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[color=00aeef][h1]Vaeri Ernala[/h1][/color][/center]
[color=00aeef][b]Race/Species:[/b][/color] Great clan Elf
[color=00aeef][b]Gender:[/b][/color] Female
[color=00aeef][b]Age:[/b][/color] 45 (Appears around mid 20's)
[color=00aeef][b]Role:[/b][/color]   
TBA
[color=00aeef][b]Skills/Traits[/b]:[/color] 
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[*][color=00aeef][b]Shield and Axe[/b][/color]
From a young age, Vaeri was trained as a warrior. While most Elves of the Great Clan around herself used swords, she used an axe as she felt the brutality of such a weapon felt powerful. Time and time again, she proved her worth during sparring practice; besting her peers more than enough times to impress them as well as the seasoned warriors of her clan.
[*][color=00aeef][b]Roaring Tides[/b][/color]
Her strength was something to be reckoned with. But her movements were like the tides. Flowing with power and grace. With this kind of fighting style, Vaeri tends to sidestep and deflect attacks rather than block them squarely, following it up with a heavy blow from her shield or axe like a crashing wave.
[*][color=00aeef][b]Spirits of the Deep[/b][/color]
Like many of her kin, Vaeri can call upon the spirits to aid her. Due to her heritage, she is more attuned to the spirits of water. The voice of which is more clear to her than any other element even if it's still just an emotion or a murmur. With the power of these spirits, her style of fighting is much more formidable.
[*][color=00aeef][b]Surefooted[/b][/color]
Her time spent with the Woad elves has made her quite difficult to stumble.
[*][color=00aeef][b]Seafaring[/b][/color]
From her parents, she learned the way of seafaring. Reading the movements of the wind and water around a vessel. However she is still inexperienced with larger ships, being more used to smaller vessels such as Cogs, Caravels, it's Elven variants and Northman Warships when it comes to maneuvering. She has a good sense of direction and often knows which way she is headed in terms of bearing.
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[color=00aeef][b]Weapons:[/b][/color]  
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[*] [url=https://i.pinimg.com/564x/69/25/25/692525d8b399d23c070702dc62240cf3.jpg]Bearded Axe[/url]
[*] Viking Shield [sub](See image)[/sub]
[*] [url=https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f2/0b/c0/f20bc0f3639a865950b4bf3161140eb1.jpg]Seax[/url]
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[color=00aeef][b]Physical Description:[/b] [/color]
Vaeri is a somewhat tall Elven woman, standing at 6ft with the usual muscular build you'd see on any female Great Clan elf. She has long blond hair that she usually ties into a ponytail, and a pair of icy blue eyes. Her oddly fair skin is often painted in blue (As shown in the image) like a kind of war paint, but it would seem that she applies it much like a woman does makeup. Habitually. Because of this she is often mistaken for a 'Woad' elf at first glance. Vaeri has a few scars that litter her body; some cuts on her back and torso, such things are inevitable as a warrior.

[color=00aeef][b]Armor:[/b][/color] 
Like many Great Clan Elves, she wears dull coloured clothing outside her blue painted equipment. She wears simple leather armor to stay lightweight, and furs to keep herself warm against the ocean breeze. 

[color=00aeef][b]Equipment/Other[/b] [/color]
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[*]Whetstone
[*]Compass
[*]Waterskin
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[color=00aeef][b]Mental Description/Personality:[/b] [/color]
Vaeri is a blunt, yet humble person. While she isn't afraid to speak her mind, she does not openly boast of her exploits or personal strength, however she does like to tell stories every so often. Due to her stature, race, and height, she can often seem quite imposing to most who are unfamiliar with her or her clan. While she is mostly a loyal warrior, it doesn't mean that she is gullible. Although some may say otherwise because of her lack of understanding of subtle social suggestions. Ironically she is quite proud of her heritage and will come off as aggressive towards those who mock her clan. Like all elves, Vaeri is very spiritual and will often get upset at those who mistreat what nature provides for them. Having grown up quite secluded from the rest of the world, Vaeri doesn't have much of an opinion on other races outside their outer appearances. She tends to reserve judgement of other people as she chooses to get to know them before making any.

