[s]Oh jeez this is awkward for me and i hope it isn't too OP or something ahhh i hope the app will be ok and fixable![/s]

Alright! Finally done! :D

Here is my app! 

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Name: Elena Ravenwood

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Race: Half-Human/Half-Hundi

Appearance:

-Armor and Sword: [hider][img] https://i.imgur.com/FhDyFkL.jpg [/img][/hider]

-Without Armor: [hider][img] https://i.imgur.com/Y48cgOG.jpg [/img] [h3][b][u]But imagine her as having a dog/Hundi tail that is easily seen without her armor, but is hidden completely whilst wearing her armor.[/u][/b][/h3][/hider]

Personality: A determined sort of individual that works her hardest at what she puts her mind to, albeit at times running the risk of overworking herself on occasion, Elena can be considered a reliable sort of individual when it comes to things she sets her mind to or tasks she has been given. Being as young as she is, not an adult but not a child either, she feels like she is caught in-between a rock and a hard place with how people might consider her and treat her. However, from her mother she gained a love of hearing and reading stories and legends of old, as well as gaining the great enjoyment of cooking food and trying all different kinds of it! 

Brief Backstory: 

[hider=Eh The History Got Longer Than I Thought....]

One, a long time ago, there was a family that went by the name Ravenwood. Warriors of great might, they were known to send their members to travels the lands to gets stronger, before coming home to eventually have children. However, over time tragedy and war and other mishaps of nature of mankind took the lives of the family’s members, whittling them down bit by bit until the family was a shell of its former self. Gone were the days of travel and fighting, the earning of glory, and praises given to some of them by the bards of older times! 

Eventually only one member remained at the tail end of what was now a dead family of warriors. His name was Krevan Ravenwood, named for the family’s founder, the last male among his small family, the last of his line who might be sent out to travel as his ancestors did. So his father trained him as best he could, pushing him, though his son seemed to rebel in part by preferring the magical arts. In particular, the dark arts. After many years of argument and fighting amongst family members, Krevan was finally persuaded to, unlike his siblings, set off on a trip to become stronger. 

On this trip he eventually ran into and fought a traveling Hundi, a female, who in a duel he beat after much effort. Soon after the two were wed, but it was this chance to settle down away from his remaining family that left Krevan leaning towards his interests in magic. Moving to a home on the very edge of a town in Thaln, he began practicing the dark arts from books he had bought along his travels. And with his wife he produced a great deal of children, some of which were turned into his acolytes over the years, some of which were used as fodder for experiments, and a few that were used with his wife to forcefully make their home look normal and put on a face for the locals in the town. But even so, rumors abounded over time. 

It was into this home that Elena was born, a half-hundi and half-human child who was blessed to be more around her mother than her father. Among her many siblings, she was among those of them who held disgust for her father’s necromancy and cruel experiments always, though never spoke it for fear of retribution or being used as an experiment. Her mother too was in disgust, but weakened and kept in line by magic she had no power to protest her husband nor go against him without fear of her children’s death or worse being done to them. Her husband had become a man of great evil, and the least she could do would be to protect her children like Elena to at least given them some chance of a life. At least, those of her children who had not bene converted over by her husband to his manner of things and thinking. 

Eventually, at the age of 9, Krevan’s home was burst into one morning without any warning by an armored and battle ready man, in the middle of Krevan having just finished an experiment on Elena herself. This man in question was one “Armand Jodeau”, who had come into town and burst in to kill the necromancer rumored to be living in this home. 

Caught unaware, Krevan was slain by the hand of this man, and those among his children who were his acolytes were slain as well as they attempted to kill the intruder too, with the young child Elena herself attempting to help somewhat after seeing this as a chance to get free and help her mother. Krevan’s lair under the house was set on fire as well, before Elena along with her mother and surviving “sane” siblings were pulled to the side by the man who had saved them. 

Though they never saw his face, he advised each of them, including their mother, before turning to Elena herself and giving her a ruffle of her hair. The man spoke to her specifically about how, with such bravery and heart at her age, she might make a fitting knight in the future, and after telling her briefly about an order of knights that he recommended she join one day (using his name scrawled onto some paper as a reference) he set off without a word as abruptly as he had arrived. 

And so Elena and her family left the town, having been now seen as a plague upon them after the truth about their father was found out after the knight’s intrusion. Though a cruel thing to undergo, it seemed for the best as her mother and surviving siblings made their way to find a brother of her father, a man whom her mother had met once prior to Krevan settling down. This man, Neman Ravenwood of Goldhouse, was an accomplished knight himself, owning some land and a grand home, and nearly having the status to marry into a noble family from his deeds. Upon seeing his brother’s broken family, he took pity upon them, and right away took them into his household among his own family to be treated as such. Family. It was here that Elena found solace from the past, though her father’s last experiment was bonded to her forever as a part of her, being like unto a curse that might never be shed and that would be an eternal reminder of her family’s darker side.  

Even so, she begged her uncle to train her to be a knight, and seeing the light in her eyes whilst hoping she might use such a thing to better herself than her father was, her uncle eventually agreed to train her. Day in and day out she was put through training, for eight years she worked hard to become a knight, eventually being gifted armor and a sword by her uncle after her training with him was finished.

