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[color=#dda0dd]⍚ Gaia [/color]  ⥥  [color=#9f8170]20[/color]  ⥥  [color=#dda0dd] Female [/color]⥥  [color=#9f8170] Bisexual ⍚ [/color] [h3][color=#9f8170] “Since the beginning of time, I believe only humanity was truly wild."[/color][/h3]
[i][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs&ab_channel=WOODKID]“ The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines
But she and her furry friends
Took down the queen bee and her men
And that's how the story goes,
The story of the beast with those four dirty paws”[/url][/i][/center]
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[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]A[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] P P E A R A N C E[/color][/sub][/b][hr]

[indent][color=cccccc]"Gaia is a hunter. She often wears furs and can be picked out of a crowd by her pale blonde hair and her tribal markings that cover her face. She is a member of the Longear tribe and as such sports some of the features notable to the tribe. An example of this is her formidable jawline. She stands at around six feet and three inches making her incredibly tall for a woman her age and has a toned body. She has to, as she is the champion of the Longear tribe. 

Among her notable traits, Gaia’s voice may stand even above her prowess in combat. She is noted by many in the tribe to be an absolutely lovely singer, even those from other tribes may’ve heard of her voice. It is prolific. Often times it is a simple beautiful tone that resonates like a ripple of water across a silent pond. However, as far as notable traits go her combat prowess has left her with an absolutely fit body. She is easily able to topple an Elk should she tackle it and it shows as she looks almost Amazonian. 

Gaia has small features. A freckled face a small nose and small beady eyes. The freckles on her face cover the top half more prominently, her forehead is almost entirely dominated by the pigmentation. Her pale blonde hair is also unruly, much like the Longear tribe in general. It is pushed back over her head and descends past both of her shoulders with ease. When she is preparing for single combat or a tournament perhaps, she ties her hair into a single braid that nearly descends her entire spine.

Gaia’s posture could be better, she often sits with her feet resting on the table and has little consideration of formality. However, when she respects someone enough to behave, she will. During a fight Gaia is at her perfect center. She is perfectly calm, prepared and calculating. Which can be intimidating when she is facing someone in single combat. Her eyes grow heavy with analysis and her breath slows almost to a halt. She is truly a force to be reckoned with and it is clear to see from a simple glance.

Gaia’s mark is by all means, beautiful. But it is very pronounced. It starts at her spine in a beautiful swirling, winding tree trunk. But soon after the roots begin to take place. It is a brown mark, somewhat faded and muted in colour. Once the roots begin to take place they appear over [i]all[/i] of her veins. Twisting and turning over her legs, arms, stomach, neck and even face. By the time the mark has fully consumed Gaia she has less of her typically pale skin colour than she does the roots on her skin. Her eyes seem to glow a faint white light and her skin cracks like tree bark." [/color][/indent]
[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]P[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] E R S O N A L I T Y[/color][/sub][/b][hr]

[indent][color=cccccc]"Gaia is quiet, but incredibly inquisitive. She has always been curious. From when she first saw two men drunkenly fighting when she was five and they were drunk. She began to mirror their movements before a Longear tribe warrior got a hold of her and showed her true form. Ever since she has been obsessed with combat, as she often times has trouble connecting with others. She has never had problems connecting with those she fights however. She seems to gain a deeper understanding of others when she clashes with them. 

Outside of combat Gaia wishes to be useful among other things. She has always sought acceptance from others and often times can be found keeping busy when the tribe has made camp, even on the longest journey. She can go from protecting the vanguard during a long walk to hunting all night to feed the young children and elderly in the morning. This is actually one of Gaia’s chief faults. She runs her body dry of energy and sleep deprivation often and tends to fall asleep for obscene amounts of time when she returns from things like a three day hunt. It has been especially noted by the Longear tribe chieftain and his sons. As their champion Gaia feels a sense of duty that she would never allow to come second in anything. She is their sword and more importantly their sword arm. She fights for them.

Gaia has an issue when it comes to not burning bridges, as well. As she is often times unaware of when she completely offends someone. As such, she does not apologize often. Not out of a sense of pride or something along those lines, rather she simply does not understand when an apology would be appreciated.

Gaia’s morals are fast and loose. She understands the way in which the world works and does not have a problem with it. She is aware of slavery, death, children disappearing and understands that this is part of a cycle. She simply does not view herself with autonomy enough to care about these things. Should her chieftain tell her to kill a man for his crimes against the Longear tribe she would. She however, does wish for most men and women to have a fair trial. Whether that be with a group of judges or simply a trial by combat. All should have the opportunity to have it. She, however, does not believe in any kind of belief system. She just simply never had an affinity for thanking anyone but the hunter for the meal on her table. It was how she was raised and will be how she thinks when she dies.

