Name: Aedre Starling

Age: 41, appears 25 as a human (average lifespan is 300 years, but they can live longer)

Species: Mermaid

Gender: Female

Appearance:
Human form: Fairly athletic body of average human height with light skin. Brown hair that reaches just past her shoulders and green eyes. She wears thin brown trousers, wraps her chest and wears a dark grey hooded jacket over it. Brown boots, and a belt around her waist that carries a couple of daggers. All clothing that she can take off and put on fairly quickly.

Natural (mermaid) form: Aedre is slim with a wiry strength and a softly rounded face. Her whole tail is roughly 2,5 times the length of her legs in her human form, sea-green and mud-brown scales cover her whole body, and brown hair only reaches just past her shoulders. The tail ends in a single fin that flares out and then narrows, and long side-fins trail down from just above her waist down roughly half a metre. Her narrow eyes are a sea-green colour and her thin lips hide sharp teeth that have no problems cutting through fish-scales. There are claws on her fingers and webbing between them. Varying sizes of brown webbing-like membrane follow the line of her body, and there are long gills on each side of her neck.

Personality:
She cares far more for travelling and learning new things than money, and has a fairly aggressive fightingstyle though it takes a lot to make her angry. There are few things she won't do for her friends when they earn her loyalty. As a mermaid she has no actual need for clothes in her natural form and doesn’t understand some species fixation with clothes and going without them.

History:
Her parents were nomadic hunters and raised her to be the same. She’s always enjoyed travelling and discovering new places, and so when she discovered she had embodiment it was a natural first step to train it well enough that she could turn human and fit in on land. She left her family as soon as she was old enough to do so, though it took some time after that before she was good enough at embodiment to be able to fit in amongst humans.

Equipment:
Battlestaff (metal bo staff with a barbed spear head enchanted not to collect rust or otherwise degrade), water-proof bag, 2 daggers for when she doesn't have claws and/or loses her staff.

Powers:
Embodiment, but so far is only able to use it to change between mermaid and human form. They’re specific forms and she can’t yet change partially.

Telekinesis, which she mainly uses to lift small objects and get her staff back if she's disarmed. It generally takes a lot of concentration, and she's less adept at using telekinesis on land.

Activity: Currently I don’t have a fixed schedule and so could post at any time during the day. When I get a regular job I’m more likely to post at some point between 18 and 24 in the evening. My timezone is UTC +1.

Extras:
- She finds it difficult to read human bodylanguage since the mermaids she's familiar with look so little like humans.

- Because mermaids live such long lives they don't have the same view of time as most species do. Aedre hasn't seen her parents in over ten years, since she was old enough to set out on her own, and she still hasn't started missing them.