea in the leg and threw her from the ship. She managed to hang onto a piece of drift wood during the battle and had believed she would pulled back onto the ship after the battle. The battle ended and no boats were dropped into the water, no one was recovered from the water. Thea watched as the ship sailed away still clinging to the drift wood.

Lucky for Thea the ship wasn't far from the shore and she was able to drift close enough to the shore to swim to land. She was taken in by a group of priests and priestesses on the coast of Æterna where she had washed ashore. They nursed her back to health over the course of several months, allowing her to recover from her wounds and exposure. The priests had wanted her to join them in services but she had never really been religious another wedge between her and her mother. When she refused to partake in them, she was asked to leave the temple.

She made her way back to Sonnengard but rather than head to the nearest military installation, returning to the Navy she found herself in a seedy tavern where she bought a set of forged discharge papers and a new identity. She had enough of living for someone else who ultimately would betray her, first it had been to please her mother who only wanted her perfect idea of a daughter, then by the military who left her for dead and last the temple who kick her out for not having faith. She stay in the small town on the Sonnengard border for a while taking odd jobs, some legal some not so much. After a while she had developed a reputation in the underworld as a thief, spy and occasional assassin. She began traveling around the country wherever the work took her.

Spoiler: RP Sample 

The fog was thick in the early morning as an older man with light gray hair walked down a deserted street, his coat pulled up high to fight the biting cold. He didn’t notice as Ksenia stepped out of an alley, at least until he felt her blade pierce upward into his belly. He tried to let a cry of surprise or pain but a hand pressed to his mouth caused it to come out a muffled groan. “Nothing personal just a job.” Ksenia whispered into his ear and she eased him to the ground. He was dead by the time she released him and wiped the excess blood on her blade onto his shirt. She placed the clean dagger back into her scabbard then went to work rummaging through his pockets. She found small pouch of money, a pocket watch and some candies. Leaving the candy behind she slipped the watch and money into her coat pocket then removed a couple of rings from his fingers before leaving his body in the street.

She had been paid to kill the man by a business rival so as she had told him it was nothing personal just another job. Heading up the street she ducked into a tavern sitting down at the far end of the bar. She ordered some breakfast and began eating. By the time she was nearly finished a man with dark black greasy hair sat beside her. She didn’t say anything just took one of the rings from her pocket and slid it across the bar to the man who quickly snatched it up. He cupped it in his hand hiding it from view as he examined it. “Won’t be linked back to me?” He asked.

“Not unless you don’t get rid of that as soon as possible. I recommend throwing it in the river.” Ksenia said, finishing up the last of her meal as the man put a pouch in front of her. She lifted it feeling the weight was right then pulled out enough money to cover her meal and walked to the door.

As she walked through the door another man ran in to the tavern nearly knocking into Ksenia who quickly stepped out of his way as she exited. “Somebody call the constable old man Dashiell’s been mugged. He’s dead!” She heard the man say not stopping to hear anymore. She walked straight to the river docks to see if she could find work on one of the riverboats. She never liked staying around town after she had been paid to kill someone.

At the docks she found a good sized boat that no doubt would be heading to the Capital. There was a younger man standing by the boat that she called out to, “You hiring?”

“Only hiring deck hands commander ain’t got anything in management.” The man said, noticing the rank on her collar.

“Just looking for passage to the Capital. I don’t mind working a bit.” She said, as the man welcomed her aboard the boat calling out to someone on the deck to show her around.

[AngelDellaNotte]

Double post. I've added my sample.

[Queen]

I think im going to go ahead with an original concept ive been fighting on for a while now.

Name: Beowulf
Titles or Ranks: Warforged, War Golem
Race: Armorbound Spirit
Nationality: Dwarven Kingdom - Draguzar

Age
Spiritually: 89
Physical: 1

Appearance

Unlike golem's of the previous generations, they were all made out of stone or clockwork, but Beowulf is the first soul bound to a suit of armor. Standing at ten feet and six inches tall, weighing in over three hundred pounds and a body made out of pure Æsirite, through secret use of ancient Dwarven magics and their science, they instilled the spirit of their fallen kinsman into the suit.

The skin is purely ebony black and the armor seems lifelike, the scales reacting to the slightest touch and the eyes glowing red. Be it with fury, malevolence or the sign that something was alive in, it will occasionally leak pure magic in the form of magic materialized into liquid through his eyes, as if he was crying.

His face is the most disturbing feature of his body despite the main body having abnormally longer limbs and a small torso. It seems to look like a wolfs head and teeth as sharp as a razors edge and looked as if it could chew up somebody in moments. His cape seems to be made of a great wolfs hide and it often hides underneath it, concealing its form beneath the body enveloping fur coat.

Weapons: A Æsirite Giantsword. Too large, too thick, too heavy to be a greatsword. It is eleven feet in height.

Creed

Giant Black Knight Rises
beneath great ancient storied halls
he who will consume the flesh of all
And to forever be bound, beaten and burned
Elven kind seek to destroy thee down low
Forever shall I stand on high
and devour all who might try
to destroy Dwarven kind

Woe to the Dwarves should I escape thy binds
for I shall hunt Dwarven kind
Down to the last bearded blight

Personality
Under the control of his Dwarven overlords, the giant armored suit cannot do anything other than what he is ordered to do by the person who controls his command orb.

If the orb were to be shattered however, Beowulf would be incapable of talking. Only capable of guttural growling and screeching. However those capable of telepathy or mental communication are capable of making conversation and speaking with the armor.

He will come off as rather angry, aggressive, rude and vulgar. He will envy all those who still lived in front of him and enjoyed the pleasures of flesh. Sure of the fact that he is now a monster and that everyone sees him as a monster, he is blinded by rage and would sooner devour everything then try to redeem himself.

Skills and Talents
Destroyer -- Crush, kill, devour, destroy. These are the things he is good at. He wields his giant sword with extreme might and divides, crushes and consumes all who would try and stand up to him.

Hunter -- Forged to hunt the elven races down and consume them all, the suit of armor can smell and track those of elven decent for miles, never tiring or stopping till it has consumed them.

Consumer -- Having no natural regeneration to its being, Beowulf must either consume the recently dead in order to absorb their essence so it can repair itself or be repaired by a blacksmith capable of great thamaturgic imbuing magic.

Banes
Impulsively Evil -- without the control orb to hold him back, Beowulf is inherently evil since he is corrupted by the form he has taken on. He cares little of others and acts on every single impulse and violent thought that would cross his mind.

Primal -- More monster and animal than an intelligent being, the suit will move and act like an animal. Viscous as the viper, always looking to hunt and consume its next prey or target.

Biography: tbw (on small break)
RP Sample: tbw (on small break)

[StormWolf]

Not accepting a Warforged, golem, or magically animated construct. Not the proper fit for the world, and things like Æsirite is to be more of a reward.

[Queen]

Roger that. I got the idea for a construct and thought I would give it a spin at least.

Ill think of something else then.

[StormWolf]

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