While Gaia has never had a lover in the sense of the word, she is not the type to play it cool. When approached with an emotional attachment to someone it cracks her demeanor and thought structure like nothing else. Her greatest weakness as person is her heart as she cannot conquer it. It may be the only thing she has no chance of besting.”[/color][/indent]

[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]B[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] I O G R A P H Y[/color][/sub][/b] [hr]

[indent] “Gaia was raised by a single mother in the Longear Tribe. Shortly after impregnating her mother, her father was felled by a boar tusk to the side of his throat while hunting elk. She never knew him, but she would learn of him in the coming years. She was told of his valor by her mother, but primarily she was told of his foolhardy nature. She was told to never repeat that type of behavior.

The first time Gaia’s upbringing was brought into question was when she was found by the Chieftain alone in the woods surrounded by a pack of wolves and a bear. She was only five at the time but the animals stood calmly as she massaged their mouths and pet them as a five year old would. They allowed the chieftain to take her from them and a jury was called to determine whether or not her mother could be deemed well enough to raise the girl alone. The deliberation took many days. 

On the eve of the first night two of the jurors got into a fight. It was a fight that Gaia, the inquisitive little five year old witnessed. And ever since, she had become obsessed with combat. She began her training in basic self-defense the next year. Her mother had lost custody of her child and instead Gaia was raised by a warrior of the Longear Tribe and his wife, who was an incredibly talented weaver. Together they taught Gaia many things, and much to her adoptive mother’s chagrin fighting was the chief profession she found herself fascinated by.

She was only nine years old when she first bested an opponent. She sparred against the other boys’ who were sons of the warriors in the tribe and she often lost. But she always learned something from a loss. And soon, she begun rarely losing. 

By the time Gaia had turned fifteen she was easily the most competent young fighter, committing her every waking moment to it. She would complete any chores set up by her mother and immediately begin fighting anyone she could. It was by the brisk age of sixteen she could regularly defeat the other warriors and she became one herself.

Her mother and father had never looked more sullen and proud during the ceremony.

Only three years later and she got to fight to become the tribe’s champion. It was inevitable at that point. As such, she became the sword arm of the tribe and the Chieftain’s family. She hunted, gathered, and killed for them.

[color=#dda0dd][b]Memories Retained:[/b][/color] [color=cccccc]Ignore for now[/color]
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[color=#dda0dd]⍚ Akua[/color]  ⥥  [color=#9f8170]Nature, Life, and Betrayal [/color]   ⥥  [color=#dda0dd] Female  [/color]⥥  [color=#9f8170] Bisexual ⍚ [/color][/center]

[color=#9f8170][h3][quote=Stórslys] “Like a mother bending over her baby,
Kneeled down in the dust
Toiling over a lump of clay
Till she shaped it in her own image;

Then into it she blew the breath of the wild, will and life
And man became a living soul.” [/quote][/h3][/color]

[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]G[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170]O D L Y   A P P E A R A N C E[/color][/sub][/b][hr]

[indent][color=cccccc][color=cccccc] Akua (Pronounced Ahkwa) is a diminutive woman with fingers made black from the second knuckle down from dirt. She has windblown brown hair and pale grey skin. She also has sharp eyes. She is constantly surrounded by a plethora of animals including elk, bears, foxes, wolves, eagles, blue jays, and others. She has a beautiful and [url=http://pre12.deviantart.net/539d/th/pre/i/2017/158/f/6/ceremonial_by_wlop-dbby16x.jpg]ornate dress[/url] that is black and gold in appearance with small amber crystals along the back. She is small in stature standing only at five feet tall. Her voice when heard is fifteen voices at once all in perfect harmony with one another. Her eye colour is dependent on the season on Earth. [/color][/color][/indent]
[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]K[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] N O W N   F O R[/color][/sub][/b][hr]

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- The Goddess of creation, life, and the origin point of living things. 
- The creator of the goddess’ of seasons, who are now a single entity known as Erilene
- The mother of all living things. When killing an animal it is a common superstition that one must use as much of it as possible to avoid wasting anything. 
- Her nature as the goddess of betrayal is due to humanity. As they began killing one another it was a title she shouldered as it was her burden to bear the sins of humanity as their creator.
- A goddess who is known to be constantly sad at the state of her creation. Who knew life was such a violent thing to create?
- By those who pray to her specifically, she is sometimes offered a prayer when one is about to eat an animal, as a thanks for providing food.
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[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]F[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] O R M A T I V E   M O M E N T S   I N    H I S T O R Y[/color][/sub][/b]
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Something was missing. The world existed as it should. However, it felt… So empty. I did not want to create more gods or goddesses, they would have nothing to govern over. But I knew I could create. So I did. At first beings that were microscopic in nature, only the smallest speck of life. But then I saw before me infinite possibilities. I created creatures of all shapes and sizes. Some as large as an island and some as small as my pupil. I did this, until I filled the entire world. These creatures roamed the beautiful world, some in the ocean, some in the wind, some in the wilds.

