[hider=Sabina Vala Calista] [hr][hr][center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/01/d9/dd/01d9ddb07cefd2bb93f796236a39ad9d.jpg[/img][/center] [center][color=OrangeRed][h2]Sabina Vala Calista - [i]The Spectre[/i][/h2][/color][/center] [hr][hr] [color=OrangeRed][b]Race[/b]:[/color] Human [color=OrangeRed][b]Age[/b]:[/color] 21 [color=OrangeRed][b]Appearance[/b]:[/color] A woman of startling beauty, Sabina is often mistaken for a half-Elf with her long platinum blond hair, fine features, and haunting green eyes. She does little to hide her athletic figure, instead using it to her advantage. Her greatest pride is her hair which she had grown long and tends to occasionally braid portions of it in styles popular with the nobility, the only hint of her wealthy heritage. She often wears leather clothing and high boots that serve to keep her feet dry as much as they do to hide a spare knife or two. Her life below ground in the Deepwell has left her almost as pale as her hair, a look that has earned her the nickname [i]Spectre[/i] for her almost ghost like skin tone. [color=OrangeRed][b][h3]Personal[/h3][/b][/color] [hider=Biography] [hr]Growing up in Hallivarr provided Sabina every advantage one could ask for as she received the best education money could buy, learning more languages than she thought really worth it in the beginning. Her education included the classic Hallivarr noble skills like the arrangements of utensils, how to walk, how to talk, when to talk, all of it drilled in to her by a father who placed his own personal image, and that of his families noble lineage above their actual wellbeing. Getting smacked for disobeying rules or failing to live up to his ideal vision of their family was not an uncommon occurrence. Like many other youth across the city, Sabina and her sister, Arelia, managed to find ways to defy their fathers wishes, notably by slipping out of the house to run the roof tops of Hallivarr. They were certainly not alone and more than a few of the other Noble youth often joined them to explore the district. Even the local Juggernauts tolerated the shenanigans as long as the children didn't commit any criminal offences, after all, it was unlikely any parent would forgive them for causing the death of a child by pursuing them across the rooves. The girls soon learned how to use the other drop ferries in the city, shabbily constructed or not, accessing them to reach deeper into Glimhollow as they explored more and more. Their father of course could not fail to hear of their escapades and tried to put a stop to them by placing bars on the girls windows and even going so far as to hire extra staff to keep the two contained. For Arelia it was enough but Sabina was not to be held back. One evening, without breathing a word to anyone, not even her sister, she slipped out the front door of the house and in to the lower city. She was sixteen years old and she would never return to Hallivarr. Highly educated by her parents, and sharing her fathers silver tongue, she was able to make her way through much the city without much issue. Her noble bearing and Hallivarr pass assured her protection from the Juggernauts when she came in to trouble, each time slipping away from them when they started to realize she had no intention of returning home under their care. She came to the Deepwell quite by accident, never having even considered the place in her travels, while running quick foot from a stall keeper who took exception to her "liberation" of a hot roll or three. She had slipped on to the Drop-Ferry down to the Cranelift Marina and was sitting comfortably in a corner munching on the rolls when the Drop-Ferry came to a halt. The vast emptiness of the space she found herself was like nothing she could have ever imagined and it drew her down into the Marina like a moth a black flame. The docks, so different than the upper levels of the city, were a hive of activity like nothing she had ever seen. Nor had she ever seen so much water in her life, nor even thought it possible. A Dwarf Sparkboat Captain by the name of Bundrod Steelbrand, his boat bearing the same name, was the first of the Deepwell residents to encounter her. Like many of his kin he held a deep distrust of humans but even so, he was taken in by the young and beautiful woman who began to ask him a thousand questions about his boat and his work. At first he indulged her curiosity out of amusement but he quickly came to realize that she was not planning on leaving any time soon. He found himself warming to her, and admiring how she teased bits of information out of him and his crew with her quick smile, and a manner of speaking to you that always made one feel as though they were the most important thing in the world at that very moment. Even so, he was stunned when she asked him for a job. On the surface world it has always been considered bad luck to bring a woman on board a boat, in the Deepwell it was quite the opposite. Women are few and far enough between in the Deep that having one with you is thought to bring good fortune. Bundrod agreed to take her on, paying her in food and accommodation, until she could prove herself a useful member of the crew. That crew, completely Dwarvish save for a single human, welcomed her heartily when they discovered she could sing, and sing well, for Dwarves love a good song nearly as much they good a pint. The only other human on board was an unattractive man of twenty with the similarly unattractive name of Tyaerig. As it turned out however, he was a skilled knife fighter, and did much of the vessels navigating to boot. Sabina's first sail on the Deepwell lasted four weeks, during which time she absorbed every bit of information that she could, proving an able hand with anything she touched on the boat. Needless to say, the Dwarven crew and Tyaerig were suitably impressed. When they returned to the Cranelift Marina with their load of Spark Crystals Bundrod asked Sabina is she would like to remain with the crew. She did not refuse him. Two years would pass as the Steelbrand crew traversed the dark waters of the Deepwell. Sabina's knowledge grew as she proved as adapt at sailing as she did at knife