Name Alayi Description Alayi stand at five feet and nine inches with naturally smooth skin and a delicate looking face. If life had not had its way with her she may have met some standards for beauty, but as it is she is stocky and well muscled with scars down her arms and back from the lashings of a whip. Other than that she has distressingly grey skin and two thin, swept back horns running through her waving, flickering, fire colored hair. She looks to be in her mid twenties. Backstory More enlightened among the town would call someone of Alayi’s birth an Ifrit. A mostly human being somehow infused with or mutated by totemic fire. She had no control over such energy, but it certainly had an influence on her appearance, lifespan and personality. Less enlightened people tended to call her a monster, unholy or a hell spawn. Most of the children in her town were not allowed to be her friend and few of those with free will over the matter sought to show her kindness. Worse yet, those friends she did make grew up much faster than she did and virtually abandoned her to be with people as matured as they were. Similarly her parents also grew old as Alayi was still a child. Though they never abandoned their daughter they did age and were taken by sickness. Alone and still a child Alayi tried to steal her way out of hunger and into shelter. She was caught almost immediately. Not however, by the nice young couple she had set her eyes on and not by the town guard, but by a group of slavers who picked the little orphan out of the crowd as someone nobody would miss and exotic enough to fetch a good price. Sold into slavery Alayi worked long days planting, harvesting and being whipped for standing up for herself. In order to keep the men’s hands off her as she developed into a woman Alayi leaned on the idea that she was demonic, though it seemed a fine line between preventing rape and not being killed for the sake of purification. Eventually the whole operation was destroyed overnight by a group of freedom fighters. The ifrit ran away with them and learned to fight, She travelled with them freeing oppressed where they could, fighting of bounty hunters and law keepers who came to stop them. However they too grew old and eventually retired leaving Alayi alone again. She travelled on her own for some time until about three years ago when she ran into a recruiting agent for the white guard and decided to make a little money applying what skills she had. Goals/Fears Alayi values freedom for herself and others very highly. Ultimately She wants a life where she may travel from place to place carelessly with a someone special and preferably as long lived as she. for said journey she does not want to worry about money so she also seeks her own fortune for the sake of her future comfort. However, she knows that she will not abide tyranny and would not be able to just let it slide if she encountered it on her journey and at times resigns herself to a sort of perpetual life of battle. Alayi is afraid of always being alone for the rest of her life, being made a slave again and to a lesser extent being shackled to any one place for too long. Mastery Alayi’s preferred place in combat is between the enemy and everyone else, taking what hits she cannot avoid with her shield and absorbing what she cannot block with her armor. Additionally her nature has gifted her a stiff resistance to high temperature. She’s no slouch in offense either knowing how to use many weapons effectively enough on the battlefield. Equipment Plate Armor, a heavy steel shield, a sap, a totemic rapier, a bastard sword, a hand axe and two knives. Personality Alayi likes other people and desires to have close and permanent companions, but along with her fear of getting too attached to anyone who is not fated to as long a life as she Alayi actually may have too high of standards for friends. She has a sort of force of personality, browbeating those with weaker personalities into going along with whatever she says, much to her dismay as she actually would prefer to be an equal rather than a tyrant. Totem Much as how people heat their homes Alayi carries a rapier on her that creates heat all around which she personally finds quite pleasant, but can be used to light fires and cause quite devastating wounds to most races. NOTES: Not immortal, will live for a few hundred years like sylphs. Speaking of which our current back story for both races is that they come from totemic energies messing with mother and or fetus indirectly. Still rare and out of place. that said this may or may not be an effect you want totems to have so we’ll leave it up to your discretion and hit the drawing board again in the case of a no.