But something was missing.

So I made one more creation. In my own image I sculpted man. Once again, I started small but soon there were thousands of them.

I loved them so much.

I was the goddess of nature, and life.

Until my creation turned against one another. 

I made sure that there was no intrinsic value in consuming man for another man. They would go mad if they tasted human flesh for too long and as such I felt safe. I found comfort where perhaps there shouldn’t have been any. Because there were two sisters. Ekahi and Elua. They found themselves possessed by the unholy desire to kill one another. And while Ekahi was sleeping Elua took a rock in her fist and caved her sister’s skull in. One life snuffed out. Elua was the first murderer suddenly I had one less mother.

I was brought before other gods to explain what I had created and what I had done. It was not liked nor accepted. I had made a creation with too much power and autonomy. They killed each other for no reason other than killing. It wasn’t hunting, nor was it nourishment, it was simply violence. I was forced to take the mantle of the goddess of betrayal. A story I carved into stone so that Elua and her descendants would know why I governed over their fallacy.  

But I knew that I had to remedy the problem. So my hands dug once more into the soil. I created four daughters of mine, not in blood or birth, nor marriage. Simply put I created four goddesses to govern over man. To govern over nature and the seasons. I had created and created until I had created too much. 

They were Suelia, goddess of the wilds. Born of spring’s blooming flowers. Tasked with rousing both flora and fauna from their winter’s sleep.

Nerine, goddess of birth. Born from summer’s warm rays. Tasked with bringing new young to life and nurture their growth.

Erilene, goddess of good harvests. Born from autumn’s colourful leaves. Tasked with nurturing the growth of plants and crops, so these can continue to nurture others. 

Rauri, goddess of respite. Born from winter’s dew. Tasked with watching over nature’s sleep during winter.

But, then too, my tainted hands could not create anything perfect. Soon Suelia, Nerine, and Rauri all perished only their sister Erilene survived the dark god’s awakening. Before Akua could truly discover what happened to her daughters the dark gods approached her too.	

Left with a hole in her heart when the dark gods came to cast Akua down from the heavens, she all but accepted it. She knew, at the very least, that should she become mortal she could die and rest in peace.” [/color][/indent]

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[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]S[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] K I L L S E T[/color][/sub][/b]
[hr][hr][i][color=cccccc]Three General skills to start and up to two combat abilities. Due to the setting you may also have 1 Survival ability.[/color][/i]

[list][*][color=#dda0dd]Rooted - General[/color] Gaia is incredibly aware of the weather around her, she reads the wind and is able to predict the weather pattern for the next twenty-four hours. She is incredibly perceptive of other signs as well such as animal migration, disturbance in Fauna or other natural indicators of destruction or imbalance.

[*][color=#9f8170]Champion - Combat[/color] Being the youngest champion of the Longear tribe since Artemis herself, Gaia is no push over. Her archery skills are some of the best of the entire clan and she is an incredible combatant that shows no signs of slowing down in growing.

[*][color=#dda0dd]Animal Handling - General (2 Skills combined into 1)[/color] Gaia ever since she was a child is incredibly in tuned with the Fauna of the world. When she was just five she was nearly adopted by a pack of wolves and a brown bear. She can soothe an animal into allowing her to get close and hunts in this fashion typically. Singing and drawing animals closer and killing them swiftly and painlessly. She is incredibly talented in handling animals and reading them and has even begun to train a small wolf pup named Hoa.

[*][color=#dda0dd]Hunting - Survival[/color]
See above

[*][color=#9f8170]Charismatic - General[/color] While Gaia does have difficult reading situations, she is very charismatic. This is primarily because of her fairly stunning appearance and talented nature. She is well known by most and her singing voice is particularly alluring she just seems to be ‘out of this world’ in a way. She also has a large amount of pull within the tribe itself. Greatly respected by its members as she has lived her life for the tribe.

