[i]Aw shiet.[/i] Needless to say I went for something else entirely with the same place of Magvel. Eghh... I'll post what I did for now and see if we can't reconcile something? I'm sure something like this could like... I dunno, I'm sure we can do something [@Apollosarcher].

[hider=Elena Colton, Hardy Survivor]
Forgive me if I make and formatting SNAFUs. I'm still relearning BBCode.

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[b]Name:[/b] Elena Colton

[b]Sex:[/b] [s]Yes, please.[/s] Female

[b]Class:[/b] Archer

[b]Starting Weapons:[/b] Father's Bow. Galen left his Killer Bow behind when he left for the war - the Grado Empire would not allow him to use his own weapon anyway.
Bronze Dagger

[N.B. I’ve assumed the war from Sacred Stones still took place and further to what I was told resulted in the unification of Magvel]

[b]History:[/b] Elena was born in Magvel in the pre-war country of Grado. She was the only child of her parents - her father, Galen, a soldier in the Grado army and her mother, Elizabeth, an apothecary. Her young life was… quiet and peaceful for the most part. Although their home village in the mountaintops was remote, it never saw more than the rare token bandit raid, the kind of which would be easily repelled by the standing guard. She whiled away her younger days exactly as any child would. Like many in Grado, she trained with a weapon from a very early age and her training with a bow was what helped her bond so strongly with her father. She was eager to spend all the time possible she could and quickly grew from sticking arrows into wood-backed targets into accompanying him on his hunting trips when he was on leave. Her misfortunes began in her more recent years. Elizabeth fell drastically ill. It began with what seemed to be simple symptoms that required simple treatment, but within months she was near-unable to move under her own power and needed help from her husband and daughter in her daily life. She knew the disease and knew the cure, but it was beyond their reach: Moonleaf, which could only be found in Rausten and even then was exceptionally rare. It was beyond their reach.

She was only a teenager during Grado’s war against what had seemed to be the entire remainder of Magvell. Life in Grado had grown chaotic and uneasy - even if Grado had begun it on the front foot, it wasn’t very long before rumors came that the tides had begun to turn and the war was going to bring itself to their homes, that the forces of Renais and Frelia were soon to be marching onto Grado’s soil and sooner than she knew, Elena’s world was war. It was simple enough, none of the army would have to die once they surrendered but Emperor Vigarde did not permit surrender. What soldiers did not defect from Grado were slaughtered - some in battles they had no hope of winning and with them was Elena’s father, an enlisted man like whom for all the value he held to his family, fell like any other.

It comes without any further saying that Grado was defeated in the war, and with the deaths of so many of Magvel’s leaders - The Warrior King Fado, the Queen of the White Dunes, Ismaire, even the Silent Emperor Vigarde, Magvel was all-but forced into becoming a single entity, ruled over by a council of the many heirs to Magvel’s thrones, overseen by the Sage King Hayden and Pontifex Mansell. The new “province” of Grado had been left in a state anywhere between disrepair and ruin by the war and with its own heir laying dead at the end of the war, none of the former lordlings offered more than token aid from their provinces. Elena was left alone in her remote village with only her sickly mother and only half of the people her village had made homes for before the war. She redoubled her training with the bow, firing into targets, wild animals, even if it was never the same without the reassuring voice of her father in her ear. She knew she was going to have to be the one that found the gold for a Moonleaf or go to Rausten and claim one for her own and care for Elizabeth in her drastically. She was… more successful than she thought she might be. Travelling to Rausten, hunting and performing simple work rebuilding one of the provinces she would sooner commit to war against to survive and send money to her ill mother, she even managed to procure one of the cave-dwelling plants… but by the time she could return to her home in Grado it was too late. She was informed that, in her absence her mother had passed away.

With nothing left in the world, Elena sold up all of her remaining belongings, taking only her father’s bow and a pendant that had belonged to her mother, choosing a life as a mercenary rather than serve in the military as a simple matter of not serving with those who had taken her father from her. She now seeks purpose, something greater than coin to commit her bow to.

[b]Personality:[/b] Elena seems outwardly positive, either in spite or ignorance of all that has happened to her in her life. She also carries herself with a quiet determination and an absolute aversion to leaving anything half-finished - including her strong sense of nationalism and a desire to see her homeland of Grado once again become a strong nation of its own rather than a subservient province of Magvel.

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I'm really not interested in the pairings as most of them are poorly-written at best. Uh, Takumi and Outlaw!Corrin for getting Takumi into the Bow Knight class with +1 Mov?[/hider]
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