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[b]Name: [color=d1d3d3]Vera Gradus[/color][/b]


[b]Sex:[/b] Female

[b]Appearance:[/b] Gaunt, pale, and almost skeletal in appearance Vera stands relatively short for her age. Her dull grey eyes are often scanning the pages of a book prying knowledge from their pages. Her hair is kept more on the short end, brown for most of its length but growing in grey near the roots. She often wears a full length cloak and primarily uses her left hand despite being right handed to conceal her mutation; a matte and seemingly lifeless draconic arm ending in a clawed gauntlet of a hand.

[b]Starting Artifact:[/b] A plain steel signet ring with the crest of the orphanage. The ring allows the user to emit a rod of death mana about the thickness of a pencil and a foot long from the hand the ring is worn on in order to rot anything in that space. (depleted) 

[b]Orphanage Hometown:[/b] Dula a town to the south east of Liravel with a past tainted with necromancy. 

[b]History:[/b] Vera was sent to the Dula orphanage around her tenth year after gaining an intense interest in her town's necromantic history. Durious as to why of all the elements death was among then least well written about while not being inherently evil. Her parent thought it best that leave their house after attempts to persuade her to drop it failed. Other than hording books on artifacts and the elements and copying the useful contents, her time in the Dula orphanage was more or less uneventful. 

Eventually she took the opportunity to discover more about the death aspect herself and went to Liravel. As her training progressed she drew more and more from her artifact wearing it constantly, unafraid of mutation, even hoping for it, a cat tail and ears would make wonderful additions to her persons. But her artifact had not been made from any member of the family Felidae, instead due to a mix up in paperwork it was made from a scrap of a draco-lich's claw, so she instead grew scales and claws which all things considered she found may be useful, so she kept her artifact on unfortunately the claws became larger than the internal diameter of the ring so there came a point where she could no longer remove it. It wasn’t fear that stopped her from removing her finger and extracting the ring and seeing the healer, it was curiosity. Wondering how much the artifact would change her. The answer was quite a lot, over the two weeks the scales spread half way across her chest her arm grew bony spines and her hand turned into a gauntlet of bone and keratin nearly enveloping her artifact.

[b]Personality:[/b] While she loves to talk about her element and its interactions, the results of her testings, and information recovered from from her books, she is well aware that this is an obsession not shared by most of her peers so she tends to be a bit more secluded and withdrawn. But she is rather good at mirroring and compartmentalizing.

[b]Theme Song:[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNdfSU9IXhU
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