[*][color=#dda0dd]Amazonian - Combat[/color] Gaia is in peak condition for a woman her age and size. She looks downright intimidating and she punches as strong and well as a full grown man, if not stronger. Due to the fact that she has grown to control her muscles with a fine tune that many cannot accomplish. She is often stronger than she is given credit for.
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[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]A[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] B I L I T I E S[/color][/sub][/b][hr]
[i][color=cccccc]These will unlock as we continue.[/color][/i]

[color=#dda0dd][b]Life Force[/b][/color]: [color=cccccc]15/15[/color]

[color=#dda0dd][b]Yggdrasil : Weakest Abilities[/b][/color]
[color=cccccc][i]Everything, in perfect harmony, that is my dream.[/i][/color]
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[color=#9f8170]Nature's Minne:[/color] Gaia's singing voice sooths everyone who hears it. Passively, a simple whistled tune can even help someone drift off to sleep, at most if she were to actively sing during combat she could cause an opponent to overlook something, being lulled into a sense of security

[color=#9f8170]:Life's Kiss[/color] Gaia rooting herself into life itself, can kiss someone and cure and light wound that may be present on them. The kiss must be sustained for five seconds to take effect, however.[/indent]

[color=#9f8170]Blessing of the Earth:[/color] Gaia can give herself or another a much higher roll as far as animal handling and soothing animals by utilising this ability. It is a blessing that must be cast before the aforementioned roll however.

[color=#dda0dd][b]The Stream of Life: Moderate Ability[/b][/color]
[color=cccccc][i]Even a mountain in the way of a stream will be worn down and filled with holes, all the small stream needs is time.[/i][/color]
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[color=#9f8170]Breath of the Wild:[/color] Gaia is able to withstand any and all exposure. She still needs oxygen, water, and food to survive but no temperature can affect her in this state save for immediately adverse effects like fire on the skin and plunging herself well below sub-zero temperatures, this can last from sunrise to sunrise. 

[color=#9f8170]Refulgent Creation:[/color] Gaia can summon to her side up to three animals that are native to the area she is in. She does this by imbuing her life force into the area she in and the beings are created. These animals are loyal to Gaia and can follow basic commands.

[color=#9f8170]Cain:[/color] Remembering the moment she felt betrayal for the first time, Gaia whispers a phrase into the ear of a target. That person will then distrust whosoever was named. A full name is required and while they will deeply distrust that person, what happens afterwards is left completely up to whoever is affected by this ability. They cannot immediately shake off their distrust, however.[/indent] 

[color=#dda0dd]Genesis: Strongest Ability[/color]
[color=cccccc][i]Life is not beautiful, or pure, because it lasts. It is beautiful because you get to [i]experience[/i] it.[/i][/color]
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[color=#9f8170]Burden of the Daughter:[/color] Gaia gains limitless strength. However, this only applies to burdens. She can carry any weight, lift any weight, receive any weight, but she can't simply punch with infinite strength - even though she could lift a tree from the Earth and carry any amount of weight. She can also not swing something that is massively heavy as if it were a simple baseball bat. However, she can move it fairly effortlessly while this ability is active. If something is thrown with this ability it will drop immediately. 

[color=#9f8170]Tears of the Mother:[/color] Using this ability Gaia's tears can bring forth entire lake's worth of water. As soon as the tear hits the ground it expands rapidly creating an entire lakebed. Anyone caught within this radius is under immense threat of being dragged beneath the surface by the ensuing rapid filling of the lake and thrown about by the current.

[color=#9f8170]Soul of the Creator:[/color] [i][color=cccccc] Placing a single fingertip into the earth Gaia creates gigantic fauna and flora sprouting forth creating a forest unlike any other. Pure unbridled creation, even mythical creatures can be born from this forest.

 However, upon its creation the earth is riddled with these gigiantic roots and anyone in the surrounding area will be pulled into the earth by these gigantic roots, killing them. This ability will leave a forest that could survive thousands of years. Covering a massive area. The lethal range of this ability is, however, only in a two hundred foot radius around Gaia, including, of course Gaia herself. It should be mentioned that while the lethal range of this ability is two hundred metres, the forest itself will grow to nearly 100 acres over time. Constantly expanding. [/color][/i][/indent]
[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]I[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] N V E N T O R Y[/color][/sub][/b][hr]
[i][color=cccccc]A skinning knife
Bow and Arrows
A Tomahawk
Hoa a one year old Wolf
Small amount of currency
A sigil denoting Giaa as the champion of the Longear Tribe[/color][/i]

[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]O[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] T H E R[/color][/sub][/b][hr]
[i][color=cccccc]Colour Code: other information.[/color][/i]

[ ⍚ ] [b][color=#dda0dd][b]R[/b][/color][sub][color=#9f8170] E L A T I O N S H I P S[/color][/sub][/b]
Awaiting RRA


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