Protect yo' ne- I mean groin.

[Hider=Blackheart]Character Sheet
Name: Beatrice “Blackheart” Bolevar
Race: Human (Cursed)’

Beatrice have been cursed for her act of vengeance upon House Kalaba. While she can die, she cannot have a slow death. Instant killing blows like running through her heart or cutting of her head always seem to fail. Instead she may get stabbed through a non vital part to bleed out, or her throat might be partially cut up.  This was put on her as they meant to torture her. But House Kalaba collapsed upon itself financially before they got that far.

Note, while she is hard to kill,she is very far from immortal. She heals just as slowly as any other human and is just as susceptible to disease, poison, and magical cause of death bar disintegration.

Appearance: 
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Ginger hair and freckles, green eyes that sparkle with life. Those were words her mother once used to describe Beatrice. Now beatrice eyes are dull green overflowing with cynisicsim. Her pale skin is more often not covered with dirt and grime. Her body is built, muscle honed by the constant sword practice and workout. Her face is a mask of tired regret. Her lips seems to always be chapped, her red hair is tied down in a tight short ponytail that’s been cut and frayed several time. A long scar run acroos her throat where the medic healed her from a otherwise fatal injury. As a result, her voice is always raspy and harsh. In fact, she has scars across her body. 


Age: 32

[b]Former Professional:[/b] Captain of the Lady Melarosas Bodyguards/ Lady Knight
Skill:

Swordsmanship: A talented swordswoman by all means, her one refined techniques have been reduced to a sort of angry, brawly and instinctual fighting on Kings Knells streets. 

Literate: You’d be surprised how many don’t know how to read or write in Kings Knell. 

Iron Liver: Nobody drinks like Beatrice.She might just be Black Liver instead of heart.

Code of Chivalry: She knows all there is to know about knighthood. Knows what banners belong to what house. How to conduct and challenge to a duel. How to eat like high society. How to dance (Only leading, to the confusion of every man she ever danced with.).How to ride a horse. How to kick a suitor is the 'nads when nobody is looking. 



Personality: Beatrice is not called blackheart for nothing. The Cynical woman's heart might just have shrivelled to the size of a raisin at this point. You are hard pressed to find any woman or man more disillusioned with the world.  She absolutely loathes the Guard and everyone in it, including herself. Hell, Especially herself. But she does not hate herself to just end it all. She is violent to the point that hardened criminals has complained to the chief justices. Add to that a rampant sort of alcholism that leaves taverns dry and out of buisness from unpayed bartabs. 



[b]
History:[/b]

House Melarosa stood for over 300 years as beacon of purity. The Lady Benicia Melarosa was the Matron of the house back when Beatrice was only a child. Beatrice wasn’t noble by any means, she was just the daughter to one of the house many servants. But the Melarosa have a tradition they call Ascendance. In which they allow a child of their servents to join the rank of their Guard and aspire to actual Knightdom. And as Melarosian tradition allowed for female and male knights alike, Beatrice was chosen. 

Beatrice was really made for it. Her father was the stable master, and she had rode horses since the age of 7. And being around the stables meant a lot of hefting and lifting, so she was plenty strong for a girl her age. Her father had about as much concern for gender rolls as a overworked, all hands at work dad could have in the dukedom of Melarosa. 

She took like her apprenticeship like a fish to water. She was attentive. She was brawny. She was intelligent. She was exceptionally prone to “Justified violence”. The latter meant she would duel you the second she went from Paige to Anointed knight. And she was good at it. As tall as most of the boys, she was fast and and talented with the blade. 

But all stories come to an end. And so would hers. Only a few months into the duty of bodyguard for the Lady Anise Melarosa, the daughter of Benecia, things went awry. The rival house of Kalaba had been buying up all the local privateers to hassle any Melerosian ships. They would buy grain from merchants at price, knowing that Melarosa could not compeet. They were starving them.

And then. One day, Melarosa had to succumb. The Lady Anise was to be married away, uniting the two Houses. Outraged by this, like any good knight who wanted a outright battle, Beatrice decided to duel one of the princes.

The Duel was short. Becouse it ended with a swift, very unknightly kick to the jewels for the prince. ANd then a unholy beating of the other brothers who were offended that she had just nutted their brother. Mainly by driving a iron plated knee to their groins one after the other. When she was finally Dragged off, she escaped to light the entire dock on fire.

For this, she was apprehended and deemed unworthy of knighthood by the Kalaba, who now were rulers of her former retainer. Further, and more critically, she was cursed to die a slow death. However, the mage had taken the slow death as to vague, and instead of making her die a slow death, he made it so that she could die a quick one. Kalaba thought this would work in favor of torture at the very least. Fortuneteller for the Lady Knight, her stunt had them in ruination. And unpaid mercenaries and cut throats came demanding payment. The House Kalaba would be dismantled. Sadly, the pillaging spilled over to Melarosa house, and as the blame lay with a disgraced knight, she was promptly booted off the border with only a horse, her armor and sword to her name.

She sought out the guard, knowing full well of their reputation. She rose to the rank of Captain fairly quickly, much due to groin kicking and the ability to strike the fear of of armor plated women into burglars everywhere. She had to sell her armor and horse to afford a place outside the slums to live though.[/hider]