Afterwards, Elena bid her mother and family a hearty farewell, before setting off to find the group her family’s savior had mentioned all those years ago: The Iron Rose Knights. She had never forgotten that day of being saved, of the desire put into her to be a force for good in the world in some manner, and now deciding to act on her past promptings she was going to forge her path in the world. She would make her uncle proud, she would make her mother proud, and she would prove that all her effort in preparing for this moment was not wasted. 

However, as a knight, she does have mixed feelings on some matters. For one thing, the group’s leader. Whilst admirable for her to be so young and close to Elena’s own age, at the same time she feels that an experienced hand might be better for the Iron Rose Knights than a 16 year old girl. She does not hate Fannily personally or as a person, but at the same time is by this point in time in silent agreement with the dissenting party who feel such a young girl should not be the leader of a group of knights based on some old tradition like being born under a full moon. 

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Equipment:

-[i][b]Full Body Black Armor[/b][/i]: This set of very thick, masterfully made black armor crafted by dwarven blacksmiths was once made for a great warrior named Halfdane the Mighty. A knight of great might who served Lord Windhlem of Goldhouse alongside Elena’s uncle, he wore this armor for many moons and many years of fighting and combat under a liege before he died of a plague. More than a little durable in make, Halfdane actually had to have the armor enchanted to repair itself magically in order to maintain the actual stuff. 

Upon his death, Halfdane passed the armor down to Neman Ravenwood, who in turn never used the armor, but had it resized for a pretty penny when he passed the armor down to Elena herself. 

Of course, as durable as it is and as much as it was built to allow her a free range of movement, it is still heavy plate armor in the end. This means it ends up leaving the wearer moving slower than lightly armored and especially unarmored fighters, though she does retain a full range of movement due to the armor’s make. Though its added protectiveness on her body makes her a defensive bulwark, which is one reason she does not carry a shield into combat.

-[i][b]Mysterious Greatsword[/b][/i]: A thick weapon of dwarven make that came to Halfdane along with his armor, both having been gifts from his lord in the past for saving his life, it too was enchanted at the same time as the armor to magically repair itself as well. A hefty blade of great power, it can be said the thrum of magic courses within it, and supposedly Halfdane claimed that the blade could fire beams from its tip, or fire curved waves of magical energy in an attack when swung. 

And indeed, this power is a real thing, the sword being able to do these things at the user’s will by tapping into the user’s own mana. 

However, its thickness and great length left many foes of Halfdane calling it “that big slab of metal” as a jeer, though Halfdane came to call it that as a joke later on in life. 

-[b][i]“The Lich’s Core”[/i][/b]: This device was originally a necromantic artifact acquired by her father and improved upon for many years. It was a thing created by an ancient necromancer, who had sought to transform the “mana reactor” of sentient undead into a “phylactery” he could store his soul in to become a “lich” one day. Though Elena’s father managed to get this from an unknown source after settling down in a home, he never managed to get this to function as it was supposed to. Yet, he eventually found a way to make use of it, modifying it and testing it until he came upon a manner of using it by fusing it with a living person’s heart. 

In this state the phylactery would become one with the heart and transform into a “living vessel” wherein the user’s soul would be contained, whilst the container’s power would provide the user with a fountain of mana, as well as diffuse its energies into the user’s body to both strengthen it to beyond human means as well as heal it from damage. According to Elena’s father, the container would be able to restore even the user’s entire body should only the heart-vessel remain of them. Though from preliminary tests on animals of varying sizes and species, it seemed the container would stop the user’s aging after a certain length of time, though this period of time a human or other species that isn’t an animal remained unknown to him. 

But to see if this thing would work in general he implanted it into Elena first, to try to test this manner of use and see if it would work, with the intent that if it worked he would then remove Elena’s heart, killing her, and fuse the container into his own heart to grant him a sort of “pseudo-immortality” by stopping aging. 

Of course, if this container is destroyed, which it can be, then the user of it dies regardless, just like any human who has had their heart destroyed.  

Though due to not granting immunity to poisons or preventing things like diseases, this artifact does not actually have all the boons of an actual sapient undead. 

Skills:

[b]Sword Combat[/b]- She has been trained in the skills of wielding a greatsword, though outside of using it with two hands her strength has allowed her to wield it with one hand as well. As oddly surprising as that is to some, especially her uncle at first, she was trained more and gained one-handed sword wielding skills with this type of blade as well. 

[b]Inhuman Strength[/b]- Due to the effects of the necromantic artifact fused with her heart, her physical strength is far above that of someone of her sex and age, enough to move in her armor like it was normal and skillfully wield a giant greatsword with one hand. 

[b]Fighting Style[/b]- Her fighting style contains both a strong offense and a strong defense, sometimes taking the front lines in pushing against the enemy, but at times tanking hits as well. Being in heavy armor she definitely lacks speed in her fighting style, but has the ability to parry and deflect blows as part of her style. However, her balanced offensive and defensive style does leave her able to fulfill both roles in a fight in a versatile manner.  

Really, the biggest weaknesses in her fighting style are fast and swift foes, those who are far less weighed down and can run circles around her with her armor on. That, or those who use magic in a manner of countering those like her who have armor. And without her armor she is not used to fighting with her greatsword to boot.