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[b]Name:[/b] Winter

[b]Age:[/b] 23

[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Personality:[/b] Winter is as cool and collected as the season she was named for. Elegant, sharp, and unforgiving, her icy exterior hides a wicked rage, festering just below the surface. Over the years she’s learned to hone her emotions to fine points, using them as weapons where she needs to, and cutting away any moral qualms she has about the work she does. Because, believe it or not, every now and then her conscience seeps through her wall of cynicism and reminds her of her life before she was a killer. Usually this is all for naught, though, as she has a will of iron, and once she agrees to do something, no matter how abhorrent, she does it. Winter is control, creativity, and measured fury.

[b]Role/Title:[/b] Assassin – Though strong for her size, Winter relies primarily on her resourcefulness, flexibility, and [i]ruthlessness[/i] to get the job done. She’s capable with most weapons, and is also very proficient in Qiran healing techniques.

[b]History:[/b] A lifetime ago, there was a girl who went by another name living in the war-torn empire of Yeojin. The two main ethnic groups, the Yeo and the Qira, were in a decades-long conflict, culminating in the Qiran genocide in the last several years. The girl, a Qiran by blood, listened to the sounds of war every day until it invaded her dreams, and she could no longer tell if she was awake or sleeping. 

The girl’s family was well respected among the other Qira, and her parents were masters of healing. While healing magic wasn’t rare in this world, few had advanced it as far as the Qira. Whether with potions, herbs, magic, or meditation, the Qira had perfected this valuable skill. The girl, though still young and clumsy, was making good progress in her studies. But that ended one day, when she watched the war she spent so many nights dreaming of came to life in her home. Her parents, grandparents, brothers… she saw the Yeo steal them all away and all she could do was cower under the stairs, silent tears trailing after her family. Eventually she pulled herself out of the ashes of her former life. Lost and orphaned, she eventually found her way into the Qiran resistance, which was struggling to fight back against the Yeo. She was valuable due to her healing skills, and continued to refine them as time went on, but it wasn’t enough. 

That was when she began learning how to kill. She learned to kill with her hands, with a blade, with a wire, with stone… she even learned to alter her healing concoctions into poisons. She learned to sneak and lurk, frighten and beguile. And all of these skills were put to use against the Yeo. Unfortunately, the girl, who had taken the name Winter, was largely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. The Qira were still being massacred every day, and soon it seemed they would be irradiated completely and the Yeo would move on. That is, until, the queendom of Waylox stepped in. 

Many are grateful for Waylox’s intervention, happy that the death and war that has plagued the empire for so long has finally ended. Others, more disillusioned, claim that they had only chosen to step in after decades of bloodshed because they feared that the Yeo would turn their attention to them once the Qira were dealt with. Winter, hardened and bitter by years of pain and violence, was a member of the latter group. 

With the fighting finished, Winter could no longer see a reason to stay in Yeojin. Her people were a crumbling shell of what they once were, the infant time of peace left everyone on-edge and highly regulated, and there was no longer much demand for her set of skills. Winter was still damaged by the genocide, and unable to let go of her pain long enough to stay and help her people rebuild. And so she left for Waylox, putting her skills to use there.

Ovorion quickly found her and hired the assassin. He saw the resentment she held for the royal family, and capitalized it, earning her loyalty, if not her trust. The large sum of money he paid her was appreciated, but more than anything she wanted the Wayloc queen to pay for seemingly stepping in only when it was relevant to her interests. She wanted her to pay for stepping in too late. Winter was instrumental to Ovorion’s coup, quietly eliminating those who refused to be paid off. When word got to the usurper that the exiled queen was gathering a party to try and take back her throne, he sent his assassin to take care of the situation.

And thus, Winter has inserted herself into the young queen’s party on Ovorion’s orders. She is to gain their trust, learn what she can, and when their hope is at its highest, she is to strike. Ovorion knows that simply dispatching the queen will do nothing. People will just rally around another name – likely the princess – and carry their late queen like a martyr. They need to eliminate more than just names on a list. They need to eliminate hope. While traveling with the queen’s party, Winter is acting under the guise of a young Qiran healer, inept in battle, but a useful ally to have. She supposedly volunteered out of gratitude to the royal family for their part in ending the Yeo-Qira conflict.

[b]Anything extra:[/b] [url=http://youtube.com/watch/?v=82NXtraD7kg#Detektivbyr%C3%A5n_-_Life%2FUniverse]Winter's Theme[/url]