[color=00aeef][b]Goals/Aspirations:[/b][/color] 
Unlike many of her peers in her clan, Vaeri became interested in the cultures of others after training under the Woad Elves. Before training under them, she always thought it was just Elves and Human pirates, as those were the only races that she encountered, however she slowly learned that there were different kinds of elf, and that there was also a plethora of other races. People who lived differently from her, perhaps even someone who lived like her but lived on the other side of the great oceans. While Vaeri was trained to become a great warrior, she also held an interest in story telling. She had always loved listening to the old stories that the elders used to tell her by the campfires.

While learning of others is strange aspiration to have, she has a few other 'goals' that she wishes to fulfill in her life. Surprisingly (Well, surprising to most) she wants to have a family of her own, wanting to teach them as her family had taught her. She wants to be able to regale many stories with them and teach them about the world they live in.

She also wishes to learn how to connect more with the spirits as the elders do.

[color=00aeef][b]Background/History:[/b][/color]
Vaeri was born into a commune of Great Clan Elves. Although many of her kin lived in the southern jungles,  this commune lived in the Northern Isles in close proximity to the Wood elves, spread out across a stretch of forest-covered archipelago. Her parents were amongst some of the few seafarers of this commune, moving between the villages to transport and trade goods. Of course, where there is trade there are pirates. While pirates were few and far between, their existence was still a hindrance to the people; thus the Ernala family trained themselves in order to fight off such scum.

Vaeri began her training as a warrior from a very young age, practicing with her peers from each of the villages that she routinely visited with her parents. Those that have seen Vaeri in battle may have assumed that she was gifted in the art of violence from the day she began training, but interestingly this wasn't the case. In her early years, Vaeri was a crybaby. Enthusiastic about training, but had unguided ferocity and a low pain threshold that would bring shame to any warrior family. During one of Vaeri's bouts of anger, she encountered a patrol of Wood elves after she had run away from one of the villages during training. Still consumed in rage she attempted to attack them with her training weapon, but was quickly subdued. The patrol brought Vaeri back to her parents at the docks, albeit a little battered and bruised. Surprisingly they praised her fearless nature and offered to help train her to become the warrior she had the potential to be.

At first her parents were hesitant, as these elves were different from them but they soon decided to accept the offer. They asked the Woad elves to give her shelter while she trained, as time spent on the sea was time spent away from training. A mutual agreement was struck and Vaeri was taken under the wings of the Woad elves in exchange for some trading between her family and them. For many years, she trained under the Wood elves tutelage becoming the formidable fighter that she is today. Around the age of 40, Vaeri decided to make her own way in life, seeking to fulfill her goals and travel the world. Becoming a pirate was not only ironic, but was also probably the best course of action for her as they usually have a safer passage around the oceans compared to anyone else.

During her journey toward the Sea of Swords, Vaeri traveled through Vrettonia, staying there for a moon or so to 'soak in' the new culture. For the most part she didn't understand the concept of 'Knights' and lavish indulgence, but on the same coin, they didn't really understand her either; seeing her as barbaric and unrefined. She eventually got along with some people, particularly the dualists of Vrettonia. They seemed fascinated by her fighting style and trained with her for a short time before she decided it was time to move on.

The Borderlands was both an interesting place as well as a little depressing. It would seem that human strife was common in this place, yet as always, people seemed to get on with their life or waste away. She wasn't of the mind to help them, nor did she have the means to. To put it simply, Vaeri left it as soon as possible.

Vaeri found herself in the port city of Seacliffe, searching for another crew to join. She'd been using the last few crews as mere transport to go down south. She hoped to start something new now that she had arrived here.

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