fighting. So to did the relationship between her and Tyaerig improve, though he was always painfully aware of his flat nose, slightly to tall forhead, and mismatched coloured eyes. He, as much as the Dwarves, wondered what the stunning daughter of Hallivarr saw in him, but there was no denying that she came to love him fully and without question. After three years on the waters of the Deepwell she could not help but notice that a portion of the vessels profits were being kept back and regularly carried away by Tyaerig to the upper levels of the city. She herself had rarely back above ground in all that time as she found it to be to bright and to hot now that she lived below ground. She confronted Bundrod about Tyaerig's missions and he admitted to her that they were part of the Dusthawks and helped contribute to the groups treasury. Shortly after the confrontation with Bundrod, Sabina was approached by a very unusual man who had begged a moment of her time. To Sabina's everlasting joy, that man turned out to be her sister in disguise. It was if the two had never left each others side, the question of why Sabina had left home was never asked, though she did admit she did not intend to return. The two could not resist playing a prank on Bundrod who was absolutely floored when he found out that there was a pair of Sabina's, stating that "one is quite enough, thank you." Tyaerig thought he had won some sort of prize when he returned home to find the two but was quickly disabused of any such twin sharing notion. The two sisters have stayed in firm touch and Sabina has become Bundrod's primary contact with the Dusthawks. She very recently discovered she is pregnant, much to the amusement of Bundrod and his Dwarves who loudly proclaimed that the she and Tyaerig had "done quite enough practicing for a hundred offspring!" [hr][/hider] [color=OrangeRed][b]Prime Motive[/b]:[/color] Adventure [color=OrangeRed][b]Accessory Motives[/b]:[/color][list] [*]Wealth [*]Her sister[/list] [color=OrangeRed][b]Internal Conflict[/b]:[/color] Sabina was born to a noble family and handed a life of leisure on a silver platter. She moved in the highest circles and had many opportunities to meet folk from distant lands and enjoy their tales of adventure, danger, and excitement. Unlike her sister, who grew to enjoy the comforts of their noble life, she found herself spending more and more time trying to explore Glimhollow and everything it had to offer. Eventually she found her way in to the Deepwell and here, on the edge of the endless abyss, she found something to sate her thirst for adventure. She longs to sail out into the dark and find the rumoured edge of the Deepwell but will not leave without her sister, who she is determined to take with her. [color=OrangeRed][b][h3]Vocational[/h3][/b][/color] [color=OrangeRed][b]Occupation[/b]:[/color] Sparkboat crew member [color=OrangeRed][b]Talents[/b]:[/color][list] [*][color=OrangeRed]Skilled Navigator -[/color] Sabina, like all other Sparkboat crewmen, has learned to navigate much of the Deepwell by memory, relying on the landmarks that are virtually invisible to those from the surface. She knows where to find the safe islands, excellent fishing spots, supplies of fresh water, and where to harvest the Spark Crystals. [*][color=OrangeRed]Knife Fighter - [/color] Sabina is an excellent knife fighter. There is little enough light in the Deepwell, making archery a wasted talent in the dark, and being able to stand toe to toe in a fight is very helpful for even down in the Deepwell, there are those we seek to take the hard work of others for themselves. [*][color=OrangeRed]Honey Tongued -[/color] "Sabina could sell crotchless pants to a nun." This flattering, or maybe not so flattering, comment was made by Bundrod Steelbrow after she was finished bartering with him. She has a gift for convincing people to go to hell, and make them look forward to the trip. [*][color=OrangeRed]Sure Footed -[/color] Sabina is astonishingly quick and sure footed when it comes to being able to get around. As a youth she used to run the roof tops with her sister, now, in the Deepwell, she is adapt at moving swiftly about a rocking boat, over wet and slippery rocks, or along and over most obstacles she encounters with ease. [/list] [color=OrangeRed][b]Flaws[/b]:[/color][list] [*][color=OrangeRed]Dreamer -[/color] Sabina is one of those people who holds in her head a dream of something beyond her current station, a dream that is ever evolving as she reaches new benchmarks. As a result she is never truly happy where she is. [*][color=OrangeRed]Sun Shy -[/color] Sabina's time in the Deepwell has helped her eyes adjust to the low light and she is virtually as helpless as a kitten in the sun drenched upper levels of the city. Unlike Dwarves, she cannot move easily between sun and pure darkness. When in the upper levels of the city she wears dark goggles to suppress the light. [*][color=OrangeRed]In a Mans World -[/color] Sabina is one of a very small number of females sailing the Deepwell. The profession is often dominated by males, particularly Dwarves, and they tend to look down on her. This has led to more than a few confrontations with rival crews and even pirates who see her as an easier target. [*][color=OrangeRed]Reckless -[/color]Numerous voyages in to the Deepwell have not satisfied Sabina's thirst for adventure. She is willing to take insane risks to accomplish a task, or to reach a destination, if she believes the reward is worth the journey. This has led to the death of more than a few associates.[/list] [color=OrangeRed][b]Equipment[/b]:[/color][list] [*]Silk shirt, leather pants, vest, and boots. [*]A pair of matching long knives on her belt. [*]A pair of stiletto knives in her boots [*]Sun goggles [*]Stone pouch [*]Pouch of spark dust and tinder [*]Spark compass [*]Sparkpistol [/list] [color=OrangeRed][b][h3]Supplemental[/h3][/b][/color] [color=OrangeRed][b]Quirks[/b]:[/color][list] [*]Prone to fits of giggles during periods of high emotion. [*]Tends to curl her hair around her right finger. [*]Is an excellent fisherwoman. [*]Loves to walk through gardens when above ground. [*]Excellent singing voice [/list] [/hider]