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[color=00aeef][h3]"I am Sevita Lanka. Proud Warrior of the Garuda."[/h3][/color]

[b]Name:[/b]
Sevita Lanka

[b]Age:[/b]
24

[b]Race:[/b]
Garuda

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Sevita stands around a solid five foot eleven, and with a somewhat large frame, she comes off as fairly intimidating. Most of her people would, compared to the smaller humans. And like most of her people, she has one very noticeable feature that makes them stand out quite a bit. A pair of wings, that are strong enough to allow for swift flight, feet ending in bird like talons, along with sharp claw-like fingernails.

Physically speaking, she got quite lucky in the gene pool and would likely be considered to be fairly attractive. What with her ample...tracts of land and toned body with obvious muscle that she does little to hide. Her skin is bronze in color, with long black colored hair. Her wings are made of soft feathers and are a single rich, dark blue color throughout.

As far as clothing goes, well, her dress is simple. She dislikes heavy or restrictive clothing simply because they would get in the way of movement, especially her wings, as do most of her people. She wears a simple open backed leather top that covers most of her front and waist. On her legs, are simple shinguards, since shoes are a bit...useless for her people.

[b]Personality:[/b]
Sevita has two personality she generally works with. When she's on duty or generally in the middle of work or something similar, she can come off as incredibly blunt, somewhat cold, a bit serious and somewhat of a stick in the mud. A stickler for the rules and making sure people behave themselves, and generally following the law and traditions set out before them. Honorable in combat, she prefers to face her problems and people head on instead of beating around the bush about things and subjects. Annoying her when she's busy with something, is just one way to get on her bad side. And while she tries to remain unbiased in all situations, if she dislikes you, you will know.

She takes her job very seriously, and tends to follow orders to the letter, even if it isn't something all that honorable. After all, it would be dishonorable to go against the direct order of your Queen.

When not on duty...she's much less serious. In fact, she's a bit of a tease at times. After all, there is a time and place for such leisurely actions, and she's not afraid to drink her weight in alcohol or spend time with someone to unwind. Those who work with her, and she gets to know, may end up seeing this side of her whilst on duty sometimes, if she thinks she can afford to relax a little. Of course, she doesn't have that many friends or people she relaxes with, but she's not going to turn down the company of someone else unless they're distracting her on the job.

[b]Abilities:[/b]
The Garuda themselves, aren't too different from humans in terms of physical capabilities, aside from the obvious being able to fly and being somewhat larger physically. She has a natural physicality superior to most humans, but that's simply from her daily training regiment and not something all of her race posses, though most tend to focus quite a bit on physical pursuits. Herself, she is skilled with a spear and using one to fight and with guard duties.

As far as martial skill and flying abilities go, Garuda are extremely fast in the skies, and when diving can reach a average speed of 100Mph during a dive, and a horizontal speed of around thirty-forty miles an hour. She has incredibly good eyesight, agility, and reflexes, all of which are necessary for being able to fly safely at such speeds and to be able to react in time to avoid smashing face-first into an obstacle.

Additionally, as most Garuda do at some point in their lives when growing, they learn to build and construct things. Their massive cities in the trees often need to be repaired, or otherwise expanded. Helping with this is a bit of a standard affair. While she's no master architect, she can probably build a decent shelter if she can get someone to get her the right materials.

-Good Reflexes, Speed, Agility
-Decent Strength
-Good with pole-arm type weapons.
-Decent at building things.

[b]Salvaged Item:[/b]
A simple, standard made spear from her people.

[b]History:[/b]
Her life has been fairly average for any of her kind. Raised in their capital inside of the Rain Forest. And like any other, she was taught the way of combat and strategy from an early age. And like most others, she entered the military. Agriculture didn't appeal to her, and being a construction worker wasn't something she was too keen on, either. So she went on the fairly normal and average path for one of her people.

What wasn't normal though, was how quickly she rose through the ranks. This was mostly because of her loyalty to the crown. With Vinush being in the unrestful state it was in, it was no secret that quite a few number of guards and law enforcement officers weren't too keen on serving the Queen. Indeed, a civil war would have likely began much earlier had it not been for the Queen and her decision.

Sevita had been approached by...an organization in an attempt to recruit her for their cause. They wanted to dethrone the queen, and take power for themselves. Something fairly reminiscent of their bloody history. Appalled that her colleagues would even suggest such a thing, Sevita refused and brought the information to the queen before they could get rid of her themselves.

The Queen, already knowing of the plot, but not having any specific names was able to use this information to find the traitors and deal with them herself. Well, had Sevita deal with them. She executed the traitors one by one.

Publicly.

As an example.

Not something one should take pride in, but loyalty to the crown is something she valued above all else. A trait her fellow kinsmen had seemed to forgotten.

Sometime later, she was chosen as the only one the queen could trust to send on the Expedition. Sevita was hesitant to leave, but she couldn't refuse a direct order...

[b]Nation of Origin:[/b]
Vinush, Grand Rain Forest.

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Nation Lore:
Vinush, has, and for the foreseeable future will always be a large, tropical rain forest situated on the coast of the continent. The Garuda have lived there for most of their history, though it says the various tribes migrated from somewhere further south. Most if their history is fairly violent and has been painted in blood, consisting of the subjugation of one tribe or another of their own people, bringing them under control, only to have a tribe or group split off. For a long time of their own history, they were hardly ever united. And Slavery, or at least taking prisoners of war and turning them into 'servants' was quite common.

A bit more recently, they eventually came under the flag of a single tribe, who set about unifying and making sure they were strong enough to resist outside influences and fight the humans and other 'invaders'. During the constant wars, they were one of the most instigating ones. They constantly sought to expand their own territory, and bring in manpower and labor in the way of slaves. It wasn't until recently, when a new Queen ascended the throne did she advocate for peace among her people, much to their dismay. 

Of course, such a thing was difficult to do in a timely manner. There was a lot of animosity between them and the other races and countries. When the human King advocated peace among them in favor of exploration, their Queen was among the firs to agree, despite the dissidents and those in her nation that would speak against her. Mostly, because she had them swiftly dealt with, and any who disagreed was harshly punished.

Today, there is still unrest among the Garuda, but they maintain a somewhat uneasy internal peace. Some fear that they may have a civil war on their hands, soon. Most hope with the discovery of this continent, they can deter that with good news with colonies of their own.

-Fairly militaristic nation
-Somewhat tribal
-Hard to beat a squadron of flying, spear-wielding Garuda flying at you at forty miles an hour in combat unless you can fly as well. Grown men have soiled their pants.
-Not really known for anything spectacular, and their society is seen as somewhat backwards by most others.
-Slavery is a thing, here still.
-Criminals are dealt with harshly and swiftly, usually a death penalty

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[@PKMNB0Y]
Went from Harpy to Tribal Garuda somewhere along the line there.

Dunno how that happened, but I am happy. Do tell if there are problems~